And had to do 100 hours of community service and serve two years on parole!

Absolutely agree.  For example, football players - you see them with other football players and it gives you a warped idea of what they actually look like.  A football player next to his wife, for example, shows the immense disparity in body size.  

Yeah, but who cares that he did some crappy kids movies?  He’s allowed to earn a living.  It’s not like he defended the movies or anything.  

Yes - thank you. But we all know that that’s just a crazy dream.

Yes - this is exactly the point I tried to make somewhere above, but you said it much better. I think in his mind he was making the assumption that Yi knew enough about him that she’d take it as a joke. Well, if she’s not in on the joke then he’s just being a jerk.

Personally, I don’t really care that he took a paycheck to do the Alvin movies. He only spoke up about it because so many people were giving him crap about it. It’s pretty easy for people to have flawless artistic integrity when it’s not their money.

Though I’m also not really clear on why it needs to come up now.

Yeah, more or less. I think he tries to make points and maybe satire points-of-view without obviously saying “this is satire or parody”, if that makes sense.

I realized at some point in my life that I was never going to be all that great at golf. I love the game but never could afford to play often enough to get really good.

Jesus’s finishing move: The Three Nails (he jumps from the top rope and lands on his opponent while holding a “crucified” position).

Good points, and it brought this thought to mind: if they do end up trying to push a subscription model then won’t they just make cheaper kinds of games, a la mobile games, in order to make them profitable? Or the focus will continue to shift to the battle royal model where the publisher is selling a setting and a…

Yeah, as a music fan it’s lovely to hear about a band and then be able to HEAR them in short order, but there’s no way for that band to earn any money from me streaming their music.

Also, The Far Side is the best comic strip of all. I will brook no argument.

There’s a nice, pleasant, mostly non-phenomenal doc called “Austin to Boston” about a group of hipster folkies doing a tour together. It’s fine. Not all of the music is great, but I like music docs so I watched it.

I think they often go hand-in-hand. In my mind, part of self-destruction is becoming selfish enough to not care the effects of your actions on those around you, hence the destruction.

This, exactly. Setting, weaponry, character design, etc. are all just window dressing - and meaningless - if all they are is another way of dressing up (yet another) relatively shallow emphasis-on-multiplayer experience.

This is a great idea.  Now I’m going to take it one step further and set up a decoy dining room table set for dinner.

That’s exactly right. The idea of finding someone whose tastes overlap entirely with your own is a fantasy, and finding a connection and love with another person is about so much more than entertainment choices. The “demean someone else for what they like” instinct is just mean-spirited and is revealing about that…

“You live/You learn/You love/You learn/You cry/You learn/You lose/You learn/You bleed/You learn/You scream/You learn.”

I guess I’ve never assumed that the term “guilty pleasure” was gender specific.  I usually associate the term with anything that’s considered low brainpower or “so bad it’s good” but I’ve heard plenty of men talk about their own guilty pleasures.