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It was the day of the absurd... Napoli out with 12 points, Porto hitting the frame three times, Milan parking the bus or the linesman missing 4 offside players on a free kick against Basel... fun evening! Basel got supremely fucked over by the refs though, because before the unbelievable free...

The Juventus vs Galatasaray match is actually played right now (as I post, it's half time). The field is a swamp and it started snowing as they restarted! Snow only lasted 10ish minutes and last I saw it became a light drizzle. In some areas, all pass attempt on the ground is futile. It's old...

I think they picked it because the stakes were high and it had potential to be a great match (it will still be true tomorrow, but Basel plays Shalke!). I confess I did not check the other 2 national channels (in german and italian) to see if they showed something else, but I believe they buy the...

That was the one game national TV bought the right for Btw they will not replay it tomorrow, they will finish it tomorrow: it will be a 60min thing.

Another shock of cultures! Here is a map from wikipedia: Blue Sunday, Yellow Monday, Green Saturday, Red Wednesday. Amusingly, the portuguese week starts on Monday... which is called segunda-feira (heritage from the liturgical week in latin).

I enjoyed the episode, but there were some things that could be nit-picked: like 1) sneaking out of the hotel only to use the secret phone once back there, 2) needing the help of the israeli to provide a weapon that will transit through Javadi anyway, 3) Brody never communicating his intend to...

Only one way to find out.

My main beef is people saying "there is no choreography" or "we don't understand what's happening." The Bourne Ultimatum fight I linked is both brilliantly choreographed (with the constraints that it had to give a feeling of realism and danger - constraints that the hyper-referential Matrix...

The legibility or illegibility of a fight scene is the result of a number of factors. Using a lot of very short shots and a very nervous camera can result in illegibility (Batman Begins -> shaky cam) or legibility (Bourne Ultimatum -> master piece).

Amusingly that specific functionality is better implemented on PS4 as it accepts a broader range of names for the games. Oh and... Yay! Flower!

I am not opposed to alternative business models that allow a broader range of video game to exist, but I am opposed to microtransactions. Two reasons for that: 1) It is fundamentally dishonest as it is exploiting the fact people are more likely to spend 5 times $5 than one time $20. 2) The...

An opportunity to visit or revisit classic adventure games such as Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Sam & Max, Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, Gabriel Knight... or recent but retro titles like The Shivah.

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Gal Gadot unfit to play Wonder Woman... There is a joke about comic book fans and the sharpness of knees in there somewhere...

I think Season 1 was more thrilling as a lot of things happened at a fast pace, there was no pussyfooting and the whole 'traumatized soldier tries to reconnect with his family' angle was very good (all the flashbacks with him and his captors, not so much). Season 2 kept the same pace but got...

Just spent 20 minutes listening to the first few seconds of several dozens of songs just to find which one the very beginning of that Perfect Circle made me think of. It's with great relief that I found the answer and may alleviate the pain who found themselves in the same conundrum:

Sucks to be in Brazil when it comes to buying consoles. I remember seeing similarly inflated prices from... I want to say Kuweit. I think it was there more a question of exclusivity than taxes though.

Flllllooooooowwwwwwerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Fffffffffffffffffffffllllllllllllllloooooooooooooo oooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr That being said: 1) Why would you worry about the swearing in the single player of CoD and BF4 if you don't worry about the realistic violence...

Wikipedia tells me it's a final 5 episodes season. I wonder how they will fix New Orleans in only 4 episodes!

A friendly reminder for those who, like me, enjoy this odd mix of music, television and sociology: the fourth season of Treme started last Sunday.

The UK alone: more than a third of the Pal market! EDIT: Now that I think of it, since it's sold out everywhere, it's just indicative of the console allocation by SCEE. They probablly tiped the scale in favor of the UK since it's where the Xbox brand was the strongest in Europe during the...

Starting a butter face thread with Lake Bell.... That's some elaborate trolling right there.

I'll give them a pass on missing the iranian military unit, because after the explosion (which certainly alerted the unit in the first place) the single drone was pretty much focused on the iraqi border patrol and the destroyed vehicle.

65 million is a lot more than the 21 of Second Life!

I enjoyed the episode, but Javadi better shoot some more bullets if he wants to keep things under wraps, because I am sure the iranian platoon must have found it pretty fishy that iraqi border patrol got hit by missiles when engaging an Al-Qaida cell.

We are starting to get european numbers! PS4 sold 250k consoles in the first 48h in the UK, making it the most successful console launch ever (previous best was 185k for PSP, XB1 did about 150k). As a side note, to underline just how anti-Nintendo the UK still is, the PS4 already sold there more...

While we are talking about records, here is a question: Steals and blocks are counted since the mid-'70s and the only four quadruple double in the NBA happened between then and the mid-'90s, so what changed in the past 20 years for it to no longer occur? Or is it such a freak accident that...

This vibrant defense of Only God Forgives is probably more potent with the people who did not see the film considering two of the main three characters are archetypal to the extreme. That kinda works for the cop, giving him an almost supernatural aura, but it is just unbearable with the mother...

To be fair, it's far from the original Xbox that had a pant dropping price cut a couple months after release.

My initial instinct would be to say that, from a storytelling perspective, it would be a strange way to go about it if it was supposed to be a first. But again, the silent understanding and 'no fuss' policy of two weary warriors could explain this representation for a first... Wait & see?

I just read that if you use a headset on the PS4 you can use voice commands to launch games. Any truth to that? 'Playstation, [name of game] start' or something.

Are we talking in cosmological terms or in everyday life terms? How sudden and how short a time?

My understanding is that she was in contact with some "dark powers", possibly posessed by them and possibly altered in some way by them. When the ghostly mechanic tried to surprise her in the plane, she vanished, surprising him. She might have... pooooowerzzzzzzzzzz. DUN DUN DUN!

For those it may concern: I am sitting on their twitter to hear european launch numbers but no luck sofar

The value you lose by jailbreaking seems greater than the value you gain by getting access to free games when you consider that one has only so much time. I can see the appeal to have a second console and jailbreak it to have a "free sample" device though.

Trier made a single Dogme 95 film: Idiotern.

Because I am bored like that, I checked metacritics and counted some reviews: In the all time best, 37 titles are rated above 95, 12 of those are not available on PC only one is a PC exclusive (Out of the Park Baseball 2007!). It's less lopsided in 2013 as, for titles rated above 85, there are 7...

I really understood the genius of Dogme 95 when, working on the professional shoot of one of my buddies' short film, we spent half a day adjusting the lighting, putting stuff on windows to make them darker, building a ramp for an actress in order to cheat with the perspective and finding the...

7 years. Inside Man was 2006 (7.6 imdb, 86% RT, 76 Metacritic). Inside Man 2 in the works btw.

Leaving the institute of technology I was a student at because most my friends failed their first year and I suddenly felt anxious about getting stuck in a career I was not passionate about. The big mistake was not understanding that getting a paper is a key, not a cage, so I should have toughen...