One of the nice things about running I-Mockery is that I get a ton o' great emails from people who visit the site. Most of the time, people will write in to say they liked a certain piece or to give me suggestions for future articles, and I always appreciate that kind of stuff. However, there are some emails so awful, it amazes me that these people can find their way onto the Internet. Now, I'm not one to name names, so I'm going to keep the identity of this person protected, but I just had to share this one with you guys. This person sent me an email in regards to my "I Will Beat Pacman" music video:
"I edited your pac man music video to have no swearing. I hope you don't mind, I also think your video animation kind of matches, with me editing your song. The only reason I did this, was so everyone could watch your video."
Sounds innocent enough I suppose, but then I got to thinking, "Wait a minute, I don't really remember using any real profanity in that song." As the email stated, this person created an edited version of the video which they believed that the animation was fairly well synced with the edited music. You have to see this thing to believe it. Take a look 'n listen to both versions for yourselves and tell me what you think.
-"I Will Beat Pacman" (original unedited version)
-"I Will Beat Pacman" (massacred version)
Thank fucking god this person removed words like "hell" and "goddamn" from the song. I can't believe I ever used such language before. I should be ashamed of myself. I love how instead of bleeping out the words that were deemed offensive, this person literally just deleted chunks out of the song and let it keep on playing. And look at how perfectly the video syncs up with the music now! What's that you say? Something about 30 seconds of silence at the end of the edited version while the video continues to play? Oh, that was intentional. You just don't get it. Editing is an art, and the person who did this is a goddamned Picasso.
Fathom Zero on 06/12/2008 12:56 pm
Eeeeeeeeewww.
Ridureyu (Guest) on 06/12/2008 1:41 pm
Eh, it's a matter of preference. I know that I personally am more bothered by "goddamn" than "Fuck."
Pub Lover on 06/12/2008 1:52 pm
I hope god does damn you, Ridureyu. Goddamn.
JJ_Maniac (Guest) on 06/12/2008 2:04 pm
Another causualty of involuntary censorship. Also, if someone is that easily offended by what they think is "rude", then just what are they doing on this site? I saw the original Pac-Man video and thought it was funny, so logically that guy thinks what I think is funny is rude, if that makes any sense at all.
Shane Skekel (Guest) on 06/12/2008 2:05 pm
At least his editing skills are better than the chumps who churn out YouTube Poop videos. (If you ever decide to add to your list of "Things that must be destroyed"; YouTube Poop must be included.)
JJ_Maniac on 06/12/2008 2:09 pm
Also, I like the dissapearing pants in the beginning. Somehow that's more risque than "goddamn"
Jimbob Jones (Guest) on 06/12/2008 2:25 pm
Are you kidding? The edited video is AWESOME, and way better than the original, because it taught us stuff:
1) RoG has a sporadically transparent ass. You don't see that too often, but apparently, his lower half is the equivalent of the Invisible Woman, but only occasionally. Someday, RoG, you'll have an entirely transparent ass -- count on it.
2) Lyrics to a song should be telepathic in nature -- the song hasn't been miscued, it's seeing into the future. When he started talking about the banana, even though the banana won't appear for another 10 seconds, I got chills.
3) The last part of the video is better without the music. It speaks of the quiet desperation of RoG in trying to beat the Pac.
4) Goddam and Hell are the devil's words. The fucking asshole shitbag devil. So, you damn well better fucking recognize that this shitting video is doing good by all of us. Fuck.
Pub Lover on 06/12/2008 3:08 pm
"Lyrics to a song should be telepathic in nature... ...it's seeing into the future."
The lyrics are using it's goddamn telepathy to read the goddamn mind of a goddamned psychic that predicts the godda... bannana? :eek
spencerjg on 06/12/2008 3:44 pm
It's just hilarious how screwed up it is.
Autrach Sejanoz on 06/12/2008 3:49 pm
I hate those fucktards who get offended by the words 'hell' and 'goddamn'.
RoG, I do hope that after you were done with the email, you clicked the 'Block Sender' button.
Geno (Guest) on 06/12/2008 3:52 pm
Much like abstract art, it takes someone with a clear mind and insight to explain properly. Thank you, Jimbob Jones, for clarifying this work that all may appreciate it for the masterpiece it is.
...or it could just be that this, like abstract art, is sometimes just something a lazy person put together with little-to-no effort or thought. I think I like Jimbob's interpretation of the ending better, though. Have I taken too many philosophy classes..?
JJ the Jetplane on 06/12/2008 3:55 pm
I am actually offended that this person was offended by such harmless words.
BakaGaijin on 06/12/2008 4:32 pm
Aren't the fruit stationary in Pac Man? I thought they only moved around the board in Ms Pac Man. And last I remember there are only 4 ghosts; Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde. And didn't Leia says she remembered a little about her mother? How could she remember anything if Padme died at childbirth? Our phantom editor should've fixed those, too.
Grishnak on 06/12/2008 4:45 pm
MMMMM...
Usually I wouldn't write this but... Porco dio!
I kind of think the guy who did this IS a genius... The only problem is he's a genius in the way Hitler and Stalin were geniuses... a misunderstood genius!
When is this guy gonna start editing for MTV? Ah, forget about it... I forgot there's no more music on that shitdock!
Dungeonbrownies on 06/12/2008 5:34 pm
Well, they edited the music fairly well, it kinda matches, but the problem is, theyve just overdone it a bit and forgot about the video altogether.
Ferrit on 06/12/2008 7:30 pm
Finally. At long last I'll have something to play for the Pope when he visits this weekend. Thank you unnamed prude, you've really fucking saved my ass a lot of uncomfortable sitting around and fidgeting while His Holiness sits on my couch drumming his fingers in boredom.
NES Boy (Guest) on 06/12/2008 8:12 pm
I love how he poorly edited the words out.
What should be "I'm convinced there's an ending to this game!" became "I'm convinced there's an ending to thiāame!"
Jaimas on 06/12/2008 9:19 pm
You've got to wonder about why he spent so much time and effort "fixing" this. Methinks he belongs to the same school of thought that brought us "edited" versions of Scarface wherein the Cockroach says "SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!" and it cuts right to the ending credits.
I believe I speak for most of the rest of humanity when I say this moron and his editing can go fornicate themselves with an iron stick. Fortunately for us, his attempt was a horrid failure and thus is absolutely hilarious and ripe for mockery on the internet... An I-Mockery, if you will.
Steve (Guest) on 06/12/2008 9:53 pm
Did he just censor the word "power" as in "power" pellet?
NES Boy (Guest) on 06/12/2008 10:17 pm
Did he just censor the word "power" as in "power" pellet?
No, he was trying to remove the word before it ("goddamn", of course), but he's just inept at avoiding the words around it in the process (as I cited in my example above)
mandrew (Guest) on 06/12/2008 10:23 pm
I wonder, if people find this offensive. Then why are they on here in the first place. This reminds me of people blaming certain programs on TV for messing up thier kids. If you don't want your kid to talk about violent things then TURN OFF THE GODDAMN TV and be a parent.
It's people like this that make the world a little less fun for everyone else.
NinjaRygar (Guest) on 06/12/2008 10:51 pm
Youtube Poop (classic) is one of the greatest things ever created.
Simon Love on 06/12/2008 11:47 pm
Amazing that the 'Toons with guts' logo is okay with that dude, yet the words goddamn and hell aren't.
Silver on 06/13/2008 12:26 am
It's kind of cool to see how everyone is giving their opinions about this stuff. If I have to give mine then let me tell you that if you are going to bastardize something you should at least have the decency of keeping it to yourself unless you are real sure that it EXCEEDS it's predecessor quality. You don't have to go to the authors and say "look, I improved your work for everyone to see because your original piece was offensive".
I agree with JJ_Maniac, Jaimas and mandrew. I share their point about not having any business around a site that is dedicated for making people laugh with a nice dose of ranting.
Jimbob Jones (Guest) on 06/13/2008 1:08 am
An I-Mockery, if you will...
Holy CRAP! So THAT'S where that comes from!
;-)
neoboman on 06/13/2008 2:02 am
God that was so fucking awesome. I mean the original, of course.
Doctor_Who on 06/13/2008 2:03 am
We have witnessed the defacement of a national treasure. It is too horrible for words.
Also, why does RoG's ass flicker now? It was distracting. The person who edited this video made me pay attention RoG's ass. For that they must pay.
Turrel (Guest) on 06/13/2008 3:52 am
Christianity offends me. Can we just edit that out of existence instead?
peh_ on 06/13/2008 3:54 am
The words you said in your video wound me as a Christian and Christs blood flows out of me as you go about in your sinner ways. You will one day drown in the pure blood of our savior...
Wait, I forget that I don't believe any of that crap and thought that your original was funny as shit, and that the only shame I felt was that I could never get past the third level of Pac-Man...
Blinky gets ne every time.
-RoG- on 06/13/2008 4:11 am
Until now, my skinny ass has been virtually non-existent, so I welcome my new flickering ass and I expect all of you to pay homage to it on a regular basis.
Jaimas on 06/13/2008 4:25 am
Man, I wish my ass could turn transparent. It feels like such an underachiever now, in light of -RoG-'s awesome ass-transparency skills.
LadyMage on 06/13/2008 4:56 am
ok this editor is banned from flash, and when the fuck did you use hell in that song rog? all I counted was about 6 god damns, plus I guess this moron was offended by the word ghosts too, since that did get edited out. Meh just some idiot with too little exposure to the outside world and too much time on their hands
NES Boy (Guest) on 06/13/2008 5:52 am
The word "hell" comes up at the very beginning of the "pretzel verse" if you call it that.
LordSetheris (Guest) on 06/13/2008 7:29 am
It must have been made by one of those texas polygamists.
First time out on the internet and already they are being exposed to such HORRORS as psuedo-cursing.
Angryhydralisk on 06/13/2008 10:05 am
The audio is quiet. Either way, watching the original again, I nearly pissed myself laughing. I forgot just how funny this video is.
Toggle1200 (Guest) on 06/13/2008 11:03 am
Shane Skekel, you are dead wrong.
Silver on 06/13/2008 1:27 pm
Apparently this guy not only was offended by "coarse language", but also by -RoG-'s ass, which I believe made him try to edit it out of the original video. -RoG-, you're so dirty!!!
Misty (Guest) on 06/13/2008 5:37 pm
The guy got his panties in a knot over "hell" and "goddamn"? Boy, did he come to the wrong site.
DarkfireTaimatsu on 06/14/2008 3:16 am
I fucking support profanity, bitch.
Hahahaha (Guest) on 06/14/2008 9:00 am
This, my friends, is what we call an EPIC FAIL.
The edited video of course, not the original.
The original is FUCKING awesome.
TailsCorra (Guest) on 06/14/2008 10:53 am
Maybe it's just me, but I think the only meaningful edit to video would be to replace RoG's head with that of Billy Mitchell (wearing a pepper hat).
Invisible on 06/14/2008 7:55 pm
I couldn't even watch the whole edited (re: royally F'ed up) version. It just made me want to cry.
XtinaxFan (Guest) on 06/15/2008 9:09 am
Yet again my faith in humanity is diminished just that little bit further.
Jaimas on 06/15/2008 11:03 am
Actually, it IS the textbook definition of Epic Fail: Failing so hard, it becomes humorous.
Count Mek on 06/15/2008 11:10 am
YOU SCUM! YOU SAID THE WORD "GHOST"! DDDD:
I MUST EDIT OUT RIGHT AWAY!
Yeah, I prefer the original... Veeryyy slightly more than this new abominatin of a song. D:
Kimbo Slice Sucks (Guest) on 06/15/2008 5:21 pm
I love the original Pacman Flash. That edited version is just a big piece of shit sticking out of Gary Shaw's Money Grubbing asshole
briny bill on 06/15/2008 10:50 pm
oh man thats good stuff
briny bill on 06/15/2008 10:52 pm
sorry I meant "goddamn thats funny as hell"
Desert_Screams on 06/15/2008 10:53 pm
This song-- and I'm talking about the original, gloriously profane and brilliantly deranged, of course-- was my gateway drug to the intravenous delights of i-mockery.com. A friend of mine just stumbled across it, and as anyone would do when leafing through the Necronomicon, he forwarded it to me. And ever since then I've been a junkie for the twisted mind beneath that pickle hat and Max Burbank and Proto and-- oh, goddamnit, hell, goddamnit to hell, just about everything.
So, all things considered, I'd like to thank the Church Lady for getting his Depends all a-bunchy over "I'm Gonna Beat Pac-Man," 'cos it's brought us back to talking about the greatest goddamned song in the goddamned history of the goddamned world. Rec'nize, Churchy.
Kitsunexus on 06/15/2008 11:38 pm
If the original was actually any good, this would be a tragedy. Fortunately that's not the case.
greenimp on 06/16/2008 3:00 am
oh man, i just couldent stop laughing, that was just so fukin hillarous, especially the way you were singing about pacman taking all your money, and the pretzel was flying about the screen + the bit that kept on going after the music stopped, this was the most hillarious unintentionally funny thing i've seen all month
ARMYFIREFIGHTER on 06/16/2008 3:42 pm
One word comes to mind about this "new" version:
suxor!
Kimbo Slice Sucks (Guest) on 06/17/2008 1:25 am
I hate the edited version. Makes me want to shoot up with a needle filled with bird piss and have a baby walrus drink it out the other side of my body. Fuckin' A -RoG- fuckin A. You should just post that asshole's e-mail so we can give him shit about what a pile of Gorgeous George Public Access Television Bullshit he has made. Fuck this.
ShadowedHogosha on 06/18/2008 1:39 am
The edited version makes me giggle. I never knew you could scream like that with nothing coming out becides a room full of spit. CGCGCG
Sparkster Sanjulo (Guest) on 06/22/2008 6:19 pm
the profanity nazis strike again!
0dd1 on 06/30/2008 12:01 pm
Y'know, the least he could do is take the video chunks out along with the audio, if he was gonna be so hepped-up on making your video a condom (if that makes any sense).
yelinna (Guest) on 11/01/2008 12:41 am
I downloaded the goddammed song because I LOVE IT!!!
yelinna (Guest) on 11/01/2008 12:44 am
And I also saved the goddammed pacman.swf file to my hard disc 'coz I LOVE IT TOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I want to say thanks to the page's source code :)
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