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HAmbONE posted:That's got to be it! The moment I saw the ship's "head" I knew it had to be that. No memory whatsoever though of the Punk Pirates and yellow anteater things but everything else matches. The pirates always sang this song whenever they appeared, see if it rings any bells  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtBWrAiWBLc
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For a long time I wondered why I had such fond memories of Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea but then basically no memories of things like, you know, the plot, or those pirates. I eventually realized that Spartakus came on Nickelodeon just as I was finished eating breakfast in the morning, so I probably used to watch the intro for the awesome music and then run out the door to walk to school. And just made up what the show must have been like. Nice
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The pirates always sang this song whenever they appeared, see if it rings any bells LoL YouTube wants me to sign in because this has “content that may be offensive to some viewers” After you posted, I found and watched this informative show: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGAOP82hb4M Still no memory of the pirates or yellow things but certain images of the Arkania (sp?) world solidified that this is the one. Specifically one of the world floating in nothing with energy rings.
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Oct 1, 2020 07:15
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way back in the mid-1990s, at the Discovery Channel Store in Mall of America, I remember seeing a prominent display of blind-box rings that cost upwards of a hundred dollars. The idea was that each ring was one of unique pair, and that the company never repeated a design for a pair. You'd get the ring and with it, have access to a website where you'd input a code. If anyone around the world got your ring's match, it would alert you on the site. Did I hallucinate this?
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Oct 7, 2020 19:20
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I remember reading a horror short story in an anthology probably some time in the late 90s, possibly Australian but most likely American or British in origin. A little girl is told by her parents to go to bed because they're having some friends/colleagues over for a dinner party. The little girl begrudgingly goes upstairs and talks with her not-so-imaginary friend, who i remember being a tall man. She wants to know what the adults get up to at a dinner party, so the man takes her "behind" the walls into a space where she can look into the rest of the house, but no-one else can see her. While there, she sees her parents the way they are actually interacting with their friends, as well as seeing them as monstrous caricatures revealing their inner thoughts and desires, tearing each other to pieces, lying from one mouth and speaking the truth through another, groping one another when they're secretly having an affair, that sort of thing. In the end the tall man asks the little girl if, now that she knows what grown-ups are like, she still wants to go back to the real world. The girl says no, and instead she and the tall man walk hand-in-hand away from the house to dimensions unknown. This has been driving me bananas for years now.
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Oct 7, 2020 21:37
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Old call from a tech support company I heard around 1999. It was a lady on the phone screaming at a supervisor because the prior tech had helped her boyfriend format her computer which erased her college thesis. I specifically remember here screaming “I WANT HIM DEAD!! NOWWWWWW!!!”. It was hilarious and I’d love to listen to it agin.
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Oct 9, 2020 01:16
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I remember several years ago there was a funny video about two guys (played by the same actor, I think?) playing piano, and they all looked so smug and showing off their piano playing to each other, only to have one character playing switch to another character playing, and they kept complimenting each other saying "Nice fake out." They played various video game tunes like Metroid and Sonic.
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Oct 10, 2020 05:08
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That sounds like it could be a Daniel Thrasher sketch https://www.youtube.com/c/danielthrasher/videos Maybe anything here rings a bell ?
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Oct 11, 2020 11:59
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Crosspost from Trump LOL thread: I've been searching for a copy of "The Spirit and Purpose of the People of Praise," which is the 1971 handbook for the crazy cult Amy Coney Barrett belongs to. I am usually pretty good at tracking down obscure books in one form or another, but I cannot find this one anywhere. Even online references to it are rare. Not on Amazon or ebay either. Weird. I did find two issues of their newsletter, "Vine & Branches":  https://fliphtml5.com/waov/cpst/basic  http://online.fliphtml5.com/kfrj/vejl/#p=1 Anyway, if anyone happens to come across any more People of Praise texts, please share. I will continue my search...
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Oct 13, 2020 18:59
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Does anyone have a copy of Awful Fantasy 3? Was thinking about that when I read that Taco died but the hack patch thing is no longer hosted on the front page.
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Oct 13, 2020 19:05
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Trying to find an old video game. This was circa 2000 or so, and it was a MTG style online card game set in a post apocalyptic/cyberpunk setting. You had cards belonging to a bunch of different factions like the former USA or some weird mutant monastery etc
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I think there’s a thread in the book whatever for short stories but here goes: From a horror story analogy it’s a story told in either a time line from pictures or postcards (it must be pictures). It’s of an expedition to I want to say west of Turkey or near the Cacaus. Anyway as it continues to describe the pictures of the expedition it of course begins to go south. The end is a brief explanation of the circumstances and whatnot. Anyway that’s been driving me nuts for years and I’ve perused many books and never glimpsed it.
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Oct 14, 2020 04:33
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Grimoire posted:Trying to find an old video game. This was circa 2000 or so, and it was a MTG style online card game set in a post apocalyptic/cyberpunk setting. You had cards belonging to a bunch of different factions like the former USA or some weird mutant monastery etc There's a thread about finding vaguely remembered video games in the Retro Games subforum: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3915120&pagenumber=4
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Oct 14, 2020 05:31
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Those unique rings sound absolutely like a Discovery Channel store product. No luck finding any evidence of them though.Gutter Phoenix posted:Anyway, if anyone happens to come across any more People of Praise texts, please share. I will continue my search... https://web.archive.org/web/20190128160311/https://peopleofpraise.org/thevine/ has a bunch of direct links to newsletters; I haven't checked how many are available but if you go to https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.peopleofpraise.org/* and filter by "application/pdf" it looks like a decent amount got saved. Using the latter link is a complete list but downloading each one will take longer so it's more annoying. I doubt there'll be anything interesting but hey. dirty shrimp money posted:Does anyone have a copy of Awful Fantasy 3? Was thinking about that when I read that Taco died but the hack patch thing is no longer hosted on the front page. Delving into the Internet Archive yet again: https://web.archive.org/web/20170725191448/http://magic.samods.org/awfulfantasy1_3.zip seems to work, I get a zip file with no malware warnings and sensible contents. I haven't tried to run it though.
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ElectricBlizzard posted:That sounds like it could be a Daniel Thrasher sketch https://www.youtube.com/c/danielthrasher/videos Not quite. I just remember the character having slick hair, sunglasses, and a mustache and always talking with a smooth and smug voice. It might've been an old College Humor video, at least 5+ years ago? EDIT: Oh dang, I just found it. Man, my memory was way off. They were played by separate actors, there were no sunglasses, and the video is at least 10 years old! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sYQeIO6Wyg Yoshi Jjang fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Oct 14, 2020 |
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Oct 14, 2020 07:38
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Crosspost from Trump LOL thread: For what it's worth, someone on Daily Kos posted some pictures of pages. It may be a good idea to save them in case they get DMCAd.
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Oct 14, 2020 18:58
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It's a japanese map (tokyo, kyoto, or maybe japan itself???) of some sort of stations (train or subway I think). The twist is that the stations are represented by adorable cats. I can't find it anywhere, and am slowly losing my mind.
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IAmThatIs posted:It's a japanese map (tokyo, kyoto, or maybe japan itself???) of some sort of stations (train or subway I think). The twist is that the stations are represented by adorable cats. I can't find it anywhere, and am slowly losing my mind. One I can answer! Its called 'Cats Suggested as the Fifty Three Stations of the Tokaido' and is indeed full of adorable cats!
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I just found this thread and haven't read through it so I have no idea if someone else has asked about this. Back in the early 2000s, maybe, I remember seeing a series of videos featuring incredibly realistic (for the time) CGI "ufos." They were not made by a professional company (I think), just some guy who edited them into existing video of people walking around and staying up at the sky There were either several videos or one or two videos with several different kinds of ships. I feel like they were supposed to be a kind of portfolio of the guy's CGI skills.
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I'm not expecting anyone to be familiar with this because I was a weird rear end kid who spent my childhood reading every book about cryptids I could find, but this one has been in the back of my head forever. There was this book I borrowed from the library just one time that was a sort of monster encyclopedia possibly from the 80's or 70's and I remember it having big, full color pictures. Two have stuck with me forever: The first picture was a painting of a car with panicked teens staring out the window at mothman, who was flying low next to the car. I remember the mothman looked a lot like Arthur from The Tick. The other picture was of this hosed up looking monster that looked vaguely like the gremlin on the side of the bus from that one Treehouse of Horror episode, only human sized and with a really long tail with blades on the end. I remember it was a side shot of it sort of peering at people through some jungle trees next to a river. The story about it was that it was captured and put into a ship's hold but then it escaped into the jungle after the ship crashed or something like that and it talked about how violent the monster was. I really hope someone remembers this book because I really want to see it again.
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The Mothman pictures rings a bell for me, and there are a few different pictures that match that description if you google "Mothman car illustration", but none of them seem right. The second picture, I have no clue.
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ZoeDomingo posted:I just found this thread and haven't read through it so I have no idea if someone else has asked about this. https://youtu.be/nx5ygSXsVl0 Haiti is the big one I remember from that ballpark time period.
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Biff Rockgroin posted:I'm not expecting anyone to be familiar with this because I was a weird rear end kid who spent my childhood reading every book about cryptids I could find, but this one has been in the back of my head forever. HelloIAmYourHeart posted:The Mothman pictures rings a bell for me, and there are a few different pictures that match that description if you google "Mothman car illustration", but none of them seem right. This isnt so much ringing bells as being the clapper inside a church bell. I think I know both the images you're talking about, I need to see if I still have the book. It had a segment on scape ore swamp as well if I'm remembering correctly
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Captain Hygiene posted:https://youtu.be/nx5ygSXsVl0 Captain Disillusion breaks down that video: https://youtu.be/lLRbTtd8IKM
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Bloopsy posted:Captain Disillusion breaks down that video: I almost just linked that one instead because it's pretty fun too.
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The lol gently caress lowtax thread and I still has not figured out some forums history. So maybe I can get some luck here. Who was the goon admin a year or maybe two ago who stuck a thread in GBS about how he lost his job as a contractor and how he was going to help code the forums because he had free time and was able to. Goons donated to him to help pay for the work he was gonna do but I remember he got a lot and quickly bailed. Who was this guy?
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Katamari Democracy posted:The lol gently caress lowtax thread and I still has not figured out some forums history. So maybe I can get some luck here. Chooch?
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Sir Not Appearing posted:Chooch? I wish I could just throw some examples. If I saw his avatar I would probably snap my fingers and say "THATS HIM"! But I am about to start my dive into archives because its driving me nuts. He gave people plat icons if you donated to him. Which is how I got mine.
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Found the correct answer.The White Dragon posted:zdr made a thread about like Donate To The Forums where he accepted a total of a couple g's in donations, in exchange for a custom plat icon of your choice.
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Oh huh, I actually remember seeing this thread and contemplating donating to him but then being like "we live in a hellscape where everyone will be unemployed and without health insurance soon, him having skills and getting some donations might make him better off than many" https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3877293 Surprisingly he posted a few times after disappearing from that thread, but yes, Zen Death Robot was never seen again after February 2019
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Trying to find a short animation about sonic the hedgehog. All i can remember for sure is that it contains this exchange: Tails: "Sonic! Robotnik punched me in the butthole!" Sonic: "Tails, that's the worst thing I've ever heard!"
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uvar posted:Those unique rings sound absolutely like a Discovery Channel store product. No luck finding any evidence of them though. Yond Cassius posted:For what it's worth, someone on Daily Kos posted some pictures of pages. Thank you both!
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Captain Hygiene posted:https://youtu.be/nx5ygSXsVl0 Yeah, that looks like some of the ufos I remember. In the videos I'm remembering, they were a lot closer, or maybe they were smaller, like drones? And right above people's heads, or at maybe the height of power lines? They were also moving more slowly. But I do remember the Haiti one as well. Bloopsy posted:Captain Disillusion breaks down that video: Thank you! This is great!
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AFistfulOfBitcoins posted:One I can answer! Thank you very much!!
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I found another UFO video similar to the Haiti one. The first UFO is similar to what I remember. This one was done by a guy who did Hollywood effects, and apparently everything in the video is CGI, according to an article from the NY Daily News. They're still not exactly the one I am thinking of, but it's getting closer.
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Biff Rockgroin posted:There was this book I borrowed from the library just one time that was a sort of monster encyclopedia possibly from the 80's or 70's and I remember it having big, full color pictures. Two have stuck with me forever:
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FilthyImp posted:Sounds like one of those Mysteries of the Unknown books http://twoheadedthingies.blogspot.com/2013/10/monster-monster.html has pictures of the Monster edition but there's nothing matching the image descriptions. The knight fighting the worm on page 10 is pretty hardcore though. Edit: this is not Mysteries of the Unknown, that's a different series! My mistake. uvar fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Oct 18, 2020 |
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Grimoire posted:Trying to find an old video game. This was circa 2000 or so, and it was a MTG style online card game set in a post apocalyptic/cyberpunk setting. You had cards belonging to a bunch of different factions like the former USA or some weird mutant monastery etc Armageddon Empires (2007)? http://www.crypticcomet.com/games/AE/armageddon_empires.html
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uvar posted:The knight fighting the worm on page 10 is pretty hardcore though. Good lord I haven't seen that picture since the second grade, some 35 ish years ago and I still remember all those gross cuts in the things neck. 
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uvar posted:http://twoheadedthingies.blogspot.com/2013/10/monster-monster.html has pictures of the Monster edition but there's nothing matching the image descriptions. The knight fighting the worm on page 10 is pretty hardcore though. I was thinking this https://www.amazon.com/dp/0809463326/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_DM6IFbQ2C18RE
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