With people leaving TV for streaming, where (at this point) ads are still a lot less present, product placement will only increase, since that's something you can't really blank out. Plus the FCC has a much lessened hold on internet footage… it's really a weird fight. On the one side I hate pointless hocking of crap…

Fret not, Scrawler of all numbers, I am still the incomparably fantastic and variably humble self you have all come to tolerate.

I had to kafuddle my Disqus account to comment on the Gameological Society and it all got confusing, so I went with my usual handle. I figured by keeping the avatar, it ought to be okay. Didn't mean to confuse, Scrawler… or are you Scrawler2?

Is it really? I was on a Lufthansa flight once and they had Die Hard (the first one, the second one might have been bad fodder for in-flight entertainment) as a choice of film… I found the German dubbed voice much raspier and lower… might be I am remembering it wrong.

Hence the "…"…

At least that's 5 minutes of not being Bones.

Which is interesting, since Buffalo Wings give me very @avclub-e7a493b9b2145a9a61cbd4a62c12b171:disqus and clearly make me more vibratory on the can.

@avclub-517f24c02e620d5a4dac1db388664a63:disqus : You should read more Deadspin comments.

You're my hero, @avclub-22eda830d1051274a2581d6466c06e6c:disqus .
Lemme just call my mom to reward you appropriately.

Did anyone call while I was in a cunt?

I completely agree and am therefore also a snob. We should share monocles.

Only if Pate is nothing more than a second-rate catfood rip-off.
Wait, it is?
Oh.

Oh god, now we're going to have to go through a whole discussion if canned people are inferior to fresh people.

And preferably before everyone else… although Disqus doesn't update in realtime… now THAT'S a white people problem.
Tho I hear it doesn't update in real time for other ethnicities either.

As a gay, atheist woman with Irish ancestry who doesn't tan well, I am sort of directionless at the moment. Anybody want my white?

As soon as we rename "Race Riot" into "Civil War", yes.

I love to hate it… no other comment section lets me release some of the tension of the daily grind the way the Tolarablabla Index does.
I want to be able to keep telling Amelie to stop, but I don't really want her to stop, since I wouldn't be able to tell her anymore.
Also her name sounds hot.

"Hatin'" is a harsh and idiosyncratic word.
"Being mildly exasperated and generally missing humor and relatability" is probably more accurate.

I was born in '79, so I really can't know.

That can be topped with the fact that the guy dubbing Bruce Willis in German has a low, growling, almost all-bass voice. I guess the idea of John McLane actually sounding like a soprano (singer, not mobster) is a bit counter-intuitive.. just that we don't have the luxury to change it.
PS: They also have a guy who dubs…