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The mail slot in the door of his country estate reads “The Vision”—capital T, capital V, technically capital H-E-I-S-I-O-N, too, but that’s a stylistic choice. It’s the T and the V that matter, the definite article, the dividing line between synthezoid and something distinctly more human.

The Vision (Paul Bettany) is not as he should be, not since the Mind Stone — the Infinity Gem that served as his battery, his consciousness, his intellect — was ripped right out of his head by Thanos himself. That was way back in Avengers: Infinity War, a film that already felt light-years in the…

Gravity gloves on, I approach a dark passage. I can hear alien grunts. The voice on my headset tells me to watch out for “barnacles,” and I know to look up and shoot ceiling-hugging aliens with the gun in my controller-gripping hand. I’m in VR, playing Half-Life Alyx again. It’s a game I once played…

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