“Jimmy, I understand that you are ahead in your studies, but that doesn’t mean you can just sneak a cadaver into your dorm.”
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Proto-Avengers
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) is a movie that has been widely panned by many. It has poor CGI, a contrived plot, stiff acting, and a number of details that just don’t make much sense. Fans of the comic that it was based on found it to be a poor adaptation. It was even infamous for ending the acting career of the legendary Sean Connery because he was so disappointed in the movie that it cemented his decision to retire. All of these critiques are valid as the movie is objectively not very good. And yet, I love it.
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A poem for Pi Day
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Archive Of Our Own (AO3) is a website designed for archiving fanfiction and the occasional amateur original work. The site has several metrics that it tracks which can be used to measure the success of a particular story. Among them are Hits (a measurement of how many separate times a web browser has visited the page for a story) and Kudos (a vote of approval for a particular story that can be left by both registered users and guests). The site tracks them separately and most users just use one stat or the other (or a different independent stat) to measure how successful a story is. However, some users have suggested looking at the measurement of Kudos/Hits instead. In theory, this will show a measurement of how much the people who read the story like it and will remove the confounding factors of some stories getting lucky with drawing more readers in and some stories simply appealing to a broader crowd. However, it has also been suggested that this measurement may introduce its own confounding factors.
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Mental illness is an insidious monster that affects far more people than many realize. Despite being common, it leaves little visible signs to show how much someone is suffering. Depression, in particular, is a mental condition that can often go completely unnoticed until it is too late. In the late 1800s, depression was often diagnosed as hysteria or neurasthenia. These diagnoses would often be followed by a prescription of strict rest referred to as the rest cure. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story that depicts the rest cure and how it can prove detrimental to the patient that it was trying to cure. Gilman strategically develops the narrator’s sentence over the course of the narrative, demonstrating the effects that the rest cure has on women’s mental health, which is to say that the rest cure fails to appropriately treat depression.
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Mud caked in tires
Wind through arboreal spires
Silence inspires
Sun breaks from the sky
Rain has vanished from the eye
River roaring by
The Dwarf and the Kraken
Red Beard was a fearsome dwarf to behold. A grizzled sailor with his face tanned to a tough leather by years of salt spray, windburn, and hours in the sun. His right arm ended halfway down his forearm, replaced by a vicious-looking hook that itself showed many dents and scratches from years of use. He was a sight to behold and unnerved many people with his simple presence.
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I’ve previously discussed Midway (1976) as an example of a well done Battle Epic. However, some people may not be aware that there is a more recent version. Midway (2019) covers the events of the exact same battle with updated cinematography. Many fans of war movies decided to ignore it upon seeing the trailers due to its superficial resemblance to Pearl Harbor (2001). Upon seeing the film, I would say that skipping it is a mistake.
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The multiverse can best be described as a series of bubbles of reality. Each bubble is a universe unto itself. These universes all have their own laws of physics which are roughly similar but often feature distinct differences. Some of these universes are “near” each other. The rules of measuring their relations do not follow Euclidian geometry, but they are consistent and with the right equipment can be measured. The area between them is called “The Space Between Spaces”, or sometimes just “The Void”.
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When Black Widow (2021) came out only a few months ago, it was met by mixed reviews. As someone who has watched every other MCU movie, I felt obligated to watch it at some point but the negative reviews didn’t enthuse me. So, I didn’t go out of my way to see it but added it to my “to watch” list. I just got around to watching it and now I regret waiting so long. It is a good movie and I suspect the negativity of it isn’t the fault of the movie but an aspect of a broader studio issue.
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