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I've been trying to find an adventure game that I got on a MacAddict demo disc in the late 1990s. It was one of those games where you typed in commands like "look north," "search desk" and had black-and-white Manhole-style graphics. The plot was something like, you wake up in your house to go about your normal day, but weird stuff happens. I distinctly remember that you could encounter Busta Rhymes and if you got into combat with him, he would blow weed smoke in your face and you would lose health. You could also encounter an alien. There were a lot of games like this, but only one with the weird Busta Rhymes weed smoke combat.
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:I sort of found it. I used to read those when they were originally printed as short stories in Analog magazine, I remember being excited when the book collecting them all together came out. I still have a few of those issues floating around: 
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Aug 5, 2019 13:49
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LL_Ghoul_J posted:
Quoting myself because I was able to find the commercial and wanted to share it in case others remembered it too. There was no kid saying “California, Palm Springs,” so that’s a completely different commercial to find now, but here’s the main commercial I was looking for https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cYkxHa1n7Cg&feature=youtu.be
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Aug 5, 2019 14:01
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redreader posted:There's a shoot 'em up game I played in the late 80's or early 90's and I've gone through entire lists of games and never found it. It's not 1942 or raiden or anything like that. Major Stryker?
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Aug 5, 2019 14:13
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Oh gently caress I thought of one. I was on a long distance drive and while bored out of my skull started scanning the radio channels. I want to say this was on some NPR station because who else would do this but there was a narrator telling a story about a spy who was under cover in the soviet union and falling in love with another spy. It sounds cheesy but it was a really compelling love story and I think I lost reception or something happened that I wasn't able to hear how the story ended. This was probably around 2008-2011. The key component was that the guy's handler knew he was in a sexual relationship and was coaching him on not falling in love and the guy was telling himself he wasn't while he actually was.
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Aug 5, 2019 14:20
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I've been trying to find this mythology book from when I was a kid. I remember it was a larger format book, not very long at all. The appeal was the monsters were done in a very formal style that was wholly different from every other mythology book I read back then. The cover was grey/silver and had a kraken in the center. The weird thing is that this version of a kraken was reptilian (obviously it didn't have the port hole frame): I've managed to find a picture of a manticore as well:  Aside from these images, the only other thing I can distinctly remember about it is that there was a picture of a dragon where it was built like a sauropod: massive heavy body and extremely long neck. Edit: Just remembered this one! It was on public television in Maryland (so unsure if MPT-specific or PBS-hosted), but it was a show where they would take short stories and illustrate them live. The one I remember is a kid and their friend have a bully. One day the friend has enough and bites the bully in the hand. Bully lets them go and yells at them. Pulchritudinous fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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Aug 5, 2019 14:21
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I have two. In order of importance. A Korean pop song that I heard on a flight back in 2002, in which they combined Informer and Part Time Lover about as badly as you'd expect. Let me be clear: they didn't combine something that sounded similar to Informer and Part Time Lover. They actually combined Informer and Part Time Lover. Also, in 2002, I saw a movie(maybe series) on TV that was about the American Civil War, except it had magic. I saw this in my hotel room in South Africa, so I don't remember that station or have any information on it. It seemed to be made in the US.
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Aug 5, 2019 14:37
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Pulchritudinous posted:I've been trying to find this mythology book from when I was a kid. I remember it was a larger format book, not very long at all. The appeal was the monsters were done in a very formal style that was wholly different from every other mythology book I read back then. The cover was grey/silver and had a kraken in the center. The weird thing is that this version of a kraken was reptilian (obviously it didn't have the port hole frame): ???  Edit: looks like these books were released in the US under the "Time Life: Mysteries of the Unknown" banner. Is this the dragon you remember? 
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Aug 5, 2019 14:44
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:??? YES THAT'S IT! Thank-you!!
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Aug 5, 2019 15:27
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Pulchritudinous posted:YES THAT'S IT! Thank-you!! There's 33 books in the series but I think this is the one that has those pictures (although I'm not 100% sure)  It's also entirely possible that they just grabbed those few illustrations from some other book
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Aug 5, 2019 15:34
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It's also entirely possible that they just grabbed those few illustrations from some other book True, but then this book ought to have credits for the images/other books, in which case I can use that. Still, this is the best find I've gotten looking for this, so I'm chalking this up as "whale found." I really appreciate you digging around.
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Aug 5, 2019 15:50
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Riptor posted:Was it his old announcer Joel Goddard? They used to use him in sketches quite a bit on late night Nope. I absolutely loved Joel Goddard and would have remembered that. It was definitely a clip they stole from an old movie or something.
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Aug 5, 2019 15:53
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There's 33 books in the series but I think this is the one that has those pictures (although I'm not 100% sure)
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I have a few. 1. Novel I read in the 1990s. Set in the world of ancient Arabia. A Persian girl dresses as a boy to go travelling to find her parents who went missing while going on haj. She has a magical stone harp? that takes her on supernatural, or fairy tale inspired adventures. I think she married a woman at some point. The wife is a widow who is happy her new husband can't get her pregnant? At some point she time travels into the future. I think she ends up in present day New York. (OK, at the time present day). She wanders around inside "A tall, hollowed out mountain, with long, even corridors, where the floors are colourful as flowers and softer than any grass" at night, and meets a janitor who is a Muslim. He greets her with an Islamic prayer, and she is really disappointed when it turns out that is the only Arabic he knows. Also, the janitor feeds her "frozen vanilla pudding on a stick from a magical cabinet". The author's name was something like Lori Lee, or Maria May. Definitely was same initials in first and last name. 2. Short sci-fi story I read in an anthology. Must have been written around 1980. The military is researching teleportation, and a soldier is chosen as test subject. Teleportation works, but someone thinks that for an instant there are two soldiers. They keep teleporting the soldier back and forth inside a gym. Turns out that during the teleport a clone is created. But the original dissolves almost immediately. At least at first. Because with each teleport the original lasts a fraction of a second longer. Soon they are able to talk to the original for a few minutes. One day the soldier disappears during the teleport. The original grins and dissolves. Next day the solider calls from Paris. "I got bored, and figured out how to teleport at will. Taking a holiday!" Soon clones start popping up everywhere. Each clone is able to teleport, and so more and more clones are made. The clones are becoming a problem. In South Africa Apartheid is ended when everyone agrees that skin colour doesn't matter so long as you can kill clones. The Vatican issues a ruling saying it is every Catholic's duty to kill clones. The KKK and Black Panthers team up to go clone hunting. At the same time you have clones starting a symphony orchestra. Israeli and Palestinian adopted clones declare war on each other. Clones soon outnumber other humans, and population is completely out of control. Ends with the last non-clone dying in Romania. 3. A British show for children. Live action movies of stories from mythology. I remember one where there was a prisoner of some sort who could save the life of his child (The child was going to sacrificed to some monster) if he could thread a fine thread through all the windings of a large snail shell. He solved it by dripping honey into the shell until it dripped out of a hole at the very top. Then he tied string to an ant, and let the ant eat the honey. The ant ate all the way, and pulled the string with it.
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My Lovely Horse posted:wait poo poo now that's a cover design I remember, but from German books. My hometown library had eight or nine of those. Yeah they were called Geheimnisse des Unbekannten over there
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Aug 5, 2019 16:31
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have anybody said girlfriend yet? lol.
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Rex-Goliath posted:Oh gently caress I thought of one. I was on a long distance drive and while bored out of my skull started scanning the radio channels. I want to say this was on some NPR station because who else would do this but there was a narrator telling a story about a spy who was under cover in the soviet union and falling in love with another spy. It sounds cheesy but it was a really compelling love story and I think I lost reception or something happened that I wasn't able to hear how the story ended. This was probably around 2008-2011. The key component was that the guy's handler knew he was in a sexual relationship and was coaching him on not falling in love and the guy was telling himself he wasn't while he actually was. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/337/man-vs-history/act-two
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There was a personal website of a mentally ill person's art from the early 2000s I've tried to find for years. It likely no longer exists due to his mental illness and hosting fees, but his art was phenomenal albeit incredibly morbid. I remember one of his paintings was of hellish landscape that was inspired by his art studio/apartment being accidentally set ablaze due to him keeping violatile paints and paint thinners everywhere. I hope the artist is doing alright.
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EDIT: I was efb'd on the first page. 
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CheeseThief posted:Robert Sheckley's Status Civilization: Great to see someone mention Robert Sheckley! He was one of my favorite writers when I first started reading books in English as a teen. My dad had all these American sci-fi paperbacks that he had collected when he was young. I have the book, but it was probably 25 years since I read it. Checked the last page, and it is indeed the guy smashing a mirror. One reason that you could have thought there was more is that a common edition also has the novel Mindswap. This is what my copy looks like: 
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Aug 5, 2019 19:33
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It's a short film released in the mid 2000s called "e people", an orwellian story following a worker in a factory that just makes the letter e.
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Aug 5, 2019 19:37
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The Human Crouton posted:I have two. In order of importance. 1. JTL - Long Time Lover
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Pastry of the Year posted:This might be The Badlands of Hark: THANK YOU SO MUCH
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There's 33 books in the series but I think this is the one that has those pictures (although I'm not 100% sure) Oh My God. I completely forgot about those books! I had about 5 that I read every morning waiting for the school bus! Now I have a new white whale! I need them all! Nevermind. Looks like they’re 10-20$ a book. Gonna let this whale get away. Robokomodo fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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Aug 5, 2019 22:57
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The Human Crouton posted:I have two. In order of importance. Quick follow-up, as I see this was already answered, but here’s the song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QL6y9aozTEY (It’s One Night Lover, though.) 
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Robokomodo posted:Oh My God. I completely forgot about those books! I had about 5 that I read every morning waiting for the school bus! Now I have a new white whale! I need them all! I bought a pristine set of all 30+ books for about $60 on ebay about 18 months ago. I hope you can do the same, because those books are ridiculous and amazing!
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Oh I just thought of one, it was a short graphic novel story, possibly part of collection, and possibly an adaptation of an older sci fi story short. Basically two guys in the military talking in the COs office, about violence and morality and all that, and the subordinate eventually reveals he's created a device which instantly rusts and disintegrates all forms of gunmetal in the vicinity. The story ends with the CO breaking off one of his chair legs and running after the guy to, presumably, club him to death to prevent the device from spreading and destroying all weapons
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The Protagonist posted:Oh I just thought of one, it was a short graphic novel story, possibly part of collection, and possibly an adaptation of an older sci fi story short. I have the print sci fi story. I had wrong info here before, but it's called A Piece of Wood. dee eight fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Aug 6, 2019 |
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Teketeketeketeke posted:1. JTL - Long Time Lover curlingiron posted:Quick follow-up, as I see this was already answered, but here’s the song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QL6y9aozTEY Holy poo poo, thank you! Looks like my nearly 20 year old memory was wrong about it actually being Informer, but this is the song.
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There was a song I heard on the last day of Burning Man 2011 on the Burning Man Radio, which was this cool techno song that used the words to "Green Eggs and Ham," and all the words were done through one of those text-to-speech computer voices. I've tried searching for this song with no luck. I just messaged their "BMIR" facebook page to see if they could help me, but I figured I may as well check and see if any of you guys might know anything about this song
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Slightly Absurd posted:There was a song I heard on the last day of Burning Man 2011 on the Burning Man Radio, which was this cool techno song that used the words to "Green Eggs and Ham," and all the words were done through one of those text-to-speech computer voices. Is it this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Pe_tky0Ig Bloodfart McCoy posted:DOS and Windows 3.1 was on our first family computer we got back in the early 90’s. It had a few games on it that rocked. A long shot, but perhaps you're thinking of Captain Comic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZW0A3zFUTU a dmc delorean fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Aug 6, 2019 |
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Aug 6, 2019 10:39
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This is a longshot, but it's a music video or an animation set to a pre-existing song, possibly pixel art, that features a sunny beach town that has been wrecked by some kind of Lovecraft-y apocalypse. I'm pretty sure I didn't dream this.
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Thanks for trying, but nope, that's not it.
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One is a song, which I'm 90% sure is called Enter The Sandman, and the artist name is also Enter the Sandman. Or at least it was titled that way when I saw it on YT. The song itself is a dreamy and weird remix of 'Wonderful Baby' by Don McLean. I can't find it because it's such a common phrase, and the artist/song name I think is duplicated. It has sub 1k viewers on YT when I first heard it on YT like 10+ years ago. The other is a children's picture book, this might be easier to find, but I can't find it because the details I know are too generic to search with. The opening part of it is a gradual zooming in on a...skeleton family? And it's phrased in a way like "In a dark, dark town, down a dark, dark street, is a dark, dark house..." etc. Or something like that. The art is predominantly black/white/yellow and maybe dark blue or something? Like, black is the primary palette. My memory of this is super vague but I'm pretty sure it's real. And it ends with panning out in the same fashion.
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Jeza posted:The other is a children's picture book, this might be easier to find, but I can't find it because the details I know are too generic to search with. The opening part of it is a gradual zooming in on a...skeleton family? And it's phrased in a way like "In a dark, dark town, down a dark, dark street, is a dark, dark house..." etc. Or something like that. The art is predominantly black/white/yellow and maybe dark blue or something? Like, black is the primary palette. My memory of this is super vague but I'm pretty sure it's real. And it ends with panning out in the same fashion. Funnybones by Janet & Allan Ahlberg?
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Yeah, that's Funnybones
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Telemaze posted:Funnybones by Janet & Allan Ahlberg? Yep! That's the one. Thank you skeleton poster. quote:In a dark, dark town there was a dark, dark street
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I posted this in the Identify A Movie For Me thread last year. Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:I'm gonna ask for another one. It was suggested that I was looking for the Tales From The Darkside episode A New Lease On Life but this isn't it. Here's a reply that shed some more light on it that I'd forgotten until just now. SolarFire2 posted:I can't tell you the source but I remember very clearly that the hotel/apt. complex/building the story was set in was called the Saint George. I only know this because this was on TV when my family was on a road trip staying at a motel in St. George, Utah. I always remembered the coincidence. E: nevermind the second post, the Saint George lead was back to A New Lease On Life. Kosmo Gallion fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Aug 6, 2019 |
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Captain Splendid posted:Yeah, that's Funnybones It also got a TV series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZYsUOZmRwM
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