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Just played through that. These guys need to find a couple people to add to their staff who are able to write a somewhat coherent and satisfying story and who are able to point at the moments where the puzzle design does not mesh well with the story world. If they find these two people, they...

La tour Montparnasse infernale (2001): 4/10. French comedy film written and performed by a duo of stand-up comedians (Eric & Ramzy). A sort of Die Hard spoof, except the heroes are two very dumb window washers (and the hostage takers about as dumb as them). A lot of not very funny improv', but a...

Well... while 4.2 light years away is not exactly close 1) We will never find an earth-ish exoplanet closer to us 2) It's at a distance that is at least conceivable. I mean, we can devise a contraption able to cover that distance in a non-geological time frame without requiring some breakthrough...

There is an athletism meeting in my city tomorrow and guess who I bumped into at the gym (figuratively speaking)? Valerie Adams the very impressive twice Olympic Gold winner in shot put (and she would have won a third gold last week if an american athlete did not decide to shatter her personal...

I think I mentioned it before, but in a film festival where jury members where asked to name a cult comedy film from their country of origin to make a little world comedy section, a canadian guy chose Slap Shot or, more precisely, Lancé Frappé, the french-canadian dub of the film which...

This is difficult because the best comedies are not necessarily the funniest movies, so some super slick screwball comedies like His Girl Friday or the very smart and themes-rich french political comedy The Names of Love do not necessarily score very high on the laugh-o-meter. So, using laughter...

When you say "Defender style gameplay" do you mean a game with horizontal scrolling, or do you mean horizontal scrolling with the ability to flip the ship and control the left/right direction of the scrolling (along with a minimap with objectives/enemies on it). If it's the first, my first...

Side effect of the Olympics, a tired bunch showed up in Cinci (or, in the case of Djokovic, didn't) and only three of the top 8 seeds reached the quarter finals! In the bottom half it's Cilic that benefited from the seedicide, but he contributed as he beat Berdych for the right to face Coric...

The brazilians must be pretty satisfied, they won in men's association football (penalty shootout against Germany), in men's volleyball (three very tight sets against Italy) and in men's beach volleyball (two reasonably tight sets against Italy). The women did not fare as well as they got...

Doesn't NBC offer on their website a number of live feeds? Beijing was the best Olympics ever on that front as there was an official site with like a dozen life feeds covering just about all the events. This stuff was gone for London and now Rio, but the national TV station that has the right...

Honestly, when the brazillian public boos athletes that were caught for using PEDs, I am with them. When they boo tennis super star Nadal because he does not have the self-conscience and restraint to not over-celebrate his points when facing a local underdog, I am with them. But when they...

Re-watched with a friend who never saw it The Castle of Sand (Suna no utsuwa - 9/10), a japanese police procedural from 1974. There are two brilliant ideas in the structure of this film, the first is that from the get go we know how the murder happened, but the police and the viewers have no...

If you want to go old school Trier why not go pre-Dogma and pick Europa or The Element of Crime?

Who needs Voight-Kampff tests when you have Namida no Renrakusen (The Ferryboat of Tears). Easy: if you don't cry, you are a replicant (even if you don't know it's about a woman who cries alone every night as she waits on the harbor for the ferryboat that, once again, does not bring back the one...

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Numberphile : miscellaneous math and math related clips (while among the less "mathy", the Prof. Tokieda serie is pretty fun).

There is a number of good side scrolling shmups that have been and are being released, the thing is that these days they are released in the Arcades, on Steam, on digital download or only in Japan on physical media (sometimes in limited runs for vintage consoles).

IOC lawyers > Bubbles

Sometime you browse youTube and discover things you would not expect like an Alec Empire / Mertbow collab that sounds like the OST of a David Lynch short film.

Well, at the end of her first career in 2003, she already had more double titles in Grand Slam than single titles (9 vs 5 - including a Calendar Slam in Double in 1998) and as many Masters' Cup titles in double than single (2). She also hardly played any mixed (5 times vs 30 for single and 25...

The legend says that the Olympic Village, being packed full of young people in great shape that have a sudden break in they usual intense training regimen, makes an astronomical consumption of condoms. I remember there was a shortage at the Olympic Village in Barcelona and they had to bring...

Oh I would have been able to both cheer for the victory AND find the event stupid. I am pretty sure Federer never played a single match of mixed double in his career.

I don't disagree but... Olympic Medals for mixed double in tennis? Will they add a legend tournament in Tokyo?

I am trying to be optimistic here and find a movie that potentially could benefit from a remake, because it aged badly or simply was not that good to begin with. Highlander?

It's a poor time by his standards and he ran a technically very bad race. I guess he is not too concerned about that since he won anyway! Still the story of the day is Wayde van Niekerk who, apparently, is the first guy to go under 10s for 100m and under 20s for 200m while running a 400m (not...

World record in the final of the men's 400m! Michael Johnson's mark of 43"18 that held since 1999 got erased by the South African Wayde van Niekerk in a mind blowing 43"03!! He was one of the favorites, but after a botched semi-final he ended on lane 8, so he made the race blind! I guess it...

The Big Four is still at work: Murray for the Gold (defending his title) over Del Potro. You have to wonder about the best of five format in the final after the schedule of the week, because both guys were spent in the third set already. That might also be related to the number of rallies where...

By the writer of a Straight Out of Compton (only script), the writer of Street Kings (only script) and the director of Snow White and the Huntsman (only feature film) all that for a remake that really does not need to be made...

After checking a play by play of the bronze medal match. Nishikori lead 6-2 5-2 and was at deuce on his serve, so he served twice for the match and both time he got broken without even leading in these service games! Nice mental effort to be able to win the thirds set after losing the 2nd in...

So yeah the russians Makarova and Vesnina won the gold in women's double (Safarova and Strycova for the bronze) In a match I could not see Nishikori won the bronze in men's single over Nadal (the japanese served for it in the 2nd set, but got broken, got break chances right after but did not...

In Men's Basketball, the USA blew past the two weaker teams of their group, but, after that, won by 10 over Australia, 3 over Serbia and 3 over France. They are obviously still the heavy favorites, but they better apply themselves if they don't want a bad surprise.

They're not the favorites! I think the swiss pair played together before in Fed Cup but I could not find when (so that must be like one or twice ages ago) and Bacsinszky plays some double here and there but with average results. On the other hand the russian pair always play together and won...

45 winners in 3 sets, great length on ground strokes, amazing backhand cross-court, great shape on the forehand (attacking the open court with deep and heavily lifted balls that pushed Kerber wide AND back), able to surprise with short slices, ready to step forward and attack anything short...

That being said, Del Potro doing well after he beat Djokovic is half a surprise... Monica Puig in the gold medal match though? That's several orders of magnitudes more surprising... oh and as I write this it seems Kerber is not 100% as she hobbles after points...

It was a bit of a pant crapping contest near the end, as between 4-4 and 6-5 there was a streak of 9 points against serve or something similar. If Del Potro wins the Gold, he will have beaten Djokovic, Nadal and Murray (who made light work of Nishikori earlier in the day - the Japanese possibly...

A rerolled thread that got forgotten it seems.... Anyway, I just played the fourth act of Kentucky Route Zero and that game remains brilliantly singular, even if it is not my favorite release. My two main gripes with this one are: 1) The structure: as you go down the Echo river there are as...

I also missed it in theater for no fault other than my own. Well... it also stayed in one of my local theater for a lot shorter than I anticipated, which tends to mean it bombed hard.

Apparently, you can pair a player who can't serve with a player who can't volley and reach the final of women's double! Well... you can also say it's a pairing of the best net player in the world with one of the best baseline player in the world... Anyway, Bacsinszky and Hingis reached the final...

There is a romanian tennis player who will not sleep so well for a while: Mergea. In the men's double final, when his buddy Tecau was serving to bring the score to 5-5 in the decider, he put a relatively easy smash in the net a deuce and then, on match point, he put another relatively easy smash...

I was wondering what strange part of my brain I invented the koka, but it actually used to exist, but disappeared in 2009 (so twenty years after my brother stopped Judo for Basketball!).