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What is the show?

For a number of years, it was Blood on your Hands by Killing Joke. Or, as I had known it back then, "Track 04", which was the wrong number of the track, no less. Took me some 7 years between losing "Track 04", remembering it existed and knowing it was by Killing Joke to take the plunge and 🏴‍☠️ their discography.

(For some reason, I have trouble figuring out what is being sung in several songs unless I read the lyrics together, even to this day. Once I've done that a couple of times, I can "hear" the words properly. So, I never had a good idea of what the song "talked about")

For whatever reason, I downloaded everything except the Killing Joke 2003 album. Around a month later, I decided to check those songs out, put them all on a playlist and left it playing. When "Blood on your Hands" started playing, the unmistakable starting guitar riff, oh my fucking god, I felt like I had unearthed a real fucking treasure!

A goth artist guy named Marcel. I had a tiny photo of him. I’ve never found him again.

I remember this flash game I played as a kid that was a sci fi tower defense where each level you were trying to stave off a... Purple fog? Something like that.. Just long enough so your colony could launch off planet to escape the allconsuming purple atmosphere. I have no clue what it's called and have tried looking it up but to no avail. If anyone here knows what it's called I would be indebted

Edit: thanks for the suggestions folks it was neither outpost nor the creeper world games

I have a rather silly one.

Back in the old Youtube days, I think before Google took over. There was a fake parody trailer made for David Lynch's Dune. It basically reimagined the film with fart jokes. As immature as it was, it was still funny. But now it's long gone and I wish I could show it to my friends.

at least you have the songs.

https://www.shazam.com/

I did a similar thing with very, very, low quality DI shows I ripped with winamp over 56k.

An artsy short (Vimeo?) about some girl hanging out her very stylish, beige apartment while a voiceover talsk very intimimately to her. In the end the voiceover talks about being eaten up, and the girl kinda swallows some pudding thing?

It had a slightly french vibe I think, though not as overtly erotic as it sounds.

Mine is pretty dumb, but it was a joke website from 2000-ish called One Day I Will Walk Like Walt Disney. Years later I remembered it but couldn't find it; but I eventually did thanks to the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080421024049/http://members.shaw.ca/mcramer1/index.html

It has different sections including Brain Teasers (Aunt Fredererick's Sand was my favorite), and "Don't believe it or do" with such interesting facts as:

Contrary to popular belief, the Titanic never hit an iceberg and sank in 1912. Rather, it sailed successfully to New York City many times. It was finally decommissioned in 1978 and converted into a pinball arcade.

I used to listen to this spooky paranormal radio show when I was young with my dad that was either hosted by or called Nacho Limón. I think it was either from the late 90s or early 00's. But I could never find any references to it online.

I've got a couple.

One was a dark comedy sketch that a friend showed me in, I want to say '99(?). A couple appear to be in therapy, and the doctor asks how this started. They recount through flashbacks a series of more extreme requests under the guise of "if you loved me, you would do it". At one point one of them definitely made a piece of toast and put nail clipping on it, then told the other that "if you loved me, you would eat it". The sketch concludes >! showing that they were actually in a final surgical consult and the last scene is them being wheeled into surgery to be joined at the hip!<

The other is a comic strip where a couple people are working on their computers when either a song starts playing, or one person starts saying "shoop shoop shoop shoop-a-doop" and stylistically dancing while putting on their jacket. As they dance to the exit the other person says "shoop a doop?" and then the first dances their way off frame

Mine was a super-specific and overpowered Dungeons and Dragons custom class for elves, that basically got cool powers from all the other classes. I'm pretty sure the class was called "Knights of Rillifane" and I came across it originally in a Compuserve message board.

As I say, it's not a good bit of game design, and it's certainly not important. But given how big the d&d loving community has been in Internet history, and how 'collectory' they are, it really surprises me that it hasn't been compiled into a netbook or turn up on a geocities website somewhere.

There's a "famous" gore video showing a Russian soldier being brutally murdered by Chechen rebels. Ya'll probably already know what I'm talking about, so I don't need to explain (and if you haven't seen it or don't know what it is, don't bother looking for it, it's not nice and does you no good to have it on your psychic hard drive). Since seeing that clip in ~2000, I've desperately wanted to know the man's identity and the circumstances in which he was killed. I've had people swear to me that they also saw the clip, but the version they saw was quite a bit longer than the ~20-second clip everyone is aware of, and they describe some details that could well be useful in identifying him, but alas this alleged longer version seems to have vanished entirely, if it ever existed. The version we have is obviously heavily-edited, lots of quick cuts and time-jumps, so there is at least a version without all of that, somewhere.

Trust me when I say that I've looked into this issue on and off for the last 25 years, and I have heard many bullshit claims about who he is: they're all wrong and provably so. I've watched hundreds (literally) of clips from that conflict that show barbarity of one degree or another, and in doing so I have identified the clips that specific reports and testimonies are alluding to when they claim to have identified the victim. None of them is our guy, it's always some other video clip where some other Russian is knifed by a Chechen (there're a lot of such clips).

There was a user on a gore forum who uploaded the Tukhchar massacre (safe click) video in full, and he claimed to have the full version of our mystery clip, but refused to post it and grew increasingly hostile the more people asked him for it, eventually taking his ball and going home by stating his intention to never post it because people were mean to him. He was obviously a bullshitter who had a few good uploads and decided to use that momentum to generate hype around this other 'holy grail' clip which he almost certainly did not have. Other than that one prick, nobody online has access to the full video or the identity of the man. At least, not on the English-speaking internet.

I've seen a lot of awful videos on the net, but there's something about that one in particular that really energised me to find out who he is. I guess it being the first video of that kind I ever saw would probably have something to do with it, but it's also just so fucking cold. You could sense the all-consuming hatred in the killers in the way they staged the scene and the matter-of-fact way they slaughtered him. Just pure inhumanity. There are "worse" videos, there are drug cartel videos that would make a Spanish Inquisitor lose his lunch, but man, that Russian dude is always lingering in my mind.

The full set of this image of Kate Beckinsale photographed by Firooz Zahedi on June 15th 2000.

I know I had the full set saved once in high resolution, but now it vanished from the face of the web. Even on the photographers Website there's only this one low res image. Reverse image search shows variations of the image, so there has to be a set of pictures, not only one.

Old(ish) pieces of fiction I don't seem to find anywhere or in a language I speak: An old Kdrama from the 90's that arguing against abortion (I promise the story is better than that). I found it subbed in indonesian and I might end up learning korean just to finish it. I've recently write to a publishing company trying to find if an out of print comic has being even published in hard cover past a certain tome. The magazine they were published in are relatively rare.

Of course, I could fixe my issues with a few card payement but where would be the game?

The 'guy from accounting' who has a Hitler-stache and talks like a machismo filled, unaware dingbat. (NB. It was satire)

Was on SA or Fark way back in 90s or so.

I always forget the name of the piece.

There was this animation of a cuckoo clock floating on a black background. The bird would pop out and start rocking to the song Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash.

The only context I have is that it was around the turn of the millenium, on an old Macintosh LC computer.

A comment on reddit that succinctly outlined the difference between private enterprise and government. So perfectly worded I was in awe.