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  1. Szlia

    Help finding a movie?

    I made an honest attempt and came empty handed. I would say you have the plot all wrong, which can happen when you sleep through a movie (in that case it might be K2 or even Cliffhanger). On top of that you could be wrong about the year you saw it (then it could be Vertical Limit). The other two...
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    Dark Souls 2

    Knowing From Software, 'Darkness' is a detrimental effect!
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    Help finding a movie?

    You suck at google-fu because it's the second result for "talking dogs crystal":Fluppy Dogs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    Help finding a movie?

    Kids?
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    My answer for the earth and sun question was neither or both. Btw, what is Prof. Ferguson's explanation for the travel times in what we erroneously call the southern hemisphere? EDIT: As to why you can't see Argentina from the US, wikipedia tells us that "in the cleanest possible...
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    Art

    It was posted already earlier in the thread and I just now tried to watch it. I must confess that I lasted less than 5min, because in that time the only sentence that did not hit 'pants on head' on the bullshit-o-meter was " I am Roger Scruton." I mean it's broad generalization after broad...
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    Art

    Wouldn't it be one?
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    Robocop - Remake

    Minor spoiler for the movie, but Robocop is originally silver and then changed to black because of the marketing guy of the corporation.
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    Art

    You still remember it vividly to this day though.
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    About the Secretary of Education:
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I still don't get the "no game for PS4" thing. For me there are three reasons to have nothing to play on a PS4: 1) Owning a good gaming PC and playing all multiplatform games on it. 2) Having very narrow taste in games - only into JRPG, not touching a game if it's bellow 95 on metractrics...
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    Titanfall

    If it was a Microsoft Studios game I am sure it would have been an Xbox One exclusive, but since it's an EA game, I doubt Microsoft was willing to pay what EA would have asked for Xbox One exclusivity.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    What have you played for now?
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    The Evil Within - Betheseda/Shinji Mikami

    This remind me a bit of RE3, for the chaser obviously but also because it was the first in the serie that really put front and center the body of the main character: getting injured, grabbed, thrown around. This emphasis on the vulnerability of the main character really helps to generate...
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    Titanfall

    As it is multiplayer only, X360 owners might prefer to get it on 360 rather than upgrade to a One.... unless there is cross gen play allowing you to upgrade without risking to lose your Xbros.
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    Titanfall

    If for obvious reasons there will be PC-only servers, do we know if there will be cross-gen multiplayer in the Xbox family?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It's probably not unfair to say though that these 7 countries account for mabye 80ish percent of the european video game market (guestimate).
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    Styx: Master of Shadows

    I really love the idea of using a goblin as main character. I love it! That opens a lot of original gameplay and narrative possibilities. Let's hope they make a good use of them.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    That would be a compelling argument if the sales numbers of the new consoles were low and if both systems were taking dust on the retailers' shelves as gamers wait for great exclusives. That's not what is happening though: the consoles are flying off the shelves. In a way it's even worst for...
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    Olympics Thread

    I like all this talk about the USA dominating baseball when in 5 Olympiads Cuba won three times and got silver the other two! USA got one gold and two bronze. Softball though: 3 gold out of 4. Also note that both sports are out of the Olympics for now (were already out in London in 2012).
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    Under the Skin (2014)

    It's important to note that it's made by Jonathan Glazer whose previous movie, Birth (2003), had no shortage of brilliance. Also the director of the videos of Karma Police and Street Spirit for Radiohead!
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It seems Tomb Raider is a brand that is more strongly linked to Sony, because the PS4 version sold almost three times more than the Xbox One version... A strange console cycle is starting.
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    Thief (2014)

    "No kill" and "no fight" are two different things though. See Metal Gear Solid.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Actually pre-orders are tracked now, so while it is difficult to say how much of an impact they will have on console sales, it gives some comparison possibilities: Titanfall on Xbox One is currently the most pre-ordered title in the US (230k), but it's released at about the same time as...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It's still very close in the US. The latest US numbers available (up to February 1st) indicate a 52/48 lead for the PS4 in total units sold, but a 58/42 lead for the PS4 during the last week. It will be interesting to see how things evolve once the pilling up for the japanese launch is done...
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    RIP Shirley Temple

    Well... the last time she was in a movie it was 65 years ago and more than 50 years for TV! The more you know!
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    The After, when shitty acting meets dumb writing

    "[...]that defies explanation." RED FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG!
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    Elementary: Season 2

    Just finished watching this show from the start to the current episode. Much to my surprise I like it a lot more than BBC's Sherlock. Obviously the difference in format plays a great part (20ish episodes seasons allow for better character development than seasons that span 3 episodes), but the...
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    What are the objective, quantifiable stats that show James' superiority over Durant when it comes to defense this season? I am asking because Durant makes more steals and more blocks per game than James.
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    Flappy Bird

    QWOP is the only game I can think of where the comedy is the result of gameplay. It's brilliant.
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    The only players that can be compared as far as career achievements go are the ones that are retired.
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    Flappy Bird

    The vietnamese guy who created it is blowing a gasket because of the attention it generated and will soon remove the game from the stores. He is probably scared of the tax collector too because he made several hundred thousand bucks without being prepared for it and I am not sure he planned to...
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    EVE: Valkyrie

    I don't think you understand what 5 million means when talking about video game sales: 5 million is the number of worldwide sales of Assassin's Creed 2 on X-Box 360. That's Resident Evil on PlayStation. That's Professor Layton and the Curious Village on Nintendo DS... I also "wouldn't be...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    What constitutes a "real reason" is very dependent on each individual situation. At this point there may be no "must have" exclusive, but both machines have reasonably solid exclusives and the best console versions of trans-generational games. Providing you don't have super specific tastes...
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    The X-Files

    Growing up I had two buddies that were so fan of the show that they made their very own VHS pack for each season with home crafted wooden boxes that looked like $500 collector editions... Considering I did not value their taste in movies very much, I think their fanatical enthusiasm turn me off...
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    EVE: Valkyrie

    In case of my 3) above, they'll make a non-VR version because it's tough to make money when you sell 10'000 copies of a game.
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    EVE: Valkyrie

    I would love to see the business plan of an Occulus-Rift-only game. I see three options: 1) Bankrolled by the Rift makers 2) Glorified tech demo 3) No business plan.
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    Robocop - Remake

    Saw it today. The movie should have decided for a theme and stick to it. As it stands, there are like 7 storylines and ultimately none feel satisfying. A bit of a shame because several of them were promising. For my money, the biggest mistake of this production is that the director, Jos...
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    Philip Seymour Hoffman Found Dead

    Acting is a very weird job. You have Mastroianni who famously said it's the easiest job in the world, that he is just an empty box being driven around and told what to do, but you also have Day-Lewis who spends all his time in character and you also have people, presumably like Hoffman, for...
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    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

    I laughed out loud.