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resolved Song called something like "Feeling The Pressure". Music
Techno song from 2005 or so. Singer was male and the refrain was something like "I'm feeling the pressure" I remember the song sounded kind of like "Behind The Wheel" by Depeche Mode. For some reason I think the band name started with a P or Q but I could be remembering wrong.
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A book (set either between World Wars or after World War Two) where an American family moves into a haunted castle in Britain. I mainly remember a scene where the ghost is clanking his chains along the hallway when the father goes up to him and hands him a can of oil, saying they'll work wonders for those noisy chains of his.
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A Chinese story, where an artist creates pictures more beautiful than real life. The Emperor has the artist brought to him, telling him that ever since he saw his pictures, life has lost all meaning for him, since nothing is as beautiful as the paintings, so he's going to have the artist killed (he eventually escapes via Portal Picture).
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A NES game where you play as a pig that has to shoot down wolves that fly using Balloonacy. It is parodied in Neopets in the minigame "The Usul Suspects."
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Yo, another newb here. I remember the basic plot from a book I once read, but cannot remember the title. I think I managed to pull out every detail that I remember. Here it is:
It is a Science Fiction story. Man has colonized Luna (lunar colony is now seperate legal entity from Earth) religion of all sorts has gotten out of control on Earth, and now earth based science is stalling. Lunar science is still advancing at breakneck speed. That is just background. There is a small research expedition to mars. They have established a semi-permanent base/colony, but they still require regular resupply from Earth. Earth government is threatening to shut them down, when they discover remains of extinct Martian Civilization. Religious establishments and governments on Earth rail harder to get martian expedition shut down. Mars expedition leaders go to moon to ask for aid, lunar government says "yes, if you can proove that the ancient buildings are real and not natural formations". Foreward thinking religous leader has idea to go to mars, and declare that martians fit within canon. He dies, but just as he does, he finds what reveals the location of the martian graves. He dies before he can tell the others. Explorers get into fight, one falls down, and sees what religous leader saw, stops fight, and another discovery is made when an object impacts with martian surface, revealing microbial life under martian surface. The life dies quickly, due to exposure to environment to which it did not evolve. Explorers have idea to bomb surface of mars, putting dome over craters to let an atmosphere form and protect the microbes, letting them evolve and rebuild mars's environment. They call it the "Million Year Experiment". End
That's about all I remember. You guys got anything?
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A live-action movie that's somewhat of a Spy Kids ripoff where the protagonist is a robot boy made by KineTech. In one scene, he plays with water, with predictable results. Can't remember the rest...
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Memories of my childhood flood in as I try to remember my favorite EdutainmentGames:
1. Which Pajama Sam game has the main character throwing a rock at the prison gate and wearing a pumpkin to sneak past the guards?
2. This other game is a science game featuring two green astronauts, both male and female, and a blue robot. There are songs about coke and the (then) nine planets and different minigames. There's one where you arrange the events in order; one where you sort the healthy foods from the junk foods, paint the eggs, and deliver ice cubes by freezing the water drops; a weather station where you dress up the blue robot for different climate conditions; and a size comparison chart where you line up other animals against the biggest, smallest, and longest creatures. Does this ring any bells?
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Another Edutainment Game that I loved as a kid, but sadly, didn't finish. In this game, a kid who was turned into a "wimp" (a green one-horned humanoid) has to rescue his parents by going to a haunted house. He investigates by jumping on ghosts with matching synonyms and antonyms to open the catacombs and piecing the sentences together with a typewriter. Along the way, he collects PlotCoupons, one of which is a styrofoam cup, that may hold the answers to the whereabouts of his parents. Probably not Jump Start, since its title is a generic "3rd Grade Reading," but if it has a specific subtitle, please let me know. Thanks!
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An Edutainment Game that I loved very much as a kid. It was a camp where you could trace the constellations and make cave paintings with the flowers that you collect. The characters were a blue dog and a yellow puppy who would accompany you with your adventures. On the way, you could take photos of the wildlife and see if you can catch Wonder Rabbit, though the film was limited. Not only that, there was also a racing game a la Pooh Sticks. I'm not sure if it's Ranger Rick, though, because the park ranger's a human, not a raccoon.
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Not exactly TV, but a web series. It was one of Cracked.com's series, either Does Not Compute or Cracked TV. I'm looking for a specific episode, and I don't have the time to go through all of them and it's driving me nuts.
So, Michael's sidekick Clippy is a clip of something obnoxious, like just constant screaming or something. Michael asks Clippy something, cut to screaming or whatever, cut back to Michael, who says, "Oh, I forgot, you're insufferable in this episode."
Any help? Anyone?
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I can't remember what video game this is. I'm pretty sure it's the kind of game where you have some sort of super meter you expend to perform special moves. One character has some kind of super prostration move; it expends the energy meter (if this game has such a thing), then the character does an extremely elaborate prostration animation, that can't be interrupted, does no damage, and leaves you completely vulnerable. The very definition of a joke move. I think it's probably a game made in Japan.
(If you're unfamiliar with it, prostration, in this instance, is submissively bowing down in deference.)
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There is this song I have been looking for since 2003. It is a hard rock song with a male singer and in the refrain he says something like "we need to renovate" or maybe "it's time to renovate" I am possibly remembering the words wrong but that was the general meaning of the lyrics: everything's old and worn out and we have to make new stuff.
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I remember some TV show (or maybe a movie I forget) in The '90s where this kid had a puppet dinosaur as a companion. At one point the dinosaur knocks over this container full of dead fish on him and he freaks out. Also at one point the dinosaur keeps singing "I'm gonna bite you". It seemed really dark for a kid's show. That's all I remember.
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Not just a video game, but a series of two or three promo videos for the game. It was a fantasy RPG with online co-op, and the videos had short snippets of gameplay as experienced by four players. The first player is a serious role player, but he's not very good at it. At one point, in reference to the area they're exploring he says something like, "The Cave of Darkness is a damp, dark, den of depravity!" The second player is a guy with a very effeminate way of speaking, who's more interested in looking at the scenery than slaying monsters. At one point he gets the other three to pose for a picture with him, which I think may have been intended to show off a screenshot feature the game had. The third player is a typical online idiot, refusing to wear armor and instead preferring to run around in his skivvies. The last player, and the group's leader, more or less, is a pretty average gamer who just wants to play the game, but he takes his teammates quirks in stride.
I'm pretty sure this was a console game for the PS 3/360 generation.
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The story is that a boy goes to his local library and takes a book out for the summer, but he has to sneak it out or negotiate with the librarian or something and the book only opens to the first page which has math questions, and is phrased as a princess being trapped in either a dungeon or a tower... and she can escape if she answers the guardian of each floor's questions which are all math questions, he says something about a prank with putting toothpaste between pages? and it remains sealed shut until he does the math questions on it, and he gets really into it and when the princess or him needs more paper or something, and he gets it, it appears in the book and at the end, it reveals that the princess in either in a world inside the book or something and he returns the book to the library at the end, or not?
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It's a short story. I read it in the 1980s, but I think it dates back further, to when computers were a new thing.
It's a science fiction story set in a future where all records have been computerized. The protagonist is the victim of some small error (a false overdue notice from the library, something like that), and when they try to get it corrected, things get worse and worse until their entire life gets destroyed (and maybe they wind up dead?). And the whole time to people in charge of the computer system insist that of course it's more reliable than human record-keepers and never makes any mistakes.