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7grandmel · 28 days ago

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Rip of the week: 18/11/2024

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Season 8 Featured on: The Joke-Explainer™ 7000's Highest Quality Rips: Sunset

Ripped by Memmy

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So, the big Season 8 albums finally released - and there's a new Bandcamp up with it! You might've noticed that I've gone back to touch up a bunch of Season 8 posts as a result, and I've spent the past week listening through both albums as well. This release paired well with a recent thought of mine, that ever since I made the switch to a weekly schedule, I've wanted to increase my coverage of the current season's rips in particular. The problem there was, of course, knowing what rips to cover – which became a lot easier with proper album releases to sort them into. Funnily enough, I was also thinking about how long it'd been since I covered a no-frills meme medley along the likes of Memey Hell or Mother, Father, TechnoMan. And it was right as that thought struck me, as I was still listening to the album, that I realized that vibri and joke explainer open up mario party 8 and play rudder madness together had been playing in my ears all along. The stars aligned, and with everything the rip represents, with the ripper's own history already covered on the blog, it only felt right to use it as the blog's first celebration of the Joke-Explainer 7000 albums dropping.

Last time I wrote about today's ripper, Memmy, was on the ever-as-lovingly named Welcome to 2021! They finally invented summers that hurt motherfuckers😂 only at sonicforces.com; a rip I also happened to pick on a whim from having heard it on an album listen. What I wanted to emphasize with my coverage of that rip in particular was the love that rippers like Memmy express in the act of ripping for SiIvaGunner, not just through shooting for the stars and creating unbelievably impressive passion projects, but through simply making something with their own hands and having an evidently amazing time doing it. Despite my own obvious adoration for the channels' large-scale projects such as the Christmas Comeback Crisis, The Life and Times of Wade L.D., and more, Seasons 7 and 8 of SiIvaGunner in particular have been eye-opening for me for making me realize just how much I also enjoy seeing rippers simply engage in doing what they love. Running this blog as a means to highlight the "best" SiIvaGunner rips is in some ways misleading, because the channel is only as good as it is through the totality of ALL of its contributions, through the shared love that its entire team has toward the simple act of creating things for the love of the craft. With Season 7, it was RIP^2 and arrangements like The Paragoomba and the Wiggler that made that love more evident than ever before; with Season 8, however, it's all been due thanks to the presence and continued adoration of one little robot girl.

Season 8 as a whole is one I've previously on described as the "silliest" SiIvaGunner Season – as made evident through rips like slider dank version – and I think that's in huge part because of how thoroughly the team adores The Joke-Explainer 7000 as the new channel master. With Season 6 being in large part about confronting the expectations placed upon the team, with Season 7 being a full-year celebration of where those expectations came from and why we all adore the channel, Season 8 has felt like a year-long party of creative freedom, unrestrained from the past and free to play around in all sorts of ways at the drop of a hat. And of course, at the center of it all sits that one very silly little robot. As a channel host, JE-7K toys and plays with us in the audience, while the team in turn toy and plays with her own appearance at a staggering rate, seemingly just as enamored as we in the audience are by all of the Situations they put her through. As a result of all this, though the year may have been light in continental developments, it's given us some all-time classic, hyper-silly events, from April Fools 2024 covered in super mario 64 but it's in the buddy holly soundfont to the Justin Bieber Baby anniversary celebration covered on Super Ludacris JB World; each one fulfilling the standard routine for SiIvaGunner takeovers, yet coming alongside new outfits and posts just having fun with the idea of the Joke-Explainer 7000 running it all herself. Put simply, this year has felt radiant and joyous in a way I'm unsure if I've felt from the channel in quite a while.

I may well be looking into things too deeply just to make a point about Season 8 in particular (the channel has ALWAYS been chaotic, after all); but no matter the year, few rippers on the channel's team embody that chaotic, individualistic silliness better than Memmy. And while on Welcome to 2021! They finally invented summers that hurt motherfuckers😂 only at sonicforces.com I moreso focused on her love for the simple things, hers and many other rippers' drive to do whatever they feel like doing, it's with vibri and joke explainer open up mario party 8 and play rudder madness together that we end up getting closer to highlighting her full potential, the true machinations of her twisted mind. That individualism is certainly still present in this rip; The Vib-Ribbon game itself, for one, is one with only a dozen rips on the channel, with half of them having been made by Memmy herself throughout the course of just this year, pretty plainly showing her steadfast dedication to championing what she cares for. You may also, on a separate note, recall the aptly-named Season 5 rip my rip :) that I wrote about a while back, but might well have forgotten that the request to write about it was made by Memmy herself.

And so, for vibri and joke explainer open up mario party 8 and play rudder madness together, it's as if all of these separate aspects; Season 8's penchant for hijinx, the team's adoration for the Joke-Explainer 7000, a ripper's individualistic drive to make whatever she feels like, their love and championing for games that might otherwise be left forgotten a la Violet Snow Memories, and Memmy's fascination with the soundscape of sheer insanity. Laugh & Peace from the original Vib Ribbon already has an insane, sample-heavy vibe to it, but the samples, pace and madness of vibri and joke explainer open up mario party 8 and play rudder madness together give it almost a 100gecs-ian, hyperpop vibe, a cacophony of noise that would almost CERTAINLY kill a Victorian era child upon first listen. It's not a soundscape I'm at all averse to – FEEL SO FINE STUCK INSIDE is still one of my favorite Stuck Inside rips from the year – and there's a certain additional magic to this kind of sound once you've been made familiar with the artist behind it and just where all these desperate samples come from. If you've been following the channel's uploads through this year in particular you may well recognize at least a good handful of these samples; and much like the channels' rips themselves, even if you don't recognize one it all still just adds to the beauty of the rip's totality.

The driving force of the rip's first section, if nothing else, would be the voice samples of the rip's titular character and channel's beloved host; the Joke-Explainer 7000 voice clips as recorded all the way back in Season 4 Episode 1 by infrequent contributor Jea. For as recent as the character's time in the spotlight has been, it's easy to forget just how much her performance in Welcome to SiIvaGunner! and more really do add to the charm of the character, this softspoken yet aptly mischievous voice fitting her current-Season characterization like a glove. She wants to manage and help out, but can't help herself from pulling pranks and messing around; and just as quickly as she's introduced in vibri and joke explainer open up mario party 8 and play rudder madness together, she's tucked away and replaced with samples from all over the place. Be it the Brainless Kitty fart sfx, Love Live music, or what's probably the most standout sample; a now-infamous clip of a SpongeBob reviewer yelling about THE SECURITY SYSTEM TAKING CONTROL OF SQUIDWARD'S HOUSE. It's the kind of thing that I don't think makes much sense to try and explain the comedy of – you might argue that applies to this rip as a whole probably – and yet it's just another level of deep-internet brainrot that the rip blends in with the rest of the noise so effectively. Something about hearing this absurdly angry rant over a cartoon be sampled, mixed and then pitch-shifted to the melody of the aforemention Season 8 meme Stuck Inside just feels like such a perfect bow put on the Season as a whole, so effortlessly able to not take anything seriously and twist and conform to whatever would be the funniest bit to do in the moment.

I hope you understand just why I felt this rip was such a perfect choice to write about for this Season's big album drop; and, as an extension, why this post has taken a fair bit longer to come out than usual. Like the channel itself, underneath all of vibri and joke explainer open up mario party 8 and play rudder madness together's cacophony and noise is a genuinely really fun listen, a driving rhythm from the original Laugh & Peace still carrying the track through across the finish line. It feels at once completely stupid and thoroughly fascinating, so many layers of subversion from what anyone would think an average SiIvaGunner rip would be to where this would NEVER have been released back in Season 1 or Season 2, yet feels completely at home with the outrageous rips we receive multiple times a week nowadays. It's the spirit of one ripper doing whatever the fuck she feels like, in a year where that mentality feels more encouraged than ever before, using both a song and game that already felt as if it was operating under that very same mentality; and it's a rip that I'm all too likely to cite as one of the year's hidden gems by the time it's over.

And also, like, Memmy was both one of the first rippers I was made aware of as being a fan of this blog AND one of the few rippers who are still using Maroon 5 deep cuts like Sweetest Goodbye and I Can't Lie – I HAD to shout her out on here just one more time... even if I admittedly still don't know where exactly Mario Party 8 fits into vibri and joke explainer open up mario party 8 and play rudder madness together

#todays siivagunner #season 8 #siivagunner #siiva #Memmy #vib ribbon #ytpmv #ps1 games #hyperpop

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7grandmel · 9 months ago

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Todays rip: 25/03/2024

The Life and Times of Wade L.D.

Season 3 Part of: The SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis

Directed by Smoky, Chaze the Chat Music by dante Full list of credits on Wiki

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Requested by Jiko Music! (Request Form)

Five years. It's been five whole years since the third season of SiIvaGunner came to an end. Five whole years since, in some ways, the channel began charting a course that would change it's direction forever. Season 4 Episode 1's mission statement was incredibly concise - to return the channel's chaotic, unpredictable nature of the Season 1 days, and to deliver on the absolute titan of an event that was the King for Another Day Tournament. After various production woes in the Christmas Comeback Crisis' main storyline and a newfound interest in other ventures through the King for a Day Tournament, it became evident that there simply wouldn't be much room left over in the itinerary for the channel's ongoing storyline in 2019. And so, in a way, Season 3's finale marked the day that the channel's storyline bowed out to a backseat position - yet with The Life and Times of Wade L.D., they did so with utmost splendor.

I've said before on here, at least way back on 時の回廊＜ver. CCC＞, that I don't wish to get too hung up on dissecting the Christmas Comeback Crisis storyline in particular - compared to most other lore on the channel, the form it takes is one that any average viewer is well able to dissect and watch on their own without much added context needed. I adore the series and wish to celebrate it - particularly its later endeavours - with my whole heart, but if I did I feel as if I'd inevitably be writing up to pages in the triple digits. Yet even if you're not all too familiar with the Christmas Comeback Crisis, be it as a newer fan or just plainly someone uninterested in the lore, it's pretty immediately noticeable that The Life and Times of Wade L.D. has a far different feel to it than other endeavors in the series. For one, the story told doesn't follow a character like Wood Man or Smol Nozomi or Haltmann, but an entirely new character - one who is created and (seemingly) ceases to exist entirely within this storyline. It is in some ways a standalone story - one that, perhaps more noticeably, is presented in an incredibly unique fashion - through an chronological archive of various recordings, emails, receipts, logs and photographs all centered around the titular Wade L.D. character. A character who, for the first time in the Christmas Comeback Crisis story, depicts the life of the everyman in Grandiose City - those who are not heroes nor villains, but are simply trying to exist within this strife-filled world that The Voice Inside Your Head unleashed at the series' beginning. Three years deep into this storyline, and it's officially become so much more than just the fun Kirby: Planet Robobot spoof that Patched Plains Fusion Collab, Mother's・Caption (We Paused The Channel For HOW Long?! Mix), The Noble Haltmann and so many more rips were all themed around. With Season 3 in particular, we'd gotten so many deeper insights into how this universe's world and operations were undergoing, small little peeks behind the curtain - it only makes it all the more befitting for the season to end with a full-on investigation of the truth. "Trust Nobody. Doubt Everything."

I believe its fair to say that The Life and Times of Wade L.D. was one of the most ambitious individual videos the team had made at the point of its release. Throughout its entire, gargantuan 30-minute runtime, we're spoiled with quality in so many different areas, from the fantastic artwork that maintains the story's mysterious atmosphere perfectly, to Smoky's remarkable writing being able to effortlessly ping-pong between seriousness and sly comedic jabs and references, to the soundtrack done entirely by the CCC series' sound director and certified GOAT, dante. Before the King for Another Day Tournament had the world floored, it was The Life and Times of Wade L.D. that kept impressing me with every turn - the commitment the team still had to this story, despite the clear signs to move on from it that they would eventually take in the years to come, was awe inspiring.

All of this is punctuated by what perhaps sets the story apart the most from other CCC productions - the full voice acting of all spoken and/or recorded dialogue. Season 3 was still a time where the voice acting the channel would have was typically in jest, either through sentence-mixing, text-to-speech, or through jokey rips altogether such as Haltmanna feat. Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20. Before Season 4 Episode 1 and onward would bring proper voice-acted performances for characters like John NotWoodman, DJ Professor K, and Joke-Explainer 7000, we had this. And perhaps unsurprisingly, it is that titular character, Wade L.D. himself, voiced by ripper CaptainComedy, who through my every rewatch still impresses me most in his performance. At once, CaptainComedy's performance feels tired, fed up, exhausted, yet also like someone no more different than you or I - a true everyman, a cog in the machine, yet one with pent-up anger and frustration building up inside of him, anger that comes out as events unfold.

Its hard to not get excited, as a big lorehead, to have the narrative in question focus so much on loose ends set up by prior CCC events and Haltmann's Archives videos. The presence of 2B from Nier Automata as a prominent character, the direct callbacks to the first-ever side story in Waluigi's Tacostand and establishing its bizarrely critical plot importance, the building drama between Haltmann and The Voice, the investigation onto SiIvaGunner's empty house and the traces of Woodman's presence there from the very start of Season 2...there is such an overarching feeling of satisfaction throughout all of The Life and Times of Wade L.D., as if I'm being genuinely rewarded for having paid attention to all of the channel's workings ever so extensively. All capped off by a genuinely touching narrative about the gradual collapse of a man's life.

Yet more than that satisfaction, what I love most about The Life and Times of Wade L.D. - above the music, the story, the artwork, the lore, or whatever else - is how much it still truly feels like a SiIvaGunner production. CaptainComedy's performance is incredible, yes - but right alongside him, you have channel founder Chaze the Chat playing a literal self-insert of himself, dubbed by only the most modest amount of investment into the role, althewhile making references to Maroon 5 and Kara's Flowers. There's references and nods to prior CCC episodes, an ongoing bait-and-switch joke that sees "Dr. P", set up to be a reference to the Dr. Piccolo meme, actually turn out to be referencing Dr. Pavel of Baneposting (Maskettaman - Dr. Pavel's Fly-So-Good) fame. There's just this subtle cheekiness to it all - never any sign that the episode and the storyline aren't being sincere, yet with countless signs to remind you of just how much fun the team are having in producing this story. A beating heart. A passion.

There are so many readings one could make of the storyline, that I don't know where to - or even if I should - begin. In our real world, the SiIvaGunner channel is a passion project driven entirely by voluntary contributors, a group of people contributing to a greater whole as a hobby out of love for the channel, their craft, and one another. It stands in stark contrast to the version of SiIvaGunner that The Voice Inside Your Head seeks to create, a symbol of the whiniest of fans of the channel's early days, and it stands in even starker contrast to what Haltmann further wishes for it to be - to produce rips as content, as products, as a job to attend just like Wade L.D. himself does. Wade's journey is one of excessive overwork, of burnout - perhaps not of making rips, yet with work pertaining to SiIvaGunner itself althesame. The environment Haltmann has created necessitates that Wade finds escapes from his job in order to feel relieved from it, that his work offers him no relief or fun - that the act of contributing to SiIvaGunner's growth is, at this stage, no longer something done out of passion. The Christmas Comeback Crisis, as meme-filled as it and the entire channel its hosted on is, is a form of a dystopia, if a subtle one, and the insight we get into Wade's life shows just how dire a project like SiIvaGunner could, in a far-worse world, be.

I could, really, as I said before, go on forever about this, about any Christmas Comeback Crisis episode. The series means the world to me, the CHANNEL of SiIvaGunner of course means the world to me as well - but it was, as I've said many a time before, through Season 2 that I unabashedly fell in love with the project. The Life and Times of Wade L.D. was everything I could have ever wanted a side story of the Christmas Comeback Crisis to be, and it warms my heart to see so many people from the team still cherish it. Be it dante reminiscing on how important of a project it was for him as a composer, or indeed this post's requestee, Jiko Music, arranging the episode's main theme for RIP^2 just last year with the beautiful LD. Its clear that it's so much more than just another piece to the SiIvaGunner lore - as perhaps SiIvaGunner's best Season finale second only to the one Season 7 just provided us, The Life and Times of Wade L.D. is downright incredible.

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