Robert S

Anyone in for a DVDVR league in the official fantasy football game ( http://en.mcdonalds.fantasy.fifa.com/ )?

In German he is usually dubbed by some guy speaking a perfect accentless German. Somehow I did not realize that it was not himself doing the dubbing so I was somewhat surprised when I heard him (Arnie himself) speak German for the first time. Let's put it that way: his Styrian accent is much heavier when he speaks in German than we he speaks English.

Even better is this tidbit from the IGN review of Pure Chess - there's no real-time online play. Correspondence chess only. In 2014. Well-done, sirs. Why would you need another chess program to play online at all when there are many servers already out there (free ones for the hobby players and pay to play ones for serious players)?

"A man's gotta have a code." - yeah, that was great

I actually think Lost was the complete opposite of this. For HIMYM they had an ending layed out from the very beginning which may or may not completely fit after all they have done since. In Lost from the very beginning they had not the slightest clue where they were going and by trying to close one plot (or answer a question) usually opened two new plots (new questions) and just had a random "they were dead all along" finale which in the showrunners' minds solved all the problemls.

AAI is going to be the next CCR

So nothing really changes, right? Because the TRT guys still needed to pass the 4:1 ratio before IIRC.

Yeah, the Red Viper should have been a little darker and a little older, but I'll wait and see. Can you expand on your point about the Sand Snakes, because I just don't see how you can tell what will happen with them based on this casting. I don't know if they realized that Bran and Sansa would be taller than everyone one the show who isn't Hodor, Brienne or a Clegane. I feel bad for the dude playing Hodor for having to drag what is essentially a full grown man around in a wheelbarrow. The actresses playing Sansa and Arya are the same age, but Sansa being so much taller really makes the age difference look very realistic. Being that those are the only casting issues I can think of, I think I can forgive them for not predicting the growth spurts of children. I can't wait for this show to come back, so much good shit is coming up and at this point I'm confident they'll get it right. The children actors growing up, especially actors of characters that were further away from adulthood, was always going to be a problem when shooting a story that lasts about two years or so over a decade (or how long it will take for the 7 books, where two are not even finished and might not be for quite some years to come, to be put into film). At one point they probably have to replace some of the actors.

Well it was changed after the fall of the USSR. . . To be more precise the current Russian anthem has the same music as the USSR one, they only changed the text (from 1990 to 2000 they had a different one, that had no text at all).

In the end he turned out to be The Great White Hype, if anybody remembers that movie.

Apparently the Austrian team went partying pretty hard before their game against Slovenia: http://www.khl.hr/en/international-hockey/exclusive-from-sochi-drinking-problems-cost-austria-quarters

There are even hills where the best can jump up to 250 meters.

I only saw one or two runs before having to leave for work this morning but I would guess that slopestyle has the problem that many of the newer sports of these games have: their is hardly any depth of athletes as there are hardly any people on the world competing in them. For example there was an Austrian freestyle skier who would have qualified for the games because she managed to place twice in the top twenty of world cup events. The problem? Both times there were less than twenty competitors. Therefore I have problems taking most freestyle skiing and snowboarding events really serious.

There was a real long shot in the end that Alfonso Cuarón would be proud of. To have something like the last ten minutes in a tv series (HBO or not) is just crazy.

Downhill skiing is dangerous but not that dangerous. The last fatality was, I think, 18 years ago. As a comparison in 2012 there were two fatilities in freestyle skiing. Not to talk about motorsports... Ski jumping might also look stupid and there are bad injuries happening from time to time but casulties are a really rare thing. In 2008 a young German died and after that you have to go back 30 years to get a fatality.

There were two great reasons to do so.

I am sure this episode read funny on paper, but yeah, what ended up on screen was hardly funny at all.

The way the UFC handles individual sponsorships (i.e. the company has to pay UFC 6 figures a year or so) probably scares a lot of companies of.

I agree that the first episode of this season was bit of a mess but I really liked the second episode. The crime part was a bit of an afterthought but the comedic stuff worked greated, I thought and I have no problems with them doing a full-fledged comedy-episode.

I bought me this game for Christmas and must see it is insane how huge this game is, how much different things there are to do, though I haven't played really heavy until now (put about 25 hours or so into it and have about 33% completion ratio). Yesterday I tried to ride a dune buggy up to the mountain top but crashed into a tree halfway up. As I could not get up onto the thing anymore I just ran up to the top by foot. It took my ten minutes but due to the beauty of the landscape I did not feel bored at all (the fact that I was attact by three cougars did help, of course).

1. ROBBIE LAWLER (American Top Team) Bouts: W-TKO1 (KNEE AND PUNCHES) vs. JOSH KOSCHECK (UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche, February 23, 2013) W-KO2 (HEADKICK AND PUNCH) vs. BOBBY VOELKER (UFC on Fox 8: Johnson vs. Moraga, July 27, 2013) W-DEC3 (SPLIT) vs. RORY MACDONALD (UFC 167: St. Pierre vs. Hendricks, November 16, 2013) Lawler was coming from Strikeforce having a 3-5 record there with a 1-3 in his last three bouts (coming of a loss against Lorenz Larkin). I would suppose most people (including me) thought that by the end of 2013 he would be gone from UFC losing twice or so due to being over the hill. Instead he knocked out former contender Josh Koscheck and upset highly groomed Rory MacDonald which puts him into a fight for the vacant Welterweight title (agains Jonny Hendricks).

Oh, then the babyface walked away to start a new life - after previously offering to turn himself into the FBI if they allowed him to make the meeting. Again, never mind that this all seemingly hangs all his friends out to dry. Jane might be the most unlikeable dick babyface since face Sheamus, U I think it's a classic case of writing yourself into a corner and having no satisfactory way of resolving the stuff that was build up. Just like the last season of Lost. They had three different ways to go with the Red John resolution: a) use a regular; probably would have been full of plot holes and making no sense whatsoever b) use a new character (or one that appeared only once before this seasons like happened here); problem is that it would feel "wrong" (why build up a whodunnit for five years and solve it being a new character) c) use a semi-regular, problems are bit of (a) and (b) So there was no good solution. At least the guy who ended up being Red John appeared several times this season and was sold as one of the final seven suspects. At least they recognized this problem and don't use the revealing of the identity of Red John as series or even season finale.

and "akai kona" means "red corner"; the first phrase probably means something like "for one fall" (ippon = full point)

I am very close to giving up on this. Yesterday's episode was not only pretty boring but full of shitty, shitty writing. The whole "Fitz has the hots for Skye but when Simmons is in danger he finally realizes that he really cares for her" thing was so contreived. I mean it was obvious that it would happen sooner or later, but the execution was not good at all. Then there was the "we are flying from the east coast to western Africa and therefore cannot land anywhere for the next three hours". I mean the Azores are basically at the halfway point for starters. And if they continue doing stuff like the alien virus the show will become Fringe with a comic book theme instead of pseudo-science, minus John Noble.

If the main event peaked that means that people didn't turn-off in masses during the show which at least was a possiblity for such a long show.