Okay so mine is so old i can't really put a finger on where i got it from..It's a piece of electronic music with a music video that included an Inuit fishing. It must have been from around '97 but could be anywhere in the nineties. In my recollection it was a single on cdrom from The Chemical Brothers. That never yielded any results for me. The second recollection was that it came from a cdrom that accompanied an exhibition on electronic art. Also never yielded any results for me. So, somewhere in my recollection is a couple of electronic notes and an Inuit in the music video. Ive given up searching for it, even though i tried many many times over the years.
I found one of them thanks to this post reminding me to check to make sure I have the right name, but now I need English subtitles for it.
葫芦兄弟2葫芦小金刚 ( Deeply: Hulu Brothers 2 The Golden Gourd )
I don't remember how, but I stumbled upon the original Calabash Brothers online with ENG sub and really liked how crazy it felt, in a good way. Found part of the first episode of this sequel and I knew I needed to see the whole thing with ENG subs. Didn't know it was 6 episodes, but now I do.
I also hope to some day find the early( ? ) 2010s Calabash Brothers with ENG subs as well because I'm invested in the series, the cartoon/donghua anyways.
There's a a conspiracy theory involving a relatively popular celebrity from the early 2000s and some guy in Brazil takes full credit for the entire conspiracy theory and says he made it up just to prove how easy it would be to do. He's even credited in the wikipedia article for it.
I've seen proof that he's wrong, I've had bookmarks that would show he wasn't the originator of the theory, but all the forums and sources that would be able to prove him wrong are defunct and offline. The timeline doesn't even make sense for it to have originated when he said he came up with it, but I can't prove it. He was like 6 years late. Every once in awhile, I still go searching to see if I can find something old enough to prove it.
Waaaay back in the day, before YouTube and all that, we shared small videos.
There was one animated stop frame short film, where ken and barbie were having bdsm styled sex.
Barbie keeps asking Ken to hit her. Harder. Harder!
Eventually he really does, and it ends in a bad way for barbie.
Early 20s me thought it was hilarious.
Have never found it on the modern internet.
The other is the early work of the south Park creators. About a dog. I believe it was called Princess?
There's a very horrid sex seen where a wife begrudgingly masturbates her husband as the dog watches. Total marriage boredom. Getting the job done just to get it done. Horrid, and beautifully articulated through the animated format.
Again, have never been able to find it.
2 psa's that ran on cable on the early 90's.
Both had some dumb tag ling like "would you risk your life to save them?" Dramatic music and snap cuts.
One had a little girl in a petal car on a road with an oncomming semi truck.
The second was a toddler walking away from it's mother into a busy city street with oncomming traffic, and the mother (who was trying to unlock her car) freaking out once she noticed the kid was missing.
These have to exist somewhere.
Does one of them end with "Billy didn't like the song on the radio, so he killed a little girl"?
At this point, with all the lost media focused youtube channels, everything that I once saw that would be perfect to add to this list has actually already been found. It's actually kind of... lame. Because now there is less mystery and whimsy in my life. 😞
Not really internet. I remember a video I saw when I was a kid, like 6-7 years old. It must've run alongside Sesame Street or something, because that was the only stuff I was allowed to watch back then. It was some sort of PSA about wearing a seat belt. A father, who was also an actor on the German Sesame Street, was picking up his young daughter, she sat in the backseat. She wanted to show him what she learned playing the recorder and played a bit for him. He had to break, looked back and saw the flute sticking out his daughter's mouth. That fucking thing sticks with me to this day. Must've been early 80s on German TV. I have no hope of ever being able to traumatize others with that shit, but I wish I could just so I can talk about it.
at least you have the songs.
I did a similar thing with very, very, low quality DI shows I ripped with winamp over 56k.
An artsy short (Vimeo?) about some girl hanging out her very stylish, beige apartment while a voiceover talsk very intimimately to her. In the end the voiceover talks about being eaten up, and the girl kinda swallows some pudding thing?
It had a slightly french vibe I think, though not as overtly erotic as it sounds.
I have a rather silly one.
Back in the old Youtube days, I think before Google took over. There was a fake parody trailer made for David Lynch's Dune. It basically reimagined the film with fart jokes. As immature as it was, it was still funny. But now it's long gone and I wish I could show it to my friends.
The id of theb YouTube video used to be DbqBT1mE9Ts
Dune parody, the future stinks.
That ID still works! It seems the channel changed it's name.
Thank you so much!
For a number of years, it was Blood on your Hands by Killing Joke. Or, as I had known it back then, "Track 04", which was the wrong number of the track, no less. Took me some 7 years between losing "Track 04", remembering it existed and knowing it was by Killing Joke to take the plunge and 🏴☠️ their discography.
(For some reason, I have trouble figuring out what is being sung in several songs unless I read the lyrics together, even to this day. Once I've done that a couple of times, I can "hear" the words properly. So, I never had a good idea of what the song "talked about")
For whatever reason, I downloaded everything except the Killing Joke 2003 album. Around a month later, I decided to check those songs out, put them all on a playlist and left it playing. When "Blood on your Hands" started playing, the unmistakable starting guitar riff, oh my fucking god, I felt like I had unearthed a real fucking treasure!
What is the show?
I remember this flash game I played as a kid that was a sci fi tower defense where each level you were trying to stave off a... Purple fog? Something like that.. Just long enough so your colony could launch off planet to escape the allconsuming purple atmosphere. I have no clue what it's called and have tried looking it up but to no avail. If anyone here knows what it's called I would be indebted
Edit: thanks for the suggestions folks it was neither outpost nor the creeper world games
Check out creeper world (2, 3, evermore, etc). Sounds similar, although I don't remember if the fog was purple.
This one porn where there was like three girls sitting next to each other with their legs spread over each other.
Think I saw it when I was like 14-16. I'm pretty sure it was little caprice too but honestly idk
Scottish comedian, TV/internet personality Limmy used to have a lot of Flash stuff on his website. I had it all saved but, for whatever reason, it went missing years ago. His website has been gone for a long time. Internet Archive has some of them but not a bunch of them. So much Flash stuff has been archived to no end but this stuff is just forgotten to the world.
There are several online tools that will try to name tracks based on sample audio.
Like others, I actually managed to find it thanks to this thread by double-checking before posting.
It's a sketch/short film(?) called A Reasonable Request. It will stick with you, if you watch it, I promise.
A YouTube mixtape found after searching “Madagascar Music” that had a smattering of wonderful folk music from, ostensibly, Madagascar. It must’ve been dmca’d years ago or something ‘cause I’ve not been able to find it since c. 2013.
I've got a couple.
One was a dark comedy sketch that a friend showed me in, I want to say '99(?). A couple appear to be in therapy, and the doctor asks how this started. They recount through flashbacks a series of more extreme requests under the guise of "if you loved me, you would do it". At one point one of them definitely made a piece of toast and put nail clipping on it, then told the other that "if you loved me, you would eat it". The sketch concludes >! showing that they were actually in a final surgical consult and the last scene is them being wheeled into surgery to be joined at the hip!<
The other is a comic strip where a couple people are working on their computers when either a song starts playing, or one person starts saying "shoop shoop shoop shoop-a-doop" and stylistically dancing while putting on their jacket. As they dance to the exit the other person says "shoop a doop?" and then the first dances their way off frame
The full set of this image of Kate Beckinsale photographed by Firooz Zahedi on June 15th 2000.
I know I had the full set saved once in high resolution, but now it vanished from the face of the web. Even on the photographers Website there's only this one low res image. Reverse image search shows variations of the image, so there has to be a set of pictures, not only one.
I've posted this on reddit back in the day, both on r/tipofmytongue and r/tipofmyjoystick.
There was a free indie game that I installed on my Windows PC back in the 2000s. I don't know where I got it, but I don't think it was Steam. The game was a 2D platformer where the main character was I think a red cat. I remember it being kind of fast paced, and you had a sword, and at one point can shoot lasers or something which played into the platforming (I think charging it and shooting it downwards gave you like a double jump? I'm not 100% sure if this is accurate).
I've tried so hard to find this game again, but time and time again I've come up empty.
Some more details, though it's very foggy at this point:
- I think there was a level select screen, kinda similar to like Mario 3
- There is the typical friendly village level where you can talk to NPCs
- I think one level was on top of a train.
- It may not even be a cat, but I always thought it looked like one.
- The game was a digital download, pretty sure I got it from an indie game dev's website showcasing his games and projects, and I'm not 100% sure the game was finished.
Mine was a super-specific and overpowered Dungeons and Dragons custom class for elves, that basically got cool powers from all the other classes. I'm pretty sure the class was called "Knights of Rillifane" and I came across it originally in a Compuserve message board.
As I say, it's not a good bit of game design, and it's certainly not important. But given how big the d&d loving community has been in Internet history, and how 'collectory' they are, it really surprises me that it hasn't been compiled into a netbook or turn up on a geocities website somewhere.
Probably not it
I'm about 30 years out of date on D&D
but it does sound overpowered and it is associated with Rillifane:
https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?448029-Post-Your-Chosen-Templates-Here
It seems that a lot of people come to the FR boards looking for info on Chosen of the various deities. To put it quite simply, the majority of them don't actually exist. So on the old FR boards, a group of members got together and started making their own homemade Chosen templates.
I have no idea what "the old FR boards" are, but if it was old in 2013, it's probably getting back towards the time you were looking at.
Chosen of Rillifane
Chosen of Rillifane Rallathil by green elven vampire
Also known as The Master of the Great Oak
Its a template that can be added to any Elf or Half Elf. A Chosen of Rillifane uses the character's statistics and special abilities except as noted below.
BONUS SPELLS (Sp): Constant ~ ~ Barkskin, Find the Path, Pass without trace. At will ~ ~ Tree Stride, Plant Growth, Snare.
5/day:~ ~ Greenfire, Holy Smite. 3/day~ ~ Change Staff, Spell Immunity. 1/day~ ~ Shambler, Command Plants.
Immunities (Ex): Chosen of Rillifane are Immune to ageing effects and do not age. They are also immune to all attacks and special abilities from creatures with the Plant subtype.
Forest feast (Ex): The chosen does not need to eat or drink while in forested areas.
Rillifane's Acorns (Sp): The Chosen can cause a barrage of acorns to launch from her hands, from the ground, or from an oak tree within 20 yards. The acorns can fly up to 50 yards, striking any enemy the chosen wishes. She can summon up to 2 acorns for every character level attained. Each acorn requires a successful ranged touch attack to hit and deal 1d4 points of damage each. This ability can be used 3 times a day.
The Leaflord's Amber Prison (Su): The chosen may encase a target in a hard, translucent coating of fossil resin in a yellow, orange hue. If the target makes a successful Fort save (DC 30) the prison dissipates without effect. If saving throw fails then target is caught in the amber prison just as the effects of a Hold Monster spell. The amber prison has an AC of 25 and a hardness of 30 with 75 hitpoints. Living targets encased in the prison suffocate in 2 rounds and die. No spells may be cast from inside the prison and cannot be cast at the target inside. This ability can be used once a day.
The Great Oak's gift (Sp): The chosen may take the form of a huge Treant of 13HD once a day. While in this form she has all the natural abilities of a treant and may cast spells as normal with no penalties.
Quickened spells (Sp): The chosen is granted the ability to cast certain spells as if using the Quicken Spell feat. The spells are all considered spell-like abilities and may be cast once a day each as a sorcerer of her total character level.
- Claws of the beast
- Cloudburst
- Quillfire
- Detect Crossroads
- Blinding Spittle
- Mass Awaken
- Blindsight
- Tortoise Shell
- Healing Sting
Saves: The character adds + 2 as a bonus to all saving throws.
Abilities: Increase from the character as follows: Dexterity +4, Strength +2 Charisma +2, Wisdom +4.
Skills: Wilderness lore, Handle animal, Animal empathy, and Move silently are class skills, regardless of the character's class.
Feats: (You gain these feats automaticly without meeting their prerequisites) Weapon Focus (quarter staff), Foe Hunter, Forester.
Climate/Terrain: Same as the character.
Organization: Same as the character, But must be a devoted follower of Rillifane Rallathil.
Challenge Rating: Same as the character +5.
Alignment: CG, CN, N
Treasure: Same as the character.
Advancement: Same as the character
Thanks for sharing that, it's pretty cool! But it's not the one, I'm pretty sure I'd have remembered the "shoots acorns out your hands" power! And more objectively, that's a 3e style class, and the one I'm looking for was definitely AD&D 2e.
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