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  1. Szlia

    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    My criteria for 'A list' would be: does someone who does not care about comics at all knows the character? With a very scientific sample size (me), Hawkeye, Black Widow, Guardians of the Galaxy are indeed not A list as I never ever heard of those before they hit the big screen (or, in the case...
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    300: Rise of an empire

    Not a very good movie, but still a very interesting movie for the way it fits with the first one (since some of the events are simultaneous) and for its double links to 'history' (as told by Herodotus) and contemporary problematics.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    They should also bring back this: If they can spatially match the image with the controller and track the arms, that would be pretty immersive.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Considering it uses the PS camera to track movements it might actually be pretty long.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Wireless adds latency, latency adds nausea.
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    Indie Games

    These days I have been playing a 2D puzzle-platformer called Vessel (available on Steam since 2012 and PS3 just now, X360 TBA). The puzzles are based around fluids (water, lava, steam and some goo) and little creatures made out of these fluids that have basic behaviors (move toward the...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The PS4 should, in theory, be able to do that using Morpheus + Move + PS Camera (see through the eyes of a character, manipulate an object - sword, gun, racket, control the whole body). In practice, I am not sure what kind of processing power is needed for Head tracking + Move tracking + Body...
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    One of the least dominant performance to ever result in a 3-0! In the end, result > quality, as you live to fight another day, but this type of performances shouldn't allow them to go through the next round.
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    Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland

    I must confess I am not much of a mountain guy and I have never went to this area. The best I can do is provide some no-non-sense advice like: wear good shoes, take some food and drink with you, wear sunscreen, remember it can get cold if you go too far up, have a map, follow the yellow markings...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    A number of significant technical challenges may be about to be overcome, but my feeling, since the '90s, is that the main problems are not technological, but of usability and of game design. By its very nature, by the very goal it tries to achieve, it is condemned to be a niche, a temporary...
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    What tha hell is this Japan pop metal kid bop...

    It would be more amusing if they were the driving force behind the project and not puppets put in front of some studio musicians by a clever producer. A counter-example would be the french industrial duo Carbon Airways. I am not a big fan and english pseudo-rapping by a 14 year old french boy is...
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    Rubber

    It has its moments, but it's about an hour too long and the meta level feels like a cop-out or even cowardice (scared to tell an actual story) more than anything. Even the poisonous beauty of Roxanne Mesquida cannot save it! Best part of the movie, this track: PS: One of the earliest...
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    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    This thread is not very lighthearted all of a sudden! And to help sike navigate the Andersonverse, it should be said that I can't think of another movie of his that maintain such a frantic pace from start to finish. The closest are probably some parts of Moonrise Kingdom (also the closest...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Hoss is like the ideal wingman.
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    Looking for a particular music video (video was available on YouTube with nudity)

    Is maturation the autocorrect for masturbation?
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I had a buddy in high school who could do that with his hands on the ground, but again he was a gymnast who was about as wide as he was tall.
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    Matrix prequel trilogy in the works for 2017

    To my knowledge the movie was not released in theaters in Switzerland. As a big fan of Gore Verbinski I should check it sooner rather than later!
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    Anything worth buying a PS4 over?

    Joke put aside, it's very unlikely the PS4 will see its price drop in the near future, so unless you factor in inflation and banking interests, buying it now or buying it later does not make a difference.
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    Matrix prequel trilogy in the works for 2017

    I am still not sure if this movie is brilliantly awful or awfully brilliant but there is nothing quite like it! Cage's character hurt his back at the beginning of the movie and he takes an increasing amount of drugs and alcohol to try and dull the pain and as he does the movie becomes crazier...
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    Matrix prequel trilogy in the works for 2017

    Well... I am not a professor and I have never seen The King's Speech. To add insult to injury only one of us put it in his top 20 for the year (at 18th) and that's the guy who sees 25 eligible movies a year! To add blasphemy to insult and injury, Immortals and The Beaver were in my top 20 that...
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    Matrix prequel trilogy in the works for 2017

    I checked our annual top 20 for the past 9 years: A little more than 13 english language movies in average (it's even around 10 for me who has the most eclectic taste of the bunch) and 6 out of the 9 winners (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - which made us change our voting system! - The...
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    Dark Souls

    Someone did not read the thread's title!
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    Tennis

    Final report. Very strange match. It started with an energized Federer and a jaded Djokovic. The swiss rushed to a 3-0 lead was close to get a double break, did not have a break point to defend and closed the set 6-3. Djokovic served a lot better in the second, without necessarily playing a...
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    Anything worth buying a PS4 over?

    The PS4 version of Diablo 3 will include the Reaper of Souls extention which is released on the 25th so.... estimated date of release for the PS4: not before the 25th!
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    Anything worth buying a PS4 over?

    At the moment, you have a selection of some ok exclusives and the best console version of multiplatform games. inFamous Second Son (out on the 21st) is supposed to be the first ok+ exclusive for PS4. As for 'good RPG type shit'... Child of Light (multiplat pseudo-indie) in April? Dragon Age...
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    I did. My assumption was that even if they don't count for the ranking they are not played as friendlies and the winner still scores psychological points. If Miami is to face Brookyln in the play-off, they will not consider them as the team they lost to three times in the season, they will...
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    Tennis

    Saturday report: I saw nothing today (I blame PnPRPG), but apparently Dolgopolov helped Federer by making a lot of errors and Isner scared Djokovic by forcing a third set, but could not keep his momentum in it. So yeah:Federer vs Djokovicfinal. There will be blood! Federer clearly arrives as...
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    At this rate the playoffs in the east will be entertaining: Miami vs Brooklyn: 0-5 vs Chicago: 2-2 vs Washington: 2-2 vs Indiana: 1-1 The Heat fans can take comfort in: Miami vs Charlotte: 5-0 vs Atlanta: 3-1 vs Toronto: 3-0 vs New York: 2-1 vs Cleveland: 2-0 And maybe...
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    Tennis

    Friday Report: Quarter final from the bottom of the draw. From the get go Benneteau looked defeated. Maybe the accumulation of matches and the stress involved in such tournement caught up with him, maybe he knew he was not 100% fit and as a result did not believe in his chances today, but in...
  30. Szlia

    SteamOS - SteamWare

    Nintendo has the thing patented, so other companies have to do the same thing differently.
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    SteamOS - SteamWare

    I hope for them that that D-pad is a single piece of plastic masquerading as 4 buttons and not, in fact, 4 buttons.
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    I don't understand why they feel the need to have these syncretic universes. For me, the core problematic in X-Men is completely at odds with the essence of the Avengers. At least in their movie versions.
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    EDIT: Double post generated by editing.
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    Matrix prequel trilogy in the works for 2017

    I have been maintaining since 2006 a little web site for my group of movie going friends (6 people) where we rate movies we see (yuk, meh and then 1 to 4 stars). I know people often seem enamored with Pan's Labyrinth so I confess I was semi-trolling when I mentioned my genuine taste for Blade II...
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    Tennis

    Thursday report: quarters of the top half. - Raonic started his semi very poorly. Not hitting enough first serve, not finding the court with just about any ground strokes: terribad. So Dolgopolov ran away with it and never looked back. By the end of the first set things were little better for...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    On the up side for the Xbox One, it seems, according to leaked NPD numbers, that it managed to stay close to the PS4 during February in the US.
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    Matrix prequel trilogy in the works for 2017

    I can see how the mix of fantasy and spanish fascism is original and could be interesting, but sadly the film makes a mess of it all and it never grabbed me. Blade II is a lot less ambitious but it does very good job at being an entertaining B movie.
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    People seem to forget that a few episodes back May turned back to being the old May (pulling pranks on the crew). It's ok because the writers seem to have forgotten that also!
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    What did you just read?

    I finished the Lies of Locke Lamora the other day, the first book of the Gentlemen Bastards by Scott Lynch. I found it easy to read and entertaining, but I must confess I was a little underwhelmed by it. That might be because I saw beforehand the enthusiasm of some of the posters here and also...
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    Tennis

    Quarter finals! Dolgopolov(28) confirmed his won over Nadal by a clean win over Fognini. vs Raonic(10) rallied back from a set down and then an early break down in the third to beat Murray, mostly by being very aggressive on the scot's second serves. I am curious to see how this one will...