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About the magic: wasn't there at some point in season 1 a character witnessing something in the sky and wondering if it was some sort of omen/oracle? About Robb's foreign wife to be: the plot does not give a very good sense of the political and economic relations that the seven kingdoms have...

If Sharapova is known to have very few friends on the tour, Rodionova has the reputation to be detestable, almost insane and with an ego that has no relationship with her skills. She is playing a lot of double though, so I guess she is at the very least tolerable. EDIT: Oh and Haas finally...

In the end, a draw was a pretty fair result for this Barca vs PSG game as both teams probably have mixed feeling about the result. The return game is totally up in the air though because of the injuries and the rain of yellow cards. On the other hand, the Juve must feel pretty blessed to only...

It's nice to have Ciar?n Hinds as Mance Rayder. The only drawback is that the nature of his character makes him unlikely to have some good scenes with some of the other acting heavyweights on the show. I mean, if you put him in the same room as Charles Dance, you better have firefighters nearby!

This?

Actually, the part about a korean national winning the Olympic marathon in 1936 under the Japanese flag and with a japanized name is also true!

I went to see this ... ... expecting a bad plot and it was a bit worse than expected. ... hoping for some good action scenes/choreography as the director made dance movies and I was underwhelmed. ... curious about the cliff side ninja scene that is in the trailer and it was nothing much...

Flower and Journey come to mind as games that can be played in relatively small bites and that a non-gamer can appreciate (to play or to watch play).

A week at a film festival followed by an hectic week and Miami almost went by without a word about it! Going from the dry heat of Indian Wells to the humidity and wind of Miami is always a challenge that gives a little edge to those who had an early exit in the first or had to play qualifiers at...

Seriously?

What link is there between Paul Verhoeven and Resident Evil exactly? Also, most games don't have hours worth of story. It certainly is not the problem faced by the people who had to make a scenario for Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Dead or Alive, House of the Dead or Super Mario Bros. More...

I really don't follow F1 closely, but isn't arrangements between drivers, even on the same team, forbidden? Or used to be?

Eating is not just about energy though, it's also about raw material. Some we need in bulk, but some we need in small quantities like vitamins, stuff we can't synthesize on our own (that's actually the definition of a vitamin oddly enough). Some are pretty frail, meaning freezing/unfreezing...

Straight video game adaptations or video game related movies? The latter is a better provider of decent movies, like, say... Scott Pilgrim vs The World, both Tron, WarGames or Summer Wars. As for straight video game adaptations I believe there are a couple decent animated movies (Street...

Layman questions: How fast were these '92 big men? And am I wrong to assume the game is faster now than it was 20 years ago?

It's worse than in the middle east, because in Iraq for instance you had some sense of the religious and ethnic groups that were against or in support of Hussein's regime, giving a sense of what kind of political forces would face each other after the regime change. To my knowledge, there is...

In a team sport where the statistical data is dependent on the opponents and there is close to no evolution in hardware (as opposed to racket sports for instance), I feel it is extremely difficult to compare different eras. Throw rule changes in the mix and it's really a pure speculation game...

A rerolled exlusive.

You don't even have to be stupid sometimes, though it certainly helps!

Just finishedThe Carpet Makers, a short SF novel built like a collection of short stories that weave a bigger narrative. Each chapter is a tragedy that has the power of a classic tale and, as you progress through the book, the scope (both in time and space) of the main plot point grows and grows...

An axiom is not a belief. An axiom is a creation of the mind, a seed, the root of a mental construction. ? is not real. Some of these mental constructions prove to be efficient models. Being able to count apples does not mean I believe there can be an infinite number of apples.

A coffee spoon of sugar free Metamucil (or other similar water-soluble fiber) with two cups of water before dinner creates a mucilage that slows down the digestion of carbohydrates (a source of appetite is the drop from high blood sugar level after eating food with high glycemic index), takes...

Couldn't non-carbon based life forms also exist on earth?

At first the final looked like it would be a remarkably short one. Del Potro looked a little rusty and quickly had to abandon his initial game plan: playing with his usual depth of shot, but with a lot more volume, forcing Nadal to play shoulder height forehand from a meter of two behind his...

People who want to sell me things do. People who want to police me do.

Better late than never: two rounds for the price of one. SEMIS: Djokovicplayed a solid match. No great heights, but no lows. It proved too much for Tsonga to live with. vs Del Potrohad opportunities early in the first set, then lead in the tie break, but still lost it. Lesser players...

There was a sect in France that believed its guru was, day after day, fighting a space fleet of invading aliens with the power of his mind. If an actual alien commando came out of nowhere and killed their guru, what would have happened? I suspect they would kill themselves faster than you could...

PSG got some qatari owners who decided to spend enough on the team to push it into the european top tier. I suspect that for that plan to work they needed to buy 5 french teams to make the championship more competitive...

Truth be told, it's only worth playing as a UGO (Unidentified Gaming Object), because of its totally strange mix of styles and tones and its very bizarre and highly original story. The whole edifice is less than the sum of its parts, more than a bit shaky and far from satisfying.

For a tournament that started with some crazy upsets, there is not much left of it in the draw: eight spots in the quarter finals, seven of the top eight seeds made it through there. The one missing is Ferrer, the fourth seed, and Anderson managed to confirm his second round giant slaying feat...

Not as big as I thought:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_...n_to_Argentina Also, I was under the impression there was an ideological reason for former nazis to go to Argentina, but it appears it's more about going to a country that already had a big german community and social and economic...

You forgot a big wave of germans near the end of WWII too...

Third round is completed. Today is the day of the round of 16: Djokovicgot tested during a set by Dimitrov. The bulgarian broke first and served for the first set, but served four doubles (not in a row, but still...) and later got trampled in the tie-breaker before fading in the second set...

The children of the NK elites are educated in the west, so there is always the hope of a peaceful coup... but how would an indoctrinated people react to changes in the governance? Probably by despair, chaos and/or screaming "Treason!"

So.... It's Master 1000 time in Indian Wells which is almost a mini Grand Slam as it's a 96 players draw with both men and women playing. The first two rounds have been played already and, surprisingly, almost a third of the seeded players lost their opening match! Let's go through the draw...

I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat.

I am curious to have Obtenor's insight as to what will come next.

It will be pretty interesting to hear from other refs, but I suspect it was the right call. Even if there is no intend to harm, it's dangerous play and, basically, if the ref wants to call another high profile match in the near future, he has to go for red. It's absurd, as it majorly disrupts a...

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Howl's Moving Castle? Castle in the Sky?