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resolved Mockumentary about pretentious photographer Live Action TV
I saw a british mockumentary, a comedy centered on a pretentious photographer and his younger, somewhat goth girlfriend. He's portrayed as a ridiculous loser who assumes his random pictures of trees in black and white are high art, and she's obviously dating her to piss off her parents. I remember two scenes in particular:
- The girlfriend is going on a nihilistic rant about how people are sheep, and she lights a cigarette to look cooler, but she misses the tip with the lighter and "smokes" the unlit cigarette, until the cameraman says the cigarette is unlit, she gets mad and tries to light it again - burning half the cigarette off.
- The photographer shows some of his pictures to a critic (or gallery owner) and the critic, while very polite, trashes him - he says "I think you're using words you don't understand" and "this pictures have absolutely no meaning".
resolved Mario Party video that's eluded me for years. Web Original
I have done a lot of my own digging to find this one specific video which (despite remembering so much from) I cannot find the video or it’s creator.
The main things that the video had was (given the title) reviews of games that were “knockoffs” of Mario Party (one of these games was Fuzion Frenzy), and an opening sketch where two of the reviewer’s friends were fighting to the death over a Mario Party gone wrong.
I also know that this creator made a sequel video, and also during that time covered Grabbed by the Ghoulies. I’d estimate the video was made around 2013-17.
Also, the creator was not Connor The Waffle or Austin Eruption.
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1openStory about a man trapped in a casket/cast Literature
Okay so this is my first time trying this feature, hope I get it right
I remember this Italian old story from the 1800s (maybe before that) about a man who was jealous of his friend. So, one day he invites his friend over, leads him to his basement, and traps him in a casket. I don't remember the name, I could have sworn it was trending on Tumblr a while back and also had a page on This Very Wiki. The name was "Casket of Antamillardo" or something. Please help.
EDIT: The Cask of Amontillado
Edited by deerhornsaresoprettyopenVillage game from late 2010s (deleted?) Videogame
Hello, I remember a village game that was probably on most phone and tablet app stores back in the late 2010s. It might have been deleted, I don’t know.
It is closest to the game Virtual Villagers in its gameplay. You would try to grow this community and see it progress. The villagers were cartoony humans.
The map had a river in the upper part and land everywhere else. There was a major quest where you had to save a child that was in a basket. The child was supposed to be in the river and you had to craft a thing to help them get out.
I’m pretty sure it existed.
resolved 2 series mashed together or 1 Literature
I apologise for how all over the place this is going to be as I remember details.
I think this was a single series, but I could be mashing 2 together. I know for sure it was a series with different books though.
I think the title was something like "the grimorie ofthe dark woods" but that doesnt sound right, at all.
What I can remember plotwise:
A girl (13-16) finds a grimoire, and discovers she's a witch that can control animals, shortly after her mother is hung for being a witch.
She got out of this fate by subconsciously commanding the magic hounds to ignore her.
Theres these woods near her village that like no one is allowed in. Big bad lives there.
Except hes not really bad? He was cursed by his friend, I think. But the woods are sworn to protect him so it attacks outsiders.
I think she tries to avenge him and starts fighting a monster?
He explains that to use magic, all witches must give up something. Emotions, looks, humanity. She chose memories and slowly forgets everything.
Her best friend joins the witch hunt, and she helps, cause now the witch hunt only looks for bad witches.
The hunt collectively skips over one girl and shes like "well that's weird, why do they all blindly trust her" come to find out that girl is a witch and enchanted them
I think theres a part where her and her brother (?) Takr a train, and shit is HAPPENING on this train. When they stop they go to some like hourglass place where time stops. And brother person signs his name on the door and some creep comes out from the shadows and is all like "well, the demons behind this door wants you now" and she says no take me, I'll come back later.
The dude finds her years later and says "the demons demand a soul." And she says "yes, but it will not be me" and uses her powers over creatures to lure the demons to take the man.
Aaaaalllll over the place.
EDIT: Found it! The series is "The Thickery" by J.A. White
Edited by Zee-TrayhorneopenBook were girl runs away from her abusive family dresses as a boy, and teams up with a young outlaw Literature
Does anyone remember a book where a young girl runs away from her abusive stepfamily and dresses like a boy to find her father who is the sheriff of one town. Along the way she teams up with a young male outlaw, while disguising herself as a boy.
The heroine was named Eliza Bakes and her name while disguised was Elijah Bates, I think.
openNo Title
This was a graphic novel for adults. You know the kind—the sort of thing with the kind of realistic plot that would be a foreign drama if it were a movie. It might have been autobiographical, but I wouldn't swear on it.
I don't remember much, except that at one point the protagonist, who's a woman, discussed The Master and Margarita with a man she knew.
openA recent webcomic Webcomic
A few weeks ago I started reading a new webcomic. It's fairly new, and only had about four pages or so, but was made by somebody who's made webcomics before. It's in full color. Think it's updated once a week. I don't remember much, but it's about a woman who's a goddess in diguise or something and is a huge celebrity. I think the plot so far is that she runs into some old acquaintances of hers in public.
(But PLEASE mention anything that sounds remotely close to it!)
openA British narrated rhyming stop-motion fairytale series where the figures had monkey-like faces Western Animation
Back in the 80s, there were these shorts on TV Ontario's children's programming lineup that were from the UK (they were narrated in a British voice) and were short, rhymed interpretations of fair tales. That were stop-motion, but actually as I recall not much movement happened, they were mostly just screenshots of the characters. The funny thing was that all the figures had grotesque, somewhat monkey-like faces. I only clearly remember one of the fairytales, it was called "The Barber of Hairina (?)" and was a different take on the story about King Midas' donkey's ears. On the whole a rather odd series. What could this have been?
openStop-motion animation about girl whose watercolors took away all the color from the world around her Western Animation
Circa 1986 at a Christmas party, I saw a short stop-motion animated film that looked like it could have been made in Eastern Europe (similar in style to the work of the Polish Se-ma-for studio). It was about a little girl who had a set of watercolors, but was very messy in using them. So to teach her a lesson, each cake from the watercolor set absorbed its respective color from the world around and then they ran away. When the girl came out, she found that the entire world had turned black and white. She eventually found the watercolors dancing around a rainbow, and they restored color to the world. What was this?
open"Story of my life... the end" in mysterious girl's journal Film
I remember seeing a scene from whatever this was, it looked low-budget, on US TV about 10-15 years ago. A young adult guy finds a young adult woman passed out on the sidewalk. He is giving normal-guy vibes, she is giving manic pixie dream-girl vibes. He carries her into a house and lays her on the bed, and I remember he takes her boots off. She's asleep. He looks through her bag or something, and finds her journal. He opens it to the first page spread and it's cutely decorated with big lettering saying "The Story of My Life." He turns the page, and it's blank. The next page is also blank. He then flips quickly through the journal, all blank pages to the end, where again it has cutesy lettering and decoration, saying "The End." There was no dialog. I am of the impression it was on PBS and was some kind of indie short film but I'm not sure. I don't think that scene was the entirety of the piece, I think it was the beginning, but that was the only part of it I saw.
openWeezer's Beverly Hills but Portobello Mushroom with Cheese Music
My friend told me he remembers a parody of Weezer's Beverly Hills in an ad or something, but instead of the "that's where I want to be" part it's "portobello mushrooms with cheese." Anyone know what ad this is is from?
openZombie fiction
There’s a story I’ve heard of which commentates on the idea of guilt-free killings of zombies. It starts with a disease that infects people and makes them act however they think zombies act, which causes panic and results in many infected being killed. After the true nature of the disease is discovered and the outbreak is swiftly brought under control, many survivalists refuse to believe it, breaking away and becoming conspiracy theorists insisting that those were actual zombies and they government is lying and there’ll be another outbreak that’ll cause the end of the world. This is due to their desperation to assuage their consciences.
open"SpongeBob SquarePants'' dubbed song Western Animation
Oh, they changed the name of You Know That Show.
Years ago, I found a dubbed version of the SpongeBob SquarePants song "This Grill is Not a Home" from the episode "Welcome to the Chum Bucket". This dubbed song is... unique in that instead of simply dubbing the song, it replaces it entirely with an incoherent collection of music and Stock Sound Effects, with the music being the stock music they use for the show. And yes, it's an official dub (or at least one that aired on television). They don't even change the visuals or anything, just the song into... whatever you call music and sounds cobbled together like that.
I don't even remember what dub it is. Can anybody find me that version of the song? Thanks.
Edited by SparkPlugTheTroperopenShort story about a man being kidnapped by his future descendants Literature
The protagonist was going to do something, or something was going to happen to him, that was going to cause his descendants to not be born. So they kidnap him and trap him on a ship (that is, an oceangoing ship, not a spaceship) for his whole life against his will, to keep him safe or to stop him from doing something that would lead to them not being born. At the end of his life, he points out to them that they forgot to give him the opportunity to actually bear any children, so after all their effort they're all going to die anyway.
I think I misremembered this. I think he was just going to do something that was going to cause some kind of problem for his descendants. (I feel like maybe it was a reputational thing, like he made a bad name for himself and all of his eventual descendants; but maybe I'm making that up.) So they kidnap him and trap him on a ship (an oceangoing ship, not a spaceship) for his whole life against his will, to stop him from doing the thing. He resents his confinement, especially over something so relatively trivial, but he can't do anything about it. At the end of his life, he points out to them that they forgot to give him the opportunity to actually bear any children, so after all their effort to fix their problem, all they've accomplished is killing themselves. (He deliberately didn't tell them until it was too late, because he resented them that much. Not just for kidnapping him, I think, but for being shallow and ridiculous people in general.)
I might be screwing up some details, but I'm pretty sure about the broad details that people from the future isolated him on a ship, but then it was all for naught because they forgot to let him have children.
I don't remember when I read it, but it was probably less than ten years ago. I feel like the story itself was older than that, though; it had the vibe of classic science fiction (i.e. 40s-70s) more than modern science fiction. But, I might be wrong about that.
Edited by NoriMoriresolved Fantasy novel. Literature
Younger readers. Protagonist sent to another world, lands with two others. The other two might have actually been from other worlds. Each had a unique ability. One seemed to be the power of inference.
Residents were Beast Men. The main one was part man, part orca.
Villain is an evil wizard who sends the heroes all around during the final battle.
Edited by Caswinresolved Elementary level book about gum that makes you invisible Literature
I read a book in 3rd grade about a kid that got a strange kind of gum from a machine, and it was called Gum-X or something like that. It turned out that it could turn him invisible and his older brother used it to prank people without getting caught. And I remember a prank went wrong when he tried to steal an old woman's dentures and she thought that he was robbing her. The art style looked like it was from the 80's to the Late 90's.
openHorror host who had a downloadable show on Itunes Live Action TV
He dressed like stereotypical vampire.
Most of the movies where either public domain (such as Wasp Woman, which I watched) or indie short films.
In same episode as Wasp Woman, it included a promo and clips from the Troma movie Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, also dating to 2006. He also interview someone from the film, but I don't remember who.
One other film was a short about Jack-O'-Lantern people trying to turn human into more Jack-O'-Lantern people, and a woman trying to stop them.
resolved Shareware breakout clone Videogame
There's this game I played like twice as a kid, and all I remember is:
- It's a clone of breakout from somewhere in the Windows 3.x-95 era
- One of the blocks used a badly squashed graphic of a mouth with bared teeth and instantly ate your ball
- Probably because of the above block, it gave you a bucketload of balls, to the point of Meaningless Lives
- For some unfathomable reason, it had a transhumanist Author Tract in the about box
anyone else remember this?
As a kid my sister and I had these cool touchscreen toys with connected stylists. I remember that they were in black and white, had a variety of games, and came in different colors. It was not something like the Game(dot)com; I forget what all the games were, but I know one was a drawing program.
Edit: and to be clear the games were just loaded into it, there were no cartridges or anything as far as I remember
Edited by WarJay77