His problem isn't that he's bad, it's that he hasn't appeared in a movie I wanted to see in years. It's actually gotten to the point that when I see his name attached to a movie my first thought is "eh, if Johnny Depp's in this it's probably not something I want to watch." If he started appearing in movies that I…

He'll do the first 30 days of shooting for free, but keeping him any longer will cost an absurd amount of money, especially when there are so many equivalent or better options available. But even if you try to stop using him he'll linger, constantly trying to reinstall himself.

The last game I bought at full price was Skyrim.

I doubt it does anymore now that it's commercially available on download services and PS1 emulators/ROMs have work so well, but during the PS2 era physical copies were incredibly expensive.

I bought it on Steam a few years ago and played it for a few minutes, but when it auto-configured DirectX it caused a problem with my blu-ray software that forced me to restore my system. Long story short, I've been nervous to ever launch the program again.

Morgan Hu? She works in accounting

I'm a little proud of myself that my diet now is about 1,000% better than it was when I was in college 11 or 12 years ago.

One night my brothers and I got down the YouTube hole watching humans compete with animals at things animals are really good at. The competitive-eating champion trying to eat hot dogs faster than a bear was funny (guess who can eat a dozen hot dogs in one mouthful? Hint: It's not a Japanese dude), but my favorite…

Competitive eating is one of the excesses of modern life that really bothers me.

Not that it changed my video game consumption one bit, but beating San Andreas in college (read: spending an entire night completing all of the fire truck missions so that I'd be fireproof for the final battle with Samuel L Jackson, which is completely unmemorable without the danger/frustration of burning to death)…

Probably one of Tom Waits' advantages is that his voice is so distinctive. I'm sure it's hard to establish that generic things like "heavy-metal guitar" or "fluid electronic music" are deliberately infringing on one person's copyright, but he's pretty much got a monopoly on "gravel-voiced blues/cabaret singer."

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My lyrics are bottomless

Parody is a little different in the sense that parodies can be derivative works (basically recreating or recycling copyrighted material) but still not owe anything to the copyright holder. (Which is why, for example, porn versions of popular shows/movies bill themselves as parodies.)

When I worked in a free clinic back in school I discovered there was a black market for nicorderm patches. And they were over the counter.

Some of us didn't write fanfic but instead wrote high derivative "original" fiction that added the blinding anger and fixation on suicide that our favorite movies lacked. For example, wouldn't The Crow have been much improved if Brandon Lee's character were a 15-year-old boy who returned from the grave completely…

Both for length (90 minutes vs 60) and for overall tone this doesn't really play like a stand-up special. I hold it to Gethard's credit that he explicitly talks about doing comedy doesn't treat mental illness, but therapy and medication do. He's also a very good writer, and the whole show hangs together very well as…

I'm glad I saw this review, because had I stumbled into this show anticipating a stand-up special instead of a ninety-minute one-man show about depression I would've been very disoriented. It's a good show, although I think there are moments where the director oversells the emotion (especially with close-ups during…

So I work in Pennsylvania right now, and I know someone at work who (long story) ran into a number of administrative issues related to a buggy accident. Every time this issue comes up, part of me starts giggling at the phrase "buggy accident."

Just for the record, I'm not asserting that the Nazis deserved any quarter, or that the war wasn't necessary to prevent their ideology from dominating the Western world. Just that the colonial project was also a moral travesty, and it's a sad reflection on the 20th century that the rulers of the Empire were able to…

Sorry, after last week's talk page highlights I won't be satisfied unless someone asserts that their grandmother was the lovechild of Thomas Edison and Amelia Earhart.