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I've been trying to find an adventure game that I got on a MacAddict demo disc in the late 1990s. It was one of those games where you typed in commands like "look north," "search desk" and had black-and-white Manhole-style graphics. The plot was something like, you wake up in your house to go about your normal day, but weird stuff happens. I distinctly remember that you could encounter Busta Rhymes and if you got into combat with him, he would blow weed smoke in your face and you would lose health. You could also encounter an alien. There were a lot of games like this, but only one with the weird Busta Rhymes weed smoke combat.
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Aug 5, 2019 13:36
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Julius CSAR posted:Speaking of old Mac games, can we all just take a moment to remember Our Lord and Savior, Ambrosia Software? RIP. The site and forums were still up until a few months ago, but are finally and truly dead now. Still kind of surprised and disappointed that they never did much with mobile/indie gaming, both of which boomed not super long after they started to fizzle out. Oh well.
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Aug 12, 2019 22:11
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Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:I lately remembered a game that I played when I was a kid, late 90s to early 2000s. It probably came on a PC Gamer sampler CD with coconut monkey. This has gotta be Deadlock.
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Sep 8, 2019 06:06
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Laslow posted:A Jeweler’s Monarch of Deflection on Diablo II.  about your botting setup and D2 hours figure, getting a legit Zod is insane.
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Sep 22, 2019 20:28
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Potrzebie posted:PcLeague v2.1, a football (soccer) manager from 1994 made by Asle Rokstad. Couldn't you just only download the one file you want? It's pretty easy to tell your torrent client to only download certain files.
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Dec 7, 2019 17:43
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bundled up with 19k other DOS-games, but that's not what I want.
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All Hat No Cattle posted:I'm looking for a music video that was sort of viral maybe ten or fifteen years ago. I don't remember much, but it involved people playing traditional instruments from Korea, Japan, or China (can't remember which), and the big thing was there was a blue wig that made the rounds. At least one person wore it on and off, and I think several people did. This might be Hatten Ar Din? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgdfcKtRQW8 It isn't Korea, Japan, or China, but there's a hat that makes the rounds.
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Dec 17, 2019 14:37
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Raspberry Bang posted:This one nags me every once in awhile:  I thought it was just me. I probably haven't seen that commercial in 20 years (until it was just posted) and I still think sometimes about how perfectly Der Komissar transitioned into Tainted Love.
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Mar 15, 2020 13:32
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curlingiron posted:This is a slightly different kind of request, but I have been trying to figure out the ...background lyrics, I guess you would call them, sung along with the last chorus of this song forever. I can make out “Something inside you is” and then I can make a guess at a few more words, and I think it ends with “then we will find you,” but there’s a huge chunk in the middle that I cannot decipher. Every time I look up the lyrics it doesn’t include that part, and I’m not technically savvy enough to try and manipulate the song itself.  very pleasantly surprised to see Grand Buffet postedI've listened to this song a ton and never tried to decipher that part for some reason. Best I can do is: something inside you is telling you try to break free of all that binds you and only then we can find you
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Mar 19, 2020 01:31
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super mario batali posted:I posted a white whale and the OP never came back to see it That poster is your white whale now. Reposting this one I posted last year in hopes that someone will recognize it: Bold Robot posted:I've been trying to find an adventure game that I got on a MacAddict demo disc in the late 1990s. It was one of those games where you typed in commands like "look north," "search desk" and had black-and-white Manhole-style graphics. The plot was something like, you wake up in your house to go about your normal day, but weird stuff happens. I distinctly remember that you could encounter Busta Rhymes and if you got into combat with him, he would blow weed smoke in your face and you would lose health. You could also encounter an alien. Bold Robot fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Apr 11, 2020 |
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Apr 11, 2020 15:36
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cda posted:I'm looking for a science fiction story. The premise is that because of overpopulation or something, people only live on alternate days and they get put in stasis on the other days, so for example one person would live Monday Wednesday and Friday, and the other one would live Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and then maybe every other Sunday or something like that. My memory is hazy and Google hasn't helped. Something like this happens in Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky. It isn't the premise of the story but on/off stasis schedules get discussed a bunch.
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Apr 30, 2020 18:32
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Jean Pony posted:My white whale is a video game. Do you remember anything else about it? There were a ton of platformers in that era and this could describe any number of them. What did your character look like?
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May 28, 2020 21:54
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I'm looking for a TV commercial: San Pellegrino used to have a cool jingle that went "Dinner at Eight, San Pellegrino" or something like that, but I can't find it on the internet at all.
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Dec 31, 2020 03:11
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Looking for what was either a long-ish episode of the 90s Outer Limits or a made-for-TV movie that I saw on the Sci Fi channel at some point in the early to mid 2000s. There's a space station that acts like a leper colony for people with an incurable disease that causes strange mutations; nobody else is allowed to visit and they've got a nice little community of oddballs. Theyget contacted by the government and asked to somehow help out to create a cure for the disease, I think by letting a team of scientists aboard or something like that. The leaders of the station debate whether it's a trick or not and eventually decide to try and help, over strong objections. It doesn't go well and it turns out it was pretty much a trick. The last shot of the episode is a huge batch of new mutants arriving at the station as the current inhabitants look on in horror, with the implication being that the place is about to become really overcrowded and lovely. I remember that there was a clean-cut officer dude who got sent to negotiate the station's assistance, who reveals near the end that he also has the disease. This was not the Dr. Who episode "Terminus" which is the only thing I can find when googling for sci-fi stuff that involves leper colony space stations.
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Jan 11, 2021 23:26
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Action Jacktion posted:That was an episode of Masters of Science Fiction called “The Discarded,” based on a story by Harlan Ellison. 
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Jan 12, 2021 15:21
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Churchill posted:This is kind of vague, but someone tweeted about working as a server and someone famous was a guest and his food order was messed up somehow. The server apologised and the celebrity said something along the lines of "don't worry, they be like that sometimes". The celebrity in question then actually responded to the tweet once it blew up. Any idea what I'm talking about? https://twitter.com/Ludacris/status/1072248963208744962
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Feb 2, 2021 18:09
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Literally A Person posted:What is this?: Not sure what exactly that thing is, but yeah it looks like ready service ammunition refers to ammunition stored to be ready for quick use. Maybe this was some kind of dongle or tag used in connection with storage of 20mm ammunition. Here's a pic I found on reddit of a "20mm ready service" room. Bold Robot fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Feb 19, 2021 |
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Feb 19, 2021 20:24
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The other is a two-player card game from the 1970s: it let you play WWI dogfights against each other. Each of you had a hand of cards. You both chose a move, and the combination of your moves led to two new cards that showed your current orientation relative to each other. It was such a brilliant piece of design. I *think* each card showed your plane from your point-of-view, but it might have shown both planes. Arsenic Lupin posted:Each player had their own deck, and I think you could buy different planes as additional decks. It's not Dogfight, because the colors were black and white and it was delicate drawings of the planes. I've seen this game - it was the late 90s I was at my cousin's place and I really wanted to play it but he didn't want to. I have the same recollection of delicate, black and white drawings of the planes from the pilot's point of view. But unfortunately I have no idea what it was called.
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