Well, pain can sort of be treated by dancing. I mean, have you ever hit your thumb with a hammer? You sort of hop around saying "Ow, Ow, Ow!"

No. That's us '80s kids (GenX). You millennials are idealistic and actually thought you were starting a revolution with your "occupy" movement.

Depends on what you mean by that. The original Rollerball is actually quite a good movie with a lot to say about the relationship of corporations to society. Like the original Dawn of the Dead and Robocop, there was quite a lot there beneath the surface that the remakes completely missed. I only vaguely remember Flatli…

Well, to be fair, the mechanical shark was kind of terrible and fake looking, even for the time. Which may have actually improved the film because if the shark had been better Spielberg probably would have shown it a lot more, thus ruining the suspense.

How does one "let" somebody win or lose in Candyland? It's literally all random, with no strategy. *Edit* Already been asked.

Yes, the spray paint. Good call. It's really everywhere. Like you said, it makes sense in High-Rise because there the point is that they actually *want* to destroy their middle/upper class environment, but in the usual "fall of civilization" scenarios you'd think people would be more concerned with finding food, ammo,…

Well, yes, presumably something like that. Although it's weird they would have to say that — it would be like the GTA games reminding people that actual auto theft is a felony, not to mention all the murder.

Well, it has an environmental message, I guess. But I'm not sure if the way Freeman handled his human co-workers is exactly how schools should be teaching resolution of disagreements in the workplace.

Yeah — it *did* go off the air for a while, didn't it? My parents were fans and I remember having to listen to the "final" episode while we were driving somewhere and then wondering a few years later why it was back.

Well, Bill Pullman kind of did in "Zero Effect". In fact, "Monk" actually started in the planning stages as "Zero Effect: The series", but it didn't pan out and they retooled it with the Monk character replacing Darryl Zero. Not that Shalhoub wasn't great as usual in the role.

I also liked his "The Guardians". About a future Britain where people either live in crowded cities and have technology or live in the countryside in a pseudo-19th century lifestyle.

I love how they put the disclaimer in the beginning explaining that wolves aren't assholes in real life like in the game. As if they fear a defamation lawsuit by offended wolves.

Have you checked out the Telltale adventure games (like the "Walking Dead" series?). They seem to be what you are looking for — nice environments to explore without much in the way of actual puzzles. As an oldster, I actually like being stuck on a puzzle and having to think about it for a few days, but I know that…

I wonder if the story mode in "The Long Dark" will ever be actually implemented. And if it is whether anyone will care about it rather than just play the sandbox.

I've *heard* of it. And Lance Armstrong. And that he cheated somehow, I think with drugs. But that's really about it.

I was an author on the Archeoglobus fulgidus genome paper back in the 1990s. That's a microbe that eats petroleum products!

I'm betting Jefferson. That was was the real rivalry. Who the hell (other than Gore Vidal) cared about Burr?

Parker Posey?

And England *had* a civil war! (obscure reference — people used to say "The United States are" and now say "The United States is" and traditionally people claimed the US Civil War was the reason. Turns out the dates for the change don't actually line up, but hey).

I know next to nothing about sports, but calling something a "pitch" in a sport where you can't actually pitch anything given that pitching is something that uses hands? That's dumb.