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  1. Szlia

    NBA 2014 - 2015 Season Thread

    The fine people at OKC are certainly hoping the Spurs will play well tomorrow!
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    The swiss public television is airing the episodes on monday night with subtitles.My assumtions: 1) it's nigh impossible to do professional subtitling of a TV episode in 16 hours 2) a number of channels across the world must have a similar deal 3) That must be a lot of people with access to...
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    Clouds of Sils Maria

    Just a short post to mention this movie is out in the US now (limited release though).Clouds of Sils Maria - Rotten Tomatoes There are some problems, but there is also a number of good scenes and 3 extraordinary actresses in Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart and Chloe Grace Moretz all...
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    Twin Peaks

    From a money and (not so) recent history perspective, it's pretty difficult, as the accountant at a TV channel, to sign a blank check to David Lynch. He does not exactly scream "bankable" and since Mulholland Drive in 2001, he did a lot of odd stuff for his web site, a 3h long movie that was a...
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    BOSTON marathon bombing verdict

    Not all prison systems are plagued by overpopulation and violence as not all societies made an industry of jailing people (an industry that is growing thanks to intense lobbying for harsher sentencing). Anyway, a prison system can always get better, while, no matter how you sugarcoat it, an...
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    BOSTON marathon bombing verdict

    If the goal is to reduce the amount of violence in a society, state sponsored violence is part of the disease, not part of the cure.
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    True Detective

    When is the last time you saw her? Because she looks her normal self to me (well... her normal self as a cop).
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    BOSTON marathon bombing verdict

    A good day to read some Badinter, especiallyhis 1981 speechhe did before the french assembly voted the abolition of the death penalty. A relevant passage:
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    The joy of photobucket

    That's the business model of most amateur porn sites.
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    Furious 7 (2015)

    Nathalie Kelley (the love interest in Tokyo Drift) was back and only shot out of focus in the background... worst film ever! Tony Jaa loses a fight... worst film ever! More seriously, the film is 98% fan service so there is fun to be had, but it is also aggressively stupid. The two worst...
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    Hotline Miami 2

    I enjoyed the variety induced by the multiple characters story and loved the epic final (both the gameplay section and credit section of it), but some levels are too damn long and, at least on PS4, you spend your life pressing the "look far ahead" button and you still get gunned down now and...
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    Toodles

    Is it possible in the US to get a tutor? Someone that manages your money for you or at least help you manage your money by doing a budget, helping with paperwork, etc?
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    Interstellar (2014)

    I almost never rewatch movies. If it happens it's a semi accident (I flip channels, land on a movie I saw and end up watching it again), or because I saw it the first time in poor conditions and get the opportunity to see it again in good conditions (a classic seen on VHS that has a restored...
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    My new Dating Pool

    About the HIV transmission rate between poor countries and rich countries, isn't it simply a factor of access and quality of medical care? I suspect that getting diagnosed early and undergoing a tri-therapy that reduce the viral load to trace amount seriously lowers transmission risk. That...
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    NBA 2014 - 2015 Season Thread

    Watch it go to Lebron James...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread

    What did you do in the game? What was the character? What type of scrolling was it? Was there even a scrolling?
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    The Astronomy Thread

    The whole discussion is a bit silly, because it piles guesstimations and assumptions on top of each other. The fist big one is that not everything is possible. It's not because you can think of something today that it can be possible tomorrow. So these Type II and Type III civilizations may...
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    Tennis

    ...and Monfils slides, his foot gets stuck and he jams his hip! :/
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    Tennis

    I would not hold my breath. If he is playing well one day, that only means he will injure himself the next. There is a reason why Monfils only has a limited number of minor titles to show for a 10+ year career and his abilities. I suspect 2015 will be a strange year for tennis. With Federer a...
  21. Szlia

    Tennis

    What about Hewitt's wife? :P
  22. Szlia

    Avengers: Age of Ultron

    Maybe he has a sped up version of his music on his analog tape so it sounds normal to him when he speeds up?
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    Southpaw

    To clarify, this isNOTthe authorized biography of my EQ character.
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    Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread

    That's another good clue: was it on a CD-Rom or a floppy disk?
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    Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread

    In case you got the demo with avideogame mag, a good clue would be knowing which one. A number ofvideogame mags are pretty well archived, so unless you got it with some obscure fanzine, it might be possible to find the title of the game that way.
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    Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread

    I did some google-fu for PCgamesfeaturing a caveman and while I found half a dozengames, none fit the bill, with the exception of a lone forum post about a guy looking for the title of a caveman survival game that had a day counter of some sort. The guy only played the demo of the game and had...
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    Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread

    Another caveman game is Tail of the Sun, but no crafting, in 3D and on PlayStation so...
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    Undateable

    Grimmlokk: you should give a counter-example. A currently running sit-com you enjoy.
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    Entourage

    That's cold. True. But cold.
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    Manila Philippines

    It's silly to worry about tsunami when in the Philippines. It's aboutaswangsyou should worry about!
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    Homeland

    I thought they skipped the 2nd season of this show?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    While not officially announced, the Korean rating board got an application for a Gravity Rush Remaster for PS4. When and where? At the very least, in a not so distant future in Korea.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    It should be mentioned that all words in all languages are made up (or borrowed from other languages) and that all languages constantly evolve (unless they are dead and/or extinct). So a rebuttal based on some sort of idea of a static language is non-sense or deflection. I don't see you getting...
  34. Szlia

    Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread

    By virtue of me still humming it from time to time almost 25 years after playing the game, I guess by favorite boss music is from Gradius III:
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Or maybe he's just in a freezer...
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    What did you just read?

    Just read the first tome of a trilogy (only the first book available atm) of Le livre et l'?p?e by french fantasy author Antoine Rouaud. For once this is also available in english (and spanish and german and dutch):The Book and the Sword: The Path of Anger. Nothing exceptional, but the...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    For me having the X-Men separated from the rest of the Marvel franchises was a blessing in disguise, because they are synonymous with 8764864 lame characters with lame powers. Smuggling the concept back in by calling it "inhumans" does not change that fundamental flaw, as demonstrated by this...
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    Soccer 2014 - 2015

    No Premier League team in quarter final of the Champions League... To add insult to injury: 2 french teams!
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    What is the typical life cycle of a gaming exploit?

    Another thing is that what is or isn't an exploit can be a very grey area. I mean in EQ it was considered legitimate to warp stuff through walls and in early WoW we got some warnings and suspensions, because we used a run speed split to pull Golemagg and his dogs in Garr's room... a pretty wtf...
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    Nintendo Mobile

    Sounds like April is in two weeks.