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2010's flash game, either on Discovery/History Channel website
This game was similar to a tower-defense game. The towers however, were in a fixed position and could be controlled by the player/computer/neutral depending on whose resources were occupying the area ...
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Transmigration novel where a girl enters a novel she's been reading and becomes friend with the male lead
It is a historical novel, transmigration/reincarnation themed. This girl enters into a novel she read and becomes the male lead's childhood friend. I think the original friend died from falling off a ...
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Fantasy book from the 70s, 80s, or 90s with a main character who kills a mythic beast with a bow
All I can recall about it is:
It may have been in a book set based on that world
The part I recall is that a protagonist is kicked out of his clan/village for something.
The same character killed a '...
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Old anime type movie or show with the boy and the ghost girl with light white or pinkish hair
I saw this movie when I was very little and just remembered it now, but I can't find it!
I can barely remember but let me try to explain what I think it's about.
So there's this boy who meets a ghost ...
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Book about a clairvoyant girl who uses throwing knives
The cover sort of resembles a girl that looks like the live action Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad (but this was made before the movie) and she sits in front of a target board. She is clairvoyant and ...
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MC exiled from kingdom for ostensibly poisoning a duke. Becomes an S-Rank Adventurer
I can't remember any of the big things that happen only this
manga where the mc is exiled out of the kingdom for poisoning a duke but he didn't do it so he goes to the closest kingdom and becomes an s-...
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Manga where the main character gains a super weapon named after a demon
The setting was fantasy. There were these super weapons, all named after demons that took the form of giant machines. The main character's was a plane with an energy cannon that I think was named ...
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Manga where the female lead is stabbed in the neck, but the blood flows back in and she heals immediately
This manga or manhwa had a female protagonist. She gets kidnapped and her neck bleeds is or snapped by assassin/kidnappers. There is is some kind of sorcery to restore her life. The blood flows back ...
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Animated show about teens controlling monsters virtually
It's a mix of 3D/2D animation. I saw it around the early 2000s, I think.
I remember an episode where one of the main characters' devices breaks in the monster's world and they have to survive with ...
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How much energy can an adapted Borg shield absorb?
We see in several episodes of several series that the Borg can adapt their shield frequencies and apparently become completely impervious to attack. However, I'm wondering if there is a limit to this ...
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Fantasy YA novel from at least 10-15 years ago about kids who can enter a dream world when they fall asleep
So I read this book 10-15 years ago, but I'm not sure when it was published. It's a YA novel with a young male protagonist, I think, who finds out he can enter a different world when he goes to sleep. ...
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TV show about a group of teenagers who go to competitions that involve them catching creatures with a watch-based thing
What's that one show where a group of teenagers have to capture small creatures through a watch and combine them with other smaller creatures to form a giant one-- and they have competitions like that?...
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What was in the box?
As far as I understand, the reason for the magical occurrences in "Winter's Gifts" was
But: what was actually in that box? Was that ever explained?
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Fantasy movie involving crystals. It starts off with a girl making a wish on a birthday cake
I watched this movie when I was a child (5-7 years of age) so I don't remember much other than two scenes.
The intro
It starts off with a birthday cake and a girl wishing her wish on the birthday cake....
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In Pursuit of the Pankera, who is J. Worthington Jones?
In Heinlein's posthumous The Pursuit of the Pankera the main characters are reading a history of the alternate universe they are in (an alternate universe with Lensmen and Boskone) and encounter an ...
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Why is Captain Kirk's brother called "Sam" in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
Why does everyone on SNW call Captain Kirk's brother Sam when it is explicitly stated in TOS that Captain Kirk is the only one who calls him Sam?
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Webtoon about a female lead who keeps reincarnating after being killed by male lead
I don't remember much; unfortunately is has been very long since I read it.
She keeps dying by the hands of the male lead. He is a tyrant and she knows she somehow has to say something interesting so ...
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Trying to Find a 'Weird Tales/DarkSide' TYPE Episode seen 1980s
Sometime from about 1986-89 , I saw a 'Weird Tales' type TV Episode, and I have never been able to find it again after seeing it that one time. It was REALLY Cool and Twisted- And I have looked thru ...
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Late 80's/early 90's paperback about a young girl with pyrokinesis, not "Firestarter"
In the late 80's/early 90's, I read a drugstore paperback that featured a teenage girl with pyrokinesis. She may have also had telekinesis. Sometime towards the beginning of the book, she kills some ...
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Harry Potter fanfiction where Harry is given Excalibur by the Lady of the Lake
I am searching for a Harry Potter fanfiction with the following things in it.
Harry was imprisoned in Azkaban after being framed.
Voldemort tortures him.
Bellatrix removes one of Harry’s eyes.
Harry ...
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Book about an amnesiac protagonist who sucks the life out of anyone nearby if he dies near them
A book about an unkillable, amnesiac protagonist that wakes up in the introduction of the book, after being killed in a children's playground, looking up at a fake dragon children's rocking horse. ...
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Outcast Girl, power to kill and/or set people on fire with a glance, world is extremely hot, kind of scary, might include dragons
This is a book that impacted and scared me a lot as a kid, but I only have the vaguest memories except a few points that stick out. I'm also a little suspicious I might be conflating two books I read ...
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Movie or show about some space/alien dust that causes animals to explode
I remember watching a movie or a show as a kid where this dust from space or from aliens fell onto a mouse, and it made the mouse violent and go after a cat. After a time, the mouse exploded into this ...
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How old is King Magnífico?
In Wish, the sorcerous King Magnifico looks anywhere between his early forties (like his voice actor) up to perhaps a very youthful-looking sixty-something.
On the other hand, he is a powerful ...
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Did Shaun Temple know anything about Donna's travels with the Doctor?
The Tenth Doctor's last long-term Companion, Donna Noble, was forced to stop travelling with him after (Journey's End [2008] spoilers)
It's clear from The End of Time that her mother and grandfather ...
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Young adult/teen fiction about a kid that is somehow transported into various numbered worlds
I read this book in the early 2000s. I remember the kid being in a field of wildflowers with a white gazebo that either faded into the air or into water. They were then transported to different ...
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Anime where a boy needs the power of the Shinigami and befriends one who looks like a white and red bunny
This is gonna be very obscure. There is a exorcist or priest or something and he's a teen. His dad retires and its his turn to take over. But he needs the power of the Shinigami (don't know how to ...
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Origin of spider tanks
Spider shaped tanks appear regularly in near-future/cyberpunk settings. The earliest examples I'm aware of are from Masamune Shirows 1989 manga series Ghost in the Shell.
While the idea of walking ...
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Sci-fi/fantasy fae book about a girl whose family place a geas on her, causing her to be unable to escape the town
I'm looking for a book published between 2013 to 2019.
At the beginning of the book, the kids are all sitting around looking for someone they'll fall for, who they'll live with for a year and, if ...
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What influences whether Hoid can hide from a Shard?
In the Cosmere novels, Hoid travels to a variety of planets, generally trying to avoid the notice of the gods (Shards) that tend to inhabit them, many of which would not mind seeing him dead or ...
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Manga in which a bus or car crashes, leaving three survivors in a cursed forest or island
I remember seeing this manga, I think on Tapas, but I'm not sure.
I don't remember too much of it, though I strongly remember this scene: a bus crashes/car crashes and the people fall into this river ...
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Book about a British boy from a futuristic world
It's a story about:
a boy called "Jay"
he has a sister who is apparently a hacker and can block the WiFi in specific places
and a mom who works for rich people
and a dad that works in a ...
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Follow up to Carl Sagan’s "Contact" with a character deciphering pi
I remember reading the back cover of a novel some years ago that described itself as a kind of unofficial follow up to Carl Sagan Contact novel. I remember something about the original message ...
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Manga where a girl learns that her recently deceased grandmother could bring drawings to life. Winds up with a demon companion
I read this as a translated comic on one of the manga sites (I don't recall exactly which one, but I don't think it was a licensed translation/presentation) somewhere in the last few years. A girl ...
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Book where a king is cursed with infertility so the queen's daughter will inherit
Can remember a few scenes in it. Near the beginning the queen, who is a witch, is casting a curse on her husband the king. She has a handkerchief with his seed on it that she has tied into 9 knots. ...
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Young adult science fiction book series about a teen boy with two scientist parents who tell him to run one day when people show up
Looking for a young adult book series I read as a kid, around 2013/2014.
From what I can remember, the protagonist is a teen boy. He lives with two scientist parents and they move a lot. He comes home ...
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Why do the characters take the year 2060 for granted?
In the Japanese science fiction/mystery series Pending Train, a group of metro travellers get stranded in what appears to be a deserted future with only few traces of civilization left.
In one of the ...
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Anime about a demon princess who is banished to the human world and falls in love with a knight sent to protect her
I'm looking for an anime about a demon princess who gets banished to the human world, but is not sent alone. There is a knight sent to protect her and they fall in love. The princess has pink hair and ...
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What fairytale provided Big Jack Horner's staff?
All of Big Jack Horner's tools are explicit references to fairytales, or at the very least famous children's stories/movies. The hand that turns people to gold is from the story of King Midas, the &...
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Anime involving a space dictator and a little girl with a huge sword which imbued her with certain abilities
When I was a kid, there used to be an anime being aired. It started with the description of a horrific space dictator/bad guy, and there was this little girl with this huge sword, which imbued her ...
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Book about an alien invasion with: a disease, a dead person's mansion, aliens playing in the water, and a missile launch at Vandenberg AFB
I'm looking for a book about an alien invasion. I can recall that there's a disease that kills a lot of people, and this man is in some dead person's mansion, possibly in Los Angeles.
I believe the ...
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What is the significance of the old man hopping in "Lot 36"?
In the first episode of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, “Lot 36”, we see the old man who rents the titular storage unit make a hopping motion before entering and after exiting the unit, ...
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Book involving two siblings and a magic sword called Excalibur
I'm pretty sure it involves two siblings fighting crime whose catchphrase is "let's blow this popsicle stand" (or "...soda stand"). There's also а magic sword called Excalibur, I ...
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Manhwa where the MC wants to be a paladin but got scammed into a villain class
What manhwa is where the main character wants to be a paladin originally but got scammed by the NPC to become a villain class. His favor for everyone dropped and he is hated but super over-powered ...
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Anime series about a teen girl, a guy with glasses and a swordsman who become friends and fight to save the world
This anime series I'm looking for might have been made in 2015 or 2014, and I watched it in 2020.
In episode one, a young teen girl is doing rhythmic gymnastics and trying to fight, but her grandma or ...
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Book about a girl travelling to the center of a desert just to find out she herself is part alien
I remember this book I read years ago but only some details. I remember the premise was that the moon had stopped or was broken up. I remember specifically a city being destroyed. I think the story ...
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An 80s or early 90s (1990) animated sci-fi series that took place in space on a space ship
The cartoon came in either the 80s or early 90s (probably 1990). The cartoon took place in space on a spaceship. The crew of the spaceship was human. The leader was a man and there was one female ...
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Sci-fi movie in which horses were rare and going extinct and being sold on the black market
I'm trying to remember the name of this movie I wanted to watch from the last four years. I remember something about horses being important to the story. It seems like they were going extinct and ...
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Book about a girl who flies to an island and found out her mom was creating robot clones of children to be servants
It was like there was this girl who lived with her dad and her mom worked on an island and when the girl turned a certain age, she flew to the island to visit her by with this guy that she was I think ...
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Mental level of replicants -- as intelligent as engineers who made them?
It is clear that Batty is very intelligent but he is level A -- Pris is level B and indeed looks to Batty for leadership.
Is she less intelligent by design (my guess) or due to her maker's own ...
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