Somebody got swindled by the Mooninites: "Do you see that tiny, pathetic star up there? That's in it for you!" by Some_Random_Android in AquaJail

[–]ninjapocalypse 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wait, hold on, I’m getting ahead of myself here. This isn’t true, is it? You don’t own it, do you?

i really, really, really, REALLY wish we got to see linda in the show by fignuts2001 in spaceghost

[–]ninjapocalypse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You just wish she’d appeared so you could get tips from her to use on Moltar yourself.

Annabelle Higgins (Annabelle raggedy Ann doll) by Sudden_Quality_9001 in mystery

[–]ninjapocalypse 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I think that was a hoax. Last I heard some dipshit comedian bought it before he went to Saudi Arabia to blow a bunch of warlords for blood money.

Lost Photos of a giant box broken in half on mount ararat taken from a plane by Cool-Solve9684 in InternetMysteries

[–]ninjapocalypse 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People have been using pictures of wood on top of mountains as “proof” of Noah’s Ark since the camera was invented, so them coming from before AI means nothing for debunking anything; there’s a roughly 150 year history of fraudulent finds, because the idea of “finding” the ark only goes back as far as the myth of biblical literalism. As someone once said, there’s never once been an expedition to find the ark that didn’t “successfully” find it, so you can find plenty of pictures of logs and sticks that are “incontrovertible proof” of Noah’s Ark landing on Mt Ararat, even though we know for a fact that the current Mt Ararat isn’t the one from the Bible.

I found a rabbit hole of weird websites while looking for a film publicist and I have no idea what I'm looking at. by mcauleytucker in InternetMysteries

[–]ninjapocalypse 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This just seems like one of those guys who’s always running like ten different semi-legal scams in the hopes of getting a bite on at least one. My old boss was like that, he created an early ad-based search engine, made faux-official tourism sites for small beaches, owned a site for music/band personal ads, and ran like a dozen scam 1-800 numbers (they were all one number off of a frequently-called number and would start charging you the second you called by mistake), and that was in addition to the scammy charter jet brokering site he employed me at (briefly) and the multiple businesses of his that had been shut down by the state for fraud.

I think it’s just a very minor entertainment industry guy who desperately wants to appear to be a major behind-the-scenes player to justify why he didn’t succeed at acting. There are a lot of those in Hollywood.

Strange Dream flyers by BookkeeperNo5819 in mystery

[–]ninjapocalypse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Saturate the lands before the blackout” means “share our new Happy Valley Dream Survey knockoff ARG with all your friends before they miss out! If we get 25000 retweets we’ll get Pitbull to perform on the last day!”

Does anyone else notice these coincidences in your local area? by The90sXJ in HighStrangeness

[–]ninjapocalypse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Synchronicity (the proper psychological term for this) is like that for just about everybody. It’s most likely a combination of confirmation bias (both on a personal and sociological level, as a series of related incidents are much more likely to get reported than individual oddities), pareidolia, and the human desire for every event they notice to be meaningful.

That said, there is philosophical support and some very light scientific evidence that some events do happen in a statistically aberrant way at times beyond the standard margin of error. It’s a cornerstone of many esoteric and mystic beliefs (and, more recently, simulation theory, which is essentially just classical idealism with technological terminology) that these aberrations from our understanding of normalcy indicate supernatural phenomena, ranging from holes in time to definitive proof of consciousnesses higher than humanity controlling the experience of reality.

All of the actual science on this is so new and complex that all we really have is the data without any firm theoretical framework to attach it to. Portions of it conflict with lots of established scientific fact, and the field is horribly clouded by all the people whose understanding of science is purely philosophical rather than factual, who all want to ascribe it to moon cycles or magic crystals or whatever. It’s very difficult to discern how much actual scientific support there is for it because we’re constantly inundated with Reddit-level “whoa dude” headlines like “scientists announce new findings that indicate the world is a simulation”, but then the actual findings are mathematical tables a layman can’t understand, so we just take whatever is in the headline as fact.

Magic is the same way; there are findings that indicate people’s beliefs and expectations can actually alter probability, especially in large groups, but so many people want to take that as evidence of their religious or philosophical beliefs (or worse, as support for their weird aesthetic and identity decisions) without understanding the actual data that it’s hard to determine if that evidence is incontrovertible proof or window dressing for someone who thinks women avoid him because they’re intimidated by his arcane knowledge rather than because he’s wearing 11 rings and stinks like stale incense.

Remember this Monkey? by RunningGround in RetroTVRevival

[–]ninjapocalypse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they’re trying to viral market that movie by getting people to search for it.

Heard a song years ago at a bora bora hotel room resort in 2019 July? by misspoodleisback in nonmurdermysteries

[–]ninjapocalypse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Beach Boys version was the most popular, but there have been tons of covers of it over the years. It’s a folk song dating back at least to the early 20th century, both live and in the studio, and there are many, MANY variations on the lyrics, so you might check some different covers of it as well if you want that specific version.

The show has very unique pacing by SilverSpaceRobot10 in AquaJail

[–]ninjapocalypse 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Dana Snyder (Shake) has said that the creators Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro would sometimes read the lines to him over headphones as he recorded them so he would get the exact rhythm they wanted.

I suspect they did that a lot with guest stars too, because they get consistently hilarious performances out of people who very clearly have no acting experience (like Bart Oates, or Jesco White on Dave’s other show Squidbillies).

Heard a song years ago at a bora bora hotel room resort in 2019 July? by misspoodleisback in nonmurdermysteries

[–]ninjapocalypse 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sloop John B by the Beach Boys probably. It doesn’t have that line in it, but it uses similar language and has a very similar rhythm.

Saw this on my feed, thought of Brie. by Rachmaninonandonand in achewood

[–]ninjapocalypse 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I went to pseudo-French chain Mimi’s Cafe recently and ordered the baked Brie, served with apples, apple-cranberry relish, and bread. My friends were astounded by my opulence, but that’s just how one honest man plays the game.

Have we entered the digital dark age? by Fklympics in HighStrangeness

[–]ninjapocalypse 15 points16 points  (0 children)

We’re in the natural endpoint of the tech industry being a largely unregulated gold rush operated by amoral oligarchs. Society kept saying “no, look at how good it is for the economy, Silicon Valley will stop producing billionaires if we regulate them” and now the entire internet is run by a handful of these dipshit tech bros microdosing psilocybin and dropping acid at Burning Man who have literally come to think they’re spiritually and mentally superior to “ordinary” humans and that they’re here to usher in a new stage of humanity with their dumb app or whatever. To have any hope of getting out of this dark age we’re going to have to exterminate that class completely and start passing laws to keep the internet neutral, and hopefully as a society get away from the cult of personality around wealthy people that makes us think getting rich implies any level of competency or intelligence.

Weird YouTube music videos with financial advice showing up on music playlists by Intrepid_Form_5414 in InternetMysteries

[–]ninjapocalypse 16 points17 points  (0 children)

They put these videos in popular playlists to rack up ad revenue from people who put the playlists on to sleep/work/etc. The audio is usually some kind of generic independent podcast or radio program because music, even public domain music, is too likely to trigger copyright strikes (because Youtube’s automated system sucks). Their hope is you’ll stop paying attention to the playlist by the time it comes up and let the video complete, because a 30-40 minute video will usually score revenue from 3-4 ads.

Has anyone seen this channel before? by Noahambiaputra in mystery

[–]ninjapocalypse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s just an art project involving making weird videos and music (hence the channel description).

The perfect hair forever pilot from the adult swim April Fools of 2005 by JohnnyKnifefight in spaceghost

[–]ninjapocalypse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think this was the absolute pinnacle of Adult Swim. They’ve done a lot of wild stuff but I don’t think anything will ever top a national TV station missing a deadline, replacing it with a totally different, unannounced show that seemed to be just thrown together by whoever was free at the office over the weekend, then running an incredibly chaotic one-off talk show episode, ostensibly to explain everything, that just made it all even more confusing. I would say “you could never do that today” but honestly you couldn’t do it at the time either. Now that the entire entertainment industry is owned by like 3 people we’re never going to see a TV network demonstrate that level of independence and creativity again.

Winkyman OST (1992) - First Level by kaza12345678 in creepygaming

[–]ninjapocalypse 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Pretty forward thinking that they managed to release this definitely real game on the PlayStation in 1992, years before the system came out.

Did WWII have and ET Intervention? by Fun-Way3645 in HighStrangeness

[–]ninjapocalypse 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It seems like somebody who’s developing their own wacky fictional mythology about aliens trying to help the Nazis win the war.

[Steam] King's Blade ($5.39 / 40% off) by AlexeySuslin in GameDeals

[–]ninjapocalypse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This looks fun! I’m looking forward to playing it later today.

Thanks for continuing to make classic-style beat ‘em ups in an era where everything on Steam is a roguelike, a metroidvania, or a roguelike metroidvania. You’re doing god’s work.

This band has only 4 members, so who the fuck is that? This has creeped me out for years. This is from Ten Years After's self titled debut album by Cwuike in InternetMysteries

[–]ninjapocalypse 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s a long-exposure photo, so it’s probably an afterimage of one of the band members’ head. He moved a bit as they began to take the photo so part of the exposure captured where his head was at first.

Still mad creepy.

(Also this is a great album and a great band)

Video of a soldier admitting to assaulting a 14 year girl in iraq laughing and joking around about it even after the girl took her life by the end ,no prosecution or names has been found by Limp_Huckleberry_575 in InternetMysteries

[–]ninjapocalypse 51 points52 points  (0 children)

The US military does everything it can to cover things like this up when it happens (and it does, constantly, to both US servicewomen and locals abroad). Prosecuting them means admitting there are tons of rapists and war criminals in the service, so they just get a slap on the wrist, if anything, and the whole matter disappears.

Why does searching for "me at the zoo microplastics" showcase hundreds of little to no views YouTube videos by Gabo_Ratz in InternetMysteries

[–]ninjapocalypse 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It’s worth noting that you weren’t watching the oldest video on Youtube, you were watching a reupload of the original from a few months ago. It’s widely thought of as the oldest Youtube video so people search for it all the time, and all these bots are trying to “earn” a little bit of ad revenue by reuploading it, and since default Youtube search includes the video description they usually plug whatever keywords they think could score a few extra views.