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Jarrod Wadsworth WRITING PORTFOLIO JARROD WADSWORTH WELCOME Oh hello, I didn’t see you there. It seems you have come to experience into the stream of thoughtlessness that is my writing portfolio. Here you will find various blurbs, articles, and other musings that I have produced over the years. It serves as a physical demonstration that i truly am the chameleon copywriter and content creator that I say I am. For a more in depth look at my writing credentials, please visit: jarrod-wadsworth.com To get in contact: M: 214.405.0111 & E: [email protected]. TABLE OF Categories Here you will find links to the different categories that my portfolio is separated by. Enjoy! ENTERTAINMENT GAMING FASHION LIFESTYLE TROUBLE IN PARADISE? 3 NINTENDO SPARKS OUTRAGE Picture this: last night I’m sitting in bed scrolling through Facebook before going to bed and I see a shiny new video posted by Nintendo. My interest is piqued. Apparently, they’ve built a new Rewind feature into the Super NES Classic console. Cool, right? Once you get your hands on this console you’ll be able to run through your favorite classics and have the option to go back to previous sections and snatch all those coins you missed in certain areas. We all love loot, right? We all can’t wait to get our Super NES Classics, right?! That’s what I thought until I happened to scroll down into the dreaded comments section. Die hard Nintendo fans are currently calling for 8-bit blood because the company has apparently been up to some “shady practices”. People are outraged because Nintendo has fed completely into the notion of overpromising and under delivering. They’ve promised a robust retro gaming experience by cashing in on people’s obsession with reclaiming the past. That all sounds good. But the problem comes in the form of who will actually be able to secure one of these consoles. Tuesday night, people felt hoodwinked and bamboozled by the Best Buy website when their website showed that the console was available for pre-order and then subsequently finding out that it was a system glitch. Unfortunately, logic took too long to set in and people immediately decided that the company released a pre-order link in the middle of the night just to trip them up and the much sought after console has once more slipped from their grasp. Clearly, that wasn’t the case. As of this morning, their website simply has the console listed as ‘coming soon’. That’s fair. Mistakes happen. That doesn’t change the fact that Nintendo has employed pre-order and rarity tactics in the past to capitalize on fan consumption. As a person who worked at Best Buy in the past, I have literally seen people panhandle for Amiibos. It was all because Nintendo touts their products as being the best things ever then drops about five of them into a store inventory and then sits back like the Mad King and watch the chaos ensue. While the blood sport can be fun for a while, consumers quickly realize that it’s an awful practice. Instead of bringing its community together this rarity practice has literally seemed to fracture the once strong Nintendo community. Only time will tell if Nintendo can bounce back and come out of the shadow of Sony and Microsoft, but right now with its discontent community it seems unlikely. Maybe they should take some time to promote and create content for the Switch instead of relying so heavily on what worked in the past. The technology is there all they have to do is grab it. BUZZFEED Maybe because she was having issues focusing on the task at hand... Which no one could blame her for considering her present company. Deputy Parrish is quite the distraction. Nevertheless she gets the job done in the most dissatisfactory way possible, according to Lydia anyway. Ultimately, 4 she stays true to her nature and gives Lydia the number combination she needs to figure out the 5. BRETT next part of the code. The star athlete from Liam’s old school who looks Unfortunately for a very stressed out Lydia, the like he could’ve very easily walked out of a Ralph numbers don’t seem to add up to her right away. Lauren campaign is not exactly what he seems. After sitting in a nearly empty room listening to a First and foremost, he’s gorgeous. Just ask Mason soundless record player for a few days, it’s totally who spent the better part of two minutes literally understandable that her brain might be a little salivating over him. And with that beauty comes fried. But never fear, she handles her struggle a snotty little attitude that befits the fate that with grace and ferocity because of it she ends up befalls him. From the moment he steps off of cracking the code after a big assist from Malia. the bus the air of pretentiousness that he carries around is enough to choke everyone around him. 2. SCOTT MCCALL Is anyone else having Jackson flashbacks? Watching Scott always seems like a humanizing experience. While he is the only True Alpha Anyway, his arrogance doesn’t seem to be around Beacon Hills these days, he seems to spend unfounded because in addition to his physical a lot of time confused. Sometimes it’s annoying, beauty, he is able to really make a splash on the but other times like this week it is endearing. It’s lacrosse field. But the plot twist there is the fact very clear that he’s trying to do the best he can that he is actually a werewolf too! I’m beginning and is often very hard on himself, which you can to think that lacrosse is a the national pastime see during his conversation with Derek after they for werewolves. But I digress. While Brett has a attempted to further traumatize little Liam. rage boner for seeking revenge against Liam on behalf of their coach, he ends up on the wrong He seems slightly re-energized once Derek assures end of Garrett’s Wolfsbane tipped lacrosse stick. him that he is doing a good job as Alpha. It was This renders him completely paralyzed from the such a sweet moment that there was probably not waist down. a dry eye in the house. It’s also worth mentioning that the idea of Derek as Scott’s Alpha mentor Ultimately poetic justice is served when Violet really makes a lot of sense. Because he gets to attempts to violently separate his head from his show Scott how to not make the same mistakes shoulders. Talk about karma coming back to bite that he made as an Alpha. You know, like not you in the ass. Just like that another potential letting everyone get killed? hottie nearly gets shown the door. But hey, it wouldn’t have been so bad. All dogs go to Heaven, This episode Scott also shows that he is not just right? the pacifist werewolf that people make him out 4. MALIA TATE to be. Because he surely didn’t have any qualms about taking Violet down when she tried to come You’ve really got to give it to Malia. She is really at him with her heated fiber wire. He finally let improving with each and every week. Just think those werewolf instincts take over and separated of where she started. The girl who wanted to himself from the jaws of death. Go Scott! Now leave Lydia for dead with the Calaveras is most let’s see if you can channel this level of awesome certainly still there, but she is at least picking up into some other aspects of your life. Like actually on social cues a lot better now. You can tell that making goals in lacrosse games. she’s actual trying to get better and assimilate into society. Can’t fault her for that. But that’s not why 1. VIOLET & GARRETT she makes the list. Miss Tate has earned a spot Look at this golden couple nearly stealing the on the list because she was pretty instrumental in top spot. We recently learned that these two are cracking the second part of the code. not exactly who they claim to be. But this week we get to see them in full force. Garrett stabs a While she irritated Lydia for most of the episode young girl at point blank range, Violet beheads she actually came through in the end. In the midst yet another werewolf, and do we even need to talk of her obnoxious questions, she actually likens the about them turning a chemistry classroom into a numbers Meredith spouted off to algebra, which pseudo-weapons lab? These two are devious at its was the push that Lydia needed to crack the code. very finest and it is interesting to see where they Congrats Malia, you’ve earned this. go now that they’ve been found out by the pack. 3. MEREDITH / LYDIA - #TEAMBANSHEE Neither party seems to be very concerned about Remember last week when I said that Lydia Scott and the others. Violet is even bold enough wasn’t a utility player? Well, now we’ve got to try and take Scott on one on one. Big mistake Meredith. Utility payer, extraordinaire. This girl. Now here’s to wondering if Scott killed poor girl shambles around showing up at just her or simply incapacitated her. Scott’s not the the right times to pass on just the right amount murdering type, but is self defense really murder? of information to push the pack in the right direction.
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