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  1. Szlia

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    What were the events Arya was refering to when charging The Hound with murder? It did not ring a bell.
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    There is something a bit pathetic with a terrified and wounded teenager on the run hiding in a boat like a stray dog and it's normal to feel some empathy for the guy, but the 'my brother made me do it' line of defense will be extremely difficult to hold when the prosecution will show him...
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    Jason Kidd: 40 years young.
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    How do they lost the guy btw considering that at some point he was in a gunfight with the police? He managed to drive away before a chopper could get on him and before other police cars could block his escape routes?
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    The Evil Within - Betheseda/Shinji Mikami

    That was not very informative...
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    Between robbing 7/11 (bad budget planning), killing a MIT guard that minded his own business (parano?a), car jacking people and telling them they were the bombers before releasing them (gloating) and not having a car ready to escape after your crime (bad planning) and wanting to drive around...
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    The younger brother was on a wrestling scholarship. Thanks for nothing IOC!
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    Collector's Editions

    ??? Anyway, the only good reason to buy a collector's edition as far as I am concerned is to support the dev/publisher. Of course that's on the assumption that they get more money off a CE sale than a regular sale.
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    Wait... so both names that circulated earlier were wrong?
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    Only God Forgives- Ryan Gosling

    A pseudo adaptation of Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days?
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    Shipping a few large items internationally?

    Depending on the type of plane ticket you have, going above your limit for luggage weight can be atrociously expensive. I once found myself with 10 kg of luggage over the limit and I was asked to pay $50 per kilo... Several years later, for a similar trip, I mailed to myself a couple of...
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    I concede it's easier to pick the wrong box of ammo than to have a fake bomb built and end up with a real one, but the colossally stupid is not out of the realm of the possible!
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    My out of left field theory: the Craft guys were running a 'find the bomb' drill and used a real bomb by mistake (happens all the time with munitions).
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    I am sure a number of people around the world are hoping the culprits are not from their neck of the woods.
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    Fertilizer plant explodes in West, Texas

    Not sure what he did between then and now, but:http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...4e5e9b2688.501 And about knowing to not stay close to a plant full of fertilizer: I live in a city that is not much bigger than Waco and I have absolutely no idea what most the plants and factories of the...
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    Fertilizer plant explodes in West, Texas

    A similar factory exploded in Toulouse in 2001 killing 30ish and injuring several thousand people. The company got tried and condemned for it.
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    And what is the logic behind it?
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    Mad Men

    Even during season 1, the actress often looked pretty cute outside the show, so for me the trick really is to remember she is a scientologist.
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    Isn't the FBI supposed to make a press conference? I think they mentioned something of that nature on french news earlier.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Ebony Hunter....
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Naive question: what is the volume of 'currency for goods/service' transactions (mining - the service of helping run the system - excluded)? From a distant and mostly uneducated point of view, it seems the bitcoin is, for now, almost purely speculative in nature and destined to crash and burn if...
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    North Korea goes full retard

    You fail at diplomacy. These guys (mostly) took over the country but their government was only recognized by less than a handful of nations (mostly because there was an almost universal consensus that, yes, 'they bad'). When they asked for evidences and wanted to negotiate about who would put...
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    North Korea goes full retard

    It's a completely different set of standards because it's a completely different kind of entity. And it's not like there are vague ties between the taliban and al qaeda like both being active in the same area of the world during the same time: they worked hand in hand, with al qaeda funding...
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    Oblivion - Tom Cruise goes WALL-E

    There are a lot of good things in this movie (music, art direction, cast, etc), but, sadly, they do not amount to a very good movie. A bit of a shame really, because it feels like it might be possible to avoid some of the plot holes and absurdities while keeping the core themes and ideas of the...
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    North Korea goes full retard

    At that point in time, had the US even recognized the legitimacy of the taliban as the ruling power in Afghanistan? I doubt it did. So it was not a state asking another state, it was a state demanding that a bunch of terrorist-friendly, world heritage site bombing, opium exporting guys did...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    About Dany's Dragon: In a DnD campaign a long time ago, a friend of mine had a magic throwing dagger that could warp back into his hand at will. He sold it often! About Jaime's hand: There are many wuxia movies where the hero get his hand chopped off and comes back even better than before!
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    It's actually an ok comming of age movie from Norway:http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt1650407/
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    The Ask Anything Thread

    Where do you charge it? Is the toothbrush dry when you put it on the charger?
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    Mad Men

    The thing though is that he is no longer living a lie. Doesn't Megan know everything about him?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The US and the UK are two of the rare markets where the X360 is far ahead of the PS3 (Canada and Australia being the other two afaik), so really the UK is not representative of Europe in that regard.
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    Too much pain killers?
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    North Korea goes full retard

    Reality is a game that does not end, so flipping the board is never a rational behavior.
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    North Korea goes full retard

    Both South and North Vietnam were dramatic clusterfucks and North certainly did not do its own thing, leaving the south alone like in my fantasy scenario for North Korea. Btw I have a choice quote for you I saw in the Vietnam War page on wikipedia (I sure did a lot of reading because you today!)
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    North Korea goes full retard

    I am not sure how shady or transparent the processes were, but both north and south voted their way to their political system. The anti-communist sentiment in the south was also severely boosted by the korean war (South declared independence, North attacked), a war that also caused the first...
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    Ubisoft remaking the 1992 cinematic platformer, Flashback

    I never got into the original game, possibly because I expected it to be a spiritual successor to Another World and it was not really the case. I should give it another go... On a side note, I hope the guy that came up with 'Do you remember?' as tagline got a raise!
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    North Korea goes full retard

    Mikhail, I did a little wiki-fu and I failed to see what the US did to turn North Korea into what it has become (other than opting for elections in the south after WWII instead of turning toward the korean government in exile that was deemed too communist for their taste). It's also a little...
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    North Korea goes full retard

    In the same way a lawyer does not ask a question he does not know the answer to, I doubt it's a clever diplomatic move to attempt a PR coup without being certain of the outcome. Since the AEGIS can miss, I doubt they will try an intercept.
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    North Korea goes full retard

    I am pretty sure they fired missiles over Japan before... EDIT: Some quick google-fu showed occurrences in 1998, 2009 and even december of last year!
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    Soccer 2012-2013 3.0

    After the Euro 2000, there was a joke around here that enjoyed some success: Q: How do you close a Champagne bottle once opened? A: Ask an italian. After tonight, I guess you can change the punchline to 'Ask someone from Malaga.'
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    Olympics Thread

    If I were you I would be cautious about the 'Spirit of the Olympics'. Originally it's a competition for soldiers to prove their worth in a time of peace and the modern version tried to be just that too (again: modern pentathlon invented by Coubertin is the five things a soldier should be able to...