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  1. Szlia

    Dude wants to look like Kim Kardashian

    He is a make-up artist... I am not sure I would want to hire a make-up artist who seems to be legally blind.
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    Knight of Cups

    Yep... Palmer, not Stewart!
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    Favorite Games Played in 2014

    The Hotline Miami sequel can't come soon enough!
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    Hatred

    This is not a free speech issue. Unless being available on Steam is now a fundamental right by virtue of their almost monopoly on the PC game market.
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    The Interview - Rogan and Franco attempt to assassinate Kim Jong-Un

    The best plan is to put it all in a box and only reopen said box in a decade or three and then release the movie as "The outrageous movie that almost started WW3". I wonder if some people at Sony along with Rogen and Franco met with some people of the state department. If it happened, it must...
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    The Interview - Rogan and Franco attempt to assassinate Kim Jong-Un

    These theater chains are businesses. I'll bet there is simply no scenario where they make money by releasing the film considering the cost in security, insurance and ticket sales (the people not going to any movie because you never know what crazy people will do). It also goes to show that...
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    Hatred

    I would find this whole thing more palatable if there was even the tiniest of hint that the people making the game are not certified idiots. There is no such hint in the interviews / quotes by the devs, so Occam's razor is strongly in favor of them being idiots over them being the heirs of Andy...
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    Favorite Games Played in 2014

    The top of the pile for games played in 2014 (no order): Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Yakuza IV Persona 4 Kentucky Route Zero Honorable mentions (worthy of interest for a reason or another - no order): The Swapper Shelter Beeswing <--- just released! Environmental Station Alpha...
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    The Newsroom s3

    He's from NEBRASKA!
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    Best of 2014

    Some were released in 2013 in the US (12 Years a Slave for sure), but... I saw them in 2014 and that's the question Fight asked! (Historias Extraordinarias is even from a few years back).
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    Best of 2014

    I have yet to see Birdman, Foxcatcher, Nightcrawler and Whiplash that seem to have the potential to enter this list, but so far I have seen 9 4out of 4 stars movies in 2014. In alphabetical order: Black Coal Thin Ice: Chinese Neo Noir set in a mining city. Blind: A Norwegian woman lost her...
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    The Newsroom s3

    All in all that was a pretty good wrap up episode for a show that took a while to find its stride, never really managed true greatness and was maybe a little too self-conscious of the importance of its subject matter, but that's a nice problem to have. I liked how they found a way to redeem the...
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    Homeland

    I am not sure what to think about this ending... there is a big potential for shark-jumpy / absurd stuff like what we got in the 2nd season, but their track record has been pretty good in season 3 and 4 so far, so hopefully this will be good.
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    Soccer 2014 - 2015

    We have the round of 16 of the Champions' League: Shakhtar vs Bayern Munich FC Basel vs Porto Paris SG vs Chelsea Juventus vs Dortmund Schalke 04 vs Real Madrid Bayer vs Atl?tico Madrid Arsenal vs Monaco Man City vs Barcelona Strange draw. It seems...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Crack down on this to sell a couple more Vita or let it go free and sell a couple more PS4? Dilema, dilema...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Foreign Languages

    Your logic is not wrong. Instead of repeating "L'allemand" (Est-ce que vous aimez l'allemand? L'allemand est une langue que je veux apprendre.) which would be correct but not very natural, you used a pronoun. You just did not pick the right one, but I would have a hard time explaining why, so...
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    Rerolled "Best Game of 2014"

    Very strange year for me because I played a fair amount, but it was almost exclusively backlog games, old games, 2013 indie games and unreleased indie games. In the end I barely have 5 eligible games and the only one I would truly recommend is a bit of a stretch because it would be the 3rd...
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    Foreign Languages

    I tried to write a little essay on It's, This is, There is, He is, C'est and Il est but it's not simple to explain grammar! I tried to devise a good translation rule, but every time I thought I got one, I found a dozen exceptions! Quand j'?tais ? l'?cole je n'aimais pas l'allemand car...
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    Foreign Languages

    Il y a plusieurs personnes qui parlent fran?ais sur le forum. Il y a aussi des gens qui parlent allemand, russe et des langues nordiques. Il me semble qu'il y a ?galement plusieurs personnes qui parlent le chinois (langue maternelle) et le japonais (appris), au moins une qui parle espagnol et...
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    Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

    1 is a good game, 2 is a great game, 3 is a bit of mess but certainly has its moments. The main problems with 3 is that the set pieces were designed before the scenario so everything feels a bit shoe-horned or dumb (like 20 billion rocket launcher guys in that castle in Syria - would be more...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    If you don't take the previous generation into account, the Xbox One is doing ok in the US. It's like a 55/45 split in favor of PS4. Outside the US though, it's a 70/30 split.
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    Fury: Brad Pitt commands a sherman tank in WW2

    I found him watchable in Nymphomaniac, but he has a small part and his character is not there to be liked, so that helped! EDIT: To be fair I went and checked his film credits and he does no arm I can remember in The Company You Keep, Lawless or that new Wall Street... and I don't remember...
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    Hot Tub Time Machine 2

    I totally disagree! He was marvelous in Sex Drive and it was great to have this piglet of a guy be the lady's man with only his aplomb and smooth tongue. Duke's effortless line delivery worked wonders in that movie. I am ready to agree though that I probably enjoyed that somewhat meh movie more...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    To your credit, the calvary is a better nickname than the cavalry! As for Skye, I must say I enjoyed her character a lot more in the first season. The 'average person discovering a secret world' thing worked well and she had the opportunity for some happy go lucky stuff and some comedy...
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    Hot Tub Time Machine 2

    I really like Clark Duke. We don't see enough Clark Duke.
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    Soccer 2014 - 2015

    As a semi neutral, that was a fun match to watch with a very thrilling 2nd half. Amazing free kick by Gerrard. For some reason Basel has a very good record against english teams these last few years. I guess it's a 'wins beget confidence begets more wins' scenario.
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    The Newsroom s3

    The random heart attack + slow mo' + sappy song was terribad. Just terribad (the now forever unresolved turnabout of Charlie is not much better). My only other complaint is the very end of the chat with the girl student. When the girl said, I paraphrase "that way the guys who even think about...
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    Homeland

    I feel Lockhart dropping the ball was pretty good. All the main characters are career intelligence agents, career soldiers or career diplomats, people used to making tough choices with a cold head and maintain a bird eye view of situations all the while being under great pressure. Lockhart is a...
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    M. A. R. S. Mars, bitches! Orion's first flight a success.

    My questions then are: How bad must the climate become for it to be worse than Venus, Mars or Europa? Why would rising population be a problem if you are able to have self-sustaining human communities? What resource can dwindle and be readily available away from Earth? As for other...
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    M. A. R. S. Mars, bitches! Orion's first flight a success.

    This is a point that is often made and while valid, I am not too comfortable with it, because you can argue that any large scale ambitious project will result in discoveries, in new know-how and/or in new technologies that might have a broader field of application. So why chose 'Manned mission...
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    Blackface

    This dutch tradition is all kind of weird and indeed racist, but I find it very funny that their Santa is from Spain. In the same kind of idea, there is the biblical magi Balthazar who is often played by caucasians wearing black make-up for events and ceremonies. It's a little different...
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    M. A. R. S. Mars, bitches! Orion's first flight a success.

    I understand the value such a project can have as a sort of recruiting tool for science, but I can't help but wonder if it's not possible to find a project that fulfills that objective AND has scientific merit. I also understand the value of not putting all your eggs in the same basket, but...
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    The Greatest Song You Have Never Heard

    Decade old song by a swiss band with 500 views on youTube so at least I am hitting the 'You Have Never Heard' box: EDIT: And now I spent 2 hours on youTube... so here is another that is probably only known to french people.
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    M. A. R. S. Mars, bitches! Orion's first flight a success.

    What is the objective and why is it an objective? 'Manned mission to Mars' and 'just because' ?
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    The Game Awards - Dec 5th 6PM PST

    You could indeed already ride a well animated semi-autonomous horse and shoot arrows at the same time in Shadow of the Colossus back on PS2, but, truth be told, at time it felt like a couple extra fingers would have helped. Maybe Nintendo will devise a better control scheme to do such complex...
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    Major nuclear accident in Europe's largest power plant reported

    I wonder if the super cool anti-nuclear self-fulfilling prophecy is at work there: Make it impossible to build new nuclear power plants for fear of accidents and say 'I told you so' when plants have problems after they are used for decades longer than initially intended, because they cannot be...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    The plot thickens: [/spoiler] Anyway, not a very exciting episode, but the choreography of the Skye vs fake-May fight was interesting (with all the 'you lock my hand but I drop the gun to my free hand' moves) even if not that well filmed. On a United Colors of Benetton side note, I find it...
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    Better Call Saul

    It's so awesome that AMC is region-locking advertisement...