The People vs. Nintendo: How a Nintendo C&D is sparking a revolution in the Smash Bros. community The weekend of November 21 was eagerly anticipated by members of the competitive Super Smash Bros. Melee community, with players, commentators and spectators primed and ready to celebrate the 19th anniversary of their…

Linney Osias stands out and proud Linney Osias — boasting a crown of rainbow-hued beads and silver rings on every other finger, with a baggy t-shirt and beaming smile — has always been one to stand out from the crowd. Born in Miami Gardens, Florida to Haitian immigrants as the…

Shenmue II Retrospective: Sega’s Swan Song By 1999, the Sega which had dominated the video game console market of the early ‘90s was unrecognizable. Many poor financial and creative decisions, as well as the emergence of Sony’s PlayStation as a popular new competitor, reduced the former titan to little more…

The competitive scene for Super Smash Bros. Melee, the second game in the popular series produced by Nintendo, has remained one of the most popular fighting games in the current eSports landscape despite being nearly two decades old. However, if the dedicated community behind the game hopes to keep it…

Mere weeks shy of one year after the worldwide release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch, over 50 passionate competitors from FSU, FAMU and TCC alike flocked with anticipation to the Askew Student Life Center to participate in the semester’s final installment of Thursday Throwdown, a biweekly…

Here’s a little op-ed I wrote for the Tampa Bay Times last year. They cut out over half of it but we cool. — Florida’s recent school safety legislation requires that schools have at least one campus police officer or armed school employee by the 2018–2019 school year. Before rushing to comply with the legislation’s mandate, local school officials should examine the history of police in schools to understand how a mass hiring of…

The white moderate of the 1960s took the form of one Albert Boutwell. Seen by many whites and even described by Dr. King as a “much more gentle person” (para. 12) than his political opponent Bull Connor, it would seem that Boutwell would be the much better alternative to Connor’s…

In James Baldwin’s 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk, narrator Tish Rivers and her fiancé Fonny Hunt spend much of the story separated by the glass of his New York City jail cell, one which he finds himself in due to a misidentified charge of rape brought on by…

Throughout much of the 2010s, the rap game has been dominated by Nicki Minaj, having used her fast flows and raunchy rhymes to shoot up the charts and into hearts. Minaj’s status as a self-proclaimed “Queen” has made her a symbol of feminine dominance within the hip-hop community, even having…