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Tuesday Mumbles: NFTs and Crypto

Written By TheChoujinVirus

Note: The following is based on my own opinion. So do not take them personally should you do

Happy Tuesday everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin here.

Ya boy is familiar with these things of cryptos and NFTs.

What are these you’re talking about? To summarize it, and for those who don’t know (and haven’t watched the videos).

NFTs or “Non-fungible token” is more tied to things like digital art, audio, or photos. While Cryptos are basically cryptocurrency used online like BitCoin. Essentially, in ya boy’s opinion, fake money and value with fake worth. First off, NFTs are more or less fancy templates that folks can use and devalue the originality. Meaning that drawing of a monkey with a hat is probably replicated and sold to other people for the same value. Worse yet is that many can be imitated. This is like buying a fake Rolex for the price of a real one without knowing that you bought a fake. That’s the issue with NFTs. You think you’re getting value from something that can be replicated. At least if let say someone buys a piece of art, one can know if its real or a replica. NFTs there’s no safety net.

For Cryptocurrencies, I’m not a fan of the basis of digital premium money that may not have any security should it dissipate or get hacked. That and the market’s being filled by various people wanting to cash onto the crypto market. In fact, some people have called out a possible crash with this economy. To me, I’d rather take my chances with future investments and bank investments over crypto that can fall apart.

To me, the question is this: Why do people invest in fake materials that can’t have a safe value. I mean, sure..some of us hold onto old things of value like Beanie Babies, Pokemon Cards, action figures and various other things. However, we know they’ll retain in value. NFTs…how do we know that badly drawn monkey someone bought won’t be replicated and thus lose their uniqueness? How do we know that Cryptos will retain their value and not end up with the value of a Blockbuster’s gift card?

Don’t know..but ya boy would rather not get themselves in trouble with stuff that won’t become the same worth as a rotten banana peel.

What’s your take on NFTs and Cryptos? Comment on this and give ya boy some feedback

Tuesday Mumbles: Comedy (Punching Down)

Written by TheChoujinVirus

Note: the following is based on my own opinions of the matter, do not take it personally.

Happy Tuesday everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin here.

I’ve been seeing and reading a ton of things about comedy. Yes, ya boy likes comedy and am a fan of some of the older comedians like Robin Williams and George Carlin. A lot of it I do enjoy, but some comedians ya boy isn’t fond of. Those are the ones who many views as punch-down comedians. To give a curiosity of what punch-down comedy, we usually may have to take a peek here with the late George Carlin’s statement:



To summarize, Punching Down usually targets those that are disenfranchised (such as PoC, Minorities, mostly those not in power or have any form of societal survival.)

Why is this a problem you ask? Well, I remembered that comedy used to be something of two creeds: Nobody got hurt and nobody cries. In short, usually, you could do something funny but not at the expense of mocking people for things that are issues. For example, it’s okay to make fun of some socio-economic issue or problem but not the people itself. Some people think that because South Park did it means it’s somehow okay to copy them (and usually when they try the shock jock route, it makes their idea worse.)
As for me, one such big stink was the Dave Chapelle situation on Netflix. Now, in my honest opinion, I wasn’t a fan of Chapelle. In fact, I only knew of him because of my high school days it was mostly just quoting “I’m Rick James, bitch” and other Chapelle stuff. It was kinda the internet meme of the days. Though comedy changes and things do, but the idea still remains:

Don’t hurt people and don’t make people cry.

Though don’t think that ya boy can’t say that you can’t do thing’s “offensive”. What ya boy’s trying to mention is one can do comedy and bash someone or something that doesn’t resort to offensive tropes. For example, you can let’s say bash Katlyn Jenner and make fun of them. Just make sure the punchline isn’t something that bashes their trans status in a negative light. Also just because it was funny ten or fifty years ago doesn’t mean it’ll remain funny now? Don’t get me started on folks using race and such

Why you ask? Simply put, Times change

As for comedy and the rules I go by and listen to? Because I want to be entertained by stuff that makes me (and others) laugh. Folks have other tastes but so long as they’re respectable, i’m fine by that.

why fine by that?

well then…

References

All youtube link references are credited to the copyright holders (and uploaders)

No Fanworks or Media this week

Well got some good news and bad news, the bad news is that there’s no media review or fan-works this week.

But fear not, I got some plans for the following week to get that written. One hint will be a review of an old GBA game (in tribute to the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster) and the second is a fan story that’ll be ready soon by next week. Until then, you have a good weekend

Tuesday Mumbles: Bad Critiques

Written by TheChoujinVirus

Note: The following is based on my own opinion and experiences. Do not take them personally if you feel offended

Happy Tuesday everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin here.

Today’s been an interesting day and today I’ve noticed something when I was reading my notes from my professor today about my short story Ryulong: Tale of a Hero. He gave a detailed review of both the positive and negative about my story. One thing ya boy doesn’t mind is criticism of his writing. After all, it’s the only thing that can help me improve as a writer. However, there are times when some folks give some not so good reviews and some that become pure hot garbage.


One problem with some bad reviews is that you get some people who love to trash on something like a story and find nothing of praise of a media. Now I get it, some stories suck and sometimes you might not like a genre. However, there are some parts of a story that can be enjoyable and if given a chance, does have some potential for some positive feedback. Why? Well, even a crappy story does have some benefits if you look for it. When I was writing reviews for some of the stories of my peers in class, I had to find some positive parts of their story. Despite the heavy flaws in some of them, they had good parts and some potential.

The second one that I hate is when people praise you about your work and yet they can’t find a single flaw in their work. I hate this kind of bad review as it means you couldn’t find anything wrong with a story and the false impression that one’s said story is somehow perfect. From my own experience of writing stories, there’s NO such thing as writing a perfect story! I mean, things like sentence structure, lack of interest of the character development, or even just how characters speak. There’s always a flaw in even masterpieces of other stories beyond just fan base stuff.

Shitting on a story without reason or praising it without criticism; both of those are ya boy’s personal beef when it comes to bad writing critiques. People who write have a thick skin and don’t worry about being criticized, but make sure you give some clarity about why it was bad okay?
It’s not like we’re going to throw a fit

Tuesday Mumbles: Kitten Raising

Note: the following is based on my opinion so do not take any offense to it if you feel upset.

Happy Tuesday everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin here.

two months ago, ya boy helped his grandmother rescue a kitten named Arya from an old air fryer duct that she got herself into. It reminds me of one thing about kittens: some can be a real handful.

Folks take kitten raising real lightly and sometimes forget how much they can be a handful.

How much of a handful can they be? Well… let’s me explain about how when I took care of Arya for one week. Little bugger decided to run about, knock stuff over and even do some damage by chewing on unplugged wires. Oh and she digs deep in her litterbox, throwing litter everywhere like she wants to dig to China just to use their toilets. Messy girl that’s for sure, but doesn’t top her energy. I’ve seen her buzz about like a firecracker.

Kittens are basically little fur babies that rush around and can get themselves in trouble if you take them granted. Oh and if you’re kitten’s a climber, make sure you don’t have lamps or stuff that is fragile or can start a fire.

Also, one thing that I may have to put up until the SPCA is ready for us: getting her spayed. Kittens like Arya can go into heat as early as four months old (still a baby). Thus you REALLY need to keep an eye on them and ensure they don’t decide to vamanos outside and get pregnant.

Sometimes I wonder if there’s some sureway of kitten care that makes it easy

Tuesday Mumbles: Horse Medicine

Written by TheChoujinVirus

Note: The following is based on my own opinions and experiences. Do not take this seriously or take any offense to it.

Hey everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin here.

Now I’ve seen some real stupid shit throughout my life whether it be scenes from Jackass where Steve-O snorted Wasabi up his nose to more stupid things like kids doing the “OutletChallenge” or “Fire Challenge”.

But this..this gets ya boy’s blood boiling big time. It’s related to Covid-19 and folks still denying the effectiveness of the vaccine. But get this stupidity! Their new “Cure to Covid” is Ivermectin.

For those unaware, Ivermectin is a medicine used basically as a dewormer for livestock. Anti-vaxxers are pushing this as the cure for Covid, even forming groups on Facebook to push this. Though ironically, they’re nearly crapping out their intestinal lining and even losing vision in their eyes. Not something good if I do say and they make claims that the vaccine will kill people? Excuse me..but I’ve taken both of those shots and the worst I got from it was an icky feeling and maybe a pustule on my finger (but that was unrelated to the virus and due to having a splinter there prior to my shot). Also, no rightful doctor would ever prescribe dewormers for a repertory virus.

So for those who are hesitant on the shot, I would suggest that you get the vaccine. Unvaccination makes it very difficult for us to reopen and return back to normal. Worst off, it allows more variants like the Delta variant to exist and even evolve further. Also places like PublicHealth and Mayo Clinic will provide you information that debunks plenty of those issues.

The longer we are stuck in this, the harder it is to fight the variant and eliminate Covid. It’s not something ya boy wants to live for the rest of his life. In fact, to take the advice of the CDC from a Twitter post:


And those who are adamant on taking horse meds to cure covid? well…

Seriously, if you’re willing to deal with crapped briefs, losing your vision and heavy shakes because you’re afraid that your eggs or sperm are going to be augmented by some vaccine, then you really are a fool who will believe anything that’s not science.

By the way..I have THE Holy Grail I can sell you guys if you’re interested…


But with that, that’s my two cents on this whole ordeal

Tuesday Mumbles: Identity Theft

Written by TheChoujinVirus

Note: The following is based on my own opinion and is not meant to be a reflection of actual experience.







Happy Tuesday everyone, it’s Ya boy Choujin here.

A week ago, ya boy had found his card wasn’t working. Upon doing a check with the bank, I found out that my card got compromised. Appaarently, two days ago, someone from Turlock tried to use my card to buy 130 bucks worth of Pizza (and it was Pizza Guys pizza. Not knocking on those that love them. Though I don’t know if that would be worth 130 bucks of pizza). However, it was annoying was that it meant I didn’t have any way of buying physical stuff! (I still have Paypal but you can’t do shopping via it..yet.)

Bet you’re wondering how that whole thing started? Well..I can’t put my finger but my issue was due to a compromised payment system. Those would be those credit readers you see in grocery stores and such. Where it happened? who knows? May have been at the pet store or in Old Sacramento. Can’t point fingers as it can happen to anybody. It’s annoying when you go shopping and you don’t know until you try to buy something and find your card invalid. However, lucky for me, nothing was lost just was locked out.


However, i’ve heard some folks aren’t that lucky and find themselves in the hole, and some are used for far worse stuff. Like losing your savings as some guy from India hacked your card and bought Fortnite Vbucks to sell to people. Lucky for me, I am a bit cautious.


Though some would say I should invest in some stuff like SecureLock or whatever group that’ll protect you from this. When in short, even that won’t be a safe thing.

Though I would have to say, what more annoys me is that someone would go that way to steal your card just for crappy pizza (again, not ragging on Pizza Guys or those who like them.) Just scratching my head on this crap.

Either way, nothing else of any problem. With that over, I hope it doesn’t happen again or to anyone else. Nobody should have to deal with that mess (not even my worse enemies.)

Tuesday Mumbles: The Activision-Blizzard Mess

Written by TheChoujinVirus

Note: the following is based on my own opinion and experiences. Do not take any of this personally


Happy (or not-so happy) Tuesday everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin here.


I have never seen a hot mess like this since the Harvey Weinstein crap.

What crap am I talking about?

Well if you haven’t heard much of the news lately, here’s a link right here from Bloomberg talking about the situation.

Activision-Blizzard, the very same company that gave everyone Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo, literally promoted a toxic working behavior for everyone! Basically they did crap that made Riot look tame.

Where to start? Well we got what was amassed and summarized

They created a “frat boy” culture harassed women

denied them promotions because they could get “pregnant”

weird drunken “cube crawls” where they would harass and hit on women while on work.

kicking women out of a breastfeeding room just so they could us it for meetings (or even just stare.)

In short, really deplorable behavior that I’d never see the day happen to ya boy’s favorite company. Many people upon hearing news of this decided to burn their wow subscription (some going extremes in a total boycott.) Others, fearing this may lead to the death of WoW in general, remain playing the game regardless of the outcome even it if they get branded as “enablers” by some out there.

To say ya boy feels ill is an understatement. I feel like this mess has brought about so many problems.


So what will happen to Activision-Blizzard?

Sadly, Ya boy doesn’t know that answer and I have a feeling that things may get a bit ugly before things get better.

Though that means I may not be spending time in Azeroth for a while. Which is a shame as I was just return back to my game. Until then, I may be exploring other MMOs and hoping that somehow my favorite company and game doesn’t become a casualty due to this kind of behavior.


Until then, you all be safe this Tuesday