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i forgot what it was, and now i dont even know what to search for but i knew i wanted to find a very specific thing online which i couldn't, oh well.

A YouTube mixtape found after searching “Madagascar Music” that had a smattering of wonderful folk music from, ostensibly, Madagascar. It must’ve been dmca’d years ago or something ‘cause I’ve not been able to find it since c. 2013.

I've posted this on reddit back in the day, both on r/tipofmytongue and r/tipofmyjoystick.

There was a free indie game that I installed on my Windows PC back in the 2000s. I don't know where I got it, but I don't think it was Steam. The game was a 2D platformer where the main character was I think a red cat. I remember it being kind of fast paced, and you had a sword, and at one point can shoot lasers or something which played into the platforming (I think charging it and shooting it downwards gave you like a double jump? I'm not 100% sure if this is accurate).

I've tried so hard to find this game again, but time and time again I've come up empty.

Some more details, though it's very foggy at this point:

• I think there was a level select screen, kinda similar to like Mario 3
• There is the typical friendly village level where you can talk to NPCs
• I think one level was on top of a train.
• It may not even be a cat, but I always thought it looked like one.
• The game was a digital download, pretty sure I got it from an indie game dev's website showcasing his games and projects, and I'm not 100% sure the game was finished.

one of mine is an old flash video that i think i remember was on newgrounds, that had a black guy and a white guy talking to each other.

the only things i can remember is the black guy saying, "i feel ashamed and neglected," and white guy saying "I WILL NOT STOP UNTIL I GET THE ANSWERS THAT I CRAVE"

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.