Oh my! First time I have ever heard that one. Most hilarious indeed.

I have come to the conclusion that paraphrasing is too much effort.

I thought they usually went into real estate, like Joe Rudi did locally here. :)

Oh come on now. You will be stone cold any minute now...

Get over yourself dude. Neither you nor anyone else are anywhere near significant enough for our actions to have any effect whatsoever on you. If it does, then you are a pretty weak and pathetic individual; if you can't handle the fact that some people enjoy things that you don't.

Not sure what else you expect. Besides, you completely ignored the rest of my post. If you had read further, you would have comprehended that passive entertainment of any type is just a very small fraction of my interests and activities. Most of my time is out here in the real world doing actual real world things, but you somehow missed that?

Why the hell do you even care?

I'm living and enjoying my life is what I am doing. I have achieved comfortably ever after and am now enjoying the little things in life I ever got to really appreciate during the grind.

Entertainment (movies, gaming, etc) is just a small part of that. I have actually become rather fond of the more traditional activities lately, like fishing, hiking (well, that is on the list for next year), camping, toobing, biking, etc. House fixing up and gardening took up my non online entertainment time this past Summer.

Your attempt to be a pompous ass fails, by the way.

It's not like angels, demons, and ghosts are real either.

We enjoy them because we fucking enjoy them.

I started it quite some time ago, and dozed through the movie like last year or the year before. The general gist seemed to be a mandatory consumer culture, probably more a mix of government and corporate control (perhaps not specifically stated but noticeable). I was really just going by vague memories.

Well, just be ready for it somehow when or if it does happen.

At least they are not handling it like they did on the copy that made the rounds on its third run (1979, I guess it would be). In that print, Han didn't shoot at all. Just went from "Yes, I'll bet you have" to the next scene that started with an outside shot of the Death Star.

I think you are talking about Brave New World, and other similar novels. 1984 had nothing to do with corporations running the world, and had everything to do with the entire world being a Marxist hellhole with never ending war.

You do know that CC companies only give a limited number of trips to the chargeback pig trough before they cut off your protection. Right?