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Excellent article. I like all of your work, but this was special. Thank you! Read more
It was a banger. I wouldn’t have been reading an article about MTG cards without it. Read more
If someone tells me they know what real elves are supposed to look like, I’m backing away. Slowly. Read more
They’ve been busy this year, first it was complaining/protesting the closure of splash at WDW to change it to Princess and the Frog, then the little mermaid review bombing, and just yesterday mourning the splash closure at Disneyland for the same thing. Read more
Magic fans have known this for about a year. The fact that all the racists are coming out of the woodwork now, when the mainstream announcement is made, tells you a lot about who is really getting angry at this: people who are threathened by pictures in a card game they don’t play. In other words immature, insecure… Read more
I think shorter seasons need to be applied to most of CWs shows. Especially the DC stuff. They’ve got some cool concepts but they all have so much fluff that disconnect from their arcs each season. Read more
Shorter episode seasons would have trimmed the garbage out, and made for better thought seasons. It was great up until season 6, then it seemed to try to use whatever it could from the garbage bins of other shows and make them stick. I so hated the ending, Dean could have been done so much better. Shit, even if you… Read more
This is literally what that is Read more
It’s wonderful to read these stories. Link’s name comes (apocryphally?) from him being designed to be a player’s ‘link’ into the game world. It’s wonderful that as that world, and the character, have been afforded greater definition through technology and design norms iterating, that thoughtful choices about the… Read more
This is awesome that Link is a character that anyone can project themselves into. I’m a cisgender straight white dude and Link reads as a classic sword and sorcery, saves the princess, fucks up the bad guy sort of character to me. And that’s the kind of protagonist that appeals to me (boring i know). Read more
This was lovely, thanks! Read more
Having a very close family member who is trans and games and has shared similar feelings/views on Link, I appreciate this a lot, Linda. 🍻 Read more
The 2007 writers’ strike (which definitely wasn’t the first, just the most recent) did no such thing. Reality TV was already well on its way by then, with well-known shows like American Idol, Survivor, The Simple Life, Big Brother, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, So You Think You Can Dance, Fear Factor, America’s Got… Read more
Happy to see you’re keeping up the wonderful journalism. oh and.... Read more
Just wanna point out that WOTC has better security than the Pentagon. Tracking on the foil and cardboard, men at your door within a day, very impressive, especially as it’s for CCG not national secrets.
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I think I’m slightly older than you, I think I was about 13 or so when I read Sorcerer’s Stone. Blasted through it in a day (and most of a night) and was hooked. I’m definitely struggling with my nostalgia vs. memories like you described, but I’m having a kid in August and I think it’s time to let the past die. I… Read more
“does making vulgar comments back at her work make you any better?” Read more