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Death Note: Justice Is A Mask For Ambition
Spoiler Alert: Duh. But veterans please read on ahead. There is no doubt that Death Note’s moral subject matter is complex considering it started out as being a mere manga in Shonen Jump. Though the idea of justice is prominent in this manga, justice, in the world of Death Note, is ultimately meaningless, and it’s […]
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I Am Here To Make Friends, Actually
“I don’t know, in my day I don’t think we helped each other,” Christian Siriano, winner of Project Runway season 4, commented as he strolled past contestants frantically trying to finish the final details on their outfits. With only minutes before their models were set to walk the runway, one designer had casually offered to […]
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Madonnas & Whores
The women’s rights movement has shifted and changed significantly over the past few decades, in some ways for the better and in other ways for the worse. However, what has remained constant are the incels who will do whatever it takes to keep women in positions where they will never be free from misogynistic and […]
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AMP’s Official Back To School Guide For Local Eats
With two generations of new Comets arriving on campus for the first time, we here at AMP have taken it upon ourselves to ensure that all of UTD’s most crucial generational knowledge is passed on successfully. With the help of several current students and recent alumni, AMP staff has put together a list of some […]
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American Mythology: The “Self-Made” Billionaire
Americans are obsessed with the fairy tale of the “self-made” billionaire. Once upon a time, the uber-wealthy were lowly working people like me and you, but through a little elbow grease and hard work, they were magically transformed! News outlets love to spin stories of so-called “self-made” tech billionaires as inspiration porn- Microsoft Founded by […]
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Pokemon: Stagnation is Their Foundation
So far, three new Pokémon games have been announced for the Nintendo Switch, all set to release sometime either this year or next. New Pokémon Snap is set to release April 30, 2021, Pokémon: Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon: Shining Pearl are slotted for some time this year, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus will come out in […]
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WandaVision’s Lack of Vision
Wanda Maximoff has had her life torn apart repeatedly by the writers of the MCU. First, her parents died (apparently in front of her eyes as WandaVision retconned) to a bomb made by Stark Industries, then her brother was brutally gunned down by a beast of Stark’s creation, and then she had to kill the […]
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Summer Fun During COVID
Do you want to do fun summer activities but still want to take the global pandemic seriously (unlike our wonderful Governor Abbott who might want to actually kill us all)? Cause I do. Below is a list of fun things to do for the sweltering Texas summer of 2021— all while being as safe as […]
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My Relationship With Anime Can’t Be This Complicated
I’ve been a casual fan of anime and manga from a young age. I read the manga adaptations of games like Legend of Zelda and Kingdom Hearts. I loved Pokemon, but more so the game than the animation. It seemed that most of my entry points into anime and manga were from video games. However, […]
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Whooshing Red
The Winter, The Blackouts, and The Apocalypse
In Houston, a suburban family finds their three children dead in a house fire. In Harris County, at least 300 were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning. In the same city, a 60-year-old unhoused man is found dead, having frozen to death. Per the Washington Post, at least 58 people died in this month’s winter storms […]
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There Is An Escape
To say that the release of Cyberpunk 2077 was a disaster would be an understatement. From the moment the game launched on December 10th of last year, it was abundantly clear that the game was so buggy, it was nearly unplayable. Some glitches were only cosmetic problems, like NPCs randomly T-posing or trying to put […]
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Embrace The Meme
UT Dallas probably wasn’t a school you thought very much about when you were applying to colleges – you probably didn’t really know much about the university until you first arrived on campus for your initiation as a Comet. That’s because we’re new, and typically when people think of a “UT School,” they think of […]