You can go to the artist's house and demand a refund from them directly.

But the fact that someone can steal something easily is not an argument that the owner should throw up his hands and hand it over for free to everyone. And it's not enough to propose a different business model. The music business already did that, it's why streaming exists. If you couldn't pirate it probably wouldn't…

This fact is weirdly lost on people. It's like they want to justify stealing music simply because they don't want to stop doing it. Take the apple example - even if we're dealing with a magic pot of apples that never empties, someone was still supposed to get paid for that apple. The fact that digital copies can be…

What business model would that be? Making artists indentured servants?

Your second sentence does not logically follow from the first. And are you really saying a system where people don't get paid for their art will produce as much art, in just as high quality, as one in which they do? Where people who spend the entire day writing, playing instruments, painting, do not produce anything…

If someone were looking for an example of a false equivalency to put in a textbook, they could use your post.

The problem of course is that if no one can make money off their art we can expect less art and worse quality art (as there will be less full time artists). Art thrives under the capitalist system even if it does produce an abundance of garbage.

What's the story with that? How did you get yourself kicked off?

She doesn't have to prefer bald guys, she just has to settle for one. My wife would prefer a guy who didn't fart constantly and actually cooks once in a while. But she somehow sucked it up anyway.

What do you mean your 'persona'? Does that mean you aren't really a tall bald guy who's weirdly hard on himself about his looks?

I just assumed it's selection was garbage. I don't really watch any Netflix originals anymore though so perhaps i should have investigated and maybe single handedly saved the service.

Was Memento actually backwards though? Or did it just jump around in time a lot? I actually can't remember anymore.

So you're saying my crappy screenplay which is just the middle of the story has a chance?

Great, this shit head is back.

I think people forget why blackface was offensive in the first place. It was condemned in modern times as a reminder of an abhorrently racist caricaturing of an inherently weaker and oppressed minority. Even if you weren't painting your face black to dress up as Blade for Halloween to be malicious, it still carried…

Basically the only winning strategy in an issue like this is not to play. Don't say it's bad, don't say it's good, just keep your mouth shut because someone will find a reason to jump on you.

Why do you hate trees so much?

You should watch it. I fucking hate Michael Bay movies but Pain and Gain is actually fun. Johnson is particularly charming in it, as is Walburgh. It's like all the things you would normally look down on converge into something good.

I'll continue to defend Pain & Gain. But that largely owes its success to a group of actors both bringing their A-game and having a ton of fun with the material.

'We didn't lose those wars!! We, uh, just stopped playing.'