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King Possum III posted:Don't know if this qualifies as a white whale, but........ Can you try to quantify the level of turntable scratching that it involved?
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shadow puppet of a posted:Can you try to quantify the level of turntable scratching that it involved? My turntable was spinning like a 78 rpm record, but that velvety smooth feeling did no scratching. https://i.imgur.com/MMxhaP5.jpg
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Dr. Quarex posted:Hey Dr. Quarex, I got me covered; I finally both relocated that tape we taped it on and also kept my father from throwing out his old Aiwa boombox so I could play it on something, just for the purposes of this thread!!! i can't help you but i wanna thank you for posting cuz this slaps and i love it
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Jul 14, 2021 05:41
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Okay, here's one that someone will probably get instantly: A nickelodeon show, somewhere between '90 and probably '96. It was a documentary that featured a bunch of shots of the interior of a school. It was about kids/teens that suffered from, I guess, depression. Like they were suicidal or something like that. This has to be a real thing and not a dream. It was maybe? done in an all interview format.
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Jul 14, 2021 06:05
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I remember a random scene I saw once of a guy dumping several whole boxes of cereal into a giant bowl to see how long it took to collect all of the prizes inside. I feel like it was part of some educational program about how advertising is bullshit.
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Literally A Person posted:Okay, here's one that someone will probably get instantly: Are you sure it wasn't MTV's TRUE LIFE: I got the depression ?
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Literally A Person posted:Okay, here's one that someone will probably get instantly: Was it a (incredibly depressing) series, or a special? If it’s the latter, it sounds like something they might have done under the Nick News (with Linda Ellerbee!) banner - I recall them doing a special explaining the Clinton impeachment.
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Jul 14, 2021 07:03
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kntfkr posted:Are you sure it wasn't MTV's TRUE LIFE: I got the depression ? Positive it was Nick. That's the only part I'm sure about. Blue Moonlight posted:Was it a (incredibly depressing) series, or a special? If it’s the latter, it sounds like something they might have done under the Nick News (with Linda Ellerbee!) banner - I recall them doing a special explaining the Clinton impeachment. I think it was a special. The nick news thing sounds right but I don't remember anything aesthetically that would give that away.
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Jul 14, 2021 07:14
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Was it this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_(TV_series) never mind: I see you say documentary.... here's the list of 90's nick shows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1990s_Nickelodeon_original_programming fella is right, it was probably something Linda Ellerbee did kntfkr fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Jul 14, 2021 |
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Jul 14, 2021 07:24
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InediblePenguin posted:i can't help you but i wanna thank you for posting cuz this slaps and i love it And I really thought I would post this and someone would immediately be like "uhhh duh that is off Rave 'Til Dawn 3 newb" I guess now that I have a recording I could post in the No Music Discussion thread that I have inferred exists from other posts here
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Jul 14, 2021 07:26
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A webpage full of d&d stories. One of the players always plays a ninja, including playing a professor of ninja studies in a call of Cthulhu game. I think it was a tripod website.
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kntfkr posted:Was it this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_(TV_series) Okay, you got me part way there I think. It might be the segment of Nick News called Courage To Live: Kids but I can't find even a description for it. I just think that was the name.
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Courage to live kids sure sounds depressing as hell but it was about AIDS in South Africa in 2003 https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2003-12-01-0312010006-story.html oh, does anyone have alexball.jpg? it's just a still from a high school movie I did with friends where me and Alex (kyrociliani if he's still here, don't know) are peak fat little boys at 15 with dumb pants and a soccer ball is frozen slammed into Alex's crotch and I'm shrugging and look like "it's pat" - it was posted here in like 2002 and then wound up on some website and I could search "alexball.jpg" for a while and find it but then couldn't. them hard drives have long since been sold for dope or abandoned in faraway lands I forgot about it until I saw that randomwaffle thread and it knocked a whole bunch of memories loose.
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Lobotomy Bob posted:A webpage full of d&d stories. One of the players always plays a ninja, including playing a professor of ninja studies in a call of Cthulhu game. This appears to be the original posting of the story you're thinking of - https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/achy-breaky-mythos.14851/ - and the author has a bunch more 'rants' here - http://albruno3.blogspot.com/p/the-binder-of-shame-rpg-rants.html (the "professor of ninja studies" story linked just before is #5 in the list). Look familiar? It even has a  page!quote:Gratuitous Ninja: El Disgusto will adamantly insist on playing a ninja no matter the game or it's setting, even if it makes no sense. Even when forced not to play a ninja, he still creates characters that play and act like ninjas. You did also remind me of https://web.archive.org/web/20070404045719/http:/archive.dumpshock.com/CLUE/index.php3 but that was Shadowrun.
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Dr. Quarex posted:RIGHT? Even if I never figure out who the hell it is I am at least going to get a better transfer from the tape sometime Did a few minutes of googling and digging on discogs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgW-iEGukTc
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Jul 14, 2021 15:22
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Salvanis posted:Did a few minutes of googling and digging on discogs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgW-iEGukTc You mean you went to the NMD thread
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I will take Salvanis at his word because that would seem pretty obvious to just go see someone else had solved it and act like nobody was going to notice Regardless yes, Erebus and Salvanis are clearly my heroes of the dayyyYyYy Bonus actual video version of the song from this absolutely crazy man I need to further investigate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeV57bbgJq8 Edit: Yep this guy live onstage is 100% what I imagined/hoped/dreamed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJaZTkGKDX0&t=392s Dr. Quarex fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Jul 14, 2021 |
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Jul 14, 2021 19:45
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Some travel show that was on Comedy central. Waaaay back in the day. 20 years or so. It's not Insomniac
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Milo and POTUS posted:Some travel show that was on Comedy central. Waaaay back in the day. 20 years or so. It's not Insomniac There was a mockumentary one called Wanderlust in like 2002 with a guy pretending to be a German backpacker, if that's it?
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:There was a mockumentary one called Wanderlust in like 2002 with a guy pretending to be a German backpacker, if that's it? I had looked it up a little while ago and that's not it. The guy had a very short haircut, possibly bald. It's not an idiot abroad I know that.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I had looked it up a little while ago and that's not it. The guy had a very short haircut, possibly bald. It's not an idiot abroad I know that. Travel Sick? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_Sick
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I'd say that's it. Was it any good
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Milo and POTUS posted:I'd say that's it. I have no idea. I just pulled it from a list of old comedy central shows.
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:Series of online comics, I remember them in detail except for the name and it's infuriating I know this is from awhile ago but: I don't remember the first two storylines but the last two are Story Minute by Carol Lay. https://imgur.com/a/90V9mAs
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Hey, I got one that’s been bugging me for like two decades. Back in the late ‘80’s there was an arcade machine that was about the size of a Pac-Man table but it was white and circular, you weren’t meant to sit at it. The middle was a black bowl sort of like those ‘black hole simulator’ things you’d role a penny down at natural history museums. Anyway, it was a hologram of, from what I recall, two cowboys having a shoot-out. It wasn’t all that fun to play but it blew my 8-10 year old mind just watching it. Any ideas what that was?
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Bulgaroctonus posted:Hey, I got one that’s been bugging me for like two decades. Back in the late ‘80’s there was an arcade machine that was about the size of a Pac-Man table but it was white and circular, you weren’t meant to sit at it. The middle was a black bowl sort of like those ‘black hole simulator’ things you’d role a penny down at natural history museums. Anyway, it was a hologram of, from what I recall, two cowboys having a shoot-out. It wasn’t all that fun to play but it blew my 8-10 year old mind just watching it. Any ideas what that was? Time Traveler, and yeah it sucked poo poo. It was basically Dragon's Lair/Space Ace but with a different display type and none of the cool animation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Traveler_(video_game) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8e6dbgk26U
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Bulgaroctonus posted:Hey, I got one that’s been bugging me for like two decades. Back in the late ‘80’s there was an arcade machine that was about the size of a Pac-Man table but it was white and circular, you weren’t meant to sit at it. The middle was a black bowl sort of like those ‘black hole simulator’ things you’d role a penny down at natural history museums. Anyway, it was a hologram of, from what I recall, two cowboys having a shoot-out. It wasn’t all that fun to play but it blew my 8-10 year old mind just watching it. Any ideas what that was? Might it be this?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Traveler_(video_game) Blue Moonlight fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Jul 18, 2021 |
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uvar posted:This appears to be the original posting of the story you're thinking of - https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/achy-breaky-mythos.14851/ - and the author has a bunch more 'rants' here - http://albruno3.blogspot.com/p/the-binder-of-shame-rpg-rants.html (the "professor of ninja studies" story linked just before is #5 in the list). Look familiar? Yup, that's it. Thanks! I had been thinking about this for a while
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KazmeyerTLOC posted:I know this is from awhile ago but: Holy gently caress yes that's her, she did all of them I have been looking for that poo poo for literal YEARS THANK YOU
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Thanks y’all! That was quick. I wonder if it’s possible to take one of the cabinets (or just steal the basic idea) and make an actually playable game using the faux hologram concept. I would think Tron or like Star Wars: Force Ghosts would work. That said I’m sure forty year old me would be wildly disappointed and want to Time Travel back and slap ten year old me upside the head. Should probably just keep this one as a distant memory. : )
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ROJO posted:I've been trying to remember a different edutainment game, that probably dates to around 1992-1994 (based on what grade I was in when I played it), and I believe it was on Mac, and monochrome. The game was around teaching you about sea turtle protection/preservation, including protecting habitat on beaches, poachers, etc. I believe it presented you with still images and you had to click the areas of concern if I remember correctly? I have been unable to find anything via google....it could also have been a subset of a larger software package, but I don't remember specifically. Thanks! OK, this stuck in my mind again, and did some more digging. Potentially a game called Poacher Patrol? Referenced here. But I cannot seem to find any other real record of this software title online. Found earlier games in the 'Audubon Wildlife Adeventures' (Grizzlies, Whales) series it was apparently apart of, and references to it "coming soon" - but nothing else. Does that tingle a neuron for anyone else?
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Bulgaroctonus posted:Thanks y’all! That was quick. I wonder if it’s possible to take one of the cabinets (or just steal the basic idea) and make an actually playable game using the faux hologram concept. I would think Tron or like Star Wars: Force Ghosts would work. That said I’m sure forty year old me would be wildly disappointed and want to Time Travel back and slap ten year old me upside the head. Should probably just keep this one as a distant memory. (I never played Holosseum, though given how much work I put into having fun with Time Traveler, and never once had fun playing it, I feel qualified to say it was undoubtedly terrible)
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I'm looking for a parkour video I saw at least a decade ago on Vimeo, but their search function (or my brain) sucks so now it's gone. It's shot near the sea in a Baltic state. (Estonia? Lithuania?) Mostly takes place in a park or playground. Had a bunch of little kids in it from time to time, near the end they pretend to beat up one of the guys from the parkour group. Might have had Eminen in the soundtrack? It seemed really well shot and might have been some sort of showreel for the guy who made it.
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Crossposting from the Sci-fi Wifi, this is less a "white whale" than an annoying itch I can't scratch:SidneyIsTheKiller posted:I am weirdly obsessed with seeing even just a screencap of the opening credits for the European theatrical version of the film that went by the title "THE VOYAGE HOME: Star Trek IV." My understanding is that all home video releases (barring maybe the very first VHS) had it changed back to the original title. From what I hear all the current international home video versions of Star Trek IV are the American cut with the international prologue tacked on at the beginning (I hear in some cases they ended up leaving in a second "Paramount" logo).
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Dr. Quarex posted:Then you would have "loved" Holosseum, the game Sega retooled Time Traveler into in an apparently utterly failed attempt to capture the sudden "people only want fighting games" market! I played this once, although I always wondered what the name was, so thank you. It was in a truck stop in RI and I remember it being pretty expensive, like maybe a buck or two? It super sucked. I think I was baffled by how bad it was, like it was a fighting game but just a black background. And the characters didn't really move back and forth, just kinda ran in place? If anyone ever sees it (yeah right) just watch the attract mode and stay the gently caress away, unless it's like a quarter or two.
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ROJO posted:OK, this stuck in my mind again, and did some more digging. Potentially a game called Poacher Patrol? Referenced here. I haven't been able to find exactly what you're looking for but it's probably published by "advanced ideas" at least according to page 101 of the September 89 edition of inCider; "Grizzly Bears, first in a series of "Wildlife Adventures" from this team of collaborators (coming soon: Whales, Sharks, and Poacher Patrol)" I did managed to find a screenshot of their Grizzly Bears game, which might have been in a similar style?   
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I'm trying to find a book I had when I was a kid. The premise was Dwarves were a real species and that archaeologists had found one of their cities and were excavating it. It had a lot of cross-sectional diagrams about how the archaeologists would discover a dwarf dwelling, or part of the city and then excavate it to retrieve artefacts from within. A bit like those DK books about how they uncovered Pompeii or other sites like that. It was very heavily influenced by Tolkein, but I'm pretty sure it didn't use any of his specific IP or use any named cities from Middle Earth. Tolkein stuff makes it really hard to Google. I suspect it would have been published in the late 70s or early 80s. It was second-hand when I was reading it in the mid 90s. Edit: Motherfuck. Dwarfs, not Dwarves. Found it right away after I changed that. The Kingdom of the Dwarfs by David Wenzel Gasmask fucked around with this message at 11:38 on Jul 19, 2021 |
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huh posted:You know those old Usborne books, 1000 first words in Spanish and that sort of thing?  Does that jibe with your memories? There's a dog not too far from the long boat on the canal, hanging out with some cows, but it's too small to make out if it's spotted or anything. (The duck is way up in the nearest tree.)
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