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

    It's difficult to know exactly how full the glass is from Microsoft's perspective. On one hand the XB1 is selling faster than the very successful X360, on the other, their market share against their direct competitor is shaping up to be dramatically worst than during the previous generation.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Titanfall came out on the 11th and InFamous on the 21st so it's obvious a March comparison will favor the former. That said, sales of most titles being very top heavy, it's pretty clear that Titanfall on XB1 will outsell InFamous. Note though that the supposedly 'content starved' PS4 owners...
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    Dark Souls

    This fight is arguably the worst of the game because it takes place in a cramped place, you are forced to take on multiple enemies and it can go to shit in the first 3 seconds, killing you before you can learn anything to make the next attempt more successful. Advice: run/roll/run past the demon...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Any plan to kill a king that relies on a teenage girl wearing the right necklace seems pretty risky to me. And it's not like her handmaiden was privy to the plot.
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    Matrix prequel trilogy in the works for 2017

    Whaaaaaat? Admittedly I saw it just the once and at the time of its release, so 16 years ago, but I remember it being pretty good. Or was the only good thing in it the tracking shot at the beginning?
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    Dark Souls

    The blood stain is also placed a little before the place you died usually. So if you fall to your death it will be at the top of the cliff, not at its foot. Very rarely, that mechanism proves a little misleading and surprises you with the spot it chose for the stain (once or twice in my...
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    Mad Men

    A rather safe assumption is that we will see that woman again because I doubt you hire Neve Campbell for a single scene!
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    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    John Carter adventures span several books, so producers could say: 'The first movie did not work that well, but reviews are not so bad and we established some visibility for the brand. Also, things will be smoother and cheaper for the next movie as a lot of designs, props, costumes, 3D assets...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    A word of warning: Kotaku is currently running a story about the latest episode that is supposed to be "spoiler free" but it links clues together in a way only someone who read the book could, making it basically a spoiler for the mystery that is the murder. I got spoiled
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    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    Apples and oranges, but Microsoft lost a lot more with the first Xbox and made two others! Anyway, the problem with John Carter is that it aged very poorly. Reading the books today could be interesting as you can mentally put them back in the context of their time (first volume was written in...
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    Mad Men

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    Californication

    I suspect the TV writing storyline could be good, but I am worried about the son storyline because they made him a kind of Hank in reverse: an insecure charmless dim-witted guy. Not exactly an entertaining character. That storyline will bring Heather Graham though, so that can certainly help.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Well... Joffrey pointed at him and last thing Joffrey did was drink from the cup Tyrion gave him. Obviously, Tyrion could hardly foresee that he would become cup bearer so he is not much of a suspect. That said, when I first saw the scene, it felt that Tyrion brought a cup that was not...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Last season, Melisandre draw some blood with leeches from King Baratheon's illegitimate son and cursed some people (though Rob was in the lot and he certainly was not poisoned)... there is also that. And the jester pulling Sansa away adds him to the list of suspects. Something that worked...
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    Playstation 4

    I don't care about sports games and I don't care about baseball, but I must admit that there is something fascinating about The Show's attention to details and its willingness to go beyond the sheer mechanisms of the sport and recreate the baseball experience. Or more exactly the baseball...
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    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    An IP known by people who do not follow comics.
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    Filth

    I liked the first part when he is seemingly in control of his schemes, but when he goes into his downward spiral, I feel the movie drowns as he does. Still better than Trance, but it's not saying much since that movie was hit by both the ugly and retard sticks.
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    That looks like something that will end with everybody suing everybody aka the America's Cup way...
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    'Who wants to go to Cleveland?' is a silly argument, because 'Who wants to go to Oklahoma City?'
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    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    With this movie, the connection is really only made with the rest of the Marvel movieverse by those in the know who can connect a post credit scene in a movie with a brief presence in a trailer. People will see this movie, because the trailer was shown before the other Marvel movies and the...
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    The Madrid of the Atletico variety has a problem: their very good keeper, Courtois, is owned by Chelsea. I am not too sure of the legal mumbo jumbo behind it, but the end result is that fielding Courtois against Chelsea would cost the Atletico millions. That's a lot of money for a guy in two...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Some of the things that make the show good now are the result of exposition in the earlier episodes (mainly character identities, backgrounds and relations). I would watch it all or at least read some good plot summaries for the episodes.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Pure speculation: maybe it was the small council that had to decide on Jaime's fate after he broke his oath and killed the king and they might have been in the know about the whole situation. Did we see any member of the small council nagging Jaime about him being the king slayer? EDIT: I...
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    It's a strategy: they lose a lot of matches at the end of the regular season to be super hungry for victories once the play-offs start. Yep.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    'Honor > all' is the facade, not necessarily the reality. Just like the legitimacy of Joffrey as king is important for the facade.
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Just saw the episode and enjoyed it a lot more than Winter Soldier. I even found the Ward vs Guards fight to be better than those of the movie (the Coulson crew vs Garreth crew fight was somewhat lame though).
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    In the immortal words of Balotelli: Messi the Magician managed to be invisible for another 90 minutes. And the Atletico, with a mix of grit and luck, stayed afloat in the first part of the second half and even managed to be dangerous in the end of the match. Well deserved victory.
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    Playstation 4

    I planned to buy a PS4 for The Witness. I might buy one for the Last of Us if it comes first.
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    The other Madrid may come to regret hitting the wood three times in the beginning of the first half, because if they play the second half like they played the end of the first (not producing any danger), I would be surprised if they manage to defend their 1-0 lead. The thing reeks of 2-1 for...
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    Not like he was going to beat Wilt Chamberlain's streak!
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    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    The aspect ratio changes through the movie. I think it depends on the layer of the onion (the reader - the writer talking about his book - the writer meeting the owner - Monsieur Gustaf - etc) but I am not 100% sure. About who still shoots in 4:3... it's not *that* uncommon. In recent weeks I...
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    Playstation 4

    I have two questions: 1) will there be a physical copy 2) Will it include the dlc?
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    Isn't it a foul to grab the ring when the ball is still in play?
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    Soccer 2013-2014

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    Soccer 2013-2014

    Currently half-right and confident. More so than the Real! A missed penalty followed by two goals? Both second half should be full of tension.
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    I am calling it now: 2-0 for Chelsea.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Edge is running a 'Can Microsoft turn things around for Xbox One?' cover story this month. Preview From the guy who was hired to hype the then called Project Natal!
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    What did you just read?

    Just finishedLa vie mode d'emploi (Life: A User's Manual)a classic by french author Georges Perec published in 1978. (goodreads link) The basic idea of the novel is to take a fictional parisian building, remove the facade and write a chapter about each room you see, with each character...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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