What is Tarkov? Who is Tarkov? Why is Tarkov….I’m sure all of these questions are going through your brain right now but look no more. Escape from Tarkov is a video game that was made by Battlestate Games for Computers.

Tarkov is a MMO-style game. It is one of the most hardcore games ever made available to the public. It is just like real life….sort’ve.

You can find loot in-game and if you’re lucky, extract from the map and be able to go into another raid with the loot you just found. You can also trade loot with the dealers in the game or sell the items for in game currencies such as: roubles, dollars or euro’s.

There are seven maps total you can play on at the moment. These maps are: Customs, Woods, Reserve, Interchange, Factory, Shoreline and The Lab or “Labs” as most people call it. These maps are all extremely different in their own way, such as Labs is a very small map where a lot of people with juicy loot go, to find more good loot. Woods however, is very spaced out with very wide open area’s with a lot of tree’s to hide around. No matter what play style you have, you will be able to find maps you’ll like. These maps are very spacious and very unlike Call of Duty. It is a realistic game.

As for your character, you can adjust how much sound you make for the speed you walk or crouch. You can lean in almost every direction which is very different compared to other games. You can lean over counters or lean completely sideways while prone and lean on the side of your body. The movement mechanics are very janky, like in PUBG.

As for healing, this game is superior but yet again, also very realistic.

You have 3 types of medicine in Tarkov. Painkillers, Medical Supplies and Surgical Kits. For painkillers, you have: Painkillers, Vaseline, Goldenstar’s (Better Vaselines), Augmentin, Ibuprofen and Injectors. There are A LOT of different kind’s of injectors that do a lot of different things. These things could be, regeneration, increased strength and stimulants. You can have these at the expense of becoming Dehydrated at a faster rate or losing energy (which you gain from eating food). As for Medical Supplies, you have AI-2 Kits which can only heal 100 health points, I-FAC kits that can heal 300 health points, Salewa’s that heal 400 and Grizzly kits have 1500 health points. Finally there are surgery kits. Splints also go in this category. There are Survb-12 kits which allow you to fix fractures and revive a blacked-out limbs.

Someone who is very connected in the world of tarkov and is quite good at it also goes by the name DrLupo. Below is a video that accurately describes the game.

Tarkov is a very complicated game and it has a very large learning curve. However, once you get the game, it becomes addicting. Enjoy this video below of me failing in Tarkov if you want to see some quality Gameplay.

So I just started making beats and It is exceptionally hard! Making music is a beautiful thing and I think everyone should be at least listening to music. I have been watching this guy “prodbyocean” and he makes some great beats and I can totally see him producing for bigger artists in the near future. In the video above he makes a beat that would be good for Lil Tecca or Trippie Redd. Being that these two artists are some of the bigger names, it is important to know what kind of beats to make and learn a new style.

There is a scene from the film where Daniel Craig is sneaking around the killer’s property and gets stuck there and saved by the Rooney Mara. So what happens in this scene which makes it very unique and different is the lighting and timing of this scene. It is unusually long which adds a whole lot of suspense which adds to the amount of attention  given from the audience. Daniel Craig is snooping around the killer’s house looking for clues and details that he can find nowhere else. Then all of a sudden, we hear a car pull into the driveway and Daniel Craig panics and tries to get out of the house. He does, to an extent. This is a very private area and nobody is supposed to be trespassing. He gets out of the house but leaves a few doors open on accident. This is also very unique because Daniel Craig is usually seen being an overall badass since he is James Bond in other films; this time he is seen as a weak figure and completely not a baddass. However, he falls on his way out on some rocks outside the killer’s house. The killer sees him on the horizon after hearing him fall and asks Craig if he’d come in and join him for a drink; Craig reluctantly accepts the offer because he is scared of the killer (who wouldn’t be). So they go in and have a drink, the killer notices something was wrong with Craig and notices that a knife was missing out of his Kitchen and knew that Craig had it. The killer then takes a gun out of the drawer then points it at Craig and leads Craig to his basement to “talk”. He then puts on a gas mask and sets off a chemical attack of some sorts on Craig. He wakes up in this harness hanging from the ceiling and helpless; he is going to die. However at the last second, Rooney Mara comes into the house and the basement and hits the killer on the back of the head with a pipe of some sorts. Rooney gets Craig out of the harness and goes after the killer and gets into a high speed chase with him when she’s on a motorcycle.  He gets into a car crash and his car explodes. What makes these sequences of events so special is that finally in the end, the killer gets what he deserves. The editing was also fantastic because it truly affects the mood and the emotions the audience feels. That is what made this scene and film great.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a fantastic film. Between the storyline, acting and editing, the film is one to remember. The film is an example of what a great drama and suspense film looks like. The roles played by Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig are so perfect for the film and prove that anything is possible between a 51 year old man, and a 34 year old woman. When I first watched this film, I was 11 years old and had no idea what I was in for when watching the film. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has me from a young age to know what a good drama and suspense film looks like, how the roles of the two main characters in the film can be so perfect and how this film ruined my childhood. 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a Film written by Steven Zaillian and Stieg Larrson and directed by David Fincher. The two main characters in this film are Mikael Blomkvist, who is played by Daniel Craig and Lisbeth Salander who is played by Rooney Mara. It takes place somewhere in the United Kingdom or Europe. Mikael is a reporter of some sort and also turns out to be great at solving crimes and finding the “dirty” things people have done that nobody knows about. Rooney is a gothic woman who we later find out to like both men and women. One Christmas Mikael gets an important call from the receptionist of a very rich businessman. Mikael answers this call and gets requested to go out of town to meet with this rich businessman for an urgent talk. He goes and gets offered to take off from his job to solve a 40 year old mystery. Mikael would get to live in a nice cottage on the island in which the mystery is on and to make 2 times his salary per month if he does not solve it or 4 times his salary if he does solve it. There was a lot on Mikael’s mind because he does have a wife and kids, however it was an opportunity he could not turn down. He moves into the cottage then realizes there is not great cell service on the island. He gets to work. He questions all of the family members available and all the questions needed to help with the mystery. Unfortunately, there was not enough available evidence as the months went by. In today’s world the number one way of obtaining a lot of accurate information in a short period of time is illegal but may be worth it to some people. These people are Hackers. Mikael knocks on a woman’s door early in the morning; she goes by the name of Lisbeth. In the specific scene where we meet Lisbeth for the first time, she is sleeping in bed with a Woman she was making love too in the club the night before. Lisbeth kicked her out after inviting Mikael in to talk about the mystery. Lisbeth offered to be of help to Mikael in his mystery with her incredible Hacking skills; we see her buy a device from a sketchy man in an apartment to plant it underneath a building to receive what information is going in and out through the internet access in the building. Mikael brings Lisbeth to the cottage and explains all of his findings on the way to the site. Lisbeth started to gain knowledge for the information Mikael had and things slowly started to pick up when Lisbeth was introduced to the mystery and was onboard. Earlier in the film when we meet Lisbeth she is forced to perform oral sex on the man who controls her bank accounts and writes reports on her for the court system. Shortly after this situation, Lisbeth needed more money for “groceries”. This time the man invites her to his apartment and actually rapes her. Fortunately for her, she had a secret camera in her bag she laid down in the room so she had gotten the entire thing on tape. It was absolutely brutal and maybe is one of the few reasons Lisbeth is the way she is. Going back to after she is put on the case, Lisbeth went back to the man’s apartment however this time she was prepared. When the man came to the door, she was talking to him casually and then tased him with a lot of volts when given the opportunity. She dragged him to his room and tied him to the bed as he did to her. She gets her payback by tattooing “I AM A RAPIST” on his chest; that was permanent. She also blackmails him with the video taken from her bag and tells him to give her the money she wants when she wants it and to write amazing things about her in the letters to the court system. She gets her money and gets back on the case with Mikael right away. After the first couple of nights they end up having sex with eachother which was initiated by Lisbeth; Mikael cheats on his wife and we find out that Lisbeth is not Lesbian but Bi-Sexual. After this point in the film things start to escalate quickly. We find a dead cat on the front door step of the cottage. The cat was a symbol of tranquility, once the cat died, it all started to come together. Mikael was told by the rich businessman at the beginning of the mystery that they were allowed to have whatever they needed and whenever they needed it. So, the only way they could get information was going to their warehouse where they kept all of the files necessary to help solve the mystery. As Lisbeth is in the Warehouse, she connects all of the dots and solves the mystery. When this is happening, Mikael is visiting one of the people who they met earlier in the book because he actually is the person who committed the crime. Mikael sneaks into the man’s house, and gets caught by the man red handed when jumping out of his house. The man in which Mikael was investigating, invites Mikael in for a drink. Mikeal thinks about it and accepts reluctantly. They talk and as they are talking, the man notices one of the knives missing out of his knife box on his kitchen counter. At this moment, the man conveniently has a gun in which he pulls out and points it at Mikael, and guides him with a threat of a bullet in his brain to his basement which has heavy security in it. Once Mikael gets in the basement, the man puts a gas mask on quickly and activates a gas attack on Mikael which knocks him out. He wakes up strapped in a type of torturing device in which the man uses to ask him questions and attempts to kill him. Lisbeth sneaks up behind the Man and knocks him out with a golf club. Lisbeth gets to release Mikael while the Man slowly gets up and gets away. Mikael allows Lisbeth to track him down and kill him. They get into a car chase and ultimately the man loses control of his car, crashes and dies from the car’s explosion. When they get back to the cottage, they realize the daughter who disappeared was actually not dead and went away to get away from her rapist father and brother. After this, the hacker impersonates someone else and empties out all of the rich businessman’s bank accounts illegally. The daughter finally decides to come back to her hometown to see her father after 40 years of not seeing him. That is the basic story timeline of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

This fantastic Drama and Suspense Film is one that fits its categories very well. The movie creates such suspense because of the slow pace and the length of the film. The film is over two and a half hours long, which is pretty long for a film of this nature, however it worked. The time worked well to create suspense while simultaneously creating drama in the process. In the beginning of the film, we meet both of the characters at the same time however we as the audience did not see them meet each other yet. Seeing both of these characters built up suspicion in the viewers head of when were they going to meet? Finally, Mikael shows up to Lisbeth’s apartment and they meet. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition of drama is “verse or prose intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue and typically designed for theatrical performance”. This film is 100 percent a drama. As for the plot, the roles of the main characters fit perfectly.

 You have a man and a woman as the main roles so it promotes cultural diversity. Daniel Craig is a great fit for Mikael. He naturally has an accent from Europe or the United Kingdom and has had fantastic acting opportunities such as James Bond and others. The role of Daniel Craig is much different from James Bond to Mikael due to the action factor. However the smart part of Daniel Craig is in Mikael to solve the mystery. As for Lisbeth, Rooney Mara has a very important role in the film due to the fact that she is a woman, but is also “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”. If it was not for Lisbeth, Mikael would have most likely not solved the mystery. This film is very realistic and could totally happen in today’s society. This film is not didactic but does have the opportunity to teach the audience real life lessons about hacking and how nasty and sick people can be today. I think the decisions David Fincher made as the director were very good and helped the film immensely. The editing in this film made everything better, between the coloring, shading, fast cuts, transitions and overall timing between scenes. The rhythm and tone of how each character talks is very important to the mood of the film and what emotions they are trying to provoke the audience of. There are no politics involved in the shooting or any parts of this film due this film was based and made off of a book. As for religious beliefs, the Bible was referenced a lot in the film. It has a lot of significance when trying to solve the mystery since the murders were linked to certain places in the bible and the way the people were murdered.

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I got back to my dorm and decided that I’d try to play some games on my computer. Now the backstory to my computer is that it was randomly restarting because I installed some new DDR4 RAM that was the same brand but had a different over-clockable speed. The RAM I installed was 3200 mHz vs. the 3600 mHz RAM I already had installed. I started up a game and It was going good but then it finally randomly restarted. Now I really have to diagnose the issue with my IT department at my college.

This video was probably the most interesting yet obscure thing I’ve ever watched before. I feel that it was very important for me to watch this because I do stay in the same schedule or loop every day and I don’t really decide what I want to do, when I want to do it 100 percent of the time. Max Hawkins is a man of intelligence and has definitely shown that by being employed by Google and then being able to develop an app at his fingertips. He just made it sound so simple and easy. This way of living he has created is definitely going to grow in the following years but only for the people willing to explore the world at random…

So, have you ever wondered what some weird uses for photoshop are? Photoshop is today’s leading software when it comes to photo altering and production. Bakeries can use photoshop to put personalized photos on cakes and cookies. You can really put a photo on any desert or food; the bakery I used to work at would print out things with edible ink onto white or black fondant. That is just one of the many reasons how photoshop can be used obscurely.

The most important game of the season, the “sUpEr BoWl”. The only good things about the game this year was actually the game itself. It was a good match up between both teams and the best part was the Patriots were NOT in this time. I believe that there should be new teams every year to keep viewership up and keep revenue up. On the flip side of things, the half-time show was something else.

In 2020, there will be something called “Deepfakes” in the election. It is essentially making a false video of someone or something doing something or saying something that they should not or would not actually say to affect there image in other peoples minds. Judgement on things you truly did not due would completely ruin any of your chances at getting a position at any place. It would ruin your life entirely based on the scale at which it is seen at aka viewership

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This video was kinda wild. It made me realize how words and sounds can sound so cool when put together in different ways and orders. “Nootiquamago eeeeshha naïf”, “Moouamakifoguamo eetuhaa’.

This video was EXCITING. Highly recommend.