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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • No new US voice actor, the show has just been on for 37+ years so the actresses voice has changed.

    It is noticeable in the more recent seasons, although I think in the last few episodes either she’s figured out a way to make her voice sound better or they’ve figured out how to tweak it.












  • The whole Multiverse saga has been bungled.

    This scene was great at setting the stakes, the most powerful thing from the last saga are now paperweights. That was a great scene. Loki knew how powerful these stones were, he used one of them,m but now they are nothing. If I recall correctly this was after he tried to use his own magic. So it was confirmation that whatever this realm was, it didn’t just work on him, it worked on the most powerful thing he could have imagined.

    And then of course you look at the rest of that show. It set up a great villain. The only person who was actually in control of this crazy world Loki found himself in. He acts and behaves exactly as someone who knows everything would. He taunts, he has fun, and he ultimately gives Loki a reasonable choice. Chaos, which could unravel all of time, or order, which means some must sacrifice.

    And a choice is made. By… Loki? Other Loki. Different Loki. The same Loki?

    That was a hell of a setup.

    And then Ant-Man kills Kang.

    (And the Kang actor is arrested [and eventually convicted] for assault.)

    The Multiverse saga was already having a tough time, but to lose your villain… That’s rough from a story perspective.

    The other thing, going back to the Infinity Stones themselves is that you needed to nerf them somehow. We do get a Multiverse Infinity Stones story in What If…? with Ultron. So that story is also told.

    No one is going to complain when the Infinity Stones don’t show up in Doomsday or Secret Wars. But if they do we can point to Loki to point out how they don’t always work in whatever magical thing we end up seeing, or point to how they already told the Multiverse stone story.




  • So Cohn did mention comprehensive privacy laws and the ability to leave platforms. These are absolutely things that need to happen.

    However as an individual there are still things you can do. Cohn mentions Bluesky because it has no algorithm (except the “Discovery” feed). Cohn also mentions (in the video) Mastodon. And the truth is you don’t need to switch fully, just don’t only slurp down the concentrated hate machine(s).

    Look at Lemmy. Reddit decided to be pricks and a bunch of individuals jumped over here to create what I think is a pretty good community. That doesn’t mean the problem is solved. That doesn’t mean Reddit isn’t still a problem. That doesn’t mean Lemmy is perfect. But that is a win and something individuals can do.

    Additionally, those are things you can do now. You don’t need to wait for some law to be passed to fix things. You can make the move now. (While still advocating for laws to fix things.)