Rant: Spending a lazy night.

Well, I'm tired of watching animes right now, and I can't play games due to the fact that I don't know when my parents will barge into my room and start shouting at me about how dumb I am. So, I decided that I will add another post to my epic blog. BE HUMBLED MY SUBJECTS!

KNEEL BEFORE JC!

So, why am I writing this blog? I could study or do some homework if I wanted to, but I am here bullshiting another article and being lazy. Actually, I think procrastinating is one of my biggest faults. I know that if I do study, then I will get better grades and be happier by far in the long run. But seriously, the deferred gratification has never really appealed to me. Everyone says that delayed gratification is better than immediate gratification, but why? Why is living in the present such a bad thing? I'm fairly certain the Henry Thoreau once said in The Walden to "Question the shit out of everything because I am a hipster.", and who am I to argue with Thoreau?

Huh... He's not as impressive as I thought he would be. WAIT! HIS HAIRSTYLE!

It looks SOMEWHAT like Adrien Brody! Actually it doesn't, but I just love this guy so much.

My dad, and my friends who take psychology, told me that there was this experiment by some hipsters at Stanford. Apparently, they got bunch of kids into one room, gave each of them a candy. Now, when the hipsters were giving out candy, they told the kids that if they waited 1 hour without eating the candy, that they would all get another piece of candy. Now, after one hour, almost no kids had prevented themselves from eating their candy. AND APPARENTLY, the kids who didn't eat their candy became great chiropractors or something. So, my dad tells me the kids who enjoy delayed gratifications are better than idiots like me.

I'm offensive and I find this Asian.

The first thing that amazes me is that the kids trapped in a single room were able to stay alive without adult supervision for an hour. The second thing that amazes me is the concept that kids who enjoy delayed gratification become more successful than kids who don't. Now, I wanna ask here WHY. Of course, my dad would say that's because the kids who are insane studied instead of playing League of Legends, thereby getting the deferred gratification of going to MIT or some other great school near the Boston area. So let's say that I play League of Legends and watch anime for 4 years and go to VT or something, and kids who studied all those years get to go to MIT or something. Now, I would prefer to go to MIT or something over VT, and kids who did sacrifice their time get to enjoy a much greater pleasure than I do. But, during the 4 years of high school, did I not get to enjoy a free and pleasurable life while the kids who studied straight was basically torturing themselves? Does not my pleasure for 4 years balance out the deferred gratification? Now, I would have to say that it doesn't balance out. The kids who get the deferred gratification do get much more benefit than I did from bullshitting around for 4 years. Heck, some kids even enjoy studying (Dam masochists...), and going to MIT will net you higher pay, better job, and the ability to brag about your alma mater.

It's almost scary to see those kind of people.

So, why do I do it? I know that going to better college is the better option, so why do I still laze around every day? The truth is, I don't bloody know. All I know is that right now, reading manga or playing games is much more enjoyable than a potential prospect of something good. Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes, I constantly struggle over instant and assured gratification and delayed and unassured gratification. Jesus, I wish that I could choose to study and delay my gratification. I truly do, but I almost always end up bullshiting until the last moment. And sometimes, that last minute productivity isn't enough, and I end up embarrassed and ashamed.

I lost both my kidneys, my children hate me, and worst of all, I lost a ranked match in League of  Legends.

Sigh, I should be doing work right now I suppose.

Wow, this post took a sad turn at the end...

Stay productive...

JC

It Burns: Chapter 1 - Exposition and Back story Galore!

I told you people that I would continue the story one day, so here it is.

Juan Chen Gustav Pierre Mandela the Third hated his name. When he was born, the labor that his mother had to go through was so great that his mother hated him the instant he entered the world. As the result of this hatred, his mother gave him the most ridiculous name she could possibly think of. His dad would have intervened, but he was too busy golfing when Juan Chen Gustav Pierre Mandela the Third's birth was registered.

Juan Chen Gustav Pierre Mandela the Third first learned about his named when he entered kindergarten. Before he entered that place, he thought that his name was Bob Bobbe like his dad had always told him. To his surprise, when his teacher first did the attendence, Bob Bobbe did not exist, only Juan Chen Gustav Pierre Mandela the Third.  When he learned about his true name, he went after his mother immediately, but before he could catch her, his mother became an astronaut and went on a mission to mars that would take 20 years. 

His name became the greatest secret that he had, and he used any means necessary in order to prevent anyone from learning about it. He eliminated every single child and adult in his kindergarten with a wooden spoon so that no information about his name would ever spread. Surprisingly enough, not one shit was given by his father. He was too busy golfing at the time.

Juan Chen Gustav Pierre Mandela the Third then attempted to break into the national archives and change his name. However, he was caught by the ruthless dragons paroling the archives and was badly incinerated. He was just 7 years old.

After half of his body was burned, Juan Chen Gustav Pierre Mandela the Third lost himself in pain and grief, and entered the underground world with the pseudonym "Duo-Appearance". He quickly gained reputation as being the most ruthless and 'duo-appearanced' man in all of the underground. His accomplishments quickly attracted the attention of the higher ups of the criminal world and the most evil criminal organization in the world, The Jolly Hooligans for Satanic Sins and Torture, or T.J.H.S.S.T. contacted him and Juan Chen Gustav Pierre Mandela the Third quickly became their most trusted hitman. At this point, he was only 11 years old. Surprisingly enough, his dad was too busy golfing to give any shit about this new turnabout.

Juan Chen Gustav Pierre Mandela the Third worked faithfully for the T.J.H.S.S.T. for 4 years, but then a faithful meeting occurred. During on of his hits, he realized that his target was his own father, who had become too skilled a golfer for the T.J.H.S.S.T. to allow to live. Juan Chen Gustav Pierre Mandela the Third could not kill him own father, and decided to run away from the T.J.H.S.S.T. to live an ordinary life, to give up the the life of crime, and to throw away the named of "Duo-Appearance".

He simply told no one of his name, and just said his name was Bob Bobbe to everyone until they believe him. He went to a normal high school, went to a normal college, and got a normal job at Normal Co., run by Edward Normal, and quickly rose through the corporate ladder to become the executive normal manager at the age of 27.

Now, as his 28th birth day approaching, Juan Chen Gustav Pierre Mandela the Third knew that his mother was coming back from her mission to Mars, and that she would have a hell to pay for.

Little did he know that a surprise would be waiting for him the day his mother came back as well. A crunchy, tasty, delicious, but also malicious and deadly surprise...

There.

John Choi

Some music that I found to be really good that people should listen to #3

Damm, I haven't updated this blog in awhile, guess I'll post a couple tonite.
So, its the 4 day weekend after the first quarter. Since I finished my early decision stuff for college and did all the end of the quarter assignments, I have been able to enjoy some fine music.

First up is a Korean song called "Ready, get set, go!" by a Korean band called Peppertones. I first heard about this song from my older sister, and these guys make pretty good music.

Heck, I can even understand their English parts.

I don't listen to a lot of 'feel good' music these days, but I made an exception for this one. 

Going off a tangent here, I bloody hate K-POP songs in general. The way the people who sing them dress is just friggin' ridiculous, and all the song they make is just copied from Japan and America. (Mainly from Japan) 

Seriously, it deserves no merit at all. I hate it when some random person asks me if I listen to K-POP music right after I tell them that I am Korean. ARGH! K-POP DOESNT REPRESENT KOREA. Understand that simple fact people. 

f.y.i I HATE GIRLS GENERATION. THERE I SAID IT. 

Actually, I don't even know much about them. But I heard they're what all the rage is about.

Now this is something that I would listen to.

Now everyone who knows me knows that I friggin love games. Although I actually don't PLAY that many games because my computer sucks and I don't have much money, I do listen to a lot of video game musics. Among the most anticipated game of the year is Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the long awaited continuation of the Elder Scrolls franchise by Bathesda, who also brought you Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas if you don't know. Anyway, the trailer for Skyrim WAS AWESOME. There was this guy who was getting chased by this dragon thing, while an old man was narrating some grim stuff. And then, the guy shouted at the dragon thing and summoned this blue wavy thing that looks suspiciously like Lee Sin's sonic wave from League of Legends. And then, the guy killed the dragon and he glowed. Agh, I can't do justice to it by describing. Here, let me draw it out for you.

It was vaguely like this.

Anyway! The music for the trailer was awesome, so here you go!

For all I know, they could be offering me a lobster for $15 off in this song, but its still epic.

Ok, the last one is something that I have been listening to a LONG time now, and is going on to the Choi pantheon of great musical works. All the songs that I post in this blog are awesome, but this one takes the cake and friggin' devours it. No words can do justice to thing song. All I'll say before you listen to this song is to PLEASE listen to all of it. 

Just listen to this and soak up the epicness. God probably has this song on his mp3 player. Ha! You thought that I was gonna say ipod right? Well, nobody gets a free-ride in this blog. If apple wants me to say ipod, they are gonna have to pay for it.

Now I'm off to enjoy the refreshing taste of mountain dew.

The best soda ever made.

Stay awesome my friends.

~John Choi

Some music that I found to be really good that people should listen to #2

Hi guys! It's time for my music recommendation again! The response was good last time, so I'm gonna continue to do so.

First up is "Take me Away" by the Fortune Family. These guys are rapping duos who kick ass in my opinion. This song combines their rapping with an 'feel-good' song.

I found the lyrics and the rhymes especially captivating in this song. Btw, there's a really good video of this music I found. It involves pokemon. Watch the rest for yourself.

The second one on this list is a really old song, but I don't feel like it gets enough attention. This song, of course, is "Closing Time" by Semisonic. It's really kick ass and the vocal is just amazing in my opinion. I listen to this song every day on my bus to school.

Behold, 3 kind-of-old guys singing one of my favorite songs of all time.

3rd one is not really a song. It's a chiptune remix of the Shadowman stage in Megaman 3. I find that not many people in the main stream like game musics, but they are friggin awesome in my opinion. Game musics are becoming better and better as studios realize that musics are part of the game as well, and the old megaman game music just shows you how good they really are.

Shadowman, my 2nd favorite ninja of all time.

FYI, my favorite ninja of all time is Strider Hiryu.

His ninja badass-ness is unmatched!

Thats it for today guys. Stay Classy

John Choi

FYI: Wisdom and Rant grows!

Apparently, some other people want to write/rant with me in this blog. Cool stuff.
So from now on, Peter Shao will be ranting with me.

~Stay Cool

John Choi

Some music that I found to be really good that people should listen to #1

Hey folks, John Choi here. Recently, I found really good songs on youtube that I personally think deserve more attention. Now I listen to all kind of songs, from country to anime songs to game theme musics, so my taste is kinda eclectic. Nevertheless, from now on, whenever I find some interesting music on the interwebs, I'm gonna post it on my blog for the people to listen to.

First in the list is song "Loud Pipes" by Ratatat. Now I'm no pro music guy so I can't analyze and tell you how/why its good, but just listen to it.

It's good stuff no? The other songs by this band are also swell, so give it a try guys!

Second in the list is "This is not a song, its a sandwich" by Psychostick. I personally think these guys are friggin amazing and hilarious. So give it a try people!

I personally think this song may be a commentary on the current music industry, but who knows? All I do know is that it makes for a good head-rocking song on the bus in the morning.

Finally, this is a song that comes from the game "Persona 4" and is called Reach out to the Truth. The English i n this song is bloody terrible and almost laughable sometimes because this was part of a J-RPG game. Nevertheless, tis good and everyone should play Persona 4.

Seriously, this song makes no sense.

Anyway, thats it for now and I'll be posting more songs in the future.

~Stay Classy

John Choi

Rant: Animes and such

OK, I don't usually bring up subjects like these up but there's something I found really disturbing that angers me to a great level recently. As many of the John Choi fans might know already, I friggin love anime and watch it all the time. Animes such as Gintama and Dragonball Z are masterpieces that everyone should watch! But what really bugs me about anime these days are the FRIGGIN MOE and LOLI IN ANIMES! AND THE OTAKUS THAT CONTINUE THIS DEADLY CYCLE OF PERVERSION!

No, it's not this guy. He has nothing to do with Japan.

Moe is basically a japanese term for cute characters, but for those of you who really like more descriptive language,  according to wikipedia, It means "a rarefied pseudo-love for certain fictional characters (in anime, manga, and the like) and their related embodiments." Basically in Japan, the way economy work is that make it cute and it will friggin sell. That why Japan creates Moe personifications of EVERYTHING. Here are some examples for people who have been fortunate enough to avoid this crap until now.

Wikipe-tan, the moe anthropomorphism of Wikipedia. Gaze upon its glory and horror.

Something called OS-tans. Basically the personifications of the Windows OS. For those of you who care, (clockwise):Windows 98SE (in box), Windows 95, Symantec Antivirus(male), Windows 2000 (in front), Windows Server 2003 (fish outfit, with cat), Windows 98 (unusual form), Windows XP(holding skirt). Background, right: Windows 3.1, DOS (not their "official" os-tan). Foreground: Windows CE (fairy),Windows ME (levitated by CE). I'm too lazy to remove the hyperlinks.

So basically, this crap sickens me now. Sure, the I do enjoy occasional cute character, but the entire fucking show is filled with them it pisses me off. THE WORLDS FULL OF UGLY PEOPLE TOO YOU KNOW?? Basically, moes are anime makers trying to grab the otakus by their penis into them buying their merchandises. I didn't know about this until recently, but apparently anime merchandising is where its at. So due to corporate greed and weird otakus, I'm practically forced to see the anime world get run over by large eyed, small nosed, blue haired(Seriously, who has blue hair?) abominations called moe.

This is not a human being. You would kill something like this with fire the moment you saw it if it was in 3d instead of 2d.

So anime world is already bad enough due to all these moes. But its cool you know? I can handle it. I like seeing abominations like these as long as its on 2d, and businesses gotta do what they gotta do in order to please those rich otakus into buying their figurines and all that merch. Of course, I would never buy one of these no matter how much I like anime due to me being the cheap Asian that I am.

I wouldn't be caught dead inside these anime shops. 

But some of these merch are sick you know? and so are the otakus actually. Apparently, a man in Japan married an anime pillow and another dude actually married an anime character. I don't know how a man's mind can be driven to such insanity, but I do hope they find happiness in marriage.

"Mom, Dad, I would like you to meet my new girlfriend."

So the world of anime has been crazy already. But what really grinds my gears are the lolis, aka sexy kids. or as the wiki says,  the term describes an attraction to underage girls (whether prepubescent, pubescent, or post-pubescent) or an individual with such an attraction. It's creepy as can be when this kind of stuff is widely accepted throughout Japan and used in public tv shows. Whats worse is that people use these kind stuff to fap. And WHATS WORST IS THAT THESE STUFF SELL LIKE HOTCAKES! I'm not gonna post any images of Loli is this blog because such things go against my principles! (But also because apparently colleges check people's blogs now and I cant risk getting rejected).

Here, have something badass to look at.

So when an actually good anime comes out, it often performs badly financially, or is at least beaten in a large margin by crappy, yet erotic anime that grabs otakus by their raging hormones. Thing is that, I can understand these people liking the Moe and loli stuff, we're just all mammals right? But pedophilia should seriously be off-limits. Good god Otakus, have some self pride. Why would you ever fap to friggin 8 years olds even if they aren't real? Meet a nice girl in the 3D for a change man!

HAVE SOME PRIDE AND STOP WITH THIS BS!

It just pains me to see great animes, such as nichijou that came out recently, do badly financially against other animes that go straight for the hormones. Yes we are all mammals, but we should learn to enjoy the fine art as well. That's what makes us humans and not Capuchin monkeys. I admit I'm kinda being hypocritical  cause I enjoy a occasional moe as well as anyone, but my main message is that like everything else, everything should be enjoyed moderately and pedophilia is off limits. Thats why to any anime freaks out there who read my blog, I recommend the anime "Welcome to the NHK", which is an anime about an otaku/hikkikomori struggling to get out of his pathetic situation. In fact, everyone should watch that show, its a bloody masterpiece. Anyway, although I will continue to like and watch anime, studios should really tune down on the extremes and go for more plot and characterization.

Everyone who makes animes should read this book.