Things you didn't know until very recently...

In Wild Arms 2, Ashley's Hurl Knives can destroy the Machine Guns on Illsveil prison. I didnt put it on "Video Game Lessons learned the hard way" because it wasnt a particularly hard lesson, even if it took me more than 20 years to learn that.

EDIT: And Critical Backlash STILL allows out of universe, actual media examples.

Edited by AegisP on Mar 20th 2024 at 6:13:06 AM

The Slavic villagers in Age of Empires II Definitive Edition are voiced by the parents of composer Vitalis Eirich, who composed the game's civilization themes.

Demon's Souls' remake has a Japanese dub.

Coral reef restoration projects can create artificial reefs using electrified scaffolding. The electric current helps to precipitate mineral compounds out of the seawater that the coral requires as nutrients, and can stimulate growth as much as five times faster.

King Richard the Lionhearted was a third child.

I watched a two part video where they talked about the careers of every actor in Home Alone. The most surprising one to me was that the same actor played Tracy McCallister in Home Alone (and Home Alone 2), Phoebe in Beakman's World and Delia in My So-Called Life. Other than Beakman, those are some fairly small parts; still all of these are media I remember being fixated on yet I didn't notice the same person was in all of them.

Edited by MikeK on Mar 21st 2024 at 2:42:07 AM

In Mario Kart 8, you can choose what trick to perform when you tilt the stick (or press the D pad) in a specific direction right when you're pressing the trick button while doing a Ramp Jump.

We have a trope called Freddie Mercopy.

Back in 2004, Comcast expressed interest in acquiring Disney.

Also in 2017, Comcast had interests in buying 21st Century Fox, whose film/TV assets would be later also owned by Disney.

Edited by TheOther36 on Mar 22nd 2024 at 1:16:26 AM

Technically just the film & TV production assets; Murdoch still owns the Fox channel, Fox News & Fox Sports.

And that's why we have 20th Century Studios now.

There's a trope for one of my favourite things in media!

Devil Man

The girl the Jinmen expample talks about is a LITTLE GIRL. Which completely changes how I saw the example.

Edited by AegisP on Mar 22nd 2024 at 11:39:25 AM

Kate Hudson & Kate Upton are different people.

There exists a Phonk fan-song for Bendy and the Dark Revival.

Seeing the Ink Demon casually making his rounds to phonk music is instilling the same confused yet bemused impression on me as watching Venom roaming a rave in party gear.

OMG I know now too!

“Can’t Feel My Face” by The Weeknd is about cocaine. Ya know, the lyrics make much more sense now.

in Victorian flower language the flower Columbine means foolishness

also that Columbine is a flower

One butterfly species used to be called the N-word because of its dark color.

Regarding the Sequel Hook for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time: it was meant to be followed up with DLC to resolve the story, but Sony canceled those plans.

Maybe they'll make a comic series or something to satisfy fans, IDK.

Apparently, the Pepsiman commercials were only aired in Japan.

Latin isn’t technically an extinct language since the Vatican uses it.

The fact that Ecclesiastical Latin's lexicon continues to be updated means it's still a living language.

In the original Major Arcana Strength came before Justice (VIII and XI), but the Rider-Waite deck switched them around because of how they associated said cards with the zodiac signs Leo and Libra respectively.

JewTube is an actual website that was founded almost a year after YouTube was founded. Here is its Wikipedia page.

Also, the defunct video-sharing website Metacafe was founded in Tel Aviv. Just to be fair, here is its Wikipedia page.