Tuesday Mumbles: Cooking

written by TheChoujinVirus

Note: the following is based on my own opinions, so don’t take it too personally.

Hey everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin here…

Ever had a day where you simply didn’t know what to cook? Or that dish you want that is tasty but serves more than one or two people? That’s me to a T right there.

One such issue I’ve always found is that finding a tasty recipe requires multiple pots to prepare a meal to cook. Not against it, but more pots mean more to clean up. Nothing’s more frustrating than finding a good recipe but needing multiple pots just to make one plate. That’s one way of turning me off of cooking: making messes and having to clean multiple pots and pans for one person.

Though many recipes are tempting to cook but require some stuff that you cannot pick up at a local market due to the requirement. I mean, some of the stuff sounds good, but I’m not going to look through specific stores for that particular food item or spices. In fact, I’m the kind of person who prefers to take his grandmother’s tip of lifehacking some recipes that work. Cooking should be excellent, but you need some tricks to not make it a chore. After all, ya boy is cooking for a meal, not for a spot in Iron Chef.

Lastly, the portion sizes, as I mentioned, some of the food sounds good, but many recipes require you to serve for more than one person. Now I’m not against leftovers, but I’m sure you know that one will get bored with it. Nobody likes it when you get bored with food, let alone running out of space if you decide to cook something for eight people. If you do, get used to having the same dish for lunch and dinner for a while. It also doesn’t help when you’re limited to superficial stuff. I remember only eating eggs and peanut butter sandwiches when I had days where I didn’t want to cook due to boredom or not being hungry. It sucks but nothing I can do I’m not that hungry.

Sure cooking isn’t easy, but it’s better than living off of ramen or TV dinners. Which is another thing that miffs me. The most accessible options are just microwaveable food, soups, or ramen, and not really filling, let alone healthy to thrive on. Heck, you don’t see people living off of peanut butter sandwiches for their lives.
Maybe irrelevant, but if I had a choice between a peanut butter sandwich or cooking some very extreme meal, I’d go for the sandwich but not for the entire thing. Heck, sometimes you’d just have days where you don’t want to cook.

I don’t mind cooking, but it’s not as easy as recipes put them as or anything. Sometimes, I wish you’d have more accessible recipes that are one-pot meals that serve one or two people but don’t require rare things. Either way, it’s better than some out there who can’t cook at all.

Christmas Media Review: Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX

Written by TheChoujinVirus
Note: The following review may contain spoilers to the games

Merry Christmas everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin with a Christmas gift for you all to enjoy.
I remembered not too long ago, I did a review of the Monster Rancher Anime not too long ago, and I brought up the Monster Rancher anime (I’ll be redoing that in the future as I felt reviewing whole seasons wouldn’t be a good idea.) In that review, I mentioned the game series. You had the original released in 1997 and the 2nd game released in 1999. Through December 9th, 2021, came the release of a game that Koei-Tecmo made before. That is Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX, a game port released for Smartphones, Nintendo Switch and Steam. How does this game stack up? Here’s my review of Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX

Summary of the Story

Monster Rancher 1 and 2 have different settings and locations. Still, they all have one story in common: You are a rookie Monster Breeder that is hired by FIMBA(Monster Rancher 1) or IMa(Monster Rancher 2) to raise monsters and become a Master Breeder of monsters.
You usually have two choices of how to get your monsters: a choice of three starter monsters (Eg. Dino, Tiger, and Suezo in MR1; Arrowhead, Zuun, and Mochi in MR2) or using CDs to unlock other monsters. The remake solves the gimmick by providing music/game data that gives you some monsters and some (since modern items do not have access to CD disc drives).
Once you acquired your monster, you now have to do the following to get them ready to fight in battles, like doing jobs or drills to power up your monster or acquire money. Feed your monster to ensure they have the nutrients for training, jobs, and battles. You also make money from side things like jobs and expeditions, though the money you’ll be making will be through the game’s tournaments you’re participating.
Monster Rancher 1 and 2 usually use a Round Robin style tournament (though Monster Rancher 2 gives us Elimination). Winning the matches will usually provide you with money, sometimes a prize like Disc Chips, medicine, and even rare items like a Dragon’s Horn. The Official Tournaments will raise your monster rank, which helps you unlock new monsters, upgrade your ranch, and allow your monster to fight the next grade. Starting at E Rank, you must work your way up to S Rank, then win the Big Four Tournaments to beat the game (MR2 lets you have a new one called the Legend Cup, which immortalizes your monster in the Hall of Fame.) However, it’s not as easy as just doing jobs and going into tournaments. You have to manage everything about your new monster. You have to manage their diet, training routines, when to rest, and lifespan. That’s right, monsters can grow old and die due to many things like giving them too much medicine, forcing them to run ragged, or them getting hurt in tournaments. Luckily you can freeze old monsters and fuse them in the future to make stronger monsters for your progress. You also have Expeditions, which are minigames that allow you to use your monster to explore around a map to search for rare items and stuff to sell or help raise your monsters once acquired. Battles are unique as you manually move your monster between several distances (Far, Mid-Far, Med, and Close). Each range has access to an attack that your monster can use by spending energy known as “Will.” Some attacks will inflict something called Withering, which not only damages but reduces Will on the target. The fight lasts for 60 seconds, and the objective is to either KO your opponent or have more Life than your opponent. Just remember to ensure your monster isn’t KO’d with Low Will as that can badly injure your monster or, worse..kill them in the arena.

Best in Show: What the game excels in

1 & 2 DX solved a lot of the gimmick problem of the old with the music data. You don’t need any third-party device as the whole thing is on the cartridge/game itself; thus, you can play offline without needing a connection. It’s also an innovative way of providing access to monsters that would have been lost due to the modernity of technology. Another is that the monsters themselves look fantastic. Each monster species is unique through various means such as stat growth, moves, playstyles, and even lifespans. Monster Rancher 2 takes the age by adding multiple types of lifespan growths. Some can have normal development, others burn out like a bright candle, and some just are late bloomers. There’s no definite raising method for some monsters. Lastly, the game itself introduces a form of online PvP, which is your monster vs. an AI-controlled opponent of other players (or you can have an AI vs. AI fight.) This has not only brought some ways of battling other players but even brings on competitive tournaments online

Worst Breeder: What the game lacks

One of the most significant issues of the games is that there’s no explanation for the mechanics themselves. First-time players will not know side things like stress management, the lifespan of monsters, percentage, even knowing about the spoil/fear mechanic. Also, not knowing that some drugs and battles will cut lifespans short. Monster Rancher 2 is just as complex as some fans of the game made an advanced third-party viewer needed to better understand the hidden mechanics behind them. It can become annoying with expeditions as you may need 3-4 stats to boost for an expedition monster (Life, Pow, Skill, and Int) and that Int is the factor that can determine your monster’s success (and ensure they don’t get somehow lost in an open field.)
Another problem is the monster unlock mechanics to get some monsters. For starters, to get the Hengar monster in MR1, you have to go to Reno, dig through the ruins for four limbs, then you have to win an A-Rank invitational to win the Doll head to get the Hengar. Then you go back to Reno again when the expedition begins and have your monster (who has 500+ Int). Have it read the tablet to be used, or in Monster Rancher 2, to unlock the Beaclon, you need to feed a Worm 30 Jelly Cups, must be at least four years old in the game, the loyalty of 80 or more, and be C rank or lower and have low to none fatigue and stress.
This makes some monsters unavailable and hard to get when you accidentally unlock a mighty monster from a disc. Lastly, the entire game is more or less an IOS port, which means that Steam and Switch versions are the same and makes things harder to do as you don’t have button modules for controllers (or stuff not known.) This makes playing games a pain to do in some situations.

Should you get it?

Monster Rancher 1 and 2 DX is a game that will give folks a taste of the old games for a generation where the tech made it difficult to emulate. Hopefully, this game can bring a revival of this franchise.

  • Koei-Tecmo
  • Nintendo
  • Steam

(Late) Thursday Media Review: Jingle All The Way

Written By TheChoujinVirus

Note: The following review may contain spoilers to the movie

Christmas is around the corner, and thus the mad shopping for the hottest item for your loved ones is upon us. Folks were a copy of Pokemon Yellow, the newest Tickle Me Elmo doll or the latest gaming console like the Playstation 5 or any hot item someone wanted. The nineties were no exception, especially with comedies. None were iconic than this film made by Brian Levant (Director of films like Beethoven and the live-action Flintstones movie) and starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad. This movie was none other than 1996’s Jingle All The Way. A film that parodied the crazy Christmas shopping and hot items people went out of their ways to claim it. How does this movie stack up? Well, Let’s explore the film.

Abridged plot summary

The story begins with Howard Langston (played by Arnold Swarzenegger), a workaholic mattress salesman who ends up spending more time with his work than spending time with his wife Liz (Rita Wilson) and Jamie Langston (Jake Lloyd). After missing his son’s karate class graduation, Howard finds that he doesn’t respect him. He learns that Jamie has his eyes set on a superhero called Turbo-Man and thus wants one for Christmas. However, his wife told him to buy it weeks ago, to which Howard had forgotten to buy one. This event leads him into crazy antics as he tries to find a Turbo-Man doll around town. He also has to deal with another father and postal worker, Myron Larabee (Simbad). Howard’s attempt at getting this elusive doll puts him into precarious situations such as brawls in toy stores, into an underground Santa counterfeit ring, a bomb scare, and even right up to a fight at a Christmas parade with him as Turbo-Man himself. It’s a fun movie about a father going out of his way to get a doll for his son.

Turbo-Time: What makes the movie great?

The movie has some great things; one such is the large ensemble of influential names. Besides Arnold and Simbad, you also have some well-known actors like a young, pre-Episode 1 Jake Lloyd playing Jamie. You also have Phil Hartman (of Simpsons and SNL fame), Rita Wilson, and even some side characters like the police officer Arnold runs into is played by none other than The Wild Wild West’s Robert Conrad. Making it an exciting cast of prominent names. You have some comedic moments that will make you laugh, such as when Myron tries to scare Harold and a radio DJ with a fake package bomb, and in irony, it turns out to be a real bomb when the police officer tries to disarm it.

Nobody Likes you Booster: What the movie lacks.

Though the movie has some comedy, some parts do get me puzzled, like with Hartman’s character, Ted Maltin has a side story where he’s trying to make a move. Though sadly, in the end, the only outcome is the second when Ted finds out about Howard’s statement, he leaves (though covered in barf.) Not much of anything or Howard finding out about it.
Another thing is somewhat of the characters themselves. They’re not bad, but some of them make it hard to see. For example, we learn about Myron and why he wanted to get the doll for his kid because his father failed to get him something when he was a child. Some might find it hard to be sympathetic toward him when he does something like a fake bomb scare or even hijacking a parade. Howard isn’t innocent either, as he does do some shady things to get the doll as well. Also, it’s somewhat hard to see Arnold trying to play an American man when some of his accents show up.

Should you watch it?

The good news is that the movie is available on Disney+, alongside its not-so-successful sequel. However, I would strongly suggest watching the first one. The film, though campy, does have some stuff that can make this movie your own personal traditional Christmas movie.

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Tuesday Mumbles: The Omicron Strain

Written By TheChoujinVirus

Note: The following is based on my own opinion

Good Evening Everyone, It’s ya boy choujin here.

Welp, we got a new strain of Covid…this time Omicron.

For those unaware, a few days ago, news outlets on this new strain coming out of South Africa. Already folks are calling out the variant as a new hoax due to the sudden announcement while others are worried that we may never be able to rid ourselves with Covid and that we’ll have the nightmare like with the current Delta strain that wracks through it.

Though I have a feeling that we are a bit more prepared this time to avoid any problems. We’re not going to have a repeat of 2020 with purple tier where everything is shut down and everything paused. I should know cuz I had to wait until this year to finish up my NCCT exams. However, what i’m seeing is that people are being cautious when it comes to Covid and that we can enjoy our lives without living in fear as long as we are cautious.

My worry is that we still have that particular camp that is still willing to take weird rituals, hoax medicines and alternative news that will, like now, make the virus worse. They only want to go back to normal, but without any safety nets and have us back to 2020’s purple tier mess. Though this time, they’d take the advice of others and just pretend it never exists. Seriously, folks need to know that we’re not out of the woods yet.

From ya boy’s perspective, we need to not worry about Omicron yet..but neither should we take it lightly. Keep up practicing safe distancing, get your booster and make sure you pay attention and not believe fake news on garbage. Also, make sure you do what is required and not buy a fake vaccine card.

It’s the only true way that we can make Covid managable and maybe something that’s not as dangerous.

Friday Fan-Work: Scared Straight

Written by TheChoujinVirus

Happy Friday evening everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin. Going to give you a share of a story I managed to make for my writing class.

I decided to write something that was silly but referenced the other two stories and just something I wanted to do. Not all stories have to be something epic or thought provoking. Sometimes, a writer just wants to write a random ditty and that’s that.

So for tonight’s enjoyment, I believe I got a story for you all to enjoy that fits that narrative. So sit back, get a drink or a snack and enjoy this story: The Audit

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

Thursday Media Review: Animal Crossing Happy Home Paradise (and Update 2.0)

Written by TheChoujinVirus

Note: The following may contain spoilers to the game (including new features)

Happy Thursday everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin here. Not too long ago, I overheard some excellent news from the latest Nintendo Direct. Animal Crossing was getting some new long-awaited content (I took a break last year due to rediscovering WoW and my NCCT classes). The newest game is not a game, but DLC for New Horizon, but it behaves as its own game. Released on November 5th of this year, Animal Crossing: Happy Home Paradise and Patch 2.0 of New Horizon brings some new life into the game in less than a year.

Gameplay+Story

To see my review of the original Animal Crossing New Horizon, please click here to get my review. We’ll be focusing on Happy Home Paradise and 2.0

First off, Animal Crossing Happy Home Paradise’s story more or less picks up after you’ve got three stars and got K.K. slider to perform for your island. You are greeted by Tom Nook, who calls you to meet him at the airport. There you are greeted and referred to a friend of his. Lottie, a pink otter who made her first debut in a previous game Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer. She offers you a job for Paradise Planning, a vacation home resort and remodeling business in a large island archipelago chain. You are tasked with designing the animal villagers that visit the island as their dream vacation homes. Alongside Lottie, you have two new characters and co-workers. Wardel, the manatee who runs the Paradise Planning shop where you get to buy some exclusive furniture for your house back on your island; And Nico, the monkey who guides you and gives you tips on how to design your villager’s home. Over time, as you gather more clients for Paradise Planning, you later help out with building facilities for the island such as Schools, Restaurants, Café, a Hospital, and even an Apparel store.

In Happy Home Paradise, compared to New Horizon, you are tasked with designing all villager’s vacation homes. Some villagers will have a specific theme that fits, such as Jacque and his “Very Exclusive Club” themed home or Ketchup’s Tomato-themed room. You put three items that the client requests (and add furniture, wallpaper, and other stuff) and simply design the best house you can do. You’re not just limited to the interior, but also the exterior of their homes too. You can add furniture to the exterior and things like trees, bushes, flowers, and fencing.

Upon completing a job, you’re paid in Poki (the currency of the island). You can use that to buy furniture exclusively from Happy Home Paradise and bring it over to your island (including new ceiling furniture like lights and murals). The more houses you complete, the more the main resort island improves. Through that, you can unlock facilities and new features such as Partitions to give parts of a room a divider between them, background noises for providing an atmosphere, adding a second story to the vacation home, and even allowing roommates to share a house for themselves.

But Happy Home Design isn’t something new as well. Patch 2.0 brings you a whole new feature to the gameplay since Patch 1.3’s return of Diving. 2.0 Brings a ton of features into the game that breathes new life into the game
The first feature introduced is a new form of DIY: Cooking. You can now cook food that you can use as furniture for your house or eat to give you strength (which yields more than eating a single piece of fruit). It also adds 4 new crops (alongside Pumpkins); Tomatoes, Potatoes, Wheat, Carrots, and Sugarcane. They can be used to create various things like bread, smoothies, fish dishes, and various other edibles that your character can whip up.
Another new feature introduced is the return of the Kappa, Kapp’n, and the mysterious island tours. Unlike the airport tours set in a few islands, Kappn’s tours are random and can bring you to various unique times, days, and even seasons. Meaning your island is in the summer, but you can find a winter island out there. This makes it helpful for finding seasonal fish or bugs (I ran into a summer island and caught a ton of stuff).
The game also adds 12 new K.K. songs for you to enjoy, such as K.K. Break (a song many suspected has been influenced by a specific meme), K.K. Lovers and K.K. Polka.
The Roost makes a return, too, bringing back Brewster and his coffee bar back into your village’s museum. Though this time, it now adds a new feature: An Amiibo phone that lets you invite villagers and special characters to the Roost for a cup of coffee (sometimes they may bring others with them, such as Blathers and Celeste). You can also see returning Animal Crossing characters that haven’t made an appearance in years should you use their amiibos, such as Resestti, Chip, Gracie, and Dr. Shrunk. Also returning is the aerobics stretching segment exclusive to physical exercise days from older Animal Crossing titles. Now a minigame you and the villagers can participate in alongside some old companions. That’s right, we got the Gyroids back. These little noisemakers make a return and with a new feature. Sometimes, on a mysterious tour, you may find fragments of these little guys. If you bury the fragments back at your village and then water them, you’ll be able to grow a gyroid. Not only can you do that but customize them to match some colors and thus make them unique to your own house.
Harv’s island has gotten an update too in this expansion. Originally a place to take photos, it now hosts a co-op of various businesses for you to look around. Some of the random roaming villagers like Redd, Kicks, Saharah, and Leif can be found there from time to time selling their goods (or vacant if they’re visiting your town). However, we have four returning villagers. Tortimer, the former mayor and owner of the island, now serves to help you access your home storage inventory. Reece and Cyrus also return to provide their customization services to you. Not only can they do work for stuff that you can do, but they also can do exclusive work that regular DIY customization lacks, such as customizing fences for your village or Nook Mile furniture for your town. Katrina, the fortune teller, returns to do what she does best: reading your fortunes. Lastly, we have Hariett, the hairdressing poodle who can teach you some new hairstyles that you could benefit from.
Lastly, Animal Crossing adds several new and returning villagers from the game. Some of the newest villagers include the likes of Sasha, Cephalobot, and Shino. While the returning villagers are characters not seen in over 20 years since the first Animal Crossing game. Those characters like Chabwick, Ace, Azalea, and Faith give 2.0’s new villager roster a whopping 16 total. Something not seen since 1.9’s return of the Sanrio Amiibo villagers.
In short, there’s a ton of new content that some new and established players will be seeing while playing the game.

Happy Home Greatness: what they provide

The expansion and update provide a ton of unique features that change the game. One such that is enjoyable is the connectivity between Happy Home Paradise and New Horizons. The last Happy Home game didn’t have much connection save for just being a spin-off game. However, Paradise adds interconnectivity for those who bought the DLC. For starters, any furniture you buy from the island can be used in your village as well, and some of the DIY recipes you’ve created can also be used in decorating your own house. Also, you can bring your villagers to the resort by gifting them souvenir chocolates. This gives some players with no amiibos a place to give their favorite villagers to visit from time to time.
Another feature that makes the expansion good is the convenience of Kappn’s Tours and Harv’s island. Initially, one would have to travel or visit another person’s island to find some fish or bugs at a specific season. Now with the return of Kapp’n and his tours, you can have a chance to fill the fish and thus not worry about the fear of missing out. Also, Harv’s island and the co-op allow you to visit some wandering merchants for a chance at some stuff you missed or mostly in hopes of finding what Redd has for sale to fill the museum.
The last feature one would find interesting is the cooking. This was a feature many animal crossing fans wanted in since forever and hinted in some games. It also allows folks to make use of some fish like Sea Bass, Red Snappers, and pumpkins for other than bells or one-time furniture for a specific Holiday.

Beestings: what the game lacks

Though the game is fun, it has some problems that make it moot and annoying, at worst, when it comes to it.
One such example, of course, is not all features of Happy Home Paradise can be used in New Horizons. What I mean is that though you can create isles and partitions for your home and others, features like background noises, lighting, expanding the room, and adding a second story are exclusive to Happy Home Paradise. This can feel real disappointing for those who unlocked the feature of being able to redecorate your villager’s homes back on your island (and there are talks about a game-breaking bug that can ruin your game if using this feature.)
Another issue is that though we get to see some older villagers return through the patch or amiibos, not all the villagers have returned. I’m talking about the crossover villagers. These villagers were tied to other games when using amiibos from those games such as The Legend of Zelda, Splatoon, and Monster Hunter. Though we did get the return of the Sanrio villagers, it’s disappointing that some like Felyne, Wolf Link, and Inkwell haven’t made a return back to the game. These characters were pretty popular for a ton of reasons and made using non-Animal Crossing amiibos helpful.
Lastly, though the game has some great perks, the major problem is it’s locked behind time. For example, when you’re building shops for the co-op, you can only donate a max of 100k per day, meaning those billionaires who hoarded bells will be prevented from day 1 from getting the plaza done. Kappn’s tours are more or less locked one tour per day. It is understandable as one could go around and farm bells or fill their museum of bugs and fish; however, that’s an annoying feature that makes it feel padded.

Conclusion: should one get the game?

Happy Home Paradise and 2.0 adds some new life into a game and gives folks a taste of what live patches Animal Crossing New Horizon may have in store for the future. For those who took a break from the game, it’s a good incentive to return while those playing for a year will find new features to explore.

Addendum: As of 11/11/2021, confirmed by Youtuber Crossing Channel, a hotfix was released for the designer bug that would brick your game if you designed people’s homes back on your island.

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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…

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

Friday Fan-Work: The Audit

Written by TheChoujinVirus

Hey everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin here and with a new piece of short story fiction writing from my class. With Halloween upon us, I wrote this story that focuses us on the underworld or whatever it was. I’ve always enjoyed the idea and tried to take notes from my Ryulong story. It’s not bad, but I felt a bit overambitious on the plotline (Fear not, I’ll be revising that story in the future.)

With that, sit back, relax and enjoy The Audit