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News & Features January 8, 2020

Air Pollution in India Reaches Critical Levels

Pollution in India has always been a major issue. The country is the number one most polluted country in the world and this is in large part to its enormous population, over one billion people live there. The city of New Delhi has been shut down and schools have closed.The city has a scale for pollution going from moderate to poor, where the city bans burning trash and trucks registered before 2005 are not allowed to enter, very poor, where anyone with respiratory issues are warned not to leave their homes, severe, where coal power plants are shut down, and emergency, where schools are shut down, construction is stopped, only odd license plate cars are allowed on even days and the same for odds. The Yamuna River, used for Indian religious ceremonies, is one of the most polluted rivers in the world. Right now it is knee high in toxic…

News & Features December 4, 2019

A Goose by Any Other Name

In Untitled Goose Game you play as a horrible goose who ruins the lives of everyone in this peaceful town, all to get a bell. The goal of the game is to cause as much mischief as possible using only your ability to grab things and the dedicated honk button. The crimes range from minor theft to assault with intent to kill. You have to control the snakelike neck of the goose to steal a variety of items and use them to wreak havoc on the innocent populus. My favorite section is where you rampage through a miniature city like an enormous Goosezilla, and topple buildings. Every time you complete a section it opens up the next area and a shortcut to the previous area as in some situations you have to journey to previous sections to gather weapons in your war against humanity, or have a picnic. After this…

News & Features November 13, 2019

Pokemon Sword and Shield

“Pokemon Sword & Shield” is the next game in the Pokemon franchise the game will be released on November 15 of this year. It is the second Pokémon game on the Nintendo Switch, but the first new game, because “Pokemon Lets Go,” “Pikachu,” and “Let’s Go Eevee” don’t count as new games since they are remakes. Sword and Shield take place in the Galar region, which is a recreation of Great Britain. It has all new Pokemon and some new forms of fan favorite Pokemon like Weezing, Linoone, and Farfetched. Galarian Weezing is grey with a green smoky moustache and a top hat like thing on his head which spews green smoke. Linoone is now black and white and has a new evolution, Obstagoon, who is a normal dark type with reckless. Farfetched gets a new evolution in Sirfetched who is a lancer exclusive to Pokemon Sword and Shield. The…

News & Features June 3, 2019

Tolkein Movie Shows Horrors of War

The Tolkien movie is based on of the life of the great author J.R.R Tolkien and his experiences that led him to write the Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit. It is a mix of real life and fantasy. It describes his formative years leading up to his involvement in World War One. He died in 1973, coincidentally the same year as Pablo Picasso. It describes his friendship with C.S Lewis, the author of The Chronicles Of Narnia. It also shows his experience at war and it blends fantasy elements into the real world battles, like dragons bellowing fire, knights in armor, and orcs. This movie gives a new deep understanding of his life as a whole. J.R.R Tolkien said that he gained the inspiration for his books from going to war in World War One and the horrors that accompanied it. I am hoping to watch this movie…

News & Features May 22, 2019

The Unlikely Spy

Animals have been used in the business of war for centuries, with obvious examples like horse riding and trained search and rescue dogs. But there are some not so obvious examples, like military marine animals. We will do a deep dive into weaponized animals in this article. Dolphins, lionfish, and seals have all been used in various military purposes. Dolphins, the most obvious example, have been used as underwater mine detectors, frogmen (underwater divers) attackers, and explosives carriers. Seals have been used for the same purposes. Lionfish were attempted to be trained to seek out German U Boats, but the problem was they just chased fish and meandered about. Weapon carrying dolphins have been a hit with the Soviet Union and Russia, as they would strap explosives to dolphins and train them to hunt boats, except they used their own boats for the training, leading to the dolphins tracking down…

News & Features April 10, 2019

All About Brawl Stars

Brawl Stars is the newest Supercell game and is quite different from all the games that came before it. It is a multiplayer mobile game that was in beta release in countries like Canada for the past two years and during winter break it was released globally. The game consists of 24 brawlers and 5 modes and a multitude of special events (which take tickets to play), Showdown, Bounty, Heist, Gem Grab, Big Game, Boss Battle, Robo Rumble, and Siege. The Brawlers are: Trophy brawlers, earned by gaining trophies: Shelly, Nita, Colt, Bull, Jessie, Brock, Dynamike, Bo Super Rares: Rico, Penny, Darryl, and Karl Epics: Frank, Piper, and Pam, the mythics, Tara, Mortis, and Gene Legendaries: Crow, Spike, and Leon All of these brawlers and all of these gamemodes make for fluid fast paced gameplay that has attracted 10 million players worldwide. The infinite possible permutations of the game has lead…

News & Features March 6, 2019

Curling: What Is it, Exactly?

Let me regale you with a tale of a most noble of sports; Curling. It is similar to Bocce, which I’m now realizing probably isn’t the best comparison to make because Bocce is an equally obscure sport, if not more so. So, some basics. Curling is a Winter Olympic sport, and is most commonly played in Canada. The rules of Curling are as follows: two teams, each with four players, who take turns throwing granite rocks down the curling sheet (a rectangular sheet of ice) towards the target. Points are scored by having your rock closer to the center, with teams trying to get as many in a row and closest as possible. Each team has eight rocks which they throw in turns. At the end of each round the points are counted each game consists of 8-10 rounds. Curling’s unique style of movement, sweeping, allows for different patterns and…

News & Features, Opinions, Television February 6, 2019

Opinion: 8K TV’s High-Def Scam

When I first heard about 8k TV I was like, cool! Yay! Then I thought, how can the tech industry keep increasing the amount the amount of pixels if the human eye has a set limit? They can’t. 8K–what does it mean? The k in 8k is 1000. That is the amount of pixels on the width of the TV. Increasing that means either increasing the size of your tv or decreasing the size of each pixel. The human eye can’t see that much without moving closer and closer so, 8k TV is a huge scam. It is not worth your money to buy something that has almost no difference unless your screen is enormous or your nose is pressed against it. 4k TV is the max, so spending money on this is just silly. 8k TV actually has no content yet and is still unavailable to the large part…

News & Features January 23, 2019

Pokemon Let’s Go Info

Pokemon Let’s Go has changed Pokemon in many ways. It makes it so the player can’t fight wild Pokemon, and that might sound like a bad thing, but it makes the game quicker more efficient and easier. It also changes the process of catching Pokemon and shiny hunting. Now that the player can see Pokemon while walking through the routes, it is possible to actually catch ’em all. Some pokemon are version-exclusive (for either Pokemon Let’s Go: Pikachu or Pokemon Let’s Go: Eevee) so here is a guide. P = Pikachu, E = Eevee Growlithe (P), Arcanine (P), Vulpix (E), Ninetails (E), Oddish (P), Gloom (P), Vileplume (P), Bellsprout (E), Weepinbell (E), Victreebel (E), Sandshrew (P), Sandslash (P), Meowth (E), Persian (E), Electabuzz (P), Magmar (E), Grimer (P), Muk (P), Koffing (E), Weezing (E), Mankey (P), Primeape (P), Ekans (E), Arbok (E), Scyther (P), Pinsir (E). Shiny hunting has changed…

News & Features December 4, 2018

Game Preview: Fallout 76

Fallout 76 will be Bethesda Games’ first online game. Players may play individually or with a party of up to three others. Elements of previous Fallout games will be present and modified to work with the real-time game. The V.A.T.S. system—a mechanic first introduced in Fallout 3 that allows players to pause the game to target specific locations on an enemy’s body to attack—will be used in Fallout 76 as a real-time system, though it will still allow players to specify targets on an enemy’s body. All the servers for the game will be dedicated, with the player automatically allocated to one of them.While the game is expected to launch with public servers only, game director Todd Howard revealed plans for private servers to be introduced some time after the game’s launch. Howard described the delay as being necessary to allow Bethesda time to assure the stability of public servers….

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