The Elephant

A US senator has recently proposed a bill that would force video games that are rated for minors to play to remove their loot boxes. The issue of loot crates has been a major issue in the past few years. It hasn’t just been a nusense for gamers, they have also cost parents. When parents allow their children to play games such as Candy Crush, their children will most likely get hooked on it. On games such as Candy Crush, the levels get harder and harder as you go along. When you progress, you can decide to buy your way to pass levels you don’t want to do. So, when the parents’ phone bill is connected to the phone, the kids can buy their way through as many levels as they want to. This has left hundereds and even thousands of dollars on parents’ phone bills due to their kids buying microtransactions.

If passed, the bill would only allow for their to be in game purchases in games which are rated 18 plus. This might stop some of the extreme money spending, however, it wouldn’t stop kids from hijacking their parents’ phone bill. Overall, I think that this will only be a win for the average video game players who don’t have all the money in the world to play a game, that they all ready payed for, where they have to buy their way to the top.

Dear upcoming sophomores,

I have lots of important advice that will most likely make your school year much better.

1)Don’t join BCA. Unless you completely focus on academic things in school, you will not enjoy BCA. The teachers think that you have all of the time in the world, so they will lather you up with homework.

2)Always ask your teachers when assignments are due and tests will be held. Teachers are terrible at planning ahead. They never set dates in stone. So, you need to have a general idea of when things are due so that you can be successful.

3)Don’t waste your money on a locker. To rent a locker for a year it costs 5 dollars. It is cheap, but you can just store most of your textbooks at home. You don’t need most of your textbooks on a daily basis.

4)Do not eat the school lunch. Personally, I bring my own lunch every day. However, one day, I forgot it, so I went and got a school lunch that day. As I ate it, it was very bland. In addition, the mashed potatoes were very sloppy and liquidy.

5) Last but not least, keep your head up. Throughout the year, write down your problems with your classes. Take that into account when choosing your classes for the next school year. For example, if you had a problem with excessive homework in your BCA or AP math class, next year, take an easier class.

 

Fly fly, so you don’t die

Oh my oh my

how sly you are

oh Mr. Fly

 

You try to flee

to try to live

but you are a fly

that i need to get rid

 

by a swat

by a whack

you are no more

in my shack

• Step 1: Put box of spaghetti noodles and sauce on table.
• Step 2: Get pot and put it on stove
• Step 3: Fill the pot with water
• Step 4: Set the stove on high
• Step 5: Wait until the water boils
• Step 6: Put the noodles into the boiling water
• Step 7: Wait until the noodles are almost mooshie
• Step 8: Drain the water out of the pot
• Step 9: Open the container of pasta sauce
• Step 10: Pour the sauce into the pot
• Step 11: Mix the pasta sauce and noodles together
• Step 12: You can enjoy

It’s course and smooth
Creamy and brown
The savory paste sticks to your teeth
All of the protein…and fat
It’s all mushed together into something unimaginable
You can put it on bread,
you can put it on crackers,
you can put it on a spoon,
you even eat it with your fingers
Oh peanut butter,
How I love you

As you probably know, Avengers Endgame is coming out next month. Since this is the last Avengers movie to be released and Thanos still on the run, many theories have been circulating the media ever since Infinity War was released. Now, I have a theory of how the Avengers might beat Thanos and take care of the infinity stones. Now, I want to point out that I am not at all talking about the Ant-Man theory! I believe that each of the stones represent each of the core chaacters. I believe that: the power stone represents Hulk, the time stone represents Captain America, the mind stone Iron Man, the reality stone Thor, the space stone Lokey, and the soul stone Hawkeye. I speculate that each of the characters will have to sacrifice themselves to destroy the very stones that represent each other in order to fix everything. This seems like a sad ending to a movie saga, but it is the last Avengers movie, and the main characters do have to die some day.

Lately Netflix has been cancelling many of the Marvel TV shows. Now, all of the Marvel shows have been cancelled the except agents of shield show. Marvel’s The Punisher was only able to get up to 2 seasons, and the second season was not great. However, there is speculation that Disney’s streaming service would bring some of these shows back since Disney owns Marvel. Now, if that doesn’t happen, then I would be greatly disappointed. The Punisher is one of my favorite fictional characters other than Venom. Honestly, I will probably just re-watch season 1 and read all of the Punisher comics. So in conclusion, this is a very disappointing event to happen,but I can still enjoy the awesome action and justice that comes from The Punisher.

Alright, first off we have to talk about Bo Peep. First of all, she looks nothing like she did in the first movie. I know that the graphics have got better over time, however, they have completely transformed her appearance. I mean look at thebefore and after!

What happened to her pink theme and her dress? They have completely turned her into a feminist, girl power, social justice warrior! What the flying falcon! I know that you might say “don’t judge a book by its cover” ,but her appearance does represent many other girl power characters from other movies. And I bet you $100 dollars that there will be some social justice comment by her within the first 5 minutes that she is introduced. Jeeze, c’mon Disney. I mean you ruined Wralph Breaks the Internet with those flaming feminist princesses in the Disney Website room.

I just really hope that Bo Peep still has a thing for Woody and isn’t some lesbian. Oh gosh.

Well, at least we have the Marvel movies to look forward to.

P.S- If I am wrong about this whole thing, then there would be one more good story line Disney hasn’t corrupted.