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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?

Is it available on DVD with english subtitles? I have a friend who is a big fan of the books and games that looked for an earlier TV serie without much success.

As a PS3 owner I was wondering.... is it Diet Uncharted with D cups or is there more to it?

The most surprising for me was Waltz with Bashir. Using animation to make an auto-biographical documentary about the israelian army going into Lebanon... that was unexpected! And the result is very very good too. The animation create a distance that allows comedy and lyricism with a very...

Madalina Pica

I never bought many DVDs: my several boxes filled with VHS acted as a cautionary tale! All joke aside I think there is a big difference between a DVD collection and a game collection: with movies, the "original" object is the film print* and the "original" experience is the projection in a...

There is a version of Ys III on SNES that was released in the US and there is also an alternate version of Ys IV titled Mask of the Sun that is only available in Japan (The great Turbo Duo Ys IV is titled The Dawn of Ys).

I have not played the Chronicles version, but I played Ys I + II on my Turbo Duo back in the '90s. The fighting is a lot more rudimentary than in a Secret of Mana (melee is done by bumping into enemies and there is just a couple different consumables... maybe there was some items you could equip...

My understanding is that the current practice is that publishers decide the price Sony has to pay them per digital sale and Sony decides for how much the game goes for on the PSN Store. That means Sony has some leeway to make small discounts but has to negotiate on a case per case basis if it...

Cell phone shops, general electronics / computer shops... even the post office around here sells iPods and they certainly do not sell CDs. I'll concede though that "many if not most" (implying almost 50%) is wrong because I forgot department stores account for huge chunk of sales of both CDs and...

It could be nice if they decided to be more aggressive with the pricing, but, sadly, as they depend on brick and mortar stores to sell the consoles, they cannot turn the PS4 into a Trojan Horse, making retail do the indirect promotion of digital sales. In a way, Sony (and Microsoft for that...

Red carpet: Samantha Barks (not the best last name for a singer)

About pillows, I have been using forever pillows that are filled with bran which is pretty good because it offers both firm support (I find "bouncy" foam or feather pillows uncomfortable) and malleability, while also being not too warm. EDIT: A similar but a little more granular filling is...

I keep notes on all the recent movies I see. I can tell you that I saw more than 90 movies in 2012 that I feel where better than Argo, a film so lacking in dramatic tension that it has to invent the most absurd finish to manufacture a climax out of thin air. On top of that, the film brought to...

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Daezuel again.

An even vaguely decent plot? Film making that somewhat manages to make the action scenes understandable? One-liners that do not feel pasted over like the ones of an annoying side-kick in a bad video-game that has no consideration for context nor timing?

Well... it was original but flawed. Also:

Nope but there is a pants on head crazy party.

So bad that it's almost unbelievable. So bad that you wonder if it's not some kind of art house film dealing in an abstract and poetical way with the raw energies of action films. Bizarre.

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The only exclusive game that vaguely interests me in that long list is Bayonetta 2 and I have yet to play the first one.

Barca's "problem" remains the same: it takes them 7263 passes to go past mid-field, so they always face a defense that is in position and they field an army of midgets, so they need to keep the ball on the ground. Against poorly organized defenses and with the talent they have in the front they...

Tech people can answer that but... isn't more ram to store hi-rez textures not enough in itself? Don't you also need bigger bus bandwidth? I guess all these ridiculous high rez patches for PC games only run on ridiculous video cards that have super awesome bus speed or something? Filling an...

It's actually a reference to a scene in one of a serie of famous japanese sword fight movies, itself inspired from a manga, called Lone Wolf and Cub (the manga and the movies are available in english). Anyway, the main character, a very skilled swordsman, encounters another very skilled...

What about Syrio Forel?

These price perception things are a bit odd anyway. Remember the PS Vita? When they announced the specs people were like "omg this is going to cost an arm and a leg", then they announced the $250 price tag for the Wi-Fi version and people were all "awesome crazy cheap!" and then, come release...

The strange people on the islands do not use ?.

I don't follow this Monster Hunter thing, but isn't the Wii U game the third port of the least selling Monster Hunter (PC and X360 excluded...), a game that was already available on Wii in the US and sold poorly in Japan? How is that the system's savior?

I have been reading two at the same time these last few months: a pocket-sized book I carry around in a bag / coat pocket to read on the go (currently John Varley's The Golden Globe) and a regular sized book I read at home (currently a compilation of short stories by french sf/fantasy author...

Amusingly I forgot about the memory implant episode!

The WiiU is not the first of the next gen, it's the last of the current gen.

Am I confused or wasn't there a pretty even fight between Ned and Jaime in season 1 that only got unbalanced by the outside intervention of a guard, which pissed Jaime to no end?

I think it's pretty safe to expect the dev kit controller to have all the functionality of the PS4 controller without being the final design. As for streaming games Gaikai / OnLive style, I remember the people trying those being pleasantly surprised. That said, latency is unavoidable, making...