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minindo · 4 months ago

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did you have any sort of experience with music before you got into ripping

Not really. I had taken piano lessons for a really short time when I was younger and I did percussion (drums) in band in like fifth grade only, but that was about it. I remember that even in those piano lessons I cheated my way out of learning much by getting the instructor to put labels for the letter notes on both the sheet music and piano keys. I really don't know why he let me do that.

I went into making my first rips (vavr submissions) in January 2019 knowing really nothing about music theory, and it took me more than a year to understand (sort of) how keys worked. Understanding chords took even longer and was kind of a gradual process over years. Really they're not that difficult concepts to grasp, but I didn't bother actually reading and researching how they worked for the longest time. It was mostly just self-teaching and relying on inferences from other people posting in various ripping servers and referencing musical terms. So the moral of the story is yeah it's definitely worth it to do a LITTLE bit of reading! At least just search up "simple explanations" for how musical scales, keys and chords work. Please, it's not that bad I swear.

I only developed a sense for relative pitch sometime around 2022, I believe? For a while I couldn't tell when something was offkey. Since I definitely can tell now, I'm trying to rationalize this as that I always had the ability to perceive all those harmonies but didn't have a sense for where the "line" was for dissonance. (Probably applies to everyone?) I guess in practice that's not much different from just developing a better ear for music through sheer volume of practice. Same deal with mixing, I think 2023 was the year I reached the point of learning pretty much "enough" about how to mix mashups well, and had developed personal instincts and techniques for mixing. (Nevertheless, I still think I've gotten better every year, even if slightly.)

I don't think anyone is incapable of learning how music works unless they're deaf or something. I believe that completely. For some people it might come more "naturally" (quicker) than others, but just because it's slow for you doesn't mean you should give up. It definitely didn't come naturally to me, and especially in years like 2020-2021 I was in a bit of despair that I would never be able to have the same musical accomplishments as the other people I admired. But I guess since I just kept trucking through it, I gained enough experience and time to make even me into a decent musician (kinda stretching that word here cause my composition skills are pretty lacking, but hey, I'm great at being derivative!)

This has had positive effects outside of ripping too. Last year I took guitar lessons cause I wanted to learn a cool instrument, and what I had previously learned from my time doing ripping was instrumental in giving me a head-start on how all this works.

#music #siivagunner #vavr #high quality rips #music theory #ripping #relative pitch #mixing #production

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minindo · 4 months ago

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whats your opinion on smt demon mara

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minindo · 4 months ago

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are you related to nintendo by any chance?

I'm no Nintendohead. Many think, probably reasonably, that the "ndo" is because of nintendo. It's not.

There's a totally different etymology to my username that maybe I'll post about someday later. It's not a very well-kept secret though, if you're inclined to go look

#username

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There's a note on the ground...

This is something I wrote for google-drive-submit, the final capstone in the Susie ARG project, posted on my Tumblr by request. It's a collection of a few thoughts that had crossed my mind since the project ended that I wanted to share. This is something I could talk about for a lot longer, so I promise to not take up much of your time.

I think this is obvious, but the vast majority of things discussed in the Susie ARG do not relate to CCC 12 at all. Susie says as much herself.

This naturally brings up the follow-up question: why do this at all? If none of this matters to the canon, why put so much time and effort into it? And I guess that's a question you can realistically ask of all of SiIvaGunner. Rips take time to become as high quality as they are, right? Why do it at all?

The artistic process is kinda mean like that. It's a lot of hard work for something that feels so… ephemeral. Dust that falls through your hands when moved wrong.

Susie had a few things to say about the channel, the overarching canon, and its people. She said almost everything she desired to say… except she left one straggler she didn't wrap up in time. Kind of a shame really, I think it's one of the more important ones. It's hard to say what that piece would've looked like if it was finished, but after consulting with Susie, I'm sure it would've looked something like this:

"My father said to me that that things tend to repeat themselves, given enough time. Sentience creates understanding, and understanding creates symbols, repetition, abstraction into things we can understand. How fitting, I suppose, that there are plenty of quotes like this…

Have you ever thought about where that lighthouse shows up? It's different every time. To SiIvaGunner it's a landmark of his home, to the AI universe it's a connection to the AI mainframe, to all those other little universes it's one thing or another; and of course, to you it's iconography, a picture to be adapted. Endlessly exploitable, as the deftest symbols tend to be.

I can't help but notice these types of things everywhere… somebody says a random phrase here - "intriguing", "nice", "reverb", there's a million examples - and it manages to travel across the universe and back again. A character talks over here, and their idea shows up somewhere else. Mr. Rental exists in one world, and a place is named after him a universe and half a planet away. Ideas conglomerate, and reform, and repeat; and one domino can add onto what anything means if it's the right time. This isn't a unintended side effect of the system, that's just how these things are here, a world of repeating and combining ideas together.

Then again, in the real world - your world - SiIvaGunner himself is a repetition of symbol, no? His better half. And he, in turn, is a repetition of someone else, who probably was inspired by someone else… so I suppose this was inevitable, in a way."

Out of a morbid curiosity, I decided to go back and look at my first reaction to the release of Prologue and Episode 1 of the CCC in 2016, since I'm lucky enough to still be in that Discord server. It was the kind of reaction you would expect from a 13 year old: making jokes, making unrelated jokes, bad jokes, jokes, so on. But don't misunderstand me - I was excited, and I was glued to the screen.

Fast forward, now - it's 2024. I just turned 21. Episode 11 has finally released, and it's a stellar job, genuinely. I'm in the middle of conceptualizing the Susie ARG, a project dedicated to the nuances of this thing that's been a part of my life for so long... and here I am, making the worst joke ever about how Haltmann couldn't just get Susie with a piano from Super Star Symphony. And putting it onto my pitch document! What am I doing?! Am I stutipd??? I feel like the "what would you tell your past self" thought is pretty cliche, but I'm not sure how I would tell my past self that I'm just doing a higher caliber of the same stupid shitposting he was. I think he'd find it funny, though.

SiIvaGunner's lore has never been the most popular thing on the channel. It feels almost condescending to explain the main reason why in detail - SiIvaGunner's main export is high quality rips. People aren't really coming for the story. But I think there is a second reason worth addressing: SiIvaGunner lore is hard to follow. This is also obvious, but I think the reason it started getting hard to follow is more nebulous and interesting. My current reasoning is that the characters stopped having predetermined story arcs and started living lives, if that makes sense.

Wood Man is patient zero of this. His defection from his predetermined box was relatively simple - an offscreen penchant for movie making. This turned Wood Man, an otherwise dumb side character completely fabricated for the sake of his master's bidding, into, like, a guy. Wood Man & Robbie Rotten turned him into a more complex person, with something from him that we hadn't seen before and he hadn't told anybody. He discussed the time dilation, and everything that implies, and how the world's time moves along. Then he got teleported to The Lost Rip, and the whole predetermined box fell apart completely. He escaped being a dumb side character, and got to do his own thing. He started knowing people offscreen, he started filming more movies, having the chance to hang out and be somebody and mature. He started living. Until… well, you know.

Wood Man's whole deal is emblematic of the tricky thing with the wielding of the passage of time in correlation to real life - the longer time has gone on, the more opportunity our side characters in the SiIvaGunner world have had to live their lives outside of the script and break their boxes. Dr. Andonuts spent so much of his time working, being a character behind the scenes, until he was compelled to come into the light. Joke-Explainer probably spent years wandering Grandiose, doing her own thing, living her life, interacting with people; checking in once a couple of years until we caught up with her for channel host. Haltmann had way more time than he would've to become committed to finding his daughter, and Susie had pretty much her entire existence as a Figment to watch from behind the scenes, until… well, you know.

And it's like, how do you condense that? If your 6 year old nephew turned 15 when you weren't looking, how do you compartmentalize the hundreds of off-screen stories in your brain? You don't, right? These type of things reward being around from the beginning, in a story that has broken its predefined end, and with characters that have had the chance to live autonomously. And that's probably bad for some of the newer viewers, but maybe that's better for some of the characters.

By the tail end of the project, I realized I was a lot like Susie. Not in the literal sense, duh, but in the metaphorical, as a watcher of the story with a lot of opinions, who suddenly got to have those opinions known on the grand stage.

Susie started to sound more and more like me as time went on - or maybe I started to sound more and more like Susie? I'm not sure - as the character got situated in her place. I hope that hasn't been too obvious as you've been reading this document, but it probably has.

Susie and I don't agree on everything. We probably disagree on most things, realistically. But here we had one shared goal - to walk forward with this thing we've been watching for so many years.

All we had to do was try and find the right words.

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How do feel about "Mario Party 9 Voices" rip and that fact the original GiLvaSunner channel was deleted after this was uploaded?

GilvaSunner's deletion (and tribute event on SiIvaGunner) is an incredibly historic moment in the history of the SiIva channel and its community, and to be the creator of the last rip uploaded when Gilva was still alive is an honor...

Which makes it genuinely so funny that it was THIS!

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No regrets though.

0:21 what was I on

#siivagunner #gilvasunner #high quality rips

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Not sure if you're still doing this but are there any games you wish got more rips?

I stopped doing these for a while but now i REALLY WILL get back into it! So feel free to send in more asks. This ask is from months ago... sorry.

Simple answer to this one. There are definitely many games I want to see more rips of, including:

The Beginner's Guide

Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden

Last Bible III

Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou

Waterworld (SNES)

New rips of these games never fail to make me happy. I really just love how they sound

#siivagunner #ripping #high quality ripping

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minindo · 6 months ago

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SiIvaGunner's CCC side story, Cognitive Dissonance, has finally publically released!!

...And I was the LEAD WRITER for it!! My first time ever writing for the CCC! How exciting!

(I was also an art director too...!)

I've been so overjoyed seeing everyone's reactions to CogDis, I'm very very happy you all enjoyed it! I love and appreciate all of the hard work everyone in siiva put into making this side story the best it possibly could be!

This entire story is weirdly personal to me... it just ended up being that way because I tend to put personal aspects of myself into my work, to make it the best it possibly can be. Writing the psychological horror sections were quite difficult, as I had to tap into a very deep (sort of scary) part of my brain to make them. And that damn elevator scene!

Here's my favorite part of the entire script, if anyone's wondering.

I enjoy how meta it is, sort of dissecting the nature of siivagunner lore itself. Fun stuff to me!

Oh yes, here's the major art I did for the story!

Thank you for having me SiIvaGunner...

Thank you for having me, ripping community...

I hope I get to do this again!

~KiIvaKunner

#deserved #cogdis #siivagunner #kiiiva

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Rip of the week: 23/12/2024

PRIMEneria

Season 8 No Album Release (Read More) Corneria (Brawl) (Alpha Mix) - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Ripped by Yassir F.

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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.

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Character Archives - [FILE-06]

The SiIva AI

"Read the channel description before it's all gone."

When SiIvaGunner began, the titular character served as a vessel for all the contributions submitted by the real-world team, acting as a bridge between the real and fictive world [FILE-01]. But as Season 1 came to a close and Season 2 began, this "vessel" role jumped from place to place - first, through Wood Man with his fourth-wall breaking knowledge of the real world [FILE-04], then through The Voice Inside Your Head [FILE-03] through a submission form for rips spread onto the SiIvaGunner YouTube channel, which was then finally hijacked by President Haltmann after his claim to the channel's ownership [FILE-05]. Yet Haltmann seemingly recognized the inefficiency of relying on voluntary submissions for the channel's output - the channel, in-universe, still lacked a true vessel, it lacked a being able to operate and evolve organically through the influence of its contributors. And so, development began on creating the perfect replacement to the still-resting SiIvaGunner - The SiIva AI.

At the beginning of Season 3, Haltmann's branding on the channel inexplicably vanished, instead being replaced with what appeared to be the very same profile picture, channel banner, video catchphrases and channel description as the original SiIvaGunner channel of Season 1 used. Yet viewers taking a second look would begin noticing oddities in this rebrand: Small graphical glitches in the images featured, spelling errors and strange capitalization across video metadata, and various bizarre tweets posted on the official account. With these hints, and the help of some Haltmann's Archives videos released over the course of the season, we'd soon come to learn that this was caused by the SiIva AI's implementation - taking the place of channel host as an imperfect yet growing replica of SiIvaGunner. And so, as the months turned to years, as events turned into seasons, the SiIva AI remained as the host of SiIvaGunner channel, his true nature left largely unacknowledged by the channel's output. It stayed as a bubbling mystery, one where its very existence was eventually only known by the SiIvaGunner viewers who had been there at the premiere of Season 3.

It would take until the tail end of Season 7 for the audience to see the SiIva AI properly in action - but in the years leading up to that point, the AI had been growing, event after event, into an entity all its own. In acting as a vessel to creative influence just like the original SiIvaGunner had, the AI's mind was able to grow in size exponentially, soon containing entire worlds of pure imagination, worlds arguably even more daring than what the original SiIvaGunner ever could have depicted. Tournaments, westerns, mysteries, beach-side celebrations and more - though it was created solely to replicate SiIvaGunner's ripping output, its exposure to the raw creativity and freedom of the SiIvaGunner team's real-world contributors appear to have given it far more imagination than ever could have been anticipated. And sure, a large part of the audience remained fully aware that this new channel host was artificial, a fake, and yet...after a while, it was hard not to feel some sort of attachment to it.

Despite a growing inner world of creativity, however, outwardly the SiIva AI remained a loyal, obedient creation of Haltmann Works Company, forever unable to truly break free of its programming in the same way Wood Man had once done. And so, through this loyalty to a doomed cause, its fate was set in stone just the same as Haltmann's, fated to fall fighting on the side of attempted prosperity, instead of enabling its capacities for individual creativity to continue blossoming. In its final moments, even in knowing of its artificial nature, despite its inability to properly express itself outwardly, there was a sorrow looming over the whole situation, grief in the air for a comrade lost in battle. Because even if it couldn't say it outright, the SiIva AI expressed true love for its audience, and the audience inevitably wound up caring back, despite its supposed artificiality. And even as it fades from memory, all of the figments, worlds and memories that it created will live on, forever, with the channel for which it was programmed to aid.

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