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  1. Szlia

    Human Origin - Pig raping Chimps ?

    Isn't there this saying that the pig is the best pet because a cat looks down on you, a dog looks up to you, but you see eye to eye with a pig? PS: That seems like a theory that is somewhat easy to test.
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    Dark Souls 2

    I don't remember dying in either game because I ran out of healing... but again I played a templar in both. I also never dodged in Demon's Souls (the exception being that level-sucking boss... false king? That I fought by dodging and making him fly with a giant sword - I felt like I was gimping...
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    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

    Maybe it's a battle of wits? The World's Greatest Detective and the Man of Steel are both trying to find some masked bank robbers?
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    The Astronomy Thread

    1) Putting things in orbit around the earth is all fun and games when said things are very very very unlikely to cause significant damage if all fails. The bigger the asteroid, the bigger the risk, so I suspect 'too big' as far as risk is concerned is a lot smaller than what would be deemed...
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    Pacific Rim

    It was, but the question still stands. Understandably so, but the question still stands. Yeaaaaah... we kind of get that... but isn't that the most artificial, most strange, most bizarrely fetishistic way to link the traumatic event, the promise and the present together? Wasn't there twenty...
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    Pacific Rim

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. It all makes sense now!
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    Answer the question above you, no matter what it is

    No and no... unless you meant model planes with webcams on it... Why should you answer a question?
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    Guess the name of the Royal baby

    Taxsink
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    Pacific Rim

    I understand that, but my question still stands.
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    Pacific Rim

    What's up with Stringer Heimdall keeping the red shoe though?
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    Dexter

    The guy sneaking up on him in his apartment was pretty original though.
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    Dark Souls 2

    I like the idea of lack of information (I was questing in EQ!), but I don't like its implementation here. I like how it makes the world mysterious and ominous, I like how figuring out a mystery and finding something hidden is rewarding, I like how it should encourage the cooperation between...
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    Dark Souls 2

    Obviously over 50% of equipment load! Anyway I finished the game the other day without much compulsion to play NG+ as I did pretty much all I wanted to do in a single play through (thanks to some ridiculous soul farming in the Painted World - serpent ring, symbol of avarice, wrath of gods and...
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    Spatial Ability

    9/9 but it was a bit of struggle.
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    Godzilla (2014)

    So Radon/Rodan...
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    Only God Forgives- Ryan Gosling

    About Oedipus...
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    Glitch Hop

    Let me cure you with some pure Glitch:
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    Freedom of the Press: DOJ wins order to force NYT Reporter to testify against source

    These privileges exist to ensure some people can perform their function in society without being easily hindered by malevolent agents. A free press is a critical piece in the check and balance system that is a democracy, so there are legal privileges to ensure its existence.
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    If the dot is in infra red, it would be invisible to the human eye but visible to a video camera. You can test it by facing a remote control toward a camera and push buttons...
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    Boston police will win a Pulitzer for this photo!
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    Strider (2014)

    The original looks better :/
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    Dexter

    It ends with an ambiguous conversation between Dexter and Vogel and as she leaves we realize we are in an insane asylum and the staff and patients are all familiar faces. Vogel has a short chat with someone looking like La Guerta to the tune of "After all these years we're making progress: these...
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    The Newsroom S2

    I am not sure what your issue is... I'll blame my SD torrent.
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    Sharknado (2013)

    Well... what is generally used as the origin of Z are Ed Wood's movies (the archetype being Plan 9 From Outer Space - 1959). It is debatable though because, as far as we know, Ed Wood was trying to make great movies with no money and the end results are more accidents due to his... let's say...
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    Sharknado (2013)

    It's not really a question of quality of the end result, but more the nature of the object. A B movie is, historically, the second movie in a double-bill. From there, things are correlated: less money (aka time) to make it, so less star power and a greater reliance on formulas (aka genre). So...
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    Dexter

    The home-made 'energy' drinks have to lead somewhere...
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    Sharknado (2013)

    Let's not confuse B movies and Z movies. Sharknado is Z.
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    RIP Giantbomb's Ryan Davis

    You can suffer from sleep apnea without being overweight, but being overweight makes it a lot more likely.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I look at that release and release window games list for the PS4 on IGN and something is odd: Knack (which is Cerny's game) is the only japanese game of the bunch. Capcom? Bandai Namco? Sega? Konami? Square Enix? Nowhere to be seen. I suspect that the list will get expended as the Tokyo Game...
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    Godzilla (2014)

    The first Godzilla is a very serious (and actually very good) movie about the dangers of misused science and the organisation in time of catastrophe. Most of the sequels are more campy and about giant monsters fighting each others more than anything. The exception being the very strange...
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    Godzilla (2014)

    That a little too far fetched for my taste! But maybe they'll rewrite the origin story and have Godzilla be awaken by an earthquake or something (but then... what is the story about?). Bah... maybe it's too be understood at a more abstract level: not as a Godzilla made out of destructed...
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    Godzilla (2014)

    Nice visual work, but at a symbolic level it is flawed: destruction does not create Godzilla, it's the other way around!
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Considering just about all mainstream news outlet did a paper or three on the PS4 and Xbox One and that consumer electronics stores as well as cultural goods stores around here have pre-order signs, I am pretty sure mainstreamers are well aware of the existence of the machines.
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    Having an existential crisis

    Thanks to this thread I googled the girl I was in love with in kindergarten more than 30 years ago! Actually, we were in kindergarten together, but it's a couple years later than she bite my hand after I confessed my love to her (the kind of stuff that makes analysts rich!). Anyway, thanks...
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    Only God Forgives- Ryan Gosling

    Only God Forgives was released in Europe a month or two ago, so I just walked 10 min and saw it. The Gangster I just saw at a movie festival (NIFFF: Neuch?tel International Fantasy Film Festival that also has a section called New Cinema From Asia). Found a trailer btw: PS: the...
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    Only God Forgives- Ryan Gosling

    For reference, I have seen all of Wong Kar Wai, most of John Woo (NB: John Woo 'early stuff' is mostly comedy - he made 15 movies before A Better Tomorrow) and most of Johnnie To (when he directs that is, because I doubt even him saw most of what he produced) and this movie is still a poorly...
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    The Newsroom S2

    The problem is not that the rom-com elements are bad (in fact Alison Pill and Emily Mortimer playing manic/clumsy is very amusing), the problem is that there is a pretty broad offer for rom-com on TV and a very narrow one for media/politics fiction, so, in The Newsroom, every minute spent on...
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    Grand Theft Auto IIIII - HDD City Stories

    Three Leaf Clover ++?
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Obviously, not a very serious endeavor: