#theraft

[the-raft]

Je rends au hasard ce qu'il a fait.

Classés et prêts à oublier.

Merci de votre abandon.

[gamerdude7777]

Raft №5 With @nymphs1.3

[killmebutneverinsultme]

@forevermuses continued from here

James’ expression shifted, as if triggered by that last sentence. Once again, his mouth moved to shape words all on its own. This time, however, the words didn’t feel so alien. They felt like his own, returned to him after a very very long time.

“And you were so proud of it too, to see the Commodore humiliated as he scrubbed your vessel with what was left of his wig. You truly do have no shame, do you? After all I-”

With a startled blink, James slammed a hand over his mouth looking shocked over his own rudeness. He rose to his feet, ready to flee out of embarrassment. “I-I’m sorry, I…” he stammered behind his fingers. “I-I don’t know what came over me.”

--

This was new. It was one thing for this man to be descended of Norrington, but to be — what? What had that even been? Ancestral ghosts speaking through him?

As quickly as the turn had taken James, however, he was back to himself. Spooked as he was, Jack didn't want him to leave yet if he could help it. There was something comforting about getting to know a Norrington in this era. Where he wasn't on the run. Where men could be with men on at least some of these islands. The rest made him quietly glad he was under protection.

"You're all right, mate," he said, forcing a calm facade. "Sometimes these tales have a way of telling themselves out in these waters. You were in the moment. Maybe someone even told you the story, eh? Pirate making an ex commodore wash 'is boots with his own wig."

[wetpapert0wel]

theres this one streamer. who i desperately want to support. but they are so bland and so slow w/ their gameplay it's incredibly, unbearably frustrating 💀

[7grandmel]

Rip of the week: 10/02/2025

Stingy's Revenge / Smashing Song of Claim

Season Mine Featured on: Stingy's Highest Quality Rips: Volume Mine

Ripped by SamanthaMK

You know what I haven't felt in the premiere of a new SiIvaGunner Season in a very long time? Complete and utter confusion.

Within recent memory, with both Season 7 and Season 8, I felt as if their premieres served as comforting, reassuring statements on what the year set out to deliver; the celebratory Year of Grand Dad for the former, and the comfort in an old friend becoming host with the latter, covered on Magolor's Shoppe Fusion Collab. Both seasons would later come to deliver some amazing surprises throughout, particularly by their finales, but lots of their runs felt comfortably reassuring, showing a team on track with a vision clear to both themselves and to us in the audience. Even in the years before, the premieres have served like a comforting bridge into the future; Season 2, 3 and 4 Episode 1 all formally introduced to us by Chaze the Chat himself to explain the path going forward. And yet as 2025 begins, as MAGFest came to an end and the team geared back up to begin uploading...suddenly, things got weird. Despite the last season's ending being all about piecing things together, about building bridges to move forward; 2025's season began with what I can only describe as a non-sequitur. With barely as much as a warning, we were thrust into Stingy's world, into Season Mine - not Nine - and it all, indeed, belongs to him.

It's hardly the first time that the channel's control has been usurped by an unexpected out-of-left-field arrival - I spent last week's post on Tribute to a MAD Agent discussing Inspector Gadget's terrifying Season 2 rule, best demonstrated on Become as Gadget - yet what differentiates Stingy's takeover is the context building up to it all. There's an undeniable sense of impulsive hap-hazardry that surrounds the early years of SiIvaGunner, with projects and events coming and going on a whim and the channel only taking it all seriously whenever it felt like it. The ARG that concluded Season 8, covered similarly haphazardly back on PRIMEneria, was all about addressing this carefree event-building, piecing together every possible stray bit of lore dropped throughout the early years to form a greater understanding of the whole. For instance, back during the first anniversary of The Reboot in Season 2, we were shown Fly High, No Lies ~Genocide Ending~: an out-of-nowhere alternate timeline highlighting how things could have turned out in the original Reboot storyline following if Chad's own behavior was more "accurate to how he is in the real world", even including the line "this was my true plan all along". The implications of this alternate-reality Chad Warden were left completely unexplored therafter, until the current SiIva team built onto it for this very same ARG to completely reframe the Reboot storyline, Chad's behavior, and even the original motives behind the channel's defacto villain of nine years, The Voice Inside Your Head. This was but one subject of many that the Susie ARG directly addressed; it framed the Season, then, as one of putting all the pieces together, putting all of one's ducks in a row, for the explosive finale of the storyline that lies just ahead.

And then, within that framing, with MAGFest hype having come and gone, with The Meeting and its messaging still fresh in everyone's minds...Stingy arrives. "After numerous long internal debates deciding on the next channel host", the SiIva team says on Discord, "we felt like there was really no better choice than Stingy!"; keep in mind, dear reader, that Stingy himself has NEVER appeared in SiIvaGunner lore beforehand, and that his song, the Mine song, had at this point appeared exactly FOUR times in the channel's entire history. I was in complete shock at 1AM on my phone; seeing Stingy's public announcement on the YouTube Community tab, the profile picture changing in an instant, tabbing over to the Discord server to see fellow fans in just as much disarray as myself. Unheard of for any prior takeover, Stingy was claiming ownership of far more than just the channel; SiIvaGunner's very own Discord account, the Twitter, the BlueSky, the Newgrounds...with every passing minute, the Discord community scrambled to see which online platforms had yet to be claimed by the assertive young prince, each discovery met with dread mere minutes after being shared. Bandcamp, Minecraft, Roblox, TikTok, the official highquality.rip website, all claimed to be his; all to the tune of the YouTube channel's new wave of Stingy-themed rips. Surely, this was just a momentary takeover...right?

Despite the aforementioned sparse usage of the song prior on the channel, however, rips like Stingy's Revenge / Smashing Song of Claim show just how fun of a source the Mine song really is. LazyTown has over the years gained quite a reputation in online circles for having genuinely really fun songs; the Pirate Song, Bake A Cake, and of course the SiIvaGunner-pioneered We Are Number One which I've covered everywhere from on we are number one but with outdated memes over it to We Are Number 4 (Golden). Robbie Rotten is hardly an unknown presence to us, and his constant output of rips since the beginning of Season 2 have shown just how capable the ripping team are at leveraging just one song in so many creative ways; its this matured, seasoned team that's now under Stingy's beck and call, and the touch for quality is already apparent this early on into his rule. Setting aside its sheer listenability in its own right for just a moment, Stingy's Revenge / Smashing Song of Claim is filled with fantastic touches around just about every corner, with the thumbnail change being the most obvious one; replacing not just Lucas' front-and-center render with a prideful Stingy, but also various background screenshots from Brawl with images reaffirming Stingy's rule. Beyond that, though, you hear it around every part of the listening experience, such as the rising WANO trumpet fanfares and flairs from 0:28 to 0:40, the "MINE-MINE" stingers that appear loudly in the section following, and of course the "This instrumental riff is also mine" quote being so perfectly placed in the brief interlude inbetween the song's more hectic segments.

But to of course return to the main topic at hand; this rip shows just how much the channel's long-term rippers, rippers like SamanthaMK and the many more who have been helping the channel for half a decade's worth of time, have grown in experience and proficiency. We don't have official stems released for the Mine song the way we now do with WANO, and as prior mentioned it's not exactly one that's well explored online beyond low-effort MrMrMANGOHead-core parodies, and yet Stingy's Revenge / Smashing Song of Claim sounds as if the team had been doing these rips for all of 2024 behind our backs. The pitch shifting is both hilarious and exceptionally done, working alongside the placement of specific vocals for harmony with Unfounded Revenge's melody; the repeating, compounding "Mine-mine-mine-mine-mine"'s at 0:14 followed by the high-pitched "it all belongs to meee~" show what I mean just about perfectly. It's in large part just what I find impressive about rips like no more nuzzles in my skin; merging two seemingly conflicting songs in degrees so far above a mere mashup that you begin to question how the ripper managed to sit through it all to begin with, the end product lying so, so far away.

Every relisten I find some new little part of Stingy's Revenge / Smashing Song of Claim to love, and saying that makes me feel absolutely insane given that I still can't quite even comprehend the state that the channel itself is even in. I'm taken back to the beginning of Season 4 Episode 1, where Chaze the Chat introduced the season as being one explicitly aiming to be "more unpredictable and chaotic than ever before"; yet, paradoxically, making said announcement in the same means of season premieres as the prior two years had already done. Season 4 Episode 1 did indeed have some absurdist highlights - I'll never forget the likes of Chain of Memories 2 Day or Sex - Steve Harvey - and yet the Season ironically wound up becoming far more known for the most expected part of its run, the tournament sequel announced before the season even began; reflective, in a sense, of how Chaze the Chat's wish for chaos was announced in the most expected means possible. Funny enough, SamanthaMK even worked on last year's season premiere with Magolor's Shoppe Fusion Collab, a collab as comforting and reassuring as it was, in part, expected; With Season Mine, with Stingy's takeover, meanwhile, Chaze the Chat's promise for chaos is finally being followed through upon, the tables being flipped only after so much time had been spent carefully decorating it. It's with the first channel host to truly take over EVERYTHING, the first season to exclude a number from its name entirely, the first premiere in ages to make me feel genuinely uncertain about what's in the pipeline for the channel; all, of course, still paired with rips like Stingy's Revenge / Smashing Song of Claim, that show the team's utmost confidence and proficiency running high behind it all.

[wistfulwonders]

Pt. 3

Places, physical and non physical, you get the themes

[fitsofgloom]

A Midnight Cowboy In The Dream Factory: Robert La Tourneaux from "The Boys In The Band" on the cover of Mandate, May, 1978. In key respects he was the real-life Joe Buck, the filmic role of the urban hustler in Western duds cloaking his entire life therafter.

[stackofsnakes]

You know what i'm still mad about?

Years ago i was part of a musical club in my local theater; this particular year we were doing Just So. It's a great show for kids and teens to be in, because there's a wide range of one shot characters that come in, sing a song and are off again, so a lot of actors have a speaking/singing role. For different purposes, some of the shows and rehearsals are filmed in theaters, but because copyright ruins many fun things, nobody but a small range of people have access to the recordings.

Luckily i had a friend. She was part of the club until the year prior and was now doing odd jobs around the theater because of an interest in the production side of things and she organized a copy, a single downloadable copy on CD we were supposed to take turns on and, most importantly, hand back in. Nobody except one of the technitians and my friend even knew about it and it was supposed stay that way for legal purposes.

Now you may ask, "Why didn't somebody dowload the show and just send it to the rest or copy it on USB or something?", which is a very fair question, so let me elaborate on the two reasons why that didn't happen.

First, people know much less about computers than you give them credit for. Even now, i often meet people, young people, people who have grown up in the computer age, fail the most basic tasks involving computers. They never took the time to explore their devices, usually have lives and hobbies not involving a computer and never faced a computer related task they weren't lead through step by step or couldn't hand of to a more competent person. Downloading something from a CD would already be a task too monumental to reasonably expect them to distribute the data therafter. "No matter.", i thought. "I can do just that when i get the CD.", not because i'm such a good and generous person, but because the logistic of circulating a CD between two dozen people frighten me. Doesn't matter how simple the principle, somebody always fucks up. Sadly, i never got to do that. At that point, another actor, let's call her Anna, enters the stage. Anna, generally speaking, is clever, popular within the theater crowd, very put together and, most importatnly, was at the right place at just the right time to receive the CD. Anna is the star of our next paragraph because

Some people got no respect for other people's property. After Anna got the CD, she just sort of disappeared for a good week. That is, she was available via phone and reacted to the repeated request, first to hand the CD over, later to return it to my friend, with reassurances and excuses of why she didn't get around to it yet. After ten days, after the CD was supposed to be back in pristine condition, what came back was a dull, disc shaped landscape of marks and scratches that looked like a round, oversized nail file. Turns out, she let it lay around where her little brother, then a painfully stupid and destructive child of about five years of age, could find it, access it, and rub it, data side down, over the floor to his little, moronic heart's content. The floor would also be its resting place, unttil it was picked up and handed in with the perfect innocence of somebody, who does not understand how a CD works and wouldn't care either way.

Now, my friend almost killed her then and there. Not just did she stick her neck out for this one physical copy, the digital copy was out of rech as well. Anna claimed she had downloaded the show, but "lost" it somehow. We could never verify what happened to it, because, as many people who don't know their way around computers, she was very reluctant to let anybody more competent than her take a look at her computer(unless necessity demands it, of course).

Two dozen people waiting eagerly, just for the only physical copy dying after the literal first person in the chain. An invaluable memory lost in the download folder, or watever folder her software uses to store data, on some morons laptop.

It's been ten years. I still can't fucking believe it.

[primus-why]

TFP OC Idea

A librarian/fellow archivist who once worked with Orion back in the day, having a friendly work relationship. Recalls how fondly Orion would speak of his friend, the gladiator, and how he eagerly sought recommendations from this OC coworker on various works said friend might enjoy...

Fast forward to present day. The librarian never formerly joined a faction-- Primus, they had barely held it together back then, there was no way they could throw themselves into a war. But, by some miracle, they stumble upon Earth and Team Prime. Seeing Optimus after all this time brings up old memories; the Prime is different in many ways-- obviously the conflict has reshaped them all-- but in many ways he's still the same.

They soon fall into an easy, friendly conversation. OC can't remember the last time they've felt this close to normal. They lightly joke that Orion still has overdue datapads in his name, and the Prime wordlessly fishes the very same pads out of his subspace. Any further conversation dies shortly therafter-- all they can do is stare at the lost literary works.

OC wonders, in awe, how these could have survived so long. What if they've become corrupted? Are they even charged? No, Orion-- the Prime-- would know how to maintain them. It's just a wonder that he even bothered. The Archives are gone, razed long ago, leaving only a pile of debris scattered with broken, unrecoverable works. No one had cared enough to protect the building or what was inside, it was too late for that, they simply ran for their lives. It was only after the dust had settled and OC found themself on a shuttle packed with NAILs did the profound loss sink in.

Never again would they walk those grand halls. They would no longer help visitors discover new works that might interest them, much like solving a personalized puzzle. Gone are the days when they could even hold a datapad other than the one they had brought in from home on the day they left.

It was a stark reminder that they could not go home-- there was no home to even return to, and one of the mechs responsible for their situation was right here in front of them. And yet, somehow, seeing the delinquent datapads, the tiniest bit of hope sparked for a fleeting moment.

'We are still here,' OC realized, 'cracked and scuffed and worn around the edges, but we are still here...'

OC didn't know when they had started to tear up, but swiftly they recomposed themself and apologized. "It's nothing, I was simply... startled." The Prime apologized too, though for what specifically was left up to interpretation.

After a beat, OC smirks and gathers the guts to ask, "... Did he at least like my suggestions?"

Optimus lets out a soft, sad laugh, "I didn't get a chance to show him."

"Mm... what a shame."

"Indeed."

[the-raft]

De l'eau trouble pour cacher des larmes. J'ai sali la table.

Ne perdez plus votre temps. Nous avons jeter la table.

Merci de votre abandon.

[kingmabry]

Good morning. Wake up to happiness. Fill up with gratitude. What flows therafter for us is love, patience, faith, peace, trust, optimism, blessings, & many more. Happy Wednesday. Stay safe. God bless us.

[spn-ish]

... And then she deleted the post shortly therafter.

[cutesharkstudios]

Cold Sweat Chapter 1

Blight Manor: 11:17 pm

Luz and Amity are snuggled in bed after enjoying a wonderful date. After her kingcenera, Luz made sure she had some ample time with her beloved girlfriend. On their way back from their usual date spot, they met someone who brought up a cheating incident in a witches duel that just got resolved. They left therafter, with Luz doing everything in her power to make sure Amity's mind left that comment.

They arived at their home, the Blight manor. They lived there with Amity's siblings and father, in order to be closer, save money, and use up all the space they could. They all respected eachother's privacy and were all getting along well now that O-stinky-a was out of their lives.

After going to bed, Luz thought nothing of the conversation, until she started to hear wimpering from her partner. She started to open her eyes to see if her sweet potato was cold.

Said eyes shot open when out of the freaking ether, Amity sat up with tears pouring from her eyes, screaming "I'M SORRY" at the top of her lungs. Luz immediatly started to console her.

Luz: Amity, Amity, it's ok, it's just a nightmare, I'm here.

Amity then embraced Luz with the consrictiveness of a snake, saying something the human never thought she would hear her say.

Amity: Please don't leave me. I'll never do it again. Luz…..

Luz: It's okay, I'm here.

At that moment, Alador kicked open the door, his eyes wide as spell circles and filled with fear for his daughter. Following him was his twins, Ed and Em, who heard the cry as well.

Alador: Amity, Luz, are you ok!?

Luz: I am, but Amity isn't. She just just had a nightmare, and we all need to make sure she is ok.

Edric and Emira: Amity, what's wrong?

Alador: Is it about the conversation you overheard? Luz told me to make sure I didn't waltz over an open wound.

Amity: It is. Here's how it went.

[7grandmel]

Rip of the week: 23/12/2024

PRIMEneria

Season 8 Featured on: Thickmas

Ripped by Yassir F.

I don't know if words could even begin to describe the emotional rollercoaster I have been on since December 19th, 2024.

It's such a funny thing, following this channel for so long. Throughout the early days in Season 1, the team would cobble together ideas for rips, events, and story in mere weeks' time, seemingly just to get reactions out of the fanbase. Beyond the inherent lunacy to The Reboot and I Saw a Brainwasher Today, this was also the year where one contributor just decided to tell a storyline about the Australian rental service Mr. Rental's titular mascot and his hatred for mashups back on Mr. Rental [B Side] ~ Out of Options; this was the year where legendary folk singer Bob Dylan became a reoccurring joke on the channel, just because PinkieOats was on a voice call and sung a cover in a captivatingly shoddy impression back on Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday - as performed by Bob Dylan; this was the year where the termination of the original GiIvaSunner channel was explained in-universe as being a scheme by Angry Joe, in a slapdash meme tribute to Baneposting in the one year that it was relevant on the channel. It was a mess we all adored following due to the clear passion for entertainment that lay underneath; and when Season 2 returned with an unbelievably explosive bang and showed just how much could be made with this chaos of a story being told, I was more excited than I can put into words. As said back on ULTRA S+G, Season 2 was when it felt as if EVERYONE was aboard the ride that the SiIvaGunner team was promising; shooting for the stars for quality and evolving the lore into something shockingly compelling despite its absurd origins.

It's hard, especially as someone who hardly ever lost their passion for the channel in the first place, to pinpoint exactly where things started to lose Season 2's momentum. Perhaps it was the two years spent covering Season 4, with all the focus spent on an event of unprecedented scale that all ultimately was an aside from the channel's typical mold; during the production of which many core team members wound up leaving to never return, including channel founder Chaze the Chat. Perhaps it was Season 3's more low-key format and direction, one that Chaze the Chat himself appeared adamant to steer away from when Season 4 Episode 1 first began; or perhaps it was all inherent to Season 2's overambitious nature, with the Christmas Comeback Crisis episodes growing ever more vast in scope, eventually resulting in a 6-year long gap between Episode 10 to 11. Perhaps it was later, perhaps it was sooner; nevertheless, its undeniable that the wait occurred, and the driving narrative that had enamored us all throughout Season 2 was left on ice, forever frozen in time on December 2016.

Yet it felt, in a way, inevitable that things would grow in this way. The SiIvaGunner team was growing, its members maturing, its worst influences leaving; and most important of all, their creative juices were flowing like mad. To be confined to one 12-episode run of a fake visual novel couldn't contain the ambitions this team have; even before the CCC began, the aforementioned Mr. Rental and projects of its ilk show just how hard it is to keep SiIvaGunner's contributors from doing what they want. Gradually, it felt as if both the team and us in the audience came to accept that inevitable constant – that the only predictable thing about SiIvaGunner is its unpredictability – and so the side projects grew to the scale of main projects. We'd see experimental projects still hinting at the main story such as The Lost Rip and The Life and Times of Wade L.D.; not long therafter, we'd get everything from the King for Another Day Tournament and NIGHTMARESCAPE ~ Unrestrained Hypercam 2 ~, to The Disappearance of Super Mario and Your Best Nightmario, to entire festivals containing their own events, art direction, and self-contained storylines. SiIvaGunner was no longer just on one lane, but doing so many different concepts and events and journeys with such excellent finesse; even though many had given up on the return of the Christmas Comeback Crisis itself returning, it was impossible not to be impressed and enamored by the effort put into everything that was, effectively, taking its place.

I've made it no secret that Season 5, despite having events I greatly enjoyed such as the aforementioned Mario incident and everything discussed on Epic Rap Battles of History: Funny vs. Funnier, was the time at which my interest in the channel (particularly from a narrative perspective) felt more muted than before. Especially without the behind-the-scenes knowledge I know now of the team's troubled state, it to me was the year when I began to feel as if the channel was forever going to drift along in this excess of creative endeavors. Past an incomplete Christmas Comeback Crisis now filled with sideshoot stories, we still had Mr. Rental left unresolved, now had an AI running the channel that we knew next to nothing about, had a gigantic cast of 32 characters left from the King for Another Day Tournament that each seemed to be prodding at some sort of developments of their own, had Nutshackwoodman34's unexplainable cacophany still up in the air, had everything relating to Astronaut in the Ocean and Yankin', and a multitude of audio dramas with a canonicity that, at the time, felt largely up in the air. I'm well aware of how bizarre this all sounds and I want to clarify that I've long since accepted and adore just how much SiIvaGunner team have been able to do; but back then, I couldn't help but feeling as if things had steered out of control for the lore. In essence, I had to accept that SiIvaGunner was now primarily focusing on its rips, events, and quality; long-time followers of the channel's lore were becoming vastly outnumbered by a growing audience of KFAD kids, Friday Night Funkin' fans joining through excellent rips like Satinpanties Symphony, and those simply here to enjoy what the channel could offer.

This, then, brings us to Season 6 and Season 7. Despite not technically continuing those stories that I was longing after, throughout almost every corner of Season 6 I got the sense that the team was eager to make some genuine change to their status quo; as expressed back on Bramble Blast Collab and I've won, but at what costI've won, but at what cost, there's a solemn feel that underscores the season, the realization that one can't stay hung up to the past forever, which all culminated in its beautiful season finale. It felt as if the SiIvaGunner team had themselves realized just how large their world had gotten and were beginning to grab their many bulls by the horns; and, once grabbed, Season 7 felt like a year-long celebration of each and every facet of the channel's long life. With a series of tribute beautiful enough, as said on The Paragoomba and the Wiggler one whole year ago, to bring me to tears, paired alongside the unbelievable return of the core series Christmas Comeback Crisis with an eleventh episode freed from development hell; I felt as if I was finally, completely on track with everything SiIvaGunner could throw at me. The past was the past, its many endeavors had been celebrated; and now, everyone was caught up and ready to finish that story started so many years ago.

I never quite knew what to expect from Season 8, aside from an understandable sense that the team needed plenty of rest and time after having just finished up the biggest story-related release in the channel's entire history. And so, after just a few events of time to get to know our lovable new channel host Joke-Explainer 7000, I labeled this the "silly season"; a year for a new character to bring back some lower-key whimsy to the channel after the prior two seasons had so expertly reminded us of how much the team genuinely do care about the world they've (almost inadvertently) built. I had no qualms; Joke-Explainer 7000 was hilarious to follow through rips and events such as Super Ludacris JB World, the rips have been higher quality than ever through efforts like Wake Up! It's Friday! and no more nuzzles in my skin, and we were all on the same page in knowing exactly what would come next, eventually. The conclusion to it all.

Yet once again, history repeats itself; the only predictable thing about SiIvaGunner is its unpredictability.

On the train to my family home for a Christmas weekend, I check my phone to see a server-wide ping within the SiIvaGunner discord; was this related to that Direct that I'd told myself to watch after the fact? I shrugged and checked it out althesame, only to be met with an ominous link and a wish of good luck; https://hwcinternaldb.highquality.rip/. A portal into an in-universe file directory divided into five intriguingly named folders, collections of confounding yet alluring files. I return to the Discord server to confirm my suspicions; sure enough, for the first time in 7 years, the SiIvaGunner community is tasked with solving an ARG; a quest across websites, image files, encrypted text, file formats and high quality rips to uncover a truth buried deep within the channel. Yet to say it was only one truth would be misleading; with five folders came five separate branches, five separate community subsets, and five different endpoints.

Inexperienced as I am in ARGs to begin with, I was sadly also too occupied with the holidays to partake in these great mysteries being solved. Yet at every moment I had to myself, I would refresh myself on everything being discovered across all three branches, gradually growing more and more amazed at what I'd called the "silly" season was delivering. More than just providing further teases toward the finale to the Christmas Comeback Crisis, each path was addressing its own loose end from those intermediate years that I'd been so divided on. The FOOLS path explored the aforementioned The Lost Rip duo of NutshackWoodman34 and his best bro and actual brother Jerome, connecting their absurdist videos and reality-bending powers to the Fool's Spirit teased back in Season 7's April Fools event covered back on Christmas Spirit [FILE-07] (Beta Mix); The AIRTH path, meanwhile, uncovers buried logs, thoughts and feelings of the SiIvaGunner AI across all five years of its time spent as host of the channel. Most surprising of all to me, the BLACK path covered something I never thought I would see revisited; Season 2's alternative "Genocide ending" to the first-ever SiIvaGunner storyline, The Reboot, wherein Chad Warden instead chooses to take immediate control of SiIvaGunner for himself rather than sacrificing himself for the greater good. The release of Nice, Slick, Blackness was one of my most treasured memories in all my time following the channel, and seeing its events ACTUALLY explored so many years after the fact – alongside loose ends that I had long since given up on knowing the resolutions to – felt genuinely unbelievable.

I understand that, to even a lot of the channel's biggest fans, being as invested in its lore as I am may come across as a little ridiculous. But to say that this ARG was an absolute dream come true for me was an understatement; as if Seasons 6 and 7 weren't enough affirmation in themselves, as if the SiIvaGunner team hadn't already matched and exceeded all of my expectations with the treatment they gave CCC Episode 11 last year, the ARG and its revelations exceeded every expectation and idea I could have ever had for tying these eight seasons of the channel together. A Visual Novel, an Undertale fangame, an all-new KFAD Mojo! site, a Mr. Rental Choose-Your-Own Adventure game, the best-yet episode of NutshackWoodman34's escapades, and one more as-of-yet unrevealed reward to close the entire season with, a grab-bag of reveals unlike I could have ever thought of...

...all happening while the SiivaGunner YouTube channel itself – along with all the people blissfully unaware of the ARG happening – was uploading rips almost exclusively using hit YouTuber KSI's awful hit song Thick of It. Yeah, remember? PRIMEneria is what this blog post is meant to be about! Cast like a veil over all that's transpired since December 19th, the YouTube-only audience continued to blissfully truck along with one of the most obnoxious-yet-funny rip trends we've had in recent times.

The juxtaposition between the insane lore and fanservice being delivered behind the scenes versus the YouTube channel providing what may be the funniest possible stretch for Winter-themed song to base their event from is genuinely still making me giggle even days after the event's all wrapped up, and the best part is of course that the rips themselves were genuinely really good. Given my track record of covering Jake and Logan Paul rips like Logan Paul's Shop and It's Everyday Lake and last week's post on If Air Man came to life, that would be creepy, it should perhaps come as no surprise that awful YouTuber music is a pet favorite rip source of mine; yet the sheer quotability and horrendous flow of Thick of It makes rips like PRIMEneria special even by those standards. The change in pitch (key?) to the song itself sets it off on such a strong foot immediately, and though the initial 20-seconds or so of the rip are already a really funny mashup, it's what happens therafter that really makes shit funny. Toward the end of the first loop, and for the entire rest of the rip, KSI's vocals are pitch-shifted for specific segments to follow Corneria's punchy hi-octane melody in a way similar to something like no more nuzzles in my skin; and it's arguably even more funny given the song used.

The fucking gall of the SiIvaGunner team, man. The sheer audacity to make my every possible dream for the channel's future and legacy come true practically over the course of a week and to pair it with rips of KSI's Thick of It happening at the same time. Perhaps I wasn't so wrong after all; Season 8 may well still be the silly season, and PRIMEneria is the clearest, funniest showcase of that there could possibly be, capping off the year in unabashed style.

Rock the fuck on, SiIva team.

[robskaschedulearchive]

Here’s the Cartoon Network schedule for Monday, January 24 to Sunday, January 30, 2011.

First thing, 9PM was gone. This was when people thought that Adult Swim didn’t really need 9PM, as they were only using it to air episodes of King of the Hill. I remember when I first saw KOTH (around this time, or a little bit before or after), I thought it was weird, given the theme was instrumental and the intro just had stone-faced Hank Hill drinking in front of that fence with Bill, Dale and Boomhauer. Grew to like the show, though.

Anyways, SCHEDULE CHANGES! The mid-morning lineup (after 9am and before 12pm) has a mix of the Canadian toons (Johnny Test, Total Drama Island) and retro CN classics (Dexter’s Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls [the original 1998 series]). Definitely a great mix for any Teletoon/CN fan.

And also, in the early-evening, at 6pm, a Great combo came to exist. 6teen and Total Drama World Tour. I’m pretty sure a lot of people know why it’s a great mix (Fresh TV produced both shows, a lot of the voices worked on both shows, both feel like the early-mid 2000s, etc.). Too bad CN replaced the 6pm half-hour slot with more KND the next month, this week was also one of the last times 6teen aired on United States cable television. (it still airs on Teletoon [now Cartoon Network Canada]).

Also, this was around the time when Pokemon Black and White was about to come out in the states, so the Diamond and Pearl anime was about to end, this week was when the second-to-last episode of the DP anime aired. The next episode was the one where Piplup was crying that he is leaving his best friend, Pikachu (he cried as well). No, really, here’s the clip.

Speaking of sad news, Robotomy was ending this week. That sucks, given the show was really great, I could have seen that show as CN’s third wheel, if MAD never was really successful and CN trusted Thrasher and Blastus for a second season. Good thing they got Gumball shortly therafter.

Friday Action block was just new Young Justice (a show that lasted through a cancellation and ended up on streaming) and Star Wars: the Clone Wars (another show that lasted through a cancellation and ended up on streaming). the Ben 10: Alien Force hour-long episodes were airing as time-filler between the two shows. Ultimate Alien and Generator Rex would return the next week.

Flicks movie was a rerun of Underdog. Aired Saturday at 7pm and again 23 hours later.

Anyways, the schedules after this one were more notable, only because Johnny Test was shrunk from its 52 reruns on the channel. Remember back when the most aired show was only on for 12% of the channel’s runtime? Nowadays, CN’s most aired show is about 31% of the airtime. Still better than Nick’s airtime of SpongeBob and Paw Patrol nowadays.

Here’s what was new that week:

Adventure Time - Monday at 8p

Regular Show - Monday at 8:15p

Robotomy - SERIES FINALE - Monday at 8:45p

Young Justice - Friday at 7p

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Friday at 8:30p

The Super Hero Squad Show - Saturday at 6:30a

Beyblade: Metal Fusion - Saturday at 7:30a

Pokemon DP: Sinnoh League Victors - Saturday at 8a

Hot Wheels Battle Force 5: Fused - Saturday at 10:30a

Run it Back (NBA Recap show) - Sunday at 8a

[moonstruckme]

congrats on 5k!!!!! so happy for you mamacita!!

stargaze- my favorite song is “kiss her you fool” by kids that fly or “brazil” by declan mckenna

marauders, male

thanks!!

James!!! James. Immediately James. Kiss her you fool has always given me James vibes and I think brazil suits him better than the other marauders too. I hope y'all have a very beautiful summer (and life therafter) together <3