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The Mandalorian’s execution gives the Star Wars franchise new hope
November 13, 2020By: Emma Best, SFU Student The Mandalorian is the best thing to happen to the Star Wars franchise since Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV) (1977). This show is a spaghetti western in space, filled with desert planet shootouts, a smooth score by Ludwig Göransson, and The Mandalorian as a Clint Eastwood-like gunslinger. It’s also sprinkled with the same Star Wars charm seen in the original trilogy and happens to feature the cutest sidekick since baby groot. Taking place five years after the events of Return of the Jedi, in a galaxy post-Vader and his empire, it stars Pedro…
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The Crown Tundra revives hope for Pokémon’s immersive sense of adventure
November 3, 2020By: Zach Siddiqui, Peak Associate “Find me where the wild things are,” I hear myself quoting just minutes into the snowbound frontier of my latest digital adventure: Pokémon Sword and Shield’s most recent downloadable content (DLC), The Crown Tundra. Pokémon’s…
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SFU becomes wildlife reserve
April 3, 2018By: Alex Bloom In a recent bid to increase revenue, SFU has decided to transition into a wildlife reserve. Now called Simon Fraser Shelter for Endangered Students (SFSES), this new status allows the institution to save money on taxes due…
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The bike ride of a lifetime
October 12, 2017On September 21, 2015, after graduating from SFU with a degree in communications and sociology, Phil d’Entremont left Vancouver to go on what turned out to be a 678-day, 26,000-kilometre bike ride all the way to the tip of South…
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