It's just, like, my opinion, man
I've been rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation lately, and so much of what I loved about it on first viewing holds up beautifully.
Watching a series which is almost all standalone episodes is interesting, too. There's a basic premise of ...
Early Words
Banes at 12:00AM, March 28, 2024Quackcast 680 - Intelligence in Fiction
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 26, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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Today we're talking about the depiction of “intelligence” in fiction! There are a lot of ways this shows up: the genius detective who can understand any clue and uncover any lie, the amazing doctor who can ...
Palm to Palm is Holy Palmers’ Kiss
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 25, 2024
Photo: “Rogue and Magneto”. X-Men ‘97 by Marvel Studios. (March 2024)
Dispersed through my recommended videos Saturday morning were clips of an X-Men Universe pairing that has left me both confused about this new development and curious about exploring the Uncanny X-Men comic archives, specifically, the Savage Land saga. The ...
Quackcast 679 - Correlation doesn't equal causation
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 19, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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The phrase “Correlation doesn't equal causation” is something associated with science and statistics but it really applies to EVERYTHING and that's important to understand. But was does it mean? If a bunch of things happened ...
Quackcast 678 - Panel order!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 12, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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Banes did a really interesting newspost about panel order and how we read comics- not just left to right or right to left but which panel flows to what and how you get the reader to go ...
Animated X-Men ‘97 Series Picks Up Where 1997 Left
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 11, 2024
Photo: “Memorial dedicated to Professor Xavier” from X-Men ‘97 Trailer. Characters owned by Marvel Studio and Disney+. (2024)
A teaser trailer for the latest Marvel installation of X-Men’97 was released a few weeks ago leading up to the first episode’s release on Wednesday, March 20, 2024.
The one ...
Quackcast 677 - You can't spell "Fail" without "AI"
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 5, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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I remembered that a promised Quackcast was AI: slavery for artists and creators.
This is an important subject to cover especially from this angle.
It's slavery because it uses our creative products as fuel for it ...
Quackcast 676 - Baby it's cold outside, cultural context
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 27, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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Oh baby it's cold outside… That's a tricky song, well it's not really but a few years ago the silly pop-culture warriors on Twitter started acting as if the song was all “rapey” with ...
Quackcast 675 - Lurv
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 20, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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It was Valentine's Day last week so let's talk about lurv. Love makes the world go round, love solves all problems, love heals all, love is eternal, love is all you need, all you need ...
Top Five Sci Fi Romantic Couples
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 15, 2024
It's Valentine's Day as I write this, and the day after (or many days after) when you're reading this.
Anyway, I thought I'd run down (or run up) my top five science fiction romantic couples. I don't think I've done this topic before, but ...