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Women and Gaming

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  Introduction: When it comes to the marketing, reception, and overall use of video games, most of it ends up leaning towards a masculine audience. That is not always the case, as more feminine players continue to stack up on how many people play video games in our modern day. Although things are starting to market to an equal population, there is still backlash and controversies focusing towards female players and shows why mistreatment and harassment towards women is still a problem in the video game industry today. Growing numbers  Studies show that of the video game market today,  46% of its makeup involves women.  The percentage of it is slowly increasing, as 15 years ago the percent was at 38%. A big reason to show this recent boom of female players is the rise of mobile gaming. With a lot of the population in modern times owning a phone or mobile device, many women (including older women) are starting to access more free and simple games on app store or even F...

Remakes and Reboots in the Film and TV Industry

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  Introduction: Every now and then, we would sometimes see a movie or TV show being remade for the modern age. Nowadays, it seems like every month a new reboot is announced or released. The abundance of this can be shown as being oversaturated and unoriginal. Some people can either view a reboot as being worse than the original or being very different from original source. Each reboot and remake are treated in a different way, as each one has both good and bad aspects as to why it would be necessary to make one in the first place.  Films/shows given a second chance for a modern age Some of the content that is rebooted/remade are ones that concluded years ago, but are brought back as either a continuation or are started back at the beginning. I think a big example of this movie wise is "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"  as that continued the story of the original films and continued to keep the franchise alive with Disney having the rights. TV shows also do reboots/remakes wi...

3 Positives and Negatives of Streaming Services

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  Introduction: I think all of us are familiar with using streaming services or use them constantly to watch our favorite tv shows and movies. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Paramount+, Disney+, and several others continue to come into the public eye and are taking over how we watch our content. Whether on a computer, phone, tablet, or smart tv, there is always a way people can access whatever streaming service they want. There are endless amounts of shows, movies, and specials that are found at these places, and can be user friendly with recommendations based on what you watch, customization on setting for different users, and creating watchlists in case you can't find something again. Although all of this makes it seem that streaming services are the best thing ever, there are a mix of both ups and downs when it comes to streaming services with how they are changing the way we consume media but also becomes a problem with specific issues.   Positives: Both old and new...