Spent 3 days outside of my town, and travel like that had me wiped. It didn't help that I slept pretty bad on the last day we were out.
So I'm still taking a break from ripping-community spaces, I've still listened to the rips, but ultimately community spaces I've tried to move away from. I still don't know when I'll be returning or if the break is really working the way I want to, but atleast I've seen less discussion about Universe-Timeline Archival Unit and it's owner, so that's good.
These last few days I've been out and about. I stayed at a couple of hotels, went to Cracker Barrel for the first time, checked out an old place my Mom used to live at, and picked up a new album, Deltron 3030 by Deltron 3030. I mostly picked it up for being similar to clipping.'s Dead Channel Sky, and while I'd say beyond being another "cyberpunk rap album" they are pretty different, I still had a good time. I'll have to update my Record Collection page here soon, as well as listen through some of my CDs. That can probably wait though.
Kinda in between different projects Right now, haven't started on any stuff for CMMK since the Danganronpa ch2 video, KVGM is going to take a major backseat for now since I don't really want to work on that, and I'm thinking of starting on new personal projects. (Might write more on that later, but I doubt it.)
I've been listening to a lot of stuff in the car, I listened to The Glow Pt. 2 by the Microphones, but it didn't really connect with me. I was suprised to see it had around a 90 on AOTY. I guess it just didn't connect with me. A lot of highly rated artistic stuff doesn't :skull:.
I also listened through clipping.'s Splendor and Misery, which was another sci-fi concept album about a slave killing the pilots of the spaceship transporting him, and slowly losing his mind with only the ship's autopilot to keep him company. It was really good, but I prefered Dead Channel Sky myself. Sometimes the rhyme schemes almost feel more like poetry than rap lyrics, in a good way. I still need to listen to some of clipping.'s other work, but this was really good.
Since my collection is getting somewhat large, I'll likely end up creating a Discogs here soon.
Outside of that, I've been doing pretty well.
I'm taking a break from SiIvaGunner/ripping for a while, I've lowkey been an asshole lately, especially in regards to Moni and Universe Timeline Archival Unit. I've realised that I become very angry whenever the channel is brought up, and it's led to me being unpleasant to be around. Since I've been clocking in to watch rips almost daily since 2018, hopefully this break will do me some good. I don't know how long It'll take, but hopefully I feel better by the end of it. (and discussion of U/TAU will have died down)
Been working on various smaller projects, producing "music" in VC with Remi and then making the shittiest rap flow of all time over it, but in more important news, I finally got the 2nd Danganronpa video out. This video has taken a month-plus to be made, and while most of that is due to me not feeling up to it, I'm just glad to have it done. I have a few other videos recorded (incl. the rest of Danganronpa and some Fortnite content), but I'm not sure when I'll get to editing those. I'm not sure I feel up to taking on a multi-hour long video rn, even if the edits are minimal.
With Deltarune Chapter 5 coming out soon, it's a shame that DGV Chapter 4 was never finished. Despite it's cancellation (and more importantly the fact I sat on the fully-recorded Chapter 4 for way too long), I still really liked DGV. I thouht that it was lowkey some of the best content on the channel, even though in actuality I mostly just reacted to what Moni was doing. Whatever though, nothing I can do now.
I've also been thinking about introducing a sort of mascot character for CMMK Live, have been since before Lags was involved with the channel, but I think that my initial idea needs a redesign since I suck at drawing + it borrows too heavily from shit wde were going to play on the channel in it's infancy. I settled on the name Kommie, based on a cancelled lets play of Franken RPG, but ultimately beyond the name I'm not sure what aspects of the character should persist into the "new era", so to speak.
The only major thing we've done since Moni left the channel has been Danganronpa, and while it could be worth looking into Danganronpa for inspiration, I don't really know how that would work. Especially since we would already have our fucked version of Makoto to use if we needed a character. Overall, I'm just hoping that Lags, MariGunner, and I can get together and potentially redesign her so we can finally slap shit on our stationery and T-shirts and what not.
Fortnite, unfortunately. Been playing the most recent season and having a lot of fun. The explosive rifle is really good for sniping targets and I like playing the game on my laptop and actually getting pretty consistent framerates. I know now the game will lag to hell that I brought it up but it can genuinely be really fun. The sprites are an interesting mechanic, I just wish it was easier to keep them if you suck at the game like I do. At the very least, the gunplay is very fun this season, and I've noticed I'm doing better than I usually do. Maybe I'm just getting bot lobbies though. Aside from that, I haven't been playing much.
Not much, picked up some new CDs though that I need to listen to, namely the Weird Al one. I did recieve Alive 2007 in the mail a few days ago and enjoyed that, but otherwise I haven't been listening to too much. I am thinking about listening to more clipping., who you may know from the album Dead Channel Sky I featured on the site, but otherwise I haven't touched much of their discography. I'm expecting a lot of industrial noise stuff, which I like but also am not always in the mood for. I saw a copy of Splendor and Misery at the record store recently but didn't get it because I wasn't about to drop 30 bucks on something I didn't know if I would like. I'll take that as a sign I need to check the album out.
I've also updated the website a bit. I need to figure out how to properly do a marquee without a bunch of white space at the end, but I'm not really sure how to execute that properly. I have a vauge idea how to do it but man I'm not sure I could pull it off. If you guys know how leave a comment on Neocities or sign my guestbook or something.
Anyways, that'll do it for this update. have a good one y'all.
6/9, lol nice.
Deltarune Chapter Five's release date was revealed in today's Nintendo direct, and at first I genuinely thought it was an elaborate bit since I heard secodhand. To find out it's real is insane, though I still haven't gotten through the final bit of Chapter Four. (bad at video games, I am.) Anyways, things are going pretty well. I've been working primarily on the website, replacing the spine recreations on the collection page with pictures taken by myself. I could definitely do a better job centering them, and they got stretched out slightly, but I also don't really care, lol.
I've also gotten my first followers on Neocities, which is very cool. I'm glad that some people have atleast a vauge interest in what I'm doing here, even though I'm still mostly making it for myself, lol. 2 followers isn't much, but considering how frankly basic looking this website is (and how short it's been actively updated) I feel like it's pretty good. I'm glad to have a place to express myself without worrying abt popularity and numbers and stuff like that, which might be why I've been procrastinating the Danganronpa Chapter 2 video for so long.
I've been listening to Eminem, Most recently The Eminem Show, the Marshall Mathers LP, and The Slim Shady LP. I found them quite good, and I see why he was in the conversation as one of the best. I kinda worry about everything post-Eminem show though, since that's where his discography gets really hit or miss. (At least that's what I've heard) I'll probably write my deeper thoughts on Em's discography if and when I buy The Eminem Show CD. (I also need to listen to everything post-Encore for a complete idea of his discography.)
Still slightly sick, which sucks. I got my SIIvaGunner subpage to a place where I'm happy with sharing it with the wider SG community (though I haven't yet), as well as updating my music page to a record collection page. I still need to add my CDs to the page, but that can be done later. I've also been spending time with my brother and my grandma's dog.
Outside of the website, I've been lazy. Serious CMMK videos have taken a backseat to the site, though I have made some progress on the second Danganronpa video. It's looking to be extremely long, and given the sub-10 view counts of some of the stuff I've been putting out lately, I can't say I'm exactly excited to return to it. CMMK has felt different since my falling out with Moni, but I do still enjoy working with Lags and MariGunner on the project. It just sucks that so much of it is shit I feel like I can't return to.
I'm still upset about the five videos I wont be able to upload.
I've brought this up elsewhere, but I'm frustrated with Moni's success with her new ripping channel, especially compared to CMMK's languishing. She kicks me to the curb and gets to have it all, feels like. I would probably have a better time moving past this if I wasn't reminded by people in the various ripping community Discord servers I'm in relatively frequently, but y'know it is what it is.
Haven't played much outside of recording for CMMK, despite editing slowing to a crawl Lags and I have stayed in contact and played various titles. Booted up an emulator and a bunch of bottom of the barrel SNES titles, as well as playing some epic Fortnite. Even though I suck at Fort, I do quite enjoy it.
Still relistening to a lot of Kanye and making my way through my collection. I bought Cross by Justice not to long ago and it finally arrived, Listened to it all the way through, and it was as good as I remembered. I also bought Alive 2007 online, and it should come here in a few weeks. I'm very excited for that. My friend Lags has apparently been on an Aphex Twin kick as of recent, and while I haven't listened to much of Aphex Twin's discography, I do like what I've heard. I actually saw the Richard D. James album in a store, but they were asking $26 for it, so I didn't buy it. I was really dissapointed I couldn't get it for a reasonable price in person.
I think my favorite Kanye West songs as of late have been Flashing Lights, Champion, and Stronger. Graduation is such a good album. It really sucks the fall off Kanye has had since.
I think overall, things have been going pretty well, despite my continued sickness, I've been able to do a lot of stuff, and people seem to really enjoy my website (even though "people" is really only one person who commented some nice words on my Neociites profile about the Charlie Kirk vigil page, lol) I'm glad people enjoy what they see, and I'm really glad to meet people through Neocities and be able to be passionate about web design again. Updating my liked music page to a record collection page was really fun, though recreating the spines of the records was a real pain in the ass. actually figuring out how to do what I wanted in CSS though, that was hype.
Anyways, I hope to actually lock in on Danganronpa ep2 this week and hopefully get it out, but knowing me I'll get distracted with other projects, either here or elsewhere.
I think the big question now is what sorts of blog posts I'll make now that I have this /now page, but ultimately I'm sure with time it'll come to me. I've always faced indecision with this site since the start. I'm sure that with time I'll figure it out.
Currently staying at Grandma's with my Mom and brother, it's been very nice reconnecting. I'm also reunited with some of my stuff, (namely my CD player), and I've been listening to a lot music through it. I've also been sick for these last few days, so I've been fighting that off. I'm feeling better now, but still have a nasty cough.
I'll be honest, being sick has been kicking my ass. I haven't had much time to work on anything aside from ripping, especially since coming to grandma's. I need to get back to work on the KVGM finale and CMMK Live, but I've been busy with other stuff. Mostly ripping for my friend MariGunner for an upcoming event. I'm excited to share some of the rips I made when they release.
I recently purchased the game Death Road to Canada, as it was only $3 on Steam. I may make a video on it one of these days, y'know, if I stop sucking complete ass at it LMAO.
Since I can finally listen to all my CDs and records on higher-end hardware, I've been listening to some of my favorite albums. I listened to Random Access Memories by Daft Punk, as Well as Kanye's Graduation and Yeezus. It really sucks how far Kanye's fallen since these albums, both in the obvious way and lyrically.
I can't wait to go to one of the record stores nearby, as it has an insane collection to browse through. Currently think the next album I want to get is Alive 2007 by Daft Punk, and Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails on CD if I can find it. I know that the vinyl version is going for like several hundred at this point, which sucks since I don't know if there will be a pressing any time soon.
Outside of that, I've been doing pretty well. I need to update the SiIvaGunner pages here soon, but that can wait. In the meantime I'll hopefully see the Michael Jackson biopic since I've heard most people seem to like it. My mom is a big MJ fan (and also obsessed with watching videos about his life) so it'll be interesting, though I know it only goes up to the 90s and mostly ignores the allegations surrounding him. I'm just hoping it's good.
My mother, who has been living in Wyoming, is finally moving to Michigan with the rest of us. To say I'm excited is an understatement. I'm hoping we can do some stuff during the rest of the summer. Otherwise things have been kinda boring since college got out.
I've been ripping again after a long hiatus, I've been trying to properly send off KVGM, as well as make rips for an upcoming event on my friend's channel. I've also been working on-and-off on the second Danganronpa video, but it's taking a while to come out. I'm around halfway done with it, and there's still like 4 hours of content to get through. I'm also making more collages, which I'll upload here soon.
mostly working on various projects, but need to lock in on website stuff here soon.