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  1. Szlia

    Tennis

    A single note on the WTA: Jamie Hampton is awesome. I saw some bits and pieces of some of her matches at the French and it made me want to see more and boy I was not disappointed. She is playing in Eastbourne at the moment and reached the final after going through the qualifications. On her...
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    Tennis

    WIMBLEDON The super short grass season is reaching its climax: time for the all england lawn. Murray prevailed at the Queen's over defending champion Cilic (a tournament where Hewitt reminded everyone that beating him on grass is no walk in the park as he ousted Dimitrov and Del Potro)...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Nah... you can't sell a machine based on a set of requirements and then suddenly totally change these requirements after selling a bunch of them. It would lead to a class action.
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    At least it was not the blow out that was feared, but Duncan will be haunted all his life by this missed layup, unless he somehow finds his way to another final and win it.
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    It's a strange game of dare.
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    I like Diaw on the floor. More Diaw!
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    More like 6 feet under in this game.
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    The Spurs are on thin ice though. They need someone to start making some shots because right now they stay afloat by drawing fouls.
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    Trailer for what could be the best martial arts movie of all time

    I must say I am not a big fan of the Bruce Lee movies, so I was trying to find a good example of a great martial art movie from Hong Kong that is older than Bloodsports. Truth be told, a lot of the classics by Chang Cheh are very campy after all these years and even John Woo's homage to his...
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    Emma Watson's Queen of the Tearing

    Knightley's performances for Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, Anna Karenina) are just stunning. I was a little less convinced but still very impressed by her performance in Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method (the grimacing was a bit much for me, but it produced a feeling of unease that...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    That's one baaaaad example right there considering there are hundreds of CD-RomRom games. So the games were made, but just not published in the US.
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    Emma Watson's Queen of the Tearing

    I only saw Emma Watson in The Bling Ring (oh and in a two lines part in My Week with Marilyn) and I was not overly impressed by her acting (that's an euphemism, but the nature of her character and/or Coppola's direction might be to blame).
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    You would be right if the device was only a camera plugged to the internet, but it's a camera plugged to a processing unit that ships with algorithms to identify people, vectorize their limbs, detect their heart rate and decipher their speech (among other things). It's a bit too much for...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Well... you can fight the NSA with a multi-plug.
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    Indie Games

    I just played Thomas Was Alone, a minimalist platformer with a somewhat amusing narrative slapped on top. The core gameplay idea here is that you get to control different characters that have different abilities and shape and they need to help each other out to go through the levels. It was...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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    Playstation 4

    I think people realize a $100 isn't a huge deal when you consider the lifespan of a console. That being said, you still need a strong argument as to why there is a price difference. The problem here for Microsoft is two fold: 1) the core feature is weaker than its competition 2) some secondary...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Does the X180 allow you to play when the Kinect is facing a wall though?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I understand why they did it. What I don't understand is how their initial DRM plan could have been devised without realizing beforehand that it would lead to an epic catastrophe. It's not like the reception was not as good as expected: they got demolished. So any kind of survey / focus group /...
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    Comparing totals when the people involved did not play the same number of games is indeed a "different way" to use stats. At best it's the wrong way, at worst the dishonest way.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I must say I am surprised about the 180. I found their (now defunct) DRM policies to be extremely stupid, offensive even, but I assumed they knew something we didn't know. I assumed they did some marketing research and that it showed the DRM policies did not hinder the mass appeal of the...
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    An adjustment to previously posted chart for it to make mathematical sense (sorting by field goal per game instead of by field goal total):
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    In all fairness, James also had at least three super bad plays at the end of the 4th, two resulting in turn overs and one resulting in a Bosh rebound for the Allen three. If Bosh and Allen did not send the game into overtime, suddenly James would be the guy who hero-balled his way to defeat...
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    He scored a couple tough baskets in the 4th. Only Parker and Leonard can also say that (but his lack of good defense hurt). As for Ginobili, he still managed to find his way to the free throw line several times late in the game. The problem really is that once they started double teaming...
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    It will be tough for game 7 to be more thrilling that game 6... I fear a Spurs meltdown.
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    Duncan stuck at 30 for 956976 minutes now...
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    If the Heat win tonight and game seven, Leonard will not sleep for a week over that missed free throw.
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    There is poetic justice in Ginobili shooting these free throws
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    WTF Parker??? Fade away long three, steal, fast 2 pts... Someone showed up for money time!
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    Someone other than Duncan needs to step up for the Spurs or they are cooked.
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    One of the best defensive sequence for the heat and that results in a three points play by Parker!
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    Ginobili+Green+Parker = 2 pts yet the spurs trail only by 2!
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    Box office flops that deserve a sequel

    What about Mr. Brooks? I think it kinda tanked, was very good and left room for an interesting sequel. EDIT: Well apparentlyit did ok.
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    Mad Men

    They are pissed off because Don both called and then found a solution without telling them about it, a solution that prevents Peggy to get credit for her work. He did the right thing, but in a bad way.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Anecdotal evidence: I went to a FNAC yesterday (a big chain of a cultural products department stores - dvds/blurays, books, video games, electronics, CDs) and they had a couple monitors showing video clips of next gen games (The Division and new Batman when I walked past). The funny thing is...
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    Fired for an availability change..

    I think the main mistake here is to not have anticipated that it would be a problem and, as such, should have been presented to the boss with care and, ideally, with a solution (you should have looked for someone who would have been ok to switch schedule with you or something). Silver lining...
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    The Last of Us

    Pretty sure that's in Uncharted 2.
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    E3 2013 June 11-13

    Fitting quote by Seneca in Of Providence: "A gladiator deems it a disgrace to be matched with an inferior, and knows that to win without danger is to win without glory." Though I prefer Corneille's version (my translation): "By vanquishing without peril, one triumphs without glory." PS...
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    Mad Men

    For all we know, he is a Don: faked credentials but good at his job.
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    Switzerland and french riviera with elderly, handicapped grandma

    I have never been there so I can't say for sure, buthttp://www.jungfrau.ch/should have answers somewhere.