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Allison Kelly Staff Writer

Growing up in a generation in which tv is very influential, different tv shows that we grew up on are some of our greatest pastimes. A lot of us who grew up in the 90’s understand the meaning of a truly good childhood show. It was shows such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Saved by the Bell, Friends, Boy Meets World, and last but not least, Full House that kept us entertained after school during these years. In my opinion, tv shows have really fallen off since then, but this year the “good ole’ days” were attempted to be reinvented.

Full House was an American sitcom created by Jeff Franklin for ABC. It followed the life of a widowed man, Danny Tanner, and his attempt at raising his 3 daughters, DJ, Stephanie, and Michelle, with the help of his brother-in-law, Jesse Katsopolis, and best friend, Joey Gladstone in their big home in San Francisco. It aired from September 22, 1987, to May 23, 1995, ending with a total of eight seasons and 192 episodes. Even if you weren’t a 90’s child, this show was so good that it lived on to the next generation through its repeat episodes that still air. But, showing the same episodes over and over again just wasn’t enough and with the decrease in tv watchers who have replaced cable boxes with Netflix accounts, finally rumors of a remake of the show, Fuller House, would soon be released as a Netflix original series.

Fuller House is an American family sitcom and sequel to the 1987–95 television series Full House, airing as a Netflix original series. It was created and produced by Jeff Franklin. This time around, the show centers around the eldest daughter, newly widowed DJ Tanner, as she attempts to raise her three sons with the help of her sister Stephanie and her childhood best friend, Kimmy Gibbler. It starts out as a reunion for the family as they all said their goodbyes to their childhood home, until they realized it was a lot harder to let go of it than they thought.

Overall, the idea of the remake was very exciting and it allowed a lot of us to take ourselves back to our childhood, but other than that, the show didn’t have that much to offer to anyone except the original series’ most diehard fans. I must say they overdid it with reusing the most famous lines from the original series and every time they were thrown into the script it seemed a little forced, such as when Stephanie would say “how rude” or Jesse saying “have mercy”. At times, the references to the original series were overdone and cheesy. It was nice to see all of the actual, original cast back to do the remake, well everyone except for the Olsen twins who played the youngest daughter Michelle. There actually was a funny reference to their absence at the beginning of the episode that the whole family took part in. Other than that, the series is a cute way for people to reminisce, but it attracts little engagement to any new viewers of the show that have no association with the original.

Aidan W.

Staff Writer

 

Explained simply, Magic: The Gathering is a trading card game in which you play with a deck of 60 cards, and try to kill your opponent. While it is not a game for everyone, I have been playing for a long time, and have recently started to play competitively. For the those who do not play, this article will hopefully give you an understanding of the appeal of the game. For those of you who already play, you may find my descriptions useful.

I’ve been playing Magic for almost seven years, and in that time, I’ve seen a lot of nasty competitive decks move through the formats. However, I’ve never seen the modern format as warped as it currently is.

As an almost exclusively modern player, I’ve played a fair number of decks, and played against many more. Many do not love modern as much as I do, but it is still a fun, relatively accessible format for competitive play. This is why I hate to see the modern format demolished by the Eldrazi archetype.

The Eldrazi deck started out as a super-budget brew. Using the underrated Eldrazi lands (Eye of Ugin, and Eldrazi Temple), the deck was able to cast cards like Blight Herder and Oblivion Sower early in the game, in order to ramp into Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger. The only cards whose price was of note being Inquisition of Kozilek, and Ulamog. It was a very cheap, very efficient way to play the game, costing only around $150, with the average price for the format being somewhere between $500-$1,000, sometimes even reaching prices upward of $2,000. Then, it began to take off. Prices were in flux as the deck spiked in popularity, and it single-handedly pushed many decks out of the format, seeing as it had built-in graveyard hate.

However, no one could have been prepared for the Pro Tour, the largest MTG professional tournament, held annually around the world. After the release of the new set, Oath of the Gatewatch, the deck exploded in its power level. With new cards like Eldrazi Mimic, Reality Smasher, and Thought-Knot Seer, the deck took off, and made not just a dent, but put a hole in the format. The deck was obscenely fast, and hit very hard, and, as a result, many other decks became unplayable, as they could not win against Eldrazi. Many people who invested time, energy, and money into their cards suddenly had no way to win the game.

So, what is the solution? Many are calling for the banning of either Eldrazi Temple or Eye of Ugin. Some call for both. Some call for other cards to be unbanned. Ultimately, we won’t know for a while, but, until Wizards of the Coast does something, we are stuck dealing with this borderline-unplayable game.

Vilma Martinez

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“First Depression now Derealization girl please”

“omg, talk too much, nothing new, here anymore, whatever else are u gonna do on u r channel, it is ALL BEEN DONE , REGURGITATED, CHEWED ON,OVER AND OVER , AND  OVER.  STOP BEING A PARASITE,  BECOME SOMEWHAT USEFUL IN THIS SOCIETY., LEARN SOMETHING, GET EDUCATION.REAL JOB.JOB.”

 

Women and teenage girls alike have always had a reputation for  hating one another. However, this phenomenon has been especially prominent online, on almost all social media platforms.

 

In an effort to combat this trend, vloggers such as Jaclyn Hill a beauty vlogger who posts many makeup tutorials and Lilly Singh a comedian who enjoys doing beauty every once in awhile, have addressed this fact.

 

In a video posted on December 20th, 2015 Jaclyn Hill addressing recent comments in which girls have been name calling one another and attacking each other’s personal lives. Not only that, but she also addresses hate she has received, not your “typical hate”, but hate that has gone from “your ugly” to people attacking her family and her own mental stability.

 

“I feel like a lot of people forget that I have blood in my veins, I cry when I’m sad, I bleed when I get cut”.

 

Many people would go as far as to say that she is begging for attention, “pinche chillona RIDICULA” said a girl in the video, this translates to “freaking cry baby”, but then she goes ahead to say “I am in no way wanting anyone to feel sorry for me because I live a very blessed life and I am very happy to do everything that I do on youtube off youtube I love my life I do I am very appreciative for it so I’m not asking anyone to feel sorry for me”.

 

It is a shame that women have to address things like this in order for them to understand that people are not asking for pity or attention. Instead she makes the video about everyone watching, “But this is not about me necessarily this about everything and everyone going on recently, I know I can’t change the world, I know I can’t bring world peace, I know I’m not God…but I just want so badly to try to encourage you guys to just find happiness and put your energy towards the greater good and I know that is so much easier said than done”.  

 

She has so far had to disable the comment section on 2 of her videos due to the amount of girl on girl hate going on and most of the hate does not even include the content of the video, but women just hating one another.

 

Lilly Singh also created a video addressing the issue. “This is my Youtube channel. It has over 7.4 million subscribers, of which 84% are female, which means that over 6 million girls around the planet regularly watch my videos…This holiday season I decided to use that reach to speak up against an issue I’d love to see go away and that is girl on girl hate. So I decided to ask for some help from my girlfriends”. From there the girls in the video go on to point out things to love about one another. They also talk about things to love about being a woman and being around other women.

 

“I think women are strong, beautiful, empowered goddesses” says Shay Mitchell, a woman involved in the video.

 

Has YouTube made this kind of hatred worse? After all, back in the day there was no such thing as anonymous commenting. If a girl had something nasty to say about another girl, she couldn’t do it to her face and hide her own identity. In my opinion Youtube has become a nasty place where people are open to say the worst things to other people. The hatred has not gotten worse, I believe people have always been like that, Youtube just allows people to put their hatred out there.

 

I talked with Amanda Bolli, a close friend who understands what girls are capable of and here is what she had to says towards the matter.

 

“I feel disgusted by all the negativity that these girls are giving everyone. My mom always told me if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say it at all and walk away. I think it is a good thing that they are creating these videos because it shows the viewers that say the negative things that they are there reading each comment. I think if everyone not only in the beauty world heard about girlongirl then it would stop. I still feel disgusted that girls are doing this to other girls. If you don’t like it then watch someone else or do something else because it isn’t about you. It’s about the broadcaster and how they feel. Don’t say something you will regret when they are getting better at what they want to do, while you’re sitting on your phone or iPad or laptop hating because you don’t have that. Instead of hating on that maybe you should actually try it. It’s not as easy as it looks”

 

As for my opinion, it is the same as many of the other ladies that have addressed the issue. I not only wanted to show people the impact it has on other people, but the opinions of others also. This is an issue where many are affected and it good to have the opinion of those who are involved in the situations. Girl on Girl hate can be stopped, trust and believe that there will be women putting one another down, but we can prevent from going farther than what it already has. It takes a bigger community to do it.