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Fortnite: the only game on planet earth where Travis Scott, Ariana Grande, and The Rock can get into a gunfight with Spider-Man, Naruto, and The Master Chief. Although comical, many people still play the game! According to techacake.com the battle royale powerhouse currently has an active player base of over 80 million people.  If you are unfamiliar with Fortnite , it is a free-to-play, battle royale-style game. This means that 100 players are released onto an island via parachute. Once a player lands, their objective is to find a gun (or multiple, you can carry up to five) and fight till only one player or team remains. The game is also unique in that it features a building mechanic that allows players to gather resources, and use them to build cover, and engage in battle.  This week, Fortnite had a huge update bringing its chapter three content to the game. This content features a new map and guns. In this article, I will discuss my opinions regarding these things.  After spending a

  Going into the semester, media writing was a concept that I had been introduced to but had never done. Gaining a grasp on this style of writing was easy in some ways, but hard in others. In this short semester retrospective, I will explain what I learned, and what I think I could have done better/what I am still struggling with. Before this class, writing to me was a process of following steps that I learned when I was in middle school: Make an opening paragraph, a couple of body paragraphs, then conclude. This was pure essay writing, and it was a habit that I had grown comfortable with (honestly, I still do it). I always knew that writing outside of what I thought as correct was possible, but I felt that it might get graded harshly for not following the parameters that had always been drilled into me. I'm not going to say this class was a revelation against that thinking, but it did help me to branch out a little.  When talking about pure, straight-up writing, The thing I