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Fundamentally, what are the condition for a rally to happen? Aggression must be controlled enough to not be a source of errors and impotent to the point of not generating winners nor forcing errors from the opponent. So a rally is when the sweet spot between doing too much and not doing enough...

Someone needs to see John Sayles' Lone Star!

I have to get some sleep, but I leave you with this for the time being:

Freudian slip?

The beauty of tennis is that there are as many ways of playing it as there are players, so the notion of 'perfect tennis' is pretty absurd. An Isner, since you mentioned him, will never play a 35 strokes baseline rally concluded by an insane passing shot, because his brand of perfect tennis...

I did not investigate past the info Lenardo posted (DS+3DS, no 3D, $130). It's true the design is a bit on the weird side... and why do a redesign without including the 2nd analog stick?

My 1st gen DS is on its last leg, so I might very well buy a 2DS and get access to the three or four 3DS games that interested me.

Note that when you are coerced and/or influenced into doing something, you still do it because you perceive it as best. 'Best' does not mean 'good' on some kind of neutral scale, it means better than all the other perceived options and their perceived consequences ("if I don't join the gang...

I don't think the problem is that there is sex trafficking, but that it is Russia's 3rd export behind Oil and weapons...

This is a remarkably silly comparison, because part of the business of NFL players is to be well known, to sell jerseys, to sell tickets. Part of the business of CEOs is to be the face of their company. Scientists? They have no reason to be known outside their peers, unless they decide to sell...

It should also be said that Russia used to have a big cultural aura in literature, music, cinema, visual arts and of course politics... today? The only significant contemporary russian author was a dissident (the late Solzhenitsyn) and as for movies you still have the likes of Sokurov (just won...

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Lost Dungeons of Norrath. 5 assets per theme and what? 8 set dungeons per theme using these very few assets? If stuff is going to be bland, at least make it random!

We can already congratulate Ferrer on another Grand Slam quarter final, because both Gulbis and Janowicz lost in the first round! We can also do the same with Djokovic, as the only real threat was Dimitrov, who also did not win his opening match. Note that Nishikori also lost in the first round...

On a side note, there is an ok irish film mixing booze, comedy and alien attack called Grabbers:

Can't beat the Katamari as far as destruction goes!

A RR original for Tuco:

At least it was not Debra's boss!

1) The ring from Klonoa (that allows you to capture and throw enemies) 2) The machine gun from Cave Story (the one that allows you to fly with the recoil) 3) The shoot/shield/charge gun from Another World 4) The whip from Super Castlevania 4 5) The tranquilizer gun from MGS...2?

The ratings never was an issue for Leona, it was the official reason she would be able to use to fire Will, the officious reason being him pissing in her political cheerios.

It's a game of bluff. Obama said a year ago using chemical weapons is a red line that must not be crossed. Red line has been crossed. So you need to at least pretend you might do something about it, but it's all empty threats as long as Russia maintains customer service. On the up side, what...

That raises some important points. We have some people considering the 'American Way of Life' rules and the 'Thug Culture' rules and chose the 2nd option. That means they perceive the 2nd option as the best. What does it mean? Thug Culture rules are not exactly a stellar rule set. It promises...

That would be their 37th meeting... I'll one-up you with 7 doves for all four usual suspects to lose early. For fun: Berdych and Ferrer have been inside the top 30 for the last 8 years. They played each other a grand total of 9 times!

Imagine society as a game. You have to create a rule set that makes everyone want to play. The thing is, with the current rule set, some people see the game, see the differences in starting situations, the different progression paths or lack of thereof and decide: I am not playing that game of...

That whole stickball thing sounded too absurd for it to not be based on some sort of historical truth!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Memory_Access#hUMA

Voxels? Why? I am not too familiar with voxels... isn't that a nightmare for lightning? And what is the advantage? Does it help to make everything modifiable and breakable or something?

The SMS/Mark III and Genesis/Megadrive had limited success in Japan (euphemism). A big problem in an era where console development was almost totally dominated by japanese companies doing game first and foremost for the japanese market.

Additional notes: -Melzerthat I discarded inDel Potro's part of the draw ended up winning his fifth career title in Winston Salem. He might be able to ride this wave to reach the R32, but beating Del Potro seems like an unlikely scenario. -Monfils(Isner/Nadalpart of the draw) reached the...

What does that make you? A master baiter?

And so old!

I love Curb Your Enthusiasm. Yet, every time I see a clip from Seinfeld I am shocked by the atrocious line delivery and abominable laugh track. Someone please explain to me how it is better than Curb and convince me to watch that show.

Let's not turn this thread into the political thread 2.0, but there is very little doubt that if a republican president had Obama's record as far as drone strikes, whistle blower prosecution, mass scale spying and other similar niceties, the outrage would be on a whole other scale.

That's the symbol used to mark Buddhist temples on maps in Japan.

That's the spirit!

"Crimes that did not happen" seems like a pretty difficult thing to keep accurate records of. Do you have some statistics for that?

I have a friend who is a pathological liar, but it's mostly harmless. His deal is that he knows everything. His trick is that he does in fact know a lot of things and has extreme in depth knowledge in some areas (never play Trivial Pursuit Star Wars with this guy, but be sure to direct your...

A note and a question from a distant observer: - The Time mentioning cop on citizen violence is a strange idea, because it's a whole other can of worms. - How do the single parent statistics fare for other ethnicities in poor urban communities?

You are working on the odd assumption that BF4 will be no more visually intensive than BF3. On top of that, a PC built around a cheap 7850 and a cheap i5 will still be significantly more expensive than a PS4.

It's two different metrics: IGN tells you how good or bad it is, RT tells you what proportion of critics like it. If everyone agrees a movie is barely above average, it's 6.2 on IGN and 100% on RT. If reviewers are split it might be a 9.8 on IGN and a 50% on RT.