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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 7676066" data-attributes="member: 67">(For the record, I made no such assertion of anyone--including the poster to whom I was responding.)Perhaps that's because so many in our hobby have suffered so mugh negative stereotyping that many are desperate to hold up an icon--particularly one who appears to contradict some of those stereotypes as thoroughly as does Vin Diesel--to dispel them. And if Hasbro wants to leverage that, good for them--and good for us. The current "Geek-chic" fad won't last forever; eventually, geeks will just be geeks, again. In that case, let me offer a couple of (no less plausible) scenarios:1: Vin Diesel has friends who, collectively or individually, can afford to and care enough for Mr. Diesel that they are willing to spend as much on a birthday cake as a decent wedding cake might cost and...2: the professional bakery, for reasons of its own, has professional photographs of its creations taken, or...3: Vin Diesel actually has a friend who is a professional photographer (perhaps even a contributer to the commissioning of the cake), who wanted to take a professional photograph of it and came to the party prepared to do so.  Does it really matter, though? Or, to put it more philosophically, is it really possible for culture to be fake? No matter its origins, doesn't its wide-spread adoption automatically qualify a culture as "real?" And, anyway, how else is a culture going to spread, but through the indoctrination of outside influence? Show me a teacher or pastor or artist or filmmaker or reporter who does not have to incorporate their employer's/patron's/consumer's interests into their work, and I'll show you one who is unemployed/unfunded and of limited cultural impact. At least during their lifetime. Unless we're talking about Prince, of course.</blockquote>

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