Jenny's LCN639 Blog

First of all, I'd like to apologise for taking so long to get my blog sorted! I haven't been slacking off, it's just that I decided to tackle the fabled shooter game genre for my first post and it has taken much longer than expected! (I'm also a full-time student doing 4 subjects if I can use that as an excuse? Or, maybe, my dog ate my blog!) It has been hard for me to find good topics to write about as I feel like I am not in the my area of expertise over here. I'm a TESOL major that seems to have gotten lost in the library! However, I've been feverishly slaving away on my blog for weeks! I also discovered that I am a bit of a Luddite even though I like to be ahead of the technological curve. I've got the tech but I can't use it effectively. This is not surprising given that my undergraduate degree was in Classical Languages! This is an accurate depiction of my life right now. (GIF Source:  http://litographs.tumblr.com/post/91405257975/when-we-...

Recen tly, on just another average morning, while I was drinking my tea, there was a sensational feature on the popular game Fortnite blaring on the telly. Admittedly, I have never actually played Fortnite , and therefore I cannot contribute to the conversation about the game, or complain about it! However, I am a fan of shooters… well, one in particular: Nintendo’s cute and surprisingly deep offering to the shooter game genre Splatoon 2 . This game subverts the violence and realism of most shooting games by creating an innocuous world where battles are held for fun by anthropomorphic squids (and recently, octopods) with weapons filled with brightly coloured ink. Therefore, in this post I will be discussing a video game, drawing on topics from both LCN639 and LCN638 (Sociolinguistics). 'Splatoon 2' Box art and Title Screen on a Nintendo Switch Console in handheld mode. Video Games in General I am actually quite nervous to discuss...