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  1. Szlia

    Automata

    I was wondering who was that 'visionary film maker' Gabe Ib??ez and he only made one feature film in 2009 and work as an animator on 4... I am not saying he is not good or anything, just that the visionary did not share his vision much up until now.
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    Sweet Mary Mother of God! A Shadowgate Remake. Why am I not told these things?!

    All I remember about D?j? Vu is getting eaten multiple times by a crocodile in the sewers
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    How was that possible with TV screens using 60 half images per second? I don't remember horrible interlacing/edge blur on fast horizontal movements in NES and SNES games.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I don't fundamentally disagree, but I think he glances over an important fact: not all aspects of visual fidelity have the same impact and the same clock cycle cost. One can talk about poly count and mapping resolutions and anti-aliasing, but the lightening is what requires the more horse power...
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    The Expendables 3 (2014)

    He should hire an academy award nominee for best original scenario of a movie that won the Oscar for best film... That said the movie was not as fun than the second and there is an alarming density of people who can't act (the front runner in that category being Ford, Schwarzenegger and...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Sounds like another reason to watch the show for me!
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Don't even joke with that. It would be a modern day version of Bloodball, so it could happen.
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    The Knick

    Just watched the first two episodes: we'll see how it goes, but I will certainly check the whole season. Could indeed be very very good.
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    Are Tombstones Delicious?

    Not all tomatoes are created equal, but a good tomato is great.
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    Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland

    Was the weather ok when you were here, because we really had a terrible few months. It's usually not that grey/rainy/cold during the summer months. Pretty depressing stuff really EDIT: I should add that it's cool that you gave some closure to the thread. I wish all the people who start...
  11. Szlia

    Tennis

    I predict a very strange US Open. It seems pretty open considering the number of players that are not at their best. It will be interesting to see if a surprise player can rise up to the occasion (Tsonga, Ferrer and Raonic are the likeliest candidates at this point) and go lift the trophy or if...
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    Virtual Reality

    So apparently it's possible to play for hours on end:I Just Spent Two Weeks Being A Space Commander
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    Only Lovers Left Alive - Jim Jarmusch

    It offers a pretty interesting take on the vampire myth and the cast is great, but he really has no interesting story to tell with that good setting. There is also something a bit smug about it all as it can all be understood as a metaphor about the enlightened artist (Jarmusch - forgetting a...
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    Tennis

    A bit of a roller coaster ride this one. Federer starts by serving well and playing some high quality offensive tennis, spreading the court and closing the net, or drawing Ferrer in with short slices. But Ferrer started well also and managed to play points on his terms behind his serve. From...
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    Interstellar (2014)

    The Prestige, without a doubt. And Memento is for me a lot more entertaining than his batmen. Also, being a huge fan of Arizona Junior, The Hudsucker Proxy and Fargo, I clearly remember being disappointed by The Big Lebowski. That trend continued with O'Brother and The Man Who Wasn't There...
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    Tennis

    Not a suspenseful day. A jaded Benneteau against an amped up Ferrer resulted in a pretty one sided 6-3 6-2. A bit surprising when you consider their head to head. The Raonic vs Federer match also had the potential to be tense, but it was not. Federer activated the god mode and made a poorly...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    These sex change surgeries are getting better by the minute:
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    Empire Online: 100 Greatest Video Games of all time

    The topic is no longer about how shitty the list is, but about how many games you played on it and how many you finished. Played: 55 Finished: 31 (much to my surprise, I thought it would be a lot less) I counted 'finished' for things like WoW, Counter Strike or Tetris if you basically...
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    Tennis

    We have the semis after two tights matches and two joke matches. FERRERunsurprisingly had to work very hard in a very tight battle against Robredo. Once again, the better ranked of the two spaniard showed his abbility to fight on every ball and keep his game plan from the first to the last...
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    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    "It's supposed to be lame because it's lame in comics and often lame in movies based on comic books" is the most absurd rebuttal since the Chewbacca defense. The problem is not only that he is a one dimensional "big bad", he has the charisma of an asparagus with one of the lamest costume ever...
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    Tennis

    Quarter finals, here we come! ROBREDOplayed well. So when he plays well, don't expect too many loose balls or poor shot selections. When the spaniard plays well you better play a clean match at the very least if you want to prevail. Djokovic obviously has more weapons than Robredo, but he did...
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    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    This movie was amusing, but it's not in the same league as The Avengers by a long shot. The totally one dimensional and uninteresting villain that does jack shit did not help.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    This chart hides the fact about 20% of people are abducted by aliens.
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    Tennis

    So. Cinci round of 16 here we go: DJOKOVICon his quest for a full set of Master 1000. vs ROBREDOwho had two solid wins against in form wild card Sock and Querrey. YOUZHNYwho after making light work of a washed up Tsonga discarded Seppi. vs FERRERmanaged to prevail in an extremely close...
  25. Szlia

    Robin Williams dead at 63...

    Of all the famous or semi-famous people you can be a dick to on the internet, why would you chose Zelda Williams? That seems like misplaced douchebagery.
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    Enemy (2013)

    NB: By Denis Villeneuve, who also made Prisoners, based on a book by portuguese literature Nobel price recipient Jos? Saramago.
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    doping common in eSports

    There are anxiolytics that are not on the banned substance list of the IOC (the go-to list for amateur sport leagues).
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    P.T. (Playable Trailer) - Silent Hills

    Will it be PS3 & PS4 or PS4 only? After all the Fox Engine can deploy on both consoles (see Metal Gear Solid).
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    Tennis

    No rest for the braves: Cinci already started! Djokovic is trying to win Cinci for the first time, which would allow him the pretty incredible feat of having won all nine Master 1000 on the ATP Tour! Technically, Nadal and Federer also won 8 different titles at this level, but they won...
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    Gamescom 2014

    I like Kojima's antics like the next guy and I am glad he is doing something that is not an MGS, but Silent Hill without Keiichiro Toyama nor Akira Yamaoka is a bit strange for me.
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    Gamescom 2014

    If you drop the thing from the basic SKU is not to try and sell it by itself, it's because it's mere existence hurts your sales, so the best course of action is indeed pretend it does not exist (which is pretty easy as it's not like there was some big Kinect game that everyone was eager to hear...
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    Gamescom 2014

    Not sure how it will play out and some of the animations looked a bit rough, but I am curious to see more of it. EDIT: It's like the celtic fantasy version of No Man's Sky!
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    Gamescom 2014

    I preferred Rime when it was called ICO, but again with The Last Guardian turning into vaporware, I'll take Rime. And what is QUBE? Antichamber 2? (EDIT: apparently QUBE is QUBE and was available on PC a year before Antichamber).
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    With Kaz Hirai joking on Twitter along the line "Tomb Raider wants to be uncharted... as in not in the charts", you would think it's a console exclusive.
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    Older Anime Series Worth Watching

    Honey & Cloveris a romantic comedy / coming of age story set in an art school. Eden of the Eastis everything about everything, but at the center of it there are young adults trying to find their place in society. Maison Hikkokuis a rom com set in a boarding house with the main character...
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    God's Not Dead

    Fictions about God, Destiny, Fate and things like that are always a bit silly, because what happens in them is the result of an outside force: the author. No matter what, in all fictions, a creator of some sort is there, an instance that pulls the strings is there.
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    Good Anime Movies

    He was not supposed to be the director initially (EDIT: Or maybe he was? Read further). It was supposed to be directed by K?ji Morimoto (director of the Magnetic Rose segment in Memories), a famous animator (Akira) who made waves in the '90s by being one of the first if not the first to blend 2D...
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    Tennis

    I noticed something strange about this 2014 season for Federer. He is back in good health and as such is able to move very well, which is a key for just about everything in tennis: scramble behind the base line to defend, dance around your backhand to play forehands, be early and well placed on...
  39. Szlia

    Tennis

    That final was a bit underwhelming. Tsonga started serving very poorly (less than 30% of first serves), but Federer failed to make the frenchman pay for it, mostly because Tsonga played at a solid level and Federer was, on the day, not able to produce the high quality ground strokes that played...
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

    That made me listen to some Kenji Kawai who also used these traditional choirs in anime music: When the soloist sings in that first track, it always wrecks me.