Yeah, I can't really fault them for it. I find it weird and interesting for different reasons but from a business standpoint, like, fuck it, might as well get some extra sales out of it and hope a few stick around next month.

Probably was on some level. Marvel was still crawling out of the hole it dug for itself that had nearly been its grave. Might've figured if they were doing a 9/11 tribute anyway they could juice sales of Amazing. They chased whatever could get them eyeballs at that point because they were desperate.

This rambling shit of mine is very "stupid fan" of me but it's also weirdly kind of fascinating what a weird artifact that issue is. It doesn't even really feel in step with the universes then-current moment despite being in the companies flagship book.

Having it in Amazing gives it that weird "this is happening, it's canon" vibe. Which makes it feel stranger. Actually, shit, I just remembered, I think Magneto's supposed to be considered dead at this point. Pretty sure E is for Extinction had already wrapped and Genosha had been glassed.

I get the grief aspect of it and I can respect that, but I've always been surprised they just dropped it in Amazing Spider-Man randomly. Would've been fine to just do a one shot special or something. I feel like even two years later they would have.

Addressing 9/11 in universe at all was such a bizarre choice. Superheroes in Marvel stop shit like planes all the time, stop buildings from falling. Eighty percent of them live in New York. It immediately begs the question of how the fuck that could have happened at all.

Doom you could make a better case for? He's an evil shithead, but not "genocide people" level. Mostly just wanting to beat the accursed Richards. But tears? Maybe some Latverians were in the tower. Even then it feels off. But propaganda can be like that I guess, and we had a lot of it post 9/11.

By this point Magneto'd already tried to end most life on Earth by fucking with the magnetic poles in one of the last stories Claremont did in the 90's. Shit, when this dropped New X-Men couldn't be more than six months away from him marching humans into concentration camps. Was always weird.

Oh my fucking god, seriously? That makes all the sense in the world while also being its own kind of horrifying. That hellhole that helped spawn all of this ties back to fucking Epstein?

There really isn't a difference anymore, so you're fine.

God. This is all so fucking stupid. I cannot wait to be done with this. It's not happening fast enough for me.

I think there are some things it's actually been used for in medicine? I'm pretty sure AI/LLM's as we understand them now are going to take a dirt nap but the tech will probably still exist in some small way. It just won't be what Silicon Valley wanted it to be. Partly because of what you said.

If you mean there will be some small companies piddling around and its use ends up actually being in the few areas you can do anything worthwhile, yeah probably, but I don't see most of the shit they're trying to force surviving the bubble burst. The data center shit is sure going to collapse.

I can forgive a lot from someone who, when the shit goes down, is out there actively putting themselves in harms way to protect others. People sometimes forget you don't need to want to hang out with someone to think they're decent.