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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Years after it was a meme, I had the Harlem shake voice line into music in my head, but no idea from where, and trying to remember or find the song. It took months, until I stumbled upon it eventually.
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
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.
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”
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
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
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’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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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”
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~
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.
quack quack
Jordan Capri?
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.
