Tip Of My Tongue

It was kind of famous on Mastodon and had 2 authors. The website work on donations and had a phrase on the header.

I think the latest post I read from it was about researchers papers and research being sold to train AI, without the authors consent.

Does anyone recognize it?

Edit: it was pivot to AI.

The story is about an artist who isn't very successful until he notices some tiny creatures (aliens?) and they somehow get into his eyes. This makes his art really great, but also drives him crazy. His art is full of those tiny faces, because that is what he sees.

Not sure if it was in a book or a magazine, but I would love to read it again.

It was a middle-grade reader, I think. Kind of goofy and spooky, with monsters and toys that came alive. I specifically remember some army men coming alive to fight a monster. Pretty sure the protagonists were two siblings, a girl and a boy.

Any ideas? I wish I could remember more, I listened to it as an audiobook in the 90's or 2000's in the US, I'm pretty sure it was new-ish then so maybe published in the 80's or sooner?

It was a 2D platformer, made sometime in the 2010s.

The main character was a penguin, who used an orange sword and a blue cybernetic boomerang as weapons.

In the description, the game was called "retro" or "retro-styled", and it looked like a cross between Mega Man X and Final Ninja Zero by Nitrome.

The game I'm looking for was probably not made by Nitrome.

The first level/tutorial was called "Like You Just Woke Up".

I had a vague recollection the other day of a comedy bit but not sure where I saw it.

The bit was basically two people sitting down at a table playing an overly simplified version of Chess or checkers. One person moved the piece and said "check" and the other moved it back and said "checkmate".

I want to say it was either Mork and Mindy, 3rd Rock from the Sun, or Red Dwarf.

I used to know an EDM song, and now I found it in one of the mashup mixes on YouTube (0:22 to 0:36).

It was mixed with Barbie Girl by Aqua vocals so I cleaned it up a bit with the tools available online so I could give it to Shazam (otherwise recognized it as Barbie Girl), but unfortunately it couldn't identify this piece 😔

About half a year ago (time is fleeting so I'm not sure how accurate that estimate is) my friend showed me the trailer to an upcoming MMO.

I don't remember a lot. What I do remember is that the art-style, including characters, looked similar to Minecraft/Hytale, but less blocky on the world side, characters did look blocky though, I believe.

I remember a scene where about 30 player characters invaded a small fortification with wooden palisade walls. At least one of the player characters had a staff or wand that would allow them to use fire magic.

I believe the game was advertised as one of those "you can build outposts anywhere" kind of games (the ones that never work out) where that group of 30 players raided one of those outposts.

I'm not sure what stage the game was at, but I believe it was a kickstarter campaign/looking for funding.

It was on Reddit a few years ago. Someone casted porn to a tv and the staff was desperately trying to cover it up. Sorry if no NSFW is allowed here. I don't know how to tag NSFW.

I am looking for a movie, late 90s to late aughts. What I remember is a press junket for a fictional movie in some hotel and the chaos around it. One specific thing I remember is the director in the movie buying the Unabomber's shack to complete the movie.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/22421335

I'm having trouble recalling the title of the video where the content creator Muta (SomeOrdinaryGamers) did an in-depth analysis (Deep Dive) of the kid (think his name is Miles) who traveled to Albania for some TikTok video because of (the word called I can’t remember what it’s called, where when students take a break from their education to take a little vacation), and that leads him to be unable to leave the county. I could be wrong about if it’s actually Albanian. I can't seem to locate it, and it's for my personal study. I could also be wrong and I’m sorry if that’s the case, I must have misunderstood and this is probably a Mandela effect.

**Sorry if this isn’t the correct community. The creator doesn’t have a community on lemmy. **

Only thing I remember about the movie was the scene where a woman (probably brunette) was sitting in an open space office with her legs on a desk reading a magazine. Her boss sees her from across the office and makes the sour face. He wants her to get back to work. So, the woman sits straight and starts typing on a keyboard ironically (waving her hands in the air and tilting her head).

SOLVED : Movie name is Idiocracy

I only remember one scene which I saw on youtube years ago.

It's a science fiction movie. The character is in a futuristic prison, where he just arrived. The guards are asking him his name. He is asked to put his hand into a machine where his name/number will be tattoed on. He answers something else and that gets tattoed on his arm.

I first thought it was Total Recall, but it doesn't seem so.

I only remember one scene which I saw on youtube years ago.

It's a science fiction movie. The character is in a futuristic prison, where he just arrived. The guards are asking him his name. He is asked to put his hand into a machine where his name/number will be tattoed on. He answers something else and that gets tattoed on his arm.

I first thought it was Total Recall, but it doesn't seem so.

My memory of this is super vague and might even be mixing multiple books.

When I was a kid, I had a book that I think was a short story anthology, but the stories might have been from multiple books. (Sorry for the uncertainty.) I've been trying to figure out what this book is, on and off, for years because I keep mentioning it and no one knows it.

One of the short stories is absolutely Taily Po, though perhaps a sanitized version of it. I remember being very proud of the voice I made up for the original owner of the Taily Po as I read the story to my mother while we drove around.

Another is about a girl who died, or perhaps was murdered, then came back to life. My only memory of that is that, when the girl was resurrected, she said she became very familiar with needles because your consciousness was retained by your body even after you passed. In the story, she used this familiarity with needles to paralyze (I think) her murderer without him noticing the injection. As a child, the idea horrified me for a while, mainly due to the concept of being buried while conscious ... Though the girl described her autopsy (which I guess is how she learned about needles) and that sounded pretty awful as well. In case it helps, I think this revelation came about when the murderer was sitting in the front seat of a truck and, unbeknownst to him, the girl was in the back seat. An ally of hers was driving the truck. It's also possible the girl was a zombie rather than being brought back to life.

Finally, with almost no plot details I can recall, there was a story about a kid losing their cat. I believe the cat came back to life but with malice, similar to Pet Sematary, which I didn't hear of until decades later. On the cover of the book - and my main memory of it, other than the location where I sat while I read it - the cat was depicted floating upside down outside of (presumably) the kid's bedroom window. From memory and possibly inaccurate, the cover of the book was mostly purple; the cat was floating outside of a window with a golden frame, centered in the image; and the night sky beyond was fairly typical, though I remember it having a greenish tinge. Everything was somewhat cartoonish in depiction. The cat was a calico and, again, upside down.

Typing this out, these all feel like very different tones for stories, so it was probably at least two different books, if not three. The main one I've been trying to remember is the one with the cat, but I'd welcome any insight on the two that aren't Taily Po.

Thank you in advance!

For example the sun is real but Jimmy Bob tries to debunk it

What would the word or term for that be

There was this video I was watching on Facebook with an animated mushroom ceo talking to a pigeon employee about getting employees back to the office and then the pigeon employee sees through the excuses and the mushroom ceo reveals the real reason

Watched the video but Facebook decided to refresh before I could get the video title and creator name

What I'm pretty sure that happens: The witch kidnaps the boy's romantic interest, turns a frog into a copy of the girl (who engages in suspicious behavior, such as eating flies), to trick the boy who invaded the witch's castle to rescue the romantic interest.

What I'm not so sure that happens: I believe that is explicit that the whole situation is happening in the boy's imagination, in a Mona: The Vampire style. I believe the boy's relationship with the girl is platonic.

I cannot remembers if is a short or long movie, or an episode from a series.

I watched it dubbed into Portuguese, between 2006-2011, replayed a few times, on one of the following Brazilian television networks: TV Cultura, TV Escola or TV Futura. From my memory, the animation style was Western, but it could be an Anime. It is possibly a European animation and more possibly from Eastern Europe, because at this time TV Cultura showed a lot of animations from the 80s from those places. I find it difficult to be American because of my difficulty in finding anything about it and because American animations were not common on these channels at that time.

You see something similar in the entranceway to public bathrooms that don't have doors, where it kind of zig-zags for privacy. I'm trying to figure out what this kind of architectural feature is called. Thanks!

Edit: solved! https://youtu.be/VVQz6jE3X50?si=qkItmXh5HbkKpZ8x

So it's somewhat old, as far as video memes are concerned. I think it was a vine.

There is one guy in frame. There is a high pitched tone playing. Maybe a fire alarm or something.

The guy says something like "hey does anyone hear that? Kinda sounds like aaaaaaAAAAAA".

He attempts to mimic the obnoxious sound, too low of a pitch at first, but adjusts upwards to nearly match it right as the video ends.

He holds his arm up with his hand horizontal as if to describe the pitch of the sound as he tries.

All of this is only maybe 5-6 seconds long.

I cannot find it. I have searched high and low. Google has failed me, or rather my googling skills have failed me.

This one has been bugging me for years

I’ve watched this video I’ve seen people talk about it and make theories about it but I got nothing

Here’s all I remember

The start was a black screen with text saying something similar to

“In (some year) a tape was found on a little planet called earth the following footage you’re about to see has nothing to do with that tape”

It then cut to what appearers to be a children’s cartoon but it quickly turns into static with screaming and distorted colors and the music ramps up before ending.

I think the title was something like antamon contency.

The theory I watched about it mentioned whatever the first word of the title was shared a name with a comet that passes by earth or something similar.

Any idea what this video could have been?

I've forgotten it's name and I also think it might be referenced in one of the super Mario odyssey levels as well iirc

It's a meme, black and white, of a guy showing his "moving castle" to a woman he likes

And she says "so you live in your car?"

I don't remember the title or what sub it was in

Just send me the link if you find it.

Thanks

In my head this was Ian Kung, but I can’t find it on his channel.

The creator was trying to make a point about how broken copyright enforcement is on YouTube by basically watching cool videos and “reacting” by saying the same thing after each one loosely tailored to the content. They were all based around the phrase “my wife” or something like that.

Like “wow, what a cute lazy dog. It’s almost as lazy as my wife,” “if you think that’s a big whale, you should meet my wife,” or something to that effect.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/XPz7fyo6XXepoDSW/?mibextid=oFDknk

Im looking for a video that was posted to r/youtubehaiku years ago. In the ~15 second vid a guy walks along the street and finds a coin. He says something like "wow a coin" and then starts talking and moving in slow motion. Another man appears and says "Oh youre stuck in slow time? Its because George Washington cursed that coin, there is nothing you can do, you're fucked!" Meanwhile slowmo guy is still slowly talking and looking confused. The coin was either a dime, a quarter, or a silver dollar.