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1. Moving Hardware Goalposts If you’ve ever built a gaming PC, you know the process: You spend weeks poring over benchmarks, planning the build, and buying the parts. After everything arrives, you put it all together, fire it up, and hope everything actually works. After installing Windows, you install a few of your favorite games—or maybe buy new ones. It screams! This is the fastest computer you’ve ever had. It’s the perfect gaming machine....

1. Redundant Storylines Is it just me, or do superhero movies all have the same plot? The story always unfolds like this: a normal human gains superpowers from radioactive material, a spider, an alien object, or by building high-tech machinery, and then struggles to get accustomed to their power. This goes on for about a quarter of the movie. A villain soon gets introduced, and this newfound hero has the job of saving the planet from mass destruction....

What Does FPS Mean? FPS stands forframes per second. What does that actually mean? Think about a picture flip book. You probably played with them as a child. Each page of that book is an image—or you could call it a frame. The faster you flip through, the smoother the motion. The slower you go, the more obvious it is that you’re just looking at a series of images. At a basic level, that’s what film is....

1. Episode Volume The simple truth is that TV shows in the 90s hadso many more episodesper season than we see now with modern TV shows. Whether dramas or comedies, TV shows in the 90s often stuck to 24 episodes per season because broadcast television literally had seasons—shows often started in Fall, took a break in Winter, and finished up in Spring, just in time for Nielsen’s May sweeps. Today, streaming culture has overtaken the “appointment viewing” of broadcast television and episode counts have dwindled....

1. It’s Not Your Typical Superhero Show I’m that person who groans every time a new superhero movie or show is released. When I heard aboutMy Hero Academia, I didn’t even want to lay eyes on it. If you’re tired of the superhero trope, you should know thatMy Hero Academiadoesn’t fall into that redundant category of shows and movies. In theMy Hero Academiauniverse, some people are born with superpowers called “Quirks....