Tip Of My Tongue

frontfigure is a flapper lady with green magic effects, eastern european inspired folklore monsters, played it as a mobile game for android back when the Samsung Galaxy S4 was new. played by moving pieces across a board made up of round slots/circles.

made by a swedish developer. franchise also has a newer but delisted steam game that plays more like heartstone.

@tipofmytongue FOUND IT! YouTube video: the narrator is trying to code some software for windows 95

And he finds out it is way harder. The video is long with several chapters and a compelling storytelling

This is the video:
I ported THOUSANDS of apps to Windows 95
https://youtu.be/CTUMNtKQLl8

I highly recommend watching it. Great stuff!

#tipofmytongue

A few years ago someone purchased this delicious dark chocolate bar with dried fruit on it. They bought it around christmas time. The box was fairly large, dark purple, and clear plastic in front so you could see the chocolate and dried fruits and nuts (raspberries, blackberries, pistachios, strawberries, and some other things). Would love to try to find it again.

I read it many years ago and my son is now of that age and in to these sorts of things so want to try and share it with him.

I was watching youtube a few days ago and i forgot a video essay i watched about a gothic or scene fashion designer that went to france for a while. it wasn't fiction but he was in icon in either one of those community.

The answer is: "The Dandelion Girl" by Robert F. Young, thanks to a now deleted post below.

I started reading this at work a couple weeks ago, but wasn't able to finish it at the time. Got a light morning, so I was trying to find it again, but to no avail.

I have a sneaking suspicion of the twist the story was building towards, but I wasn't sure how the author was going to pull it off, as it seemed to be a textbook time travel paradox.

I thought the title might have something to do with flowers, but including that in my searches did not yield results, even after filtering out all of the "Flowers for Algernon" results, so I might be wrong.

It starts with the guy commenting on (what I assume was) some current event where a conservative politician was talking about banning marriage to prevent gay marriage. He then presents a satire of it by going on a long tangential rant about establishing anarchist mini-communes I guess is the best way to describe it but the punchline is "so we won't all be ruled by the Jewish deep state" or similar (which is extra funny because all the conservatives I know these days are hardcore Zionists).

Each week a new person is in danger. They take them on their aircraft and make a copy of their face. The main actor wears it and deployed from the ship. He replaces the new person in their personal life and figures out who is threatening them.

Any ideas? I'm sure it's dated now but I loved it.

It's like Mission Impossible but with high tech face swapping. It's not these: The Invisible Man, The Visitor, Dark Skies.

I remember reading a webcomic back in the day and using the cute zombie as my Myspace avatar. (Yes, my back hurts. Why do you ask?) The comic had bright colors and was cute, not scary or sexy. The zombie character had brain sticking out of a hole on the top corner of his head. I didn't remember any other characters or plot.

Searched around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2000s_webcomics for comics whose names sounded familiar and had no hits. Any ideas?

Hi

I'm looking for a fantasy book I've read probably about 20 years ago. The main characters are westerners, a man and a woman, who survived a plane crash (?) in the South America jungle, in some hidden valley, the woman looses her finger (thumb?), she pees on it to disinfect the wound. They find a Chinese community (Zheng He expedition descendants?) living medieval Chinese life with all beliefs, cast system etc (i'm not sure). They (the Chinese) found some kind of a fungus (or maybe a herb?) that has some unique psychosomatic features, it's used extend the consciousness (like LSD), it's highly valued and connected with those people beliefs, it also enables body regeneration (if you really want to). That how the heroine regrows her finger. Chinese also have pet monkeys, that are very intelligent, they have a limited speech (one asks here master for a cookie) and reportedly use fire in the wilderness. The main characters live with this people for some time, plan to return to the civilization, they steal one of the monkeys to show them to the world. The monkey started to die of dehydration, they trying to five it water but it chokes, then a native explains them they don't drink water like we do, they just lick the droplets from their whiskers

I have recently been going on a city pop genre binge, and previously found this song. I also saw it on an instagram reel, that I no longer have. I was impressed by the trumpet playing, and wanted to listen to the whole song, and possibly more from that artist/group.

I've tried looking through japanese city-pop playlists on spotify and youtube, but it doesn't seem to be a big one, like Stay with Me or something. I also tried looking into japanese jazz (and found some great music), but no luck identifying this song.

I dont know what the lyrics were, but the bits I remember are a short trumpet introduction, with a chromatic pick up into when the phrase starts. The female voice is harmonized and sings a phrase, which is then responded by a group of trumpets belting very high notes in a loud and powerful chord. This sort of voice/trumpet switch off happens for the verse I can remember, but thats about it.

Does this sound at all familiar to anyone?

I really don't have much to go on for this, good luck

Back in the 90s or early 2000s I remember catching a few scenes of a movie or TV show that was playing in the background while I was over a relatives house. I feel like it was probably from about that time period, at the oldest it was maybe from the 80s, and absolutely no newer than about 2004.

The main thing I remember was that at some point it cut to a scene of a cruise missile flying at low altitude over the ocean, and I feel like it might have done that several times

There may have been 2 missiles, I remember them being white, and kind of a rectangular shape (the real life AGM-86 ACLM is pretty close to what I remember the shape being)

I feel like the plot was that there was some kind of a race against time to do something before the missile hit its target and that it cut to scenes of the missile flying a few times, but again I wasn't paying much attention to it and it's mostly just the scenes of the missiles flying that stuck in my head.

I really got nothing else. I feel like my best bet to identify it is if you can show me a scene with the missiles because that's really the thing that has for some reason stuck in my mind since I was a kid.

EDIT: after spending some time googling different missiles, probably getting myself on some kind of watchlist, some other kind of similar-looking missiles to what I remember

SOM
AGM-154
AGM-181 LRSO
Storm Shadow
Apache
Taurus KEPD 350
Wan Chien

That sort of square/rectangular shape of the missile is kind of what stuck out to me as a kid and made the image stick in my brain, I thought they looked cool

The scenes with the missiles flying I'm pretty sure were in the daytime

There may have also been a scene with them being launched from a plane, which tracks because most or all of those I listed seem to be aircraft-launched

It was also definitely a live action movie/show

The race against time aspect may not be correct. I was only half paying attention and probably saw less than 5 minutes of this movie in total.

EDIT2: Never say Never Again is probably the closest answer I've seen so far. Not totally sure that's it, but it gives you a pretty good general idea of what I'm remembering

Part 1: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/56156767

Okay so the 2nd computer is an Acer from 2010 or before:

1. Probably between 15" to 17" LCD (big enough to comfortably fit the numpad)
2. Rugged feel at the back with the Acer logo at one of the top corners but the power button isn't that huge one at the side like in some models I've seen while searching.
3. Definitely had Ethernet and a more than a couple USB-A ports, with HDMI but actually not sure if VGA or not (I assume so considering the times). Def had a CD drive and an SD card port.
4. Could have had smart card/external SATA port but it was blocked up, as if I got the model that didn't offer it.
5. HDD with Windows Vista that I think was like 125GB, and it was either an i3 or i5.
6. Canadian EN/FR keyboard layout on mine specifically if that helps.

Please help me find this laptop!

Part 1 because I have another model I'm going to be asking on a different post.

Asking here because I'm simply not finding it on the computer finders or Sony's website. I'm trying to remember an expensive-looking Sony VAIO laptop from mid to late 2000s or even 2010 - 12" LCD with Windows Vista, but very, very thin for its time. I remember it's a business laptop too. Not sure about storage, processor or RAM because it wasn't mine and I wasn't allowed to touch it - but it most likely came with an HDD.

Please help me find this laptop!

Sorry, i don’t have much info about this, through i might just try my luck anyways.

I’m looking for a video which was posted on YouTube (probably among other places) around the 2012 mark.

It was digitally drawn by hand. Similar to flash animations but more detailed I feel like.

It took a jab at the current state of triple a gaming (overselling, under delivering, overpriced extensions etc.)

It ended with a character sitting at home (I believe with their room flooding with water) saying “I could have bought food” while bonking their own head with something.

It is similar to this video which i thought it was but in fact wasn’t :(

Somebody accidentally deleted most of the system. There were no executables for any shells, text editors, or utilities. All they had was a single terminal that was still logged in as root. I think they had to manually type in some executable's machine code and echo it into a file.

Feels like something from n64/snes/ps1, but can be done on snes-wii or gba-ds. Gives me some Rareware/Naughtydog vibes. This is definitely some music from a (console) game, by it's motif and repetitive nature it fit something like a loading/waiting screen, sorta perfect for a documentary background music. I play not a lot of games

My recreation: https://onlinesequencer.net/4932090 ofc the drum pattern in real one is much more elaborate and follows the lead melody

In the original, piano is noticeably digital but convincing and has some strong reverb. There is no chord progression but a cymball stops drumming during the break.

Similar to "They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" by it's repetition and similar to "eyezmaze grow island" (flash game) for how piano sounds and possibly tempo. "Hangin' at Funky's" from DK country 3 on snes has similar percussion vibes but can't be sure since I've listened to so much tracks at this point going trough archives.

By documentary youtubers I mean someone closer to Jeffiot or summoning salt (HOME albums) music than half as interesting (generic music).

Any help is appreciated

Creatures were blind, used echolocation. There were different species who inhabited different depths, those on top knew about those who live near the bottom via tales from those beneath them etc. One dude had a stone from the bottom, there was a trade going on between those strata but they couldn't meed each other because of pressure difference. One time thee is a big noise coming from the ice, bunch of creatures gather wondering what it is, the drill appears, it's made of unknown to them material (metal). Dude with the stone uses it to "kill the beast"/cut the cable. People on Earth watch televised transmission from cameras on the drill, see the creatures and are amazed.

FOUND IT! It's Through the Roof of the World by Harry Turtledove

I was looking at some old YouTube videos when YouTube decided to randomly recommend a video made by crayhk about his evolution simulator. I decide to rewatch it since I remember watching it a few years back when suddenly I remembered a very specific outro I heard around the time I watched their videos. It went like this:

A black screen with I think where letters inside boxes appeared. I think the letters where A, B, C or maybe D and they were arranged in a specific order. After a second they appeared, one of the letter's boxes will would turn white and a small musical note would play. The box when then fade back to it's original state and the next box would turn white and paly a different note. This processes went left to right and played a small medoly how a sequencer in a music program would do it. One it got to the last letter, the letter's would get smaller and be pushed to the edge of the screen where more letters appear and a full song made of the letters would play. The background would no longer be black and instead be multiple colors and some recommended videos would appear.

Now, I thought this outro came from crayhk but for some reason, I can't find a video with that outro. I thought looking through their older videos would lead to me find them but I couldn't. All their videos just kind of end. I swear the channel that had it did something with evolution simulator and that they said something about combining coding and music together. I also remember that the channel name had either the same letters in the first musical segment or just started with the letter C.

I thought the channel name had CDA in it or something but I don't remember and searching it up gave very random videos. Please, I remember like a milliseconnd of how it sounded and desperately want to rehear it.

I think there is an anime girl involved

I cannot find this "internet novel" with any keywords like black or swarm or eyes, and I would love to read it again.

I'm pretty sure the chapters were posted on reddit, and it's the story of some kind of spaceship that appears one day, and a swarm of (black? undefined?) kill-bots are destroying humanity through the eyes of the humans somehow.

A small group of rebels find out that you must close your eyes and make no sound to stay undetected, but I don't remember how it ends.

This novel was eventually posted on its own web site, but I do remember reading it on a site like reddit. It's not a commercial project.

If anyone remembers this... Thanks!

Solved by @Aedis@lemmy.world https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gostak

I seem to remember reading a Wikipedia article about it. The sentence is "The X Ys Z". The words are gibberish like "Smirkel ghandles bitonipt". When you ask what is X you answer "X is what Ys Z", "what does it mean to Y?" "to Y is what X does to Z".

Am I remembering correctly or is there no such canonical sentence in English?

I remember coming downstairs as a child, and I'm 99.9% certain it was around 10 - 11 pm on 31st December 1999.

Im fairly sure my parents were watching some countdown to the millennium show, and I'm positive it was some music TV station (on sky in the UK). I'll admit that this is slightly based on my knowledge of how my parents celebrate new year.

My vague memory is of some guy getting hassled by punks, that is punk rockers. He may or may not have been in a suit. I seem to recall he was meant to be meek. Anyway I seem to recall he was pushed about, but at some point the leader of the punks pees on him from a height?

No idea of the music playing. But the imagery stuck.

Whilst I was only 7, my parents didn't usher me away, so I don't think it was a spicy movie or anything like that.

Any thoughts?

Looking for an old farm-set movie (1980s-2000s) with a very specific, unusual plot point: A teenage boy uses a trap in a barn/warehouse to knock out an older woman (sister/maid) to satisfy his curiosity about sex. I saw this movie on TV, so there was no actual sexual activity.

As the title says, I'm looking for a video where the creator gradually decreases the effort they put into the video.

More specifically, they argue that you don't really need great graphics, which are then dropped. Then, that a great camera isn't necessary, the mic, then video itself, then sound, until it's just text on a screen.

I may be misremembering the order, but the point of the video was that while these elements aren't essential, they do make the video better, again, if I remember correctly.

I hope someone remembers this video.