BY ETHAN SEMLER
STAFF WRITER
Remember those shoes that had wheels in them from awhile back? What were they called again? Wheelys? Wheel shoes? Zoomers? The answer is heelys!
Heely’s Unexpected Beginnings
Terrible Writing Tips
BY ALICE FONTANESI
STAFF WRITER
TERRIBLE WRITING TIPS
Just like with everything, there are bad writing tips that exist… for some reason. Welcome to another session of me writing about writing at two in the morning. Here are a few bad tips for writing I’ve heard of.
The Gardener: Part 2
BY ALICE FONTANESI
STAFF WRITER
WARNING: This story contains some graphic content in further chapters
Phasmophobia: A Review
BY LOGAN SCHLOSSER
STAFF WRITER
Hello to all of you wonderful people sitting in your homes! Welcome back to another installment of “Logan reviews games, haha get it he’s still funny.” Anyways, it’s certainly been a few weeks since I’ve written anything. So I hope you all have been doing well over my hiatus! To get right into it, I will be reviewing a type of game that I never have before. Today I will be going into the genre of horror, and this particular horror game has an added twist. It’s a virtual reality immersed horror game where multiplayer is heavily encouraged. The game in question is, of course, Phasmophobia. Now with the introduction out of the way, let’s get right into the game!
The Ratchelor
BY XUYING LEE
STAFF WRITER
Overview
The Ratchelor is an online game parody of The Bachelor, in which there are rounds where you meet with an array of different contestants who are rats. In the game, you get to choose a character who you will play from four different rats. After, you will choose seven rats out of twenty-one to be the contestants. Each of the rats has a little picture and small bio, so you can get a sense of their personality. The game is drawn in a cute artistic squiggly style and is very pleasing to the eye. There are four rounds total. In each round, you get a scene where you can talk to the contestants. Afterwards, there is an elimination until you get to the end. Once you’ve chosen the final mouse, you get a sweet epilogue for each of the rats that didn’t make it. It is free on Google and was made by Algorat, which also has other Rat-related games.
Spelunky 2: A Review
BY LOGAN SCHLOSSER
STAFF WRITER
Hello to all of you lovely people at home! Welcome back to your regularly scheduled programming. I know I basically spent my entire last article talking about hedge funds and all of that jazz, but we are back to the usual. And boy, I got a pretty cool article for you prepared today! My excitement for this article comes from the fact that I’ve actually been playing this game’s predecessor for the past decade. So when the new installment of the series was released, I was hyped! It does indeed own up to its past title; it has everything that you could possibly hope for: from the time you died to a thing you couldn’t control, to more times that you die to unforeseen consequences. Now, without further ado, the game I will be talking about is… Spelunky 2!
Bungou Stray Dogs: A Review
BY ALICE FONTANESI
STAFF WRITER
WARNING: THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS TO THE BUNGO STRAY DOGS ANIME
Hi, and yes, I am doing another anime review because that’s all I know how to do. This time, I’m going to talk about Bungou Stray Dogs. With the fourth season coming in 2022, there’s much to enjoy about the current three seasons and one movie that’s available. Or you could read the manga, but today we’re talking about mostly the anime adaptation.The manga was written by Kafka Asagiri and illustrated by Sango Harukawa. It was officially serialized in Kadokawa Shoten’s seinen manga magazine, Young Ace, in 2012 and adapted by Bones.
Reventure: A Review
BY LOGAN SCHLOSSER
STAFF WRITER
Hello to all of you lovely people once again! As you can see, we are back to our regularly scheduled programming. Now I can finally get back to writing sleep-deprived game reviews. Anyways, once again, today I have a wonderful game I can’t wait to share with you all! Now, I may not be able to write about as much for this game. This is because it is so much better to simply go in blind. This game is simply one of my favorite games just because of the humor that seems to never get boring. The game that has won this very special spot in my heart is the game Reventure. With that out of the way, let’s get into it!
Animal Pen: How Chameleons Change Color
BY KAIA KARPE
STAFF WRITER
Chameleons can change color for multiple purposes: to intimidate predators, camouflage themselves, find mates, and possibly change their temperature. Their skin cells have microscopic crystals that are clumped together and are called photonic crystals. To change colors, they squeeze their photonic crystals, “causing different wavelengths of light to be reflected…meanwhile, the normal skin cells can expand or shrink to fill in any gaps” (Arnold). Most have thought that blue chameleons would have a blue pigment in their skin, but that is incorrect.
The Gardener – Part 2
BY ALICE FONTANESI
STAFF WRITER
WARNING: This story contains some graphic content in further chapters.