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.
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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.
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.
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”
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
There’s an electronic drum and bass song called “Ford Fiesta” don’t remember the artist.
It’s a bit of a loaded search term
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i forgot what it was, and now i dont even know what to search for but i knew i wanted to find a very specific thing online which i couldn’t, oh well.
can you describe it? anything that you saw or heard
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.
“adblock detected DX no dice sry”
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 are several online tools that will try to name tracks based on sample audio.
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.
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
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.
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.
