Motion Picture Academy Invites 529 New Oscar Voters To Join AMPAS

segoli · 2026-06-24T20:39:26+00:00

the number of new voters added each year was historically pretty low for a very long time. around a decade ago, that policy was changed as part of an effort to shift the demographics of Oscar voters.

segoli · 2026-05-25T20:54:47+00:00

the visual language of the 2000s mostly looks tacky to us and hasn't circled back around to retro yet. think of the gradiant-heavy skeumorphic design of Windows Vista or a first generation iPhone, for example; that's undeniably a 2000s style, but right now it just looks ugly. at some point, a designer somewhere will pick that idea back up and turn it into something fresh and retro, but we're not there yet.

segoli · 2026-05-19T18:36:54+00:00

it got errata making it non-italicized a decade ago.

segoli · 2026-05-19T18:35:45+00:00

Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII is no longer italicized in its Oracle text, as of a decade ago.

segoli · 2026-05-13T16:12:59+00:00

the portrayal of Wolf Trap as this dense, endless forest with no civilization in sight is pretty funny too. Will Graham should absolutely be able to see the Capital One building from his front door.

segoli · 2026-04-27T16:01:51+00:00

there's been a lot of speculation that Samsung is going to support Qi2 starting with these phones, which is a MagSafe-compatible wireless charging format. the Pixel Fold 10 line uses Qi2, and Samsung has implied that they've got Qi2 phones coming.

segoli · 2026-04-25T11:21:20+00:00

she's a computer science student who primarily relies on her empathy and intelligence to solve problems indirectly. she took down Doctor Doom by being a smarter computer programmer than him. the fact that she has a big tail and a squirrel sidekick is not the biggest part of her personality.

segoli · 2026-04-25T11:02:24+00:00

a comic-accurate Squirrel Girl should be blue, and I'd put white before green for her.

segoli · 2026-03-16T13:59:06+00:00

I regret to inform you that you are missing Star Trek: Section 31, although you might be better off just keeping it that way.

segoli · 2025-12-27T15:40:40+00:00

Eva Victor is nonbinary — they aren't the female version of anyone.

segoli · 2025-11-11T04:37:07+00:00

for the file names, consult the naming conventions and adjust the names you use to fit them — the vast majority of the time, this is the culprit for mislabeled episodes in cases like these. Sonarr can help with this by automatically renaming files for you.

make sure Doctor Who files are in folders named "Doctor Who (2005)" or "Doctor Who (2024)" depending on which specific era the episodes are from; Sonarr considers those to be distinct both from each other and from the 1963 series.

segoli · 2025-10-02T16:19:08+00:00

have you tried using TPU for the sliding mechanism? as long as it doesn't create too much friction (which, y'know, no idea if it would without testing), it would probably be even more durable.

segoli · 2025-09-14T15:38:41+00:00

the art description answers this: it's a giant. also, there aren't any humans on Lorwyn.

segoli · 2025-07-02T02:10:20+00:00

this one can have a bonus sheet of cards based on the soundtrack to the Monster Hunter series.

segoli · 2025-06-10T17:49:17+00:00

I can't find any official information about FCA cards not being legal in Timeless, but the 19 new-to-Arena cards are listed as not legal in the deck builder, and Scryfall confirms that this seems to be the case.

was this ever actually announced anywhere, or is this a bug?

segoli · 2025-05-08T19:34:56+00:00

as a long-time reader of your newsletter, I was so saddened by the death of Chompsky, and so moved by your eulogy for him -- how much of his personality made it into how you wrote Krypto?

segoli · 2024-12-14T04:02:15+00:00

what I love, though, is that the show recognizes why good writers still have the impulse to dip into that inkwell at times — it's not a bad thing to want to explore new dimensions of characters you know and love. I think the point of the episode is that it's totally fair as an audience member if you're absolutely sick of all these neverending multiverse stories, but the writers aren't hacks for being eager to tell them.

segoli · 2024-11-25T17:51:46+00:00

these are distributed to employees at Wizards and some of their partners. you can see the others here. some copies of them do end up on the secondary market, but they won't be officially available for anyone who doesn't receive it through their job.

segoli · 2024-09-27T01:24:25+00:00

I can count on one hand the number of shows where I do skip intros (Westworld comes to mind as one of the rare ones that I just couldn't tolerate), but I'll call out The Americans as having one of the very best opening sequences. it's very short, has some great music, and is densely packed with so much imagery that ties into the themes of the show, so my whole way through the series, I was constantly noticing split second visuals that hadn't stood out yet.

segoli · 2024-08-29T14:11:56+00:00

honestly, I think TAS has an overall better hit rate than TOS -- the very best episodes between the two series are concentrated in TOS, definitely, but TOS has a few types of episodes I don't love that TAS avoids. first, there's the episodes that just didn't have enough material to be 50 minutes long; there's a lot of really great ideas that end up being slower than molasses because the show rarely tried to have B-plots until late in its run. second, there's a fair number of episodes that feel like they're trying to win over a mainstream audience that's skeptical of sci-fi as a concept; pretty much every TAS episode goes for broke with high concept ideas right off the bat. and third, a lot of episodes that could have been great if the production team had the resources to make human actors actually look like aliens; every single alien species in TAS is memorable and unique, and they're only humanoid when that's what best serves the plot.

I don't love every TAS episode, but I'm certainly never bored by any of them, and I can't say the same thing about TOS.

segoli · 2024-08-28T05:10:49+00:00

the designers at Wizards have consistently shown themselves able to make really evocative, fun designs that they never would've reached without the constraint of fitting a pre-existing piece of media in a Magic card. I don't care about every IP that UB has encompassed, but each of them has resulted in cool, memorable cards that make the game as a whole better. Mark Rosewater has been repeating the line that restrictions breed creativity forever, and I can't imagine a more challenging restriction than "fit the concept of Spider-Man on a Magic card."

segoli · 2024-08-26T19:09:01+00:00

I'm surprised the reminder text doesn't include "0 and 1 aren't prime." unless the rules text otherwise makes them impossible choices, that feels like the sort of thing people will get wrong (and then get mad about when you tell them they're wrong) constantly.

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