Writer tests viral Tik Tok hacks The Last of Us: TV show vs. video game

show interesting for fans of the original game.

STELLA POWERS trends editor

HBO has recently released the first four episodes of its new postapocalyptic series, The Last of Us. Based on the 2013 Naughty Dog game of the same title, the show follows survivors Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) on their journey to survive in a world plagued by the Cordyceps brain infection.

An unlikely pairing, Joel, a hardened survivor and smuggler, is tasked by the Firefly rebellion to transport Ellie, a 14-year-old girl presumed to be immune to the infection, to a different Firefly base for testing.

While the game follows the same characters and storyline, the series has incorporated some notable differences in order to keep the

The similarities are indisputable, ranging from overlapping dialogue and costuming, to replication of sets, and Merle Dandridge reprising her role from the game. There are also plenty of differences; some more prominent than others. To begin, the show’s introduction is in 2003, whereas the game begins in 2013. The show also provides more backstory to Sarah, the daughter of Joel, than the game does.

However, the most impactful difference has to do with how the infection is transmitted.

In the original game, the infection can be passed on through spores. Contrary to this, it is transmitted through the tendrils of the infected in the series.

The changes made have mostly been beneficial and added to the quality of the show. While there are definitely moments that should have been left unchanged, the majority of these differences have made the story more engaging.

While the TV adaptation of The Last of Us mostly stays true to the original source material, there are plenty of notable differences that keep the series interesting for fans of the game.

TikTok trend raises questions about feline behavior

In the age of Tik Tok, hacks to improve your everyday life are constantly popping up on social media.

The real question is, do these hacks actually work? I selected two viral Tik Tok everyday life hacks to try and review due to their simplicity and my belief that these hacks may help ordinary people with day to day activities and tasks.

The first everyday life hack I have chosen is a hack to make your iPhone’s music louder. The hack says to go into your iPhone’s settings and select the Music settings. After going into Music settings, you go to the EQ setting and change it to Late Night. Prior to the Late Night setting, the music ranges from 115 decibels to 124 decibels. After the setting was changed to Late Night, the music ranged from 120 decibels to 128 decibels. While the hack does make the music slightly louder, I do not believe it is a large enough change to truly call the setting change a hack. Another viral hack I tried was a hack to reseal your chip bag without a clip. The hack prompts you to fold in the corners at the top of the bag and then roll down the top of the bag. You roll down the bag away from you. Once you have rolled down the top of the bag, you flip the corners back over to create a seal. This hack worked really well. The bag seemed sealed, and it was a quick and easy way to keep your chips or pretzels fresh without a clip.

Cats such as Nino Da Babino, pictured above, are said to believe that their humans are larger cats, leading them to be excited when their human wakes up.

Dell’amore from the National Geographic on Jan. 28, 2014, anthrozoologist John Bradshaw says that cats are not heavy sleepers, so they get concerned when humans sleep for long periods of time without waking. When their human wakes up, they get excited that their human is still alive.

BRITTANY WACHTEL co-editor-in-chief

Tik Tok is full of conspiracy theories, rumors and ideas presented as facts.

More recently, a Tik Tok has gone viral by user @twocrazycatladies that says humans are misunderstanding their cat’s behaviors.

This Tik Tok says that when cats are hyper in the mornings, they are not hungry, they are instead excited that their humans are awake because they believe that their human owners are actually large cats.

What did this have to do with excitement upon a human waking up?

In an article published by Christine

Bradshaw has been studying cats for over 30 years and claims that cats never went through vital evolutionary changes necessary to be considered fully domesticated. Due to this wild quality, cats view humans as their mother cat and look to humans for comfort.

Bradshaw said cats do think that humans are just large cats, and that their interactions with humans prove that point. Bradshaw explains, “We’ve yet to discover anything about cat behavior that suggests they have a separate box they put us in when they’re socializing with us. They obviously know we’re bigger than them, but they don’t seem to have adapted their social behavior much.”

Although not everything on Tik Tok is true, it is proven correct by Bradshaw that cats do, in fact, view their humans as larger cats.