#uhc2

[7grandmel]

Rip of the week: 12/08/2024

I Gotta Feeling, Sung by EVERYONE!

Season 6 Featured on: Transmission Archive ~ The SiIvaGunner All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival Collection

Ripped by Vincent Mashups, Jp, Grambam36

Requested by Corb, uwustepanne and an anonymous reader! (Request Form)

I worry sometimes that I talk up the atmosphere and feeling of Season 6 a bit too much on here. To me it is still undoubtedly SiIvaGunner's most underrated Season, a period of the channel where even I was beginning to tune it out yet was left enamored once I realized what it was doing - its meaning being something I've covered endlessly in posts like Totally Shaaking Out Right Now, Bramble Blast Collab, The End of HHGregg, and far too many more. The overall picture I've painted is that of a Season with a sort of dour moodiness to it the whole way through, an aura of something that's all about to change, a slow trickle towards the end - yet, like with any SiIvaGunner Season, it's never possible to make such a cut-and-dry assessment of things. That's part of why following the channel is so much fun: There can be a broad idea for what the channel is currently doing, yet so many rippers can put their own spin and interpretations on said idea as to morph it into something far more layered. Because while on the whole Season 6 represents the ideas of letting go of the past and moving on through a sorrowful lens, I Gotta Feeling, Sung by EVERYONE! spins that mood into something worth celebrating - a last hurrah, a final festival, and one big show to send us all off into the apocalypse.

With that context in mind, it really shouldn't have been surprising to me that multiple people wound up requesting this rip for coverage. Indeed, it's also one that I've had sitting in the back of my head for a very long time, as a faint memory of what it was like to follow the channel back toward the final months of Season 6. That feeling of things coming to a close was gradually creeping up on us - or at least, it had begun feeling that way to me - yet for the longest time we didn't quite get WHAT was happening, what terrible fate that we were supposed to be dreading. The Christmas Comeback Crisis? The King for a Day Tournament series? Wood Man? The SiIva AI? The SiIvaGunner channel ITSELF? There was a lot of uncertainty swirling around, yet it was a ride that we couldn't really do much about other than just go along - a feeling that was only emphasized more and more with the start of the Nuclear Winter Festival, or DoomFes.

As the festival went on, we got to see Wood Man and friends meet and pass all sorts of people in the nuclear wasteland, like a slow gathering of stars on the verge of fading - it was becoming more and more clear that the event wasn't just some inconsequential one-off like Season 5's WesternFes, but would be having...SOME sort of impact, a trip down memory lane but with a looming abyss at the road's end. And in the midst of all of those feelings, underneath the atmospheric artwork and writing being done throughout the entire event - I Gotta Feeling, Sung by EVERYONE! drops. A spark of such joy, nine days before Christmas Day, in the middle of the apocalypse. Where did this all come from?

Well, obviously, it came from the brilliant minds of rippers Vincent Mashups, Jp, Grambam36 - all three of which I've covered on the blog before with some of the channel's greatest rips, such as Gate Happy, Bowser is Coming. and SUNGORE. But more to the tune of the channel's lore and the narrative of Doomfes, the retro-YouTube aesthetic and seemingly boundless energy of childlike whimsy and joy always stems from one more of SiIvaGunner's many stars met along the way - Unregistered Hypercam 2 of the King for a Day Tournament fame. And while it's certainly an assumption to say that I Gotta Feeling, Sung by EVERYONE! was specifically made to be a tribute to Hypercam, I could personally think of no better way to represent him for this event, as the glowing spark of internet joy that helps keep the SiIvaGunner channel afloat.

And it's that spark of joy that the rippers captured so excellently within the rip in particular - I Gotta Feeling isn't quite on the level of old-internet anthem as songs like Never Gonna Give You Up or Dreamscape of How 2 Do Anything fame are, yet its still a song I vividly remember hearing tons of back in 2009-2011ish YouTube, a theme bumping with optimism and happiness for the days ahead. It might seem a bit odd to be using it for the context of a Nuclear Apocalypse event at first brush, yet nostalgia is hardly ever a purely joyous thing - for as much joy as I Gotta Feeling brings me, it is at once also a bittersweet joy, with an understated sadness over the fact that things have changed so much since those days 15-plus years ago. It's that bittersweetness, I feel, that I Gotta Feeling, Sung by EVERYONE! runs with.

The rip is built on having the song be performed by voice clips and sentence-mixings of a vast pool of online memes - yet unlike what you may initially expect, it's not kept isolated to just nostalgic early-internet memes. The song title isn't being facetious: Everything from Zelda CDi Ganon, to Gangnam Style, to Friday Night Funkin', to Smosh, to Crash Bandicoot Woah, to even a sprinkle of classic SiIvaGunner memes like We Are Number One. The rip is distinctly different from rips like Corridors of Vine or even most other Hypercam rips, which focus on nostalgia for one specific era of online culture - instead, I Gotta Feeling, Sung by EVERYONE! reaches across the entire internet for one collective, massive embrace, a hug the size of 20-something years worth of online jokes. It's a bit silly to get sentimental over, maybe - but that goes for the entire channel, doesn't it?

It's of course all helped greatly by the rip itself being executed perfectly from that concept. The sources are more than just a greatest-hits of old memes, as they all fit their chosen lines near perfectly, all pitch shifted and sentence-mixed just enough to fit the lyrics yet never to the degree of making them unidentifiable. They're all here in full force, all introduced by the video opening with the most Unregistered of Unregistered Hypercam 2 YouTube editing. It sets the stage for something oh so easy to love, yet to me I Gotta Feeling, Sung by EVERYONE! inspires a feeling so much more complex than love. It was a moment that brought us all together, not crying because it's over, but smiling because it happened.

[tomorrowillbeyou]

was going through my uhc2 notes to make sure i was actually textually justified in making that reblog. What the fuck does this even mean. i just finished the notes on an episode with this and did not elaborate

[digi-log-conversation]

important siivagunner question

me and some friends are working on an amateur game inspired by fortnite, and we wonder:

do you believe siivagunner's original characters (specifically siiva himself) can be used by anybody?

yeah, though they are all highly derivative already. siiva himself is based on a piece of artwork that we did not create, joke explainer is just if smol nozomi was omochao, the voice was originally a fan design, woodman is wood man... the few designs i'd argue are pretty much fully original are kazoo master, ccc humans (ex. chase and jeff in wade l.d.), jerome and reader, maybe uhc2 in everything but name?

of course, nobody really owns the concept of statue glitch art at a base level, so i think you could totally get away with a siiva cameo

[minindo]

Within practical constraints, what do you think the SiIvaGunner team should be doing for/with ripping newbies that it isn't already?

I appreciate that you said “within practical constraints”, because there’s plenty of ideas that could be suggested that aren’t practical for many reasons, mostly relating to the scale of the community, There are some things we could stand to do better on, though:

A. Rework or replace the “Official Ripping Guide”. highquality.rip/ripguide has some good tips that certainly helped me when I was learning, but it’s lacking in a lot of places and some information may be outdated. That UHC2 warning has been there for at least five years. Right now, the best advice is just to join the official Discord fanserver and look at the #ripping-help-and-feedback channel. There are a lot of guides in there, either pinned (definitely check the pins) or found through search terms. Still, the channel could at least have a better “landing page” for learning to rip - highquality.rip/email and highquality.rip/usage.html are both relatively recent developments that are great, comprehensive explanations of what they’re covering. Personally, I’m currently working on some guides for specific tools, as well as figuring out a potential improvement to the official guide, but that might take a while to take effect so bear with me.

B. More of us could be helping people directly in the aforementioned #ripping-help-and-feedback channel. This is a pretty literal answer I know, but I mean, it’s an obvious way to help. It’s also something I haven’t done much in years (and even back then, I didn't do it very much). I’m definitely pretty busy with life and projects, but it might be worth it to spend an hour or two a week going through people’s posts in that channel and saying what I think. When I was starting to learn, the nice people in the #feedbakc channel in Vavrcord helped me a lot. Not committing to that yet though lol! But I think it’s a good idea, for generally anyone who’s comfortable with giving feedback and being in large servers (and it’s understandable if you aren’t.) It can be frustrating, but so is a lot of teaching in general.

There are probably other directions I could have taken this answer, but I interpreted this as “how to help beginners have an easier time learning”. Feel free to ask for clarification on that or other related stuff regarding fan submissions.

[primsycoldbottles]

tagged by @beesnutz luv u guste

last song you listened to: the mysims wobbly bobbly track <3 i was listening to my video game ost playlist last night while drawing yayy

last movie you watched: my best friend is a vampire (1987) with bisexual teenager dr james wilson and gay uncle odo . really weird and fun im glad peri and guste corralled me into it :]

currently watching: the granada holmes series! im like 3/4th of the way thru . its really enjoyable but its also an 1890s series being adapted in the 80s so..... *eye twitches Certainly not perfect

other things you’ve watched this year: house md!! lead poisoned to hell and back. but also a lot of d20 shows like burrows end and the ravening war and neverafter (all great!! burrows end just finished and was sooooooo good)

currently reading: well im suppose to be reading the 2nd book in a series that my brother is letting me borrow but frankly i havent gotten past the 1st chapter :p

currently listening to: naddpod's 3rd campaign ! im sooo behind rn i need to catch up so bad

currently working on: bday gift for peri ^_^ he nearly spoiled himself on it lastnight >:(((

current obsession: always dgs <3 forever and always dgspilled . but also surviving romance.... seyeong <3333333

tagging: @uhc2 @chaiu @spindash @lordjunior @mermen @nagihonos and anyone else that wants to ^_^

[mapsofnonexistentplaces]

TAG GAMES tagged by @stanwixbuster 🫡🫡

last song: ahhhh it was torso of the week by everything everything! prior to that the bitter boogie by kglw

favorite color: torn between soup yellowgreen, a good red and berry purple these days. this type of shit

last movie/tv show: i think it was literally ratatouille just because of dimes movie night i haven’t watched a thing since…. but every time i get asked this question my mind just flies to like 3 years back when i got dragged out to see the new dune and i was very unimpressed by it and complained about it for like the next few months anytime someone asked me about movies. all my friends found it funny

sweet/spicy/savory: savory numero uno i love my meats! but then whatever strikes my fancy is a complete time-based tossup. i love spicy shit i love a sweet treat. love is love.

last thing i googled: volvo like the car brand it was because. well i think the post that sparked that research speaks for itself

current obsession: aughhhh it’s like a complete 50/50 split between everything everything’s discography and also my own oc work LOL on some real gregory berrycone type shit but i’m having a very fun time kneading trainplay around in my mind it’s fun to work on it and like. actually have something as tangible proddable evidence of the characters and story i’ve been working on. especially considering these guys have only existed for a little under 2 years!

tagging uhhh @fuckknowledgeandideas @twizzta @uhc2 anyone else who sees this and wants to do this

[caramelcyclops]

my first original album: caramel64.neocities.com!

...this released a month ago. i just kept forgetting to properly announce it. that's on me but it's true! after a year of development and constant slacking, i finally managed to put this one out of the oven. it's a collection of seven tracks composed in general midi, taking the overall 2000's internet aesthetic in mind, which each one of them being companion tracks for each of the pages in my website! it's an homage to the good old internet, as well as a fun way to give my own neocities its own soundtrack, for fun! the video you see above was put together in windows movie maker for windows xp and includes purposefully compressed audio, recordings of each page in UHC2, lots of typos, and a slideshow of gifs and images taken mostly from geocities, to fully emulate the 2008's youtube experience. (i promise i'll upload a higher quality version too) the album is 3€ on bandcamp (without compression), but those who can't pay the full price are welcome to download the free mirror on archive.org without any guilt!! only pay if you feel like supporting my work, but i'm in no utter need of money, so no pressure at all -)

thank you all for the overall support!! more projects are coming soon, and i'm excited to finalize all of them. stay tuned!

[spoonbenders-archive]

@uhc2 this it?

[x-for-a-y]

what the people of this blog need to know is that tourney ocs are really consistently my favorite characters when sourcelists are less of a factor. jazz cats. missingno. forum freakshow. jake from state farm from doatk. uhc2. hamood. cici. hobart. i could go on

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 13/02/2024

NIGHTMARESCAPE 〜Unrestrained HyperCam 2〜 (Final Boss Phase 2)

Season 4 Episode 1 Featured on: FINAL BOUT ~ SiIvaGunner: King for Another Day Tournament Original Soundtrack VOL. 3

Ripped by Princess Sylvysprit Visuals by 813N

I covered KFAD just two posts ago with Unhealed, and a big point I wanted to drive home in that post was just how much effort each and every ripper and contributor put into the event, in a way that still feels unbelievably impressive to this day. It's no secret that the King for Another Day Tournament absolutely ballooned in scope from its initial proposal, with tons of things added and changed last-minute to keep raising the bar even higher. And that scope is, again, the main reason why I cover the event so prominently when discussing Season 4 Episode 1, as its unprecedented scale and quality throughout eclipsed anything the channel had done up until that point (and, arguably, since!). Yet for as troubled as production reportedly was, as unchecked as that ambition might have been, its incredible to think that...most all of it still managed to stick the landing? And there's no better example of this in action, I find, than NIGHTMARESCAPE 〜Unrestrained HyperCam 2〜 (Final Boss Phase 2).

I think it came as a surprise to most of us, especially those who had followed the original King for a Day tournament just a year earlier, that the second contest slowly began to grow itself a sort of storyline. It wasn't much, and it wasn't in the forefront - but ones who remembered to check the King for Another Day MOJO website would get to see in universe "interviews" with the event's contestants, small little side stories in their time between matches, and full-on emotional beats of character development. As I mentioned way back in mines.ogg (unused) (and of course in Unhealed), a contestant like MissingNo wound up actually becoming a fleshed-out, fully-rounded character, more than just a vague concept attached to a source list. I truly salute the team who worked on the MOJO writing, being able to effectively improvise such an effective narrative and writing wholly unique dynamics and developments based on the per-match outcomes of the tournament. All of this all-around development, this investment into the entire cast of the event, and the excitement for the final match, made the surprise reveal to come so much more exciting - the reveal that the King for Another Day Tournament had a final boss to defeat.

Winner of the prior year's King for a Day Tournament and the in-universe host of the entire second tournament, Unregistered Hypercam 2 fell victim to possession by the mysterious "crown", set to be awarded to the Tournament's winner. Controlled by a still-unexplained sentient life found within the crown's ruby, the final match between DJ Professor K and Mariya Takeuchi wound up suspended - as this new monstrous force threatened to keep the Tournament running forever, eternally suspended with no resolution, yet another timeloop right alongside the one the Christmas Comeback Crisis already presents in the channel's main story. The Tournament calls for the help of both finalists, every other contestant - and the power of us, the viewers, to use the "MF LIKE BUTTON" from all the way back in Season 1's lore - to fight against and destroy the concept of eternal safety, the concept of maintaining stagnation for the sake of not losing those temporary moments of joy.

...look, I could over-analyze and dissect this finale as much as I want, about how pitch-perfectly each storybeat fell into place to truly connect the King for Another Day Tournament to the theming and narrative that the prior three Seasons had been so rigorously following, but...we're here to cover the theme of the battle itself. But I felt that all this context did need to be conveyed in some way - becuase NIGHTMARESCAPE 〜Unrestrained HyperCam 2〜 (Final Boss Phase 2) reflects the tone and energy of the entire event so pitch-perfectly, it amazed me to learn just how last-minute its production truly was. Princess Sylvysprit employs her expertise and familiarity with the Touhou series to arrange Dreamscape, anthem of the old internet that Hypercam represents, into a rhythmic, hectic, exciting melody, with a sense of dread overlaid on top of it all from the heavy synth covering it (see, there WAS a point in covering Nostalgic Blood of the Gregg ~ Old Source right before this!). It becomes a full-on back and fourth, triumphant higher-key brass responding to the droning eternity of Hypercam's synth melody - made even clearer as the melody and instrumentation occasioally changes to reflect the two finalists' own sourcelists. The amount of layers present in this theme are absolutely incredible, from the choir adding a sense of dread to the track's Hypercam-led sections, to the lone piano sounding as if the original Hypercam is trying to break free from the eternal spell he's been cast under, to the incorporation of the King for Another Day Tournament's main theme for the chorus - we may not see the battle play out, yet the music all on its own conveys a battle in such an engrossing, layered way.

The visual of the Unrestrained Hypercam 2's looming figure just adds the final touch upon it all, wielding the same spinning buzz-saw that was seen severing the thread of hope for all contestants way back in the "opening" to the tournament as a whole. The finality of the story was conveyed so expertly on every front, and the excitement back then was palpable - I still have my contribution to the MF LIKE BUTTON's power left on the video from all the way back in 2019, alongside 14 thousand other viewers (19 thousand on the video announcing the battle!). A duel with the Hypercam, and NIGHTMARESCAPE 〜Unrestrained HyperCam 2〜 (Final Boss Phase 2) by extension, may not have been part of the initial plan for the event - but I am so, so happy that it wound up happening. Because the sense of community and excitement that I, and so many others, felt at this very moment of the channel's life, is one I'll forever cherish.

[gamerschaoticart]

[KFAD] if u like this art dont forget 2 rate 5 starz :3

*slamz handz on table* CRINGE IS DEAD POST ANDROID HYPERCAM ON MAIN [THIS ISNT MAIN THIS IS A SIDEBLOG BUT SCREW IT]

so yeah i made an “android”/humanized design for hypercam since his canon design will probly be hard as frick to draw

and im rlly proud of it!! funky lil guy

[ALSO this is ur sign to plz listen to the king for a day/king for another day tournamentz okthxbye-]

[this is original art by gamerschaoticart. DO NOT trace, steal, or use for cry/pto / n/f/t projects. please credit this blog if shared on other platforms in any way, such as being used as icons/pfps. reblogs > likes]

[tomorrowillbeyou]

Who suffered more jesus or uhc2 pause

[fandommemequeen]

this is a kfad unregistered hypercam 2 appreciation post bc that funky little camera with late 2000s youtube vibes owns my heart

[smeshbros]

Inktober Day 28 - Unregistered HyperCam 2

[sleepyartisiancocoa]

The Final Round. Were you Team UHC2 or Team Off The Hook?

[monochromerose]

hey has anyone here beat kfad2 story mode? i'm really trying to unlock uhc2 and the crown as bonus fighters but i can't beat the crown's phase 3 

i'm running rhythm masters co-op with l&d and i beat phase 2 with that combo once, if that helps anyone