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Reality is a game that does not end, so flipping the board is never a rational behavior.

Both South and North Vietnam were dramatic clusterfucks and North certainly did not do its own thing, leaving the south alone like in my fantasy scenario for North Korea. Btw I have a choice quote for you I saw in the Vietnam War page on wikipedia (I sure did a lot of reading because you today!)

I am not sure how shady or transparent the processes were, but both north and south voted their way to their political system. The anti-communist sentiment in the south was also severely boosted by the korean war (South declared independence, North attacked), a war that also caused the first...

I never got into the original game, possibly because I expected it to be a spiritual successor to Another World and it was not really the case. I should give it another go... On a side note, I hope the guy that came up with 'Do you remember?' as tagline got a raise!

Mikhail, I did a little wiki-fu and I failed to see what the US did to turn North Korea into what it has become (other than opting for elections in the south after WWII instead of turning toward the korean government in exile that was deemed too communist for their taste). It's also a little...

In the same way a lawyer does not ask a question he does not know the answer to, I doubt it's a clever diplomatic move to attempt a PR coup without being certain of the outcome. Since the AEGIS can miss, I doubt they will try an intercept.

I am pretty sure they fired missiles over Japan before... EDIT: Some quick google-fu showed occurrences in 1998, 2009 and even december of last year!

After the Euro 2000, there was a joke around here that enjoyed some success: Q: How do you close a Champagne bottle once opened? A: Ask an italian. After tonight, I guess you can change the punchline to 'Ask someone from Malaga.'

If I were you I would be cautious about the 'Spirit of the Olympics'. Originally it's a competition for soldiers to prove their worth in a time of peace and the modern version tried to be just that too (again: modern pentathlon invented by Coubertin is the five things a soldier should be able to...

Well... I have a subscription tohttp://www.tennistv.com/and I spend too much time playing with the data onhttp://www.atpworldtour.com/Other than that, I also read/watch the players' interviews that are often available on Tennis TV or the website of tournaments. I don't read any tennis blog /...

I had to go to imdb and read about the last couple episodes to remember what the situation was at the end of season 7. At least the florist is still alive... will she still be around though?

After last week's episode I wished with little hope for confrontations between actors and characters that are unlikely to happen, but Lady Olenna and Tyrion are in the same place! Make it happen!

I am not sure China likes how things are right now. I think they just like the current situation better than a number of the scenarios in case thestatus quois no more. What they would like the most for North Korea is probably still a somewhat authoritarian communist regime, but without the...

My "favorite" bad plot moment:

Is there such a thing as NK Sleeper cells though considering the one time they tried to kill the south korean president they sneaked a commando past the JSA?

Suda 51 -> a smile on my face. Let's hope the US version will have the option to keep the japanese voices though.

When they etched the tablets of law for this show "Hank loves Karen" probably was on the first tablet. Better start writing some fan fiction if you want Hank to get over the mother of his child. Anyway... nothing really amazing about this season, but the whole thing worked well and the muse...

About the magic: wasn't there at some point in season 1 a character witnessing something in the sky and wondering if it was some sort of omen/oracle? About Robb's foreign wife to be: the plot does not give a very good sense of the political and economic relations that the seven kingdoms have...

If Sharapova is known to have very few friends on the tour, Rodionova has the reputation to be detestable, almost insane and with an ego that has no relationship with her skills. She is playing a lot of double though, so I guess she is at the very least tolerable. EDIT: Oh and Haas finally...

In the end, a draw was a pretty fair result for this Barca vs PSG game as both teams probably have mixed feeling about the result. The return game is totally up in the air though because of the injuries and the rain of yellow cards. On the other hand, the Juve must feel pretty blessed to only...

It's nice to have Ciar?n Hinds as Mance Rayder. The only drawback is that the nature of his character makes him unlikely to have some good scenes with some of the other acting heavyweights on the show. I mean, if you put him in the same room as Charles Dance, you better have firefighters nearby!

This?

Actually, the part about a korean national winning the Olympic marathon in 1936 under the Japanese flag and with a japanized name is also true!

I went to see this ... ... expecting a bad plot and it was a bit worse than expected. ... hoping for some good action scenes/choreography as the director made dance movies and I was underwhelmed. ... curious about the cliff side ninja scene that is in the trailer and it was nothing much...

Flower and Journey come to mind as games that can be played in relatively small bites and that a non-gamer can appreciate (to play or to watch play).

A week at a film festival followed by an hectic week and Miami almost went by without a word about it! Going from the dry heat of Indian Wells to the humidity and wind of Miami is always a challenge that gives a little edge to those who had an early exit in the first or had to play qualifiers at...

Seriously?

What link is there between Paul Verhoeven and Resident Evil exactly? Also, most games don't have hours worth of story. It certainly is not the problem faced by the people who had to make a scenario for Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Dead or Alive, House of the Dead or Super Mario Bros. More...

I really don't follow F1 closely, but isn't arrangements between drivers, even on the same team, forbidden? Or used to be?

Eating is not just about energy though, it's also about raw material. Some we need in bulk, but some we need in small quantities like vitamins, stuff we can't synthesize on our own (that's actually the definition of a vitamin oddly enough). Some are pretty frail, meaning freezing/unfreezing...

Straight video game adaptations or video game related movies? The latter is a better provider of decent movies, like, say... Scott Pilgrim vs The World, both Tron, WarGames or Summer Wars. As for straight video game adaptations I believe there are a couple decent animated movies (Street...

Layman questions: How fast were these '92 big men? And am I wrong to assume the game is faster now than it was 20 years ago?

It's worse than in the middle east, because in Iraq for instance you had some sense of the religious and ethnic groups that were against or in support of Hussein's regime, giving a sense of what kind of political forces would face each other after the regime change. To my knowledge, there is...

In a team sport where the statistical data is dependent on the opponents and there is close to no evolution in hardware (as opposed to racket sports for instance), I feel it is extremely difficult to compare different eras. Throw rule changes in the mix and it's really a pure speculation game...

A rerolled exlusive.

You don't even have to be stupid sometimes, though it certainly helps!

Just finishedThe Carpet Makers, a short SF novel built like a collection of short stories that weave a bigger narrative. Each chapter is a tragedy that has the power of a classic tale and, as you progress through the book, the scope (both in time and space) of the main plot point grows and grows...

An axiom is not a belief. An axiom is a creation of the mind, a seed, the root of a mental construction. ? is not real. Some of these mental constructions prove to be efficient models. Being able to count apples does not mean I believe there can be an infinite number of apples.

A coffee spoon of sugar free Metamucil (or other similar water-soluble fiber) with two cups of water before dinner creates a mucilage that slows down the digestion of carbohydrates (a source of appetite is the drop from high blood sugar level after eating food with high glycemic index), takes...