Normally I wouldn't rant about something so stupid, but considering this is the grand daddy of all stupidity that's been happening for decades, I thought this would be the place to talk about it.

As you know I'm 32, meaning I was born and raised in the 90s to the mid 2000s. Much like everyone else in that era I bore witness to many channels changing over the years while still keeping their own names.

Now I'm not talking about channels that got changed over the years due to different companies taking over. Such as Canadian Channels like Comedy Network and Space being changed to CTV (Canadian Television) Comedy and Sci-Fi Respectively. With Teletoon most likely gonna be changed to CTV Cartoons. That's a piss off for another rant. Besides they still kept their content and only changed the name under the new ownership.

I am talking about channels both Canadian and American that would have been apt then, but are grossly misleading now.

The biggest offenders being:

MTV

It's Canadian Equivalent Much.

And especially TLC.

I'll keep these short and sweet.

MTV was able to get away with still being called Music Television, because while their main channel had changed over the years, the company was smart enough to keep other channels specifically for those that want their old MTV. One channel dedicated to nothing but music videos old and new. However there is just one problem. Not everyone can afford all the channels or at the very least go so far as using bootlegging devices to access them. Costing MTV millions of dollars when they could have just kept one channel for old fans, and the other for the fans of the shell MTV was before. By that I mean when MTV started out it really was Music Television. The Channel had music videos, concerts, behind the scenes stuff as well as even had a big enough impact on the music industry and music in general. That was the 80s alone. Then come the 90s when to further increase relevance, cartoons were created, but each and every one of them was related to MTV in one way or another. Cartoons like Beavis and Butt-Head, two dimwitted heavy metal fans who riff on music videos and cause property damage every where they go. It's Spin-off Daria, which did for the 90s what John Hughes, did in the 80s, defined a generation of kids and teenagers and their struggles through life to meet or defy the expectations of the adults before them only to find out that they're not so different from each other. Then the 2000s came with reality shows. Now to their credit they did try to stick to the MTV format. Shows like Cribs and Pimp My Ride, by at least having a host or guest be music related. Such as famous Rapper Xzibit hosting the latter. But then shows like Jersey Shore, which I will not link, destroyed MTV by pandering to the lowest common denominator. Rather than appeal to Beavis and Butt-Head fans, they try to appeal to the Beavis and Butt-heads of the world instead. Which even Beavis and Butt-Head wouldn't find cool. Still if you're like Dire Straits and want your MTV, there are other channels or if you're really desperate just look up Youtube's Best of 80s, 90s, 2000s music and make your own music video line up. If these people should be charged with anything, it'd be minor misleading as they still have their music and cartoons, just on a different channel or streaming service.

Much has the same problem, only they made up for it by Marathoning South Park.

But TLC. What the fuck? I thought just being called The Learning Channel and not showing anything learning was the problem, but it stems further than that. When I was a kid it really was called The Learning Channel and it had a balance for things for both kids and adults. It's one of the channels that The MAGIC FUCKING SCHOOLBUS debuted on. As Scholastic was one of their backers at the time. Whereas adults would be learning about the simple life of an expecting family through Baby Story, learning how much we pissed the planet off today with Earth's Fury or even learn why you cannot easily get away with murder with shows like Forensic Files. Even shit like that whether you learn right or wrong from that, at least lives up to TLC's name. But then you have a show like Toddler's and Tiara's and it's spin-off Here Come's Honey Boo-Boo. Oh my fucking god. Two things.

1. I am not gonna get into how sick and wrong child pageants are, but I will tell you this. When a show produced by The Learning Channel, knows full well that Child Exploitation and Pedophilia are wrong, but also actively partakes in it for nothing more than money and ratings, they cease to be called The Learning Channel. Even keeping the initials is grossly fraudulent. This channel is supposed to be teaching children, not exploiting them.
2. Even that pales in comparison to it's spin-off. Now before I get into this, I have nothing against overweight people save for the fact that they are purposefully endangering their health in a futile effort to battle fat shaming. But if you want the biggest example of fat people who should be ashamed of themselves. It's the Thompson Family from 2012 to 2014. These people on top of endangering their own health and wellbeing endangered the life of their child just so they could get fame and money. What the fuck does that have to do with being The Learning Channel.

Honey Boo Boo had since been cancelled, but the damage it did caused so many people to watch it in both awe and disgust that TLC became a haven for stupid and disgusting shit. Shows like my 600 pound life and 90 Day Fiancée. Instead of The Learning Channel, it really should be changed to TSC The Stupid Channel. The whole thing comes across as some supervillain's evil plan. Get people smart with learning programs then destroy their brains with stupidity inducing shit. But the thing that pisses me off most about it is where it got started.

TLC originally started in 1972 with the formation of the Appalachian Educational Satellite Project. One of the first North American Distance Education Programs. It was founded by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), in participation with the Education Satellite Communication Demonstration (ESCD), a partnership with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and NASA. That's right. Literally Nasa's best and brightest at the time, just barely recovering from the Apollo 13 disaster, helped contribute to this thing. So what I want to know my fellow fans as well as any TLC fans out there old and new is one simple question.

"What the fuck happened?!"

How did we as a species over the years sink so low that we took a revolutionary piece of technology, Flew it up into space so that it could help reach TV stations that couldn't be reached at the time and watch it slowly rot in a period of exactly 51 fucking years?

If you could charge a TV Station, this one should be the following:

Charged for Fraud, Manipulation and the possible participation of damaging many people's brains physically and mentally. So assault as well.

I used to think the Internet was a place where the worst could happen, where the easily offended rule and where you can get in trouble due to poor communication alone, as I myself had suffered from many times. I was wrong. This place is officially better than The Fucking Learning Channel. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to go have a harmless yet still scary insanity episode over this.

It should look something like this:

Thought I'd give an update on my last article here:

Addition to my Small Crazy Idea

Well I may as well tell everyone what I've been doing the past couple of days. I got a small job, one that pays well for a lot of hard work. Now I don't know how long that job will last, but it's enough for me to start saving up for a few things, both personal and professional. So needless to say it's a welcome relief.

Having said that, it also gave me an opportunity to test out my formula. In this case I merely did the Chlorophyll Water Gatorade mix. Only drinking the tea once a day. With the exception of a meal before and after work, as well as a meal replacement drink at work, I didn't eat anything when I tested it out. I used three empty poweraid bottles as containers. Each of them 710 ML or 3 Cups in measurement. Now bare in mind the work I do is basic landscaping, mowing lawns, weeding, putting soil on. Simple on paper, but the reality is, you're out there in the hot sun for 4 to 8 hours depending on work day, with little protection and the only thing you need is plenty of fluids and if you don't tan, sunscreen. The first day of work this week, I only needed one bottle for a 2 hour job not including transportation there and back. The next day I needed all three for a 3 hour job. The result of which was spectacular.

I was sore, weak and tired, the gatorade mix and water kept me well hydrated and the Chlorophyll gave me a massive boost in energy. Even as sore as I was, I felt like I was ready to fight 100 people at once. So I have undeniable proof that this formula at least as is, works great as a natural performance enhancer. I suggest anyone whom doesn't have any dietary, allergy or even religious restrictions to this stuff, to make their own and add it to their usual routines. Be it school, work, athleticism, you name it. Right now as I type I'm using my day off, to make more.

People told me I should patent this thing to make myself some money. I said no and I'll tell you why. The way I see it, to improve the quality of life, it shouldn't cost anything other than your attention to the instructions.

Try it for yourself and let me know.

Still busy doing my thing, but what I am posting this while I'm still free. Now everyone at this point that's followed me has watched me make an experimental drink using White Tea and Chlorophyll and some natural fruit juice. My goal was at the time to make a drink that would improve on a diet no matter what someone eats or their lifestyle choices related to poor health. What I didn't anticipate was inadvertently make a cheaper stop smoking aid.

Due to recent events I tested this drink on myself and through hard work under the sun, I was not only able to stay hydrated better than ordinary water, but it also gave me a massive energy boost. But I knew it wasn't enough. Caffeinated drinks, even the healthy ones dry you out fast. So even if you love your morning coffee and it helps you through your day,, it's counterproductive if you're say out in the sun for 4 - 8 hours a day. Also like a certain commercial says, when you sweat you lose more than just water. Which leads me to what I'm doing right now.

Now you all know about the Tea, but what I didn't tell you was I did what is known as a "Double Blind" method throughout the thing in which I mixed the same ingredients minus the tea into some Chlorophyll water. To make a comparison:

On the left is just green tea steeping, (Green Tea this time, because I couldn't find the White) on the right is just Chlorophyll water. However over the months of me working on this thing, I tested both out. The results regarding the water only method were flimsy at best and may have contributed to lower my cravings for smokes. Also I still smoke, mainly because I wanted to see if it worked again and I wouldn't give out any info on how to make this stuff, that I wouldn't test on myself. That said I theorize it's because I kept constantly introducing more Chlorophyll into my system.

Anywho, it leads me to my next ingredient. I completely forgo the juice ingredient for now because I couldn't find a pure enough juice, but I did however find something that could help better:

This is Gatorade Powder. Now like many other kids from the 90s and after, Gatorade was popular shit. As a kid I had no idea it even came in a powder form despite there being big jugs of it at football games:

But in this case, it came in handy for me.

Now the thing about Gatorade and their competing rivals Powerade is that on top of water, they replace Carbohydrates and electrolytes you lose when you sweat, urinate, spit or cry. Stuff like:

• calcium
• magnesium
• chloride
• phosphate
• potassium
• sodium

The only downside of the drink is that it requires you to be active all the time so you can burn off those again and get better in terms of health. So someone sitting down drinking bottle upon bottle of Gatorade would be disappointed that they wouldn't grow up to be Michael Jordan. It's less on the drink and more on the person drinking it. Me I do things that require me to be out for hours, work the muscles until they are sore and dehydrate the hell out of me. Not even accounting the burning sun and the heatwave. So this stuff is actually good for me. But if anyone else is drinking Gatorade or other sports drinks of that variety, be sure to at the very least go on a jog or in place for 20 minutes. Otherwise you may as well be drinking Pepsi.

Naturally I went the same route and started with Chlorophyll in both containers:

The tea makes all the difference in colourization as you can see here in comparison to the water, but that said I put 3 times the usual amount in it, hence why it's almost looking like a black garbage bag.

Now what I have done was simple. It takes three tablespoons of Gatorade powder per two cup of water. So naturally with a 1 L glass bottle water and a 1.5 L Jar of Tea, I'd have to put 6 Tablespoons of powder for the water and 9 in the tea:

Now I picked blue flavoured because I wanted to stick to the blueberry route, if I could find Vitamin C in powder form I'd add that to to lower cortisol. The current result is this:

Now for the container I had to stir constantly as the powder went all the way to the ground. Which is weird because Bottled Gatorade doesn't do that, but hey that's just me. Maybe I should use a mixer instead next time. Lol. God I love trial and error.

However while it's not quite noticeable you can still see bits of blue powder on the bottom and the colouration of both are lightened rather than mixed. They're currently in the fridge as I type this out so I will update you on the taste test. But if this works, I may incorporate it in my whole life.

At this point though I do encourage you to try to make your own at home or even better share your own experiments. Maybe we can learn from one another.

Update 6:45 PM:

I just poured a glass of the water version:

Honestly it looks beautiful as if I just recreated ocean water. I theorize because I used the Blue Flavour, it brought the green in the Chlorophyll out more. Will try the tea next.

Here's the Tea:

Much like the water, the Gatorade brings out a more brighter greenish colour as a result of the blue flavour. Only because the tea is darker in comparison, it looks more like a murky ocean.

The water one tasted like I was drinking Gatorade with no taste to the chlorophyll. The Tea one had a more stronger taste because the flavouring of the green tea balanced with the sweet flavour of the Gatorade.

In terms of taste it passed, I have a long way to go before I know if this makes any difference.

Recent events have cropped up this summer that may help change my life for the better. I won't go into detail on them yet, just know that at this point if all else, I might be getting better no matter what happens to me recently. The bad news is, I may not have as much time time to make any content, participate in any collaborations or anything newgrounds related, save for maybe the occasional comment. I assure you this is not a leaving announcement merely a me at more of a distance announcement. I'll still keep an eye out for fans that want to listen to my work as well as fellow artists who want to work with me. But things in my personal life are gonna make me extremely busy.

Having said that I can give you somewhat of a hint at the good things.

As many of you know when I was turning 32, I pasted a copy of my Numerology Reading:

Welp. Today's the last day I'm 31.

Now most of the stuff like 3223, was narmy I'll give you that, but what really freaks me out was that it seemed to match up with my Numerology.

First my first Challenge Number:

Challenges: 1st = 3: The duration of the First Challenge usually lasts from birth until approximately the age of 30 to 35.

Your self criticism is your largest challenge in this cycle. Because you fear failure you often do not participate as strongly as you should, thinking that you can not be successful. During this time you need to work on your self confidence. Your true self is being hidden, work on being confident and proud with your true self.

In this case I admitted in confidence to a close friend, that I fear failure. Something I never told anyone, but a lot of close friends and relatives have suspected due to my overall personality. As a result as well as the circumstances surrounding this moment, caused a major boost in my self confidence. Allowing me to free myself from certain past obstacles. Albeit with some struggle. Now if this is accurate, I just have to keep going until I reach 35.

The Second Challenge Number, I'm facing right now:

2nd = 1: The duration of the Second Challenge usually lasts from the age of 30 to 35 to around 55/60.

Your challenge here is to work on your personal self, you as an individual as opposed to your race, religion or nationality. You will face many situations where your own moral beliefs will conflict with that of the crowd. You main challenge at this stage is to learn how and when to stand up for your personal beliefs and not just go with what others want.

Both on this site and in my own personal life, my own moral beliefs conflicted with many crowds. In terms of my personal life, I stood up for myself against those that seek to ruin this happiness. With more ferocity than I could ever muster up in text. Point being is at this point, if I continue to stand my ground and keep going I'll make it through this challenge. Meaning if I'm lucky, this challenge will be beaten when I am 35 or when I am near my old age. Either way, so far so good.

The Third Challenge Number is This:

3rd = 2: The duration of the Third or Main Challenge is felt through your entire life.

Your main challenge here is to become less concerned about other people's feelings and expectations of you. Many negative emotions will flood over you over this challenge, jealousy, spite, hatred, just to name a few. Gaining control over these feelings and accepting your life as your own will help you with this challenge. 

Not caring what others think on the net is easy. As far as everyone in this room is concerned, face reveals aside, with the exception of those that happen to be local to you or higher in popularity no one ever meets each other in person to follow up on a what they say online good or bad. Doing the same to people you know outside of the net? A whole different ballgame. You live too close to them that if you told them to fuck off over the phone, they'd come running at you. Yet in all my years of facing these kind of fucks in real life of varying character, I nearly forgotten a few things. More particular that their opinions, their taunts, their insults, mean fuck all to me. That is until today. On top of today, this challenge even if beaten before my life is over, then I truly win at life. That the accomplishments I've made and will make in the near future will pale in comparison. My star will shine bright.

Needless to say so far I am overcoming them slowly, one by one. Each challenge. I have yet to go to the 4th challenge, but I'll wait till I get there, but for context here:

4th = 2: The duration of the Fourth Challenge usually starts at approximately the age of 55/60.

Your main challenge here is to become less concerned about other people's feelings and expectations of you. Many negative emotions will flood over you over this challenge, jealousy, spite, hatred, just to name a few. Gaining control over these feelings and accepting your life as your own will help you with this challenge. 

This challenge has been told to me twice. I'm currently going through it once already meaning either two things. 1. I will have some kind of reprieve between 35 - 55/60. 2. the challenges will continue to go my entire life up to 55/60. Either way. So far so good. Even if my numerology isn't 100 percent accurate, it's accurate so far that I may just end up ticking all off that list.

That said my pinnacles have some factor into this:

Pinnacles: 1st = 5: The duration of the First Pinnacle Cycle runs from birth to the age of 29.

Self expression and adventure will dominate this time in your life. This will be the perfect time in your life to travel and have adventures. You will have difficulty settling down, and although that is not the focus in this period of life, you should put some effort forward to do so.

As I said before, this one took longer. Showing that even if accurate doesn't mean it's by the number all the time. That said I explored that one already.

2nd = 3: The duration of the Second Pinnacle Cycle runs from 29 to the age of 38.

Your will be at your peak artistic level during this period. Your artistic desires should be nurtured and strengthened during this time. This will be an emotional time in your life as well, using those emotions in your artistic doings will only help you excel in both dealing with your emotions and help you grow as an artist. You will have to be careful to not get too lost in the world of emotions. Try to keep a foot in the world of logic.

This one I can tell you. I bought a new wall for my future soundproof booth. Unlike the last one this one is 3 sectional. By itself it could make a great mini booth, but with one more wall to go I could make a hell of a portable studio. So needless to say my artistic levels are beginning to increase at least in the technical side.

3rd = 8: The duration of the Third Pinnacle Cycle runs from 38 to the age of 47.

Your will be blessed with patience and sound judgment during this time of your life. This would be a good time to focus on your career and finances. During this time it will be easy to ignore your spiritual self. Some time and effort should be taken to not lose your sense of faith.

While this won't happen until I'm 38, this does lean into my reprieve idea between 35 - 55/60, since some signs are pointing to this it's safe to say it could happen.

4th = 6: The duration of the Fourth Pinnacle Cycle runs from 47 onwards.

Family is the key during this part of your life. Close friendships will evolve and you have the opportunity to become a figure head in your community. You will be needed by your family and friends, and your compassion and understanding will be warmly welcomed by them.

Part of what's going on with my life currently has to do with what may happen should this come to pass.

I could go on, but while many have differing opinions on magick, fortune telling and other forms of phenomena some of the world believes and some don't, this has been accurate to me so far, make with it what you will. Because so far it has worked for me and I hope it continues to work.

Most importantly it's one of the few times I predicted something will change in my life for the better. So far that prediction unlike most is slowly coming true.

Now because I look for funny opportunities I decided to do some caption play.

I noticed that when you drag the mouse cursor across the vote you can not only change the Tankman's expression on it, but animate it seamlessly with it. So for kicks I tried something out:

Enjoy.

Been busy the past couple of days, but not to worry, things are good, but I felt bad not giving something out so here's something funny I came up with.

Proper English To Real English Phrase Guide:

For Those of High Class Vocabulary Having Difficulty Understanding The Common Person.

Chapter 1: Common Greetings and Phrases.

Proper English: Salutations, tis a fine morning indeed, is it not?

Real English: How's it going? Is it hotter out here or is it just me?

Proper English: Pardon my intrusion, I was inquiring if you could inform me the directions to the local athenaeum. I wish to return some literature there.

Real English: Hey, do you know where the library is? My books are fucking overdue.

Proper English: Would you care to join me in the local tavern for a pint of their exquisite lager, which is certain to inebriate us all?

Real English: Wanna go to the bar and get fucking wrecked?

Proper English: I owe you the deepest sincere of apologies. I realized that I have made an error.

Real English: Sorry. I fucked up.

Proper English: Welcome to my humble abode. Make yourselves comfortable, but please remove all footwear, I've just cleaned my finest of carpets. There will be hell to pay, if but a speck of dirt molests it. (For those who don't know and have a dirty mind, the word "Molest" in this context means "To bother".)

Real English: Hey guy's, come on in, have a seat. If you drag your dirty shoes on my rug I'll fucking kill you.

That's all I could think of for now, but I'll think of more.

I just took a recent look at my Pico Day contribution:

Something must have really clicked because no song of mine before had this much reception:

Wait a minute:

Oh crap. Ok to any Clone Trooper watching this do not stare at that numb....too late:

In all seriousness, I never thought anything I done would get rated this high and I once again thank you all.

I first heard of Ito through his most well known stories:

From Tomie.

To the hopefully coming soon Uzumaki:

So needless to say, I was expecting some scary moments when this came out:

I went to watch it, to see how they handled Tomie. Needless to say they didn't disappoint. But there were other stories that were just as, if not more scarier than his famous work.

Stories like Ice Cream Bus:

Which has a new level of Stranger Danger.

As well as Hanging Balloons:

A lot of these stories really amp up the terror and despair that Ito is most famous for. Watch if you dare. Muhahahahahaha.

So I wake up later than usual, feeling groggy and doing my usual routines, food, weed, personal hygeine. I turn my computer on one day and go on here:

Happy Pico Day!

@TomFulp as usual updates us on Pico Day and other events Newgrounds related. So I have a looksee and find that the first winners he announces are those whom participated in the Pico Day Writing Contest. Whose entries along with mine can be seen here. Now this contest as far as I know, has no prize, but that doesn't matter. The reason I bring it up, is because for the first time ever on this site, I Shane, aka S.T. Musician of CIEIRMusic have won a contest on this very site as well as won a contest in general:

Now I didn't come up with the title "Glorified Destruction Machines" myself, that was a line taken from my story. So I thank @DannyGoodShirt not just for hosting the contest, but coming up with a kick ass title for mine. I did not expect to win, let alone be in the top 3. Congrats to @Royal-Harmonica and @Yazza for making 2 and 3 respectfully. Be sure to read their stories as well as the stories of runner-ups @DGbythepolice @ZombieGhost and @JunesBlueNow.

@DannyGoodShirt also came up with a poll for the community to vote for their favourite author as seen here.

I myself voted for @Royal-Harmonica.

Now you're probably wondering the reason for my title. Because while I never gave up, the past year's I've been on the site, what with my infamous protest of the Art Inspired Music contest, my getting into fights with people on forums and newsposts and at least a small fraction of the site thinking I'm some kind of monster, based on how I view things and who I defend. I was for sure believing there was no chance in Hell, not in a million years that I'd achieve some form of success. But in the past couple of days, I've gotten a huge taste of success here.

First my song for the Pico Day Audio portion of the contest gets Frontpaged. Even if I don't win, that's an accomplishment on it's own.

Then I reach level 24 not too long after.

And now for the first time in all my years on this site I won a contest. There are people out there that would kill each other for the mass injection of good luck that got pumped into me those days.

But I don't owe this success merely to myself, I owe it to all of you. Be it fans, friends, enemies, detractors. Each and every one of you played a part in shaping who I am on this site today and I have you all to thank for helping me get this far. You all deserve a win on your own.

That said, in light of this recent win, I decided to take the time to advertise my lesser known lesser updated site. CIEIR Literature. I have been an author for a long time, seldom writing and publishing books on Amazon's Kindle Direct Plus. A lot of my stories would come across as cringe to some people, just a heads up. But if you're all interested in how batshit insane I can really be as a writer look no further than this. The only one not on there is Mom Of The Dead, because I haven't updated the site recently.

Of course as usual, be sure to checkout my bandcamp and Ko-Fi.