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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...

Couldn't non-carbon based life forms also exist on earth?

At first the final looked like it would be a remarkably short one. Del Potro looked a little rusty and quickly had to abandon his initial game plan: playing with his usual depth of shot, but with a lot more volume, forcing Nadal to play shoulder height forehand from a meter of two behind his...

People who want to sell me things do. People who want to police me do.

Better late than never: two rounds for the price of one. SEMIS: Djokovicplayed a solid match. No great heights, but no lows. It proved too much for Tsonga to live with. vs Del Potrohad opportunities early in the first set, then lead in the tie break, but still lost it. Lesser players...

There was a sect in France that believed its guru was, day after day, fighting a space fleet of invading aliens with the power of his mind. If an actual alien commando came out of nowhere and killed their guru, what would have happened? I suspect they would kill themselves faster than you could...

PSG got some qatari owners who decided to spend enough on the team to push it into the european top tier. I suspect that for that plan to work they needed to buy 5 french teams to make the championship more competitive...

Truth be told, it's only worth playing as a UGO (Unidentified Gaming Object), because of its totally strange mix of styles and tones and its very bizarre and highly original story. The whole edifice is less than the sum of its parts, more than a bit shaky and far from satisfying.

For a tournament that started with some crazy upsets, there is not much left of it in the draw: eight spots in the quarter finals, seven of the top eight seeds made it through there. The one missing is Ferrer, the fourth seed, and Anderson managed to confirm his second round giant slaying feat...

Not as big as I thought:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_...n_to_Argentina Also, I was under the impression there was an ideological reason for former nazis to go to Argentina, but it appears it's more about going to a country that already had a big german community and social and economic...

You forgot a big wave of germans near the end of WWII too...

Third round is completed. Today is the day of the round of 16: Djokovicgot tested during a set by Dimitrov. The bulgarian broke first and served for the first set, but served four doubles (not in a row, but still...) and later got trampled in the tie-breaker before fading in the second set...

The children of the NK elites are educated in the west, so there is always the hope of a peaceful coup... but how would an indoctrinated people react to changes in the governance? Probably by despair, chaos and/or screaming "Treason!"

So.... It's Master 1000 time in Indian Wells which is almost a mini Grand Slam as it's a 96 players draw with both men and women playing. The first two rounds have been played already and, surprisingly, almost a third of the seeded players lost their opening match! Let's go through the draw...

I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat.

I am curious to have Obtenor's insight as to what will come next.

It will be pretty interesting to hear from other refs, but I suspect it was the right call. Even if there is no intend to harm, it's dangerous play and, basically, if the ref wants to call another high profile match in the near future, he has to go for red. It's absurd, as it majorly disrupts a...

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Howl's Moving Castle? Castle in the Sky?

Is it available on DVD with english subtitles? I have a friend who is a big fan of the books and games that looked for an earlier TV serie without much success.

As a PS3 owner I was wondering.... is it Diet Uncharted with D cups or is there more to it?

The most surprising for me was Waltz with Bashir. Using animation to make an auto-biographical documentary about the israelian army going into Lebanon... that was unexpected! And the result is very very good too. The animation create a distance that allows comedy and lyricism with a very...

Madalina Pica

I never bought many DVDs: my several boxes filled with VHS acted as a cautionary tale! All joke aside I think there is a big difference between a DVD collection and a game collection: with movies, the "original" object is the film print* and the "original" experience is the projection in a...

There is a version of Ys III on SNES that was released in the US and there is also an alternate version of Ys IV titled Mask of the Sun that is only available in Japan (The great Turbo Duo Ys IV is titled The Dawn of Ys).

I have not played the Chronicles version, but I played Ys I + II on my Turbo Duo back in the '90s. The fighting is a lot more rudimentary than in a Secret of Mana (melee is done by bumping into enemies and there is just a couple different consumables... maybe there was some items you could equip...

My understanding is that the current practice is that publishers decide the price Sony has to pay them per digital sale and Sony decides for how much the game goes for on the PSN Store. That means Sony has some leeway to make small discounts but has to negotiate on a case per case basis if it...

Cell phone shops, general electronics / computer shops... even the post office around here sells iPods and they certainly do not sell CDs. I'll concede though that "many if not most" (implying almost 50%) is wrong because I forgot department stores account for huge chunk of sales of both CDs and...

It could be nice if they decided to be more aggressive with the pricing, but, sadly, as they depend on brick and mortar stores to sell the consoles, they cannot turn the PS4 into a Trojan Horse, making retail do the indirect promotion of digital sales. In a way, Sony (and Microsoft for that...

Red carpet: Samantha Barks (not the best last name for a singer)

About pillows, I have been using forever pillows that are filled with bran which is pretty good because it offers both firm support (I find "bouncy" foam or feather pillows uncomfortable) and malleability, while also being not too warm. EDIT: A similar but a little more granular filling is...

I keep notes on all the recent movies I see. I can tell you that I saw more than 90 movies in 2012 that I feel where better than Argo, a film so lacking in dramatic tension that it has to invent the most absurd finish to manufacture a climax out of thin air. On top of that, the film brought to...

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Daezuel again.