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  1. Szlia

    Shadowrun Returns

    Part of the GM's job is also to help and advise during character creation. You can't punish a player for making a character that you allowed in the first place! Same goes with players joining a group with a character made with another GM: adjust the scenario, adjust the character or have a new...
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    Underrated science fiction movies

    I saw it too long ago and I only remember 12 fingers piano, vacuuming keyboards and homo-erotic swimming... he HAD a heart condition or he was just PREDISPOSED for heart conditions?
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    Dexter

    You are not wrong, but there are levels. Sometimes you let things slide, suspension of disbelief, understanding some corners need to be cut and that realism must not go in the way of a good story and all that, but... sometimes it's just too much. I found this chain of events particularly grating.
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    The Newsroom S2

    - Deus Ex Machina is still lame, even if you joke about it. - 'Superhero journalists' is a bit retarded, even when you write the bonding between the kid and Maggie, considering the kid is presented as a relative of the guy in charge of the orphanage. - The flash back of the kid touching...
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    Dexter

    Hi! My name is Quinn. I am a brilliant detective. There's this guy who left the scene of a murder and who knew the victim, but because the witness recanted and his father is an important member of the community, we did not confront him about it. Since it leaves a sour taste in my mouth, I decide...
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    Breaking Bad

    Gene Parmesan.
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    The "Holy Crap That's Incredible" Music Thread

    In the new instrument section, there are a couple swiss people who created an oddity they called 'Hang' somewhere between steel drum, bongo and gamelan or something...
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    R.I.P.D Rest In Peace Department

    I was surprised to see how destroyed that movie was on Rotten Tomatoes. It's not great, it generates more smiles than laughs, it feels like a second serving of Men In Black that does not really find its own thing, but the story is without fluff and unpretentiously goes to its point, the cast is...
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    Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread

    I'll not try to pretend I had ever heard of this game before browsing MobyGames! My first guess was Robinson's Requiem, a survival game from the early '90s. Having never played it I investigated some more and it has a sci-fi theme (crash-landing on an unknown planet) it's in first person and...
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    Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread

    Mutant Beach? http://www.mobygames.com/game/macint...ShotId,539082/
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    The Wolverine

    So mysterious..... Kabaddi?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I don't mean Miyamoto is to blame for the situation, but he is the problem in the sense he has been the Nintendo brand for the past 30 years. A status that has even been reinforced with time when you consider the lack of good third party exclusives on their more recent home systems. Nintendo's...
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    Revisiting classics

    Where is your thread on Blue Jasmin then? For once it's released in the US before Europe and it had the best ticket sales per screen ever of him or something...
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    The Wolverine

    I suspect you underestimate three things: 1) As you underlined: the difference in goals. Jackman wants good muscle mass, low body fat, but does not care about power, endurance or speed. Your NFL players want speed or power+weight. 2) On top of his training, Jackman benefits here from a...
  15. Szlia

    American Hustle

    David O. Russell has a good streak going on. Looking forward to this.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    One of Nintendo's biggest problem is that Miyamoto is 60 and that Pokemon is the only major Nintendo franchise he is not involved in (Smash Brothers being a meta-brand). They made a poor work of propping up new IPs from heirs to fill his shoes.
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    The Last of Us

    Keep in mind that Sony will continue to manufacture and sell the PS3 for years: they stopped making the PS2 in January of 2013 (PS3 got released in November of 2006).
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    Oblivion - Tom Cruise goes WALL-E

    They are harvesting plankton. Good luck finding that on Saturn. Happy now?
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    Pacific Rim

    In UFO Robot Grendizer (aka Goldorak) we always get to know the name of the enemies as they appear, but it's only for the audience. I don't think the heroes were supposed to know the name of their enemies or were giving them nickname. In a way it's a good difference between camp and just bad...
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    Revisiting classics

    Lang suks. Murnau iz da shiznitz!!1! Joke put aside I see a number of classics, but not much lately...
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    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

    To put thing into perspective, from the point of view of someone who does not read super hero comics, these arguments about powers and who did what in what story, only demonstrate three things: 1) There are a lot of stories involving the characters 2) A lot of these stories are extraordinarily...
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    Knights Of Badassdom - (Dinklage - Glau) finnally being released, but with drama

    In all fairness, it's impossible to know which edit is the best one.
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    The Newsroom S2

    I love these slapstick comedy moments in the show like the chair or Will unable to put his pants on (previous season). It reminds me of Dream On. As for the tweets my guess is that their were sent then by the guy they interviewed.
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    The Newsroom S2

    Alex, I believe you are wrong. Isn't the only part that happens in the future the chats with the lawyer?
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    Knights Of Badassdom - (Dinklage - Glau) finnally being released, but with drama

    For me the real question mark is how, after winning the casting lottery, is this move not out? I mean you cast a not so well known guy in a little production, and by the time you are done, the guy becomes very well known and loved for another work of his... tcha-ching! I guess there are in no...
  26. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    The Wolverine

    That's what j00t was saying: Don't worry too much about what was said in a comic once, because fans tend to put much more thoughts into this stuff than the people writing it. EDIT: And the movie was not amazing by any stretch of the imagination, but it was better than I feared and there even...
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    Pacific Rim

    As every 20th Century Boys reader can tell you, a giant robot is not old school unless it has a remote control like Tetsujin #28 (aka Gigantor).
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    The Killing Season 3

    Are we both talking about theoriginal danish showhere? My understanding is that what is usually referred to as as "season 1" for the danish show is the first 20 episodes that were broadcast in two block of 10.
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    The Killing Season 3

    I just have a question related to the show: I just saw the first season of theoriginal danish showand thought it was entertaining enough (mainly because of the cast and the general tone), but that it was a bit of a shark jumping contest. Anyone saw the other two seasons? Do they tone down the...
  31. Szlia

    you find a meteorite, there's an accident at the lab, whatever

    http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Panmnesia That would be handy, but I suspect it's the kind of thing that drives you insane.
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    Pacific Rim

    The actress is 32. There is a wiki though: Japan attack is 2016. Brother die in 2020 The movie takes place in 2025 Amusingly, the hero is supposedly born in 1998 and the japanese girl in 2003.... we'll have to assume her memory was altered by the trauma as she did not look 13 in...
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    Only God Forgives- Ryan Gosling

    It does, it does. You have your martial art movies (aforementioned Tony Jaa stuff being the most known), your gangster movies (I linked one earlier in this thread I believe), there is a number of horror or horror/comedy movies (I never saw it, but The Eye by the Pang brothers made some waves...
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    47 Ronin

    I found one with a glorious US Trailer! And a Fukasaku movie to boot!
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    47 Ronin

    There is a number of fantasy movies set in china made in Hong-Kong, of the action, comedy and even romance type (or a mix of the above). Zu, Green Snake... but Japan? There is a somewhat recent movie based on Dororo (adaptation from a classic manga with a swordsman fighting demons - also a good...
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    47 Ronin

    On the up side, there are not that many fantasy film set in medieval japan (you have a number of ghost stories, but it's more horror films than action movies).
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    Only God Forgives- Ryan Gosling

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    Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread

    I quoted Umihara Kawase because it's probably the most technical platformer with the most depth in character control. But you understand pretty quick that it takes a lot of time to master. In a way reminiscent of Smilebit's Gunvalkyrie (you feel it must be awesome to control the character...
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    Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread

    I am afraid that award also goes to Castlevania IV and by a significant margin. Oddly, a guy named Taro Kudo did the music for it and Axelay as his only twovideogame music credits and they are two of the best scores invideogame history. You figure that out... And I'll not even entertain the...
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    Flash/Browser Games Thread

    The world really needed another slippery plaformer with spikes...