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The Official Student Opinion and Satire Magazine of UTD
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Unmasking the (Super)Power Fantasy
Spoilers Ahead!!! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…boring. In one superhero, Superman gets super strength, super hearing, flight, speed, x-ray vision, freeze breath, laser vision, invincibility, and – somehow – more. No fight is even a question for him; his whole gimmick is that he’s unbeatable, and in the few instances where he does […]
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Stop the Baby Machine Mentality
Hey ladies! Did you know that apparently you’re supposed to prioritize your future children over yourself when it comes to receiving (possibly life-saving) healthcare? Even if those children don’t currently (or will never) exist? Most women are well aware that society expects them to get pregnant at some point in their lives. (I realize that […]
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Vote to Make Your Vote Matter
It’s election season! Doesn’t that just make your heart race? What else do young college students look forward to more than seeing their voices be silenced yet again in order to keep the old white men in power? Trust me, I know how tiresome politics can be; I have stopped keeping up with it myself […]
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Being a Material Girl in a Streaming World
On August 4th, 2022, every terminally online person including myself opened their Twitter feed to find some very disconcerting news. Two popular streaming services — er, scratch that — the popular streaming service HBO Max and some completely niche, underground streaming service called Discovery+ swore a sacred oath before God to love each other always, […]
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Dear Men, Your Feminist Writing Sucks
I want to start off by saying that I am a woman, I am a feminist, and I love feminism. I love women being girlbosses. However, I am sick and tired of men patting themselves on the back for writing “feminist” characters without ever having spoken to a woman before. In cartoons, there are two […]
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88 Reasons why 88rising sucks
For the last few years, 88rising has been 88falling. The American media company 88rising founded by Sean Miyashiro in 2015 is known for promoting primarily Asian and Asian American musicians. Some of the most famous artists that work with 88rising include Joji, Rich Brian, Niki, Jackson Wang, and several others. At least, that was their […]
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Shifting Gears: Metal Gear makes peace, not war
Back in ye olde times (by which I mean the year 1973), a notable French director named François Truffaut made an offhand point in the Chicago Tribune, which simultaneously aged like a fine wine yet continues to plague the mind of just about every Stanley Kubrick fan on the planet. Unfortunately, I am one of […]
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Everyone sleeps on kids’ shows
“Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous” is an animated TV show about a band of kids stranded on Isla Nublar following the events of the film “Jurassic Park.” Sounds exciting, no? Indeed it is, at least for those who chose to give it a chance once it was released. Unfortunately, animation, especially children’s media, is disregarded as […]
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America’s #1 transmasc icon is dead… or is he?
As we enter this month of spooks, scares, and other sinister synonyms, I want to bring the hearts and minds of the UTD public to a solemn topic. It is with a heavy heart that I inform you all that Danny Fenton, a boy who is “just fourteen,” has died… or has he? “Danny Phantom” […]
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The possibilities of AI art
DALL-E is a neural network that can create images from text captions. It uses a dataset of text-image pairs and creates archetypal images of animals, artwork, and objects. Moreover, it can understand and plausibly relate these concepts and can also transform them into existing images. There are many controversies regarding DALL-E as people think that […]
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Defending the Rainbow
This past July, UT Dallas made national headlines when Computer Science professor Timothy Farage made a tweet calling for a “cure for homosexuality.” Thanks to coverage by the Mercury, response from the student body was immediate, with many claiming that Farage had a history of making such controversial remarks, both in and out of the […]
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AH/ATEC The Merger: Is it worth it? – Yes
As a senior ATEC student in the animation concentration, I have taken my fair share of both ATEC and A&H classes. I have two minors within the A&H school, Visual Arts and Asian Studies. After taking all of these classes, I can say with certainty that I am happy and hopeful for the ATEC and […]