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Posted by CIEIRMusic - January 14th, 2022


As many of you know I did a rant regarding how I figured out why the world was so fucked up:

https://cieirmusic.newgrounds.com/news/post/1235345


Depsite many people thinking otherwise, this wasn't an angry rant, but rather one meant to inspire. The first step to any problem, especially world problems, is admitting there is a problem. The next step is how to solve said problem. Now when it comes to small things, solving problems is easy. However when you're trying to do the world a solid, it's a lot more trickier than that. To solve every problem on this planet, we got to take it one step at a time. Whether it's our own small part of it or a collaboration that could help speed things along. So every now and then starting with this post I am gonna give my take on how to solve some problems.


Now as much as I loathe our dependency on it, I'll start with the most simplest one. Money. Whether you work for it, get it through various assistance, or just flat out go out on the streets and beg for it, you'll never have enough and I'll tell you why. This is something even rich people can screw up with when they want to become even richer. We are all major victims of consumerism. Conditioned to think that we need the stuff we see in commercials and billboards, that we become spend happy. Some of us do ok, save some money, but eventually everyone will lose everything at one point if they aren't careful. Now there are some people I know who are Frugal. No scratch that, downright cheapskates who try to spend as little as they can, to save money for the near future only to run out of that too. Why? Because they didn't sweat the little stuff.


Many people, myself included think that if we spend less, we save more. This is not true. A wise person once told me "$10 here and there can get you anywhere." I never quite understood what it meant at the time, but I do now.


There are two people. Each one with a salary of $1000 a month. One decides to spend as little as possible, but the other spends almost all of it in the first few days. Which one is more screwed? Trick question. Both are. The second guy is already screwed, because he has to wait a month to get another $1000. You'd think the one spending little as possible would be in the clear too right? Wrong. That person spends at least $10 a day, throughout the week. Doesn't seem so bad, but when the week is gone that's already $70 out of that $1000 leaving $930 left. Then the next week goes buy. The past two weeks: $140 making it $860. The past 4 weeks: $280 making it $720. It may not be so bad, but if that person kept it up at that pace in a year they would have $8640 out of the $12000 They could have had if they kept the entire $1000 in a piggy bank. You'd be surprised how much a simple $10 even in today's economy could be a matter of life and death.


Now this doesn't just apply to money. It applies to anything with a number. What prompted me to talk about this, was that I was looking over my Bandcamp stats, I've only managed this day to get 11 listeners. Sounds discouraging right? Wrong and I'll tell you why. Because that small number accumulates into a bigger number when the month is over.


This is why I say sweat the small stuff, because without it, there is no big picture without it.


Here's what you must do, if you haven't done it already. Get a piggy bank. Make sure it can fit dollar bills as well as coins. Whether your a kid with an allowance or an adult with a job, this is the most critical part. Whatever money you made, at least take $10 out of it and put it away. Whether it's a weekly check, a monthly check or you just happen to spot a quarter in the middle of the street. Put $10 exactly in said piggy bank. Doesn't matter how, when or what format of money used. Exactly $10 each time you put it in your piggy bank. If you are given gift cards like Visa that too. No matter how tempted you are, do not EVER take any money out of it until it is full. You'll thank me later. Because that $10 here and there will get you anywhere.


The average piggy bank can store up to 1000 coins. In terms of pennies, that's exactly $10. Nickels? $50. Dimes? $100 Quarters? $250. Half Dollars? $500. Dollars? Yep $1000. Toonies? $2000 and so on. That little bank alone can easily set you for life if you do exactly this.


In short, do this and I gurrantee you, unless some asshole decides to rob you, you've pretty much moved your life forward with this simple task.


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Posted by CIEIRMusic - January 14th, 2022


A husband is caught cheating on his wife with another woman. The wife asks him to explain himself. He says. "Baby, I'm sorry. I should have told you before that I fell out of love with you or at the very least wanted better sex. This was my fault and my fault alone." She hears "It's all her fault. If she didn't show up out of the blue I woulda stayed with you. She's the problem. She's the Devil. Kill her. Kill the bitch now before she ruins another couple's life. DO IT!!"


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Posted by CIEIRMusic - January 14th, 2022


When it comes to me making music, save for food, rest and other stuff, nothing really stops me. Much like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, I just keep making it and making it. This year I realized, that I spent so much time making music for this site alone that I didn't take the time to organize it. So I present to you three playlists of my most recent albums. Eye Of Experience won't be a playlist until it is finished.


First and foremost An Experiment in Tuning:

https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/47a420895a90e2a244cc992da9dc9c66


Inspired by @dj-steve-francis. This album is mainly the same track in different tuning frequencies. The first two standard music recording while the rest being the Solfeggio Frequencies. I had too much fun with this one.


Second Throw it In Reverse:

https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/37bfad7a5c7aef4717c338e119d476a2


Always been fascinated by backwards sounding music and media, thought I'd do my own spin on it.


Third The CIEIR Christmas Special:

https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/1b991f828055b40b1a59acd8db4b6be8


My lovely break from traditional Carolling.


Last but not least, One Hell Of A Winter:

https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/fbe69c5bb7e87bfeb7367f71300f2713


After doing a Christmas special I thought "Why not a Winter one too?"


Hope you all enjoy and stay tuned for more music.


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Posted by CIEIRMusic - January 11th, 2022


As you know a few months ago, I did a newspost advertising my own idea to make and sell NFTs, as a means of gaining capital to better my projects:

https://cieirmusic.newgrounds.com/news/post/1226363


As you can see with the numerous frowns, shouts and sad emojis, needless to say a lot of other people, including my own fans, thought that was a bad idea.


At the time I didn't know why until one explained it to me and while your views on the matter doesn't hinder my course regarding this as I mentioned in the previous post, I do humbly apologize for shocking and offending all that thought it was a bad idea.


Now at the time I just thought, maybe it was just Newgrounds and that maybe I'd have better luck advertising this thing somewhere else. That is until I watched the second of two South Park Covid Specials. Spoilers at this point. The specials take place after the events of Vaccination Specials. Every kid in South Park has become an adult and leading various lives. Stan is a "Whiskey Consultant", Kyle works at South Park Elementary, Cartman becomes a rabbi and Kenny becomes rich. It wasn't until the next special, that they answered a question that those that watched the first, asked. "What happened to Butters?"


Well, they answered it in the most hilarious way:

By making him a plug for NFTs.


Now that alone is classic South Park, having someone locked up for something that environmental bullshit aside, is relatively harmless. However as the show goes on, there's a perfectly good reason why. Now before I explain, bare in mind. South Park is what's known as an equal opportunity offender. Meaning rather than take one side over the other, they go after all sides, sing their praises and shit on their faults. The NFTs being no exception, they make it perfectly clear you can make money on NFTs, but regarding the faults including the ones that people have told me about, they make them 100 times worse in a hilariously elaborate way. In this case, they poke fun at how expensive NFTs are, by having people sell practically all their assets for one expensive NFT. They poke fun of the environmental impact, by rather than what was explained to me; the increasing carbon footprint caused by servers buying, selling and trading NFTs, they instead, have the craze of the NFTs be the main problem to the point where riots and loots break out not long after Butters teaches them how to buy, sell and trade NFTs. A lot of which was funny as hell, even going as far as using the jargon, jargon which I first heard. But the main punchline of it, is that people are spending thousands of dollars on the more common ones, like pixel arts and gifs.


Part of why I was slow in updating the NFTs was because the two pictures aside, I had no idea how to proceed next. Mainly because I wanted to do something others haven't done. Something eye catching and unique. It wasn't until I saw They Live that I got my ideas. For those that don't know, They Live involves an alien plot in which a drifter discovers a pair of Sunglasses that reveal what the world really looks like. All advertisments, billboards, magazines and even the money in your pocket replaced with subliminal messages like "Obey" or "Consume".


So in the tradition of many antis that came and went, from Anti-Hero to Anti-Humour, I decided to make a series of Anti-NFTs. NFTs, desgined to poke fun at NFTs.


Behold the first of many of what I hope to be the most expensive jokes in the world:

Joke NFT 1

Joke NFT 2


Even those that have a negative view of NFTs, should get a kick out of these. I will make more soon at least when people get the joke. Until then enjoy and send your torches and pitch forks down below in the comment section. I'm pretty sure there's an Emjoi for that.


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Posted by CIEIRMusic - January 5th, 2022


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I painted this a few days ago. Since then it has given me a lot of ideas. How to expand the CIEIR Lore, as well as make stories within stories. Similar to how Watchmen has a story "Tales of The Black Freighter". In this case, S.T. is doing a solo work, with a story to tell. One of the difficulties of writing a superhero persona is trying to find out how they make a civilian living. Which S.T. and Light Harmony does through their music and some odd jobs. Of course since S.T. is based off myself or rather who I wish to be. I added some reality subtext related to my current career status as a musician. He's what would happen if he got financial success in his work. Whereas, so far, while appreciated with all my heart, I got critical success and a couple of collaborations. However I am not hopeless on it. I will become a success financially as I will be critically, because I don't know the meaning of the word "FUCKING QUIT!"


Anywho on with the story.


The Eye of Experience in this context, is an ancient artifact buried somewhere within the Earth. It is rumoured to be God's one of many eyes. Each one with a different function and if rendered useless will be cast into the Earth as a means to help humanity. However as divine as these gifts are they are very dangerous whether they're in the right or wrong hands. The Eye is over a billion years old, yet still intact. Any who look into the eye will feel billions of years worth of experiences good and bad. You could be feeling paradise or the deepest pits of hell or both at the same time. Those who look too long will go irreparably insane.


I have made two songs based off it already:


More will come to make an album. Once again I've used a painting as an album cover.


The music and the theme of the story is often, based on many shows and movies I grew up watching. Mostly a mix of Indiana Jones style treasure hunting and Hellraiser style items. Albeit what if there were just as powerful and dangerous Divine Items as there are hellish. Kinda like the Lost Ark. I hope you all enjoy.


Also with the exception of my first painting, I plan to sell these, but I won't do so until I made a considerable amount of them. The reason I won't put up my first for sale is because I believe it's bad luck to do so.


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Posted by CIEIRMusic - January 5th, 2022


Box, aluminum, toaster, maple syrup, roller skates, paintball. I take that one back, I'm gonna hold onto that one.


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Posted by CIEIRMusic - January 1st, 2022


I'm BACK!!


First of all I want to wish you all a Happy and Healthy Holiday as well as a Happy New Year. Holy shit. 202FUCKING2!! I am not gonna lie, even without what was going on I didn't think I or the human race for that matter would make it through this far. We are enduring a Pandemic while slowly piecing together our somewhat normal lives. Finding new ways of having fun and re-connecting with loved ones. Doing every thing we can to celebrate the holidays in our own way.


With me, I enjoyed Christmas with my family. Got gifts and witnessed first hand a sign that whatever happens we as a race will be ok. Naturally as a responsible, law abiding adult, I got wasted and had some fun throughout the whole holidays.


My main focuses right now are the following:

  1. Create requested work.
  2. Create more music.
  3. Expand on my Canvas Art.


The third I'm looking forward to the most. I already have some ideas with it in mind.


I also plan to expand more on Light Harmony's lore.


And so far things have gotten better for me and those around me. The good news that my 30 nightmare will be over in a few months. For those that don't know. I turned 30 last year. I even as a joke did a Logan's Run Fanart of it. Now like most people turning a new decade I was nervous. 30 was considered the Hell Period for men. A period of stress, anxiety and slight paranoia of being half of 60. Old injuries crop up, old grudges come back and new bullshit comes along the way.


However that period is months away from being over. Now I only have to worry about when I'm 40.


But ya, stay tuned for new stuff. Happy New Year!!


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Posted by CIEIRMusic - December 22nd, 2021


The following takes place just after this song was posted:


CIEIRMusic is preparing for the Holidays even throwing a Holiday party for their religion section as an apology for Dark Divide putting them in danger.


S.T. Musician: You guys did great, it's hard taking on multiple roles, but you pulled it off.

Light Harmony: Thanks S.T.

Harmony: I must admit it was fun playing the Devil in a song about Hell Freezing Over. Any word on Dark Divide?

Light: So far no sign of them. Our guys gave themselves and the hostages a drug that fakes flu symptoms, so as far as they're concerned they are still sick.

Harmony: Is that safe?

S.T.: Well one of our guys used to be a Mobile Hospital Doctor. A brilliant and caring one. Why he turned into a black market organ thief is a mystery to me, I guess war really does change people.

Light: It's a good thing he was sincere in his request to reform. I would have hated to donate his organs.

Harmony: I believe in an eye for an eye, but I must admit, I don't know if I'd ever go that far.

S.T.: It rattles me to, but if we're not good on our policies we're no different than those who hurt people for kicks. Excuse me a moment. Father McClane, Imam Ali, Rabbi Kaminsky nice to see you three.

Father McClane: Top of the Morning to You My Child.

Imam Ali: As-Salam-u-Alaikum S.T.

Rabbi Kaminsky: Shalom S.T. Hope you're doing well?

S.T: Doing fine, just fine. Nice to see you three getting along, when you came to my door you were pretty much bickering like the religious equivalent to the Three Stooges. Now look at you, having a drink and a laugh between you three.

Father McClane: Well not gonna lie, anywhere else and we'd go medieval on each other. But when you three told us to focus on the similarities, we started to communicate better.

Imam Ali: Ya, we found common ground on favourite foods and celebrities and we've been doing some digging. There have been many passages in our respective texts that seem to link us together.

Rabbi Kaminsky: Ya. We still disagree on many things, but we give the floor to each other. Now if you'll excuse us, Father McClane and I are heading to the bar. I'd invite you, but I respect your beliefs. Besides even if Muhammad didn't forbid it, you'd probably be a lightweight.

Imam Ali: Oh no, I'm not leaving you two alone without a designated driver. There won't be any funny business related to a Priest and A Rabbi walking into a bar.

S.T.: Well I'll leave you to it. It was nice seeing you again.


They leave and S.T. rejoins Light Harmony.


Light: Kinda ironic a Pagan managed to get three Abrahamics to get along.

Harmony: Centuries ago they would have burned you at the stake for even suggesting it.

S.T.: I know right? I'm off to put our album in Bandcamp so you two have some fun.

Light: Ok then, we hope this year would be the best.

Harmony: Of course it will be. Whether it's a stubborn pandemic or the lingering threat of psychopaths, nothing can stop us from having a good time on Christmas.


One Hell of a Winter is Now Available on Bandcamp:

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One Hell of A Winter


5 Songs as well as a bonus track. An instrumental of one of them. After my Christmas Album, I thought to do a seperate album regarding the winter season in general. From the harshness of the weather, to the wonders of the people that have fun in it. Not to mention the hypothetical scenario of what would happen if the phrase "When Hell Freezes Over." becomes literal.


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Posted by CIEIRMusic - December 22nd, 2021


Don't worry. I may still comment every now and then, but I won't be reviewing or posting music until the Hollidays have come and went.


I will like to take the time to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, A Happy and Healthy New Year and most importantly Happy Holidays.


Although I should wish you all to be safe especially as the Omicron variant cases continue to rise, but fuck that. Be safe, but do not let this fucking Pandemic, this fucking virus and any and all responsible for fucking your lives over, from ruining your right to have fun and enjoy the holidays. Fully Vaccinated and know anyone fully Vaccinated that you wish to hang out with? Hang. Want to go sight seeing, go and wear a mask. Travel outside the country for vacation? Don't. Instead bring the paradise you wish to have to you. Whether' it's a heat lamp to imitate a sun tan or relaxing music from a tropical paradise or to the adults out there booze. Lot's and lot's of booze. Which is especially safer at home, because Covid stuff aside, you'd be surprised how many people are at risk for Hep A and B due to not only the local water, but the ice cubes from said local water. Wanted to go to Jamaica? Roll a joint and play some Marley. Bob, Ziggy, Damien, whatever floats your boat. Point being, have fun. Now I have just two more things I need to do before I officially take my break. I won't say which, but you will see soon. Other than that Happy Holidays.


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Posted by CIEIRMusic - December 21st, 2021


Don't worry, unlike my last rant, this one is a little more light hearted. One of the biggest things I ever hated about the entertainment business is censorship. I've hated it ever since I was a kid. But the thing I hate the most is the obvious shit they do that sticks out like sore thumbs.


That being said, why? Because you're afraid kids would see it and recreate the violence and cursing among most things? Granted you do have a point. For as long as kids have access to a TV they are always, by accident or incident stumble upon entertainment they aren't old enough to see. However unless they can't tell fiction from reality, I seriously doubt that happens. However the thing that irks me the most about it are the ways they do it.


There used to be 4 kinds of Censorship, but now there are only three.


  1. Bleep Censorship. Probably the most debated one of them all. When you're a kid and you hear an electric beeping sound coming from a human being when they talk, you think nothing of it. As you grow up, you realize that the beep is meant to cover up any swearing and the longer one swears in the show, the longer the beep lasts. Now this one doesn't bother me as much as the others, because over the years, many both for and against censorship have often tried to make the most out of beeps. Replacing the sound with a different effect in an effort to make it sound funny being a prominent example. This was made famous by two things I saw growing up. Super Dave Osborne and Christian Slater's Kuffs. In Super Dave, the titular censor sound whenever he swore on his own show or Bizarre was that of either a squeaky toy or a car horn. The latter of which was lampshaded in his famous Car Crusher stunt as the car horn itself blocking his lungs. The scene in Kuffs being much more funny. This was back when PG-13 was still relatively new and one of the major rules of the game was that you are only allowed one time in your movie to say "Fuck.", but there are loopholes. If it's beeped out or distorted in a way so naturally, they managed to get away with saying fuck leading to one of the most hilarious scenes in movie history. Even shows like South Park have used the beep for better comedy. In terms of censorship as a whole. This is tame.
  2. Self Censorship. I am so so on this, one. Self Censorship is where a movie maker does their own censorship, by filming scenes that are meant to be posted on Television. On one hand the same people who do them, are against censorship themselves making it look hypocritical. On the other hand if anyone is gonna censor their work, it may as well be them and they did manage to create memorable moments regarding that. Three on the top of my head: A. Superman II. Now this one is a roller coaster because censorship was the least of their problems. Considering that there was a battle for creative control between Richard Donner (Rest in Piece), Richard Lester and The Salkind family who had the movie rights to Superman at the time. But in terms of censorship that was a real doozy. In both the Lester theatrical cut and the Richard Donner Cut of the movie, it's been pretty much established that Superman killed, Zod, Ursa and Non after rendering them powerless. With the Lester cut implying for trying to betray him. Superman left Lex to freeze in the arctic. The Donner cut going so far as showing, Superman burn down the Fortress of Solitude with his heat vision, presumably with Lex still inside. Of course it got kind of omitted when Superman, using his Earth Reversal technique goes back in time and makes sure the Phantom Zone doesn't break, freeing the trio. However even that wasn't enough. Because their demise was shown being thrown into a bottomless pit, it could be argued that they survived the fall. So the TV version had an additional scene, where the trio and Lex are arrested by the RCMP. B. Ghostbusters. Oh my God. Normally when you have to censor your own work, you often do it half-assed like to mess with the producers. But when you have geniuses like Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd writing, even their censor stuff is comedy gold. Case in point the mayor scene for context. This is the original line. Ray: Everything was fine with our system until the power was shut off by Dickless here. Peck: They caused an explosion. Mayor: Is this true? Peter: Yes it's true. This man has no dick. And here's what they wrote for TV. Ray: Everything was fine with our system until the power was shut off by Wally Wick here. Peck: They caused an explosion. Mayor: Is this true? Peter: It's true your honor, the man is some kind of rodent I don't know which. While I like the "Dickless" line better, not gonna lie, I laughed my ass off when I first saw this. Now the third example I'll save for the last category, because it's kind of a hybrid between this and the last. However I can tell you this. This is one of the kinder examples. However it's not used anymore so it may as well be dead.
  3. Edit Censorship. Probably the second most hated form of Censorship known to the human race. Mainly because like it's counterpart Beep Censorship, it comes in many forms. The first form is just simple sound edit. This is the less bothersome of the them because all they do is simply mute it every time someone says an R rated swear. The second form is using blockers for visual offences You all seen them. A black bar or a blur of pixels covering up parts that no one should see. Now that is fine and good for live TV as anything can happen, but sometimes, they kinda screw up in funny ways. My favourite example, would be when I watched Fright Night on AMC. This was the first time I watched the movie beginning to end and while AMC never disappoints on the blood and gore they still have a long way to go to make people comfortable about censorship. What do I mean by that? Now bare in mind I had to find this scene after for context, but here's what happened. In the movie, Jerry turns Charley's Girlfriend Amy into a vampire. Taking a cue from Bram Stoker, female vampires become more endowed when they are turned. Which is used to lure in male victims for the kill. In layman's terms, their tits and ass get bigger after a vampire turns them. Amy was no exception. For they went as far as making a prosthetic set of her actress' breasts so they could make it as realistically big as possible. However the main issue, that prevented this movie from ever being shown on public television was that at the time Amy was wearing a see through outfit. Meaning that to put it plainly no matter how fake they were, you could see her nipples. Now you gotta give AMC points for this, because even if that wasn't their intention their way of getting passed this was probably the most funny way imaginable. They didn't simply just blur her or even cut the scene out entirely. Using amateur photoshop techniques, they brought out the colour of her dress more, making it less see-through which did cover the nipples up. However the result made it unintentionally more sex appealing. Because the colour was brought out more, mixed with the blur it made Amy's tits look so big that they were stretching out the fabirc. Goes to show, that even my big picture theory in my previous rant applies to even something as simple as censorship in movies and television. Then there's the third version of Edit Censorship. One worthy of the name. Now, it's common practice for TV to edit movies. Not just for censorship, but also to save time as well as work around the scheduled commercials. However what sucks about it for any reason, it often cuts off the best parts. My favourite example, being Jaws the Revenge. In the original movie, the Shark met it's end when Ellen and Michael work together. He uses an electric device to make it surface and Ellen impales the shark on the bow of the ship. But because the shot was too gory, they edited heavily by making the shark explode the second the tip hit it. That's just a minor example. In horror and action movies, we don't even see what kills someone and rarely see the hero's/heroine's reaction to it. They just cut it out and move on. It seems though is I'm not the only one that hates this kind of Censorship. Long before Fox was owned by Disney, there was a little show called MadTV. A sketch comedy show based on the popular Mad Magazine. They had a sketch based on the hit TV show The Sopranos. The main punchline of the joke is that it was shown on the Pax Network. A fundamentalist Christian TV Channel that heavily censors their stuff. So naturally a 50 minute show like Sopranos. Which is full of violence, coarse language, sexuality and so on, would only be on for a few minutes. But don't take my word for it. See for yourself. However the worst is yet to come.
  4. Dub censorship. My most hated one of all. Dub Censorship is where rather than beep it or replace with an altered scene or even muting it out. They dub any swear word or slur with a different, less offensive word. The key examples being replacing "Fuck" with "Screw". Censoring is bad enough but what they use for the dubs is worse. Most of the time in order to keep us watching they would use stock words used by the actor talking at the time. Other times, the censors themselves dub over it. Not even using a convincing enough voice and it throws people out of the initial immersion of it. The most hilariously bad example "Die Hard 2: Die Harder" In the end McClane causes a fuel leak on a terrorist's airplane, creating a line of gas and allowing John to blow it up with his Zippo. Now as we all know, the original line was "Yippee Kie Yay Motherfucker." However when I first saw this on TBS they changed it to "Yippee KIe Yay Mr. Falcon." Now that I'm older and hear the line again, I know that's not Bruce Willis and since then people have made fun of it in many ways, from that shitty Alvin movie having Alvin replace it with "Mammacita" to Donald fucking Duck himself saying the Falcon version in the new Duck Tales. Even Bruce Willis himself had his own when he was in a fist fight with Stephen Colbert. To this day I had no fucking clue who Mr. Falcon was, it wasn't the main bad guys. It's not on the side of the Airplane blown up. So WHO!!? However that one is peanuts compared to the example I will now say. A hybrid between this and the Self Censorship one. The Big Lebowski. Now you gotta give the Cohen Brothers some credit. Like many other genius writers, they knew ahead of time that Big Lebowski was gonna be censored 8 ways from sunday. So to beat them at their own game, they had John Goodman, Jeff Bridges and the other cast members not just dub their own censored swearing, but dub it with as many nonsensical words as they can. The most prominent being when Goodman's character Walter smashes up a car he thinks belonged to a kid that stole the ransom money they had in their own car. The original line is "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass." The censored lines? The legendary "Find a Stranger In The Alps" Followed by in the same scene "Feed a stoner scrambled eggs." It's one thing to censor dub something it's another when the dubs you use, make a crazy character look even crazier.


So in conclusion, with the exception of certain things that should be censored at all cost, (You know what they are and you know who likes that shit.) censorship is a huge crock of shit. If you don't want your kids watching stuff you think is gonna scar them or have them imitate it, there are simple rules to follow:

  1. Change the Channel or shut it off. You have parental control you lazy fucks. Use it. Half the problem isn't the TV itself it's you expecting it to be their babysitter. If you take offence to this, then you proved me right.
  2. Find Mister Rogers Neighborhood. There's episodes on the differences between fiction and reality that are filmed in a way that educates both kids and adults on it, without them feeling stupid about them. One particular episode being when Fred had to step in when he heard some kids tried to fly like Superman.
  3. Read the first 2 rules.


Now if this goes unheeded and people insist on censorship Even doubling down on Dub Censorship at least do it right. Hire the actors if they are still alive or a very good sound alike and use words that would fit in with characters they play. Case in point Pulp Fiction. This is how I would do Jules killing Brett.

Jules: What does Marsellus Wallace look like?

Brett: What?

Juiles: What country are you from?

Brett: What?

Jules: Do they speak English in What?

Brett: What?

Jules: English Melon Farmer do you speak it!?

Brett: Yes!!

Jules: Then describe what Marsellus Wallace looks like?

Brett: What?

Jules: SAY WHAT AGAIN! SAY WHAT AGAIN!! I DARE YOU, I DOUBLE DARE YOU MOTHER TRUCKER!!! SAY WHAT ONE MORE GOSH DARN TIME!!

Brett: He's black.

Jules: Go on.

Brett: He's Bald.

Jules: Does he look like a fish?

Brett: WHAT!?

Jules: DOES HE LOOK LIKE A FISH!!!

Brett: No.

Jules: Then why you trying to catch him like a fish?

Brett: I didn'...

Jules: Yes you did. Yes you did, you tried to catch him. But Marsellus Wallace don't like to be caught by anybody except Mrs. Wallace.

*THE FOLLOWING SCENE HAS BEEN EDITED OUT SO THAT BOTH CHRISTIANS AND NON-CHRISTIANS* (Let's face it, as more things are considered offensive SLJ would get as much flack for quoting the bible as he does for well everything else.)


Point being, use words that would make sense for characters to use if they're being censored. It won't ruin the immersion. Other than that I only have one thing to say to every Network Censor in the world. FUCK YOU.


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