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  1. Szlia

    NBA 2013?14 Season

    Yeah, it's a draw at half time when the Spurs should be leading by 10. That might very well bite them in the ass.
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    World's Largest Video Game Collection for sale

    That seems like a very high value... but again, in a strange non-intuitive way, the value might come from the fact probably 8k of the 11k games are garbage games no sane person would play and finding mint versions of such games no collector ever wanted might be a lot more difficult than for...
  3. Szlia

    NBA 2013?14 Season

    Nice fine incoming for Wade for that mega flop on Ginobili!
  4. Szlia

    Tennis

    Strange final. Djokovic started well, showing early and often why he won the last four matches against Nadal. Blocking the spaniard on his backhand side and then attacking his forehand with vicious backhand cross court or with very acute inside out forehands. To prevent Nadal from anticipating...
  5. Szlia

    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    In case you missed it, Tom Cruise was short in this movie, which is pretty different from his normal Tom Cruise role!
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    The manga is also an adaptation (read a few chapter and it's significantly weaker than the movie). The original work is a novel.
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    "There is no athlete on the planet who could've played through those cramps," [Isiah]Thomas told Yahoo Sports. "Michael Jordan absolutely couldn't have played through those cramps. I absolutely couldn't have played through those cramps. As an athlete, there's nothing you could do."
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    Tennis

    Very good hard fought final between Sharapova and Halep. Surprisingly, the first 3 set final in more than a decade and, at slightly more than 3 hours, almost the longest women final in the tournament's history! The quality of play was often very high and both players showed really good ability...
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    World's Largest Video Game Collection for sale

    It's difficult to appraise such a collection, because there are probably not that many rare games in the lot, but if all is in great shape, with a bunch of factory sealed games even, and there are a lot of complete sets, that can seriously jack up the price, possibly even north of 500k for 11k...
  10. Szlia

    22 Jump Street (2014)

    I'll bump this thread just to say it's currently at an astounding 97% with 35 reviews at the tomatometer!
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    The Fault In Our Stars might be the best movie of the three though! (haven't seen it)
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

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    What did you just read?

    Just finishedRed Seas Under Red Skies(Gentlemen Bastards book 2) and it left me a bit skeptical. The guy needs to find a plot structure consultant or something because, like the first book, it's a lot of build up for an underwhelming and hasty resolution. The build up is pleasant enough though...
  14. Szlia

    The Synthwave Thread

    Here is some Perturbator. A new one. My favorite.
  15. Szlia

    NBA 2013?14 Season

    In James' defense, there's nothing toughness can do against severe cramping.
  16. Szlia

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    There is no repercussions to Oberyn's death because he willingly entered a duel to the death and died. Also remember sending him to the wedding was basically an insult.
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    If you HAD to be born in any other country

    I would want prosperity + security + good weather all year round. A difficult combo to find... Southern Japan / Okinawa or Taiwan maybe... but don't the last two have the monsoon? It's tough...
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    Tennis

    Very lame day of semis today, but we have our final. NADALplayed well with the return of the sun. Since Murray knew from the start that he had no chance to compete because of the time he spent on court to reach this stage and his ailments, there was no fight at all from the scott who was...
  19. Szlia

    NBA 2013?14 Season

    This gif clearly shows Lebron is not carrying his team! Two things though: - Losing Lebron is no excuse for the poor performance of the Heat down the stretch. A Lebron-less Heat shouldn't be blown away by the Spurs like they did. - The next match is on Sunday so that should be enough...
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    James is doing a Lee Chong-Wei: the air conditioning is broken, but he did not adjust his water intake so he is cramping. It happened to the World N?1 Badminton player when facing his arch rival Lin Dan in the latest world championship final.
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    World's Largest Video Game Collection for sale

    50k but reserve not yet met... also no word on shipping costs. Not as tempting as it could have been.
  22. Szlia

    NBA 2013?14 Season

    Allen is tired of missing 3s so now he drives and drives and drives... Heat might win this.
  23. Szlia

    Boyhood - Richard Linklater's next movie

    12 years? Try 49 years and counting!Up Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  24. Szlia

    NBA 2013?14 Season

    Allen missed three uncontested 3s in a row: The Heat can't win.
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    Tennis

    It was WTA day with the semis. I only got to see the Shapova vs Bouchard match. The canadian youngster started very well, staying close to her baseline, dominating most rallies by taking the ball early, keeping good depth of shots and by being the first to go down the lines. The fact she hardly...
  26. Szlia

    NBA 2013?14 Season

    It's been a while since I laughed so hard. I found the buildup mildly amusing, but the punchline was entirely worth it.
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    Tennis

    The only thing I saw today was the end of the third set in the Murray vs Monfils and then the end of the match from the end of the fourth set. For those, who, unlike Bob Book, saw nothing, Murray cruised 6-4 6-1 in the first two sets, but Monfils managed to keep things close in the third and...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I don't think she learned from Cercei or Varrys or anyone. She just realized she is not as powerless as she thought she was: she has power over the men that love her (so, if anything, she is closest to Danny). We know Littlefinger loves her, but it is also strongly hinted that The Hound does...
  29. Szlia

    Tennis

    I noticed a little something that might play a part in the Ferrer vs Nadal quarter: it will be played on the Suzanne Lengen, the second court, not on the Philippe Chatrier, the center court. That's because Monfils is playing in the other quarter and, since he is the last frenchman in the draw...
  30. Szlia

    Tennis

    We'll know soon enough! But a Nadal that can't get as many free points on serve as usual against a Ferrer that won their last meeting seems like a tough proposition to me. Nadal is still the favorite though, but not by a large margin.
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    Maps to the Stars

    The film won Julianne Moore the 'best actress' nod at the Cannes Film Festival. Sadly, I found the film not very good and Moore's performance nothing to write about. The movie has a strange tone that makes you wonder if it's very tongue in cheek satire or string of labored clich?s. I gave the...
  32. Szlia

    Tennis

    We two semi finals already: DJOKOVICproved to be extraordinarily opportunistic and made the most of the little opennings Raonic gave him on serve. So after two very tight sets, it was two sets to love to the Serb who took an early two breaks lead in the third. To the credit of his canadian...
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    What did you just read?

    The other day, I ran out of small format books to read during my short commutes. My father had a pocket book version of the screenplay of Woody Allen'sHusbands & Wives. Well... a screenplay is really an odd beast, it's really just a trace of the movie and you have to kind of piece it back...
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    E3 2014

    No such thing as a weid time when it's desperate times.
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    Tennis

    We have our top two quarters: NADALstill served slowly to preserve his back, but still crushed Lajovic. vs FERRERfaced a pretty good Anderson today, but the dramatic part is that even when the south african managed to be a break up in sets, it still felt like there could be only one winner...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I don't get why you think Sansa turning her hair black makes her look more like her mother. She was a redhead also. That being said, killing Oberyn is retarded, because his arrival is what made up for the end of the war from a narrative stand point: complexity disappeared in the north, but...
  37. Szlia

    Tennis

    It's a bit tough to say 'Fed's decline continues'. It's true that he fails to reach the quarter final at the French for the first time in a decade, but that's only half the story. With the tennis he played today, he would have been the heavy favorite in all the other R16 match. Sadly for him, he...
  38. Szlia

    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    Movie was pretty good. My only two complains is that it several times hints at narrative elements that would be very interesting and bring the film into 'great' territory, but does not go there, and the film making of the action scenes is a bit underwhelming: it works well when the hero is...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Sociology 101 says that it's difficult to enter even a loose social group if you feel you do not belong to it (even if this feeling is irrational). So, someone overweight who never took part in a any kind of athletic activity will find difficult to join a gym because he is not 'one of them'...