Also, something something fucking PETA, I’m a complete fucking tool.

This was a reply to the posts about Marshmellow. Not sure why it went here.

This is so good. God what a nightmare.

Yeah I actually had fun watching it. I’m finding the endless one-sided cynicism in these threads tiresome.

I could watch him give speeches all day.

You should create a few more accounts. Diversify your predictions some more.

We are all self absorbed assholes, yeah. Unless, of course, we want something or aren’t allowed to be assholes for some reason. These characters are us but with exaggerated traits, because that’s what they teach you to do in writing class.

Oh sorry, and I haven’t seen Incredibly Loud. Wait – is that really nominated?

You mean that movie about the lovable wise-cracker who has a friend with cancer?

I thought Ricky was good. Funnier and more down to earth than he has been. As was pointed out, the Madonna Like a Virgin joke was terrible but not as terrible as Madonna’s self congratulatory acceptance speech that followed.

On another note, there seems to be an unwritten rule that when women win awards at these things they need to appear surprised and overwhelmed. I’m sure they are both surprised and excited, to a degree, but they play it up and exaggerate it to the point that it looks fake. Nothing like the confidence of an acting award to make you think you can fool a room full of your peers. Meryl Streep, on the other hand, had to have known she was walking home with that award the other night (since she was incredible as usual and it’s that sort of role) and looked genuinely surprised and a little overwhelmed. Just another example of how brilliant of an actor she is.

iTunes didn’t replace Napster or Limewire or whatever came after Napster, Torrentz did. Free wasn’t replaced by pay, it was replaced by free, of course.

And pirating is 100% about getting things for free. A convenience argument is invalid now because of sites like iTunes. It is now just as easy to obtain things on the internet legally, but most people steal. It was, in fact, invalid before, because people were taking hours to download things on dial-up before iTunes. People will do what is less convenient if it means getting something for free.

As for the last point, SOPA may not be the solution we need, but clearly something is needed. The slippery slope argument that our government will somehow use this bill to censor the internet like China does is absolutely absurd.

Theft isn’t karma for the music industry not anticipating how we would steal things next, and it’s not a referendum on how much money is being spent to make films. It’s simply theft. However, if people are used to getting things for free, you can put ads on music and movies and offer them for free. This is really the only change that can take place that can compete with piracy, because a pay alternative will not be chosen over piracy by a majority of the population. We have seen this already.
Will ads bring in enough money? Are there enough advertisers out there? Will people be willing to accept commercials mixed in with their albums and movies? If piracy is still not regulated, will people choose to pirate ad free copies instead? These will the questions that need answering.

As for addressing pirating outside of something like SOPA, entertainment companies need to start suing Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple, and other internet service providers for not blocking access to piracy sites. Force them to regulate themselves, since they seem to not have a desire to do it on their own. And please don’t confuse free speech with being allowed to steal. These things are completely unrelated. The word “censorship” cannot be twisted enough to be applied here no matter how much our own selfishness blinds and biases us.

Shame Margin Call and Descendents aren’t on here.

Thank God people are taking sides in the epic Community vs Parks and Recreation battle.

And yeah, I’m tired of all that pretentious Andy Dwyer physical comedy too. Those pratfalls aren’t as smart as you think they are, writers!