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  1. Szlia

    Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread

    You have attachment problems (not sure if you can see them and not us or something). Only Astal works... I would say it's a draw because both covers are terribad.
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    Definition of Sport

    What is the goal here? Trying to find your own definition of what you think is a sport or find a concise definition that covers all activities that are 'generally' considered as sports and leave out activities that are 'generally' not? For the second I propose:"A competition format for...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Is it coming?
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    Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread

    I suspect that most of the time it was because these covers were made by artists that were not in-house: famous japanese illustrators who were paid for the use of their artwork in Japan, but not abroad. As a result, paying the guy and retouching the artwork for localisation would probably have...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    As far as I am concerned, something very attractive about Taylor Swift is that she is almost
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    Movie 43

    OrAmazon Women on the Moon!
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    Movie 43

    I assume it will be twelve comedy short films. The trailer has: Poop on me Fembot Truth or dare Period Leprechaun Homeschooled Emma Culkin Black men can jump Something with Kate Winslet ... Will they be one after the other or all mixed though... there are probably too many to mix.
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    2013 Oscar Nominations

    You need to turn the stupid down at least two notches or you will force me to defend a movie I did not like that much! Btw another friend of mind saw it and loved it. For him it's a kind of idealistic love letter to cinema. A bunch of guys with no money, gathering a bunch of people who are...
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    Django Unchained

    I may be wrong, but I think there is no rule to determine if a part is lead or supporting. It's the producers who enter the actor in the category they see fit (usually the one they feel s/he is the most likely to win) or at the very least lobby for the actor in a category or the other (Academy...
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    Tennis

    The draw of the Australian is out! Let's check it in four chunks from the POV of the four top seeds: DJOKOVIC Mathieuin the first round. The french veteran made a great come back in 2012 after many health problems and is known to be fighter. Tricky draw, but... yeah. Harrisonpossibly...
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    2013 Oscar Nominations

    fat12 and Wombat saw it and seem to have enjoyed it. Ham saw it and gave it a 6/10 feeling nobody misses out by not seeing it. I saw it and while I respect its occasional beauty and its raw energy, it left me 'narratively' unsatisfied. I should add that one of my friends saw it and, while we did...
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    Gaming Tech (future/past - Good, Bad etc...)

    I have one and five or six games for it. The main problem is that it sits with its ass between two chairs. Just because you did not need a TV to play it, the bright minds at Nintendo decided it was a handheld, so it's a low tech machine that works on batteries (surely a bunch of suits got in the...
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    2013 Oscar Nominations

    Giving the nod to a 5 year old for being a 5 year old and to the mixed bag performance of Emmanuelle Riva while snubbing the stupendous acting of Keira Knightley in Anna Karenina is perplexing.
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    Ni No Kuni (PS3)

    Oh shit! It's out soon! The US/EU release date was announced so long ago, I put the game in the back of my mind to not torture myself needlessly and now here it comes!
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    Looking for Mature Anime/Manga series recommendations

    For me 'mature' is not only a question of content, it's also a question of delivery. There is a lot of light-hearted silly comedy in there, but it goes beyond that through the meta-humor, the narrative experimentation, the take on the high school anime tropes, etc. Also, I am slowly going on 40...
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    Snowpiercer

    The internet being what it is, I tracked down and read the french comic book this movie is based on. It's is a one shot from the mid '80s (Le Transperceneige) and a sequel in two volumes made at the turn of the century, but I suspect they will mix the two stories into one. Both are pretty dark...
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    Evil Dead Remake

    There is something mysterious about this movie: it's made by a couple of Uruguayan guys who prior to that only made a handful of short films together and the screenplay is co-written by Diablo Cody!
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    Looking for Mature Anime/Manga series recommendations

    A little selection Movies: Ninja Scroll: a masterpiece. Great classic plot and a brilliant and surprisingly rare mix of medieval japan with a zest of dark fantasy. Perfect Blue: Hitchcockian thriller in the not so rosey land of idols. Mind Game: a wacky mix of styles and an...
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    Islands (Philippines, Guam, etc)

    In what scenario is that a pro?
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    LOTTERY WINNER...what if ?

    It's ok, in five seconds your fishes will have forgotten you too.
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    Films off the beaten path

    Primer is, for my money, the best movie about time travel there is, not only because of its amazing narrative structure (a number of key events are talked about, not seen), but because it chooses to go at the theme the hard sf way. That said, I am both happy and pissed off because I just saw...
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    Top 10 movies of 2012

    Dredd gets much credit for being a focused, humorless and violent mix of sf and action with a couple plot ideas that allow for neat 3D effects (a drug that make people feel time slows down, a mind reader). So many action movies are unfocused, filled with unnecessary humor or romance and made PG...
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    LOTTERY WINNER...what if ?

    Buy a nice plot of land and have a world class architect build a house on it. Like, say,Shigeru Ban. Better be a big win!
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    Top 10 movies of 2012

    There are still some 2012 movies I want to see (without mentioning the films that will be 2013 for me), but my Top 10 should pretty much look like this: 1)Himizu- arty japanese drama that goes from black humor to just black about a teenager fighting against all odds to be a stand up guy...
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    Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread

    Super Long Nose Goblin, Magical Chase, Splatterhouse, Bomberman '94, Parasol Star, Legend of Hero Tonma... but my favorite HuCard: Ninja Spirit. The sound chip of the PC-Engine / Turbografx 16 is pretty shitty and tend to produce coarse, grating sounds, but the musics of Ninja Spirit are just...
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    Board Games

    I played many games of Descent and while it was globally a fun experience, I can see how that can be frustrating for some. We started playing it after playing the Doom game that has similar mechanics so we had a sense of how we should play, but the first few times we played Doom we got...
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    Evil Dead Remake

    Who are these young fans who see and then ask as Christmas present an R rated movie?
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    Evil Dead Remake

    They get a special 5 out of 4 stars award from me if the movie ends with Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins high-fiving each other in a control room.
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    Nintendo Entertainment System

    Well... I am using Famtasia which is at 6.4%! I remember picking it ages ago because there was something it did that other emulator did not, but... I don't remember what!
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    The Hobbit

    And how old were you when you read The Hobbit?
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    The progressive rock thread

    For shit and giggles I checked youTube to see if there was stuff on there from the one album of prog-rock I own that is from a swiss band and guess what: NB: Quality is enhanced if you are a regular of the Astronomy thread!
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    Insomnia

    If you don't have trouble falling asleep, couldn't your problem be fixed by a nap or two during the day?
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    Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread

    Sub topic: best cover art for terrible games. Drop Rock Hora Hora on PC-Engine (Breakout clone... yep) Curse on Megadrive (terribad shoot-em up)
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    not sure which, but it must be someJunji Ito.
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    Nintendo Entertainment System

    There are other games with similar design, like Tower of Druaga. On top of hidden items and hidden rules there is also an element of randomness in it. This sub-genre should be called Weird Japanes Torture or something...
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    Nintendo Entertainment System

    The Ancient's idea, Milon's Secret Castle seems a strong contender for a adventure platformer game that requires a lot of 1-900 calls. Are you sure it's not it (setting is not asian though). My google fu made me find this blog calledChrontendothat is attempting to review all NES games and...
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    Films off the beaten path

    Let's make a little selection of (semi) recent italian movies. We could start with some Nanni Moretti... a kind of political version of Woody Allen in a way. He made two very funny auto-fictions in the '90sDear DiaryandAprileand followed that by a drama about a family of analysts ravaged by...
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    Indie Games

    A very solid indie puzzle game isEnglish Country Tune. As you play it feels like the game mutates as new rules come into effect, new problems arise, old problems are suddenly seen through a different lens. Very carefully and cleverly done and very...
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    Top 10 movies of 2012

    This is a great movie even if not flawless. There is a whole lot of mesmerizing night cinematography, each scene as its own flavor and is memorable, it's a bit on the slow side and the movie is long, but the diversity and the welcomed addition of some weird tongue in cheek humor makes for an...