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  1. Szlia

    Homeland

    Hah! I am glad I was right! The battle of the veteran spies should prove entertaining!
  2. Szlia

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

    Also, the hardware will never change while the OS and Dev Tools can and will, so it make sense for the devs to put some heat on Microsoft on those aspects for the changes to arrive sooner rather than later.
  3. Szlia

    Answer the question above you, no matter what it is

    Castle Vidcons: Comic #121- Be ProudAnd thank you for your question because it made me realize it started to update again a few months back. AlsoA Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversiblebut there is an update per decade now. A question... What time is it?
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    Since writing a song about it was not enough, let me use your own argument against yourself: Why would you assume that some sort of arbitrarily decided sequence of events has an effect on your initial pick? Because that's what you are saying: you pick a door with a one chance of three to win a...
  5. Szlia

    Electronic Dance Music

    I am late for your party, but maybe for the next: That was on the first Dave Clake's Electro Boogie compilation and he stumbled upon it in some SM Club. This anecdote adds even more character to a track that is not lacking in that department.
  6. Szlia

    Homeland

    Not common enough to show up on a google search :/ What is it?
  7. Szlia

    Thor: The Dark World.

  8. Szlia

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

    Isn't that a great way to kill the battery? I know I left a laptop on charger for a long while and it shot the battery dead because of all the little discharges and charges over and over again (with the laptop it was for weeks though, not days, but maybe days would have been enough?).
  9. Szlia

    Prisoners (2013)

    This was very solid. You can have a couple nit-pick about the police work (see spoiler below), but it was both a solid drama and a solid investigation movie. Great cinematography also.
  10. Szlia

    Thor: The Dark World.

    The movie is packed with comedy, 90% of it being one liners by Loki or Kat Dennings (ie: the laziest form of comedy). A bit of a shame considering the good part of Thor in the first movie and in the Avengers is when through solemnity and a somewhat literary language, the tale gets an air of...
  11. Szlia

    Shroud Of The Avatar - Shit Went Persistent

    I am all for no quest log as long as 1) the mystery is not there to hide the lack of content 2) the action-reaction chains are well oiled 3) There is an in-game way to take notes, add marks to maps, etc. That said, what I see of the game is bit schizophrenic: on one hand there is the will...
  12. Szlia

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

    It's not a ratio problem (you can play in 4:3 with the PS1 emulator on PS3) it's really an emulation problem with the graphic engine. I noticed it first playing Front Mission 3 where some screens use rotating vector graphic patterns and the line would not connect properly on PS3. As it surprised...
  13. Szlia

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

    For archiving purposes I would enjoy PS1 emulation on PS4 only if it is better than PS1 emulation on the PS3. I am not sure why, but the connections of the polygons and of the lines are messed up on PS3, making the game look messier on PS3 than they were on PS1. And its more than just using LCD...
  14. Szlia

    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    But if out of the remaining 99 box the host only opened the one? Would you change your pick for the marginal statistical boost or trust your initial instinct?
  15. Szlia

    Homeland

    I would assume something like out-patient check-ups happen once a week or once a month, so it has yet to affect the story id she has to go through something like that.
  16. Szlia

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

    As a reminder: Journey is one of the best game ever made and Unfinished Swan is a very neat and clever game that explores a handful of original gameplay ideas without any of them overstaying their welcome. The two games are short so the Quality/Minute ratio is through the roof (Quality/Price is...
  17. Szlia

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

    I never understood why with all this rain your goggles/glasses seem to be the only thing that get rained on.
  18. Szlia

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

    That's some serious 625p right there!
  19. Szlia

    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    I don't think about this when I watch the show, but when asked to compare two characters in two shows, it's only natural to get a little analytical.
  20. Szlia

    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    It's a little unfair since Skye is a main character while Felicity is a supporting character but: Skye has an identification function (just like the viewer, she discovers the inner workings of SHIELD) and a plot function (hacker). The plot function is doubly motivated (hacktivism + personal...
  21. Szlia

    Homeland

    Brody should come back into play when Saul goes after the money trail in Caracas.
  22. Szlia

    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Since most shows I am watching ended their season or have yet to start it, I looked for something to watch and remember Arrow being mentioned in this thread.... It's shocking how bad the writing of that show is at just about every level: lines, characters, plot... And I watched Dexter until the...
  23. Szlia

    Most screwed up thing your parent/bro/sis/gf/bf has told you?

    The only thing I can think of is how my grandmother, who was a political figure of her city and member of an individual liberties / pro-business right wing party, explained to me when I was a child that left wing parties were about controlling every facet of your life, like deciding at what...
  24. Szlia

    Flash/Browser Games Thread

    The lack of "run away" option in combat and the micro management needed with the village (only 80 people max means that an auto reliant machine is very slow and leave it run is useless because of random events) discouraged me.
  25. Szlia

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

    It seems the OS guys at Sony are not as clever as the hardware guys! On the up side, the OS can be patched.
  26. Szlia

    Homeland

    It was made clear when she met Saul after getting contacted by the pawns of Iran that she did not expect to spend that much time at the hospital. As for her reaction to the hearing, you can argue that its the shock of being confronted to the reality of the plan or maybe Saul was vague in the way...
  27. Szlia

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

    I have a friend who bought a PS3 Slim because it was a cheap media server thingy with BluRay and game console thrown on top. That worked well for Sony because he ended up buying several games for it. It's probably less an argument for the PS4 today because the offer for media server thingies is...
  28. Szlia

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

    Also can't play LPs More seriously, a fast count lead me to 18 devices in my home that can play audio CDs. I have used only three of those ever to listen to audio CDs and none of those three was a game console. Still a bit strange though. Maybe a cost issue? But the licence to play audio CDs...
  29. Szlia

    Flash/Browser Games Thread

    Clicking bad is somewhat broken at the end of the curve. It becomes easy to launder an inordinate amount of money, but distribution investments just take ages to pay themselves.
  30. Szlia

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

    The strength of the Killzone franchise is its bleak 'WWII in space' feel and the quality of the visual design to support this atmosphere. As far as game design go, it's very generic weapons, no real genius in level design and a very heavy player character (personally I like how much we feel the...
  31. Szlia

    Girlfriend wants to move in, how much should she pay?

    It's been more than a month since the last post by Kramer. His girlfriend must have killed him
  32. Szlia

    Facebook password

    The answer to "I think my teenage daughter has problems" should not be "Let's hack her Facebook account to know what's up". It should probably be: 1) try to induce communication through innuendo (You know that you can tell me anything right?) 2) try to prompt communication directly (You seem a...
  33. Szlia

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

    I suspect this happens to you on a pretty regular basis.
  34. Szlia

    Into The Wild

    In the 'mountain climbing epic' category, let me mention Jiro Taniguchi'sThe Summit of the Gods(5 volume of 300+ pages of award winning graphic novel)
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    Homeland

    We finally got the antagonist and he comes with the promise of some good TV!
  36. Szlia

    Into The Wild

    Known side effect: falling in love with Kristen Stewart.
  37. Szlia

    NBA 2013?14 Season

    Crown the Bulls?
  38. Szlia

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

    To have people to play with?
  39. Szlia

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

    The article says interesting things about CPU vs GPU and how devs have to adapt their design depending on the balance of the two (even though I have trouble seeing how CPU power could limit game design considering you can make extremely deep and complex game that extremely light on CPU), but for...
  40. Szlia

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

    The only thing I remember clearly is this: