601billionlazer

[601billionlazer]

Chat, I am fucking tweaking right now. He looks incredible.

[601billionlazer]

gonna be a lot of these type of posts for a bit

[601billionlazer]

Hi fnaf movie dump but it’s mostly bonnie and abby

[601billionlazer]

Or, was he… found BY someone?

[601billionlazer]

[601billionlazer]

SiIvaGunner SmashUp! 2 behind-the-scenes and/or post-mortem

Hello folks, I'm back on my bullshit here to talk about the thing I did. Check it out here if you haven't yet.

Work on SiIvaGunner SmashUp! 2 began almost right after the first one. Technically. It took a while for the wind of post-SmashUp hype to run out, but in that time, I started working on some of the new contestants, including Gedagedi, Pomni, Barbie, and some cut characters. Click "Keep reading" to see an early video recorded in May 2024.

After this, however, the burnout finally set in and I had to set things aside. I occasionally worked on SmashUp over the next few months, but work didn't really pick back up until November. Most of the characters who made the cut were either made or finished between Thanksgiving and the start of January. Why nothing after the start of January? Well, it's simple.

That's right! Those greedy fucks over at 2K decided to shut the servers for the game down. Being a mostly offline game, this doesn't affect most things, but one thing it does affect is that images can no longer be sent to the game using their online tool. This is bad for creating characters with complex or distinct textures; many wrestlers featured in SmashUp! use this function to some degree. This was already delayed from September 2024, so I lucked out, but it didn't give me a lot of time to finish every thing. It also meant that the new logo for SmashUp! 2 needed to be a bit of a rush order, but thankfully the wonderful @cherrystar-art was able to complete the task in time, as she had last year.

Since people always ask me about who got cut, a short list is as follows:

Jeffy (problematic)

Puppymonkeybaby (too many animals next to 8-Bit Beast, Naxx, Doge, Brainless Kitty)

Kuromi (too difficult to make look good)

Omori (made and forgot about him oops)

John Notwoodman (looked funny, but might show up in the future)

Inspector Gadget (got cut because getting his jacket accurate was too difficult. At one point a female version of him got made because the women have better jacket choices, but it wouldn't show up in-ring because of quirks of the game, and what is Inspector Gadget without the jacket?)

Burnice, a popular request, was never seriously considered as a contestant, especially since by the time most people were asking, the project was almost done. Also, complex anime designs look bad without putting in a lot of effort. Maybe next time, if WWE 2K25 wills it. (Disclaimer: the following image was made on a lark way after the fact.)

Once all the characters were done, it was time to record the matches. Well, not before giving all the new people entrances and movesets, but I don't have fun stories about that. Here's some fun inside scoop about the matches though:

Gedagedi vs Numberphile was one of the first non-Rumble matches that got decided. It was brainstormed and recorded before Numberphile got resurected, which is why the video still treats him as being dead.

Nutshackwoodman34 vs Naxx & Doge was (I believe) suggested by @keeby10 during the production of the Susie ARG and, by extention, Mystery of the Silcret Gunner. Reader was actually considered for the first SmashUp, and even had a wrestler started in his image, but the motivation to finish him wasn't there until work on NSWM34 content started up again. Despite the idea for Reader narrating the match being conceived as early as January, it was the last thing recorded for the video, and was edited days before its debut.

The Halfway-to-Halloween match was inspired by the potential idea of an SGW Halloween special which never panned out (maybe in the future). Despite being the most obscure entrant, The Mummer was actually one of the first wrestlers created for SmashUp! 2.

I don't have much to say about the Grand Rumble, but I will note that having Gangsta Mario at 7 and The Other Grand Dad at 17 were intentional. I also tried to keep to a good balance of old and new wrestlers, and most of the cuts and returns were decided on by an internal poll.

I also flirted with the idea of SmashUp! 2 having a "Fanchannel InVasion" angle starring crossovers with channels such as TTGD or Vavr, but this also never panned out because I was too scared to ask for permission, or something. I guess Barbie kinda sorta came out of this idea, but she was kept because of the movie tie-in event and SiIva more or less creating Scary Barbie!!!111!!!!. Maybe in the future?

Outside of the aforementioned Nutshackwoodman34 match, editing was slightly more straightforward this year than the year before, partly because of the experience of the previous year and the ability to re-use elements. That being said, it was still hella stressful to get done good and on-time. But I guess I did it? There's a few parts that could've used more time looking over, which were mostly the victim of an event you will read about in two paragraphs.

I would also like to quickly talk about the commentary team. Trofflesby and SSB_Seal both reprised their roles as Breen Gonda and Randall Shields, respectively, and I don't know about you, but I think this year ended up even better than the last. It was also wonderful working with @alexrochonva for the role of the ring announcer, even if it was basically me just giving him a list of lines and telling him to go to town LOL. While Chase Beck was meant to return in the role of a commentator, logistics didn't quite line up in the end, but I do hope that he can appear again in the next SmashUp (sorry again Chase I will make it up to you eventually). I would also like to shout out Janne Sala and Willie Weasel for reprising their roles as Naxx and Doge, especially since Doge hadn't appeared on SiIvaGunner in over half a decade. AND ZACH BECAUSE HE IS FUNNY

Unfortunately, tragedy struck the literal day before SmashUp! 2 was meant to be premiered. While I was working on the final touches of the video, one of my laptop's fans started malfunctioning, and while I was able to get the video rendered out and on YouTube, it was very stressful, and unfortunately put a damper on the premiere for me. But, people seem to like the end result, so maybe it was worth it? IDK. I don't like that my computer almost cooked itself to death, so. Right now I'm waiting for Micro Center to finish repairing it but fingers crossed that it goes ok (please send thoughts and prayers).

pictured: footage of my laptop fucking dying

Anyway, that's SiIvaGunner SmashUp! 2. It was a thing, that happened. I would love to say I'm already working on the next one, but being honest I just want to sleep man. So until next time, Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[601billionlazer]

this will be reader siivagunner in 2050

[601billionlazer]

i just want to put them in a banjo-kazooie situation

[601billionlazer]

here i sit

No energy.

i hate everything ever and always and always and

Can anyone hear? It is awfully quiet here.

get me out of here i hate this i want everything to burn forever

Why can't you calm down?

fuck you

[601billionlazer]

ok man just put the fries in the bag

[601billionlazer]

Todays rip: 12/02/2024

V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​a​-​V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​r

Season 6 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume DQ

Rip credited to "Green Monika Takeover"

Requested by crickqt! (Discord)

If you're truly deep in the trenches of SiIvaGunner like I am, then over the course of reading all of these blog posts, you may have noticed a rather...curious omission from my coverage. I've covered jokes both obscure and relevant, storylines big and small, rips of every part of the spectrum from Outertale to Loopdeloop Griddy to Sex - Steve Harvey. Yet all of these have one thing in common: They're all from within the SiIvaGunner channel. And as should perhaps be expected, SiIvaGunner is far from the only place where high quality ripping occurs nowadays.

SiIvaGunner was, of course, not an entirely original concept to begin with - mashups using video game music have existed for ages, and Chaze the Chat himself has made it no secret that the channel was an evolution of a subculture from SoundCloud, inspired heavily by the works of toonlink, as I mentioned back in Aphex. Yet the channel certainly carved out its own niche and style: its presentation as bait-and-switch mimicry of the actual GilvaSunner channel, paired with the mysterious insistence on full anonymity of each rip's creator, gave SiIvaGunner its own feel, one that it would only further refine as the fanbase grew and lore began to develop. For those first nine months, there was nothing else on YouTube like SiIvaGunner.

Yet when the channel's true "ending" was announced in the last quarter of 2016, near the end of Season 1, several people were distraught to see it go after just a few months. And keep in mind, it took until February of 2017 to get any sort of confirmation that SiIvaGunner was actually going to be sticking around beyond occasional events - and before November 2016, we didn't even know if the channel would return at all. So it comes as no surprise that, on October 1st 2016, we'd see the birth of the first true "fan channel" aiming to continue SiIvaGunner's legacy - TimmyTurnersGrandDad. And even as SiIva returned, TTGD grew to form a fanbase of its own, its own smaller community, with many of SiIva's rippers even contributing different things to both channels in parallel.

I'll be completely earnest with you all - the reason I haven't covered fan channels on this blog before is due purely to my own lack of experience with them. I've been glued stuck to SiIva alone since 2016, and the rabbitholes of the various fan channels simply appear too vast and deep to go down the same way I myself do here on this blog for the main channel. But, TTGD aside, there is one fan channel that deserves special mention, one that has quite often intermingled with SiIvaGunner itself and has such an immediately recognizable identity from all others - the namesake of V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​a​-​V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​r itself, Vvvvvavvvvvvr.

To put it concisely, while TTGD aimed to initially be a SiIvaGunner successor, then moved to be more of a SiIvaGunner alternative, the nature of the Vvvvvavvvvvvr channel has always been a fair bit more...dubious. You'll notice it just from clicking on the channel yourself - everything from the profile picture, to the header, to the titles and thumbnails of the videos uploaded to the channel have a far more chaotic, unpolished, almost "trashy" feel to them. This is because, with little exception, Vvvvvavvvvvvr aims to be almost entirely unfiltered - with minimal quality control and a submission process open to anyone, its effectively a big sandbox for rippers of all skill levels to submit to, the output almost best described as the SiIvaGunner equivalent Twitch Plays Pokémon. And much like that phenomenon, Vvvvvavvvvvvr somehow, through the unfiltered voices of hundreds of contributors, managed to find its own voice, its own set of recurring jokes, and eventually develop its own lore to tie it all together.

References to Vvvvvavvvvvvr aren't exactly a rarity on SiIvaGunner, either. The YTPMV Rock my Forum, as featured on LAST YTPMV^2 OF 2016 by ripper Xarlable, eventually took off as Vvvvvavvvvvvr's primary channel meme; almost every time the meme has been referenced on SiIvaGunner since, has been in tribute of the fan channel. V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​a​-​V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​r, then, is no exception - uploaded during the period of which the Vvvvvavvvvvvr had supposedly ended for good, its a loving tribute to just about every joke featured prominently on the channel, in the form of an incredibly varied medley rip. Scatman John, Reese's Puffs Rap, The Michael Rosen Rap, Chadtronic, Rock My Forum - its not as if these memes have never been featured on SiIvaGunner before, but they're (to my understanding!) such core parts of Vvvvvavvvvvvr in particular, that their usage in combination here makes the tribute's intentions clear.

As if that wasn't clear enough, certain segments of the fast-paced C-R-O-W-N-E-D are dedicated to referencing specific Vvvvvavvvvvvr rips (formally "vips") on an individual basis. A section using sentence-mixed AVGN clips, for instance, uses the same clips, sentence mixed in a similar fashion, as Crazy Bus Tylenol. There's references like this strewn all about this dense medley, yet as many in the comments have made clear - none of them get in the way of V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​a​-​V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​r just being a fantastic rip on its own, without any context or knowledge of the fan channel itself.

While I don't fall into that category in particular, as I'm of course aware of the fan channels that are more active now than ever - I am still very much an outsider. Yet I've once again been privy to take a peek down the rabbithole through this request, and I learned a lot about Vvvvvavvvvvvr as a result: Its a genuinely valuable platform with a fun and zany community, however small it may appear from the outside looking in. The near complete lack of filter or quality control means that anyone, even you reading, could submit something to the channel, a first step toward a great ripper's journey - a good number of SiIvaGunner's members who first joined around 2018-2021 got their start by contributing things to fan channels just like Vvvvvavvvvvvr. And though I may never become a full-on fan to the same degree I am SiIva itself, I'm of course eternally grateful and happy for their existence - through collaboration and teamwork, these channels help keep the art of high quality ripping alive.

[601billionlazer]

[601billionlazer]

🐸💚🐸

By saruiro / Instagram & Tiktok

[601billionlazer]

Got tagged here and on Twitter that clip compilation of Keanu and his he he he laugh

[601billionlazer]

Guess who just watched sonic 3

[601billionlazer]

I'm so tired.

[601billionlazer]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!