#paralyzer

[overagardenwall]

I can't be the only one who constantly thinks that "paralyzer" will start playing after the drum segment in "take me out" right?

[bonkalore]

Obviously in my AU I am an avid Lucy/Jayce shipper with AU stuff, but as far as the canon stuff goes... Jayce and Daniel throughout the whole thing got some hardcore heavy toxic yaoi vibes going on lol

SO MUCH SO, that I compiled a video of all the pretty gay moments shared between them in the canon chronological order. Jayce is very... handsy with his show of affection lol

The song Paralyzer by Finger Eleven was just a bonus that matched up, but I hardly did editing here.

[Spoilers] On a less teasing side of things, I find it interesting that even after Jayce has betrayed them and turned against Daniel, he still is visibly excited to have him on his side again, even if that was done by infecting him with Dread and goes right back to being handsy again.

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 23/04/2024

How 2 Do Anything

Season 3 Featured on: STRINGS OF FATE ~ SiIvaGunner: King for a Day Tournament Original Soundtrack

Ripped by Scribble1k Vocals by eva twin

(Also check out the Remastered Version!)

Requested by Corb! (Request Form)

In reading the request for me to cover How 2 Do Anything on here, I was made to realize something pretty big. For the 10-plus months that I've been running this blog, and for the amount of coverage I've dedicated to Season 4 Episode 1's King for Another Day tournament event, I've barely devoted any time to its Season 3 prequel on SiIvaGunner. I wrote about an excellent original piece made for it by dante and wolfman1405, FINAL DESTINATION, and I got to gush specifically about Anamanaguchi with Give Me The Fantasy...but I've hardly even touched on the tournament itself. I'm here today with How 2 Do Anything, and its remastered version, to try and resolve that issue - to celebrate the very first SiIvaGunner one-day king, and in some ways, a turning point for the entire channel.

So, first of all - the King for a Day Tournament. Halfway through Season 3, the SiIvaGunner channel was suddenly prevented from uploading videos for a week's time, but were still able to make community posts and tweets. The team was given the perfect opportunity for a channel shake-up, an opportunity to rethink what SiIvaGunner could be, and began thinking of ways to have the channel engage more directly with its viewers. Sure enough, that eventually landed on the idea of a "tournament arc", an event wherein viewers would both submit ideas for contestants to be featured, but then vote between the qualified few to crown a champion - with said champion then getting the reigns of the channel for an entire day of rips. Takeovers had become a regular occurrence on the channel ever since Season 2, be it the Inspector Gadget takeover with Become as Gadget, or the Santana and Rob Thomas takeover with Haltmanna feat. Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 - each of these, as you can tell, brought with them a bevvy of rips tied to the character hosting the channel, and have in some cases become legends on the channel in retrospect. Thus, each submission to the tournament was of a character who represented a specific kind of rips, a "source list" as it's now since been called - and the voting came down to which kind of rip the viewers would most want to see on the channel for a day's time.

Truth be told, I wish I had been more involved with the fanbase at the time of KFAD1's unfurling, I can only imagine how exciting the discussions must've been during the unveiling and lead-up on Discord and Twitter. Yet as a big lorehead, a big part of the appeal of the original King for a Day tournament for me was specifically the characters each contestant was represented through. Season 3 was right when the Christmas Comeback Crisis (the channel's main storyline) had begun slowing down, with a lot of the lore additions made being supplemental rather than advancing the core story forward. Even though King for a Day wasn't connected to this main story, it was nevertheless a sudden explosion of character - and characters! - added to the channel, a good amount of which would continue to be relevant outside of the tournament's confines. Like, this was the debut of Ajit Pai on the channel, who basically had his own little narrative spun across his first appearance, A New Threat and Totally Shaaking Out Right Now - this was the debut of Geno, the tragic fallen star of DEARLY BELOVED... who we'd later catch back up with in the Season 6 DoomFes event - this was where we got JOHN NOTWOODMAN as the event's host who I rambled on about in Vote Responsibly!!....and it was, of course, the debut of everyone's favorite, Unregistered Hypercam 2.

Even though I was disconnected from most fan discussion at the time, I'm certain I wasn't alone in having Unregistered Hypercam 2 as my favorite of the tournament right from his unveiling. A source list consisting of every anthem of the old internet - Paralyzer, Dreamscape, Bodies - all wrapped up in a completely original character design, the most Little Guy thing you'd ever seen? Frankly, I was sold right away - and with each example rip made under his name, it seemed we'd only be made more sure of our choice. Throughout his run, and after his victory, it was as if How 2 Do Anything became the little guy's anthem - a modern, reimagined take on the theme that taught us all so many things across the early internet's scuffed YouTube tutorials.

I've covered some rips by Scribble1k on here before, notably the fantastic Guilty Eyes Creeper mashup, but King for a Day and its sequel gave rippers the unique opportunity to shine through full-on professional-grade rearrangements. I've always been partial to the themes that Hypercam brought with him to the channel, you may recall I've covered Paralyzer specifically twice already with YACKER TOILET and Remember when this song was the one related to toilets?, but I'm just as attached if not MORESO to the legendary Dreamscape theme that How 2 Do Anything is arranging. Just the three opening piano chords alone strike such a raw nostalgic nerve: its instrumentation is as far removed from Dreamscape as you could come, yet there's no other song that sounds quite like that, it introduces the theme as an old memory to be recalled through Hypercam's presence - an age of the internet lost to time, brought back all these years later after being buried away for so long. The arrangement itself goes in swinging soon after that, a main melody carried through a heavy electronic, almost dubstep-esque vibe - yet it never wholly loses that sort of melancholic tone set up by the introductory piano. The noise and distortion of the arrangement conveys almost a sense of the Dreamscape theme being at battle with the rest of the internet's noise, almost akin to Your Worst Nightmario, yet its a battle that turns into an incredibly sick listening experience, a balance of light and dark.

It's all topped off with a full-circle piano ending, and a small vocal signoff from guest contributor eva twin, whisking the theme away with a proud reaffirmation - "You can do anything...". And sure enough - the little guy did it!! Through a tough bracket and a close final dual with Splatoon's Off the Hook (hence, OtH Was Robbed), Unregistered Hypercam 2 wound up becoming the tournament's champion - and, in the process, has become an outright mainstay character on the channel. He got to have his Windows Movie Maker-core, day-long takeover, filled rips like Never Gonna Give Up Mahjong, and got to appear as the host of the King for Another Day Tournament, playing a vital role in its storyline and surprise final boss with NIGHTMARESCAPE 〜Unrestrained HyperCam 2〜 (Final Boss Phase 2). He's a core SiIvaGunner cast member, and all of this started with just an idea, a figment of the imagination cast into SiIvaGunner's email address for a silly tournament arc. One that was so successful and beloved by the fanbase, that it shaped the entirety of Season 4's two episodes - and in turn shaped much of Season 5 and Season 6 to boot.

This one little guy helped change SiIvaGunner forever, and in turn helped bring in a wave of incredible original arrangements just like How 2 Do Anything in the years to follow. The King for a Day Tournament may well have been overshadowed by its vastly bigger follow-up, but it has paved the way for everything that has kept SiIvaGunner so engrossing to follow in the years since - a shot in the arm at just the right time, and an incredible gateway for SiIvaGunner's team to flex just how talented they've always been.

[ravenplaylist]

October 19, 2024 - Paralyzer by Finger Eleven

[gijoe-forever]

[myimaginaryradio]

Paralyzer - Finger Eleven

[dire-straits-fn8ic]

God how is Paralyzer this much of a banger, no song should slap this hard.

Plus it totally nails its contrasting vibe where during the verses it's just the narrator singing about how he's not having very much fun drinking at the club. You listen to this loser rant for a bit and then the guitar comes in and totally rips and the guy suddenly becomes cool for a bit as he's having a good time and then when it's back to the verse he's an insufferable loser again. And it shouldn't work but god it does. Some buzzkill dork gets possessed by the sickest guitar riff known to man and he becomes cool as hell but only temporarily.

[gungieblog]

Paralyzer

[choir-of-ex-girlfriends]

"Well, I'm imagining a dark lit place

Or your place or my place

Well, I'm not paralyzed but I

Seem to be struck by you

I wanna make you move

Because you're standin' still

If your body matches

What your eyes can do

You'll probably move right through

Me on my way to you"

- "Paralyzer", Finger Eleven

[linkseasonmaster]

This week's Tune for Tuesday, "Paralyzer" by Finger Eleven, was one of many throwback songs my friends and I were listening to while hanging out together this weekend. I hope you all enjoy it as much as we did!

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 09/11/2023

Remember when this song was the one related to toilets?

Season 7 Featured on: PROTONOMICON ~ The Cult of Proto Collection

Ripped by DonnieTheGuy

Unfortunately, due to both real-life circumstances and managing this blog, I haven't been able to keep too up to date with this year's halloween event, The Cult of Proto storyline. Althesame, a new album is a new album, and immediately on release I downloaded it to see what fun stuff I'd missed out on. I had seen some stuff from it here and there already, like Bloody Freddy - which, fun fact, recently became the first rip on the blog to have its tentative name changed to an official one thanks to this album release! But Remember when this song was the one related to toilets? was REALLY the one that got me in going through the album, an endeavor so perfect yet one I never could've foreseen.

Okay, so, where to start with the backstory for this...there's a very particular YouTube series going around by voice actor and animator RainingKetchup, which voice acts, animates, and generally spoofs/pokes fun at the Omori Boy webcomic series - the predecessor to hit indie RPG Omori. One thing led to another, and suddenly a segment in one of these videos - of Mr Omoriboy himself singing a mocking Redditor anthem along with an army of wojaks (dont worry about it) - took off en masse in certain circles on Twitter. It was a perfect shitposting storm, from the pure absurdity of the clip out of context, to making fun of redditor/incel culture, to the endearingly sketchy animation-style - and, on top of it all, being a genuinely really fun tune to listen to with stupidly well-done vocals.

It's the kind of clip that I immediately expected to blow up in terms of getting edits, much like the recent influx of Jay Eazy Mega Man shitposts, yet its been bizarrely...low on output. Part of that, as I understand it, is that the song was simply pretty hard to work with before its stems were released (at which point the meme was unfortunately on its way out). But another part of it, at least to me, seemed to be that the concept for edits almost "plateaued" immediately, with the debut of OMORIBOY the PIRATE!!!☠️☠️☠️ - a YTPMV of a song from the Baby Felix Halloween Game Boy Color game, that has somehow reached HALF A MILLION views, almost doubling the video its source comes from. Its creator is UUN4, a frequent SiIvaGunner contributor behind rips such as Plains of Des-passing-to, and Baby Felix Halloween (and Felix the Cat in general) were already long-cemeted parts of SiIvaGunner history. With all that said, it's no wonder the meme ended up taking refuge under SiIvaGunner - though often times, like with Remember when this song was the one related to toilets?, it's entirely disconnected from its original spike in popularity as an Omoriboy YTPMV.

With ALL that backstor out of the way...the rip's just fuckin' funny. I've made no secret that I hold very dear affection for Paralyzer as a meme, and basically dedicated the entire post of YACKER TOILET just toward gushing over its place as a relic of old-internet and as a genuinely distinct and fun piece of music on its own. Remember when this song was the one related to toilets? is as straightforward of a concept as you get - it's a YTPMV of Paralyzer into the tune of the aforementioned Baby Felix Halloween song, Pirate Island, made to quite clearly evoke the spirit of OMORIBOY the PIRATE!!!☠️☠️☠️. Through that, it sort of calls back to the past and present internet age all at once, althewhile being genuinely very funny. I think its the vocals that sell it - sentence mixed almost exactly like the vocals in OMORIBOY the PIRATE!!!☠️☠️☠️ whilst still containing most of the words in Paralyzer's chorus.

Simple, effective, yet required two paragraphs of lore-dumping on the origins and spread of OMORIBOY the PIRATE!!!☠️☠️☠️ - and even then I didn't even get into Felix the Cat's notoriety on SiIvaGunner since way back in 2016. It's funny how much there can be to these immensely silly rips sometimes, huh?

[boodubious07]

I've been humming paralyzer for like at least ten minutes

[gijoe-forever]

[xiddiga]

paralyzer — k.y. robinson