Karan
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike For Beginners: Counter-Strike is much different than any other game. It is a tactical first-person-shooter, in which the Counter-Terrorists prevent the Terrorists from planting the bomb. While planting the bomb, they may need to take hostages, so you need to save them as well, or you lose money, with which you use to buy guns, armor. ammo, and grenades at the start of every round; every match is best of 9 rounds. You can’t just rush in and spray your enemies with bullets, like Call of Duty. For example, you may want to take a flank route to mid, so you can either smoke or flashbang one side, so that your team can flank them from the other side. You can also have someone sniping at mid, while the others camp at the doors, waiting to shoot them as soon as they come out the doors. Be careful though, as once you die, you die, until the round ends. You also want to conserve your money, and not buy snipers every round, because once you die, you don’t keep the weapons, and it’s hard to come by money in this game.
Counter-Strike For Experts: Now, if you are an expert on Counter-Strike, then you may already know about competitive play, the match-making system, and how much money people spend on skins! But I’m going to give you more information on these topics. For competitive play, you have a “Classic Match,” but this game adds to your +rep, your online competitive reputations, is recorded on video, and gives you experience points, which brings me to VaLvE’s match-making system. VaLvE uses a match-making system, so that Rank I Privates don’t get matched against Rank III Novas. This is very helpful, so that good players always have a challenge, and aren't steamrolling the other team. Skins are obtained through winning matches, trading, and opening cases. Skins can go from a couple of cents, to tens of thousands of dollars. There is even an economy, concerned with real money, in the game. In trading, you sell high and buy low to make profit. Winning matches either gives you a skin worth less than a quarter, or a case. A case is a gamble: you may get a worthless skin, worth a couple of cents, or top-tier skins, which you may either use or sell for real money, though cases only cost $2.50 to open.
I Am From
I am from California,
Home of the bears.
I am from the Pacific Beaches,
Filled with sparkling water.
I am from playing video games, or watching YouTube,
When there’s nothing to do,
I am from reading,
Novels and Novellas, short-stories to short-short stories
I am from amusement parks,
From Disneyland, to Great America, to Magic Mountain.
I am from Taco Tuesdays,
And eating ice-cream on a sunny day.
I am from the Golden State.
Outside
Outside, you feel as if you saunter alone, nature focusing on you. The burning sun, focused solely on you. You feel solitary, as if nothingness rules the world, except you and nature, your inner emotions take control; as you focus on nothing, only yourself, the sun, the lush green, and the feeling of oneself, it makes you want to do something greater, something better than what’s provided around you; only you can propel yourself to do the best that you can.