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food court bailiff posted:i am like 99% sure that thread got Actual Memoryholed because of chessex intervention didn't it come back after the goon (presumably) got fired?
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There was a paddle ball game I played on Windows in the early 2000s. You just bounced a ball from the bottom the the screen and tried to keep it up. There was a disembodied hand holding the paddle and you could do tricks like flip the paddle to increase your score. I think you could also customize the paddle. Searching for "paddle ball" gets me a thousand Breakout clones and that's not the type of game it was. No bricks. Just playing keep-it-up with a ball and paddle.
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Jul 14, 2020 23:31
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Kierena posted:Chessex borealis clear dice to go with the D20 someone gave me as a birthday present. I’ve never seen any other outside of an ID guide online. I don’t know how much you want to pay for dice, but these look like a reasonable approximation.
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Jul 15, 2020 01:04
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If you want cool dice, in all seriousness, go check out AliExpress. Every material, every color, every pattern, and half of them glow in the dark. I nearly spent waaaayyyy too much money, as it was I hosed off with a set of astrology dice and a bunch of those i-ching symbols on some D6es. Dunno what I'll do with them, but I bet it'll be deeply shameful.
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Jul 15, 2020 01:18
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So as an outsider I am only left to interpret that from both their risk to the currency and their ability to remove entire threads from SA that chessex the dice company is rivalled only by the Rothschilds and Vladamir Putin in exerting global power. Good for them. Shame that they probably killed Louis Zocchi for exposing the secrets of over tumbled dice and sprue trim inconsistency, but thank god they chose only to take out Lou, and not everyone that watched his dicey rants to keep the Chessex cabal on top.
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uvar posted:One question comes to mind, how did he listen to them? Did the typical Norwegian home have something that could play these tapes (weird answering machines or perhaps some Teddy Ruxpin knockoff), did they use an adapter to fit in a normal tape player, ...? Though unless that really narrows it down I don't know that I'd have any suggestions that didn't get mentioned in the Techmoan video. That's a good question, and he honestly can't remember; it's been a while and he was very young. Some sort of "stuff cassette in, press one of the few button" device that he has no idea where came from. An no, this rings no bells: I'm five years older and from another end of the country, and to the best of my knowledge our library only had normal cassettes. Calling the library - or mailing, so they can pass it around internally - sounds like a good idea. I'll take a look at the format one of you posted a picture of.
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Jul 15, 2020 03:30
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Dr. Quarex posted:By "silly" do you mean "exaggerated accent?" I think brief forums star Futhman did a rendition of this with his native Bangladeshi accent, as I remember that going through my head all the time about a decade ago. I do not have it, but I still occasionally talk to him, if that might be the one, and I could ask if he had it. Yes that 100% HAS to be it. I wanted to say it was with an accent, but couldn't put a finger on what kind. Please let me know if he finds it!
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Jul 16, 2020 05:10
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I remember listening to an amiga .mod tracker file that I thought had come bundled with Audio Overload, a video game audio emulator, but haven't been able to find since. I do not remember downloading the file but it appeared in the Audio Overload library. Maybe I could dig it up on an old HDD. I seem to remember the name having something to do with orbs or halloween. Onion? Haunted? Haunting? Pumpkin? i think the filename was just one word and then the .mod extension. I really feel like it was haunted.mod or something, but I can't seem to make search engines include the punctuation
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Jul 17, 2020 02:08
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huh okay it was either this https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=44954 or this https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=35400
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Jul 17, 2020 02:16
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Ok someone has to explain a bit more about what sordid secrets the chessex dice company is protecting. I just need a couple more tsps of context. That's my new white whale.
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Jul 17, 2020 05:06
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CommonShore posted:Ok someone has to explain a bit more about what sordid secrets the chessex dice company is protecting. I just need a couple more tsps of context. This made DnDers and tabletop folks short circuit because WHAT IF THIS BATCH IS BAD AGGGHHHH
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Jul 17, 2020 05:26
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I couldn't believe that thread. Some people were losing it that dice weren't held to a useless standard of randomness
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Jul 17, 2020 06:12
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There was one specific guy in that thread who was relentlessly calling out the poster for being too vague/dismissive of his concerns about the dice's engineered randomness. Something tells me that guy also reported him to ChessexTeketeketeketeke posted:Coming in to say that that sounds amazing; please do! el fikus posted:Yes that 100% HAS to be it. I wanted to say it was with an accent, but couldn't put a finger on what kind. Please let me know if he finds it! https://www.mboxdrive.com/zza_feat._futhman_-_soundofdapolice.mp3 Now I just need to figure out who ZZA was
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Jul 18, 2020 01:21
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A little paperback book that was a advertisement for blue Nile, the diamond retailer, that was like a handbook for men. Had stuff like how to carve a turkey, how to give a massage, and of course how to pick out a diamond. Had this over a decade ago, early 2000s
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Jul 18, 2020 02:05
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Jenny Agutter posted:A little paperback book that was a advertisement for blue Nile, the diamond retailer, that was like a handbook for men. Had stuff like how to carve a turkey, how to give a massage, and of course how to pick out a diamond. Had this over a decade ago, early 2000s https://www.amazon.com/CARVE-TURKEY-BRIBE-MAITRE-DIAMOND/dp/B000ORGGHA ? Unless you mean a  copy of it?
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ishikabibble posted:https://www.amazon.com/CARVE-TURKEY-BRIBE-MAITRE-DIAMOND/dp/B000ORGGHA ? drat thanks, I had no idea what the title was after all this time
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Jul 18, 2020 02:14
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There was this browser game I think I found on here a long time ago, it was 8 bit art but pretty nice for the time, and you were an orb or ball or something, and you would explore this world and gain capabilities (being another colored orb), unlocking new areas, etc. It was charming.
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Jul 18, 2020 12:33
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I’ve been trying to find some good pictures of HBO series ROME character Marc Antony’s serpent tattoo for frigging ages. Has anyone found some?
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Jul 18, 2020 13:48
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amechanicalapple posted:There was this browser game I think I found on here a long time ago, it was 8 bit art but pretty nice for the time, and you were an orb or ball or something, and you would explore this world and gain capabilities (being another colored orb), unlocking new areas, etc. It was charming. I bet it was Within a Deep Forest. It was a freeware windows game, not a browser game, but it is exactly what you described.
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obviously I hosed it posted:I’ve been trying to find some good pictures of HBO series ROME character Marc Antony’s serpent tattoo for frigging ages. Has anyone found some? This is apparently impossible to find. You're gonna have to get a screen grab I think
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Jul 18, 2020 14:40
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oh good this thread still exists, i've got three 1) a nonfiction series of books about various science topics from the 1950s(?), sort of in an encyclopedia-type deal, maybe called the World of Science or something, i remember the covers being beige and red with goldish lettering 2) a song from the late 1980s or very early 1990s, kind of electropop, the only lyrics i remember were something about "need[ing] space" 3) one more nonfiction series, a host of very thin books from the early 1990s that featured, like, cross sections of ancient Egyptian/Roman/Greek houses with lots of comic doodles and blurbs about life in those ancient cultures i fully recognize that all three of these could have been products of a fever dream of mine
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Jul 18, 2020 16:28
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sinnesloeschen posted:3) one more nonfiction series, a host of very thin books from the early 1990s that featured, like, cross sections of ancient Egyptian/Roman/Greek houses with lots of comic doodles and blurbs about life in those ancient cultures I'm pretty sure these are the books by Stephen Biesty. He did an Egypt, Rome, Greece, a collection of the "Ancient World" with all 3 of those, castles, ships, etc. Not sure about the comic doodles and stuff, but for the badass cross sections you can't beat him   EDIT: sinnesloeschen posted:1) a nonfiction series of books about various science topics from the 1950s(?), sort of in an encyclopedia-type deal, maybe called the World of Science or something, i remember the covers being beige and red with goldish lettering "The First Book Library" ?   Also, there were some sets of World Book encyclopedia with red/beige+gold lettering color schemes, but that's probably not what you're looking for... Oh, or "The Book of Popular Science" 
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Jul 18, 2020 17:46
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Teketeketeketeke posted:I'm pretty sure these are the books by Stephen Biesty. He did an Egypt, Rome, Greece, a collection of the "Ancient World" with all 3 of those, castles, ships, etc. Not sure about the comic doodles and stuff, but for the badass cross sections you can't beat him If that’s the cross section in question, we’ve got a GBS thread dedicated to them floating around iirc.
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Stephen Biesty owns, but I'm not sure that's it. Same with the science books; they were like, a beige front with a red spine -- not the World Book, I think. This thread is infuriating 
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Jul 18, 2020 18:43
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amechanicalapple posted:There was this browser game I think I found on here a long time ago, it was 8 bit art but pretty nice for the time, and you were an orb or ball or something, and you would explore this world and gain capabilities (being another colored orb), unlocking new areas, etc. It was charming. Sounds similar to a DOS game I played as a kid, Oxyd. It's not really a browser game, but you can find it playable in the browser on a bunch of sites like this: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/oxyd-1ha/play-1ha
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sinnesloeschen posted:Stephen Biesty owns, but I'm not sure that's it. Same with the science books; they were like, a beige front with a red spine -- not the World Book, I think. What about some edition of the Childcraft books? They were actually published by the same people as World Book, and some have a red/beige color scheme similar to some World Book editions. e.g.  (but there were lots of these things; GIS for endless variations) "Growing up with Science" ? From 1984, but fits vague color scheme idfk...  How It Works?    New World Library?   Hilarious volume titles... Any idea if the covers were pretty plain or had sweet science-y art on them? I'm mostly hoping one of these at least unlocks some memories of whatever it actually is Teketeketeketeke fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Jul 18, 2020 |
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sinnesloeschen posted:2) a song from the late 1980s or very early 1990s, kind of electropop, the only lyrics i remember were something about "need[ing] space" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2tHGWyupko
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CommonShore posted:Ok someone has to explain a bit more about what sordid secrets the chessex dice company is protecting. I just need a couple more tsps of context. There was a lot of stuff about how much their website sucked (it looked like it was wholesale only even though it wasn't and the only way to order was to email them) but the big thing was about the borealis dice mentioned up thread that have been discontinued due to the glitter being used in currency now.  (not sure these are the right ones, it was just what I found on imgur) The original glitter is called acqurple and they're very rare and pretty and people sell them for $$$. There's currently a seven die set on eBay for about $575 with 22 watchers. Well, it turns out that the owner of Chessex has a huge stash of these dice, like several hundred sets, and the thread was closed shortly after that was revealed. That's pretty much it. HelloIAmYourHeart fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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watching that bad movie The Old Guard reminded me of a comic I started once, I vaguely remember it being about a kid whose parents are murdered in the first issue because they are some kind of long living or immortal beings, with some kind of weird atlanean or something backstory? And then the rest of the comic I read is the kid learning to use his powers, maybe with a friend alongside? I think I remember it being pretty violent?
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So there used to be a clip on YouTube of the asteroid chase scene from Star Wars ep 4, set to the Hawaii Five-0 song. I only saw it once, and was unable to ever find it again when I tried to show my friends, even after Googling every combination of Star Wars, Millennium Falcon, Ventures, Hawaii, etc. Although admittedly I always gave up looking for it pretty quickly. It wasn't that great, but I have never been able to let it go.
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sinnesloeschen posted:oh good this thread still exists, i've got three May be David Macaulay’s architecture series: Pyramid, City, Castle, and so on.
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Dr. Quarex posted:There was one specific guy in that thread who was relentlessly calling out the poster for being too vague/dismissive of his concerns about the dice's engineered randomness. Something tells me that guy also reported him to Chessex YES THANK YOU THIS IS IT HOLY poo poo AND IT'S JUST AS AMAZING AS I REMEMBER
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el fikus posted:YES THANK YOU THIS IS IT HOLY poo poo AND IT'S JUST AS AMAZING AS I REMEMBER   
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Looking for a gif from a movie/show. The gif was popular ~13 years ago. It's two scenes: 1) an older chubby man comes dancing, bouncing down what looks like basement stairs, pumping his arms each step. The man looks very much like actor Richard Riehle, maybe in a brownish suit, unsure if it's specifically him though. 2) a wider shot in the basement. The man is dancing with a bunch of kids in the foreground. It's not a preschool, seems more like a daycare. One of the front kids is a black girl with her arms inside her shirt. It's a fun, bopping dance party. The gif would be gold, but if anyone can ID the source, I'd be very happy. Been searching for years and years.
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Jul 20, 2020 07:19
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Saved to my HD as fyaddance.gif Don't know the source.
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shadow puppet of a posted:Saved to my HD as fyaddance.gif Wowwie. Thank you so much.
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it’s from Palindromes
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The Walrus posted:watching that bad movie The Old Guard reminded me of a comic I started once, I vaguely remember it being about a kid whose parents are murdered in the first issue because they are some kind of long living or immortal beings, with some kind of weird atlanean or something backstory? And then the rest of the comic I read is the kid learning to use his powers, maybe with a friend alongside? I think I remember it being pretty violent? Been thinking about this one. I think it was drawn with a very stylized clean style, sort of like an airbrushed photoshop? I seem to recall that the main character or someone else breaks their leg in a very gruesome way near the beginning? Also I seem to recall that the main character's parents had some sort of secret human alter egos that were all he knew them as, but they were killed by two hitman type characters from their past. Basically I seem to think it was like a cross between The Boys and The Old Guard. Someone help me out please. Probably early-mid 2000s
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ProperCoochie posted:Looking for a gif from a movie/show. The gif was popular ~13 years ago. It's two scenes: 1) an older chubby man comes dancing, bouncing down what looks like basement stairs, pumping his arms each step. The man looks very much like actor Richard Riehle, maybe in a brownish suit, unsure if it's specifically him though. 2) a wider shot in the basement. The man is dancing with a bunch of kids in the foreground. It's not a preschool, seems more like a daycare. One of the front kids is a black girl with her arms inside her shirt. It's a fun, bopping dance party. Can I just say this is an incredibly accurate description
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When I was a kid, I remember we had a tape of old cartoons from I’d guess the 50’s and one of them was about babies. It was a sing-along and had a little baby head bounce across the words as the song was sung. “Oh what a beautiful baby...” I think there was also a song about sugar and spice and everything nice. I remember scenes of storks delivering babies to homes. I wanna say it was Disney, but I have no idea. I’m pregnant now and am interested in finding that old cartoon.
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