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I think you forgot to post the actual fact you wanted to postLet me break down my statement then: Car burning is a french national sport. I think it mostly started with riot because of a teenager running away from the police and getting electrocuted to death because he fled into a power...

Some comments: 1) About the mass e-mail posted earlier with the super theory about the percentage of muslim population and what it means, the bullshit-o-meter rings often. I am in Switzerland where muslims apparently have an inordinate impact on policy making, forcing halal menus in...

I understand your sentiment, but I think some things should be clarified. A car or a TV are objects that wear down when used. There is a huge market for used car, but for all intents and purposes, a used car is not the same product as a new car. With cultural products, especially of the digital...

Here we go: The draw from the POV of the top 8 seeds: DJOKOVICbeat Nadal in Monaco's final, but also lost to Dimitrov in Madrid and Berdych in Rome. One ankle at 90%. R128:Goffinbelgian hope who reached the round of 16 last year and did precious nothing since. Played through...

We need a complete picture of this process since it's obviously more subtle and complex than initially thought. A mechanism to ensure publishers get a cut of used game sales is certainly something that I can agree on, but if it means I can't lend and borrow nor sell directly to another gamer...

Nadal is in the top half with Djokovic. Ferrer in the bottom half with Federer. Monfils, back from injury and who got a Wild Card will play Berdych in the first round... more when the fine web people of the French Open post the draw!

Question for astronomists: Kepler is looking at a specific area of the Milky Way, but how is it oriented relative to the orbiting plane of the earth? My question being: does the earth occludes our sun from the point of view of the planets we observe? As in: could intelligent life on these...

I am pretty I used to say jif and now say gif... Subsidiary question for those who say jif: do you say [jif] (withjsounding likedjin andgin) or [zhif] (withzhsounding like measure, television, beige) ?

Considering latency and transfer rate, what kind of task could be asked from a video game to a cloud? The only thing that comes to my not enough educated mind would be AI for turn based games. You could make a very fast yet very strong Chess game for instance, but what else?

Federer did beat Nadal in relatively recent times on Clay (Madrid final in 2009) and the French Open final of 2011 was certainly the closest between the two and was three or four point away from being a straight set victory for Federer (lead in the first set, tie-breaker in the second set, won...

It's also an opportunity for journalists to see/try a bunch of games and meet/interview a bunch of people, giving them material to enhance their reviews for months (it's especially interesting because the material gathered that way is potentially unique to the journalist asking questions others...

So.... you did not see the first one, did you?

While in a good position, I think Sony has a difficult message equation to solve in E3. It may be an 'abundance of wealth' problem, but they still have a number of big titles in store for the PS3, titles that, because of their development time and level of polish (The Last of Us, Gran Turismo 6...

How does one go from directing a romantic dramedy with Sarah Jessica Parker to directing the 300 sequel?

That was fun, but it might prove costly for the Pacers.

Feedback comes to mind.

The quality of the movie as far as I am concerned will be directly proportional to Gal Gadot's screen time. So what's the score a_skeleton_03?

The fascist party in Greece is doing quite well!

It should be noted that being booed at Cannes happens often and is rarely indicative of the quality of the film and of the awards it might get. Famously, Maurice Pialat won the Palme d'Or for 'Sous le soleil de Satan' (Under The Sun of Satan) and he was copiously booed by the public present at...

Your scenario is not without merit, but it only considers half the equation. The other half is gamers and retailers. Retailers that make their money on used games will never try to sell a machine with a 'no used game' policy. You can bet that every single vendor at GameStop will get a $100 bonus...

That will not be helpful, but the first thing that sping to my mind is a part from an art house french film called 'Adieu'. There are multiple storylines in the movie, but one of them follows an illegal immigrant from Northern Africa who writes letters to his daughter. In a couple of them, he...

I suspect the secret dream of the marketing team that chose this name is that people would call it 'The One.'

There is a number of ways to easily use excess power, especially when you consider how straight forward the PS4 architecture appears to be. Anti aliasing, draw distance, texture filtering, resolution, frame rate...

She said something like 'I killed a lot of lambs, not one ever saw the blade' that was so ominous it was not possible for Stannis to not think 'Wait a second here? Am I a lamb too?'

It's half the story though. Joffrey's lineage is just a good pretext to try and overthrow him and put Stannis' mind at ease (I am not being power hungry, I am being righteous! I only want the throne because I am its legitimate owner!). In the end, the King is the guy that can be and stay King...

All this Free City stuff made take a stroll on the TV Show's wiki and I realized something: there is still a viable and non-insane heir to the throne for the Lannister/Baratheon: Tommen Baratheon, the other son of Cersei. It really makes you wonder how Joffrey the loose cannon is still alive...

You are thinking of Jaqen H'ghar. If you remember, H'ghar had a very peculiar third person way of speaking that Daario does not share. That said we also know the assassin that once assumed the persona of Jaqen H'ghar has an almost magical ability to transform his appearance, so him changing his...

It was madeinJapan, butforAmerica. It was designed as a stepping stone for players unfamiliar with jrpg, so one could say it's a proto-jrpg. There are some Final Fantasy that have not be mentioned in this thread I believe though: Final Fantasy Legend I, II & III on GameBoy (that are actually...

Harrenhall is on Tully territory, at least it was before the current rebellion. As for Robb, I don't think he wants to become King of the 7 Kingdoms, he just wants to get his sisters back, avenge the death of his father and make sure the south will be ready when Winter comes. This makes me...

Heresy! I'll agree that Owen Wilson is a bit of a one-trick pony acting-wise, but he is the best at that particular trick. There is a 'fallen from the moon' lightness, an optimistic enthusiasm and a gentleness mixed with a kind of melancholy, a barely visible sadness, a chink in the soul. All...

I don't think the guy who designed the PS4's architecture (who was interviewed in a Gamasutra article linked near the beginning of the thread) speaks japanese.

Judging by the size of the drive opening, I would say about the same size or slightly larger than the first batch of PS3, but more massive as it is a monolith.

You should not play a game where you can only lose. Unless it's Tetris.

The EyeToy was a $30 accessory by itself and it was bundled for $40ish with EyeToy: Play. They sold more than 10 millions EyeToy cameras in the world. Cost and attach rate were not an issue. The tech was obviously a lot more rudimentary than today's Kinect, but it was possible to work around the...

This cannot be right. You would think that with all the Web 2.0 / social media craze these companies would have hired a couple sociologists and that subsequently they would be consulted on the impact of design on the social practices related to their products. Being able to lend and borrow is...

A good effort, but I am not overly impressed by this list. Eye of Judgment is certainly an interesting use of the device (card reading and augmented reality), but it's more of an enhancement to board games than to video games. It's possible to have the exact same gameplay without the camera...

I played III on DS for a bit and it is a miserable game at just about every level (haphazard plot and opaque leveling system being the worst offenders), so it's no great loss. Come to think of it... I never played II, but considering I is pretty bare bone and III is a trainwreck, my motivation...

Please list some.

Personally I have no idea why they are putting these Kinect and PS Eye / Move in these consoles. These things sell as novelty gadgets with lame software and then no one is able to make a decent game using them (that would not be better with a regular control scheme). No one could with the Eye...

My understanding is that she probably could with the King's bastard.