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Analog horror about nuclear war and fallout Web Original
The video was similar to a regular PSA about nuclear bombs and such, but it was somewhat stylized. It had a pinkish, 1950s-1970s-esque filter over the video. The sections of information had numbers in one of the corners, and some of the segments were missing. Near the end of the video, it shows a fallout shelter with a crack in the corner and radioactive particles that look like stock image germs seeping in from the crack, and eventually making their way into the shelter. At the end, it says something like "There are no winners in a nuclear war" or something like that.
I tried looking up 'nuclear war analog horror' on Youtube, but I couldn't find the specific video. Perhaps it got deleted
Children's Online Game? Videogame
So, this is a really random thing from childhood that popped into my head. I vaguely remember a series of online mini-games from the 2000s featuring commercial mascots. I do not remember all of them, but I just barely remember one where one of the mascots was a girl with I think blonde hair that had a spring for legs. You know, like those spring riders from children you see at the park. I think the goal of her game was to launch riders into the sky. I think the whole point of these mascots was they were naughty children turned transformed into ridiculous things.
I think there was a total of five mascots and I want to say they were for a juice pouch company like Kool-Aid or Capri Sun. Not sure which one. And I want to say there was a way to access these games from the Nickelodeon website, but they didn't actually belong to Nickelodeon
YA horror novel Literature
A group of teenagers and I think a horror writer go to a haunted house and take turns telling each other spooky stories, each of which take up a chapter of the book. At the end, one of the kids dies and another has their hair turn white from the trauma. I think some of the stories were the classic "babysitter gets a mysterious phone call" and "man with hook hand" urban legends.
Christian music TV show with a group of animated monster characters Western Animation
I remember years back I was flipping through channels and I stumbled across a Christian TV network playing this strange cartoon that starred these monster or ogre-like characters. I remember that, when I tuned in, a segment was ending, and the final joke of that segment was that one of them brought a bag of marshmallows, except it had some funny pun-based name (IIRC it might have been "smarshmallows"). In between the segments was live-action CCM music videos.
Does anybody might know what I am talking about?
Similar to Dinosaur King but in another world Anime
It was some sort of childrens cartoon/anime, with a character design reminiscent of Dinosaur King. The main kid, a boy, had some sort of monster/creature like a pokemon or something. I remember in one episode, the creature ran in circles around a city to create a glass dome with layers of glass and something else to make a dome to protect it from a sandstorm or something. I am also pretty sure this show doesn't occur on Earth, but another univese/world, but I could be wrong. Not digimon, nothing that comes up under dinosaur.
Book about a punk and a wizard... Literature
Trying to recall the name of a book I read as a teen in the late 90s/early 2000s. It was set in a dystopian futuristic city, and followed a teenage punk scrabbling to make ends meet in the city. At the start of the book, he meets a strange old man who literally appears out of nowhere, and proclaims himself to be a wizard - and he decides to take our protagonist as his apprentice (I think after said protagonist tried and failed to rob him). Whilst the boy thinks the man is mad, both for the assertion of his magical powers and his stated goal being to conquer the world, he tags along with him. At the book's climax, the wizard summons a green, orc-like monster (making our protag realize he really is real) and makes his big attempt to basically kill the city's leader and take over for himself. The book ends with the two being dropped down into the tunnels beneath the city - which actually turns out to be good for our protagonists; down in the earth, the wizard can finally fully recharge his mana reserves. He declares the punk's world isn't worth the effort of conquering and opens a doorway to a new world, with our hero following him through, now committed to learning how to be a wizard himself. Does anyone know what book this could be? Also, would this count as an example of Mage in Manhattan?
series about three children who go to an arcade Western Animation
I just remember that it is an animated series about 3 children who go to class. In one episode they go to some arcades and since the boy is the best of all, his classmates keep asking him for advice. This distracts him from getting a game registration and that's why he decides to make a website with tutorials and tips. They promote it but the friend at first gets the name wrong and they keep interrupting him.
I only remember this episode. Arcade games were related to green slime.The serie was between 2000-2010. If you can help me with the name of this series I would greatly appreciate it.
Edited by asqwert17girly high school anime with beauty tips Anime
i remember watching this anime like 8 or 9 years ago. it was a high school anime for girls and at the end of each episode they would give beauty tips. i remember one of them was to look to the side of a camera lens while getting your picture taken. i think they wore brown uniforms but thats questionable. and one of the girls had long brown hair. pls help
Looking for a Flash game
It was a FPS game where you shoot soldiers on a beach coming from transport ships, eventually, you also fight tanks and planes. Sometime a singing Pacman would appear and killing it would grant an extra life.
Edited by jOSEFdelavilleI played a Timon and Pumbaa game on an airplane ride Videogame
As in, this game was available in the built-in screen on the back of the seat in front of mine, and there was likely a remote control of sorts to control it, there are films, games and other sorts of entertainment on it. I forget what airline this was, but in years I'd estimate 2008 - 2014? (That's about the time I was flying most often anyway.)
This game features Timon and Pumbaa, where you control the latter to move left and right on the ground as objects (mostly food) falls from the trees above (I believe it was Timon that was shaking the trees to do this?). One inedible object (that would knock out or weaken Pumbaa for a bit if it hits him) was a wooden sink of all things.
One prominent game mechanic made use of Pumbaa's farts. I forget if it's a charged ability that requires hold and release or a meter that accumulates the more he eats, but sending green fart clouds upwards can knock out bugs that would otherwise hurt him when they fall. Bigger fart cloud = wider knockout area.
Edited by BlackFaithStarLollipop knife Film
The main character is pursued by 4 assassins. One of them is introduced as often dressing as a teenager to lure her target. There is a scene where she is on the bed of a man and use her lollipop to stab him. Another scene has the main character trying to steal data from a computer when a security guard or policewoman finds him. To distracter her, he have intercourse with her near the data center.
Class isekai goes home Anime
I'm trying to find a manga where a class gets isekaied then comes back home at the exact time they left. They all remember besides one guy who sacrificed himself to save them all. And i think it just becomes a nice slice of life high school where they all try to befirend the guy that died.
Animal mask riot game Videogame
I remember watching a video long ago that was about this game involving a riot crowd fighting against robots (I think), and there were animal masks in it, anybody have any idea what that may be?
A 3D animated show like Avatar Anime
Trying to find a not so old 3D animated show (I'm quite positive it was a mini-series but I am not sure :/) where the protagonist is a young boy having some kind of blue markings on his face, who goes around to learn to fight and other variety of skills from different senseis and has some kind of a weapon emitting blue light. The time period in the show is ancient and the show is most probably an anime but it's 3D animated somewhat like Pixar movies. The characters in the show are hybrids of humans and animals and I distinctly remember an Ox/bull-like character who was either a sensei or the antagonist. This is all I can remember and I've been trying to find it for 2 days now but I just can't seem to do it. I am so mad at myself because I loved that show growing up and now I can't even remember the name.
Song genre?
Not sure if this is the right place to post this question, so apologies if there is another thread for this. Please, can somebody help me identify the genre of the following two songs? They are both by a rather popular Japanese DJ, who specializes in about 10 different music genres according to Google. Thanks in advance!
Christopher Film
I recall the name being Christopher, but I looked it up and nothing came up. It’s an animated movie about a kangaroo that gets kidnapped by an eagle, dropped into a supermarket, gets raised by two mammals of some kind, and then has a bittersweet ending where he reunites with his family when he’s an adult.
Dinosaur hunting Videogame
Dinosaur Hunting has Tyrannosaurus with a feather mohawk. Surprisingly, in this game they are mere mooks (although one is a mini-boss), and easy to bring down if you have the right formula. Later near the end, two T. rex corpses were found, torn to pieces by an unknown gigantic predator. Implied to be a giant mutated ceratosaur who the final boss, which also kills a Spinosaurus. I was trying to find any video that showed this ceratosaurus but couldn't find the game or had any clue where to see it so long as its legitmate and legal.
Edited by oneforneutralpeace
Lilliputian-sized people fight horde of goblin-type creatures Literature
Children's chapter book that was read in 90s but possibly older