Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Feb 2, 2022 11:22:34 GMT
There are a select few of cultural significance like Farmville, but ones like that heavily relied on Facebook being the backbone of the data stored, or I would assume. Reconstructing stuff like this is a PITA for anybody who would be accurately preserving that. I'm going to bet a bulk of facebook games are irretrievable.
The physical Super Mario Kart prototype. If the guy who owned the cartridge dumped it all those decades ago, the TCRF scene would've already had answers to questions that were long forgotten by now! Damn hoarders...
It sure seems like retro games scene has some of the worst hoarders. Do movies have this many similar stories?
When a search is based almost solely or entirely on a rumor mill spiralling out from someone's single text post. While some searches have actually come from this kind of thing they tend to have multiple people actually available to back it up and provide their own memories of the topic like with Cracks or other notable searches. But then you have situations like "the lost murder farming game" or that 4chan post about the girls trapped in a bathroom that go insane, i.e. saki sanobashi. In that case there was absolutely no evidence to back it up, while the former was just a false memory generated from the dreams of someone falling asleep to vinesauce Joel making an offhand comment about a potential idea for a game. I'll admit that in that specific situation the outcome was funny but when so much effort is spent on topics without even a shred of reliability behind the source, like the 4chan anime case it's sad to see the wasted effort.
It causes misunderstandings, too. A lot of ignorant/misinformed people still think that "saki sanobashi" counts as a legit lost media case. I don't think that any big YouTubers have given that lie any positive attention recently, so its popularity should soon dwindle to virtually nothing.
And people see the popularity of searches stemming purely from someone's story and want a slice of that attention, so they make up another media case from thin air too. I have no doubts we'll see another case get to the height of saki, based entirely on one person's account.
When a search is based almost solely or entirely on a rumor mill spiralling out from someone's single text post. While some searches have actually come from this kind of thing they tend to have multiple people actually available to back it up and provide their own memories of the topic like with Cracks or other notable searches. But then you have situations like "the lost murder farming game" or that 4chan post about the girls trapped in a bathroom that go insane, i.e. saki sanobashi. In that case there was absolutely no evidence to back it up, while the former was just a false memory generated from the dreams of someone falling asleep to vinesauce Joel making an offhand comment about a potential idea for a game. I'll admit that in that specific situation the outcome was funny but when so much effort is spent on topics without even a shred of reliability behind the source, like the 4chan anime case it's sad to see the wasted effort.
Pardon my ignorance, but I must have missed this one. I didn't realize the LMA people were such bad eggs. Aside from their wiki being inferior, I knew nothing about them. This is super sad really, and I'm sure it soured some people's perception of our community as a whole.
Well, pardon MY ignorance, but what is LMA? Are we beefing with another lost media site? Because I'm ready to represent and throw down if I have to.
If I'm not mistaken I would have to guess it's whoever took over the old wiki? In any way said drama is years old at this point and the search pretty much died off because of it.
(LMA appears to stand for Lost Media Archive, a fandom.com sub-site.)
Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Sept 27, 2021 9:09:11 GMT
This old, very obscure set of videos that were on a Youtube channel probably from the very early 2010s if not before. Called "15 seconds staring" or something along those lines. Made a thread about it on here years back but nothing came of it. TLDR a bunch of random clips of a camera just focused on a single object for the duration stated. Pretty simple but it's stuck with me until today. The whole channel has vanished, though, it seems.
Nicholas has started a new YouTube channel, but because of how quick he is to delete his content, I advise against contacting him about his old videos.
I found a reupload that's only missing 1 second here:
I've still got a local copy if it's needed at some point. Contact me if you wish to have the file as it was removed from archive.org a couple years ago now.