The Bi-weekly Gamer: Rebooting esports

Change is inevitable; when you are the biggest esport in the world, change can mean the difference between bankruptcy and fortune. Riot Games recently released a new set of changes for their professional League of Legends players. Centred on fandom, economics, and stability, Riot hopes to apply these changes (and more) to all 13 leagues […]

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The Bi-weekly Gamer: Smeb best player in world

When I originally wrote this, I planned on doing a ranking of the top five players at League of Legends World Championships. As I was writing, it hit me: I would run out of room just trying to talk about how awesome Song “Smeb” Kyung-ho is. The 21-year-old top laner is the best player in […]

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Lit Matters: Going gonzo with Hunter S. Thompson

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me,” Hunter S. Thompson, the father of gonzo journalism, once said. Thompson first gained notoriety as the writer of Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, a book he researched by spending a year […]

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Calculated Thought: Student tax changes afoot

Students who are inclined to save will feel the crunch from recent changes to federal student benefits. The education and textbook tax credits save working students up to $558 per year. Analysts argue that this doesn’t help students who may not be able to afford the up-front costs of post-secondary education (you have to wait […]

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To See or Not to See: The World’s End wide awake and wonderful

The World’s End (2013) 4/5 Edgar Wright has made a name for himself by making razor-sharp, tightly wound comedies that do what most comedies of late don’t do: make us laugh. (And, at the risk of being branded an old fogey, I’ll say that Wright achieves this in a much cleaner, more civilized manner than […]

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Lit Matters: The golden touch of Annabel Lyon

When she received news that her novel The Golden Mean was nominated for the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction award, Annabel Lyon was delighted. The award is given for “redundant or egregious sex scenes in a novel that’s otherwise quite good,” and both Lyon’s reaction and her inclusion on what is actually a prestigious […]

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To See or Not to See: Fantastic Mr. Fox fundamental fall film

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) 4.5/5 Fall is upon us, and while we wait for the tail-end summer movie dregs to drain out of the theatres, we turn to a film that is surely the embodiment of fall, a film that has the warmth of a home and the beauty of the pastel-autumn landscape: Fantastic Mr. […]

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The Bi-weekly Gamer: Climbing out of the bloodbath

2016 is a milestone year for professional North American League of Legends teams. With the world championships just around the corner, the 16 teams qualified to attend this prestigious tournament have been locked into their groups’ brackets. All three of the North American teams this year show tremendous skill and improvement compared to previous years, […]

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Lit Matters: Existentialism in the woods with Per Petterson

“You decide when it will hurt,” chides a father to his son in Per Petterson’s novel Out Stealing Horses. The novel, set in the Norwegian forest in both the present day and in 1948, is a tender look at human relationships and the forces that determine how we, as individuals, are defined. Petterson has become […]

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