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My Lovely Horse posted:Whether it was or wasn't, that one rings a bell. Nah, it was pretty crude iirc and Legorobot's art was more detailed also he got helldumped for being a pedophile (legorobot, dunno about mayonnaise guy) Phy fucked around with this message at 18:35 on May 6, 2021 |
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Funky See Funky Do posted:No they were from like New Jersey or maybe New York or something? They weren't obscure or anything. They weren't huge but they were big enough that people in Australia bought their CD. So sorry, when I said Italian I meant Italian-American. The only Italian American rap group I can think of were Lordz of Brooklyn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY1T14Faz90 Edit: the "lots of horns thing and cityscapes on the album" thing could possibly be Fun Lovin Criminals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cuBNhmL0l0 Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 21:54 on May 6, 2021 |
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von Braun posted:Anyone know of PC game from the Win 98-era. It was FPS or 3rd person shooter with like water guns and water balloons? I think it was some kind of arena shooter. It was from what I remember quite colorful. Nerf Arena Blast? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerf_Arena_Blast
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A Macintosh II series. IICI, IIX, IIFX (lol I'm not that lucky) IIC. A Quadra would be just as good. Had a source in BC for one but they strung me along for months and then just stopped responding to me, jackass. Even did a few video calls but never actually nailed down the price or shipping after repeatedly trying.
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This is a deep cut. I remember back in like 1995 or so there was an issue of EGM where they were showing you the new exciting world of the internet. One of the websites they showed off was a website called "Cafe Eblana" and all it was was a Final Fantasy 6 fan site. I wanted to visit the site so bad but I didn't have a computer (or I might have at that time but no internet). I have no idea why I still remember the name of the website but I would love to visit it. This is assuming the way back machine even has it archived. I can't really find much about it on Google. Does anyone else remember this site and does anyone know if it's archived somewhere? I would love to end this 25 year long chapter!
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:The only Italian American rap group I can think of were Lordz of Brooklyn. Nope! Honestly I have no idea. Them being white or Italian or from NY are just vague impressions I've got in my memory. The "lots of horns" thing might just be one particular song. The scratching was the main thing though. It was definitely before 2004. I think it was fairly contemporary but it may have been from the mid-late 90s. It was definitely not from the 80s. I've scoured lists of every hip-hop album released from 1995 to 2004 and it just doesn't stand out. Sounded a lot like the Pharcyde but not the Pharcyde.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Nope! Honestly I have no idea. Them being white or Italian or from NY are just vague impressions I've got in my memory. The "lots of horns" thing might just be one particular song. The scratching was the main thing though. drat this should be easy for me. I actually worked on a hip hop trivia board game with a prominent rapper and I actually stumped him a bunch of times. I'm really surprised it's not Fun Lovin Criminals because they're all about horns and being from NYC and the back of their album cover even had the skyline thing you talked about. The only other group I can think of, from your "mostly blue album cover" memory, is Funkdoobiest. They're sort of white (Hispanic I believe), and definitely give off an impression of being from New York even though I think they're from LA. Their beats were entirely done by DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill and House of Pain fame, which kinda jives with other things you've said. They have two album covers that are kind of all blue   Their music has a lot of horns too. Is it them? I am gonna solve this by the way.
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No but Funkdoobiest is getting closer to the sound. Think the Pharcyde "Drop". The scratching is the stand out thing on the album. It very very prominent.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:No but Funkdoobiest is getting closer to the sound. Think the Pharcyde "Drop". You are 1,000% sure that they are white? If so that should make it a LOT easier for me. Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 16:13 on May 8, 2021 |
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Here are some other white rapper possibilities; This one has lots of horns and scratching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fNpEWvdCDU I don't think it's this dude (early 90s) but he's literally an italian-american rapper from New Jersey and probably the only one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48G4PJM9fqs This was a white/black duo, but from New Jersey and dope production (not to be confused with the Downtown Science linked earlier): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1IGFsgctuo More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF0DntqwMKg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3glI9ydz0g This one has an italian dude named Prime Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6p415FZ4Rw Another possibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrDJQgfkVIE Don't let the name fool you, all 5 members were white guys from NY (also it has LOTS of horns and scratches): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80HrR1OvLTo All this guy does is rap about being Italian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8xOBFR9RLI Others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTG8U-FzmZg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv7Gwb9j63I Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 16:46 on May 8, 2021 |
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Not a candidate I just want to get in on the posting of forgettable forgotten white rappers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21RY2OFnuQI
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shadow puppet of a posted:Not a candidate I just want to get in on the posting of forgettable forgotten white rappers Aw I really liked Pete Nice. That album was pretty good! If you wanna talk about forgettable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbX5cuvLRWs
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count me as another vote for "Pete Nice is great, i prefer his verses to Serch's in 3rd Bass's discography and his album with Daddy Rich is good too, better not only than Return of the Product but better than some 3rd Bass songs and i'm kinda more impressed with Pete for putting Kurious Jorge on than with Serch for putting Nas on" if that's what you were implying Daddy Rich is a great scratch DJ and is on that album a lot and it came out in 1993 which explains if you didn't see it in your searching by the way
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:You are 1,000% sure that they are white? If so that should make it a LOT easier for me. I am not even 50% sure that they're white anymore. It's just the impression I have. I have got this vague image in my head of guys wearing those 1920s caps, but I dunno. It was 20 years ago and it probably listened to it 4 or 5 times. I'm not even positive it was a group anymore. I'm mostly sure because I think they had different people come in and rap different verses but maybe not? Funky See Funky Do fucked around with this message at 03:05 on May 9, 2021 |
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I've been looking for this book for years, and I may have posted in this thread and in TBB previously. The cover had a kind-of golden scorpion on, and the story involves a plane returning with everyone either disappeared or asleep. It turns out they bought back some kind of extra-dimensional parasite from another dimension. It was theorised in the book that they were just parasites living on a higher dimensional being. They start out quite harmless, but develop into a kind of scorpion that flies through expelling air, maybe? They become more deadly and nearly wipe out humans. In the last page it is revealed that it is a historical study from the last human city in the future that has guns to stop the flying killer scorions.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:This is a deep cut. Are you sure it was EGM? But unsurprisingly the site is long gone. It moved around a bit, but none of the other links I came across were saved either (e.g. http://www.dragonfire.net/~TheBadGuy/eblana.html at one point). All that remains is a bunch of people reminiscing or complaining that it turned into a big ball of drama (like this one, may need to highlight text on this one)  (From https://archive.org/details/game-players-issue-80-january-1996/page/n29/mode/2up) Here's one that's still online so you don't go away empty-handed: https://www.angelfire.com/rpg/stars602/ Edit: probably lots more archived through here: http://web.archive.org/web/20000823134301/http://directory.mozilla.org/Games/Video_Games/Genres/RPGs/Final_Fantasy_Series/ Doug Sisk posted:I've been looking for this book for years, and I may have posted in this thread and in TBB previously. The cover had a kind-of golden scorpion on, and the story involves a plane returning with everyone either disappeared or asleep. It turns out they bought back some kind of extra-dimensional parasite from another dimension. It was theorised in the book that they were just parasites living on a higher dimensional being. uvar fucked around with this message at 02:18 on May 9, 2021 |
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uvar posted:Are you conflating some other book with The Langoliers? Sadly not, it is a very vivid memory of where the alien scorpions came from! And they definitely farted through the air to sting/kill people.
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uvar posted:All that remains is a bunch of people reminiscing or complaining that it turned into a big ball of drama (like this one, may need to highlight text on this one) "I started this incredibly minorly popular thing and after a few months an rear end in a top hat wanted to change something also incredibly minor and we split into two warring factions"
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:This is a deep cut. Images will be broken all over the place, but does any of this look familiar? Cafe Eblana message board Cafe Eblana "core" As far as I can tell, Cafe Eblana's owner gave up in 1998 but left the hosting online through 2001 or so; some of the community migrated over to Livejournal and IRC but their footprints are... scarce.
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Oh cool, I didn't come across those ones! What a time capsule. And also virtually incomprehensible and pointless. But still neat.
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Yond Cassius posted:Images will be broken all over the place, but does any of this look familiar?
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In the late '90s, Computer and Videogames Magazine (CVG) used to have a section in the middle of the mag which was made from cheaper, yellow paper. I think you were supposed to pull it out and separate it from the rest of the magazine. It had cheat codes for the games at the time but what I mostly remember was the mascot being a badly drawn psycho looking dog called "Hunter", who might have also answered reader's questions. I'd love to see some scans of these pages again. While we're on the subject, PlayStation Plus magazine (basically a 'lads mag' featuring lots of half naked women as well as PlayStation reviews, news, etc) once ran an April Fools article about an upcoming game called 'Scum'. It had very poor graphics and was cashing in on the backlash against violent videogames at the time (this might have been around the time GTA3 was released but possibly earlier). Scum was a first person shooter where the player could wander around the neighbourhood committing murders with hammers and nail guns. The only mention of this prank I can find online is from ten years ago in a tabloid watch comment - http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2010/07/mock-star-game.html?m=1 quote:This reminds me of an April Fool's joke from about ten years ago. In its April issue, PlayStation Plus magazine ran a preview of a fake ultra-violent game called Scum, in which players were rewarded for viciously slaughtering innocent people. This was picked up by the Star, who ran the typical 'fury' and 'outrage' story.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:In the late '90s, Computer and Videogames Magazine (CVG) used to have a section in the middle of the mag which was made from cheaper, yellow paper. I think you were supposed to pull it out and separate it from the rest of the magazine. It had cheat codes for the games at the time but what I mostly remember was the mascot being a badly drawn psycho looking dog called "Hunter", who might have also answered reader's questions. I'd love to see some scans of these pages again. Archive.org has 300+ issues scanned. https://archive.org/details/computer-video-games-magazine
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I am not even 50% sure that they're white anymore. It's just the impression I have. I have got this vague image in my head of guys wearing those 1920s caps, but I dunno. It was 20 years ago and it probably listened to it 4 or 5 times. Probably way off base but the mention of horns, scratching, different rappers on verses and being played in Australia makes me think of Cut Chemist Suite by Ozomatli https://youtu.be/bjb9i5r9inc
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Porfiriato posted:Archive.org has 300+ issues scanned. Oh my goodness, thank you. E: here's the dog 
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Porfiriato posted:Archive.org has 300+ issues scanned. I love that they're there because I couple of years ago I tracked down the letter I wrote to Yobs mailbag when I was 13. 
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Jumpsuit posted:Probably way off base but the mention of horns, scratching, different rappers on verses and being played in Australia makes me think of Cut Chemist Suite by Ozomatli That song definitely rings a bell but the rest of the album doesn't fit and the album art is wrong. If that was the only song of theirs I heard I'd say they're a strong contended but it's not them.
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I've been trying to find this old-rear end anime OVA I saw forever ago which was set in a lovely cyberpunk future where cyber-demon worshippers kidnap the protagonist and turn him into a massive 12 foot tall cyborg demon (with an amazing bouffant 80s hairstyle) and send it to kill the president and it ends with a huge fight on top of a skyscraper between the cyber demon (who is now good) and the villain who's now encased inside a military-style cyborg attack robot. You'd think that it wouldn't be so hard to find but it turns out there was an almost endless stream of 80s cyber-demon-armor animes and this lovely OVA is apparently pretty obscure. I was just about to post a request in this thread when I stumbled across it: Cybernetics Guardian! Just look at this stupid thing, what the gently caress:  Here's the entire OVA on Youtube if anyone else wants to laugh at a really dumb 80s cyberdemonpunk anime that takes itself wayyyyyy too seriously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV4BITkK4Sc
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Kosmo Gallion posted:Oh my goodness, thank you. Like if you clicked on the dog to read what he was saying only to be disappointed.
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Yond Cassius posted:As far as I can tell, Cafe Eblana's owner gave up in 1998 but left the hosting online through 2001 or so; some of the community migrated over to Livejournal and IRC but their footprints are... scarce.  My name is mentioned in that horrible long texty site a few times, along with that of another guy I'm still in touch with a little and at least one other goon. I met a couple members in person back when the Internet was a nicer place to be. Back on Prodigy and, later, IRC, Eblana was mostly a bunch of people meeting virtually to bullshit. The guy I'm still in touch with recently invited me to their Discord, so the group (or a subset thereof) is still hanging on.  There was, of course, drama. Case in point: That "einexile" site seems to be some weird prose activity log of the group produced by the soi-disant owner/leader, e, who was a huge rear end in a top hat and would often leave for weeks or months in a fit of pique. Years later, he turned out to be a massive chud. Who knew? Thanks for the blast from the past!
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I have three things that I've been looking for for years now. First is a picture I was sure I found on pictures of walls but it doesn't seem to be there: it was a photo of a rock (maybe four feet high?) that somebody had painted a little cartoon house with a face, with the words "and you are so beautiful to me". I'm pretty sure I first saw it years ago in some thread here, but it's been long enough that I have no idea anymore. Second is a flash video, probably from around 2005-2009. All I really remember about it was that it music video for a non-english song, and at one point there's a character with a horse skull (basically this) who fades in while a synthesized voice sings "yoi yoi yoiiiiiiiiiiiii". Third was one of the many music threads here, where people were making acapella covers of video game music. this song came out of that thread and if anyone knows the thread or what game this came from (I think the file name was originally Anachronox but as far as I was able to find there isn't really a song like this in that game?) that would be super cool e- it just occurred to me this thread would have been 2005 or 2006. yikes. Wudz fucked around with this message at 16:24 on May 9, 2021 |
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Wudz posted:Third was one of the many music threads here, where people were making acapella covers of video game music. this song came out of that thread and if anyone knows the thread or what game this came from (I think the file name was originally Anachronox but as far as I was able to find there isn't really a song like this in that game?) that would be super cool This might be the thread, it’s in archives. shelley fucked around with this message at 18:01 on May 9, 2021 |
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Wudz posted:Second is a flash video, probably from around 2005-2009. All I really remember about it was that it music video for a non-english song, and at one point there's a character with a horse skull (basically this) who fades in while a synthesized voice sings "yoi yoi yoiiiiiiiiiiiii". sada_end.swf? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hd6YKFTzQ
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shelley posted:This might be the thread, it’s in archives. You might be right! I'm not super familiar with browsing the archives, is it normal for it to think pages 10 and beyond don't exist? Actually it looks like it was included in a bundle of songs from previous threads, so I'll see if I can't dig back further from there. Thanks! Aaaaaaaaaaaaah that's exactly it! I guess it was just a regular horse, but that's totally it. Rad, thanks e- boy I really did only remember the end, huh Wudz fucked around with this message at 18:21 on May 9, 2021 |
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Wudz posted:You might be right! I'm not super familiar with browsing the archives, is it normal for it to think pages 10 and beyond don't exist? You’re welcome! Sometimes archives is weird and slow — I haven’t had that exact issue, but it doesn’t surprise me. I started looking for those earlier threads and only found this one so far, but it doesn’t have your song in it  I hope you find it!
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Splicer posted:I love when this thread turns into rubber duck debugging Never heard this terminology before, if you have a hot minute what does it come from? Fake edit: Rubber Ducky Debugger is a sweet username. Real edit: Wasn’t there some sort of Smorky or Smorky-ish video (probably def) called Platform Hero or the equivalent? I remember his “horse” (very Gumby-like) vomiting to fill a canyon so they could cross in one episode and for some reason I found this hilariously funny. DerekSmartymans fucked around with this message at 21:57 on May 9, 2021 |
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DerekSmartymans posted:Never heard this terminology before, if you have a hot minute what does it come from? It's some coding nerdery, based on the story of a programmer who would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themself to explain it, line-by-line, to the duck. The basic concept is that by explaining a problem you'll often gain insight and often come up with the solution on your own.
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Tip posted:It's some coding nerdery, based on the story of a programmer who would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themself to explain it, line-by-line, to the duck. See one, do one, teach one. Even m1’s know that! Awesome link, too!
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Tip posted:It's some coding nerdery, based on the story of a programmer who would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themself to explain it, line-by-line, to the duck.
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