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  1. Szlia

    12 Monkeys The Series [Syfy]

    Unwatchable for Astrocreep = masterpiece!
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    Chef (2014)

    Considering the omnipresence on TV of cooking shows and cooking reality shows, I am surprised there are not more fictions about cooking. This movie looks ok with a nice cast (we barely see it in the trailer, but the marvelous Oliver Platt is in it too).
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    12 Monkeys The Series [Syfy]

    You guys do know 12 Monkeys was already a remake right? It's based on a 1962 short film by Chris Marker calledLa jet?e (The Jetty). I found several version of it with spanish subtitles on youTube but none with english subtitles
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    the greatest streak in sports history has come to an end

    Not well known but more impressive winning streaks: Jahangir Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaa winning streak of 555 matches in top level squash during the '80s (unbeaten in competitive play from 81 to 86). Esther Vergeer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaa winning streak of 470...
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    Seeing the stats, the question I ask myself is how does a defense allow a guy to shoot 22 times from the three points line and still land 45% of them.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    That seems to be the point, with his story line becoming about his future or lack thereof. More than not looking the same at all, what surprised me with the new Daario is that he did not move or talk in the same way at all. There was something distinguishly foreign about the old Daario and he...
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    Tennis

    France beat Germany 3-2 Kamke never managed to plant the seed of doubt in Tsonga's mind and Gojowczyk (who I mislabeled an adept of serve&volley) had a shot at making things interesting by reaching a tie-breaker in the second set against Monfils, but the frenchman dominated it from start to...
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    Tennis

    There is no doubt the kazakhs walked a very narrow path to find themselves in this position, but it could be argued that this path should not have existed in the first place, because a top 10 player should not have two out of four sets reach a tie-break when playing Golubev. The double is a...
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    Goonies Sequel

    Hollywood is exactly as lazy as the audience allows them to be. If 30 something parents go see movies based on IPs of their youth with their children, why would Hollywood stop doing that? The real problem is the immaturity of the audience.
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    Tennis

    Czech Republic beat Japan 3-0 A straight set victory in the double sealed the deal. Germany leads France 2-1 Llodra/Benneteau was the big favorite against Kamke/Begemann (never heard of that guy, but ranked 48 in doubles it seems). Things almost got awkward at the end of the fourth, but the...
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    Tennis

    The beauty of Davis Cup is that you can expect the unexpected: Czech Republic leads Japan 2-0 Daniel pushed Rosol to a 5th set after being lead two sets to love and Ito won the first set in a breaker, reached another breaker in the second set... but it was all downhill from there! If Japan...
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    In all fairness, english tabloids are equally disrespectful to all.
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    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    That's a little unfair when you consider five of the lead characters (Gustave, Zero, Agatha, Moustafa and the young writer) are interpreted by actors that never were in an Anderson movie before (Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori - obviously -, Saoirse Ronan, F. Murray Abraham, Jude Law). Now it's...
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    Tennis

    Friday to Sunday: Davis Cup Quarter Finals! Japan vs Czech Republicin Japan: As I expected, Berdych did not do the trip to Tokyo. Sadly, Japan is a one man team and Nishikori is injured. Soeda and Ito will have to face Rosol and Stepanek... Maybe the savior of Japan will be the american born...
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    Playstation 4

    I am in the same boat as Angelwatch: I can play the occasional FPS if it has some original ideas or if it is a solid piece of eye candy, but I have very little interest in multiplayer so I would never buy a MP only game.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Supply and Demand! $250 for Sapphire, a shooter on Super CDRomRom + Arcade Card (Turbo Duo + ram expansion). My picture, but I passed. I am not sure I have anything in my collection that is worth more than $150ish...
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    I have not seen the matches but these results are somewhat unexpected! The all spanish affair less so, but still... What is less surprising is the lack of Brando post mocking Moyes and singing the praises of Barcelona and Guardiola!
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    Dark Souls

    I think you need to summon him for all the previous battles where he is available and deal with him properly in Old Isalith (sp?), so it's pretty much impossible to do it in your first play-through without using spoilers.
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    Tennis

    I did not see the final (I was watching some good and not so good korean movies at a festival), but, asked about it, a friend told me Djokovic returned well and put a lot of pressure on the Nadal forehand (to the point of barely making him play backhands!) and broke it down. 6-3 6-3 for the...
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    Dark Souls

    I beat Gwyn the way you are supposed to beat him: with Knight Solaire tanking and me throwing lightning spear at the guy!
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    Virtual Reality

    Don't take my 3) so literally! I used heart attack for the hyperbole, but my question really is: how do they propose to allow the real world to contact the VR player without it being a shock? A 'dinner time' remote? Using the motion tracking camera to warn the VR player when something else than...
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    Virtual Reality

    As a septic, I have some questions for the optimists. I am a septic about the technology and about the content, but for today let's just focus on usability. Three questions: 1) Multi-tasking: I don't know about you, but it is extremely rare these days that I play a game and do nothing else...
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    Tennis

    I can't say I remember ever seeing that before. There have been tournaments with a lot of injured or sick players, but both semi final not being played? I never saw that and checking some articles, no one mentioned an earlier occurrence. On a more positive note, but not less surprising...
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    Noah (2014)

    ***WARNING MOVIE NERD PUN AHEAD*** I see you like cake. Or that, at the very least, you don't like Pi.
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    Tennis

    In what I believe must be a (regrettable) first, no semi final was played today. Nishikori withdrew because of a left groin injury (once again stringing victories proves too straining for him) and Berdych is sick. We get a modern classic: Nadal vs Djokovic in the final.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Both games are also available bundled with a console so the standalone game targets people who already have the machine to play it and there are more PS4 owners than XB1 owners, so this can explain that. With the Titanfall bundle being priced aggressively, I would not be surprised if it sold...
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    Tennis

    Top two quarters are done: Berdych was just a tad too consistent for Dolgopolov. Nadal outlasted Raonic in three sets. I must say I found Raonic's game a lot more watchable than usual, with more variations and a broader array of shots. It's possible that the quality of the opposition...
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    That depends what the criteria for clutch is. If you narrow it down too much, the sample size is just too small to mean anything. If you widen it to 'points in the fourth quarter' didn't James just had a stretch of like 5 games where he scored 8 points in these five fourth quarters combined?
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    Tennis

    Soon to be a giant himself I am sure if he manages to stay healthy. We knew the forehand and court coverage were world class, but he showed how precise his serve has become, how effective he can be at the net and how venomous his backhand cross court can be. Not only when taking it early to turn...
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    Nymphomaniac

    Supposedly Trier split it in two parts a bit reluctantly for the theater release. On BluRay it should be a another cut that merges the two parts into the one film he had in mind originally. I am waiting for that version.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Initially it was supposed to be current gen retail $40, current gen digital $30, last gen retail $30, last gen digital $20, but popular pressure brought current gen retail to $30.
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    Miami has now a losing record against the Pacers and the Nets so it's a bit unfair to those teams to say the Heat overwhelmingly dominate the East.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    That MGSV paid preview thing sold dramatically more on PS4 than on PS3 which is pretty crazy when you consider the difference in installed base. InFamous, as expected, is not as big as Titanfall, but it also pushed a lot of consoles. Well... considering it's still very much in demand, I...
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    Tennis

    The bottom two quarters were played today: The Murray vs Djokovic match was a very tight affair. As often with these two, we got a number of very athletic rallies where one wonder why someone is not trying something (the answer generally coming when someone follows a brilliant shot to the net...
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    Is there like a one week break between the end of the regular season and the play-offs or does it start immediately?
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    Anti Video Game Violence Crusader Arrested On Corruption Charges

    Raymond Chow is the name of the 85 years old head of Golden Harvest, a Hong Kong movie studio that is notably behind the rise to stardom of the likes of John Woo and Jackie Chan. So it could have been a name used as an Easter egg in Sleeping Dogs!
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    If they do that, I hope they go all the way and make it region free.
  38. Szlia

    Playstation 4

    Or when Naughty Dog announces a PC version of one of their games!
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    Tennis

    We have our quarters! Nadalplayed great tennis so easily disposed of a slightly injured Fognini who had too few moments of brilliance to get anything out of the match. vs Raonicbeat veteran Becker. The canadian has a shot at winning, especially in a best of three sets match, but I would...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Wasn't this game supposed to be a bit lame in the end? A bit tedious as in 'secrets everywhere but arrows pointing at them' tedious? PS: This topic is like a general video game news feed with a console war flavor, so splitting it would make a lot of little news homeless.