The financial success of "Family Guy" has made it possible for him to do whatever he likes, and he has spent the past few years working his way through a bucket list of professional fantasies.
When I was 10 I wanted, for a brief period, to be a professional Fighting Fantasy player.
"Providence" and "Judging Amy" promulgate a new brand of fantasy: professional women who really do have it all -- rewarding careers, supportive families and really fabulous hair.
But the most interesting and anthropologically fascinating element of both games is not that you can fulfill your professional bass fishing fantasy 24 hours a day, or even that you might get so involved in the game that you accuse your computer of cheating.
The director, who recently gave up a career in journalism to focus on filmmaking, views his professional embrace of fantasy as a response to living in a country where conflict is routine.
Vanguard surfers and 9-to-5 professionals have found their fantasy surf guru in the former professional surfer Shea Lopez, who writes a column for Surfer magazine.
Both films refuse to soften the harsher personal truths faced by aging professional salesmen of erotic fantasy.
The popularity of daily fantasy, which professional sports leagues have actually invested in, has also reduced the stigma attached to gambling.
On the other hand, in gaming, as in fantasy sports, professional athletes may become abstractions, commodities that can be bought and sold, disciplined or replaced.
Having witnessed the great revenue potential of online fantasy sports, professional sports leagues are trying to strong-arm independent fantasy sports providers out of the business by using the right of publicity to assert property interests in the statistics generated by professional players, and used by fantasy sports providers to run their online games.
