Amateur Filmmaker, Author, Cartoonist, Musician and defictionalizer (Finding truth in fiction), mostly here to promote my music to indie developers that need it.
This is a special report as it only follows one topic. Sudden events that have transpired will on this day forth be done in separate articles. So what better way to start than the events that transpired yesterday.
As most know or don't know on July 8 2022, there has been a massive nation wide outage of internet, cable and phone service from the Canadian company known as Rogers. Anyone who has had service from Rogers themselves, including their sub companies such as the cell phone companies Chatr and Fido, was without service for the entire day. Including yours truly.
As a result not only were individual customers affected, but businesses that use Rogers for their service have been reduced to taking only cash and credit as online banking and wireless transactions through ABMs, have been shut down.
While the cause is currently unknown and under investigation, many have debated on what could have happened. Debates, rumors and conspiracy theories, including but not limited the possibility that this was a cyber attack. Many of which even going so far as blaming Russia and Putin, accusing him of retaliating for our share of aid in Ukraine.
While I have not 100% certainty, I myself believe it to be either that or Rogers simply being a shitty company. The other services were still intact, such as Bell, Telus and so on, but yet Rogers is not only the only one affected, but it seems too convenient that of all the companies to attack, they attack the one that 90% of Canada depends on for their personal and professional lives.
That being said, this should be a valuable lesson for one to learn. Never be overdependent on the internet, for it may go away soon and you wouldn't know what to do with yourself when it does.
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It's been at least one year this July since I lived in these new accommodations and while most of us Canucks think of the 1st and our Neighbours below think of the 4th to celebrate our respective countries. I can't help but think of two things. This fucking heat and the bugs that come with it. Mosquitos, flies, gnats, sand fleas, bees, wasps, you name it it's there. I mean centuries of repellents and insecticides and you'd think they'd find a way to simply keep them out of our homes rather than waste time killing them and waiting for others to show up. Oh wait they have. Bleach. Bed Bugs can't stand the smell of it and you don't even have to use it on them. Just clean and air out the area around that you suspect infestation and they run the fuck away like scared rabbits. Essential oils and certain plants repel other bugs. Hell you might have a remedy of your own that works. Point being that heat brings humidity and humidity brings bugs. The stuff I mentioned and more can kick them the fuck out.
Current Events
Toronto Police Offer $50 000 For Info On Two Shooting Suspects
Live in Toronto? Sick of the fucking shootings that have been happening the past year? Want to do something about it while reaping in the rewards? Look no further than this. Toronto Police is offering $50 000 for the information leading to the arrest of two individuals responsible for two of the many shootings that have happened in Toronto in the past year. The first suspect is Jabreel Elmi, who is wanted for the fatal shooting of beloved youth worker Thane Murray. Despite the name of the victim this is in no connection to the movie Joker. So don't you fucking dare. The second suspect is Mohamed Hassan. Who is wanted for the shooting and first degree murder of Habil Hassan. Whether or not they're related I don't know. Investigators suspect that they are hiding somewhere in the greater Toronto Area. The only thing I ask any Torontonians is that should you find these bastards, whatever reward you do get for them at least half of it should go to the victim's families. They're the one's that have to deal with burying their loved ones and honestly you'd be real pricks if you pocketed the money all to yourself. Other than that, they're looking for information. Don't try to subdue them, don't be a hero and try to take them out. They are to be considered armed and extremely dangerous.
4th Of July Shooting Suspect Charged With 7 Counts Of Murder
Some good news for the families of the victims of the 4th of July Shooting that occurred at a parade celebrating the event in Highland Park, Illinois. They not only got the bastard that did it, but "Good Ole" Robert E. Crimo III has been charged with 7 counts of murder so far. With more charges yet to come and a life sentence. Now for me I'm so so about this and I'll tell you why. Let me go on record and say the following. My heart goes out the families of the victims and I really hope they will eventually get over this. However with that said, the shooting isn't something that surprises me and I'll tell you why for the following 2 reasons. One the location, Illinois, home of Al Capone. Since his reign and downfall, crime is pretty much casual in that state to the point where I think he may have cursed it to happen perpetually. However the second reason is a bit more grounded. It's no surprise that over the years, both Canada and America has had their fair share of dirty laundry. Depending on what side your on in the matter, said laundry is either defended and justified or protested and threatened against. I don't know why this guy would resort to taking a gun to a parade. Maybe he hated America in the state it is now or maybe he thought America was still celebrating lies. I don't know. But while what he did was gruesome and not a way to settle the grievances, you'd be lying to yourself if you think he's the only one that would have done it. There are thousands, millions of people in that state alone whom have differing problems with what's been going on. Some that are agreeable, some not. Each and every one of them probably went through the proper channels, peaceful protests, petitions, things like that. However if and when none of those worked, odds are they decided to take matters into their own hands. That said, it does not justify what this fucker did. But I hope it makes it easier for people to understand so that when the next one comes they can stop them before they even reach their pockets.
Putin Warns West He's Just Getting Started
So Putin just dared the western world to fight him. Claiming he was just getting started. Really? Slaughtering Civilians, destroying their livelyhoods while you're dick has fallen completely off and the country you claim to be doing this for is going broke, is you "Just getting started." Putin, I have no poker face, but I can tell you are fucking bluffing. You're literally losing billions of dollars over this war and we still have your fucking airliner raking in the fines. And from what I've heard, it's not the only plane. So in the words of Jesse Pinkman "Where's our money bitch?" Vlady, Vlady Vlady, you are seriously deluding yourself. I normally don't say this because I feel it would insult certain friends of mine with suicidal tendencies, but in this case I'll make an exception. You should just kill yourself. What you're doing is unjustifiable and you know it's unjustifiable and you don't care. You're the definition of evil. Kill yourself. Same goes to any bastard that supports this shit and tries to provide financial aid to Putin. Kill yourself. Your only chance at this point to right the wrongs you've done and the people you've destroyed is to die. I'm not joking. Do it.
Entertainment News:
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@beeni and @mock2 have recently announced working on a cartoon known as Rulebenderz. Which their rough animation can be seen here.
@ElectricAngel7482 has recently advertised games on her scratch account. Which can be seen here.
The world of films has been devastated, as legendary actor James Caan had passed away on July 6. Caan first gained critical fame by playing the role of Santino "Sonny" Corleone. The Hot tempered eldest brother of the Corleone Family, in the hit movie series "The Godfather". Caan has since made it to superstardom as both an actor and a director. The former of which includes such movies as Rollerball, Thief, Misery, Mickey Blue Eyes and Elf. Often typecasted as the rough but well meaning man. The cause of death is unknown at the time but hey it can't be worse than what happened to him here:
RIP James. Annie Wilkes can't get you now.
Jordon Peele's new horror movie Nope is set to release in theatres July 21. This will be his third horror film to date. The first being the surprise success of the hit Psychological Horror, Get Out. The second being the surreal horror called Us. With additional success as the host of the short lived Twilight Zone Reboot. Hopefully with this one though, he goes for the hat trick.
Paul McCartney just recently wished fellow living Beatle Ringo Starr a happy birthday. Starr, now 82 was famous for writing the titular song, Yellow Submarine as well as one of the few celebs out there that for a brief period of time, had been hell bent on answering every single piece of fanmail that was given to him. Which he himself affectionally parodied on the Simpsons episode "Brush With Greatness" (It's the one where Marge draws Mr. Burns naked.) I'm kinda surprised they lived this long that as much as I discourage dead pools, I honestly think people should place their bets between them.
Jokes:
In this universe Will Smith slapped Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife. By multiverse theory, three separate universes were created. The first, where Will ignored it and powered through, saving his career. The second where instead of Will, Jada is the slapper. The third and most bizarre one, rather than Chris Rock make a joke, Will heckles him, prompting Chris to leap off the stage and slap him. Destroying his own career. Then in the furthest reaches from the central finite curve, Will and Chris are still friends and they slap the shit out of the comedian that takes the leaders place. No punchline here, I just thought it was funny.....I gotta lay off Rick and Morty.
A golfer and a priest are playing a round of golf. The golfer misses his first shot and shouts "Goddammit I missed." The priest warns him "Don't say that or God will punish you." The same happens again and again and the golfer gets tired of hearing it so he just shouts "Goddammit" until he's blue in the mouth. Suddenly the priest gets struck by lightning. Way up in the clouds, God shouts "Me Dammit I missed.'
There's a family living in one house. A Mother, Father, Daughter, Grandmother and Grandfather. A nice christian family that harms no one. The daughter, a sweet little girl who says her prayers before bed, gets ready. She prays "God Bless Mommy, God Bless Daddy, God Bless Grandpa, Bye Bye Grandma." The parents are confused, but shrug it off. The next morning, tragically, the grandmother passed away in her sleep. After the funeral, life goes on like normal. The little girl praying once more. "God Bless Mommy, God Bless Daddy, Bye Bye Grandpa." The grandfather has a heart attack on the spot. The father is terrified and just waiting for the next one. After the funeral, the little girl prays once more "God Bless Mommy, Bye Bye Daddy." The dad thinking his number is up, decides to stay at work all night and all day. The day and night comes and goes and the dad is safe. Sighing with relief thinking it's all a coincidence. Then he gets a phone call. "Honey" The mom says. "The mailman dropped dead on our doorstep."
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Current Events, Entertainment News, Jokes (Couldn't think of a Funnie For This One)
Letter from the Editor
Sometimes life can suck, but other times there are often certain events both personal and professional that seem to turn it around. Even for a brief moment. With me, my only problem with that, is that those moments are few and in between and any attempts at expanding on them seem to make life worse than it does better. Anyone that says "That's life." or "Life's not fair." are full of shit. Yes, life can be unfair, but if it's meant to be that way, why give us hope that things will turn alright in spite of the tragedies we face. If anything, Life is meant to be fair. It's meant to give every one a chance to live it. To enjoy it, to not have to pay for shit in order to achieve it. I say Make Life Fair.
Current Events
Toronto Gas Price Drops 11 Cents
Good news for those out to vacation on this first of July Weekend, the Gas Prices all over Toronto and the GTA have lowered to 11 cents as of tomorrow. The current price being at least 193.9 Cents per litre. As if that's not good enough, the Gas Tax will be cut down to 5.7 cents per litre as well. With promises by Crackhead Ford that the tax will be lowered to 5.3 Cents Perl Litre. One of the few good things he's done. He also made promises recently to deal with the increase in ODSP, but to those on that system, I wouldn't hold my breath just yet.
Russian Army Retreats From Snake Island
After having captured it prior, the Russian Army retreats from Snake Island. The defense Ministry claims it's for good will, but I think maybe they couldn't handle the snakes. Hehe. Fuck you Putin.
Pandemic Changing But Far From Over
Just recently The World Health Orginization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had this to say. "This pandemic is changing but it's not over. Our ability to track the #COVID19 virus is under threat as reporting and genomic sequences are declining meaning it is becoming harder to track Omicron and analyse future emerging variant." Dude, it's not tracking them that's the problem. The problem is you lost the trust of the people. As much as I mock those that refuse to take vaccines, I can't say I blame them considering all you've done was flip flop back and forth to whether or not it's safe enough to resume a normal life. I'm fucking sick of it, just declare it over already. I don't care if at this point the disease still stands. I've lived through many pandemics. SARs, Bird Flu, Swine Flu, this bullshit and the worst I've only gotten was the cold or the fucking flu. I took the vaccines because better safe than sorry. The reason why we can't go back to normal is because you dipshits are so used to controlling us like fucking cattle, that it's hard to let go. SARs was never officially cured, yet we learned to live with it. We should do the same for this and this bullshit Monkey Pox that recently came about. Give us our fucking lives back.
@EpithetSoup is doing a character design collab. Anyone who's interested go here.
Also a bit shoutout to @ElectricAngel7482 formally Rocknight1991. Be sure to see the art representing her transformation here:
Hollywood News
R. Kelly has recently been sentenced for 30 years for numerous sex abuse accusations. I've somewhat followed R. Kelly's rise and fall as Space Jam was what introduced me to it. Back then, the biggest controversy he embroiled himself was a video tape of him pissing on an underage girl. I would have thought that should have been it for him, but so many who love "I believe I can fly." so much decide to rally for him. Claiming he's being racial profiled. Dudes, the only colour that was being discriminated that time was the yellow in his piss. And for a good reason because it splattered on an underage girl you fucking fanatics. Even Boondocks, who's main bits are often over the top humour, didn't pull any punches telling R. Kelly fans that they're the reason why he gets away with shit like that and the numerous sex trafficing, sexual slavery and other attrocities he's done to women and children over the years of his life. I believe he can fly on the first class ticket to the deepest pits of hell and I honestly hope he gets thrown in gen pop. You child raping, son of a bitch. Have fun knowing this is your fucking legacy:
Fuck you and fuck anyone that even remotely justifies his bullshit.
It is with great tragedy that I announce the passing of Gregory Jein. For those who don't know, he was a famous model maker for movies and TV shows. His credits include his contribution to the attempt at Star Trek Phase II. His successful run with Star Trek The Motion Picture. So to trekkies this is the guy that not only designed V'Ger, but also brought the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 back to it's former glory. Which also in turn jumpstarted his career as a model maker, not just for Star Trek but for other movies and tv shows as well such as Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Buckaroo Banzi and The Dark Night Rises to name a few. People talk about how great producers, directors and screenwriters are, when it comes to filmmaking, but neglect to remotely mention the others just as responsible and deserving of praise. Such as the guy that built the fucking thing. Rest in Peace Gregory. To an absent friend of every trekkie and movie fan in general.
Cameron Diaz just recently announced she's having a comeback. The Charlie's Angel and Mask Star has recently come out of retirement and is ready to act once more. I wish you the best of luck Diaz, you were one of my earliest memories of childhood in movies when I first seen you as Tina Carlyle, the sultry yet kind love interest to Stanley Ipkiss aka The Mask and if it wasn't for you, Dorian would have won.
Jokes
I decided to go back and fourth between funnies and jokes, since even my crappier stuff takes a while to draw sometimes, but I thought I'd bring levity a different way. Three Jokes.
An Anti-Nazi protester is walking down the street on his way home, from a day of demonstrations. As he makes it to his house, he notices an old man, walking around in full SS Gear, Goosestepping and spouting German Slogans. Naturally he has a problem with that and says "Hey, you can't do that out here." But the man doesn't listen. He screams, shouts and threatens the Nazi, but it seems to be in one ear and out the other. Losing patience, he walks up to the Nazi and punches him out. He then takes a closer look, noticing that the Nazi had airpods in his ears. "Huh. I guess he didn't hear me." He said. "Oh who gives a shit." He then notices a flyer sticking out of the pocket. He initially didn't want to read it, assuming it was propaganda, but curiosity got the better of him. The flyer read "The Seniors Centre Wishes to Proudly Announce, the first ever all senior stage play of 'The Sound of Music.' Proceeds of the ticket prices will go into donating to the Holocaust Museum and the victims of the Hiroshima Bombings." The protester drops the flyer in shock. "He wasn't a Nazi, he was playing an extra in a play. A play for Charity. What the hell have I done?" Let this be double lesson for both sides. One, not everything is as seems. Two, if you're gonna rehearse your lines for Sound of Music or any other play that has Nazis in it. Do it indoors. It could save your life.
Man buys a Ferrari and does 90 miles an hour at what looks like an abandoned highway. He passes by a traffic cop who gives chase. The man at first speeds up to 100 trying to get away from the cop, but gives up and pulls over. The cop comes up to him and says "Look buddy, my shift ends in half an hour. If you can give me an excuse that I haven't heard of, you have my word I will let you go." The man thought for a second and said "Well, my wife left me for a cop, so I thought you were bringing her back."
Warning Graphic Joke Ahead: Two men walk into a bar, one orders a beer and the other says "I'll order a bucket of piss.' Disgusted, the first man looks to him and says "There's no way they serve a bucket of piss at a bar." The second man smiles and says "$50 says there is." To which the first man nods "You're on." Sure enough the bartender comes out, giving the first man his beer and the second man a 1 gallon bucket full of piss. The first man looks at it, in both awe and shock and asked "How the fuck did you know this was gonna happen." To which the second man says "Who do you think pissed in that bucket?"
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As I type I'm watching the iconic Oscar Winning, darkly comedic, slice of life Drama known as "There Will Be Blood." The movie stars Oscar Machine and well known method actor Daniel Day Lewis as well as Paul Dano, whom recently became the Riddler. The movie takes place between the late 1800s to the mid 1920s. Lewis plays Daniel Plainview. A prospector turned oil tycoon whom from a tip goes to Little Boston, which has in his words an ocean of oil. While he takes over land by land, he runs afoul of Eli Sunday. Played vy Dano, Eli is a rogue priest believing himself to be God's third chosen one. They naturally butt heads together.
The movie itself is a must watch. There are so many dramatic moments, scary moments and funny moments. Daniel earns his rep as an Oscar winner and Dano can be just as great.
The thing I like is that even though you are supposed to hate Daniel, you can't deny, the guy was good. He built an Empire literally from the ground up. From mining silver to doing Oil.
The oil itself is actually the milk shake mix they used to sell to McDonalds.
Just recently I've heard that an earthquake occured in Afghanistan. While my heart goes out the civilians, I can safely say this is proof that some deity out there exists. I mean, at least 90% of the country has been taken over by the Taliban. And a horrible earthquake just devastated the place. To put it more plainly I'll let Brian Griffin explain.
Even the news reports, made remarks that nature has joined the fight.
Warning while the subject is all in good fun and games, there are things in it that can be triggering as that is the subject matter.
Over the years, we've heard it in various words. Triggers, Broken Brain, Mindfucks, things like that. Certain things and words that for some reason or another set off a variety of emotional and mental states. I myself have triggers as most others do, but I have also been experimenting, mostly for the sake of humor, various ways to mess with people's heads. As kids, we used to play mind games with each other all the time and the object of them would be who could fuck each other up mentally the most. These could range from anything from certain words, phrases or even making pictures and videos that if done right could trigger a specific response.
Now while I say these things right now, I am gonna warn you right off the bat. This is meant to be fun, if any one of you use these to intentionally hurt someone, I will not be held responsible. It says a lot more about you than me.
One of the best ways to mess with someone's mind is if you walk up to them, be it friend, family or total stranger and say the words "Don't do it." You don't specify what "it" is and when they ask "What?" You simply say it with more desperation and insistence. For some reason saying it repeatedly ends up triggering paranoia because odds are they did do something they don't want anyone to know about and think you're on to them. It could be something mundane like leaving the front door unlocked to something so horrible, that you'd probably have to call the police. Either way, it really stops people in their tracks.
Another way seldom works, based on the psychology of the person. But here's what you do. Wait until you're in a position to have food with a person. Whether it's breakfast, lunch, dinner or snacks. Then when they are in the middle of eating it you say "I -insert defilement here- your -insert food here-" Could be poisoning a cupcake or other forms of deifilement. The reason I say this seldom works, is because it's probably not the first time or that person has done that to someone else. Either way they call your bluff or worse play along with it. For example if you told them you poisoned their food, they'd act like you really did and fake dead.
Let me know what other mind screws you can think of.
The aftermath of Pico Day, now I'm not quite sure if anyone won yet at this point or if they're still judging the entries, but I would like to offer my sincere thanks to @TomFulp for hosting this and my sincere congratulations to any who have won. As for me I celebrate a small victory all my own.
I go to the entries, mainly to see what's there as seen here:
Which leads me to a tag section where PicoDay2022 is said tag:
Low and behold over 30 songs down I find this:
The song I entered both to celebrate this and Piconjo Day.
Now at this point I don't care who wins. With my luck with contests, I'd be as likely to win as the Toronto Maple Leafs are likely to win the Stanley Cup again.
However the fact that I got featured by both days, is an honour and a victory all their own and I wish the best of luck to the other entries.
It's tough being me sometimes. Every time I think I finally figure the world out, someone or something slaps me in the face, tells me I'm wrong and says it's not only wrong, but I'm evil for thinking it. Then when and if I do things their way, I gets slapped, vilified more and called a conformist. It's like trying to figure out Roddy Piper. Every time I think I got all the answers, some asshole changes the questions. Still I got off light compared to many others.
Current Events:
Man Responsible for Toronto Van Attack Sentenced to Life In Prison:
Alek Minassian, whom many have known to be the sick bastard that ran over 10 people in Toronto, was finally sentenced to Life Imprisonment for murder. However while the man is finally put where he belongs, people are still outraged, because he may be elligible for parole in 25 years. While that is an understandable outrage, I have my own. Why the fuck did it take 4 years to sentence this man? No seriously why the fuck? He killed 10 people, it was proven he did it deliberately and yet, most of the time was wasted on whether or not he was mentally sound while doing this. Who gives a shit, the man killed 10 people with a fucking Van. Either put him in jail or if you really care about the man's mental health, despite you know, killing 10 people, put him in CamH. Hell I'll even do a better idea. Should he get paroled, he should be on probation, forbidden to have a license....ever. Oh wait, since the guy killed 10 people and meant it, he may have a knife or a gun instead. You know, because he wanted to kill people. Jesus Christ. Any prisoners, out there that have internet access, if this guy is in your cell, get him. Now this is filthy rich coming from me, but the guy tried to get out of it by claiming he had autism. That he was unaware of his actions. That didn't work for the Sandy Hook killer, so why the hell did you think it would work for you. You killed 10 people. Rot in prison and stop making the rest of us look bad.
Kyiv Calls For Anti-missile Systems:
Ukraine Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his forces are suffering painful losses in the eastern town of Severodonetsk and the Kharkiv region as he called for more anti-missile systems. He's especially pissed off at the delay for the weapons and supplies he called for earlier, saying that Ukraine has suffered through enough painful losses. While I agree, there is one mistake I believe all sides of the war had made ever since this got started. A mistake each one of you all overlooked. AHEM!!
STOP SAYING YOUR SHIT ON THE NEWS AND INTERNET!!!
I mean for fuck sakes, it's no wonder this war is going on the way it is. Every time Russia and Putin proclaims victory, Ukraine ends up trumping them. Every time Ukraine announces plans for either a cease fire or to further fight back, they end up getting their asses kicked. And every time anyone outside the conflict offers to help one side or the other, we all get threatened. Journalists don't care who win or lose so long as they get the story. They'd drunkenly blab to what they thought was a friend, when it could be an enemy spy in disguise. Wars used to be so simple, if people had a plan of attack, they'd keep it within their circle with the enemy actually putting effort to trying to bring them down. Nowadays everyone with a smartphone and access to world internet would just read the news from outside their country, contact their world leader and the rest is history. I'm not fucking around either. Everyone that's ever had a smartphone, from civilian, to soldier to world leader could literally look up the news of their opposing country and plan accordingly. While others haphazardly brag and gloat prematurely not knowing that everyone can see their shit. It's the Cartman NSA thing all over again. I've seen some stupid shit in my time, but Jesus Christ.
Ivanka Trump Testitmony Causes Her Dad To Act Stupid Again:
Normally I don't do politics, but this one made me laugh. Ivanka Trump testifies that everyone in the campaign knew that the Biden win wasn't fraudulent. Naturally Donnie, comes up and his only defence is that Ivanka wasn't even there when they were studying for said fraud. Donnie-boy, the pipes are already calling for you, the more you talk the deeper you dig. Guys like Nixon and Bill Clinton are laughing at you. That's how pathetic you are now. Just fall asleep with the dwindling billions you have in your mattress and maybe this will all go away.....not.
Entertainment News:
Local Newgrounds News:
Many newgrounders animators got recognized during PicoDay this year. All of them accumulated into this lovely compilation known as FulpWare. A parody of the WarioWare series as seen here:
@DocDiegO is offering sketches for $1. Be sure to check the collab section of his profile.
@HztaOra is offering a collab to celebrate pride day. Anyone interested, check here.
Hollywood News:
Pokerface meets Jokerface when Lady Gaga announces her interest to join Joaquin Phoenix in the sequel to the Oscar winning Todd Phillips, epic Joker. While Phillips is waiting for Warner Bros. to close the deal so Joaquin can come back. On one hand I am curious how they follow up on the first movie and hope Warner does the right thing this time and let Phillips do what he wants. Those assholes had no faith in the first movie, yet it ended up making billions and winning Oscars. If they say no to this again, then I have lost faith in them as a company and I have stood by and by when they ruined Snyder's work as well as disarmed Elmer Fudd.
Netflix recently announced that a reality game show based off the hit show Squid Games is coming soon:
You have got to be fucking kidding me. You're making a reality game show, about a bunch of financially desperate people who compete in kids games, in which win, loss, cheat and unsportsman-like behaviour will result in your very likely death........where do I sign up?
In all seriousness, no, you won't get killed if you're lucky enough to be a contestant. Nor will your organs be harvest. The possibility that one of the players could be the head guy running the show is highly likely though. I'd be good at Tug of War and The Cookie Game, but I'd suck at Red Light Green Light. If some jerk from the Korean Mob decides to sneak attack me, I'll drop him though.
Just two days ago, Phillip Baker Hall had passed away. This was a man whom from the 70s to now had a huge career in film and television. His roles ranging from Sergeant Hacker on M*A*S*H to Captain Diel in the Rush Hour movies. His final Role being Zellah in Messiah. The cause of death being emphysema. Rest In Peace Mr. Hall, wherever you go, I'm sure it's far the hell away from Chris Tucker.
Funnies:
Underplayed Car Accident by CIEIRMusic:
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Over the years I've accumulated many fans from different walks of life. From kids to adults, to heterosexual and cis to transgender, homosexual, bi and other members of LGBTQ+ (Forgive me if that title sounds inaccurate, no disrespect to any I've left behind on it, because the title constantly updates and I hope to every God and Goddess of every religion the P they put in there stands for Pansexual. Don't be fooled by NAMBLA's bullshit.) Basically long story short I gained a lot of fans from different ages, jobs, sexes, religions etc. Yet I never once asked about them indiviudally, because I value their privacy and right to keep their personal and sometimes professional lives a secret. Not once have I asked what they did for money and never once asked them personally to do anything other than consider buying my work.
Granted I didn't really help matters by calling out some of my fans for merely paying eye and ear service to my work. (Like Lip service but in terms of music and art.) However, while I try my best to offer something new to the table I've only managed to gain success financially through one dedicated fan years before I went here and even said fan has their limits.
Now, just to give another glance of my personal life I've done every thing I can to try to have some financial gain. Which while some people don't see the big deal about, I feel I have to explain.
On top of my own survival which I've had covered even before I got into this, due to certain benefits my condition qualified for, I've done a lot to try to get extra cash be it for leisure or as a means to improve my work. Such as maintaining the equipment necessary to make it let alone improve it. The way I've done this save for said benefit, which is really just used for the bare essentials, such as food and shelter, was trying and doing many things, from working odd jobs, to trying any trending money making scheme that was available after seeing proof that it works that is. And yes that includes making my NFTs. Now before some of you chew me out over this, telling me I ruin the environment for being part of that, bare in mind, on top of seeing how much one gained through personal experience through a relative of mine, I thought it was a good idea as a means of expanding on the brand. I didn't expect anyone to do anything less than either promote it and for the millionth time I apologize for offending any fans against this shit. However, I think it's grossly hypocritical to call me out on the means I try to make financial gain, when at least some of of you have not only done the same, but kept your mouths shut over it out of fear of being ridiculed like I have been over this. But I'm past that. Main point is, I've basically tried everything in my power to gain more than just survival money. And everything I had planned should I have succeeded would have at least caused a dent in an effort to reverse the damages done to the world I may have allegedly contributed to it. Even going so far as playing ad based casino games, that make it very difficult, not just for financial gain, but also prize. Even if it was prizes that I wanted to keep, I mostly tried winning them so I could sell them for at least a little less than market value.
Long story short I've tried everything I can, regarding every attempt at making financial success over the CIEIR Brand.
Now I know a lot of you, have had mixed feelings about me as a person and as a musician. I can be very antagonistic when I feel I've been pushed over something. So I'd understand if maybe you fear contributing to a guy like me, would give me more power over my part of the world as a result of said gain. I also understand that most people, wouldn't buy my work, because it's free to download here. I especially understand, because aside from most of you being kids, the adults that follow me, also can't contribute due to their own responsibilities both in their personal and professional lives. I don't like it, but I understand and respect that. The only gripe I have being that my music online is so cheap that it comes across as kind of assholish, that no one would spare at least $1. All that I can understand and forgive. But I keep getting the feeling, mainly due to the fact that many of you have computers and smartphones, that you at least have some financial gain I'm not aware of.
Now with kids that's easy. Their parents provide them with the tech they need to do this stuff. As well as the occasional allowance. With adults, they managed to get certain jobs that allow them to survive and use sites like this as more or less of a hobby. So naturally even after they managed to get their bills, debts and what not in order, they only have few to spend for their leisures. However I refuse to believe that 169 people that follow me can stay on this site long enough without some kind of finance running the work they make. Be it equipment for their music, art, games and movies. Myself, I was lucky enough to be given a computer needed for this stuff to work and the only thing I had to do at the time was replace said computer. Even finding cheap deals on them since I use outdated stuff anyway.
So my weird question of financial gain is this. What is your secret, so I can use it to better my own life?
First off, I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Pico Day. I can honestly say I never thought Newgrounds would ever have a day named after it's title character. Thankfully last year, I was proven wrong. I entered mostly for kicks, but it really brought the creative bug out of me. For last year's entry I basically tried to mix two holidays together, Pico Day as well as the years Pico has been around:
Basically making a Birthday/Pico Day cake that went hilariously wrong.
This year, I rolled the dice. I wanted to try to see if I could celebrate this and Piconjo Day at the same time with the same entry. Wasn't sure if it was against any contest rules, but even then the hell with it. These two have been around for a while they deserve a duo celebration. So thinking really hard and getting inspired by my last Piconjo song and the art that inspired it:
I decided to do a sequel song to it. Originally I was trying to ask @Shintsukimi205 to create an art companion piece to make song cover for it, but so far I haven't heard from him. That said Shintsukimi, if you're still around I invited you as a manager and inspiration so even if it's well too late, you're still free to do that.
The song in particular was this:
It's basically a hypothetical face off between Shint's Anti-heroic interpretation of @Piconjo against Pico.
To close out this day, I would like to share my history with Newgrounds.
I first discovered the site at around 8 - 10 years old. Back then all it was was Assassin, Parodies, Porno and Pico. The latter of which interested me more. Specifically these:
At that time South Park was in it's infancy as well and I was already getting used to the raunchiness of that one along with Kenny getting killed constantly.
The other site I stumbled upon around that time was StickDeath. Which I have heard has since been gone. Those that don't know it was basically a site full of stick figure related flash animation and games. Much like Newgrounds it involved a lot of gore, sex and over the top comedy. It's also how I discovered Full Metal Jacket as Sergeant Hartman's quotes could be heard sprinkled throughout.
The only other site that seems similar at the time was also Killfrog, but I only watched it for the Dumb Ass Bass and Blues Clues parody.
