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  1. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Spoiler alert: The answer is no.
  2. Szlia

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    I find this Chance The Rapper guy very weak. For some mellow hip-hop with some actual good flow, a classic: And you also get some intello-comedico-experimental french hip hop from 2003, just because:
  3. Szlia

    Homeland

    For the sake of precision, I would like to mention that Douvaine is in fact not in Switzerland (it's in France, close to Geneva though) and that, to my knowledge, it has no landing strip.
  4. Szlia

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The big question with No Man's Sky is how you will feel exploring your 10th planet. Will it be "I wonder what new and surprising things I'll find there?" or will it be "I wonder what slightly different flavor of bland I'll get this time?"
  5. Szlia

    Who would win?

    If you use David's plot armor as an argument, it should also be noted that Vader, for all his force induced prescience, has an alarming tendency to have his schemes fail miserably.
  6. Szlia

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    1998: Hot shit.
  7. Szlia

    Who would win?

    It's not very clear what can kill the T-1000 other than dumping him into lava or some other kind of total destruction event. It's pretty clear what can kill Vader (even if he does not drink milk - or was it orange juice?).
  8. Szlia

    The Knick

    So many good scenes in a 60 minutes episode! A bit of a shame the health inspector died because I enjoyed his character very much, but in exchange we get a promising murder mystery/corruption sub-plot.
  9. Szlia

    Soccer/Footy 2015-2016

    On this subject, I recommend you check the romanian film The Second Game by Corneliu Porumboiu. It consists of the director chatting with his father Adrian over the footage of a 1988 Bucarest derby between the Dinamo and the Steaua for which the father was the referee. Check the trailer to...
  10. Szlia

    The Astronomy Thread

    I always understood it as a thought exercise more than anything else. It's a way to quantify things we cannot understand (putative alien civilizations that master technologies we know nothing about).
  11. Szlia

    Homeland

    Actually she gave a pretty good assessment of the situation. In True Detective she would have said: "My best self is just a little before my worst self." That's also why she asks her friend to assist her: to pull the plug when the worst self appears. Anyway, it feels the pacing is almost back...
  12. Szlia

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I'll assume you are not responsible for one of the 5 million views of that:
  13. Szlia

    RPG Maker VX Ace

    The RPG Maker scene is strange.
  14. Szlia

    The Knick

    Still great! I am a little worried about the rapey father in law plot line though because it was one of the few weak things from the first season.
  15. Szlia

    Virtual Reality

    A company with decades of experience designing consumer products is better at designing a consumer product than a startup bought by a software company. Not that surprising really.
  16. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Seeing the portraits, it's obvious she is overweight, but it's not obvious that she is morbidly obese. I'll spare you a GIS of morbidly obese, and instead here is a picture of Ad?le who looks a bit like what I expected seeing the portraits.
  17. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Photoshoped!
  18. Szlia

    Sicario (2015)

    To be precise I said: 'similar topics and/or similar scenes.' The whole tunnel operation really made me think about Zero Dark Thirty (the whole part outside the tunnel probably looks better than anything in ZDT, but the tension and the construction of the action scene is a lot better in...
  19. Szlia

    Homeland

    I feel it's a bit shark-jumpy that Quinn's 3rd target is Carrie in episode 2 of - what? - a 12 episodes season? Especially when you consider they have no idea if she was involved or not with the leak.
  20. Szlia

    Sicario (2015)

    I must say I did not like it as much as I thought I would. It's partly because, in the end, the plot does not amount to much (it's not like an investigation where things unfold or like a dive into the war on drugs where you go deeper and deeper into the underworld). Also, it is a little sub-par...
  21. Szlia

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    That would work if the false positive created by carbon decay were freak accidents. If they were, you take 100 measures, there is a freak accident in one of them, no big deal. But Furry's argument here is that the false positives due to carbon decay might even be more likely than the actual...
  22. Szlia

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    My understanding is that there is a huge quantity of neutrinos that run through the IceCube and very very few that interact with it, so it would be extraordinarily unlikely for the tiny stream of anti-neutrinos produced by carbon decay to create false positives. But this difference in orders of...
  23. Szlia

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    You guys are still very good at misrepresenting arguments. Furry's point is that the machines used to detect neutrino are looking for events that can also happen because of the natural decay of carbon that is found in the machine. More specifically, in the case of IceCube, the machine is...
  24. Szlia

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Why a flipped neutrino just won the Nobel Prize | ExtremeTech So... the idea is that it got discovered that neutrinos (or should we say neutrini?) can oscillate between their three flavors (electron neutrino, muon neutrino, tau neutrino). Apparently, a corollary of this is that neutrino must...
  25. Szlia

    Homeland

    A very promising start, because of the complexity it implies.
  26. Szlia

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Because I was hoping someone with a modicum of knowledge on the subject (read: not me) would post about it!
  27. Szlia

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I am a bit disappointed to not see a post about the Nobel prize for the work on neutrinos
  28. Szlia

    Spectre (2015)

    This song is pretty ok really, it's just strange as a Bond theme. Maybe it will work with the tone of the movie...
  29. Szlia

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Listening to it again because I just saw the trailer for Son of Saul:
  30. Szlia

    Homeland

    Season 2 is really the shark jumping olympics. They try to keep the same frantic pace as in season 1 and up the ante, but all they manage to do is a hot mess that breaks the bullshit-o-meter. They still pay for this, because several huge things happened in that season that simply cannot be...
  31. Szlia

    The Astronomy Thread

    That or they just forgot to apply the "mars filter" to their picture taken in Nevada.
  32. Szlia

    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    I am not the resident boobologist, but it is nothing new. A little trip on the imdb photo gallery should make it clear.
  33. Szlia

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Is it really what is happening here though? My understanding is that they expected to be able to detect something and did not, sosomethingwent wrong. The way you frame it, it seems the most likely culprit is not the theory, but you still can't rule it out until you actually find the culprit.
  34. Szlia

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    At a fundamental level, I have a hard time understanding how one can be against Furry's position. You have a theory, you devise an experiment to test it, you expect to detect something with your experiment within a certain time frame, so when time's up and you have not detected your something...
  35. Szlia

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    You don't need to have a better model to point at the flaws of a model. Anyway... I was reading about the tools they use to try and detect gravity waves: basically they split a laser in two, have each half go and bounce on a mirror with paths that are orthogonal and of the same length, join...
  36. Szlia

    Alien: Covenant (2017)

    I never played them, so I was not 100% sure which one of the AvP games were good on PC. Are you saying both the first and second games were good? I think the good one has like flares you fire to both see and help you navigate but only 3 or 4 can be up at the same time or something similar.
  37. Szlia

    Alien: Covenant (2017)

    Are we talking Alien: Isolation here? Because it's its own story. So is Alien vs Predator on Jaguar and Alien vs Predator on PC which is basically the 3 good Alien games I believe?
  38. Szlia

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Yeah because it's such a big and risky investment
  39. Szlia

    Alien: Covenant (2017)

    I think you forget the part where Ripley goes through the whole of the Nostromo and back to save the cat. For me, the horror elements of Aliens are superior to the ones of Alien, because it multiples the places where you do not want to be. In Aliens, we go under the floor, over the ceiling...
  40. Szlia

    The Astronomy Thread

    If you move to see one, it comes sooner:Total Lunar Eclipses Worldwide - Next 10 years