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Re: The girls have caught up to the boys

What a find, Robert! Not only

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Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

Thursday, March 4, 2010 — 1:26 am

least, are inherently “nice,” social creatures who can only descend into immoral behavior (often by being ... when the host, when herself a child, was “taught manners” (or at least had a niceness gene that was ...

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Magic to Not Be Who I Am: Grant Morrison, Chaos Magic, and Western Mystery Traditions

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Christopher Lirette Emory University

August 13, 2014

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about. What Morrison wanted, apparently, was to become a superhero. Or at least someone different. And so ... forget who you are, or, at least, to get through the week, to make it work. ...

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Re: A History of Violence: politics, profits, and the changing face of the WWE

Realism in the attack itself

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Ari Berenstein 411Mania.com

Monday, August 16, 2010 — 5:32 am

considered "PG", or at least up until the moment that Danielson "crossed the line" by ... At least now that he has returned to WWE he will have the chance to find a good measure of success ...

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People and Places Beyond Reach: Invisible Stories as Immersive Devices in Contemporary Video Games

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Pawel Frelik Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland

September 15, 2017

into full visibility. There is also at least one instance of such marginalia that becomes ... consequential: collecting at least 10 pieces of Asari Matriarch Dilinaga’s writings in Mass Effect, combined with ...

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More Fats, More Fems, More Asians

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Jennifer Lynn Jones Indiana University

February 24, 2018

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RuPaul's Drag Race (RDR) nods to size diversity with at least one "big girl" every season, but ... marginalization is not limited to fatness; Asian and Latinx queens are treated similarly, represented by at least ...

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Re: Daily Double-Take: the Friendly "Face" of AI

Watson

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Lisa Swanstrom Florida Atlantic University

Tuesday, June 21, 2011 — 1:08 am

game of chess?" His odd mechanical voice is, at least initially, the most ethical voice in the ... film. Thirdly (and finally, at least for now!), don't you find it interesting that game play has ...

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Re: Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

Idiocy and non-violence

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Peter Snowdon MAD Faculty, PXL/University of Hasselt, Belgium

Friday, April 4, 2014 — 10:49 am

idiotic, when it belongs, surely, in a long tradition of much nobler, or at least less irrational, modern ... spectacles in which (particularly) men passively accept extreme pain, going back to at least Houdini who ...

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Re: The Colbert Report as Millennial Pedagogy

Backward Learning is Forward-Thinking...

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Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

Friday, September 4, 2015 — 4:07 am

dichotomy when trying to discern whether a form like satire can function primarily as education, or at least ... civic action. The success of such a formula is a stretch to say the least. Indeed, that is why TCR works ...

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Re: Digital De-Aging in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Immortal actors?

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Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

Thursday, April 18, 2019 — 8:49 pm

become synonymous with the character of Captain America (at least within the MCU). Additionally, ... least not immediately. It might work in a reboot 20 years in the future, but for Phase 4, I think ...

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