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  1. Szlia

    Homeland

    The only thing that felt wrong is that the boyfriend is played by the same actor than the wannabe serial killer in the last season of Dexter!
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    Gravity (2013)

    hah!
  3. Szlia

    Horrible horrible pain.

    I can't say for sure.
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    Carrie

    I think everyone took notice of her scene stealing part in 500 Days of Summer and she backed up that performance with the american remake of Let Me In, making her one of the teenager to hire. Then you shoot for Burton and Scorcese... I suspect the agent's job is no longer getting parts, but...
  5. Szlia

    Horrible horrible pain.

    He mentioned the doctors looking for a blood clot or something... unless I am mixing two different occurrences, I am pretty sure my father had severe chest pains and trouble breathing and it turned up to be a pulmonary edema caused by a blood clot. That's lethal when not treated fast enough...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It should be noted that the european PS4 and XB1 will have a european BluRay player which will prevent you from watching most BluRay movies bought in the US.
  7. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    For the record: comparing oil painting with woodblock printing is pretty dumb. On top of that, three things: 1) the japanese technique of polychromatic woodblock printing was unparalleled. 2) The particular example is a caricature of a famous actor meant for mass consumption, so that's pop...
  8. Szlia

    Homeland

    Strange case of life imitating art with two AQ officers falling at the same time!
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Of course you have some examples at hand?
  10. Szlia

    Need a game to play with my kid.

    Pretty much that.
  11. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I wonder why conspiracy theorists have such a difficulty with facts. You don't need much conspiracy theories to understand why Hitler and Stalin have been nominated for a Nobel peace price, you just need to know how the nomination process works:
  12. Szlia

    Wii U

    Being the best Wii U game is, sadly, a bit like winning the special olympics at the moment.
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    Honorable Mention for Best Older Games Thread

    I bought my NES with Wizard & Warriors. I bought by imported GameBoy with Cosmo Tank! Now that's an obscure gem! It's the poor man's Guardian Legend with a bit of first person tile based dungeon.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    "Re-engineering" The Last Guardian? I wonder what it means... I hope it will not end up being a PS3.5 game, as in a PS3 game upgraded to PS4 without making new assets.
  15. Szlia

    Dark Souls 2

    In Demon's Souls, most healing miracles were a bit meh because you had almost infinite heals with herbs. There was a regen that was ok for poisonous areas, a powerful pbaoe of limited use in PvE, a miracles to prevent spell casting... miracles were more of a roleplay and/or PvP thing. A kind of...
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    Honorable Mention for Best Older Games Thread

    Never been a Genesis guy, but isn't it out-shined by games such as Dynamite Heady, Castle of Illusion or Quackshot? As for obscure favorites... I'll mention Skyblazer, a very fun action/platforming game on SNES with a very original indian fantasy setting. And then I'll put my super hipster...
  17. Szlia

    Beyond : Two Souls

    If the US and the EU versions are both cut in different ways, maybe Japan will provide us the full experience.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It may have something to do with the fact these reviews are written by video games reviewers...
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    How many sneakers you got?

    Most Yonex shoes are what they call "Ergoshape", a fancy word for "a bit wider in the front", and that's why I go for them. I don't believe it's wide enough for 6E though as a little google-fu mentioned a wider model at 4E. NB: Some of their recent shoes are what they call "Quatrofit", which...
  20. Szlia

    The Before Trilogy

    The guy directed almost 50 movies, so I doubt even himself likes them all! By the same logic, if you love one of Allen's movies, it's unlikely that you will not find another 5 or 6 you also enjoy.
  21. Szlia

    How many sneakers you got?

    I don't use sneakers as fashion accessories, so I have about 4 pairs at any one time: the current badminton shoes, the beat up badminton shoes recycled into utility shoes (I go through a pair in about 6 or 8 months as I play 10+ hours a week), the clay court tennis shoes and the indoor tennis...
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    The Before Trilogy

    You are mistaking critics with fortune readers or something...
  23. Szlia

    Dark Souls 2

    Also, with everyone being in PVP all the time, it will be a lot easier to find nearby opponents with a good ping. I found the covenants very lackluster in the first game though and I hope they put a lot more thoughts and work into them this time, so that choosing a covenant makes you...
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    The Before Trilogy

    Or you can use the 'cream of the crop' rating to remove random_blog3465 and its ilk from the equation.
  25. Szlia

    Girlfriend wants to move in, how much should she pay?

    If she pays some of the mortgage, it would be fair that she gets some of the equity. If she pays a rent, it would be fair that she gets renter's rights. If you don't want to give her renter's rights nor equity, she needs to pay nothing or you must make some sort of written agreement. No...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The power brick is amassiveanti-theft device!
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    When all is said and done, I suspect the PS3's lifespan will end up being longer than 10 years. Remember the PS2 lasted 13 years and the PS1 12 years because of the generational overlaps (the Xbox lasted only 7 years because of lack of overlap with the X360). The PS4's competitive pricing at...
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    The Before Trilogy

    Putting Woody Allen and Hollywood in the same sentence is a bit odd considering he mostly worked with east coast or foreign producers. There is no denying his significance though. NB: I ranked Midnight in Paris at N?8 in my 2011 Top 20.
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    The Before Trilogy

    I have not seen any of them, but I have a friend of mine who rates them very highly and the director, Richard Linklater, has a very intriguing filmography (Dazed & Confused, A Scanner Darkly, Fast Food Nation, School of Rock, Before trilogy... what?). To add a little salt for the peanut gallery...
  30. Szlia

    Nosgoth

    Odd usage of the IP put aside, it could be an amusing game.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Not well enough for Australians!
  32. Szlia

    Trance

    I saw that a while back and forgot there was a thread. It is indeed very stupid.
  33. Szlia

    Dexter

    The final scene is to prepare the Dexter vs Wolverine movie.
  34. Szlia

    Remakes that are better than the originals

    Let it be known I strongly disagree with the notion Red Dragon is superior in any way, shape of form to Manhunter.
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    Dexter

    I guess they tried to go for a The Shield ending but... Hanna got even more of the Vic treatment than Dexter!
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    Remakes that are better than the originals

    You must be thinking about Warm Bodies. It was surprisingly good.
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    Remakes that are better than the originals

    That's stretching the definition, because the only thing they have in common is that they are both all star cast big budget heist movies with action and comedy. The plot is completely different. Nevertheless, I recommend The Thieves warmly.
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    Prisoners (2013)

    You give it more than a solid B. You give it acapitalB! Something that, as all can see, is exceptional coming from you.
  39. Szlia

    The Dirties

    Guy has the T-shirt from Van Sant's Elephant.
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    Goldsboro Revisited or: How I learned to Mistrust the H-Bomb

    What were they testing with an operational H-Bomb not meant to explode that they could not test with something else?