#mike matei

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Todays rip: 08/06/2023

【＝３】e-MUNO Disco (vs. 音MAD AGENT)

Featured on: Inspector Gunner, The SiIvaGunner YTPMV Collab (Eek!).veg, SiIvaGunner: Starter Kit & Essentials Ripped by MtH Visuals by Craz Xexe

Hi Emma!

I want to say that this rip was one of the first I recall actively putting in a playlist in YouTube - it stuck out to me even back then as something special, both in its creativity and just full-on audio appeal. As the lead manager of the entire SiIvaGunner channel, @mth-emma has shown time and time again just how well fit she is for the job, both in her consistently creative and fun output as well as her sense of humor fitting the channel like a glove. The sudden Inspector Gadget takeover of Season 2 was one of the biggest rug-pulls the channel had seen at that time, and while many old fans just full-on didn't engage with the channel for the week or so that it lasted, the ones that stuck around were met with treats like this.

Taking the best from the magical world of YTPMV and one of the funniest possible audio sources - Minecraft with Gadget - this rip effectively feels like Season 2 incarnate, firing on full cylinder with jokes that nobody really believed in before their mass adoption. This extends to its second joke as well, Numberphile's e, which had barely been present on the channel before this rip yet basically became a favorite just from its appearance here. Like I've said before, escalation is what sets the best rips apart from the rest in my eyes, and I honestly think this rip might've been where I got that mindset from? It manages to both be an absolute bop from the sources used in it whilst also continuing to be an entertaining ride for first-time listeners across its entire 2-and-a-half minute runtime.

Sidenote: Its a damn shame Amuno has effectively disappeared from the channel since Season 2, yet also very funny that his presence basically began and ended at the Season's beginning and finale. His appearance at the end of this rip in particular just helps solidify it as Season 2 SiIvaGunner incarnate.

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 19/06/2023

Become as Gadget

Season 2 Featured on: Inspector Gunner Also on: SiIvaGunner: Starter Kit & Essentials

Ripped by Bleep, wheel able, Solid STRGG

Though likely clouded by a lot of nostalgia, its long been my opinion that SiIva was at its most engaging during Season 2 and Season 3, due to how expertly rips and lore were woven together. Those who followed the channel live as it was uploading in 2017 will know exactly what I mean - almost every rip with a new joke gathered heaps of speculation over its importance to the lore, the profile picture and banners of the channel were always changing to reflect possible story events unfolding behind closed doors, and it just never ceased to surprise.

I don't think there's any better encapsulation of this excitement, this complete immersion into the state of the channel, than Become as Gadget. In the middle of the ongoing story of the Christmas Comeback Crisis, seemingly out of complete nowhere - the supposed villain of the story and at-that-time manager of the channel was dethroned by a bizarro version of famed cartoon character Inspector Gadget. And like a switch had been flipped, suddenly every single rip uploaded was an Inspector Gadget joke. This is what we'd usually call "Takeovers", but this one was different. There was no special anniversary being celebrated. After a day had passed, the takeover kept going. Two days. Three. Suddenly the description of the channel changed. The profile picture, banner. The Twitter account. Everything was being consumed by this demonic interpretation of Inspector Gadget as based on Mike Matei's all-time classic "Minecraft with Gadget". And in the midst of all this, Become as Gadget is uploaded.

And like, it's all still a joke, especially now looking back, right? Its a silly, basic punchline, mashing up super dramatic, emotional music, with a source as absurd and unserious as Minecraft with Gadget. But the emotions were at an ALL TIME HIGH for the channel when this was happening - I URGE you to check out the comments on this rip in particular to see what I'm talking about. Despite being six years old, there are comments as recent as this year still writing at length about how much this event, and this rip, hit them. At a point where the lore-to-rip engagement was at an alltime high, this 10-day stretch of nothing but Inspector Gadget felt haunting, like a curse placed upon the channel we all used to love so much.

This isn't even to mention the rip itself, which almost speaks for itself. Everyone on board making this rip did an immensely good job, be it from the ever-evolving and dramatic visuals to the actual mashup gradually escalating in gadget intensity, weaving in the core DNA of Nier Automata so densely into the rip itself...its a wonder to all see unfold.

[cdgzilla]

i miss the og cinemassacre gang. when it used to be james, mike, bootsy, and kyle. those were the days.

[keebyart]

a collection of reviewers

[igwanasuchus]

jojo if it was good

[starbug]

James & Mike Mondays: Splatterhouse [TurboGrafx-16]  June 9th, 2014 

[gurn]

[peachyware]

sometimes i think abt 2014 tumblr's main characters and i dissociate when i remember that was. 9 years ago.... where are they now

[maidthings]

ok so you know avgn right? so the theme song was written by a dude called mike matei aka motherfucker mike. the guy would start shit all the time up to and including a picture 0f someone elses 10 inch penis claiming it to be his. yes of course im going somewhere with this. anyways he made this vid called minecraft with gadget where he plays through and talks about minecraft with the – yes this is important this is culture right here – with the cartoon character inspector gadget. he claimed it was a parody of similar low quality children's content of the era but also he was clearly embarrassed about it given that he removed it and copyright striked reuploads until he had a change of heart in like 2019 and embraced it. anyways the people in siiva turned it into something of –stop trying to take off my shirt I'm talking– so they turned it into something of an inside joke called gadget week,

[grawly]

Normal Picture of Mike Matei

[queenwhiskey]

Happy 6 year anniversary of mike matei sending me a picture of his penis

[7grandmel]

Todays rip [First 30 Archive] - 08/06/2023

【＝３】e-MUNO Disco (vs. 音MAD AGENT)

Season 2 Featured on: Inspector Gunner Also on: The SiIvaGunner YTPMV Collab (Eek!).veg, SiIvaGunner: Starter Kit & Essentials

Ripped by MtH

Visuals by Craz Xexe

Hi Emma!

I want to say that this rip was one of the first I recall actively putting in a playlist in YouTube - it stuck out to me even back then as something special, both in its creativity and just full-on audio appeal. As the lead manager of the entire SiIvaGunner channel, @mth-emma has shown time and time again just how well fit she is for the job, both in her consistently creative and fun output as well as her sense of humor fitting the channel like a glove. The sudden Inspector Gadget takeover of Season 2 was one of the biggest rug-pulls the channel had seen at that time, and while many old fans just full-on didn’t engage with the channel for the week or so that it lasted, the ones that stuck around were met with treats like this.

Taking the best from the magical world of YTPMV and one of the funniest possible audio sources - Minecraft with Gadget - this rip effectively feels like Season 2 incarnate, firing on full cylinder with jokes that nobody really believed in before their mass adoption. This extends to its second joke as well, Numberphile’s e, which had barely been present on the channel before this rip yet basically became a favorite just from its appearance here. Like I’ve said before, escalation is what sets the best rips apart from the rest in my eyes, and I honestly think this rip might’ve been where I got that mindset from? It manages to both be an absolute bop from the sources used in it whilst also continuing to be an entertaining ride for first-time listeners across its entire 2-and-a-half minute runtime.

Sidenote: Its a damn shame Amuno has effectively disappeared from the channel since Season 2, yet also very funny that his presence basically began and ended at the Season’s beginning and finale. His appearance at the end of this rip in particular just helps solidify it as Season 2 SiIvaGunner incarnate.

[oldschoolfrp]

Ahoy, mateys

Don't Give up the Ship by Dave Arneson, Gary Gygax, and Mike Carr, TSR, 2nd ed 1975; Don Lowry cover art; based on rules originally developed in Arneson's Minneapolis-St Paul area gaming group (1e was published by Guidon Games, 1972)

Action Under Sail 1756-1815 by Steve Birnie, Tabletop Games, 3rd ed 1984; Roger Heaton cover art; developed in the Halifax Wargames Society (1e was dated 1977)

Age of Sail, Mod Games, Sheffield, 1984; no individual author credits; includes 4 short rulesets: Ancient, Renaissance (also titled "Galleass"), Napoleonic, and Ironclads

Tradition of Victory, consisting of the Heart of Oak naval wargaming rules and the Promotions and Prizes RPG of rising in the ranks of the Royal Navy, Walter Williams, Erisian Games, 1978

[igwanasuchus]

HOLY SHIT NO WAY

[gomjabbar]

one of the most powerful & forgotten tumblr blogs was the girl obsessed with mike matei's cock. her header was a gif of james deen laying pipe with matei's head edited on it. she would post a total of 2, maybe 3 times a year. she'd post a pic of matei with a circle drawn around a wrinkle on his pants like a 9/11 conspiracist trying to find rigged explosives in tower photos. then nothing for six months, and then she'd post harmless princess peach fanart. then another six months later she'd post more Matei Cock Theory. it was so good

[cobwebliss]

I wish people would learn to tell the difference between YouTubers that are mostly themselves online and those who are playing characters. It used to be common for them to play characters back in the day. The Angry Video Game Nerd is one example. James Rolfe was never himself as the AVGN. He was a fictional character. It's why he's consistently referred to as "Nerd" in universe instead of James and why he doesn't know who Mike Matei is.

YouTube got lazy and people stopped creating distinct characters over time, just presenting a "public persona" of themselves, but Life of Luxury is different.

Here's the thing, the Luxury videos are fiction. They are not gaming channels or reaction channels. Nothing they show on their channels are real. Their reactions aren't real. Their personalities aren't real. Though the fact they decided to just use their real names is annoying. Still, they're far from the first guys to just leave their name as is when presenting fiction. It was common with older shows - think Lucille Ball, for example, or Bob Newhart.

How do you explain Life of Luxury Chester is a coward and Luxury Dark Chester is clueless? Or that Life of Luxury Parker is overly involved yet dedicated but Luxury Dark Parker is forever annoyed and done with it all?

Even these two versions are different characters. That's why I usually write either Life of Luxury versions of them or Luxury Dark versions of them. Sin & Sinners was a Luxury Dark fic, Claimed & Collared was a Life of Luxury fic.

When people ship Parkster, they're not necessarily shipping RPF. They might be, if they're writing about a couple of goofy YouTubers, but the vast majority I've seen treat the source material as real. They're writing the characters. If the demons are real in their fics, the characters are as fake as the demons, it's okay to write about them.

I've seen one people claim that they're queer baiting for views a few times. That's another fallacy. Are IRL Parkster boning? Well, maybe, who knows. But Life of Luxury Chester is definitely in love with Parker and that was a purposeful decision that they made. Even if nothing ever comes out of it, they're not tricking their audience or whatever, they're just playing out a fictional story that happens to include an unrequited love plotline played for laughs.

Now here's the thing: I actually am not against RPF. It's not something I actually enjoy or consume though I did in my early teen years. And to be honest, a lot of RPF is still about "characters" because most public personas for famous people are characters in their own right. But no matter the debate on the morality of RPF, I'm holding to the point that people shouldn't accuse anybody of shipping real people just because they like Parkster. There are so many layers of Parkster and very little of it is true RPF.