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  1. Szlia

    Tennis

    DJOKOVIC[1] cruised past Schwartzman and Mathieu. The tough matches start now. R32:Querreyhad to attle for five sets in the first round, but managed to eliminate the 28th seed Garcia-Lopez in straight sets. If the american starts well, makes things uncomfortable for Djokovic and the crowd get...
  2. Szlia

    What games are made better by cheating?

    There is a brilliant board game calledJunta. Where cheating is allowed (I don't remember what was the punishment for getting caught though). That really adds to the game!
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    The "Am I stupid AF for wanting a motorcycle" thread.

    Indeed. In fact Sutekh also used it to drive to the ATM machine.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Is it still an editorial when you pay to be in the paper?
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    Fondest memories of gaming (non-MMO)

    - Entering for the first time a small video game import store in late 1990. The guy who ran it was an audio-videophile with notions of electronics and had a Super Famicom running on a big TV with a home made RGB cable and connected to a beefy sound system. The game was F-Zero. Jaw on the floor-...
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    Fondest Memory of MMOs

    As mentioned before, one of the many problem with EQ was that the penalty for failure was so harsh (and I don't mean losing corpses, that was the stuff of legend, but simply the lost time) that it was very difficult to find people motivated in doing anything other than the most secure grindy...
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    Calling all filthy classic beards: need help resolving this conundrum

    If it's something you had to click to zone out, wouldn't there be a spell that could be found in the spell database?
  8. Szlia

    Tennis

    Oh and nothing really eventful today. Playing in night session, Murray was ok after his cramping issues in the first round. I'll go through the draw once we have the whole 3rd round ready, but there are already some matches to look forward to, even if the low seeds had a tough time going through...
  9. Szlia

    Tennis

    It's a very difficult question to answer, because it's a global dynamic. The web site of the atp has the weekly ranking for every week since the early 70s. I checked a random Top 100 of 74 and one of 94 and compared it to the current Top 100. USAAustraliaFranceGermanySpainSwedenArgentina...
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    Support Rerolled - Become a "Premium Junkie" - See No Ads

    Christinevyp and plalcherwyj have the weirdest sense of humor.
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    WE'RE UNDER ATTACCKKK!

    Do you guys know where I could find designer bags at a discount?
  12. Szlia

    Tennis

    We lost Giraldo (27) and Chardy (30) today. Wawrinka played a super top 4 level first two sets against Bellucci, he failed to break early in the third... and then played poorly for half a set (enough to lose his serve twice) and just decent for a set and a half (enough to recover one of the two...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    An electronic store around my parts is doing a one day only 10% discount on all apparatuses (which includes game consoles, but not the games). I noticed that the price of the PS4 is surprisingly competitive in Switzerland, even more so with 10% off (I'll pay it the equivalent of $440, but that's...
  14. Szlia

    Tennis

    Two out of three days of first round matches have been played. The favorites did well, even if Tsonga almost found himself lead two sets to one by Monaco in a tense third set breaker, but the frenchman closed the match in four sets. Wawrinka did not play the cleanest of matches, but did juts...
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    The "Am I stupid AF for wanting a motorcycle" thread.

    From a risk perspective, how come bicycles don't have the same terrible reputation as motorcycles? Is it only because it's harder to kill yourself on bicycles and that you mostly drive them in places where others are less likely to drive at speeds that will kill you? PS: And what does AF...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I am not saying the 2014 pictures do not show an all time low, but it muddies the argument to use these 2011 picture where the water is obviously above normal level with all these immersed trees.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    So apparently there are even reasons to buy a PS4 when you already have a PS4!
  18. Szlia

    God's Not Dead

    He's not in the 2014 blockbuster remake of the rapture focused Left Behind though. That will star Nick Cage!
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    There are plenty of other reasons. Even if you have a PS3 and a high end PC there are reasons (though smaller ones).
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    Good Anime Movies

    It's a short film. It's probably called episode 1 because of the way things are stored on crunchyroll. Also I think there are two versions: The 'made at home' one with his wife and him doing the voices and a remastered one using a voice actors.
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    Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

    Pretty sure it's all fake 3D now, because they are getting a lot better at creating it in post prod AND it's cheaper and less cumbersome during the shooting. I missed it, but there was a talk in a festival I was at about how they did it for Edge of Tomorrow (using miniature replicas of the sets...
  22. Szlia

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Heard 10 bars as dressing up for some documentary subject on the radio and got reminded of the genius of Michael Nyman. And he is building many of his tracks on bit and parts of Purcell (Frozen before frozen!)
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Why would thousands of birds be in the desert? I doubt migrations cut through the desert too...
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    Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

    You guys saw The Spirit? Maybe the general public is able to understand what happens when Miller directs by his lonesome.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Here? How much water does it take to maintain a gold course in the middle of the desert.... or is the fairway made of tiny cacti?
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    What tickles your pickle

    Can the NSA know about that or is it one of the advantage of the system? Anyway, that's a strange and deliciously vintage hobby (even if the tech evolved), it feels like a pre-internet global village; Chatroulette with a high barrier of entry and without the literal and figurative dicks.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I find it surprising that when a hacker group messes with online video game services, they are not immediately the target of other hackers group because they messed with their gaming! Unless no self respecting hacker admits to having a console or something...
  28. Szlia

    What tickles your pickle

    Not being familiar at all with the HAM radio thing (the only thing I know- or think I know - is that you can reach very long distance when the waves bounce on the clouds or something), when you said you were able to 'work' it, I thought you were able to chat with someone there. But are they like...
  29. Szlia

    Good Anime Movies

    That could scratch his hitch for a bit indeed!
  30. Szlia

    What tickles your pickle

    So how is Alex?
  31. Szlia

    P.T. (Playable Trailer) - Silent Hills

    Maybe that is not the case as I have not tried it, but the way people talk about this demo makes me think about a game by Cactus. I don't remember the name of the game, but people were arguing back and forth and people did not seem to agree on how to solve some problems, etc. A mad house. The...
  32. Szlia

    Crypt of the NecroDancer - Rhythm Dungeon Crawler

    Is there some form of syncopation in some tracks or is it isochronic all the time? bam - babam bam bam or bam bam bam bam? Because the latter sounds boring.
  33. Szlia

    Tennis

    The qualifier that Raonic will play in the first round is Taro Daniel. It's a tall americano-japanese youngster, born in New-York and training in Spain. He played a Davis Cup match against Rosol earlier in the year where he managed to force a fifth set from two sets down! He lost the decider...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I still need to get one of these for the pretty cool Alien vs Predator game that was on it. That and Tempest 2000 are as far as I know they only two games worth playing on the system.
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    Bro Team details his tumultuous relationship with Machinima in a long forum post.

    "We have thousands of satisfied talent partners and I want you to be one of them" seems like a silly thing to say to someone who was ignored!
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    Virtual Reality

    Filming at 360? is one thing (a pretty trivial one too), but how do you record the difference between the two eyes for every position the user can take? That seems straight up impossible, which means you need to fake it with software (probably generating a 3D model of the scene - by picture...
  37. Szlia

    Tennis

    It's that time of the year. It's US OPEN TIME! And the Nadal-less funky draw is now known. Let's do a 8 seeds run down. DJOKOVIC[1] won Wimbledon but has inexplicably played poorly in both Toronto and Cincinnati. But even when he plays poorly, it's probably still hard to beat him in a best of...
  38. Szlia

    The Expendables 3 (2014)

    I defense of Ronda Rousey (who can obviously defend herself!), Gina Carano had Steven Soderbergh to direct her acting!
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    NBA 2014 Off-Season Thread

    Endurance/strength is not built by playing, it built at the gym. Confidence in the injured limb is what you grow back by playing. The problem is that if you play while worrying about your injury, you tend to not be as fluid or to change you technique and posture to preserve the injury, which can...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Neo Geo games had more room for video elements (so bigger sprites or lots of detailed animations) and possibly more colors. The problem though is that it was all short arcade games with infinite credits and that most games were shit (exceptions being the Samurai Spirits/Showdown serie and the...