no such thing as : personal data - in the game of life

This seems like a good objective way to carry out the law IN THEORY, but who created the law? The law could be innately unfair because of predisposed bias. I had a similar construction in my video game where the society was run by this objective puppet that the creator (A god) left behind; good in theory but always constant and cannot change with the times.

grammar issues, sentence seems unfinished and doesn't have a purpose

sources and examples needed

doesn't make sense

no citations or sources or examples of "viral game"

unfinished sentence?

Grammer issues lacks articles e.g the/a fast increase(could also change to growth) in THE mobile game market... A new era IN THE gameS industry

THE games/ video game

game

For me, the strong point of your project is its originality. I liked how you linked video games to posthumanism. Moreover, the games you selected are very relevant and fit your project perfectly. Also, I liked how you linked theory to video games especially with the idea of becoming- as when you play a video game, and you take the position of the character you are playing, and, therefore, his subjectivity, then becoming- something new. It really challenges the the ideas of player only playing other human character, not only the video games can be posthuman but the player too.

This is an interesting take because you can definitely tell by watching some NBA games whether or not fouls are justified or not. Players will make comments or suggestions to the association but always get fined if they speak freely it seems like.

I did a whole study case on discrimination in the NBA, and It was very interesting for me to find this type of information when researching.

confirm with MagiQuest is also similar to Universal’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter, where you can buy an interactive wand and have interactions with “spell” locations throughout the environment.

on interrupting

The causal relationship between depression and pathological gaming goes both ways. Children with depression can easily fall into video game addiction and children with pathological gaming habits can develop depression. It is not always one-directional

This CONFIRMS what I know about creating video game levels, too. They have an entire field called "environmental storytelling" in game narrative design that is all about making sure the way you interact with the level matches with the themes of the game.

I think this answers question 2 being "how does the writer establish their credibility" because in the begenining the author explains that the writer and artists borrow knowledge and at the end of the paragraph, it relays a link towards another source for credibility!

I am a very big Celtics fan and I am hoping that we play the Hawks because they are far worse than the Heat. This article starts off by just reporting when, where, and who they will play.

Contra [1], the ZIP format was brilliantly designed and natively supports a solution to this; ZIP was conceived with the goal of operating under the constraint that an archive might need to span multiple volumes. So just use that.

1. https://games.greggman.com/game/zip-rant/

This is a new way of seeing the word "hopeless romantic".

This is a great site! This has resources for all subject areas and all grade levels. This is helpful to give students age appropriate lessons that incorporate technology in a fun, engaging way! The Cake Monster game is a quick, easy game to teach students about number line. This would be a great way for students to each get a turn to come up to the smart board. As students come up and take their turn, it can serve as a formative assessment.

You might want to emphasize that any tool where failures are tolerable is game for these things. (Of course, you know my framework.) So, providing high quality, but imperfect, input to experts is a likely place. Experts, in theory, can check the quality and fix the modest number of hallucinations, etc.

I think this framing is slightly more general than yours... But, you have it essentially as right.

By acquiring other companies, no longer needed to match services offered by other companies (e.g., great customer service)

This makes me think about the importance of bringing systems-based thinking to social and environmental science classes especially. I wonder what research has been done into this. History and social science teachers are especially prone to teaching students to think in a linear way: first this happened, and then that was the result. AP curricula try to move beyond this, but the application is uneven at best. Part of the problem is that the College Board talks a good game about teaching history and social science students that "it's complicated," but then expects them to take a standardized test at the end of the course that, for the most part, still prioritizes memorization. The redesigns of the AP exams for these classes in recent years have led to questions that are more about the application of source-interpretation and data interpretation skills and the use of evidence to support an argument, but students can still simply regurgitate information and do well. I wonder how feasible it would be to move toward portfolio-based assessment for these courses. I think that's happening in AP Seminar and AP Research, but I could be wrong.

Many people argue that video games can be good for kids.

Yes, of course. That's another intentional feature.

Well, since you don't want to support it, then you aren't required to do that. (And good thing, because that would limit the format severely.)

It means you don't need to! (And why would you try? You have already found one, and you know there is only one, so to try to find more is to try to do something that you know is impossible.)

It means if you have a ZIP file (something that you know is a valid ZIP file) and you have found more than one end of central directory record, then there's something wrong with the method you used to find them (because there can by definition be only one).

Okay, fine. Don't use them (don't use broken software, generally—unless you're comfortable getting broken results).

I don't take the spec to mean that you can reliably stream any arbitrary ZIP bytestream. If you are the producer and the consumer, though, then you can bend the format to your will to enable streaming.

See Firefox's JAR handling for an example.

Justine Tunney covers the genius of the ZIP format in her Redbean talk (@55:31) https://youtu.be/1ZTRb-2DZGs?t=3331

I just wonder why he has but I could say there are other athletes that are more politically active

Games are a good way to get peoples eyes.

I think setting the expectation beforehand that they have to be participating even if they're not the ones at the board would be super helpful. Letting them know before the game begins that they have to be able to help teammates and answer questions even when it's not their turn can sometimes help with classroom management, rather than trying to wrangle them back in later.

love the fly swatter game!! so fun and competitive!

I like that you're making them identify it before the game! This quick review is really helpful in making them feel confident but they still have to know the information on their own to be successful in the game.

Quotation - If there's a force that's driving us toward greater complexity - there seems to be an opposing force, - a force of destruction that uses competition for ill. - The way I see it, - Moloch is the god of unhealthy competition, of negative sum games

This metaphor suggests that the beginning of a novel: 1. Sets the stage for the reader's expectations and the author's responsibilities 2. Should be alluring and captivating to make the reader want to keep reading 3. Should be clear and concise to avoid confusion or misunderstanding. 4. Should be seductive and irresistible to make the reader want to keep reading.

Ambiguous. Missing a comma before "featuring"?

Technical issues or lack of user knowledge can quickly hinder the learning process, which is why it is imperative to have adequate support. Providing localized, up-to-date, and responsive help is a game changer for both instructors and students. Instructors feel more comfortable and empowered to use e-learning tools when they know they can ask someone for help. Meanwhile, students can self-regulate their learning more effectively when they have access to timely support. Regardless of the source, however, it is critical that the support is up-to-date and tailored to the needs of the user. This ensures that learners and instructors have the help they need when they need it, which can help them stay engaged and motivated in the learning process.

bank log and job applications would be a super valuable skill for kids to learn.

i.e., the in-game score.

在20世纪60年代，巴克明斯特-富勒（Buckminster Fuller）提出了一个 "great logistics game "和 "世界和平游戏"（后来简称为 "世界游戏"），旨在成为一种工具，以促进全面的、预见性的、设计科学的方法来解决世界的问题。标题中使用的 "世界"（world）显然是指富勒的全球视角和他的论点，即我们现在需要一种将世界作为一个整体来处理的系统方法，而不是用他所说的 "以局部为重点的胡思乱想 "的方式来解决我们的问题。现在整个世界是相关的分析单位，而不是城市、州或国家。出于这个原因，世界游戏编程一般使用富勒的Dymaxion地图来绘制资源、趋势和游戏所需的场景。用富勒的话说，我们是在 "地球号"上，200个民族国家的上将都试图把飞船引向不同的方向，这种不合逻辑的比喻很清楚--富勒对民族国家作为世界全球新陈代谢中的 "blood clots"所作的更严厉的评价也是如此。

在标题中使用 "游戏 "一词的逻辑更具有启发性。它说明了富勒对治理和社会问题解决的方法。显然是作为一个非常严肃的工具，富勒选择把他的愿景称为 "游戏"，因为他希望它被看作是每个人都能接触到的东西，而不仅仅是权力结构中那些自以为是的少数精英。在这个意义上，它是富勒更深刻的颠覆性愿景之一。富勒想要一个人人都能使用的工具，它的发现将通过自由媒体广泛传播给大众，并通过这种公众审查和接受社会问题解决方案的地面井，最终迫使政治进程朝着那些玩民主开放世界游戏的人的价值观、想象力和解决问题的技能所决定的方向发展。这是一种对政治进程的看法，如果他们只看到富勒提出他的想法时（20世纪60年代）的世界--除去个人电脑和互联网，他们可能会觉得天真。

竞争的场地并没有被拉平或扩大，而是通过一个将托马斯-杰斐逊带入20世纪的过程，将好孩子的政治过程颠覆掉了。为了拥有这种力量，游戏需要拥有那种能赋予权力的信息和操纵这种信息的工具。它需要一个全面的数据库，为世界游戏的玩家提供比他们的政治选举或任命同行更好的数据。他们需要一个世界重要统计数据的清单--一切都在哪里，数量和质量如何，从矿物到制成品和服务，到人类和他们未满足的需求以及能力。他们还需要一个监测世界现状的信息源，将重要的新闻带入"游戏室"（game room）现场。当富勒开始谈论世界游戏的时候，这些都不存在。然后，在进入21世纪的路上发生了一些有趣的事情： 有线电视新闻网、个人电脑、光盘、互联网和全球网络、个人电脑上的超级计算机能力以及关于世界、其资源、问题和潜在解决方案的大量数据开始浮出水面，改变了世界和我们沟通、做生意、研究和治理的方式。富勒设想的世界游戏是一个个人或团队前来竞争或合作的地方，以便：

"在最短的时间内，通过自发的合作，使世界为100%的人类服务，而不会对生态环境造成破坏，也不会对任何人造成不利。"

I find this idea to be interesting as this idea permeates even today, or could be used as a framework for the rise and falls of other countries. To me this idea brings out the essential question, "What leads a country to become powerful?" or on the other hand, "What leads a country to fall?" As historians, it is often easy to see the trends that could have led to a revolution, or an overthrowing or some sort of trend because it's like being in a game show and the answer is only obvious once it is said out loud by the person asking the questions the answer has already been written. These ideas would be useful to consider in the present, as there are leaders all throughout the world and these ideas are still important today as it would be useful to understand how these tides change.

The author, François Rabelais, is known for his indecent jokes and comments in his work; some involving sexism. This quote highlights his attitude towards widowed women and the belief that their child needs to be the "heir" to the deceased husband so they can be considered an "honest woman". Rabelais assumes that women will do whatever is necessary for their husbands because they seek their approval. During the Renaissance, they were only useful for child-bearing or sex, so they are mostly non-existent in the plot. If their is a female character, such as Gargantua’s mother, Gargamelle, they eventually disappear without a mention. The story mostly does not "incorporate women into a[ny] dialogue", which creates an absence of them in a masculinized environment that only uses them when needed.

Citation:

Berrong, Richard M. “Finding Antifeminism in Rabelais; Or, a Response to Wayne Booth’s Call for an Ethical Criticism.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 11, no. 4, 1985, pp. 687–96. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1343425. Accessed 31 Mar. 2023.

the game we did in class

part of beaty / glamour is uniqueness, difference, exclusivity

Results:

Homicide - Data available for 73 nations - Neither video game consumption nor firearm ownership predicted homicide - Homicide was skewed (it wasn't super common of an event) - GINI index (income inequality) remined the most significant indicator of homicide - Video games negatively correlated w/ homicide

Suicide - HCI was the biggest predictor - GINI index and gun ownership did not predict suicide

Methods: - Data collected in 2017 via public records - Variables: homicide, suicide, video game consumption (sales of games per capita), GINI index wealth dispersion aka income inequality), HCI (social mobility potential), firearm ownership (number per country) - SPSS for statistical analysis: had two DVs [criterion] predicts homicide, predicts suicide

Introduction: - Accessibility to guns, influence of video games, economic status, and exposure to violence- which one(s) most linked to crime

Conflicting results in previous literature - First person shooters play a big role? Making people desensitized - Guns- do they increase or decreases crimes? their position is that they increase homicide but decrease lesser crimes, trading one evil for another. - Exposure to violence/crime predicts adult gun ownership - Individually, being aggressive predicts interest in violent video games - In populations- lower violence w/ video game use (weak causal link between the two. - Poverty does seem to predict homicide (violent crime) - thought to be meditated by social isolation & other feelings of desperation associated w/ poverty - Poverty predicts depression & PTSD

No real hypothesis

Russia is using anti-Satanist thought as a rhetorical ploy but what purpose would this ploy serve?

context at those times

From my personal experience, the addition of TikTok has completely changed the game when it comes to gaining news through media. After doing a short amount of research, a viewer will find that there are algorithms which have been created by TikTok. It has been proven these algorithms change the user's experience by controlling what they see based off many different factors. The same goes for when a new news piece comes out, for it is not for sure the user will even see the videos of those TikTokers they follow. The platform also can easily spread misinformation based off a single video due to the information not being real going viral.

Entrepreneur who has relations with Amazon, been in the game for a long time. He helps other entrepreneurs get cash flow in their businesses.

Origins of "BIG-bench"

AI researchers were asked to create a catalog of tasks that would challenge LLMs. This benchmark is used to assess the effectiveness of model changes and scaling up of the number of parameters.

Heuristic

This is one of my absolute favorite books and just read this to my kids this week! Even my kids understood what the Little Prince was explaining. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter how much money someone has, the more important question is what type of person are they? What a wonderful example and connection!

She's letting them know that they better fix how they treat people because karma is real and one day they will be nobody's.

His moods were inconsistent and its clear he didn't treat her right. One minute they would be perfect for each other and the next they would be toxic.

Maybe create a set of card decks that tell African tales through symbols. Present this as a game

Here we see The Weeknd spiraling in his mind and is apathetic to himself and to life. He feels as though he is continuing to make the same mistakes and is facing this darker side of himself "...The human soul, because of its karmic baggage, is a place of ambiguity. It is a place where sinner and saint, the sacred and the profane, the divine and the diabolical coexist in seed form. When we get in touch with this part of ourselves and accept it for what it is, we simultaneously lose the need to judge others. Christ said, "He who is without sin shall cast the first stone." I believe what he was saying was that self-acceptance makes us compassionate, forgiving and nonjudgmental of others. This is the first stage of liberation." (Phipps, 2000)

At the same time, I think public debate would not have done anything. It is something that could not have been prevented. Game Theory dictates that it had to. Will genius minds simply not engage their intellectual curiosity. They had to come up with the bomb. Will the US try to not win the war. This would mean more losses for the country but a lesser loss for the world. But in this case, it is still in the best interest of the nation to create the bomb. Because if Russia or Germany would do this first, it would similarly mean greater losses for the nation and for the world as the US sees it. The public would only have slowed things and made the situation worse. It is not out of stupidity. Our leaders are likely the most competent among humans. But they are still humans in that they are driven along human systems of logic, human desires.

The game is to use your positino - often times your spatial or physical position - to take what you can from anyone you can take it from.

In recent years, there has been developments to help people with physical disabilities closer together, thus shortening the distance between people even more than before.

This paragraph just some of the many ways people can be different from each other but sill play together.

Video games have become gender neutral.

complex societies, institutions are human devised

Is language acquisition a very complex method of pattern recognition?

This is certainly "a way", but history has shown, particularly in the United States, that government regulation is unlikely to get involved at all until it's far too late, if at all. Typically they're only regulating not only after maturity, but only when massive failure may cause issues for the wealthy and then the "regulation" is to bail them out.

Suggesting this here is so pie-in-the sky that it only creates a false hope (hope washing?) for the powerless. Is this sort of hope washing a recurring part of

this shows that video games can be used to educate kids and teach them.

Video games specificly improve creativity, not lowers it.

The need to work online, use browsers, and technology is ever increasing., and there is a link that connects all of their threads together. We encounter them each day in using different apps to find, locate, and purchase items. Marketing has evolved and aimed at capturing data to improve sales, market shares, and users. Therefore, many tech companies have made compromises that places the user in the center of a fight for them to use the services provided by these companies versus a competitor. Again, market shares, greed, and profit has replaced traditional business practices that would allow some privacy to the consumer. Nowadays, the consumer is a pawn being used to improve profit margins.

I definitely think these methods are effective i write whenever i feel angry or in my head about my fathers addiction and being able to escape to the one place you love or by doing something you love can definitely settle your mind and allow you to get ur stress or anger relived.

Coming from Personal experience thinking your the cause of the addiction will only create more harm and emotional damage and you have to understand no one makes you do anything. Everyone is their own person and is accountable for their own actions every choice someone made is because they wanted to make that choice.

The Musketeers advance to the sweet 16 for the nine time in school history. Xavier came back from 15 down on Friday to beat Kennesaw State on Friday and yesterday went a really impressive run and won easily vs Pitt. Xavier is one of three big east team in sweet sixteen with three teams in that helps the school's revenge and media attention.

"rules" and "game" terminology of many institutional economists

This has happened many times in classrooms I have worked in or with helping my mom find new tools and it is so annoying.

This is so true. This idea also works for other student interests like video games or a sport that they like, and these are topics that can be incorporated into math problems or even social studies (as I recently included a video game map in my lesson on maps).

30x power usage improvement

There's no conversion back and forth between light and packets. It's a bit like the serialisation / deserialisation cost higher up the stack

So this is the big change. The optical switches trade off faster connectivity ( fewer hops needed), but in return take longer to set up to establish the mirror conneciton.

These are the Top Of Rack switches?

These are wild figures. What is the counterfactual?

Rainsford had won, but it greatly damaged.

I like how this article is organized into the different potential threats to hope. It reminds me of a video game where there are different characters and their stats are written out to describe how much damage they do or what their best attacks are.

Children should be trusted... this is ridiculous

The title itself was so shocking because you wouldn't think that normally somebody would get into a fight so bad that cost an innocent life to be gone so soon due to a video game. Also, since its in my area it caught my attention as well.

He sounds like he was a very angry person and had been aggressive before, just by the way his own aunt described him as

I wonder if he threatened to kill her because of the game or if they had a larger issue that has not talked about in the article that could have led to the action.

I find it crazy that this information hasn't appeared on my social media platforms. I had to look up Google News and see what was trending. Since I go to Xavier and it's in Cincinnati, I would have expected for more people to talk about it since we are close to the location.

Very mindblowing how his own family members already assumed this of him even before the incident.

Ahmyah had a bright future ahead of her. Accidents happen all of the time but this situation was done with hatred and motive, by her own brother.

Ahmyah, victim, protected her brother, Myshawn, and he didn't think twice about hurting her.

Crazy to think about how a death was caused by a fight between a video game and a television show.

This story caught my attention because the title/header was shocking and straightforward.

This shows how the writer Miguel Delany is against this new 2026 world cup format, which will host 100 games rather than 64.

Confused- Did they use a real giraffe in the game? Haha, giraffe in a motion capture suit. Not clear.

Racist comments

Kinda gets dry here. When reading it seemed pretty surface level without much depth, just a brief explanation. Maybe explain more with info like the leading scorer from the winning team or a little more description on how the games went.

what is nft crossgaming?

Initial thoughts — review later I mean, if I had to pull in some Bandura, it's bi-drectional determinism? Right? So it's influencing behaviour as an environmental factor that could also be done by thinking?

If I think about Csikszentmihalyi in Good Business on culture as a game, perhaps rules are to games what protocols are to culture? If culture is a set of norms that keep you from anomie / entropy and make spaces for alienation, then the agency of the individual may be developed over time (control over consciousness) that may allow for greater expression over agency to follow or not follow protocols. In this sense, protocols would be the default, and intentionally not following protocols (probabilistically not by chance) might require agency? That is if we are following the definition that good protocols have the Schelling point or become default and are almost invisible untill they break.

Bureaucracy may be an example of a deeply frustrating protocol?

reminds me of 'culture as a game' from Flow theorist and that Flow is actually more automatic and less effort intensive overtime. Book: Good Leadership

מצרפת כאן מאמר שפרסמנו - ד"ר חגית מישר טל ואני - על כך שניצול מחוללי משחקים הקיימים במרחב הדיגיטלי היום עשויים לגרום אפילו לתלמידי עם לקויות למידה לפתח בין השאר מוטיבציה פנימית אדירה! כאשר הפעלתי את הפרויקט היו תלמידים שלמרום ההישגים הנמוכים שלהם בכיתה במקצועות מסויימים - מעצמם בחרו לבנות משחקים בנושאים שקשים להם... מוזמנים לקרוא תקציר כאן: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10494820.2021.1919146 או לחפש את המאמר המלא If I create a game I'll learn”: online game creation as a tool to promote learning skills of students with learning difficulties

Despite the compliment-filled flirtation between the host's wife and Gawain seen in this section of the text, this is not merely a romantic scene between the two characters. This scene is important as it shows that the depth of their apparent connection and temptation is almost a game and struggle, as both of them attempt to seduce the other more and more actively. The tension and seemingly light-hearted interactions actually become a pressing matter when it comes to Gawain's inability to successfully follow the host's rules and when the wife even holds him "captive" to obtain the pleasure that she seeks. After looking over the scholarly source cited below by Jordan Stinnett for an honors thesis, it is interesting to see how viewing the Lady's seduction as feminist manipulation and a reclaiming of power that traditionally belongs to male characters.

Works Cited:

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Introduction to World Literature Anthology, edited by Farrah Cato and Christian Beck, UCF Pressbooks, 2022.

Stinnett, Jordan. The Performativity of Temptation: An Analysis of Sexual Agency and Seduction in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. University of North Carolina, 2018.

The colors of the Girdle, green and gold are significant. As previously established, the color green represents nature and the wild aspects of life, which is represented in Gawain's reasoning for accepting the girdle; Gawain's natural instinct for self preservation, as he is told that the girdle as the ability to protect him from harm. While the color gold represents perfection, chivalry, the standards of a knighthood Gawain holds himself to. According to professor Goldhurst, the colors of the girdle represent the conflict Gawain faces accepting the gift, "Gawain has yielded to the "green" of the girdle. This fact is the cause of his shame, for his entire way of life should have led him to resist the primal call of nature, and to cling to the "gold" of the image: courtliness, grace, and the denial of natural impulses" (Goldhurst, 5). After accepting the girdle Gawain must decide if he will make the green choice to keep the girdle for himself, using it for protection against the Green Knight, or will he make the gold and honorable choice, following the rules of the game and presenting the girdle to Bertilak. Gawain makes the green choice which is why by the end of the story the girdle becomes a symbol of shame for Gawain.

Goldhurst, William. “The Green and the Gold: The Major Theme of Gawain and the Green Knight.” College English, vol. 20, no. 2, 1958, pp. 61–65. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/372161. Accessed 11 Mar. 2023.

This scene is perhaps the most important scene in the piece. What are the constructs of this beheading scene? Why the three attempts only for the beheading to be thrown away? Weiss claims that "many interpretations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are based on a careless reading of what has unfortunately come to be called 'the beheading game' in the first fit (Weiss 361). Why would you say this beheading game is so crucial?

Weiss, Victoria L. “Gawain’s First Failure: The Beheading Scene in ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.’” The Chaucer Review, vol. 10, no. 4, 1976, pp. 361–66. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25093365. Accessed 10 Mar. 2023.

While this whole story focuses on the symbolism of the colors green and gold, blue is also an important color. Blue can "represent serenity and tranquility, instilling a scene with a calming effect" (Gaiman 7). The lord and host in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight keeps a great relaxed and calm composure throughout the whole story. The host provides a safe place and a fun trading game for Sir Gawain, which correlates to the easy goingness of the color blue. The host's wife can be represented with the color blue as well, both of them staying collected and easy going. The color blue represents them well.

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/color-symbolism-in-literature

This section foreshadows multiple aspects of the poem. Obviously, this is the act that foreshadows the Green Knight's true power. By resurrecting immediately following decapitation, we are seeing a glimpse into the supernatural power this mysterious figure possess. Additionally, this section foreshadows the intellect and followthrough of the Green Knight, by reciting (for the third time in the poem, via dialogue) the terms of the oath being made by Sir Gawain - the language used even indicates that the Green Knight views this as law-like and now guaranteed to play out. Effectively showcasing the Knight's "game master" level of thinking and Sir Gawain's "in over his head" level of unpreparedness for the remainder of the work.

Citation: Acosta, L. (n.d.). Sir Gawain and the green knight. Passage Analysis. Retrieved March 8, 2023, from http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/prjs2c/analysis.htm

The Green Knight proposes the question that someone plays a "game" with him that involves a contract. These lines in the poem explores the themes of chivalry as the contract alludes to bravery and probity since it deals with an agreement. He fools Gawain into this contract by disclosing that he will grant him the initial strike, allowing him to slice his head off. Ironically, the Green Knight's characteristics of "Trickery and deceit" are in opposition to the traditional attributes of chivalry (Maldonado 13). This deceit comes as the Green Knight fails to tell Gawain that after he strikes him, he will still be alive. The Green Knight essentially disguises his true identity which "feigns ignorance about Gawain and his quest" (Maldonado 13). In other words, the Green Knight fails to inform Gawain of his immortal-like characteristics considering he survives decapitation, and through his inability to speak the truth, he breaks the chivalric code.

Maldonado, Joshua David, "The Game at the Green Chapel: A Game-Oriented Perspective on Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (2020). Senior Projects Spring 2020. 122. https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2020/122

Something to mention here is the involvement in what we deem as the "Beheading Game" which was actually a very common game in Celtic lore. However, in the story of Gawain and the Green Knight, there are other parallels to similar stories in Celtic lore. One of these being the Champions Bargain, Alice Buchanan explains the similarities, saying "1. As in GGK, the challenger offers to submit to a stroke with the ax on condition that he be allowed later to return the blow. In the Champion's Bargain, on the contrary, the exchange of blows is first proposed in the reverse order, and only changed after Dubthach's protest. 2. As in GGK, the completion of the bargain is carried out in a wild region, in GGK beside a turbulent burn, in the Yellow and Terror tale be- side a loch. By contrast, in the Champion's Bargain the adventure con- cludes in the royal palace. 3. As in GGK, the hero is led to the spot by a guide furnished by his host. In the Champion's Bargain, of course, no guidance is necessary. 4. As in GGK, the challenger "let the ax come down three times on his neck." In the Champion's Bargain he deals but one stroke." (Buchanan 317).

She goes further into the context of mixing lore and the similarities between Gawain, Lancelot, and other figures from stories that predate the Green Knight.

It is also worth mentioning how Green impacts the story. Symbolism is prevalent in the story, Green being used as a symbol of nature, the unknown, death, and even the Devil. As the Devil was depicted as a Green being.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the few pieces of literature we have from the 14th century, J.R.R. Tolkien even translated the document. This story has given us a great cultural impact and insight into our past. Its even more relevant to add how previous stories and even pagan lore influenced a Christian story.

Buchanan, Alice. “XXI.” The Irish Framework of Gawain and the Green Knight, 2nd ed., vol. 47, Modern Language Association, 1932, pp. 315–338.

In this section we are shown the positives that sports bring, we see that they build people's confidence and help introduce very important values and characteristics such as teamwork and perseverance.

games with bots are treated as topics of science and studied as such and it is shown that such an approach of a science or game leads to gaps in the body of knowledge

Name: Jonathan Tran

Game theory is a mathematical framework used to analyze and understand the behavior of individuals or groups when they are faced with strategic decisions. It is often used in economics, political science, psychology, and other fields where individuals' decisions are affected by the decisions of others.

One of the key concepts in game theory is interdependence, which refers to the fact that the outcome of one person's decision depends not only on their own actions but also on the actions of others. Interdependence can arise in many situations, including economic markets, social networks, and political negotiations.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340463241_The_instability_of_globalization_applying_evolutionary_game_theory_to_global_trade_cooperation

I would have liked if the author explained the characteristic of the focus group. It could be the social awkwardness was due to a disability. Gaming could be the only way to interact without judgment. There are some mental disabilities that show propensities to isolation and less empathy. The statement is too general.

Here the article is showing the audience who is most effected by playing video games for long hours who are already socially inept and take up video gaming as a way to vent stress but it has shown that playing more makes the situation of the individual worse.

I think that habits in general not only playing video games, are widely criticized by parents for example going out with your friends or even spending too much time studying. The point being that video games are addicting which is true but depression does not come from other activities as easily as it does from video games in my opinion which is why it is concerning.

yes, the different elements of life are always intertwined and working together. It is a long game and if people don't share the same cause of fight they turn against each other for a fight for power.

From this statement, I got that countries are always "at the ready" for war, and have their reasoning be that they are just trying to protect their citizens. I think that this is untrue. While there are plenty of extreme nationalists that support this behavior, I still do think that it's rare that you would be able to find an average citizen in a given country that feels protected by the thought of their country going to war or even supportive of the idea in general. With that being said, now that "wars/conflict" is so normalized, I do think that there are plenty of people who are more willing to cheer on their countries in this game of violence.

This work has been peer reviewed in GigaScience (see https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac119), which carries out open, named peer-review. These reviews are published under a CC-BY 4.0 license and were as follows:

Reviewer 1: Dominik Heider

The paper is well written, and the objectives are clear. The study is a very nice application of CGR in bioinformatics and shows the excellent performance of CGR-encoded data in combination with deep learning. I have a few things that should be addressed in a minor revision:

1) Some very important studies have not been addressed in the related work part, e.g., in Touati et al. (pubmed:32645523) and Sengupta et al. (pubmed:32953249), the authors compared SARS-CoV2 with other coronaviruses based on CGR, or we (pubmed:34613360) used CGR in combination with deep learning for resistance predictions in E. coli.

2) To me, it is unclear how accuracy was used in the model. Is it one class (i.e., clade) versus all others? If yes, accuracy might be misleading because of the high class imbalance. In such high class imbalances, MCC has been shown to be more suitable.

3) "The undersampled dataset was randomly split into train...". Why did you undersample? To balance the data, which would make sense to use accuracy as a metric but discard a lot of valuable data. What about oversampling?

4) Comparison with other tools: I wonder whether the good performance of your model is the result of deep learning or the CGR encoding. Please also provide the results for another ML model (besides SVM, e.g., random forests) to compare to, e.g., Covidex.

Reviewer 2: Riccardo Rizzo

The authors propose a classification experiment based on Frequency Chaos Game Representation and deep learning. They used the outstanding performances of a ResNet network as an image classification tool and the FCGR method that represent a genome sequence as an image.

The work seems good, although some major points should be clarified.

First, whether the performance index values came from a 5-fold validation procedure (5 because they said the split was 80-10-10) or a one-shot experiment is unclear.

Second, the part that involves the frequent k-mers and the SVM should be better explained. The authors should clarify what the meaning of this comparison is.

Another point to clarify is the quality of the sequences used; the authors worked on complete sequences, but, as far as I know, in the real world virus sequences are noisy data, and authors should discuss this point.

Minor points:

• Authors said that a sequence is a string $s \in {A, C, G, T, N}^*$, so they should explain the procedure used in Definition 2, where only 4 symbols seem to be used. If they discard the N, or consider 4 k-mers (consider that N means "any symbol") they should say it clearly.
• Figure 1 and 2 report two different quantities but say the same thing; maybe one of them can be omitted.
• Authors should add some details about the training time of the network.

A final suggestion: probably it will be interesting to use the same deep network with transfer learning (the whole network or just the first sections) to evaluate the gain with ad-hoc training and the different training time.

The Chiefs won the championship 38-35 with a field goal in the remaining seconds of the game.

excellent, context for readers

excellent, context for readers

line break typo

great quote

slight revision here, would say lead if during game, otherwise it's a 13-point victory

again, excellent with the gallery

yes, good to get quote, also let Jesse know when y'all will be thee and you will get access to athletes after the games, for quotes

fantastic to have the photo gallery here

line break creating typo

nicely done here with the lead

great to have a photo by Anna here

nice game recap

not necessary, simply an RBI walk

again, excellent context

excellent detail/context

double header?

typo, missing period

Although this study highlights how rare they are, finding one long-term study even if it is in relation to an animal study would be extremely useful

This study focused on short term impact but could have implications for long term impact

While the players can distinguish that, are the areas of the brain responsible for aggression able to make that distinction?

Since younger people have more neuroplasticity, could video game use affect them more?

Users ability to feel empathy decreases (makes them better at the game, but how does it impact them outside of the game?)

This is important since it indicates that the video game was not considered overly aggressive, but actually something the participants were used to playing (this is a typical representation of violent video games that millions are engaging with)

Not a diverse sample (possible sample bias since it is people already predisposed to video games)

HYPOTHESIS of study

Neuroscience could provide more in depth insight/ a different perspective

Our cognitive processing of a game and its meaning can affect how it affects us

Does the visual quality of the game have an influence on how people perceive the violence? Personally I know that I have trouble empathizing more with games from the 90s than I do with next-generation ones because they're more realistic

Last year, some of my 4th graders truly loved using voice typing. It's a big game changer for students who struggle with reading and physical writing but have complete comprehension on a subject they are supposed to write about. It's also much more accessible for people who struggle to physically type.

This is INCREDIBLE. I had no idea that this was possible, and it could be a total game changer for students with hearing difficulties or any student who prefers reading over listening.

We use Classlink at my school. However I am torn about it's effectiveness. It is only really updated at the beginning of the year and so I feel like we miss out on a lot of opportunities to make it a game changer for our K-8 students.

It's a very interesting poem. Morrison is referencing the historical reader "Dick and Jane". At first the poem is stable, but as Jane cntinues to be dismissed and ignored, she begins to have a break down. All punctuation, capitalization and spacing is lost as Jane begins to spiral. I think this is foreshadowing for what will happen to the protagonist's mental state.

this could have affected the results

video game treatment is more effective in smaller amounts(<12 weeks)

not the most useful for disease self management

good line

better stats

the participants liked the game, but it doesn't have enough content to last long term

example of avg being short lived

problem that can happen with AVGs

good to reread

correlation=/ causation issue

same statement as other sources. Good for corroboration

video games causing less sleep can cause an increased calorie intake

it cant be confirmed video games cause obesity, but it can be assumed there is a higher risk of developing obesity.

idk about the carbohydrate thing, but the lack of sleep is true

there is mixed studies on the relationship between obesity and time spent playing video games

exergames started 2008

video games are not the cause of real world violence , but can be a contributor to people who were already likely to do something.

highlights the importance of balancing video games in your life.

increased attention span and spatial reasoning.

some video game beneifits

usually video game addiction isn't a condition by itself, it is a sign of an underlying condition

a good way to lower dependency on games

impactful fact

good line

addiction stats

most people with online video game addictions are men likely because they play for achievement and social bonding.

Video game addiction has similar affects to gambling addictions(little impulse control)

It is hard for video game skills to transfer to real world scenarios

gamw players when compared to non game players, have a more developed frontal lobe

This is one of the first time if not the first time we read about Erick being completely stricken by amazement and happiness.

this one was really fun! Well done!

"“opposites attract” principle but also of the search for subjective ideals."

can refer back to the social psychology theories of attraction, especially the Complementarity theory, showing how partners complete each other when one person is lacking in something, thus them thinking they are the perfect match because they "complete each other". Only I believe that this theory can either break or make a relationship, because sometimes the feeling/longing of wanting to be complete by a person can be a reason for you to depend on you happiness on them, and that is a very dangerous game.

I can confirm from personal experience that "those at the margins" of our educational system are demotivated by grades. As a special education teacher for eight years, I worked with many students who refused to see getting a good grade on a test, quiz or assignment as a good enough reason for engaging in that activity. Now that I work with "gifted" students who wouldn't typically be thought of as marginalized, I can see the same dynamic at play. The students from middle-class and upper-middle-class families are usually more than happy to play the grades game, but less socioeconomically advantaged students, just as in my special ed days, often find grades more stressful than motivating. As a program we've made strides in reducing that gap over the past eight years, but we still have a gap.

Personal Online Databases are a game changer

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Conversation Hey, JB, I played a pickup game at the Rec today. At first, the older guys laughed and wouldn’t let me in unless I could hit from half-court . . . Of course, I did. All net. I wait for JB to say something, but he just smiles, his eyes all moony. I showed them guys how the Bells ball. I scored fourteen points. They told me I should try out for junior varsity next year ’cause I got hops . . . JB, are you listening? JB nods, his fingers tapping away on the computer, chatting probably with Miss Sweet Tea. I told the big guys about you, too. They said we could come back and run with them anytime. What do you think about that? HELLO—Earth to JB? Even though I know he hears me, the only thing JB is listening to is the sound of his heart bouncing on the court of love.

Conversation Dad, this girl is making Jordan act weird. He’s here, but he’s not. He’s always smiling. His eyes get all spacey whenever she’s around, and sometimes when she’s not. He wears your cologne. He’s always texting her. He even wore loafers to school. Dad, you gotta do something. Dad does something. He laughs. Filthy, talking to your brother right now would be like pushing water uphill with a rake, son. This isn’t funny, Dad. Say something to him. Please. Filthy, if some girl done locked up JB, he’s going to jail. Now let’s go get some doughnuts.

Basketball Rule #5 When you stop playing your game you’ve already lost.

Showoff UP by sixteen with six seconds showing, JB smiles, then STRUTS side steps stutters Spins, and SI NKS a sick SLICK SLIDING SWeeeeeeeeeeT SEVEN-foot shot. What a showoff.

Out of Control Are you kidding me? Come on. Ref, open your eyes. Ray Charles could have seen that kid walked. CALL THE TRAVELING VIOLATION! You guys are TERRIBLE! Mom wasn’t at the game tonight, which meant that all night Dad was free to yell at the officials, which he did.

Mom calls me into the kitchen after we get home from beating St. Francis. Normally she wants me to sample the macaroni and cheese to make sure it’s cheesy enough, or the oven-baked fried chicken to make sure it’s not greasy and stuff, but today on the table is some gross-looking orange creamy dip with brown specks in it. A tray of pita-bread triangles is beside it. Maybe Mom is having one of her book club meetings. Sit down, she says. I sit as far away from the dip as possible. Maybe the chicken is in the oven. Where is your brother? she asks. Probably on the phone with that girl. She hands me a pita. No thanks, I say, then stand up to leave, but she gives me a look that tells me she’s not finished with me. Maybe the mac is in the oven. We’ve talked to you two about your grandfather, she says. He was a good man. I’m sorry you never got to meet him, Josh. Me too, he looked cool in his uniforms. That man was way past cool. Dad said he used to curse a lot and talk about the war. Mom’s laugh is short, then she’s serious again. I know we told you Grandpop died after a fall, but the truth is he fell because he had a stroke. He had a heart disease. Too many years of bad eating and not taking care of himself and so— What does this have to do with anything? I ask, even though I think I already know. Well, our family has a history of heart problems, she says, so we’re going to start eating better. Especially Dad. And we’re going to start tonight with some hummus and pita bread. FOR MY VICTORY DINNER? Josh, we’re going to try to lay off the fried foods and Golden Dragon. And when your dad takes you to the recreation center, no Pollard’s or Krispy Kreme afterward, understand? And I understand more than she thinks I do. But is hummus really the answer?

35–18 is the final score of game six. A local reporter asks JB and I how we got so good. Dad screams from behind us, They learned from Da Man! The crowd of parents and students behind us laughs. On the way home Dad asks if we should stop at Pollard’s. I tell him I’m not hungry, plus I have a lot of homework, even though I skipped lunch today and finished my homework during halftime.

Too Good Lately, I’ve been feeling like everything in my life is going right: I beat JB in Madden. Our team is undefeated. I scored an A+ on the vocabulary test. Plus, Mom’s away at a conference, which means so is the Assistant Principal. I am a little worried, though, because, as Coach likes to say, you can get used to things going well, but you’re never prepared for something going wrong.

I’m on Free Throw Number Twenty-Seven We take turns, switching every time we miss. JB has hit forty-one, the last twelve in a row. Filthy, keep up, man, keep up, he says. Dad laughs loud, and says, Filthy, your brother is putting on a free-throw clinic. You better— And suddenly he bowls over, a look of horror on his face, and starts coughing while clutching his chest, only no sound comes. I freeze. JB runs over to him. Dad, you okay? he asks. I still can’t move. There is a stream of sweat on Dad’s face. Maybe he’s overheating, I say. His mouth is curled up like a little tunnel. JB grabs the water hose, turns the faucet on full blast, and sprays Dad. Some of it goes in Dad’s mouth. Then I hear the sound of coughing, and Dad is no longer leaning against the car, now he’s moving toward the hose, and laughing. So is JB. Then Dad grabs the hose and sprays both of us. Now I’m laughing too, but only on the outside.

He probably just got something stuck in his throat, JB says when I ask him if he thought Dad was sick and shouldn’t we tell Mom what happened. So, when the phone rings, it’s ironic that after saying hello, he throws the phone to me, because, even though his lips are moving, JB is speechless, like he’s got something stuck in his throat.

i·ron·ic [AY-RON-IK] adjective Having a curious or humorous unexpected sequence of events marked by coincidence. As in: The fact that Vondie hates astronomy and his mom works for NASA is ironic. As in: It’s not ironic that Grandpop died in a hospital and Dad doesn’t like doctors. As in: Isn’t it ironic that showoff JB, with all his swagger, is too shy to talk to Miss Sweet Tea, so he gives me the phone?

This Is Alexis—May I Please Speak to Jordan? Identical twins are no different from everyone else, except we look and sometimes sound exactly alike.

Phone Conversation (I Sub for JB) Was that your brother? Yep, that was Josh. I’m JB. I know who you are, silly—I called you. Uh, right. You have any siblings, Alexis? Two sisters. I’m the youngest. And the prettiest. You haven’t seen them. I don’t need to. That’s sweet. Sweet as pomegranate. Okay, that was random. That’s me. Jordan, can I ask you something? Yep. Did you get my text? Uh, yeah. So, what’s your answer? Uh, my answer. I don’t know. Stop being silly, Jordan. I’m not. Then tell me your answer. Are y’all rich? I don’t know. Didn’t your dad play in the NBA? No, he played in Italy. But still, he made a lot of money, right? It’s not like we’re opulent. Who says “opulent”? I do. You never use big words like that at school . . . I have a reputation to uphold. Is he cool? Who? Your dad. Very. So, when are you gonna introduce me? Introduce you? To your parents. I’m waiting for the right moment. Which is when? Uh— So, am I your girlfriend or not? Uh, can you hold on for a second? Sure, she says. Cover the mouthpiece, JB mouths to me. I do, then whisper to him: She wants to know are you her boyfriend. And when are you gonna introduce her to Mom and Dad. What should I tell her, JB? Tell her yeah, I guess, I mean, I don’t know. I gotta pee, JB says, running out of the room, leaving me still in his shoes. Okay, I’m back, Alexis. So, what’s the verdict, Jordan? Do you want to be my girlfriend? Are you asking me to be your girl? Uh, I think so. You think so? Well, I have to go now. Yes. Yes, what? I like you. A lot. I like you, too . . . Precious. So, now I’m Precious? Everyone calls you JB. Then I guess it’s official. Text me later. Good night, Miss Sweet— What did you call me? Uh, good night, my sweetness. Good night, Precious. JB comes running out of the bathroom. What’d she say, Josh? Come on, tell me. She said she likes me a lot, I tell him. You mean she likes me a lot? he asks. Yeah . . . that’s what I meant.

JB and I eat lunch together every day, taking bites of Mom’s tuna salad on wheat between arguments: Who’s the better dunker, Blake or LeBron? Which is superior, Nike or Converse? Only today I wait at our table in the back for twenty-five minutes, texting Vondie (home sick), eating a fruit cup (alone), before I see JB strut into the cafeteria with Miss Sweet Tea holding his precious hand.

Boy walks into a room with a girl. They come over. He says, Hey, Filthy McNasty like he’s said forever, but it sounds different this time, and when he snickers, she does too, like it’s some inside joke, and my nickname, some dirty punch line.

At practice Coach says we need to work on our mental game. If we think we can beat Independence Junior High— the defending champions, the number one seed, the only other undefeated team— then we will. But instead of drills and sprints, we sit on our butts, make weird sounds— Ohmmmmmmmm Ohmmmmmmmm— and meditate. Suddenly I get this vision of JB in a hospital. I quickly open my eyes, turn around, and see him looking dead at me like he’s just seen a ghost.

Second-Person After practice, you walk home alone. This feels strange to you, because as long as you can remember there has always been a second person. On today’s long, hot mile, you bounce your basketball, but your mind is on something else. Not whether you will make the playoffs. Not homework. Not even what’s for dinner. You wonder what JB and his pink Reebok–wearing girlfriend are doing. You do not want to go to the library. But you go. Because your report on The Giver is due tomorrow. And JB has your copy. But he’s with her. Not here with you. Which is unfair. Because he doesn’t argue with you about who’s the greatest, Michael Jordan or Bill Russell, like he used to. Because JB will not eat lunch with you tomorrow or the next day, or next week. Because you are walking home by yourself and your brother owns the world.

Third Wheel You walk into the library, glance over at the music section. You look through the magazines. You even sit at a desk and pretend to study. You ask the librarian where you can find The Giver. She says something odd: Did you find your friend? Then she points upstairs. On the second floor, you pass by the computers. Kids checking their Facebook. More kids in line waiting to check their Facebook. In the Biography section you see an old man reading The Tipping Point. You walk down the last aisle, Teen Fiction, and come to the reason you’re here. You remove the book from the shelf. And there, behind the last row of books, you find the “friend” the librarian was talking about. Only she’s not your friend and she’s kissing your brother.

tip·ping point [TIH-PING POYNT] noun The point when an object shifts from one position into a new, entirely different one. As in: My dad says the tipping point of our country’s economy was housing gamblers and greedy bankers. As in: If we get one C on our report cards, I’m afraid Mom will reach her tipping point and that will be the end of basketball. As in: Today at the library, I went upstairs, walked down an aisle, pulled The Giver off the shelf, and found my tipping point.

The main reason I can’t sleep is not because of the game tomorrow tonight, is not because the stubble on my head feels like bugs are break dancing on it, is not even because I’m worried about Dad. The main reason I can’t sleep tonight is because Jordan is on the phone with Miss Sweet Tea and between the giggling and the breathing he tells her how much she’s the apple of his eye and that he wants to peel her and get under her skin and give me a break. I’m still hungry and right about now I wish I had an apple of my own.

Surprised I have it all planned out. When we walk to the game I will talk to JB man to man about how he’s spending way more time with Alexis than with me and Dad. Except when I hear the horn, I look outside my window and it’s raining and JB is jumping into a car with Miss Sweet Tea and her dad, ruining my plan.

Conversation In the car I ask Dad if going to the doctor will kill him. He tells me he doesn’t trust doctors, that my grandfather did and look where it got him: six feet under at forty-five. But Mom says your dad was really sick, I tell him, and Dad just rolls his eyes, so I try something different. I tell him that just because your teammate gets fouled on a lay-up doesn’t mean you shouldn’t ever drive to the lane again. He looks at me and laughs so loud, we almost don’t hear the flashing blues behind us.

Game Time: 6:00 p.m. At 5:28 p.m. a cop pulls us over because Dad has a broken taillight. At 5:30 the officer approaches our car and asks Dad for his driver’s license and registration. At 5:32 the team leaves the locker room and pregame warm-ups begin without me. At 5:34 Dad explains to the officer that his license is in his wallet, which is in his jacket at home. At 5:37 Dad says, Look, sir, my name is Chuck Bell, and I’m just trying to get my boy to his basketball game. At 5:47 while Coach leads the Wildcats in team prayer, I pray Dad won’t get arrested. At 5:48 the cop smiles after verifying Dad’s identity on Google, and says, You “Da Man”! At 5:50 Dad autographs a Krispy Kreme napkin for the officer and gets a warning for his broken taillight. At 6:01 we arrive at the game but on my sprint into the gym I slip and fall in the mud.

This is my second year playing for the Reggie Lewis Wildcats and I’ve started every game until tonight, when Coach tells me to go get cleaned up then find a seat on the bench. When I try to tell him it wasn’t my fault, he doesn’t want to hear about sirens and broken taillights. Josh, better an hour too soon than a minute too late, he says, turning his attention back to JB and the guys on the court, all of whom are pointing and laughing at me.

Basketball Rule #6 A great team has a good scorer with a teammate who’s on point and ready to assist.

Josh’s Play-by-Play At the beginning of the second half we’re up twenty-three to twelve. I enter the game for the first time. I’m just happy to be back on the floor. When my brother and I are on the court together this team is unstoppable, unfadeable. And, yes, undefeated. JB brings the ball up the court. Passes the ball to Vondie. He shoots it back to JB. I call for the ball. JB finds me in the corner. I know y’all think it’s time for the pick-and-roll, but I got something else in mind. I get the ball on the left side. JB is setting the pick. Here it comes— I roll to his right. The double-team is on me, leaving JB free. He’s got his hands in the air, looking for the dish from me. Dad likes to say, When Jordan Bell is open you can take his three to the bank, cash it in, ’cause it’s all money. Tonight, I’m going for broke. I see JB’s still wide open. McDonald’s drive-thru open. But I got my own plans. The double-team is still on me like feathers on a bird. Ever seen an eagle soar? So high, so fly. Me and my wings are— and that’s when I remember: MY. WINGS. ARE. GONE. Coach Hawkins is out of his seat. Dad is on his feet, screaming. JB’s screaming. The crowd’s screaming, FILTHY, PASS THE BALL! The shot clock is at 5. I dribble out of the double-team. 4 Everything comes to a head. 3I see Jordan. 2 You want it that bad? HERE YA GO! 1 . . .

Before Today, I walk into the gym covered in more dirt than a chimney. When JB screams FILTHY’S McNasty, the whole team laughs. Even Coach. Then I get benched for the entire first half. For being late. Today, I watch as we take a big lead, and JB makes four threes in a row. I hear the crowd cheer for JB, especially Dad and Mom. Then I see JB wink at Miss Sweet Tea after he hits a stupid free throw. Today, I finally get into the game at the start of the second half. JB sets a wicked pick for me just like Coach showed us in practice, And I get double-teamed on the roll just like we expect. Today, I watch JB get open and wave for me to pass. Instead I dribble, trying to get out of the trap, and watch as Coach and Dad scream for me to pass. Today, I plan on passing the ball to JB, but when I hear him say “FILTHY, give me the ball,” I dribble over to my brother and fire a pass so hard, it levels him, the blood from his nose still shooting long after the shotclock buzzer goes off.