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Other helpful subreddits:

Got a physical object that you can't name? Try r/whatisthisthing.

Know what something is, but don't know where to find it? Try r/helpmefind.

Find a picture and wondering where it is? Try /r/whereisthis or /r/wherewasthistaken

NSFW question? Try submitting to r/tipofmypenis.

Looking for a video game? Try submitting r/tipofmyjoystick as well, but remember to mark your post solved if your question is answered over there.

Trying to come up with a name for something (whether it be your band or a school group), check out r/iNeedAName

Looking for similar things to something? Check out r/ifyoulikeblank

Need a good synonym or word recommendation for a writing piece you're working on? Check out r/whatstheword.

Trying to remember the name of a subreddit you've visited? Check out /r/findareddit.

Looking for a post you saw recently, or a while back? Check out /r/FindAPost.

Can't remember the name of your favorite teen book series? Check out /r/whatsthatbook.

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[TOMT] South Korean show where a man and his female neighbor hate each other, but she helps him when he’s sick

I just remembered an old scene from a South Korean show. Unfortunately, I don’t know the name of the show or what year it’s from. Here’s what I remember:

There are two neighbors, one male and one female, and they hate each other. The guy dislikes the woman so much that he boards up his house windows with white Polyethylene Foam/Polystyrene foam sheets just so he doesn’t have to see her face.

One day, the man gets very sick—like seriously ill. The woman is walking by his house and notices his front door is open. She doesn’t go inside right away but calls out his name. When there’ s no response, she immediately breaks a window to check on him. She sees him lying in bed, clearly very sick.

She goes into his bedroom and asks him what’s wrong, but he angrily responds, asking why she came into his house and room. Then he passes out. Without hesitation, she calls an ambulance and takes him to the hospital.

Does anyone know what South Korean show and episode this scene is from?

2 Comments
2024/12/22
21:08 UTC

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[TOMT] Someone whose emotions project out so that other people feel them magically? Like the opposite of an empath.

I feel like there's a word for it but I can't remember. Someone who whenever you're around them you know what they are feeling. Like as a fantasy thing. Like their emotions are wavelengths that other people pick up on.

4 Comments
2024/12/22
20:51 UTC

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[TOMT][Movie] Title of a posthorror movie with undead? taking over a household

My mom remembers vividly scenes from this Movie but i couldn't google it. She thinks it's Scandinavian or maybe Belgian.

Movie begins with a priest running after people rising from the grave.

Then the undead get jobs as gardeners in a house and slowly take control of the household. She remembers there was a couple with children and those creatures take control of the children.

Appreciate all help!

3 Comments
2024/12/22
21:02 UTC

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[TOMT] Reddit post about how communities can be changed by moderators, includes apples bananas and grapes [reddit post]

There was a reddit post about how moderators can change a community. It was a picture, or infographic, talking about how a moderator can change the feel of a community, for instance, liking fruits, and then promoting pictures of apples or oranges, and removing ones about grapes. And how that after a while, new people would come into the community, and get that dislike of grapes based on the community feel itself.

I'm not sure if I have the specific fruits correct, or how they turned the sub against grapes, but that's the general gist of it. Thanks!

2 Comments
2024/12/22
21:02 UTC

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[TOMT] [BOOK] book which describes a world in which banks learned to identify reborn debtors

Hi. A long time ago i saw description of the book which describes a world in which technology was invented to determine who a person was in a past life.(i think it was a short video or something)

Banks and corporations began to actively use this to identify reincarnated debtors in order to hang debts on them. It's all what i remember.

4 Comments
2024/12/22
20:52 UTC

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[TOMT] 70s (probably) FUNKY DISCO SONG WITH BRASS AND STRINGS LONG INTRO AND BOOGIE!

Heard this song while listening to the Clay Travis radio show. In between commercials, the intro played. It was very long for an intro, funky. and had a lot of brass and I think strings. Also heard the word "boogie" before it faded out by a male voice. Reminded me of KC or Kool. Help if you can, thanks!

4 Comments
2024/12/22
20:53 UTC

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[TOMT] 2020-2021 advert

I remember it being lock down and me just sitting in my chair watching this ad. It was a mac and cheese advertisement, (probably Kraft, but it could be a different brand) that was meant to raise awareness about corona virus. It featured all grayscale colors, but there was a person wearing a mask and the mask was yellow. It's a really nostalgic memory but I couldn't find that ad anymore to see again.

2 Comments
2024/12/22
20:45 UTC

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[TOMT] [Music Video] Music Video with a blue alien puppet

The music video was Live Action and it focused on this little blue alien creature going about his day. The alien lived in the everyday world and was just living like a normal person. I believe he lived in an apartment and at one point the video showed him going for a jog through the city/park. There was also real woman (who may have been the singer) who appeared. I believe she was singing at him and the alien was shaking his head to the music. She was a white woman with long dark brown hair. The alien was a puppet with blue hairless skin and little bit of a gut. He looked pretty uncanny to me that’s why this stuck in my head all this time. I saw this video on tv around the early 2010s but the video it self could be older.

2 Comments
2024/12/22
20:44 UTC

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[TOMT][VIDEO] Video of a cinema worker having a fight with a customer and then saying that he will "end him"

I saw it somewhere like 5-6 years ago... he was saying "I will end you!" like some god damn action hero and it was ridiculous.

2 Comments
2024/12/22
20:41 UTC

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[TOMT] Really fast latino dance song that had lyrics that repeated that sounded like “Oaxaca, WOO!”. it was a very long song

was at silent disco last night and that came on and i loved the song. i feel hopeless in finding it. it seemed like a much older song

3 Comments
2024/12/22
20:38 UTC

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[TOMT] [BOOK] This one book

It’s this like book about a ginger borrower sort of thing? It’s a UK book I believe The little borrower guy likes after eights and stays at this primary school kid’s house for about 3 days (that’s how long he’s allowed) and i distinctly remember his mum asking who he’s talking to and he shouts back that he’s just acting out a play for school, i remember it so well but i cant remember a name!

2 Comments
2024/12/22
20:38 UTC

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[TOMT] anime character that looks like Kim possible

16 Comments
2024/12/22
20:37 UTC

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[TOMT] [SONG] [2020-2024] Song that has lyrics that sound like "Too small, not tall, nothing's happening"

I first found this song from a post advertising their new song on Instagram, the video was of a group jam sesh, the singer might have been a man (I swear the looked like Wierd Al) but they had a voice that sounded feminine to me,

The closest voice and style match is You Don't Wanna Be My Baby by Aaron Frazer, the song probably came out around 2022 but it could be anywhere from 2020 to now. If my memory is correct, the part I'm looking for was around 90 BPM.

I've been looking for this personally for about 3 days, ill say what I'm looking for isn't from the following bands: MGMT, Jack Stauber, Tame Impala, Thundercat.
Unfortunately my memory isn't the greatest, so take everything with a grain of salt...

2 Comments
2024/12/22
20:31 UTC

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[TOMT] Book about a group of kids on a mystical boat ride and deal-with-the-devil type scenarios

[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s] This one is about a book I must have read in my classroom library as like a ten year old sometime around 2007.

I only remember one or two fragments about it, but the general premise of the book is that a bunch of kids learn valuable life-lessons when a man who seems to have supernatural abilities promises them materialistic things they desire.

The kids get invited on an equally supernatural boat trip (I think?) by this man, and he tells them that he can bring them to different locations where they can each get the thing they want the most. I believe there was one girl who desperately wanted a CD, and she was offered to visit a huge mall or CD store. It could be that the girl actually hated her parents for not getting her the CD.

The twist here is that the man increasingly reveals himself to NOT be a nice guy. Everything he offers comes with a huge drawback. This often means that where ever he brings you, you can't ever leave that place and you can't ever go home. I think some of the kids took his offer, and then realized later the horrible consequences of their choice. They all of course want to return home to their parents, but can't. Throughout the story, more and more kids leave the boat, one way or the other, but I don't remember how the book ended with the main character's story.

Other random bits of information I've got in my head:

  • I think the evil man was described as a pretty fat guy with a huge stomach. He possibly operated his boat with one long paddle, standing up.
  • The entire thing most likely took place at night, and I think the boat itself might also have magically traveled either through the sky or on a mystical river.
  • For some reason I remember a pyramid, or a pyramid-shaped building in this book somewhere. This may have actually been the hub where he would ultimately keep the victims of his deal.
  • The evil man got some kind of sick satisfaction from this ordeal for sure. The entire thing is set up as a trap (although a pretty obvious one). I think he may have been feeding off the misery and desperation he caused.

If you have any idea what this book could be, I'd be very thankful. The memory of this thing has been randomly popping up in my head once every few years, but I just can't find it anymore.

2 Comments
2024/12/22
20:36 UTC

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[TOMT][SONG][Pre-2010] Silver Bells Cover, Male Singer with no backup singers, sadder version, "classier" with no music in the introduction. Played on Arizona radio, 2006 at the earliest to 2015

A friend of mine is looking for a Silver Bells cover that played in Arizona on the radio from maybe 2006 until they moved away in 2015. They think it’s a lot older, possibly 90s or earlier, and it was a male singer, sadder sounding than the original, and had no backup vocals, specifically no female backup vocals. It was also very classy and had almost no music in the introduction.

"it was very chill, very croon-y? Not jazzy, not high energy, not rock n roll" is what they said the most recent time I asked them about it. They also say it played regularly.

They were from the valley, Gilbert/Mesa area and believes the radio station it was on was 97.5, but isn't sure.

It’s not the original version, and there are some versions that we’ve knocked off.

Stephen Sanchez, Joe Williams, Jim Reeves, Jerry Vale, Engelbert Humperdinck, Bebo Norman, Tony Bennett, Steven Curtis Chapman, Andy Williams, Steve Martin, Al Martino, Mel Tormé, John Denver, and Relient K.

2 Comments
2024/12/22
20:35 UTC

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[TOMT][PC game][2010-2020] Indie multi-settlement builder/rts with focus on trade and multiple settlements. Low detail of individual settlements.

Platform(s): PC

Genre: City builder, rts

Estimated year of release: 2010-2020 (early access/in development)

Graphics/art style: Simple top-down graphics, most details in the map itself.

Notable characters: N/A

Notable gameplay mechanics:

  • setting up settlements that can only produce a few types of resources each, making trade necessary
  • major part of the game was setting up automatic transfer/trade of resources between settlements
  • unit/army movement on the map, at least to scout (perhaps to fight too)

Other details:

I played this game when it was in early access/in development. I thought it was on GOG, but I can't find it. I went through most "city builder" games on GOG and Steam with no luck.

I think I saw it originally played by some youtuber, perhaps quill18.

It's very possible the game never succeeded/left EA, making it harder to find.

Graphics focused on the map, with settlements being just a marker on the map with some "area of influence" around them, I don't think there were individual buildings visible.

You could develop settlements in various ways, but they were always very limited in the amount of types of things they could produce, so trade between your settlements (and neutral ones maybe?) was vital.

The setting was medieval I believe.

2 Comments
2024/12/22
20:32 UTC

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[TOMT] Blog post LIKE Joel On Software/Yegge/Etc about the value of marketing (for software devs)

2 Comments
2024/12/22
20:28 UTC

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[TOMT] specific family guy cutaway scene

I don’t remember what was said exactly so I’m paraphrasing , but one character says “you’re like the guy who makes other people watch cartel death videos” And then it cuts to a scene of two guys standing next to each other and one guy is putting his phone in the other dudes face making him watch a video of the cartel killing someone.

2 Comments
2024/12/22
20:30 UTC

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[TOMT] its a ds game i think where you drive a truck in like a cartoony city and i think you can also buy some stuff for the truck but im not shure

2 Comments
2024/12/22
20:28 UTC

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[TOMT]Searching for a Meme Youtube Short 2023, Edgy Song Dude was laying back and playing the guitar while singing and had his eyes covered.

It was about not wanting to exist and being abor ted or something

3 Comments
2024/12/22
20:14 UTC

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[TOMT][Movie][2010s] Found Footage Horror Movie Investigating Rural House

Here's what I remember... The investigating group are at an old farm/house where there had been a disappearance (a mother and/or a daughter) that happened a long time ago. The group is searching the deserted house and I think find clues that the woman had been abused by her husband or maybe they read that from the police report? They also find some things (I think the daughter's doll or maybe a dress or something?), and I'm pretty sure they found something in the grass by a fence. These things shouldn't have been there given how long ago the disappearance happened. I think at one point they even see the woman/daughter (ghost?) and try chasing after her. I remember a woman running along a fence near the house in a field at night (maybe being chased or chasing after a sighting of the woman/daughter?)

I could totally be conflating different movies and I know I'm probably misremembering things, so if anything seems familiar but doesn't match other details, let me know the movie because it might be it!

2 Comments
2024/12/22
20:16 UTC

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[TOMT] Movies with attack in multiple places (metro,stadium) and an object linked to the time

Hello all, I want to watch again a movie but I have only few details because I watched it a long time ago, like 9 years ago, at least. Never been able to find it even with new technologies like ChatGPT

My big memories about this movie is a stadium attacked by a man, long hair, black hair, and he has an object which help him to do the attack. I don’t really remember if it’s about seeing the future, coming from the future (Don’t think so). By writing this, or maybe the object say to him where to attack. There are multiple places attacked by the man, included the stadium and a metro. The movie is mainly about the attacker with its object and 1/2 persons trying to stop him. Also mainly focused on the stadium I think, it’s the last place with the most people.

Sorry for the lack of information but it’s all I have 🥲 I don’t know if it was a movie with famous actors or well known producer to be honest

Thank you

2 Comments
2024/12/22
20:09 UTC

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[TOMT] [children's show] [early to mid 2000's] kid's show with a female host that used a mixture of puppets, live action, and animation

I vaguely remember a very fever-dream-like show I used to watch when I was a toddler, and I cannot for the life of me remember the name of it. From what I remember, there was a female host who was an Asian woman with short hair (there may have also been a male host as well who looked like a male version of the female host) who lived in this huge house that had a very maximalist aesthetic to it. One thing I remember the most is the frequent appearance of animated birds and random cutaways to skits involving two worm-like puppets set to either tuba or saxophone music (there was no spoken dialogue in these). There was also live action scenes that I can't remember if they were stop motion or not that followed a premise kind of simular to Toy Story with toys being alive and coexisting with the kids who own them. These scenes were narrated by the host in a storybook manner and were about day-to-day activities like having lunch, taking a walk outside, etc. There's not much else that I can remember, and I doubt the show is still around, but if anyone has any ideas what I was watching all those years ago, it would be appreciated

5 Comments
2024/12/22
20:14 UTC

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[TOMT][GAME] A ''Don't Starve Together''-like survival game.

I really am low on information about this one...

The informations I have are follow;

- I ''believe'' it was multiplayer, not so sure though.

- The ambiance was purple-colored.

- It was a survival game, you would just go out and explore.

- The style was similar to ''Don't Starve'' or ''Oxygen Not Included''. It was also a chill game.

- It had a day-and-night cycle and IIRC, you would get a notification a day before you would go under attack. I don't remember what type of creature would attack the player/s.

- Don't laugh but, at some point you had to craft a wooden table. The table had some properities tied to it but that's all I remember. This is the most vivid memory I have of the game. IIRC also you had to put some gems on it? But you HAD to craft it, the game wouldn't get far without it.

- I played this game between 2019-2021 so it has to be available during that period of time.

Sorry for the lack of information, it's just driving me crazy because at this point, the amount of knowledge I have for this game makes me think that maybe I'm making it up in my mind or maybe I saw it in a dream?? Every little thing helps!

7 Comments
2024/12/22
20:06 UTC

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[TOMT] [Sound Effect] Ringtone/Alarm sound effect

I was watching this video https://youtu.be/ARv0czlVnAA?si=prNUwGb9pNaeaGDI , and I heard a familiar sound at the beginning of the video. I tried searching for Ambient Ringtone, Soothing Ringtone, Ambient Soothing Alarm, but I found nothing. I tried reverse search, and I got Yang Tertunda by Roda which I think is incorrect. I remember first hearing that sound in an old alarm app for iOS around the 2010s. If anyone knows the specific name of this sound effect, let me know.

2 Comments
2024/12/22
19:59 UTC

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[TOMT] A guy on TikTok that looks like Dr. Frank n Furter from rocky horror.

It’s a guy on TickTock and Instagram Who has either make up or a face filter on and it makes them look like Franken Furter at the end of rocky horror.

2 Comments
2024/12/22
19:57 UTC

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[TOMT] Trailer/Facebook Reel/Advert “maybe all happened for a reason”

Seen on FB reel yesterday but can’t re-find! Starts with a guy walking past scaffolding and he asks the worker whether it’s meant to be that loose - the worker says no. Continues walking and goes into a pub, where he meets two women. A different guy comes up to him and asks if he helped save people from the fire in the mall. He replies he did and the women comment that it’s odd he came and said that. There’s then some kind of “I’ve noticed something” editing and a voiceover of him thinking “but what if it all happened for a reason” or “was all leading to this” (or similar sentiment). You see the scaffolding falling and a lorry swerves to avoid it, crashing through the pub window. The video then ended

Hoping someone can identify what this is from! Thanks in advance

4 Comments
2024/12/22
19:48 UTC

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[TOMT] song that has (vizitay) or (vizitay) as a repeating lyric

Things that you need to know:

1- It is not an English song. my best guess? Italian, Portuguese or other Latin languages

2- Vizatay or vizitay is not repeated back to back. (So not something like blah blah vizi(a)tay. And more like blah blah blah blah babablah viza(i)tay)

3-It's in the end of it sentence in the chorus

4-the song is sung by both one guy and all at once a lot of guys

5- the singer and singers are men

My Uber driver was playing it I'm dying to listen to it again

3 Comments
2024/12/22
19:47 UTC

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[TOMT] [SONG] song about Girlfriend doing all kinds of amazing things

Okay… I heard it this yesterday morning and I wasn’t able to shazam it. My god it drives me nuts that I can’t find it… i remeber part of the lyrics being “My girl, she’s so amazing… she rides a bicycle without her hands”. Genre/ style -wise identical to “teenage dirtbag” from Wheatus, but it must’ve been something else. Google did not help, I hope ya’ll will.

4 Comments
2024/12/22
19:33 UTC

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[TOMT][YouTube/Twitch?] A FNAF: Security Breach Challenge Video where the streamer had to lag out his PC for some reason

Oh man this is going to be a shot in the dark.

Seen likely around 2022-2023? Likely a bigger YouTuber or Twitch streamer, was either a video or stream, I can't remember.
It was also a challenge run from what I remember, but I forgot what the challenge was.

What I remember:

The streamer went through the Mazercise puzzle (IIRC it wasn't as easy as planned and took a few attempts as one of the animatronics kept bothering him?) and enters the vent connecting the labyrinth and Monty boss fight. Somewhere in the vent, he says he has to lag out his PC so he can skip the Monty boss fight (presumably so he can clip through the vent straight to the exit), and to do that he opens hundreds of Chrome tabs playing the DJ Music Man song, all playing at the same time.

5 Comments
2024/12/22
19:37 UTC

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