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  1. Szlia

    How many sneakers you got?

    I don't use sneakers as fashion accessories, so I have about 4 pairs at any one time: the current badminton shoes, the beat up badminton shoes recycled into utility shoes (I go through a pair in about 6 or 8 months as I play 10+ hours a week), the clay court tennis shoes and the indoor tennis...
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    The Before Trilogy

    You are mistaking critics with fortune readers or something...
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    Dark Souls 2

    Also, with everyone being in PVP all the time, it will be a lot easier to find nearby opponents with a good ping. I found the covenants very lackluster in the first game though and I hope they put a lot more thoughts and work into them this time, so that choosing a covenant makes you...
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    The Before Trilogy

    Or you can use the 'cream of the crop' rating to remove random_blog3465 and its ilk from the equation.
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    Girlfriend wants to move in, how much should she pay?

    If she pays some of the mortgage, it would be fair that she gets some of the equity. If she pays a rent, it would be fair that she gets renter's rights. If you don't want to give her renter's rights nor equity, she needs to pay nothing or you must make some sort of written agreement. No...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The power brick is amassiveanti-theft device!
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    When all is said and done, I suspect the PS3's lifespan will end up being longer than 10 years. Remember the PS2 lasted 13 years and the PS1 12 years because of the generational overlaps (the Xbox lasted only 7 years because of lack of overlap with the X360). The PS4's competitive pricing at...
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    The Before Trilogy

    Putting Woody Allen and Hollywood in the same sentence is a bit odd considering he mostly worked with east coast or foreign producers. There is no denying his significance though. NB: I ranked Midnight in Paris at N?8 in my 2011 Top 20.
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    The Before Trilogy

    I have not seen any of them, but I have a friend of mine who rates them very highly and the director, Richard Linklater, has a very intriguing filmography (Dazed & Confused, A Scanner Darkly, Fast Food Nation, School of Rock, Before trilogy... what?). To add a little salt for the peanut gallery...
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    Nosgoth

    Odd usage of the IP put aside, it could be an amusing game.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Not well enough for Australians!
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    Trance

    I saw that a while back and forgot there was a thread. It is indeed very stupid.
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    Dexter

    The final scene is to prepare the Dexter vs Wolverine movie.
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    Remakes that are better than the originals

    Let it be known I strongly disagree with the notion Red Dragon is superior in any way, shape of form to Manhunter.
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    Dexter

    I guess they tried to go for a The Shield ending but... Hanna got even more of the Vic treatment than Dexter!
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    Remakes that are better than the originals

    You must be thinking about Warm Bodies. It was surprisingly good.
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    Remakes that are better than the originals

    That's stretching the definition, because the only thing they have in common is that they are both all star cast big budget heist movies with action and comedy. The plot is completely different. Nevertheless, I recommend The Thieves warmly.
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    Prisoners (2013)

    You give it more than a solid B. You give it acapitalB! Something that, as all can see, is exceptional coming from you.
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    The Dirties

    Guy has the T-shirt from Van Sant's Elephant.
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    Goldsboro Revisited or: How I learned to Mistrust the H-Bomb

    What were they testing with an operational H-Bomb not meant to explode that they could not test with something else?
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    Remakes that are better than the originals

    huh? What are the originals for those 'remakes' ?
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    The Newsroom S2

    Don't delude yourself into thinking one is a fantasy and one is not. They are just two different fantasies. Unless you are a career politician and can attest one is closer to reality than the other, you are only confronting your own fantasy to the ones of the show writers.
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    Best company/website for digital movie purchases?

    All the online movie seller/renter that I am aware of are geolocalized because of film rights. So it's likely you will not be able to see in the US the films you bought in Germany. A solution could be to use a US proxy while in germany to create a US account for these services. Another solution...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    What worries me is that it seems like an evolution of a very popular genre in japan: randomly generated dungeon exploration. There are several Dragon Quest spin-offs (Torneko) and FF spin-offs (Chokobo Dungeon) based on this concept and I can't see how one can be interested in them for more than...
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    Remakes that are better than the originals

    12 Monkey is a remake of a short film by Chris Marker called La jet?e (The Pier). Though stylistically very different, I would say Marker's film is the best of the two. YouTube has several versions but with spanish subtitles. Hulu has it too, but I can't check it thanks to...
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    Boston pedophile planned to kill and eat children(w/ bonus dungeon pictures)

    Or the Tidbit Scaledclaw of cancer victims.
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    Boston pedophile planned to kill and eat children(w/ bonus dungeon pictures)

    Maybe I am misreading it or rationalizing, but the guy seems like he lied about the whole abduction/cannibalism thing to impress the other people in his network who had committed actual acts of pedophilia.
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    What are you playing?

    Played a little Gunpoint. And indie 2D stealth-puzzle-platformer with a tone in between comedy and noire. Amusing so far. 50% off on steam at the moment.
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    *cough*cough* Here is a problem about goats and car (chorus: goats and car!) That confuses our good friend Araysar (chorus: Araysar!) Here is a problem of doors and choices (chorus: doors and choices!) In musical form, 'Bisi rejoices (chorus: he rejoices!) There are three closed doors...
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    Dark Souls 2

    I played a pure melee character, so I made a pretty liberal use of NPC and player ghosts. I did not use one for Seath though. I also had to check strategies for some bosses. Gravelord Nito comes to mind, because it's easy to understand there is something to get about the mechanism of the...
  31. Szlia

    Date movie at the dine in theater.

    We're the Millers is amusing enough and without terrible flaws, but it's not a great comedy and it feels many scene do not live up to their potential. I have not seen Instructions Not Included, but from review it seems in the same ballpark as far as quality goes and I think you are right that...
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    The Newsroom S2

    You cannot make a more right wing scheme of universal health care than Obamacare. I would know, because it's a carbon copy of the swiss system of health insurance. Thanks to the US we went from having the second worst system in the word to being tied last. An extreme left wing health care system...
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    Dark Souls 2

    I seem to remember that Smough's pathing is very lame: he goes in straight line toward you, so you can put a (broken) column between him and you and safely kill him with arrows (being a bad archer just mean needing more arrows...). EDIT: Oh... congratulations!
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    Dexter

    It almost sounds like they want to start a new serie where Saxxon is the main guy.
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    Do you guys still do the "payment" for votes thing?

    I assumed that for a voting process that had a direct link to the vote, they just added an 1px by 1px iframe to the link next to the site's banner, turning every page viewed into a vote attempt. I guess you can refine that to not flood the target with invalid votes and to be a little less...
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    Grand Theft Auto IIIII - HDD City Stories

    Note that the amazon covers could very well be the pure result of an error somewhere in the chain as they are compositions and not the scan or picture of an actual object. As for the preorder boxes, they are made by the store. So they know something we don't or they fumbled or, most likely...
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    Grand Theft Auto IIIII - HDD City Stories

    Unless you are unsure whether to buy the game or not, why would you watch a stream of someone playing it?
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    2) is a subset of 1), so, no matter what, 1) should be more likely... but that sounds like the answer a statistician would give...
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    I submit Araysar's title should be changed to 'goat driver'.
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    Araysar: if one uses your logic and apply it to the 1,000,000 doors versions, would you still say that the first choice does not matter because you always end up with 1 door picked (unkown) 1 door closed (unkown) 999,998 doors opened (goats) making it a 0.5 chance of winning by...