Oh fer... You don't HAVE to kill hookers in the game. There's little reason to. You _DO_ have to commit several hundred acts of violence against men to advance the game.

Eh, say what you will about the man, he's got prime level academic bone fides. He's a huge nerd himself.

Yes, you can pick up the hookers in the game, pay them money, and refill your health. And if you want to talk about "equitable", almost every single enemy you have to kill in the game is male.

Exactly. If a game with the opposite premise "Taze her til she shuts up!" and the same low popularity was released first, there would be a flame icon next to this story with 5 digits-worth of complain in shock and disgust.

"The Hollywood Reporter described [Another Earth] as "science fiction at its best.""

Hmmmm... transparently lying about not living up to cultural ideals.... I thought Brits called that 'propriety'.

Well, I was reading the 'evidence' and was getting pretty convinced and then I remembered that this was a 'conspiracy theory' and was all like "Phhhhh. Where's your tinfoil hat? Did the UFO space aliens steal it?". If it's called a conspiracy theory then I obviously don't have to think about it (and in fact probably…

Sigh. The whole hashbang url crap is basically a hack that caught on with some people for making their sites more active. More than a few people hate it. Just google "hashbang hell".

Awww... And here I was, all excited by the best new idea.... I had HOPED you'd say "They finally stopped using broken controls!" but I guess this is cool too.

They DID: it was called "Cradle 2 The Grave" and starred Jet Li and DMX. I saw this stinker in the theater and during the "Quad Bikes Race Over The Rooftops" scene, I SWEAR I could predict the whole map/next jump based on my absurd number of hours playing "GTA: Vice City".

Oh MAMA! I m SO there. Bully was... spectacularly undervalued. As a game, as a story, and as a social commentary.

THANK you! Was gonna say that myself.

And this doll "makes women feel violated"? I mean, I could understand Ms. Cyrus feeling violated, but not "women" in general. How does it do that? Does that mean that all such dolls should be banned/despised? What about the licensed rather than knock-off ones — do those still make women feel violated? And is that…

I used to work in an adult novelty store and we sold a TON of sex dolls that were knock-off's of a celebrity. This is common. Since I don't see "Cyrus" anywhere on the box, I don't see how she's got a case.

You should check out the CGI animated series. They did it _right_.

I never said I couldn't watch it, I said they were phoning in the design. It's flat-out hackneyed. And just because it's for kids doesn't mean it has to be bad — look at Avatar the Last Airbender show.

Jesus. Talk about phoning in your character design. Christ I hate anime sometimes. They're REALLY gonna do the "moppet-sidekick speaks annoying gibberish that only people in the story can understand" crap with snarf? REALLY?! And, of COURSE Panthro has to be a huge bruiser — can't have an anime team without one,…

Y'know, I find it remarkably enlightening to contrast this article with another fashion-related story — the Marc Jacobs suit discussed here and on sistersite Gawker.

Anorexia and similar psychodietary diseases are awful and it's great that people are trying to address the issue. But.... Well, there's a big elephant in the room: the problem here is the basic blueprint of the fashion industry.

I wholeheartedly support this cause. I'm vehemently anti-abuse/anti-rape and decidedly pro-looking-at-girls-dressed-scantily. Ladies, I salute you.