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The McCloskey Post<br />
WINTER <strong>2018</strong><br />
THE BEST SCHOOL NEWSPAPER AROUND<br />
Staff:<br />
Zach Goddard<br />
Jordan Hughes<br />
Sophia Mone<br />
Madison Quinn<br />
Adam Pratt<br />
Ryan Robertson<br />
Sarah Snyder<br />
Caileen Wilson<br />
Roblox: Game of the Year<br />
By Adam Pratt<br />
Although it has its roots way back in 2006, the best selling game,<br />
Roblox, is probably one of, if not the best, modern game on the market.<br />
With over 4.3 million copies sold and counting, it’s the best selling game of<br />
all time. With super-fun microtransactions, the game is also the most<br />
profitable--over $700,000 in sales! Roblox’s deep lore and loyal fanbase<br />
also add a slight but justified political commentary on today’s society.<br />
Roblox gives you many choices of games to play or you could make<br />
your own. Choices include role-playing games, prison games, racing<br />
games, FPS games, murder mystery games, tycoon games, and then just<br />
minigame games. My personal favorite: “Auto Rap Battles”!<br />
Roblox has 300 staff working on a daily basis, and the average play<br />
time in total is 496 million hours or 20,666,666.6667 days. There are over<br />
1.7 million developers of games in the community. There are twenty-nine<br />
million games created over the twelve years of Roblox being a thing.<br />
Roblox earns on average $100,000 per month. Roblox is not a game to be<br />
taken lightly, and surely, it’s a masterpiece. 11/10. Would DEFINITELY play<br />
again.
Obi-Wan Kenobi<br />
By Sophia Mone<br />
Who is he? He is a Star Wars<br />
character, and he was Anakin Skywalker's<br />
Jedi Master. The Jedi Council did not want<br />
him to be trained, so a man named Qui-Gon<br />
Jinn offered to train him. Soon he was ready<br />
to take the Jedi Trials. In a duel with a Sith<br />
lord Darth Maul, Qui-Gon gets killed and Obi<br />
kills Maul by slicing him in half and promises<br />
Qui-Gon to train Anakin. When Ani is a<br />
teenager, Obi-Wan gives Ani a mission to<br />
protect senator Padmé Amidala because an<br />
assassin was following her. Years later when<br />
Ani had children (Luke and Leia), he was<br />
killed by Darth Vader( aka Ani) in front of<br />
Leia and Luke.<br />
The Force<br />
By Sophia Mone<br />
I have learned that life will treat you<br />
badly. I have been on this land for many<br />
years. I have been through reincarnation so<br />
many times. I have many friends, but little<br />
hope. People say the force is not real. I plan<br />
to prove them wrong. The Force is in every<br />
living thing. You can't see the Force, but it<br />
surrounds us. It controls us in everything we<br />
do. When death comes, I will be ready for<br />
eternal life with the Force. You may think I<br />
am crazy, but thinking that I'm crazy is<br />
wrong. I am one with the Force, and the<br />
Force is with me. I am finally at peace with<br />
the Force.
Conspiracy Theories:<br />
Was the moon landing a<br />
hoax?<br />
One of the biggest conspiracies in<br />
U.S. history is about the Apollo 11 moon<br />
landing. Was it real? Although the<br />
astronauts still argue that the landing<br />
was real, many theorists believe it was<br />
a complete hoax. Some evidence stems<br />
from an actual photo taken during the<br />
supposedly real moon landing. Clearly,<br />
in many pictures you will notice there<br />
are no stars. Since the moon has no<br />
atmosphere, there should be many<br />
millions of tiny dots in the sky, but<br />
instead,it just looks like a big, black void<br />
of space. Stay tuned for more<br />
conspiracy theories next month!<br />
How to guess someone’s<br />
Zodiac sign:<br />
Aries: strong opinions, unintentionally talks over you<br />
Taurus: clear voice, too sarcastic for most people<br />
Gemini: too many facial expressions, constantly moving<br />
Cancer: always worrying about something<br />
Leo: smiles a lot, hates to see unhappy people<br />
Virgo: too opinionated, is better than you at everything<br />
Libra: lazier than everyone else, always checking<br />
themselves out<br />
Scorpio: loves to get on people’s nerves<br />
Sagittarius: foot permanently in mouth<br />
Capricorn: complains a lot but ends up getting everything<br />
done<br />
Aquarius: always says “I see humans. Not humanity.”<br />
Pisces: sings and doodles without noticing, barely awake<br />
Top 5 most popular emojis in<br />
the U.S.<br />
By Madison Quinn<br />
Have you ever wondered about the most<br />
popular emojis?<br />
Here is a list of the most popular emojis in<br />
the U.S. in 2017:<br />
1 tears of joy emoji<br />
2 red heart emoji<br />
3 sobbing emoji<br />
4 smiling face with heart eyes emoji<br />
5 blowing a heart emoji
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