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tipofmytongue·Tip Of My TonguebyErr(()).unwrap()

[Solved: The Entropy Centre] First person time manipulation puzzle video game inspired by Portal

It was released a few years ago. It's not Singularity and not Timeshift.

The title was short, two or three words, and I'm pretty sure it was some kind of physics technobabble.

The game follows the Portal formula where the player has to solve a sequence of self-contained cube-and-button challenges in a decaying facility, except it's on a space station. The player has a device that can reverse time and cause the cubes to retrace their paths through space. The act of solving the challenges somehow generates energy. There are friendly robots with faces drawn on sticky notes. We also see the Earth explode.

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tipofmytongue·Tip Of My Tongueby__hetz

Sono "Homicide"

I guess this is sort of a reverse TOMT. I know the artist and song title. What I don't know is anything else about this band whatsoever. I also can't recall precisely where I found the file as I saved this it around twenty five years ago. I was never really into the mellow, more emo stuff at the time so the closest comparison I can make is to Jawbreaker (I do like "Shield Your Eyes" but mostly because I associate it with memories of a girl I was infatuated with).

Anyway, at the time there were a lot of web 1.5 (?) sites. Not everyone had settled into CMS solutions, MySpace, LiveJournal, etc. Some of the really cool kids were picking up Flash if only to embed audio into their sites. That's how I nabbed this. I remember a mostly black background site with yellow buttons/links and a yellow top banner with an integrated flash audio player. One of the other songs in their rotation, if I'm not mixing memories, was "Lebanese Blonde" by Thievery Corporation. Not relevant, unless that jogs anyone else's memory, but possibly what led me to finding SomaFM.

I can date it to around 2000 because the audio had Macromedia Flash 5 data embedded or vice versa. I extracted the SWF and it's just the text "Sono" with the audio playing. Tried running strings on it, hoping for URLs or whatever, but the only metadata is the artist and title. So I separated the mp3 audio and threw it on catbox.

If anyone knows anything else about this band/song, I'd love to hear it. Were they ever on mp3.com? Any demo tapes floating around? Anything. I can't imagine many (any?) other people even have this track at this point. I've got nothing searching the lyrics. Musicbrainz failed me (although I'm admittedly not skilled in searching it)...

I think my only real hope is that this reaches someone once associated with the band or someone that ran a long-forgotten website a quarter of a century ago.

Edit: this was supposed to have a link attached but I'm not seeing it, so - Sono "Homicide"

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tipofmytongue·Tip Of My Tonguebybrisk

[Solved: "For-Profit (Creative) Software"] A youtube video featuring an anthropomorphic cat decrying the state of creative software

Hi all,

I'm looking for a video I lost track of.

The video is fully narrated, the visuals are animated but only support the narration. The author describes their journey in the creative arts, as they graduated from a creative arts degree and attempted to find a job. They quickly found themselves locked out of the industry, being unable to find a job immediately, and being unable to either work independently or to polish their skills as they were unable to afford the software they needed, chiefly Autodesk Maya. They saved up for the software but by the time they had enough money it had transitioned to a subscription plan which was drastically more expensive.

The video went into depth on the economics of the subscriptions Autodesk offered, and the history of Autodesk and how it acquires and degrades software. It talked in depth about the state of software and subscriptions across the industry.

The animation consisted of an anthropomorphic cat as the author's self-insert, and alternated between showing real world things (like living in a small apartment with mostly just a computer) and visuals representing the feelings of the author throughout their experiences, like feeling small, or being caged or possibly being crushed. When necessary for communication the video showed web pages, both from the internet archive and present day to verify it's points on history, marketing and subscription fees.

The video was long form, likely 1-2 hours in length.

I've had no luck searching for it through google or youtube with any of the keywords autodesk, maya, cat, animation, subscription etc.

Even if you remember a word from the title or any details that can help me search that would be awesome.

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tipofmytongue·Tip Of My Tonguebygwl [he/him]

[Solved] can someone help me find this song? (Sung recording and attempt to write it phonetically)

I thought it was maybe Soulwax or LA Priest, and now I'm not sure if I have the lyrics wrong or if it's just that the intro lyrics aren't the Title

Recording https://voca.ro/11JELiDy1jAA

Attempt at phonetics:

Section A (Rising scales, I think an arpeggiator pedal on a lead synth)

DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO (sudden harsh break, followed by drum and lead synth in chorus) DA-DUM DA-DUM DA-DUM DA-DUM DA-DUM (Loop section A once)

Section B (low male vocals)

It all goes around. It all goes around. It all goes around. It all goes around. It all goes around. It all goes around.

Edit: I ended up just going through my Liked Songs one-by-one, and I FOUND IT

I did have the lyrics wrong, but the instrumental I was pretty close

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=W_21IVzPGvY&t=111

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tipofmytongue·Tip Of My TonguebyIntrovertTurtle

Shark horror movie (Solved)

User below helped me solve it, the movie is Shark Hunter (2001). Neat movie about a kid whose parents died when a science vessel sank under mysterious circumstances. After growing up and learning about marine biology and such, he gets recruited to explore the wreckage with a team that discovers the ship and his parents were attacked by a megalodon.


Disclaimer: I know it's not Deep Blue Sea (1999). I also didn't see the beginning of the movie, and only remember parts near the end.

So the movie is about a team of researchers on a massive submarine or something similar in the deep ocean. They get attacked by sharks that are larger than average, and aggressive to the vessel. There's a moon pool big enough for a mini-sub to dock in.

A character supervising the moon pool walks onto a diving board and lays down on it to get a better view of something he sees. After laying down, one of the large sharks jumps up through the moon pool, taking the man and diving board in one bite before sinking back into the water.

Some details escape me, but the last 2 remaining characters hatch a plan, one escapes in a mini-sub while the other stays behind to kill the sharks by self-destroying the main sub. After the main sub explodes, killing the sharks, the person in the mini sub powers on their lights, only to discover an even bigger shark before arming their own self-destruct, before the movie ends.

At first I thought this might be one of The Meg movies, but I'm not sure those are correct. As I said, the moon pool scene is notably different than the one in Deep Blue Sea. I'm at a loss. I want to say it was on SciFi channel or maybe FX, but this was several years ago so I'm not sure.

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tipofmytongue·Tip Of My Tonguebyone_old_coder

[Solved] The Android "app store" that handles installs from GitHub (it was Obtainium)

I already know about the Aurora store or F-Droid to install applications for an Android phone, but there was that "repository manager" that could install and update APK files from GitHub, and... I forgot the name and I can't find it on the Google.

It could be https://github-store.org/ but I'm not sure about the name and there could be a more famous alternative.

If anyone knows, I would send you a million Schrute bucks.

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tipofmytongue·Tip Of My Tonguebyoicasado

Artistic movie comprised mainly of shots of big buildings/constructions

Not sure if this movie exists or I just made it up in my dreams, but I saw the trailer for the Architecton movie, and it reminded me of another movie a saw about 20 years ago, but I think the movie is way older, I'm thinking the 40s maybe. I remember it was like somehow famous among cinema students, and I have previously searched for it but no luck. Although the movie is comprised mainly of shots of buildings, it was not like contemplative or peaceful, I remember it was very dramatic, it was like a time lapse so the clouds would move a lot in the background and there was thunder and lightning in some scenes. The soundtrack was also very dramatic, something like Carmina Burana maybe? I remember it being black and white, but I could have had some color in some scenes for dramatic effect. Anyways, I'm not sure if I just fell asleep at the theater and had a weird dream or if the movie is real.

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