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    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    With this movie, the connection is really only made with the rest of the Marvel movieverse by those in the know who can connect a post credit scene in a movie with a brief presence in a trailer. People will see this movie, because the trailer was shown before the other Marvel movies and the...
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    The Madrid of the Atletico variety has a problem: their very good keeper, Courtois, is owned by Chelsea. I am not too sure of the legal mumbo jumbo behind it, but the end result is that fielding Courtois against Chelsea would cost the Atletico millions. That's a lot of money for a guy in two...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Some of the things that make the show good now are the result of exposition in the earlier episodes (mainly character identities, backgrounds and relations). I would watch it all or at least read some good plot summaries for the episodes.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Pure speculation: maybe it was the small council that had to decide on Jaime's fate after he broke his oath and killed the king and they might have been in the know about the whole situation. Did we see any member of the small council nagging Jaime about him being the king slayer? EDIT: I...
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    It's a strategy: they lose a lot of matches at the end of the regular season to be super hungry for victories once the play-offs start. Yep.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    'Honor > all' is the facade, not necessarily the reality. Just like the legitimacy of Joffrey as king is important for the facade.
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Just saw the episode and enjoyed it a lot more than Winter Soldier. I even found the Ward vs Guards fight to be better than those of the movie (the Coulson crew vs Garreth crew fight was somewhat lame though).
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    In the immortal words of Balotelli: Messi the Magician managed to be invisible for another 90 minutes. And the Atletico, with a mix of grit and luck, stayed afloat in the first part of the second half and even managed to be dangerous in the end of the match. Well deserved victory.
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    Playstation 4

    I planned to buy a PS4 for The Witness. I might buy one for the Last of Us if it comes first.
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    The other Madrid may come to regret hitting the wood three times in the beginning of the first half, because if they play the second half like they played the end of the first (not producing any danger), I would be surprised if they manage to defend their 1-0 lead. The thing reeks of 2-1 for...
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    Not like he was going to beat Wilt Chamberlain's streak!
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    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    The aspect ratio changes through the movie. I think it depends on the layer of the onion (the reader - the writer talking about his book - the writer meeting the owner - Monsieur Gustaf - etc) but I am not 100% sure. About who still shoots in 4:3... it's not *that* uncommon. In recent weeks I...
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    Playstation 4

    I have two questions: 1) will there be a physical copy 2) Will it include the dlc?
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    Isn't it a foul to grab the ring when the ball is still in play?
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    Soccer 2013-2014

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    Soccer 2013-2014

    Currently half-right and confident. More so than the Real! A missed penalty followed by two goals? Both second half should be full of tension.
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    I am calling it now: 2-0 for Chelsea.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Edge is running a 'Can Microsoft turn things around for Xbox One?' cover story this month. Preview From the guy who was hired to hype the then called Project Natal!
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    What did you just read?

    Just finishedLa vie mode d'emploi (Life: A User's Manual)a classic by french author Georges Perec published in 1978. (goodreads link) The basic idea of the novel is to take a fictional parisian building, remove the facade and write a chapter about each room you see, with each character...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    12 Monkeys The Series [Syfy]

    Unwatchable for Astrocreep = masterpiece!
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    Chef (2014)

    Considering the omnipresence on TV of cooking shows and cooking reality shows, I am surprised there are not more fictions about cooking. This movie looks ok with a nice cast (we barely see it in the trailer, but the marvelous Oliver Platt is in it too).
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    12 Monkeys The Series [Syfy]

    You guys do know 12 Monkeys was already a remake right? It's based on a 1962 short film by Chris Marker calledLa jet?e (The Jetty). I found several version of it with spanish subtitles on youTube but none with english subtitles
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    the greatest streak in sports history has come to an end

    Not well known but more impressive winning streaks: Jahangir Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaa winning streak of 555 matches in top level squash during the '80s (unbeaten in competitive play from 81 to 86). Esther Vergeer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaa winning streak of 470...
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    Seeing the stats, the question I ask myself is how does a defense allow a guy to shoot 22 times from the three points line and still land 45% of them.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    That seems to be the point, with his story line becoming about his future or lack thereof. More than not looking the same at all, what surprised me with the new Daario is that he did not move or talk in the same way at all. There was something distinguishly foreign about the old Daario and he...
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    Tennis

    France beat Germany 3-2 Kamke never managed to plant the seed of doubt in Tsonga's mind and Gojowczyk (who I mislabeled an adept of serve&volley) had a shot at making things interesting by reaching a tie-breaker in the second set against Monfils, but the frenchman dominated it from start to...
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    Tennis

    There is no doubt the kazakhs walked a very narrow path to find themselves in this position, but it could be argued that this path should not have existed in the first place, because a top 10 player should not have two out of four sets reach a tie-break when playing Golubev. The double is a...
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    Goonies Sequel

    Hollywood is exactly as lazy as the audience allows them to be. If 30 something parents go see movies based on IPs of their youth with their children, why would Hollywood stop doing that? The real problem is the immaturity of the audience.
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    Tennis

    Czech Republic beat Japan 3-0 A straight set victory in the double sealed the deal. Germany leads France 2-1 Llodra/Benneteau was the big favorite against Kamke/Begemann (never heard of that guy, but ranked 48 in doubles it seems). Things almost got awkward at the end of the fourth, but the...
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    Tennis

    The beauty of Davis Cup is that you can expect the unexpected: Czech Republic leads Japan 2-0 Daniel pushed Rosol to a 5th set after being lead two sets to love and Ito won the first set in a breaker, reached another breaker in the second set... but it was all downhill from there! If Japan...
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    In all fairness, english tabloids are equally disrespectful to all.
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    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    That's a little unfair when you consider five of the lead characters (Gustave, Zero, Agatha, Moustafa and the young writer) are interpreted by actors that never were in an Anderson movie before (Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori - obviously -, Saoirse Ronan, F. Murray Abraham, Jude Law). Now it's...
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    Tennis

    Friday to Sunday: Davis Cup Quarter Finals! Japan vs Czech Republicin Japan: As I expected, Berdych did not do the trip to Tokyo. Sadly, Japan is a one man team and Nishikori is injured. Soeda and Ito will have to face Rosol and Stepanek... Maybe the savior of Japan will be the american born...
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    Playstation 4

    I am in the same boat as Angelwatch: I can play the occasional FPS if it has some original ideas or if it is a solid piece of eye candy, but I have very little interest in multiplayer so I would never buy a MP only game.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Supply and Demand! $250 for Sapphire, a shooter on Super CDRomRom + Arcade Card (Turbo Duo + ram expansion). My picture, but I passed. I am not sure I have anything in my collection that is worth more than $150ish...
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    I have not seen the matches but these results are somewhat unexpected! The all spanish affair less so, but still... What is less surprising is the lack of Brando post mocking Moyes and singing the praises of Barcelona and Guardiola!
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    Dark Souls

    I think you need to summon him for all the previous battles where he is available and deal with him properly in Old Isalith (sp?), so it's pretty much impossible to do it in your first play-through without using spoilers.
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    Tennis

    I did not see the final (I was watching some good and not so good korean movies at a festival), but, asked about it, a friend told me Djokovic returned well and put a lot of pressure on the Nadal forehand (to the point of barely making him play backhands!) and broke it down. 6-3 6-3 for the...
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    Dark Souls

    I beat Gwyn the way you are supposed to beat him: with Knight Solaire tanking and me throwing lightning spear at the guy!