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  1. Szlia

    North Korea goes full retard

    It's a completely different set of standards because it's a completely different kind of entity. And it's not like there are vague ties between the taliban and al qaeda like both being active in the same area of the world during the same time: they worked hand in hand, with al qaeda funding...
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    Oblivion - Tom Cruise goes WALL-E

    There are a lot of good things in this movie (music, art direction, cast, etc), but, sadly, they do not amount to a very good movie. A bit of a shame really, because it feels like it might be possible to avoid some of the plot holes and absurdities while keeping the core themes and ideas of the...
  3. Szlia

    North Korea goes full retard

    At that point in time, had the US even recognized the legitimacy of the taliban as the ruling power in Afghanistan? I doubt it did. So it was not a state asking another state, it was a state demanding that a bunch of terrorist-friendly, world heritage site bombing, opium exporting guys did...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    About Dany's Dragon: In a DnD campaign a long time ago, a friend of mine had a magic throwing dagger that could warp back into his hand at will. He sold it often! About Jaime's hand: There are many wuxia movies where the hero get his hand chopped off and comes back even better than before!
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    It's actually an ok comming of age movie from Norway:http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt1650407/
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    The Ask Anything Thread

    Where do you charge it? Is the toothbrush dry when you put it on the charger?
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    Mad Men

    The thing though is that he is no longer living a lie. Doesn't Megan know everything about him?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The US and the UK are two of the rare markets where the X360 is far ahead of the PS3 (Canada and Australia being the other two afaik), so really the UK is not representative of Europe in that regard.
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    Too much pain killers?
  10. Szlia

    North Korea goes full retard

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

    North Korea goes full retard

    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!)
  12. Szlia

    North Korea goes full retard

    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...
  13. Szlia

    Ubisoft remaking the 1992 cinematic platformer, Flashback

    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!
  14. Szlia

    North Korea goes full retard

    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...
  15. Szlia

    North Korea goes full retard

    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.
  16. Szlia

    North Korea goes full retard

    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!
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    Soccer 2012-2013 3.0

    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.'
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    Olympics Thread

    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...
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    Tennis

    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 /...
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    Dexter

    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?
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    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!
  22. Szlia

    North Korea goes full retard

    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...
  23. Szlia

    G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

    My "favorite" bad plot moment:
  24. Szlia

    North Korea goes full retard

    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?
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    Killer is Dead

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

    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...
  27. Szlia

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    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...
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    Tennis

    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...
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    Soccer 2012-2013 3.0

    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...
  30. Szlia

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    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!
  31. Szlia

    Californication

    This?
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    The Netflix Thread

    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!
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    G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

    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...
  34. Szlia

    Cheap PS3 game recommendations?

    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).
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    Tennis

    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...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Seriously?
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    Do any good video game movies exist?

    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...
  38. Szlia

    F1 2013 Season

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

    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...
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    Do any good video game movies exist?

    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...