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  1. Szlia

    2016 Oscars

    Let me quote myself from a few pages back: Also Ang Lee got a nom' for Life of Pi and this year you had When Marnie Was There in the animated feature film category. In the acting categories, if the nominations are not common, winning is even more rare as only three asians won: the aforementioned...
  2. Szlia

    What's that game?

    Interesting games, but not the one I am looking for. The programming language used for the scripts of the robots you hack is a game specific and very rudimentary language made with keywords such as "warning" and "stop" and minimal looping and conditional statements. I should also mention that...
  3. Szlia

    What's that game?

    Considering the success of the "Who's that girl?" thread and considering my google-fu is failing hard and for longer than I care to admit, let me start the "What's that game?" thread. So... I am looking for a game I played on PC in the past few years. I am not sure if it was a browser game or...
  4. Szlia

    2016 Oscars

    If they went PE they should have gone all the way:
  5. Szlia

    2016 Oscars

    Who predicted Spotlight? Because I did not!
  6. Szlia

    2016 Oscars

    I saw only two of the best foreign film nominee, but Saul fia was indeed very good and the best of the two I saw.
  7. Szlia

    2016 Oscars

    The Lubezki Award goes to Lubezki!
  8. Szlia

    NBA 2015-2016 Season thread

    I am sure they are super pissed off, but once they sleep on it, I guess they'll realize you can live with the best team in the league having to summon two miracles and an all time NBA record to beat you. If they face each others in the playoff and the Warriors have to do that several time to win...
  9. Szlia

    2016 Oscars

    The director is nominated.
  10. Szlia

    NBA 2015-2016 Season thread

    Is Durant still playing basketball? I browse the thread from time to time and never see him mentioned in these best shooters / MVP talks.
  11. Szlia

    2016 Oscars

    Saw Mustang the other day. A kind of turkish version of Virgin Suicide. It's pretty good until its not because of over-writing (a perfectly fine antagonist is turned into a big bad).
  12. Szlia

    Blade Runner 2

    I'll be cautiously optimistic about that one. For me there is a big challenge: designing a future for Blade Runner's future. By that I mean that it should evolve from that 1982 idea of the future shown in Blade Runner and not be based on a 2016 idea of the future. That being said, the themes of...
  13. Szlia

    Worst Republican poster?

    Some of the questions in the test are extremely poorly worded. But, unsurprisingly:
  14. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Good job Sherlock, but you might have missed the fact he drew himself in the last panel.
  15. Szlia

    TurboKid

    My knowledge of TV series from Quebec starts and stops at "Lance et compte" back in the '80s!
  16. Szlia

    PS Now Question

    HS?
  17. Szlia

    MacGyver: The Movie

    I hear there is a major studio in Hollywood that is looking for a new president. Requirement for the job: owning a TV Guide from 1986.
  18. Szlia

    The Revenant (2015)

    I think I agree and disagree with the most common criticism here. I agree that the film has a pacing problem, but for me it's not that it is too slow, it's that it is not slow enough. As it stands, the film is very beautiful, but there is not really a sense of almost mystical communion with the...
  19. Szlia

    Tennis

    Djokovic had another great start, bagging the first set 6-1 in 20 minutes, but after that Murray made it much more of a contest. The scott, credit to him, tried to be the aggressor. The problem is that he often hesitated a fraction of second before following a good shot to the net, losing a...
  20. Szlia

    Tennis

    Oups! Almost forgot the update (busy week between the AO and a film festival). We have our final: DJOKOVICstarted his semi in beast mode while Federer did not. The swiss looked like he was always half a step late and Djokovic had answers to everything Federer threw at him. The fact the...
  21. Szlia

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    You must not have seen a lot of video games if some weird exploration/building/resource management/industrial process design game is the worst you have ever seen.
  22. Szlia

    Tennis

    I am not 100% sure how the draw is made, but it's a lot more flexible than your proposed solution. The thing is there is not that much change in the Top 8 in the course of a year, so if you set the draws in stone like you propose, there would be very little variation. Plus, you can't really tell...
  23. Szlia

    Your 2016 Gaming Hype List

    Stephen's Sausage Roll. A puzzle game by Increpare who made the brilliant English Country Tune. Should be released soonish (fingers crossed).
  24. Szlia

    Tennis

    Late again, but we have our quarter finals: DJOKOVIC(see previous post) vs NISHIKORI(see previous post) I would be very surprised if Djokovic manages to win this one in an uneventful straight sets match. I doubt Nishikori will go with Simon's game plan though (soft balls in the middle to...
  25. Szlia

    The Astronomy Thread

    I still don't understand why the don't put some system that "catches" the rocket on the barge instead of having it trying to stand with a mini tripod. If the answer is "because it needs to land on Mars" I would ask they could not land a catching platform on Mars that will stay there and use it...
  26. Szlia

    Tennis

    Oups! A bit late: R32 got played and the surprises were few and far between. In fact all the matches were pretty one sided in favor of the favorites, except Bautista Agut, you know that guy I thought would be too tired to compete, who discarded Cilic in straight sets! The surprise guest of the...
  27. Szlia

    2016 Oscars

    This analogy would kinda work if black actors were complaining about not being in enough sun screen commercials... Anyway, it's a complicated situation that has more to do with movie production than the academy.
  28. Szlia

    True Detective

    I would watch that for sure. Even more if the comedy aspect was dropped.
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    The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret is back!

    You are a bit harsh. There are some very good jokes (the muslim/skinhead alliance) and scenes (Todd at the airport desk) through the whole thing, but the main problem is that the possibly brilliant structure is lost on anyone who did not see the previous two seasons just before checking this...
  30. Szlia

    Tennis

    Round 2 is over! SEEDICIDE WATCH: The top half of the draw was totally uneventful with all the favorites winning. The bottom half saw a couple minor heads rool. Chardy [30] probably not fully recovered from his first round marathon fell to Kuznetsov (not related to Kuznetsova but that last...
  31. Szlia

    Worst Republican poster?

    That would be my vote.
  32. Szlia

    2016 Oscars

    To make things clear, I knew Hayakawa was a big star during the golden age of Hollywood, making him likely to have won an Oscar. That was the entirety of what was on the top of my head. The rest is google-fu and imdb browsing.
  33. Szlia

    2016 Oscars

    About asian nominations, the first thing that came to mind is Sessue Hayakawa for The Bridge on the River Kwai (best supporting actor). That same year (1957) Miyoshi Umeki, a japanese actress who later became american, won for best supporting actresse in a movie called Sayonara (which also...
  34. Szlia

    2016 Oscars

    I am not sure if they weight the votes to create the nomination list, but, at the end of the day, if not enough people see the movie, it can't be nominated, so half the battle is getting the members of the academy to see the movie. A battle that is significantly harder for Beasts of No Nation...
  35. Szlia

    Tennis

    It's very difficult to comment on it because the story amount to "Betting sites reported several occurrences of suspicious betting patterns to the anti match fixing body of the ATP and no one ever got suspended for it." We don't know at this point who are the players and matches involved so it's...
  36. Szlia

    2016 Oscars

    The thing also is that Creed is a pretty good movie, but the best thing in it really is Stallone and he got nominated. I mean you can't get a best director nomination because you decided to put a single take fight in the middle of your movie and you don't get an original screenplay nomination...
  37. Szlia

    Tennis

    So... first round is over, let's run through the top seeds and their draw. DJOKOVIC[1] won in Doha, including a trashing ofNadalin the final. Played a decent enough first round against korean rising starChung. R64:Halys, a french wild card with a good serve who beatDodig. R32:Seppi, who...
  38. Szlia

    2016 Oscars

    Was Beasts of No Nation even eligible considering it was released on Netflix? Or was it also released in theaters?
  39. Szlia

    Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc coming to Steam in February

    Very curious to see how it fares compared to Ace Attorney.
  40. Szlia

    Tennis

    Australian Open the next two weeks! I'll probably only see the night sessions, but stay tuned!