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resolved Fanfic with a kid goddess named after rebirth
I'm trying to find a Percy Jackson fanfic that had... I think it was Hades and Persephone's child, and it was a girl whose name was supposed to mean "Rebirth", and seemed to start with Ana-something... so I think it was a derivative of anagénnisi
that looked more like a name.
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This is an arcade game that is very similar to CarnEvil, but it's not that game. The graphics were much smoother, so I'm guessing that this game is newer.
I didn't actually play this game, I just watched 2 other people playing it, so I don't remember much, but this is what I remember:
It's a 2-player shoooting game that takes place at an Amusement Park of Doom. There was one part in the game when the two protagonists come across a ferris wheel, and see that a Monster Clown is keeping a person hostage in each car. The heroes get out their sniper rifles to kill the clowns, but the challenge is that you have to avoid shooting the hostages.
In another part of the game, the heroes are in a Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs-themed cottage. There are these midgets dressed as the Seven Dwarves, and each one has An Axe To Grind. One of the dwarves turns out the lights, so the heroes activate the night vision on their guns so they can see the dwarfs and kill them. I remember this being the scariest part of the game to me, as the dwarves' costumes are very Uncanny Valley-provoking, and the way they slowly walk toward you in the dark, swinging their axes.
Not sure if this will help, but I'm pretty sure I saw this game at a Dave & Busters'.
Sadly, that's all I can remember. Does anyone know what this game is?
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A PC Edutainment Game I first played some time in the late 2000's. It was part of a collection of other edutainment games, including a revamped version of Super Solvers Midnight Rescue. I can't remember what the collection was called.
Anyway, the game starred a German scientist who basically served as The Host. It was meant to teach logic, and was comprised of several short games where you would have to solve a certain problem. Here are some of the problems you had to solve:
- Keeping a prisoner from escaping prison.
- Beating a chess champion.
- Helping a Non-Ironic Clown cross a tightrope wire - with a tightrope that isn't long enough.
- A guy tries to mail food to a friend in a foreign country, but the mailman keeps opening the packages and eating the food. You have to figure out how to get the food past the mailman without making it impossible for the foreign friend to open the package.
- A man wants to marry the daughter of a medieval banker, who agrees to let them marry if the man solves a puzzle: There are some bags of coins and a scale. You have to figure out which bags contain real coins and which ones are fake, but you can only use the scale a limited number of times.
Does anyone know what the name of this game might be? And, better yet, does anyone know what the name of the collection might be?
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(I put "Not Sure" because it doesn't match any of the other categories.)
This was a Youtube Poop I saw sometime in the late 2000's. It stars Dr. Robotnik, who creates a machine to make himself stupid.
He tests it out by trying to count to five, and the numbers are all out of order.
Then he inhales a lot of air and inflates himself. The Tankbot music from Kirby's Epic Yarn starts playing as he floats upward, eventually reaching outer space, where he explodes.
Anyone know what this video is called?
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I'm trying to find a horror short story that I believe I first read after seeing it mentioned on this site. I know that I read it online, but Google has proved useless so far.
The story is from the POV of a wife who I believe is visiting her husband's parents for the first time. She is constantly thinking to herself how great her husband is, how in love with him she is, things like that, but the only dialogue we get from the husband is sort of flat and unimpressive. (I want to say the husband's name was also something really dull like Kevin.)
We start to realize that the husband is not this incredible dreamboat but something way worse - he has sort of hypnotized his wife into adoring him and caring for him - I seem to recall something about her clipping his awful toenails while she's in this hypnosis. Anyway, this all comes out after the wife meets her mother-in-law, and it turns out the husband's father has the same thing going - "hypnotizing" the mother-in-law to tend to him and take care of him when really he's kind of awful - even monstrous. The two women are alone together when they manage to figure out that they've been married to these toad-like, horrible men who have convinced them to be their caretakers. There's a sort of awful realization where the wife has flashbacks to taking care of her husband where she is able to see that he's ugly, charmless, the toenails, etc. etc.
As the women are realizing this they both turn to each other in horror and I think decide that they have to kill their husbands to break free of this awful hypnosis. I think they do end up murdering their respective husbands - I forget the murder weapon but want to say it's a shotgun or a shovel for the wife (POV character). Despite recalling the plot this much I haven't been able to find hide nor hair of this story - can anyone help me out?
Edited by pellycanresolved Found: The Last Dragon Chronicles (was untitled before) Literature
There's this book series that I read in middle school that I just can't remember the name of. Here's what I remember of the basic plot: A new tenant (named David, if I remember right, but not David Tennant) moves in with... an older woman I guess. She has all these clay sculptures of dragons. It turns out they're magical or something, and one bonds to him I guess, and is named 'Gadzooks'.
I may vaguely remember the title of one of the books, but my searches at a rather large local library turned up nothing. It was 'fire heart', if I'm even remembering something.
Later on, all I can remember is something weird is happening, and then David needs to go... somewhere cold and snowy. Arctic or Alaska or something. Or that may be another book getting mixed in. It's been years. Possibly as far back as 2006-2008 or earlier. Back then I was still waiting for the next book. Then I forgot about it.
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A comparatively short work for television, about 15 to 22 minutes. It depicts an Orwellian future with people living in sterile compartments with a huge viewscreen on one wall. The screen always has this looming image of this Supreme Overseer. One factory worker returns home, and goes into this Jim Varney goofball routine until the Overseer suddenly goes online and roars at him to "cut that out!" Ultimately, the Overseer grows disgusted with the goofball and the screen goes blank. Then the goofball goes all serious, puts on glasses and writes in a journal: "A man is not free until he can laugh at his oppressor. Today, I laughed at my oppressor." Anybody remember this one? Ideally, this would make a nice example for a YKTTW proto-trope.
resolved No Title Film
I am trying to remember the name of an obscure children's film about a boy who gets trapped inside of a board game by a mad scientist in order to teach him a lesson about responsibility. The most memorable thing about this film is that the parts that happened in the real world were in live action while the parts in the board game were in stop motion animation. I think that the name of the film (or at least the name of the game in the film) was something like "Humania" or "Whomania" but I don't remember very well. It probably was made during the 90's or 80's. I want to know what the exact name is because it provides a good example of a few of my favorite tropes.
Edited by legendaryweredragonresolved No Title Literature
There was a book I read between 2002 and 2008 that I picked up at a library. It was in the Young Adults section. The book was about a group of kids/teens being sent to to an alien planet to survive. On of the kids got torn to shreds by a dog or dog-like creature. And one of the characters, Jack, everyone thought was a guy, turns out is a girl. That is what I can currently remember of the book. I'm not sure if it was a stand alone title, or the start of a series, but either way, I'd love to re-read it.
resolved No Title Literature
Technically this was a book on tape. I remember that this was a single story told from twenty or so different points of view (the story progressed linearly, but each new chapter was told from the point of view of a new character, some of which were inanimate objects). I also remember that each character was voiced by some celebrity, but the only one I can remember was Geena Davis as The Mirror (her first line was, "I am perfect.") Any help?
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A Singaporean film set in the 60s where a poor child has to win third place in a marathon just to win a pair of running shoes. Watched this in school three or four years ago.
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There was a book (a sci-fi one, IIRC) I read long ago. I remember it must have been like the second book of a trilogy, possibly, since the story references events that must have happened prior to the story itself. It takes place on an island or something similar (might have been Nuku Hiva) where the protag and a woman (his lover, perhaps) have been living on after something like a competition or else.
Anyways, they've been living peacefully on the island until an aircraft comes to drop off twin redheaded kids. I think they were genetically engineered or something. One gets called Brig, while the other's name I forget. The former is more impulsive and such, while the other's more gentle, maybe? Anyways, the protag starts teaching them how to live on the island and how to hunt and find food and swim, while Brig gets more clingy and jealous. Did I mention the kids are also kinda precocious?
There's a reference to Typee, there's a doctor who's sterile, the protag helps a cow give birth, there might be usage of the twin-connection trope, there's a discussion about something to do with zygotes (in-vitro fertilization? The twins might have been artificially conceived or whatever), and I think Brig kills a boar for its tusks (maybe multiple times, even).
Eventually, Brig becomes an antagonist, and I honestly don't remember how the book ends.
I do also remember that the book cover I had used this design that consisted of a black background, a red bottom border, and two redhead kids positioned in such a way that each one is cut off vertically, a half of each face on opposite sides, one smiling and one not. I think "Brigand" might be in the title, but I'm unsure.
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A Scooby Doo episode where the monster is a giant eagle that turns out to be a robot piloted by the military.
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I seem to recall an anime or manga about students being assassins, and no, it's not Assassination Classroom.
The premise of the one I'm thinking of, if I remember right, is that the students have to assassinate each other, but one assassin had a change of heart and decided to protect their target.
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There was a game I played with some college buddies on the X-Box 360. It was a side-scrolling Beat 'em Up with four (magical?) girls who fought (monsters?). I can only remember what three of the girls had as weapons: one Dual Wielding, one with a BFS, and one with a hammer. The first areas (and only areas I played) were in a modern city.
resolved No Title Film
I saw it on television. It looked like a film but might have been part of a series of made-for-TV film.
It was many years ago, probably early to mid 1990s. I only saw a few minutes of it. The setting appeared to be an English boys' school where the boys wore uniforms. The boys spoke in with a British accent. One boy bullied by other boys, and the bullies had put a sign on his back with the word "biter". The victim was unaware of the sign on his back, walking through the corridors when another boy suddenly asked, "Is your name Biter?" and the victim boy didn't know what he was talking about until he was told of the sign on his back.
I only saw this one scene, I remembered it for many years because I thought it seemed so ridiculous. When I watched this as a boy, I thought it seemed a very odd thing for a bully to do, and I also thought another boy would be a fool to think that the kid's name was Biter and he was wearing his name on his back.
resolved No Title Live Action TV
I briefly watched a segment of a TV show that shows a man using a drill. I think he lays his chin to a platform (plywood?) and drills upward to him. His chin got penetrated by accident. This might be a comedy sitcom show because I remember hearing a laugh track in this scene, and the scene is viewed like that. Or maybe it's not comedy and it's something intentionally serious. This was viewed around the 2000s decade.
Edit: Most likely this is Mad TV. Thank you.
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I'm going to try again (who knows maybe someone will recognize it now).
I remember watching live action fantasy film. The only scene i remember was a male protagonist ascending the stairs inside a giant clock tower. The man was young, had somewhat long hair (maybe golden hair), i think he had a sword. The insides of the tower (obviously) had all sorts of gears and constant tick-tack noises. I'm assuming that he was trying to reach an evil sorceress, who was in control of said clock tower. She used this tower to slowly age everyone around it, and as the "hero" entered the tower also began aging him. The aging did not affected the tower itself however. As the hero was going up, he was getting older and older until he collapsed on the stairs. He had no more strength to walk, and the only thing he could do is to look at the ring with diamond on it, that he had with him and which (i think) was given to him by his beloved (or something). But as he lifted the ring, the stone fell out of the golden crevice and dropped down the cracks in the wooden stairs. He tried to grab it but failed, slumping on the stairs waiting for death. However, diamond landed between clock tower's gears and jammed it. Tower broke killing the sorceress and restoring lost time, making both the Hero and every person affected by the magic - young again (but i think it didn't revived those that died under the effect of magic).
Can anyone remember it?

What are the songs they are parodying here?
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