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openFood cutting flash game Web Original
I remember my cousin playing this food cutting flash game on the computer. What I remember was that you had to cut fruits and you had to do well on it. There would be voices that would say yay if you did it right and boo if you did it wrong. Does anyone know this game?
openA wild customer appears? Web Original
I'm trying to find a site I swore I got to from TV tropes a few years ago. It was basically just a log of a few rpg sessions where the guy was playing an IT consultant who had to deal with customers like enemy encounters.
openPokemon Fan-Artist Web Original
Anyone know the name of this fan-artist? They're Japanese and have a Pixiv, or at least they did several years ago. They're a Pokémon fan-artist who draws a lot of fanart of Red and the Kanto characters. I remember one comic took place in a tournament and showed Sklya as a little girl.
openFanfiction of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Web Original
A short story fanfiction: Pinkie Pie and Rarity share a hot tub, Pinkie Pie is in there to soothe her tummy ache from eating too much black licorice, and only too late does Rarity notice the "Out of Order" sign. When Rarity realizes exactly where the bubbles are coming from, she has a Freak Out and gets hauled away in a straitjacket. I'm pretty sure I read it on fimfiction.net
Seven bumps and counting...
Edited by Miss_DesperadoopenCreepypasta about a benevolent creature that pretends to be a dog Web Original
Man is reminiscing about his deceased dog. I forget how, but he comes across a dog that looks just like his old dog. Man is unnerved and shoos the dog away, not wanting to be heartbroken again. Thief threatens man with knife and dog gets between them and growls at thief. Thief goes to kill the dog, but the dog shapeshifts into a horrific beast and devours the thief. Dog shapeshifts back and wags tail at the man. Man takes good boy home.
open[SOLVED] Web game about budgeting and financing Web Original
EDIT: This game has been found. It's called SPENT and it can be played here
. Thank you rubyswimmer21 for finding this.
Last year, I had to play a game online for one of my classes at school. It was about living on a budget of I think 50 dollars to start with and you had to make it through a month with what you have and what you earn throughout the game. You had to pick from three jobs (I think they were a waiter, warehouse/hard labor, and a temp agency) and how much you make a week depends on what job you pick. You then have to get an apartment that's either close to your work where you spend less on gas but the rent is expensive, or a cheap apartment far from work and you have to spend more gas money.
There where several scenarios where something bad comes up such as your car breaking down or dental issues and having to decide to spend money on those issues if you can afford it, and if you can't then you have to deal with the consequences of not doing so. Other problems include: Health insurance, spending money on your kid's lunch so they don't get made fun of for being on the free lunch program, buying groceries, dealing with a pet's illness, getting fired for things like joining a union or being framed for bullying after you tell off some co-workers for making fun of you, and workplace injuries.
There were other ways to earn money such as breaking open your kid's piggy bank, selling some of your stuff, and allowing a friend to stay over in exchange for money (only for your landlord to either raise your rent or kick you out; I forget which).
At the end of the month, the game tells you something like "You have [X amount of money]... but rent is due tomorrow."
The color scheme was mostly dark grey and red.
Hopefully, someone knows what I'm talking about. My mind is totally blank as to what the name of this game was.
Edited by KToonzopenYouTube video about the current state of animation. Web Original
I remember a few years ago I watched a video on You Tube talking about the current state of modern animated movies. This was an English video, I might say American English, and was released between or after the hate-train that was the Emoji Movie (So, 2016-2017). I remember specifically that it was a video in the style of the Krusty Krab Training Video. I vividly remember that the beginning of the video was a parody of the Emoji Movies trailer (and the whole film in general) where instead of emojis there were Grey blobs and a product placement robot. The intro parody was called "The generic movie" if I remember correctly. The title was along the lines of "How to make your own modern animated movie" or something.
openDog-Training Youtuber Web Original
Does anyone know this Youtuber?
He's a dog Youtuber who focuses on dog-friendly training. I know he's made several videos complaining about choke collars, dominance~based training, Cesar Milan, etc. I think he's around 20-24, white, and is either American or Canadian.
openWoman meets two of herself from alternate timelines Web Original
A woman (who I think is playing a comedy writer in the work) meets two of herself from alternate timelines. One is a mother who advocates for drugs and the other is a Russian dancer. Two thirds of the way through the woman gets angry at the Russian lady for acting snotty. I think Russian lady talks about how life was hard and I think it's implied that she's gay?
The actress is American and the background involves a dark coloured curtain.
openHarry Potter fansite? Web Original
This is an old one but I remember back before the movies/in the early days of harry potter fandom there was this one website where people submitted song parodies about harry potter or little musical skits where the characters sing.
It was primarily a text based site but had image illustrations on the main page and as headers where it was fanart of the harry potter characters in some sort of music related scenario, always black and white if I remember correctly.
I can't remember what the site was called but would love to see even an archived/cache'd version of any part of it for nostalgia/fandom history reasons.
openHorror video, 3d, black and white Web Original
Some years ago I came across a part of an animation within someone's signature on same random forum. It seemed compelling so I tracked it down. It was a 3d animation, done in black and white, realistic, featuring some sort of hellish chaotic realm where bodies were being infected with darkness and twitched/spasamed, spinning their heads in circles, bent in unnatural shapes, you name it. I THINK they also conglamerated in huge shapes, but I'm not certain. I believe it also had a calmer white part of that realm where nothing moved which was attacked? infected? by the black influence. I don't recall if the video had any particular music in the background. The animation was pretty lifelike, aside from the weird movement and color palette, but that was some years ago so it might seem less so nowdays.
The video left quite the impact on me, but my pc had suffered a critical hd failure and I can't get to either the bookmark or the part of the video from that signature. I seem to remember that the author of the video had made a facebook page for it and sold dvd with high resolution video, but I also can't track it down. Pretty certain the author/authors didn't have an anglophone name or origins if that helps...
I will be VERY grateful if anyone can help me with this, I tried multiple times to track it down, bit no luck.
Thank you
openA short horror film about a boy coming back home... Web Original
...and his family isn't home, but he's not concerned because, and forgive me if I mix up some details, he either gets a text or finds a note saying that they'll be back later and I think some money to buy pizza, so for the rest of the short there's a lot of tension and teasing that the boy may not be alone and that he'll be attacked or killed at any point, I remember distinctly that the boy is walking around the house, and this may be another thing in the note or text from his family about putting the laundry in the washer or dryer because he passes by the laundry room more than once and it's always on.
The tension keeps building up, in the classical way in which we're expecting a jumpscare or anything surprising happening any moment now, but nothing like that happens, because instead the boy finds something or realizes something is wrong, and pieces things together about the message left by his parents (maybe about the handwritting? not sure...) the details of what happens later is a little fuzzy in my head, but something that always stuck to me was the final scene which is a cut to the laundry room with the washing machine still running, and it was either the red tint in the water seen inside or maybe a bloodstain, but the implication was that while he was away, his family was murdered and their remains were put inside the washer.
I remember seeing the short some years ago in Youtube, and I've been trying to find it for months without success ;-;
Edited by RoseBrideopenEarly 2010s website dedicated to rating how much they hate things Web Original
I remember there was this website that was dedicated to hating various things/topics. People would rate how much they hated a thing. There was a comment section where people would rant and explain why they hated the thing. Objects would receive an overall rating base on how hated they were on the site
I believe the site had the word "hate" in the title too.
openThis one webseries about a sentient(?) satellite Web Original
I never actually seen this show before, but I remember coming across Tumblr posts of it where some viewers fawn over this satellite character (not an actual Satellite Character, a literal satellite) like he's a Tumblr sexyman or something, and for some reason that's what's been itching at me. Can anyone help me remember the title?
openTumblr Post About Specimen Tube Trope Web Original
This was a humorous post about a sci-fi trope (I don't know if it has a name). It went something like this...
"What did you do with the unknown life form?"
"It's suspended in a vertical tube of translucent blue liquid."
"Are there bubbles in the liquid?"
"Yeah, every couple minutes a bunch of bubbles rise to the top."
"How's the lighting?"
"Well, the lab's pretty dark, but there's a bright light shining into the tube from underneath."
"Good work."
openNutrition Show? Web Original
I think I was in grade 3, so 2014 or around there. This girl, and I think there was a boy too, had this little web series about health. This specific episode had the girl focusing on nutrition. Making a healthy lunch and that stuff. I think she learned to make a healthy pizza and then a dessert pizza pie. I think one of the main points in the episode was her playing basketball and warning another girl that eating chips was only good for short term energy, and that she could crash and get hurt.
openYoutube channel about weird/disturbing stuff Web Original
There was this Youtube channel I used to watch a fair amount but I cannot for the life of me remember the name of. The channel was mainly about weird and/or disturbing stuff. The host was a girl with wavy brown hair and a bunch of a tattoos all over her arms, also, the opening for it had a sample from that "tears in rain" monologue from Blade Runner.
Edited by BootlebatopenYouTube video about kid kissing vacuum cleaner Web Original
Around 2013, I found this humorous video of a kid kissing a vacuum cleaner. The mom asked "do you want to give the vacuum a good morning kiss"? And this kid kissed the vacuum cleaner. The mom then asked "Do you want to give Daddy a good morning kiss", with the Dad leaning in, touching his finger to his cheek, to which the child responded, "Nope, no, nope, no".
opendimension travel dc comic fanfiction Web Original
A fanfic where Batman, Superman, and Wonderwoman have to go to different worlds to find pieces of a macguffin to defeat Darkseid. One of the worlds has an evil Batman and the good batman gets mistaken for him.

It involved badly drawn art, bad grammar, Mario going to get Shine Sprites to have sex with a Toad (represented as a picture of a naked woman with a Toad head crudely pasted on) that at the end was some kind of monster in disguise and a flying Bowser pooping on everyone's head (with the narrator box saying "BOWSER GO SHIT" every time). Also at a certain point the video stops until the user doesn't click on a Shine Sprite Mario is unable to see for some reason.