Writer's notebook

  Games have come a long way in terms of gameplay, graphics and the whole experience in general. Games were just for kids and weren't that realistic just 10 years ago but now games feel more realistic that real life. People are playing games day in and day out. Here are the top 6 most sold games of all time.               6. Super Mario Bros:  Super Mario Bros was first published in 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). This was the predecessor of the widely popular 1983 game Mario Bros. At first only released in Japan and some parts of the U.S. it got broadly released in 1987 all over North America. The game was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka and was praised worldwide and managed to sell more than 58 million copies which was a huge milestone at that time.           The game follows Mario, the protagonist of the series. In the multipl...

It's the middle of the night and you are having a nice sleep after a long, exhausting day and suddenly you feel a heavy weight on your chest, you can't move your hands or your legs. You open your eyes and see a ghostly figure sitting on your chest or standing beside you, you try to call for help but you can't move your mouth either. You are scared and wondering what you are going through. Well that was a sleep paralysis you just experienced.  Most of us have experienced this kind of incident in our lives because 4 out of 10 people have confessed to experiencing the night-hag. So the night-hag or the old-had is a situation in which the victim feels the same things as a sleep paralysis, that is why it is commonly associated with sleep paralysis. This demon can be either visible or invisible to the victim. The best depiction of this is in Henry Fuseli's painting "The Nightmare".  Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781 Here you can see a demon sitting on its victims ch...

 Dogs are undoubtedly human's greatest and closest friends. From cuddling in the bed to pulling sledge or guarding there is a dog breed for everyone's needs in all shapes and sizes. When you come back from work, tired and frustrated by the world and the infinite number of projects by your boss and colleagues, you see your dog welcoming you with a wagging tail. He/she gives you some sniffs, jumps all around you and gives you some not so gentle hugs. Dogs are not shy expressing their joy and excitement seeing you and when you see their eyes, filled with love and care that has no other intention but love and protect you with their lives, all of your tiredness, frustration vanishes in a second.      Image credit:Petfinder          If you are a dog lover/owner, you should also know that that cute poodle you are holding shares 97% of its genes with a wild wolf. Yeah! One slight genetic mutation will change your dog into a ferocious predictor. All t...

  What makes an anime to be considered as a classic anime, might vary from person to person. But for most it comes down to two points: Passing the course of time. The impact it had on the industry. The hardest test that every anime or any movie, animation,game has to overcome is time.        "And every fair from fair sometime declines By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed."                                William Shakespeare   Time is always changing so is people's taste in anime, the animation style. Most of the anime tend to be forgotten after it reaches the highest mark. This is a normal thing, nothing can be relevant for eternity, everything has to decline at some point in the future. But even though the classic shows have lost their peak in popularity, they are so unique that new fans watch them by recommendation and older fans watch them over and over again just t...

  The beta for the new Call of Duty ® Modern Warfare 2 has been released just a few days ago. People are all hyped and players who are given the chance to play the beta are all over it because we are only given 1 or 2 games from the famous Call of Duty franchise each year.  Activision announced the game back on 8th of June,2022 with a quote that suggests " a new era for Call of Duty ® begins on october 28." They claimed it will be an involved special Ops experience.  First of all slide cancelling is completely removed from the game so you can't move around the map like a rampaging monkey and it will contribute a huge role in the overall gameplay. A new mechanic called 'dolphin dive' is added to the game and as the name suggests you can dive through small obstacles, windows rather than climbing them but it has a slight delay while shooting also running and shooting has a delay too. The FOV(field of view) can go upto 120 which is again a pretty neat feature and mig...

 People mostly think about sharks, killer whales and giant octopus when asked about terrifying sea creatures, but in the deep sea there are much more terrifying creatures lurking around  1.Grilled shark:     Image credit (PBS) Grilled shark was discovered in Awashima, Japan and is known to be at least 80 million years old by scientists. They commonly appear at a depth of 50 to 200 m (160 to 660 ft) where they hunt their prey with their huge and flexible jaws which also have around 300 razor sharp teeth. Although they mostly live close to the sea level compared to other deep sea creatures, scientists have found specimens as deep as 12,00 m (3900 ft). 2. Chimaera:     Image credit(Adobe shark) Chimaeras, also known as ghost sharks, rat fish, are believed to be 420 million years old. They can grow upto 50 to 200 cm and their skin colour can vary from pitch black to brownish gray .They are mostly found in the template ocean floor in the depth of 2600 m (8500 ft...

    ( Image credit: Disney )  MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) debuted in 2008 with their first superhero movie Iron Man(2008), starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and was directed by Jon Favreau who also played the role of Happy Hogan in the movie. But the movie has little to no chances of becoming a commercial success, as the superhero market was dominated by titles like Spiderman, Batman and Superman. Besides Iron man comics were not that popular either, so realising a movie about him was like shooting an arrow in a dark room with the hope of hitting the target. But Marvel not only hit the target, they got a straight Bullseye. The movie became an instant hit, managing to collect over 588 million dollars worldwide. This was the beginning of one of the most iconic movie franchises of all time.  Looking at the success of Iron man Marvel released 4 movies in a span of three years including Incredible Hulk(2008), Iron man 2(2010), Thor(2011) and Captain America:...