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HolHorsejob posted:A while back, I saw this pic on Tumblr of like a Japanese magazine ad for various goofy things, and one of them was a hat that functioned like window blinds, and the dude pulling it down over his face. Does anyone know this image? I was not able to find it but I'm going to share this amazing hat I found while looking: 
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HolHorsejob posted:A while back, I saw this pic on Tumblr of like a Japanese magazine ad for various goofy things, and one of them was a hat that functioned like window blinds, and the dude pulling it down over his face. Does anyone know this image? 101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions: The Art of Chindogu https://a.co/d/5tXNI6R I have this one; I'll go check it for that particular image. e: No luck, but some cursory Googling found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/bdwycs/i_like_to_design_stupid_products_for_fun_so_i/ Hirayuki fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Dec 20, 2022 |
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JediTalentAgent posted:It's probably NOT "Venus Wars", but that anime, IIRC, did have strange one-wheeled motorcycles and I think was part of the US Sci-Fi channel anime library. That's it! No mistaking that brown crumbling building aesthetic. Thanks! stratdax fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Dec 20, 2022 |
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Hirayuki posted:It might be from one of several chindogu books: It is almost certainly from here. Y'all are doing God's work in this thread
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Dec 20, 2022 02:39
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i've been looking for this old rear end ghost video. some guy filming in his kitchen breathing super hard as the lights turn on and off, then all of a sudden a cereal bowl levitates off the table and then slams back down causing the guy to scream and go running out of the house. there were a couple other videos from the same guy of the doors in his house slamming and in every single one he's just breathing insanely hard behind the camera it's so stupid but i've been looking to find it again for ages. probably from like 2005-2007 or something
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Dec 21, 2022 01:47
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A picture I remember seeing somewhere of a gig (?) of memory in 1990 in a gigantic storage device as opposed to a gig of memory in, like 2013 in a pocket sized thumb drive.
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Dec 21, 2022 03:45
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:A picture I remember seeing somewhere of a gig (?) of memory in 1990 in a gigantic storage device as opposed to a gig of memory in, like 2013 in a pocket sized thumb drive. Is it from Johnny Mnemonic? Keanu Reeves’ character was carrying a massive 320 gigabytes of data in his head, dating the movie’s production forever. Kind of lovely quality, but it was quoted on the poster and/or box art:  EDIT: rereading your post maybe makes it sound like you were looking for a data graphic or something, not a questionable 90s action movie, lol.
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Blue Moonlight posted:Is it from Johnny Mnemonic? Keanu Reeves’ character was carrying a massive 320 gigabytes of data in his head, dating the movie’s production forever. That's a good guess, but it was more of an infographic. Someone was holding the 1990 device on the left and a more modern thumb stick on the right side. I don't remember how much memory it was but I want to say a gig, something that would have seemed like a shitload in the early '90s.
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I don't know if they could 'hold' the device if it was 1990
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Mustached5thGrader posted:I saw some hbo movie or something as a young teen about an unexpected house guest who seduces the whole family. It wasn’t a soft core, it was a thriller. Dude was a redhead and I imagine him looking like the redhead dweeb from American psycho. There was a scene where he’s in the hot tub with the family’s son? Might be a version of Brimstone and Treacle, there have been a couple of them I know of.
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Scaramouche posted:I don't know if they could 'hold' the device if it was 1990 Close enough. Thanks!
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Was it this photo maybe?
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Dewgy posted:Was it this photo maybe? Yes, that's it! Good work! I tried looking for 'comparison of memory 1990 now' and nothing came up.
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There was a terrible rap video by some middle aged looking dude who was driving this green screened convertible while a badly cg'd city burned behind him. It has a lyric that made me laugh that was like "your brothers daughter, that's your niece/I hear sirens, that's the police" I want to say he was called Bumpo or Bucko or something?
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I don't know if that's Chuggo, but even if it isn't, you should look up Chuggo's music videos COME ON gently caress A GUY
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Dewgy posted:Was it this photo maybe? The most fun thing about 'Moore's Law' is how it constantly changes the answer to the thought experiment "how long would it take you to eat 64GB of memory?" A few years back when I was putting together my desktop, that would have been a really painful meal of RAM Nachos. Today, I could swallow eight times that without a glass of water.
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that has to be chuggo
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Yeah, chuggo's magnum opus Ah C'mon doesn't have the exact line op was looking for but does contain a line that roughly goes: see that kid stealing? That is a thief / see the boots behind him? That's the police E: also the song is loving great and i don't even like rap or country
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:I found a schedule from May '98 which includes the Nudnik show, but there really isn't anything which could be the show you're describing. The show Frame by Frame is a compilation show, which may have it but the one I found at youtube didn't have kids in a bathtub. Maybe it's just lost for good? it probably was on Frame by Frame. thanks for digging this up edit: holy gently caress, that schedule from the archived site. i completely forgot about The Legend of the North Wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAN46SPwPJ8 changing vote to 5 Junk fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Dec 22, 2022 |
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Arivia posted:I asked some D&D friends who are history nerds and one of them found the section: Man, Goons are unbelievable sometimes. Good work! This gives me hope for my remaining White Whales, which I’ll repost with a few more details: 1) This one is a song that I heard once ever on Nick Rocks (an early 80’s music compilation show on Nickelodeon). It appears to either be lost forever or completely impossible to search for. Musically, it sounded a little bit similar to “Right on Track” (listen here), with a somewhat slower tempo but not a full love ballad. The lyrics I can remember were, “I’ll be your flying cowboy / I’ll carry you away! / We’ll (something) all the bad guys! / (something something) if you say!” So far I’ve had absolutely no luck at all finding this song because it turns out there are a lot of country songs about flying cowboys. My lost song is definitely not one of them. 2) I could probably fill the rest of this post with Weird poo poo From The EARLY Early Days Of Nickelodeon/Disney Channel/MTV and all the short films they’d use to fill time. The first one I cannot find was an animated short that was maybe ten minutes long. In it, two kids want to take their dog along on a school trip. Somehow their dog transforms into a human kid (I think they made a wish?) and he can go along. But he still acts like a dog, like he doesn’t ride the school bus but chases it, things like that. Hilarious shenanigans ensues until he changes back into a dog and “Everyone’s eyes went wide as saucers”. They feed the dog “leftover potato salad” and all is well. The thing is, this short had a very long opening credits sequence, in another language. And that suggested it might be one episode of a whole series? I remember this being part of “Pinwheel”. 3) Another animated short that ran as part of Pinwheel, I think. In it, the youngest child in a family doesn’t have much self confidence. She paces back and forth saying, “I can’t” and as she does this, she shrinks smaller and smaller. At some point she rides around on a butterfly who gives her a pep talk. The whole short is haunting and dreamlike in that specifically 70’s animation way. 4) Paper cut-out animation (I think) about a girl who gathers her friends together to stop a forest from being cut down. The part I remember most clearly is when the girl and her friends fly to some place on pine tree branches, kind of like the Witches in His Dark Materials .
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Anyone remember the name of that old puppet comedy show where one of the puppets was just a talking penis? I thought for sure it was something Net Freaks, but searching is coming up with nothing.
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Antivehicular posted:I don't know if that's Chuggo, but even if it isn't, you should look up Chuggo's music videos It absolutely was, thanks!
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Rahonavis posted:2) I could probably fill the rest of this post with Weird poo poo From The EARLY Early Days Of Nickelodeon/Disney Channel/MTV and all the short films they’d use to fill time. there are only about 10 hours of known publicly available pinwheel episodes out of the ~260 episodes that actually aired. unless someone has a hidden archive somewhere or nickelodeon decides to empty the vault, these are most likely lost to time: https://lostmediawiki.com/Pinwheel_(partially_found_Nickelodeon_educational_puppet_series;_1977-1990) that page has YT links to all of the known available material so might be worth scrubbing through
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Check the Coe Film Associates catalogue for anything animated that ran on Pinwheel, if that’s possible. They were the company that licensed animated shorts to Nickelodeon in that era—anything shown on Pinwheel could have appeared somewhere else on the network. Clockman was from Coe, I believe.
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per the LMW for Clockman, the Coe Films stuff has been scattered among the companies that acquired CFA's catalogue and an attempt to locate their current whereabouts was unsuccessful even after contacting the executive producer of Pinwheel and a writer who worked for the show. if there's anybody out there who could get a solid lead on this stuff, it'd be the LMW people - they are persistent to say the least
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Years ago we had some 80s/early 90s issues of Fate Magazine. Paranormal thing from that era (and earlier). At some point I think we mailed in for a catalog from some company that advertised in the magazine. Probably a bunch of new age stuff like you'd probably find at a mall store. Crystals, pewter dragon statues, etc. One thing I remember is something that was akin to, "Young Dragons are often nervous when flying for the first time..." with a small dragon sitting inside a commercial airline seat looking anxious. It was something that looked cute that always sort of stuck with me, but I've not seen that image for nearly 30 years. The image was either on a shirt or a greeting card or a poster or something, but I've been trying to find it again for years.
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JediTalentAgent posted:Years ago we had some 80s/early 90s issues of Fate Magazine. Paranormal thing from that era (and earlier). The Internet Archive has a pulp magazines scan collection which has a small number of issues of Fate magazine, you might get lucky and spot the ad which would give you a good lead https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive If you do a google image search for 'fate magazine cover' you might recognise one of the issues you used to own, which would also help narrow down the search E: Fate's own webpage has a cover gallery but it seems really spotty and hard to sort: https://www.fatemag.com/fate-collectors-corner Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Dec 25, 2022 |
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Vakal posted:Anyone remember the name of that old puppet comedy show where one of the puppets was just a talking penis? That would be Internet Slutts.
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Manos99 posted:That would be Internet Slutts. I was so close. Thanks!
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barnold posted:there are only about 10 hours of known publicly available pinwheel episodes out of the ~260 episodes that actually aired. unless someone has a hidden archive somewhere or nickelodeon decides to empty the vault, these are most likely lost to time: https://lostmediawiki.com/Pinwheel_(partially_found_Nickelodeon_educational_puppet_series;_1977-1990) Wow, thank you! I’ll dig through this and see what I can find.
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Mescal posted:The complete cartoons of the new yorker coffee table book: attached 2 cd-roms, but readable and non-corrupted https://archive.org/details/Complete-New-Yorker-Cartoons-2004
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Is the thread with the um, Greedo figurine, archived anywhere? I remember the whole thing was quite a wild ride.
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I'm not sure if this exists or not: when I was a fairly young kid (early '90s), I remember watching a concert of the Boston Pops or something like that on the TV where they did the 'Typewriter Song'. I could swear that there was a live picture-in-picture screenshot of someone playing Tetris, but I've never managed to find any evidence of this. If you search Youtube, one of the first videos that pop up is a concert of Tetris music with live gameplay of Tetris, but I don't think this is what I remember; it's too recent.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I'm not sure if this exists or not: when I was a fairly young kid (early '90s), I remember watching a concert of the Boston Pops or something like that on the TV where they did the 'Typewriter Song'. I could swear that there was a live picture-in-picture screenshot of someone playing Tetris, but I've never managed to find any evidence of this. The Typewriter was a Fiedler-era performance for the Pops, and he passed in 1979. This is definitely an amalgamation of two separate memories, as far as I can find the last official Pops performances of the song were at a fundraiser in 1998 and with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler in 1999, and there were no visual accompaniments to the music at either concert (other than the typewriter act itself). It could very well be that someone just put a video of the Pops in the background of them playing Tetris, but I sure wasn't able to find anything
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barnold posted:The Typewriter was a Fiedler-era performance for the Pops, and he passed in 1979. This is definitely an amalgamation of two separate memories, as far as I can find the last official Pops performances of the song were at a fundraiser in 1998 and with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler in 1999, and there were no visual accompaniments to the music at either concert (other than the typewriter act itself). Thanks for looking! It wouldn't surprise me if it was a false memory (or a dim memory of something else); this was roughly around 30ish years ago now.
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Years and years ago (just before smartphones were ubiquitous and youtube hadn't rendered P2P mostly irrelevant so I guess 13-15 years ago) I kinda got into an arvo part/ Philip glass groove and ended up downloading this band that was not the aforementioned but their whole deal was they had a bunch of I guess gregorian chanting over the composition? It was not remotely old sounding and it almost sounded electronic. In truth I don't think they sounded like arvo part or Phil glass either but you know limewire labels. They weren't good (probably, I don't remember much) but man it was at least interesting and I'd like to listen again to see just how high I was. I kinda wanna say their name started with an L or an A but I'm not certain enough to say for sure and bias the search.
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Mister Speaker posted:Is the thread with the um, Greedo figurine, archived anywhere? I remember the whole thing was quite a wild ride. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3813781&userid=66613
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Just thought of a new one! Right before the pandemic and shortly into it, I was getting this really good Korean soy sauce from my local grocery store, good enough that I went through two big bottles of it relatively quickly, and then they stopped stocking it. The name wasn’t in English, I know it was Korean, and it had a red label with some kind of little cartoon shrine kid on it. (He had a rope headband on, so I think it was a shrine kid anyway.) Only other notable quality I remember was it had stevia extract in it, which was kind of surprising, but it did have a weird kind of sweetness to it which makes sense.
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