“If she was a man, would anyone be making up things like that?”

There are plenty of places in America/Europe/wherever you can move if you’re trying to avoid paparazzi and the party scene. You seriously think Lindsey Lohan is the first American celebrity who fled Los Angeles for privacy/sobriety? If that was the actual reason, she’d be living in a small town in Utah or Ireland or…

In Samantha Geimer’s deposition, she stated that Roman Polanski brought her to his house under false pretenses AND knew she was underage AND gave her alcohol AND gave her drugs AND groped her without consent AND penetrated her digitally/vaginally/anally without consent AND forced her to perform oral sex without…

She is a great performer, but her songs are almost entirely written by other people.

Gorillaz has made far better and more interesting music than Katy Perry ever has.

I’d say pretty important. People tend to get the urge to listen to some kind of music when they’re on drugs.

As Hemingway said: “Write drunk, edit sober.” This applies to music and drugs as well. Drugs can help with artistic creativity but they also wreck your motor skills. You only use them during the songwriting process. When it comes time to step in the booth, you do that shit sober.

The amount of people at music festivals who are actually on drugs is much lower than you’d think. From experience I’d ballpark it at 20% of the crowd, tops. And that includes people smoking weed. Alcohol is far and away the preferred intoxicant for most concertgoers.

Makes sense. Alcohol is served at almost all music venues, so it’s just easier to access. With coke and other drugs you either have to know a guy in the City you’re playing in or risk travelling with it.

Don’t bother. It’s a shitty Godzilla knockoff that relies on the “found footage” camera gimmick instead of real cinematography (thanks for making this a thing, Blair Witch Project), and it features a cast of extremely annoying and unlikeable characters. Save yourself 2 hours and find a better monster movie to watch…

PUA is still a thing? I thought that fad died out in like 2009.

The main character (Mystery) has multiple psychological breakdowns and tries to commit suicide twice during the course of the novel. I have no idea how anyone could read The Game and conclude that pickup artistry is a path worth following.

Rockstar doesn’t use pre-rendered cutscenes in any of its games as far as I know. Every cutscene in the first RDR was generated using the game engine. Same thing with the GTA series.

I often think about how amazing RDR was, and then I think of how sad it is that none of the Assassins Creed games ever approached that level of greatness. They certainly could have - all the pieces were there. But Ubisoft never had the patience to take the time they needed to polish and refine them the way Rockstar…

Good. I’d rather wait an extra few months for a masterpiece that’s been polished to perfection, requires little to no patching, and will stand the test of time. This IMO is a much better approach than the “fuck it, it’s good enough to meet deadline” development philosophy you see from the likes of Ubisoft & EA. I…

Better that then pumping out unfinished, bug-ridden crap just to meet deadlines (cough EA cough)

Yes, it would have been better. Put down the false-equivalence Kool Aid for a minute and think clearly and carefully. Hillary was a highly-flawed and ruthless opportunist of a candidate, but she’s also intelligent, rational, experienced, and moderate. Trump is a functionally braindead, emotionally-stunted…

Our society is built to accommodate dogs in public places. People are used to dealing with them and assuming they are properly trained, they will be friendly to people, obey commands, and not be too much of a nuisance. Most people like dogs and many would even enjoy having a dog sitting next to to them that they could…

Can confirm. The advertising industry sits at this unholy nexus of law, art, journalism, tech, consulting and finance where it absorbs the jargon and pretentious self-importance of all these industries while simultaneously creating nothing of importance. I dated a girl for years who worked in advertising and it amazed…

Law is the worst because law jargon never changes, it only multiplies. Once a particular legal term becomes established in case law, government documents, etc, all future lawyers then have to keep using that term FOREVER because if anyone uses a different term on a contract or something, it creates opportunities for…