Or maybe Leonard Nimoy!

There were some moments where he wasn't quite clicking, and it did sometimes seem like he was reading the copy for the first time, but he definitely pulled it all together in that last line.

I'd take Shatner any day (although I wish there was another alt by Nimoy). Wheaton's VO just makes me feel like he's doing a long introduction to a Mars-themed board game on Table Top.

Is it weird that my biggest takeaway from this story is my surprise at how many different songs have that exact length? (And that's just the ones in your iTunes).

I find it amusing that the geek in me instinctively reacts to this great friendship between Charles and Erik, even though the part of me that is in touch with reality knows these are only the actors playing them.

Wow, those were the best SNL promos I've ever seen!

Actor Richard Kind had a story about working as a waiter at some fancy place, which had Steak Tartar (raw) on the menu. So, whenever someone ordered that, he'd kinda jokingly say, "and how would you like that cooked?" If they laughed, that's how he'd know they knew what Tartar actually meant, and if they told him…

Very fascinating analysis, and I think you're just about spot-on. I'll nominate the name of "Self-Delusional Hypocrisy Meter." Call it the SDHM for short; the internet loves acronyms.

American progressive internet/social justice-y types (just as those in other parts of the world) tend to believe in taking the high road.

Yes, those people are screwed up, I'm not disagreeing with that. But it doesn't change the fact that we could be happy that a bad situation has turned into somebody leading an ostensibly healthier lifestyle. There are always going to be people who are cruel and look for ways to assert their superiority over other…

Okay, whatever, I give up. If you get a lot of patients who are depressed or cynical about the world, my unprofessional opinion is that negativity like this is probably the reason why.

Crap, I can't figure out how to edit posts in the new format, but what I meant was, why does it have to be instead of, not why doesn't it.

Instead of patting her on the back for something that may or may not be a positive thing, we should be talking about how cruelly she was treated and what to do about that.

Then if we see solid evidence that she has a mental illness or is psychologically unhealthy, we can deal with that then (or, you know, her parents can). But I strongly object to the assumption that just because a person lost a lot of weight because people called her fat, she must now have an eating disorder.

I was never saying it's a good method, simply that it's one which is nominally out of our control, so if a situation arises where it ends up working out in a way that appears positive, we should celebrate the small victory instead of looking for reasons to write off as still being a bad thing. Looking at the silver…

The person hasn't ended up happy because they were bullied, but in spite of it.

I'm not saying it had nothing to do with that, but I still think it's possible for something like that to be a catalyst that motivates someone to do something for ultimately different reasons, without having lasting trauma from it. To analogize, if someone was mercilessly teased in school for having a lisp, and it…

This is more of an anime forum, so I'm not sure if everyone will be familiar with Pete Holmes' Batman parody videos on collegehumor.com, but he started out as a pretty chubby Batman, and gradually got thinner. He stated at least once on his podcast that one of the main motivating factors for him dieting and losing…

"To be perfectly honest," Belle told the Chronicle, "I felt more degraded in a minimum wage, blue-collar, low paying, service job than I ever did doing porn."

So, if a five-year-old girl walked into a costume store, pointed at this costume, and said, "I want that one," does that make her "a limited asshole with narrow views on gender identity?" Overgeneralize much?