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'It' floats above the original mini-series

By Emily Reuben / September 16, 2017

Let’s face it (hah), the popularity of the 1990 mini-series is highly reliant on nostalgia. The problem with nostalgia is that it blinds people to the faults of the content they love. So when it was announced that It would be receiving a remake, many fans were skeptical. Tim Curry is a hard act to follow, and many fans were worried that the remake wouldn’t measure up to the original they love. Luckily, that’s not the case.

ENTERTAINMENT

Input 2 S3E1: We all float down here

By Sarah James , Matthew Yapp and Dylan Bateson / September 15, 2017

In this episode, we look at the biggest horror movie in the theaters right now, It. What makes this film better or different than other recent horror movies? Why are children such an important part of horror movies as a whole? how does this film compare to the 1990 Tim Curry mini-series? What do we want from the inevitable sequel? All this and more on this episode of Input 2!

ENTERTAINMENT

"Undertale":Two years of drama, passion, and fanworks

By Emily Reuben / September 15, 2017

Today marks the two year anniversary of Undertale’s release. Featuring various endings, Undertale begins with the player falling into the Underground inhabited by monsters. The player must find a way to return to the human world. Along the way the player will meet interesting characters, battle various monsters, and solve puzzles to return home. The simple premise that separates Undertalefrom other RPGs? The player does not have to kill anyone. Everything comes down to choice. For those who have not yet played Undertale, saying anything more about the plot would be a huge disservice. 

ENTERTAINMENT

Fall Out Boy releases new song and announces the Fall Out Boy Fund

By Sarah James / September 15, 2017

This morning, Chicago based rock group, Fall Out Boy, released the newest single off their upcoming album MANIA. The song, “The Last of the Real Ones” is the third single to be released in promotion of their seventh studio album, which was originally going to be released this month but has been pushed back until January 19th. 

ENTERTAINMENT

PewDiePie used a racial slur on livestream. Is he a liability for YouTube?

By Jeremy Rogers / September 14, 2017

Now YouTube’s biggest star has made headlines again for using a racial epithet. Not only have YouTubers such as Matt Collins of Nerd3, “Angry” Joe Vargus, Danny O’Dwyer, and more condemned Felix for his words and actions as of late; some like Jim Sterling have even started claiming that PewDiePie is a liability for everyone else who uses YouTube to obtain their income because of his new racist image. 

TECH

iPhone X: Specs and details

By Eben Griger / September 13, 2017

After a litany of iPhones all bearing incremental numbers, Apple has decided to skip the iPhone 9 and reveal the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X (pronounced “iPhone ten”) at the same time. 

GAMING

'The Witches' Tea Party' casts a spell that captures attention

By Lindsey Murphy / September 13, 2017

The game was published by Rabbiton and developed with RPG Maker and is a casual indie game that is story driven, and sets out on a short but absorbing plot filled with the drama of each witch’s past. There is no combat; the game is mainly based around puzzles, small detective segments, and storytelling. It’s cute, and sometimes very creepy. 

TECH

Worldwide drone database could be coming

By Eben Griger / September 10, 2017

In the US alone, drone enthusiasts put up such a fight against the Federal Aviation Admission that the FAA eventually repealed it's law requiring drones to be entered in a national registry, after only a year and a half. 

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