Jacob Smith

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Reviewers of both AAA and indie PC games, focusing on fair and honest criticism | [email protected]

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Articles

Florida State, Luke Loucks score high in preseason roster analysis

2 weeks ago | fsuwire.usatoday.com | Jacob Smith

First-year head coaches have it pretty rough; you either adapt to the grind of big-time basketball or you do not. There really isn't a middle ground here. Now, given that the college season hasn't tipped off yet, there isn't much in terms of active play to grade a coach on. However, we can critique and analyze their roster construction going into the season.
Intriguing basketball prospect signs with Florida State

2 weeks ago | fsuwire.usatoday.com | Jacob Smith

Florida State basketball is back on the recruiting trail once again, and in Luke Loucks' first year at the helm, he appears to be pushing full-steam ahead in terms of landing intriguing prospects out of the transfer portal. Shahid Muhammad, a former player for the UMass Minutemen and the Seton Hall Pirates, has announced on X that he has committed to the Florida State Seminoles. Born in Queens, New York, Muhammad attended the Academy Of The New Church Boys School and first played at Seton Hall.
Intriguing 4-star shooting guard prospect to visit Florida State

4 weeks ago | fsuwire.usatoday.com | Jacob Smith

Florida State basketball is back on the recruiting trail once again, and in the first offseason of the Luke Loucks era, they appear to be going after some big names. That includes four-star prospect Kohl Rosario, who 247Sports analyst Dushawn London describes as a "spring stock riser."Rosario, a shooting guard out of Moravian Prep (North Carolina), is ranked third in his state and 96th nationally.
CEL 2025 Insights Report - Copy

4 weeks ago | defenceleaders.com | Jacob Smith

A summary of some of the topics covered and key takeaways from the 2025 Combat Engineer and Logistics Conference staged in Warsaw, Poland.
OPINION: “Vote Harder” isn’t enough - we’re losing power because we aren’t using it

2 months ago | technicianonline.com | Jacob Smith

Every election season, we hear the same tired mantra: “Vote like your rights depend on it.” Eligible voters show up, cast our ballots and cross our fingers while we watch the counts being announced. However, when the results disappoint — or nothing seems to shift — we’re left gobsmacked. Democracy isn’t broken because people aren’t voting hard enough. It’s faltering because voting is being treated as the only thing that matters.
OPINION: The grind never stops, but we definitely should

2 months ago | technicianonline.com | Jacob Smith

Modern-day “hustle culture” has convinced us all that we don’t just work to live anymore — we live to work. We live in a society where it is collectively believed, and wrongfully so, that rest is for the weak and that stopping, even for a moment, means failure. Productivity has evolved from what it once was; it has gone from a goal to an expectation and a measure of our worth as human beings. But if the grind never stops, what happens when we do?
OPINION: ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is a mirror of modern medicine’s blind spot

Mar 25, 2025 | technicianonline.com | Jacob Smith

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” was first published in 1892 and is a chilling short story that explores the mental deterioration of a woman who was subjected to the “rest cure.” The story became a foundational text in feminist literature, highlighting how patriarchal medical practices ignored women’s voices and autonomy within the medical field.
OPINION: Recognizing Black English as a dialect - not a deficit - in academic settings

Feb 26, 2025 | technicianonline.com | Jacob Smith

Imagine being told the way you speak — the language you use within your household, family or culture — is “wrong.” For many Black Americans, this hypothetical situation is a daily reality that plagues classrooms and workplaces. Rather than dismissing the mannerisms of Black English, what if we embraced it, recognizing it as what it is — a legitimate dialect deserving the same respect as any other dialect within educational and professional realms?
OPINION: North Carolina teens are being set up for failure in sex ed

Feb 13, 2025 | technicianonline.com | Jacob Smith

Remember that one scene from Mean Girls where the gym teacher says, “Don’t have sex, ‘cause you will get pregnant and die”? That’s not too far from what some students hear in school. The scene is humorous because of its absurdity — but what’s not funny is that for many students in the U.S., their actual sex education isn’t much better.
OPINION: ‘Originalism’ is a political stain on the tapestry of the Law

Jan 28, 2025 | technicianonline.com | Jacob Smith

The Law — the concept of the law itself rather than the actual codified law in the American system — exists similarly to a finely woven tapestry, in which the story of a nation’s values, struggles and triumphs are detailed. As society progresses, the tapestry evolves; thread by thread, a story begins to unfold that can be read by future generations.