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Of all the FF tunes, Shadow's theme is the only one I find myself humming from time to time.

DNA is in every cell though. What's so special about blood that would make you able to clone the mammoth now and not before?

I always assumed that the main motivator was to have a name that would not be constantly mispronounced and/or forgotten by western interlocutors. I guess that motivation falls into the 'trying to integrate' category though, but with a 'let's not even hope that these retards will ever learn' vibe...

Didn't they found frozen mammoth meat that was still edible a few years back? Or maybe it wasn't a mammoth? Google-fu time:http://www.cracked.com/article_19724...l-work_p2.html

At the end of the day, it's still some work that will need to be done (font size, UI, controls) for a feature most don't care about (even if I had a Vita I would not care about it). Luckily, it's a rather minor offence considering it should not be a lot of work and it's hard to classify the...

The big match of the day was Monfils vs Gulbis that the frenchman won in four sets. Gulbis will have some regrets over that one, because he rallied from a break down and then won the first set tie-breaker, was a break up in the second that he lost 6-4 and a break up in third that he lost in a...

Maybe the nurse is available because his father has died and he lied about it to make the sell smoother. Anyway, I think the character is a lot better now because at first he was just too transparent in his suck-up attempts, while now it's a lot less clear.

Pretty sure that's filed next to Napoleon canonballing away the nose of the Sphinx in the fictional history cabinet.

This match, along with Monfils', seem to, at the very least, have fired up the underdogs. Goffin offered a stern resistance to world N?1 Djokovic. The young belgian has less weapons than Brands so it was harder for him to consistently take the game to the serb, but, helped by a Djokovic that was...

Chinese teenagers whose parents work in factories do not go to Luxor.

That's world wide sales I'll assume. So: these sales will come in part from emerging markets (central and south america, middle east, eastern europe, south east asia, etc) and from secondary targets in established markets (children of lower income families). Basically it means the games released...

Best episode of the season and one of the very best episode of the show without a doubt. Something in particular impressed me: some characters from time to time almost become caricatures of themselves, but here I felt there was a lot of nuance and ambiguity written in all the characters, working...

I thought you were quoting from "Asterix and Cleopatra" there so I had to google and found this:

The most important thing is understanding that being the DM is not about winning against the players, but about crafting a good story for them (a good story is not them being crushed by insurmountable odds nor them saving the world despite acting haphazardly). After that, there are a lot of...

The Brands vs Nadal match should be a must watch in tennis schools, filed in the chapter 'how to play when you are the underdog'. Brands did just about everything right: shot selection, attitude, game plan... the whole package. Brands had a couple things working for him though: big weapons (1m96...

If the chinese teenager thing is retarded, it's really three order of magnitudes less significant than the Yucatan situation. For all we know, it's a relatively trivial restoration job to fix what he has done in Luxor.

Actually, it's a bit like the dark secret of the video game industry, but I remember it clearly being mentioned by Nintendo representatives around the time of the launch of the DS Lite and Brain Age, when the Wii was lurking in the horizon (so mid-2006). They explained how among their targets...

They got him at 'no income tax'! More seriously, it must have been a hell of a sale pitch. I guess they played the 'club of historical importance' card, the 'no sharing the position with anyone else' card and the 'we are building something new and grand, and the proof that our ambitions are...

I have a stat question: do the steals from one team count as turnovers from the other?

A little update to say we know the names of the two qualifiers in Federer's part of the draw. The first one was Pablo Care?o Busta who, contrarily to what I said, was the dangerous player lurking in the qualies. This young spanish player was on the rise and at the door of the top 100 a couple...

From a business point of view: why would they not? It cost practically nothing and can boost content they sell and/or be sold to content providers.

I don't think you make a good point with your TV example, because, without even going into planned obsolescence and other snafus, the importance is not that it 'look[s] like new in the outside' but that usage brings it closer to its death. You do make a good point with the value of novelty...

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What does 'a generation ahead of high end gaming PC' means though? What is 'a high end gaming PC' in the context of today's video game market? Obviously it's not the most powerful PC you can build, but more something like the average PC of the top 30% of 'core' gamers. If you look at it that...

Just playedTo The Moon(available on steam) a six or seven'ish hours long adventure game. I would say that both its greatest strength and its greatest weakness is that it is a labor of love. It's a great strength, because it chooses to tell a very original story on a very unique topic that feels...

Maybe the 3 Xbox worth of power is what devs can expect to be available, which statistically probably means something like one Xbox in the could for five or six units sold (guesstimation).

Instead of creating a new thread, I'll post the winner list of the Cannes Film Festival here (Spielberg was president of the jury): Best Actor: american legendBruce 'the man who killed John Wayne' Dernfor his part in Alexander Payne's road movie Nebraska (borderline senile father and going...

Self quote as Benfica did a little better in the cup against Victoria (yeah...)... they lead 1-0 until the 78th minutes and then suffered two goals in quick succession (78, 80) to lose the third of the three trophies they had in sight at the end of the season. Triple layer shit sandwich!

Considering the consoles that might need the server farm's power at any one time are only the ones currently in use, which represents a fraction of the total of consoles built, it seems to me the devs can assume they have access to a lot more than 3Xbones of power. Do we have some coders...

I actually went to a kabuki theater. A bit like a classical music concert, it's a program so not necessarily one super long play divided in acts. When I went, I checked a one act play that was an adaptation from puppet theater. There was a separate entrance for the people not seeing the whole...

I was more thinking of things like clean water, arable land, breathable oxygen... and as far as fleeing earth for political reasons, what I had in mind is more something like a country saying 'fuck that noise' because they might end up being collateral damage in a world war so they end up...

League, Cup, European title is a neat combo. Let's take a minute to commiserate with Benfica that could have made this combo but lost both the league and the european title because of stoppage time goals (the final of the cup is sunday or something).

Wait... I thought the Tea Party was the american taliban?

Historically it has been enough of a reason for many (along with: "if we don't know what's there, maybe there are... TREASURES!"). That said, exhaustion of natural resources and/or deterioration of the habitat can be motivators as well. Deterioration of the political climate too. At the apex...

Man... I have not yet recovered from the second Bourne movie and the second Sherlock Homes movie

Tarrant's silence is killing me. Too much suspense! (more than in A Good Day to Die Hard)

I wonder why the coach of Dortmund did not do any substitution before the goal. It was obvious that his team was struggling big time. Anyway, I found it cool to see this juvenile joy on old man Robben's face.

It's a bit like saying the LA riots were christian related because christians happened to be rioting. To this you could say 'HAHA but muslims are a minority in France, so that is highly significant, unlike christians in LA!' until you realize that not all french rioters were muslims and that a...

You seem to be talking about some sort of mythical moderate extremist muslim. I don't know, but I suspect most moderate christians (even 'going to church every Sunday, pray before every meal and before sleep' christians) would not consider their religion to be 'the most important thing ever, the...

I'll link something from wikipedia then about riots and islam in France:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_i...#Recuperations EDIT: While I am at it, a more in depth (and correct) view of the history and nature of the french banlieues:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_...French_suburbs