This would be a MUCH more interesting discussion if the sample had used "usually" instead of the obviously false "always", or "rarely" instead of "never".

'rarely gender specific'? Really? I've never heard a woman called a "faggot" or told that they have small penises or testicles.

I'm really sorry, but I don't seen anything on F.U.S. that's any different than what most guys have to deal with — at least not in terms of vitriol and ugliness. This issue ISN'T about being a woman, it's about the abuse that runs rampant in multiplayer games — regardless of gender.

I'm really sorry, but I don't seen anything on F.U.S. that's any different than what most guys have to deal with — at least not in terms of vitriol and ugliness. This issue ISN'T about being a woman, it's about the abuse that runs rampant in multiplayer games — regardless of gender.

All I ask is that the site designers spend a day or two with their text size zoomed one or two levels. THEN let them have a crack at the headline column. As it stands, the site is basically unusable at anything other than default size.

Ms. Kruse has been posting these videos for years. She's not very well-regarded on the UFO boards. There's much more interesting and compelling vids out there, but if you want to see more night-vision footage of blobs that aren't identifiable while a breathless Alison gasps at the marvels of it all, check out her…

Sigh. I _really_ wish modern story-tellers were disabused of the notion that "ambiguous ending" = "artistic integrity". Beginning. Middle. End. Keep the ambiguity in the first two parts unless you have a damned good, genius-level reason for doing otherwise.

Yeesh. Yet anOTHER book about a young girl coming to prominence. Can we get an masculine savior once in a while? Sigh.

Simple answer for me: Mievielle has endings. Japanese authors don't. Mielvielle has always given me a conclusion with an actual _finanle'_ rather than "a bunch of shit happens for no reason but has some cultural resonance with Japanese folks".

@thekeith82: I stand corrected. Honestly, as far as I'm concerned, it airs on the network called "Internet" (legally paid for and unencumbered by copyright madness of course). I heard accents that sounded British to me and made an assumption.

One of my favorite superhero books has to be Nuclear Age by Brian Clevenger of "8-Bit Theater" and "Atomic Robo" fame. It's pretty lighthearted (though the ending is just... emotionally devastating and beautiful) and the worldbuilding is exquisite.

@Andrew Bates: Thank you.

@TimOzcelik: I think I'm just gonna quote Heinlein here. He said it much better than I could:

@Srynerson: How... informative. Thank you for your opinion. Can you please elaborate?

What... uh... what's the point here? I mean, what are these guys trying to say with their art? If this showed up in "Make" as a shits-n-giggles project, I'd say, "Hey! Nifty!", but this is billed as art, so... what are they trying to say?

@Charlie Jane Anders: Fair enough. It's ambiguous about the central conflict is seeks to illuminate. Still sounds pretty lazy to me. But then, I haven't seen _this_ film, just others your article has led me to believe are similar.

@franklinshepard: Oh, they aren't mutually incompatible, just strongly correlated. But it does seem that ambiguity is often seen as a prerequisite for the "artistic" label, and too me that's just boring. "So, Mr. Writer/Director/Producer, what the heck did that mean?" "Whatever you want it to mean!" *SMACK* "Try…

I read the review because I was really on the fence about seeing this. Now I am no longer ambivalent. I have no desire whatsoever to watch this. Thank you for the warning.

@m_faustus: Seconded!

SQUEEEEEEEEE! I canNOT wait.