That thing you could’ve sworn you existed, remembered existed and how it has now turned into a great wonder of a chase to acquire again after so long. What is that thing for you?
Mine is discovering what music was played during an old internet radio show I still listen to was. The episodes I’m listening to are 21 years old now and for years I wondered what specific tracks were played on that show that I so want copies of. In one of the episodes, the host mentions that the backing music is from Digitally Imported now known as DI.FM.
However, that doesn’t do me any good since newer music is played now on that platform and with no hint or source telling me what tracks were played on that show in show notes or even word of mouth, I’ve no hope in tracking them down. So for so long, I’ve had to listen to this show’s episodes almost religiously, just because of the music that was played.
And my only hope now is tinkering with audio tools so I can figure a way to rip out the parts where the hosts are talking so it is just the music, then go around online asking people who’re more expert on the genre than I am to tell me, then find them and download them.
OQ and OC text by @Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org
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.
Captain claw? The cat is not red tho…
Nah, but pirate cats? I’ll play that!
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.
Sexy Losers by clay is the origin of the word “fap”
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Oh! I have one. And it’s actually very white.
Back on ebaumsworld circa 2003 there was this flash interactive thing. It wasn’t quite a game, it wasn’t quite a video because it required interaction to progress. It involved men in suits doing strange things. Boxing, one would yell into a bullhorn if you clicked on him, had a drum beat behind it, black and I think red line art on a white background.
Exactly the kind of thing search engines are bad at finding, and I’ve even looked on the wayback machine and no dice.
is it Han Hoogerbrugge’s interactive Flash pieces, specifically the Modern Living/Neurotica (and later Nails/Hotel) series
Mine is a youtube video where girl shares that she used to do extreme self deprecating humor like “oh, i dropped this thing, i should just kill myself” but tried flipping completely to “oh, i dropped this thing, guess it’s the price of having such nice skin and grace.” She noticed how it helped her improve her relation with her friends and weed out the bad ones. This video was profoundly influential to me but i didn’t realize until later so i didn’t save it at the time.
Sometime between 2005 and 2008, someone from explosm (the cyanide and happiness guys) did a thing in the forums where they’d draw a comic panel and the forum decided what happened next by voting in the thread. It’d go on for a few days, and by the end the stories were always wildly off the rails. They did it ~3 times. Sometime later, they lost all of their forums, which included these threads. I’ve always wondered if there’s an archive of those things somewhere. They were absolutely legendary.
Due to this post I just found mine.
For the longest time I’ve been trying to find a video that featured someone copying a VHS recording over and over again, each time loosing a little bit of quality.
The specific video featured a catchy song, but I couldn’t remember the song or any of the words. I’ve found a few different videos over the years but every time I found a video the song was wrong.
Every few years it’s jumped into my head and I’ve gone off looking for it, but could never quite figure it out.
This time I either put in just the right terms or the magic algorithm has moved it around,
Makes me think of Disintegration Loops
It’s actually pretty cool, I remembered something very similar to this but it was from AVGN. It was uploaded, but taken down, of him showcasing the degrading video quality of a VHS, it was exactly something like this. It might’ve been a home video he did, where he or someone is punching another person while jogging down the street and everytime it played, the quality went down.
This was a really neat watch!
I wonder if it was inspired by Alvin Lucier’s “I am Sitting in a Room”
one of mine is an old flash video that i think i remember was on newgrounds, that had a black guy and a white guy talking to each other.
the only things i can remember is the black guy saying, “i feel ashamed and neglected,” and white guy saying “I WILL NOT STOP UNTIL I GET THE ANSWERS THAT I CRAVE”
There was a Tetris type game, with falling pieces you had to rotate and line up, but the pieces were men and women. When they fit together in sex positions, they moaned.
I was 14 and it was hilarious.
If it was called anything but Sextris, they fucked up.
Titris?
This is acceptable.
Tetrisque
We all have that one porn video.
I don’t because I did a siterip in like 2006-2007ish. I never lost that video.
So you didn’t truecrypt then forget the keyfile?
Nope, actually I’ve been very successful at keeping my data intact. I have files going all the way back to my first desktop PC that I got when graduating high school. The oldest files I have are dated early 2000.
Similar, but I’ve been saving quality content from FA, E6, etc for over 20 years now. First it was because DSL was awful (700kb/s) and images were small enough for storing, then it was for archival, now the last decadeish I have plex scan the directory whenever I drop this months downloads onto my server, and boom it’s my personal treasure trove, whenever I please. Come over, little TV show, maybe a movie, some snuggles and hey there look at this huge dragon I found last week~
Jordan Capri?
I have multiple!
It isn’t because they were completely unique or anything either, just that they had the right lighting and framing and reactions that really worked in a sea of similar stuff. Found a few of them over the years, but there are still a few out there haunting me.
Mine aren’t because they were perfect, just because I was on the cusp of manhood, and they imprinted on me like a duckling that thinks a pair of wellies are its mom.
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Mine: Pretty blonde girl with some piercings and knee-high rainbow socks doing a striptease to the song “Sail” by Awolnation. She was pretty and timed herself well to the song, it was hypnotic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaAWdljhD5o
It’s not the same, but 2 girls wrestling while wet is also fun to watch.
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”?
No, I think they end with a title card for whichever association sponsored the ad.
There was a browser game I remember playing in ~2010 that was basically a zoo tycoon game where you unlocked new animals over time
Nostalgically, I wanted to play it a little while bac,k but I’m sure you can imagine why searching “browser zoo game” didn’t exactly help me much
Back around 1991 or so, I saw a promotional piece of art in a centerfold in a Nintendo Power magazine, which was a high-resolution and not-cropped version of the artwork that appears on the Secret of Mana title screen. I really liked the image, and wished that I could get a copy. I thought that someone must have scanned the art at some point, but couldn’t find it anywhere online. Back around 2023 — 32 years later — after repeated, sporadic hunts — I finally found a high-quality scan, and uploaded it to !gameart@sopuli.xyz:
https://lemmy.world/post/18353742
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4f16e6c1-2174-45fa-b9e9-c8ae6e1a3f7d.png
I promptly ran into another Threadiverse user in that thread who had been saying that he had been looking for the same thing for ages.
EDIT: Based on this Reddit post of a lower-quality version, the artist is Hiro Isono.
I remember this image too it’s so fucking badass.
In fact, like I did with the UNIX is Magic poster, I may take this image and get it printed up on a nice large, glossy poster and mount it because fuck I have missed this. Thank you for sharing.
A friend of mine did that! It came out really well.
He made a bunch of posters. This is just one image here: https://photos.chrisco.me/p/michaelc/879026569247499414
Theres a bigger one in more detail over at a local makerspace.
Hah! Glad to hear that that’s another white whale harpooned, then!
I mean, I had completely forgotten about it entirely until you shared it and then the memory just blasted into my mind.
There’s a cool video that talks about that title screen - how it was quite a feat to get that large image to load. They had to deploy a bunch of tricks to make it work. Love that image, and the game of course is one of my favorites of all time. Thanks for the upload!
When I was a young teen, I loved collecting MIDIs because I didn’t have a good way of getting music in other formats–I still had dial up, and didn’t know about other methods. Plus I mostly enjoyed songs from video games. There was one I found that had a very enchanting melody and I loved it to death. Kept it on its own special floppy disk. Inevitably, it got lost and I never could remember the name of the song or what game it came from. I did search but not knowing either of those things, and it being only a melody with no lyrics, made it difficult to find. Then, one day, while listening on Spotify, it just magically appeared.
Sora from Escaflowne :)
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.
