Junior Abdulsalam Alli kicks in the door of his second year in the “Rosette” Newspaper, but this time as an Opinion Editor. Abdulsalam, rather Abdul likes to read, write, listen to music, and play chess. He loves fashion and enjoys accessorizing himself as much as possible. Abdul also loves to socialize with people, it being the best part of the day. He’s always reliable and will be there whenever you need him. He’s most times always the tallest, funniest, (and probably the loudest) guy in the room. Some say he’s annoying, obnoxious and rude, but those are people who have nothing better to do than to hate *cough cough* Alea. Newspaper is his 2nd home, and he feels at peace every time he’s in the room. Even though he’s just as obnoxious as when he started: He hopes to help the new staffers create a love for newspaper just like he did when he first started. 

A Gamers Beginning : Alli talks about his gaming adventures

Reported by: Michelle Zacarias

Ever since the infamous quarantine of 2020, he has found an interest in gaming. Although Abdul lost this interest for a while, gaming unearthed a path back into the depths of his heart.

Junior Abdulsalam Alli found an interest back into gaming ever since his older brother gave him a gaming console.

“I officially started playing games when my brother first got his PS4,” Alli said. “ He convinced my dad to buy him a PS4 and with it came Spiderman 2018. That was the first game I ever played. My brother would never let me use it but on the rare occasions he did, I was terrible. I was so bad at every game I touched. It was genuinely outrageous. I used to get so mad because I couldn’t smash the buttons hard enough that I just stopped playing.”

Alli was bad, so bad that upon his return to gaming, his poor skills made him strive to be better.

“After Covid, my brother left for college and he was working in college so he bought a PS5 and when he came back to get his PS5, he pulled his PS4 out of a box and he gave it to me,” Alli said. He told me I could have it. When I came back from gaming, that’s when I realized how bad I was and I started trying to get better.”

Ever since Alli has progressed his skill from his skills in gaming, he found himself playing these games over and over again.

“When you get burnt out, you create a new love for that game,” Alli said. “The main way I get burnt out is when I play the main story, or if I’m just doing side quests. It’s one of the two, never both. When I’m doing a side quest, I’m getting strong, but I’m not progressing the game. So when I do one or the other I get burnt out, but I enjoy doing both. For all the times you get burnt out, you enjoy the other parts of the game that you aren’t experiencing.” 

Alli however does not want to pursue a gaming career even though he was fairly good at playing games.

“I have thought about a gaming career for a little bit but currently I just don’t want to pursue a gaming career,” Alli said. “I definitely would enjoy playing games and maybe even creating games, but a career in the gaming industry is not in my plans“.

Although Alli doesn’t want to pursue gaming as a career, gaming is still a getaway for him for his bad days.

“It created an environment for me,” Alli said. “A lot of people say that games are just a safe space where you can just chill, if you had a bad day you can just turn it on. For me it’s more of just forgetting everything and just playing the game. At that moment I’m just playing the game. I’m nothing more and I’m nothing less.”