Mrs. Ho's 11th Grade AP Lang 2022-2023

 Those who have looked at my last 3 blog posts (or spent time with me in person) may be wondering “How the ***** can someone keep on talking about Apex Legends???!” Well, JOKES ON YOU I AM JUST GETTING STARTED! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM CAPABLE OF!  I WAS UP AT 4 AM DURING THANKSGIVING PLAYING! MY OPINIONS AND LOVE FOR THIS GAME ARE STRONGER THAN YOU COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED THERE IS NO ESCAPE (cackles with evil)! Anyways, in this blog, I will be concluding my discussion of the issues plaguing Apex legends, the future of this game, the community backlash, and my hope for the future.  Apex Legends SBMM (skilled based match-making) is used in order to ensure the new players don’t get curb stomped too quickly and quit. It is also used to ensure current players do not quit. Unfortunately (or fortunately) Apex doesn’t actually use SBMM, it uses EOMM/EBMM (engagement optimized/based match-making) in order to ensure players don’t quit. A large portion of Apex’s EOMM is SBMM...

The last push of the semester is coming up, so it is extremely important to focus and study to get good grades for midterms. While studying, it can be tempting to check your phone for just a minute, but the temptation causes us to get sucked into social media and other distractions, which causes us to waste time rather than study. So, as I study for my midterms this weekend, here are my top distractions to avoid. YouTube. There is always one more clickbaity video to watch. Then once you watch that, there's always another video queued up with an exciting title and thumbnail. As a result of what you click on, the algorithm knows what videos you would be interested in. YouTube is a big attention grabber. TikTok. TikTok may be the biggest distraction of all time. The TikTok app is a social media platform that lets you post short videos and scroll through them as if they're endless. TikToks range from pranks to advertisements and funny dances. Instagram. The gram. It is easy to get ...