My theory is that all Porsches start as 911s, and they just keep adding air until they get the one they need.

To all future zines that plan to take in money. A bank will usually allow you to open a new checking account without a maintenance fee for the minimum amount of $10,000 dollars. Perhaps the amount is different there but in the future that should be your first step.

Whatever you think of Obiwan, I think the whole endeavor was worth it just to be able to tear down the barriers between Hayden Christensen’s and James Earl Jones performances and allow both to bleed into each other. Anakin and Vader have been pretty disassociated entities before this and seeing the messy in-between…

I actually had the opposite reaction. Obi-wan’s 2nd fight with Vader shows Vader that he’s still not Obi-Wan’s equal even after 10 years of Vadering. And he even mockingly calls Obi-Wan “Master” shortly before Obi-Wan kicks the utter shit out of him. It makes Vader’s comments in A New Hope more fulfilling.

Likewise,…

The whole series just felt very workmanlike. It had the most “made for TV” feel of anything Disney has made in the franchise. And worse, it didn’t really do anything to advance the characters in any really meaningful way. The ending of RotS, and the beginning of New Hope give you everything you really need to fill in…

No but I think the idea that kids will copy the game and feed fireflies to frogs is a concern that has merit.

Meh, sometimes it’s okay. They made it so parrots are no longer fed cookies to breed them, cause apparently they’re poisonous to the birds, instead now they use seeds. The mentality behind it is that since a lot of kids play Minecraft, any who own parrots wouldn’t accidentally hurt their parrots feeding them something…

Yeah, I also have no reason to think this wasn’t done in good faith.

Science strongly tries to take qualitative data, data that can be described but not put into numbers, and turn it into quantitative data, data that can be expressed in numbers. And there’s many valid reasons for this. It helps avoid problems with…

Their scenes “together” basically consist of them speaking to the camera (we get the front view) and the death scene with is all CGI. It’s not really that hard to imagine they never met. Especially since they filmed during Covid restrictions.

I think it’s incredibly reductive to say she was “always” a monster. She lived a life of incredible trauma, worked really hard to make up for her choices in Age of Ultron and learn to control her powers, and made an incredible sacrifice when she killed Vision.

The question is, why did Wanda need to be saddled with so much trauma? Why was she (like Natasha before her) refused the positive growth and resolution given to the male leads? Hawkeye lost his family, went on a years-long murder spree, had his best friend sacrifice herself, and then... he not only gets his family back…

The issue isn’t that her shift to villainy is illogical or poorly explained—the issue is that the writers decided to retread this path in the first place. Wanda being irreparably broken by her various traumas and then breaking the world around her is a tired and borderline misogynistic storyline. It’s the ultimate…

They claim that this tool will let them avoid tokenism, but does it? It actually appears that it could do the opposite. Creating characters purely to make the lines balance out nice and pretty, rather than putting in the effort to make genuinely representative characters that engage with the backgrounds they are meant…

Because unless you randomly assign values to various classes, 0 inherently becomes the baseline, the default.

The only surprising thing is that they released these metrics to the public. I feel like it should be kind of obvious that this is how a lot of companies beyond video games handle ‘diversity inclusion’. Diversity may be a deliberate choice that a lot of people advocate and say is a good thing, but this is pretty much…

Yeah but I would say that those aren’t “scores”. So defining one group as the value X and another group as value Y, doesn’t mean that X > Y or Y > X. They are just numbers being used to display the data. I can’t even imagine how these values could be used to count up to some ideal character, it makes more sense that…

I guess I’m missing what’s so egregious here. It’s a tool that visualizes their characters’ features.

This. I don’t think the intent is bad and this may even be a potential way to deal with some of it, but it is such an engineering-based solution approach to what is a basic sociology-based problem.

This was my one critique too. By itself and in the context of the MCU, I loved the twist because I totally didn’t see it coming. I found it risky and bold from a franchise that doesn’t do that too often. But in the grand scheme of Wanda’s publication history, oy. As James says, this is the thing she’s always known…

The author of this article isn’t ignoring the lore reasons for Wanda’s actions. He’s calling out how tired and somewhat unnecessary the trope is that dives those actions both in this film and in the comics. I too felt like Wanda didn’t receive nearly enough consequences for her actions in Westview, but what she did at…