...why does that creepily sound like one of my former parish's priests. He was Telecare famous for stuff like that.

While it isn't the case in the west, it pretty much had the origins one would assume: sex work. It's decidedly more "artsy" here to do it, but in Japan, it at least used to be on par with a very expensive trip to "soapland."

Oh, I never said that there was. I'm a big fan of Chris Colfer, in and out of Glee, and nearly wasted my day trying to get in to his book signing for Land of Stories. (No, I didn't make it in.) Hell, if I were in his position, I'd be doing the same exact thing.

As I said elsewhere, he's very talented and hardworking, but he definitely would not have it as easy if Ryan Murphy created a roll for him after he auditioned for Artie in Glee. If Murphy didn't want to self-insert his high school-self into the show the moment Colfer opened his mouth at his audition, he would probably…

Yeah, I saved that for 23. Still, Colfer's story is that of both extreme luck and extreme hard work. He's definitely a serious writer, given that he's not only got the book deal, but another screenplay he's working on and was the editor of his high school paper and literary magazine, but admittedly, he knows he…

He's definitely a writer. He's been writing a lot for a long time and was very active in his high school writing clubs, which aside from a deep dislike of his hometown was the only similarity between himself and his character in the movie he had shown at Tribeca. Plus, I'm not so sure he would have been invited to…

I used to have a friend who's Tumblr was 90% angry social justice, 10% dolls, ponies and fashion. She reblogged something about how she and a bunch of Natives would love to throw out then next Native to talk about their "spirit animal." While I completely understand the stupid hipstery appropriation issues and am…

I have a friend that is really social justicy on Tumblr (I recently stopped frequenting it, as any open tab for Tumblr slows all my shit down like woah), and she commented on a long thread of reblogging on the incident. I couldn't track back from her what caused all that, but her comment was basically, "Damn, and I…

I would assume that the woman that got targeted for yelling back had no clue about this, since she doesn't seem to have gone to many stand-up shows before. But even with only a few under my belt of experience, I do agree that it's far better to just leave and get a refund or comped tickets and rant about it on your…

This, basically. Tosh's humor is completely that of an idiotic 15-year old who does little more than troll YouTube comments. Thus his show.

Neither of those jokes are at all on the same level as what Tosh does, though. The linked example points out absurd and selfish reasoning. The Hitler example uses a very well known historically hated figure and becomes an observance of power structure as robotosaur points out.

The year that Final Fantasy X came out, there was a woman with a walker at Otakon dressed up with a sign that said, "Riku at 90." And it was actually a really boss cosplay.

He does, and I love him, but um... he's also 15. I have limits. Not that that's a universal thing, but that's why I didn't mention him.

Largely, I would hope, but I've actually met people that were dead serious about that. It wasn't a matter of, "Damn, why is my biggest crush ever a cartoon lady?" it was, "Cartoon characters can't break my heart and always stay young and cute."

There are a lot of cases where women do this sort of thing, too. The market in Japan for virtual dating games where you go about the school for the perfect significant other is pretty big and covers ecchi/hentai (straight men going for girls), yaoi (gay men, though highly unrealistic and targeted for hetero female…

He does paw at her chest, but contrary to the idea of her being submissively ok with it, she actually does cover up and yell at him. Most people aren't actually familiar with the Vocaloid universe beyond "Look at the crazy Japanese and their fake singers!" Miku is well known for being a "tsundere," which means she has…

Much like Galatea."You sculpted and dictated my form. MY turn!"

This is actually a common theme in hentai and raunchy animes aimed largely at the nerdiest of otaku bases. They comment frequently on the inferiority of real women to virtual and 2D anime girls. It's creepy, but at the same time, all I can think is, "As long as you aren't doing the fucked up shit to real women or urge…

There are male Vocaloids, too. Miku is just the most popular as she has the older teen soprano voice. I'm sure one of the female hikikomori will do this with Kaito or Gakupo eventually.

Yeah, there are a lot of ballads with speaking parts done with Vocaloids, so she definitely has just talked before.