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Overwatch Porn posted:also what i'm pretty sure was a post here (or maybe just linked here?) about a kid who was obsessed with an ant colony and kept it growing more and more until it took over his yard, and then even more beyond that. it had a really casual description of the kid's aunt or something being eaten by the ants. all the characters had really bizarre names that are impossible to remember. i swear it existed Probably Ant Problem.
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teen witch posted:Two quick ones: Not "Jump Around", but maybe this was related? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-VEMVAB1hc
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tight aspirations posted:I don't know if it's true or not, but I remember reading somewhere the big P would sell sketch paper with his signature on the bottom so people could draw their own picasso picture. I think it was a reaction to the commercialism of his work, or something. Picasso may have done this, but probably the most egregious example was Salvador Dalí, who signed tens of thousands (his own agent estimated hundreds of thousands) of sheets this way, ostensibly for his publishers to make new 'signed prints'. It becomes an incredibly huge problem for provenance and authentication, because you can have 'signed prints' produced long after the artist's health began to fail, or even after his death. The sheer number of sheets involved and the breadth of his business contracts make it worse, because who knows who he signed what for, or where the blanks might have wound up?
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pseudanonymous posted:There’s a board game like this where it’s not really explained what you’re doing and then you discover the point of the game is to load people efficiently onto trains to Auschwitz. Train, by Brenda Romero (formerly Brathwaite). Cassius Belli fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Jan 31, 2020 |
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guitartorch posted:How about some ?NRA commercial from the 90s that was like a giant junkyard full of broken guns apparently showing repossessed guns in britain or australia or something and three this big magnet type machine lifting all these broken guns and the narrator saying "it can happen here! Searching NRA, Australia, and "can happen here" turned this up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMiNHt13WRw
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HappyKitty posted:This one is a bit of a reverse white whale, in a sense, where I already know the name of the thing I'm looking for, but have no clue how to find out more about it. These guys? They're not really prolific, unfortunately; it seems like they pretty much released a couple different cuts of the same songs and faded away. I dug up some Billboard coverage here and an announcement about a student-union appearance. e: You might have some luck tracking down the individual band members; I didn't look too hard but their bass player, Ben Nicholls, is still active, and their drummer, Hezi Yechiel, has album credits as recently as 2012 (his name shows up on Wikipedia a bit). Cassius Belli fucked around with this message at 20:48 on May 30, 2020 |
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Blackchamber posted:Thanks. Yeah I usually use Johann Gunter in my search terms, german carved candle (although I doubt its hand carved since they are mass produced), and of course tree and face candles. It's not exactly that one, but this is pretty close. You're going to have a hard time finding an exact match; one source I found says that the Gunter company is long out of business.
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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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mysterious frankie posted:Yesterday, thanks to Justin Whang, I found out there’s a wiki dedicated to chronicling all examples of baths and bath scenes in anime. Nothing, no matter how stupid, is now beyond our grasp. There's someone out there fascinated with power lines, too.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I like brandy glasses with thin rims, like wine glasses. No matter where I've looked so far, including vintage stores, I can't find snifters with thin rims, only with heavy rolled rims that are presumably more dishwasher-safe. I've mail-ordered a couple of times, looked at Crate and Barrel and equivalent, but nothing. 3" diameter across the bulb feels really small for a snifter. What do you feel about using a Glencairn glass? That's going to measure in at 2-1/2". Reidel and Ravenscroft both make snifters with very thin rims, but those are going to be quite a bit bigger. e: e2: wow, what a typo that was Cassius Belli fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Nov 16, 2020 |
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I've found a few white whales for people in this thread before, and maybe someone can help me turn up one of my own. So I'm trying to find a... TV show, probably, or maybe YouTube series. I saw it advertised while binge-watching Carmilla a while back, but I can't find it anymore. It's a ha-ha semi-romantic comedy thing about two women writing a play (or TV series?) together, about two gay women, and everyone assumes that it's based on them. I remember a dinner-party type scene where people are standing around a kitchen island and someone asks, "So... which one are you?" or something similar. Of course in the beginning there is much protesting, but Complicated Feelings arise (this being a romantic comedy conceit) and... I don't know anything else, because it got lost in the tab/link shuffle and I never got to see it. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
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!Klams posted:I swear I remember a Caroline in the City episode like this, but I'm not finding anything, maybe it's something from a similar era? Immediately I'm thinking "Ellen", but that seems too obvious? That doesn't seem right, and definitely not Ellen; Carmilla came out in 2014 and I got into it late so I think this would have been advertised in the 2015-2016 era. Definitely before 2017 as the movie hadn't come out yet, though.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:This is a deep cut. Images will be broken all over the place, but does any of this look familiar? Cafe Eblana message board Cafe Eblana "core" As far as I can tell, Cafe Eblana's owner gave up in 1998 but left the hosting online through 2001 or so; some of the community migrated over to Livejournal and IRC but their footprints are... scarce.
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Hirayuki posted:Oh, wow! I was an earlyish member of Eblana, joining back in '90 or '91. It started on Prodigy. Thank you for sharing. The vibe certainly was different back then, wasn't it? Raise a glass to the friends we've kept, and another for the ones we've lost along the way. Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Wow you found some pretty decent stuff! I actually never visited the site so I wouldn't remember what it looked like. It was a site the 12 year old me was DYING to visit but never got to. I wanted to so bad that I still remember the name of the site 25 years later! Happy to help even with that very small window.  Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Back when I was in high school we were using these terrible Windows 3.1 machines (even though it was like 1998) and I remember for a few weeks we played a hotel management simulator called Parkside Hotel. I can. The basic problem is that there's a real Parkside Hotel, and that drowns out just about all other results. We can throw some extra keywords and search conditionals into the problem, though, and find this academic paper that mentions it, very briefly: Adapting Work Simulations for Schools, University of Pittsburgh. That tells us the publisher (Classroom Inc) and the approximate year of publication (1992-1993). We use that to dig a little more and confirm that it exists: THE Journal posted:Simulations Promote Change in Classroom The Wall Street Journal posted:Computer Simulation Brings Workplace to the Schoolroom I found a quick mention in the resume of one Dr. Hillary Anne Wilder, who worked on the game and still lists it in her professional CV. It probably formed some basis for her dissertation, which is about motivational factors in computer simulations. Classroom Inc still exists, though they seem to have moved out of software development and are now principally involved in a "Read to Lead" classroom reading program. If you really want to go full amateur researcher on them it might be worth writing to them (contact information here) and asking if they have any information they can share with you. If you're really lucky they might even have an archived copy they can send you "for research purposes". e: the change seems to have happened recently; the "Classroom Inc" page mentioned simulations even in January of this year, and there's a Google cache still warm about some of their 'scientific basis'. The game may have been renamed in later versions as 'Riverview Hotel' - I'm not 100% sure what's going on there but it's mentioned as such in early-2000s papers. Good job remembering the name though! Cassius Belli fucked around with this message at 17:33 on May 10, 2021 |
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My name is mentioned in that horrible long texty site a few times, along with that of another guy I'm still in touch with a little and at least one other goon. I met a couple members in person back when the Internet was a nicer place to be.
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kntfkr posted:My dad worked for con ed during a historic time and he really treasured this toy bucket truck that he received before retiring https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/conedison-bucket-truck-dg-productions-1964682624 Not exactly the same truck, but the Electrical Trades Gift Store can probably repro it on a different toy base, especially if you can send them pictures. If your dad was a lineman they can even put his truck number on it.
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Ramc posted:Maybe not for years but I've been trying for a little while to find a high resolution image of a ?poster? of Su Daji from the Jiang Ziya movie and I have been coming up empty. I feel like there must be a source image out there but I just lack the search chops to find it. The design is siiiick as hell. It's not huge, but Deskcity has a large[r] version; how big do you want it? 1904x2304 Cassius Belli fucked around with this message at 00:46 on May 17, 2021 |
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Ramc posted:The bigger the better, but that's Pretty Good. How would I best go about hunting a higher res version of this sort of thing? Oh, actually, I think I was able to find the original. It comes from a Pixiv artist apparently. Image #8 in this gallery - you'll need a Pixiv account to see original size and I'm not 100% sure how big it is. Google Reverse Image Search and TinEye are usually your fastest "close enough" sources - upload the copy you have (or paste the URL) and see what it comes up with for similarities. That's how I got the higher-res version before. Especially for getting higher-res copies, a lot of the process is just clicking the link at the top for "finding other sizes" and sifting through the hit-or-miss that will come up. It obviously doesn't help here, but if you are sharp-eyed you can often find an artist's signature hidden somewhere and try to find their primary homepages; poking around there is a good bet. For fanart and stuff that gets heavily slung around social media, saucenao can sometimes help you find the original, and seems to have better search around DeviantArt/Pixiv/etc. That's where I got this second link.
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I remembered an old comic book I had as a teenager and want to finish the series. Here's what I remember about it: It starts with a framing story, a bunch of adventurers(?) trading myths in a bar. The first story involves a knight/warrior who is bonded to some kind of crystal on/in his chest. He's some kind of "hero across time" - he will save the world, and then the crystal grows around him and sends him into hibernation, and he wakes up again hundreds of years later to save the world again. I think it turns into armor and maybe a sword for him when he's doing the hero thing. Eventually he is released from this obligation, gets married, and settles down. I think he does not age, and when his wife passes, the crystal cocoons him again... just in case. The comic ends with another adventurer joining the table and promising to tell another myth in exchange for a drink. I want to say I found the comic in a back-issue bulk bin in 2000 or maybe 2001. I'm almost certain it is not Marvel's Crystar, from the few pages I can find of it.
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DerekSmartymans posted:This is my favorite Disney scene left since you cannot find Song of the South’s “Tar Baby” scene in the world anymore. Wouldn't be so sure of that. v=-gnZUK6e9Fk v=qpGL-mj-LEk v=7Z2kI-Z1O10
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I remember a blog being posted years ago in GBS.it was a guy who bought a house from a bunch travelers. The house was an absolute nightmare, water came out of the electric outlets, some of drywall was ckalk, etc. Hoodwinked House?
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!Klams posted:Kind of dumb, but I have this weird obsession with lime green and black as a colour combo. Everything in my house where I get to choose the colours is in that combination. I have almost exclusively Razer products in the office, and while I'm more than happy with their performance it's entirely an aesthetic thing. My kitchen is all joseph joseph green stuff, my tools are all Ryobi, etc etc. Like, yeah, it's super lame, but the thing is it just always looks the best to me. I appreciate it's not everyone's taste, and so the living room and general decor is all up to my wife. This is a little far back but I was buying a gift for a friend today, saw this in the 'related items' recommendations, and thought of you. https://pinsandaces.com/products/green-splatter
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Looking for the meme with the different families making 100k plus and the new tax stuff that someone changed the end to say "death by guillotine" Done in one. 
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Guess I should have asked. Do you have the original chud meme if this? Done in two: Cassius Belli posted:The original is from a (paywalled) WSJ article, "How much will your taxes jump?", and is about as tonedeaf as you'd imagine a WSJ article like that to be.
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I'm trying to find a 90s (probably) era comic that I picked up in high school and never got to finish. I think I picked this up out of a bargain bin in 2000 or 2001 at the very latest and it was an old-ish comic then. It's probably bad, but it stirred up some curiosity for me and I've never quite been able to let go of the idea. The comic opens with got a framing story of a bunch of stock fantasy adventurers sitting around in a tavern, swapping stories and drinks while they wait for everyone to arrive (including a mysterious contact, I think). The first story (or at least the one I remember) is a story about an ancient hero who was enchanted with a magic crystal in his chest, to be the champion of some forgotten god. The crystal would turn into magical armor and a sword when it was needed, when the world was in crisis, and then when the danger was over the crystal would put the hero into suspended animation until he was needed again. This hero is not Crystar, despite every attempt at Googling "crystal armor hero" telling me otherwise. After many such cycles, the hero asked the god for release, and the next time he was put into suspended animation, he was found and awakened by some pretty lady, fell in love, settled down, etc, until (I think) they grew old and died together. But the crystal remained, waiting for a new hero and the next time it would be needed. The story itself was not super good, though it was told in this appealing fake-myth style, and I like the Scheherazade-style way it lays up the next story, with another member of the adventuring party showing up and saying, "Oh, are you telling that old story again? Let me share a new one for once..."; I just want to see where it went. Cassius Belli fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Nov 8, 2022 |
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Super Bowl commercial. Probably 20 years ago. E*Trade, year 2000, at the peak of the first dotcom bubble. They had two other similarly useless ads that year, according to Wikipedia. Cassius Belli fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Jul 12, 2023 |
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Skulker posted:A million years ago there were two flash videos that went around as they did:  I'm pretty sure I remember this and it turns out that I've carried the mp3 around on a series of hard drives for over 20 years so I could identify it for you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O68OqHUjmTM e: Original on NewGrounds: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/124117 Cassius Belli fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Sep 11, 2023 |
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Super-NintendoUser posted:I saw a webcomic once of a person but the next frame was xrayed and the man was a bunch of monkeys in a people suit. Then one of those monkeys was a bunch of dogs in a monkey suit and then one of the dogs was like squirrels in a dog suit. There's some dialogue too but it's just the animals saying to be quiet to each other. This one? There might be a continuation somewhere but I can't find it. 
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Brain Curry posted:A post or tweet or something about using the same towel to dry your whole body. It’s something like “start with the face, finish with the rear end. In the morning the towel forgives all sins” "The towel forgets everything by tomorrow."
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Anukahn posted:
It reminds me a bit of playing around with Harvard Graphics when I was a kid; have you tried looking for those clipart libraries?
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