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Noticing an awful lot of common ideas, stories, tropes, elements, etc. in popular or older media? Even obscure, no-budget media can be full of some very interesting things...

Noticing an awful lot of common ideas, stories, tropes, elements, etc. in popular or older media? Even obscure, no-budget media can be full of some very interesting things...

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P: oh yeah BK has a great white shark. those aren't real. and hippos are fishy af.
P: and LOZOOT's water temple is apparently a flooded sunken skyscraper or something. its boss is an amoeba. those are a joke.
P: also banjotooie's mayan level features talking stone bird creatures that play soccer.

H: Haha. Yeah i could do a list on the bosses. Wormguy with fat head you gotta hit on its sensitive tail (3rd boss). More wormguys in the desert that burrow (2nd boss). First boss is the chess knight things that dance around. Theres the boss with all the eyes you gotta hookshot to you and kill one by one. Theres a big moth boss. One of the coolest zelda temples of all time is in LTTP the one where you need to "save' the noname girl but actually turns out shes the scary demonhead white t shirt boss in disguise, you gotta expose her to the light in the boss room to start the fight.
H: Those are the bosses coming to menory off the top of my head. Theres a few throwaway bosses like giant eyeball that bounces off the walls, and im blanking on the others. Oooh the crab boss you gotta break their mask off first. Thats a good one. And the double headed fire and ice boss.

P: just realized... the japanese OBSESSION with gratuitous english is a clue... hmmm. HMMM

H: Yeah! Always inserting english. Also i always seem to forget about the fake japanese camps in america during muh ww2

P: so i understand some memory holed movies were real!

H: Shizaam was 100% a real movie

P: how it went

H: I dont know that I ever saw it. But i know it existed and theres plenty of people who have given synopses of the movie online and they remember the same details.
H: What i remember was the fact that it was heavily advertised but flopped big time and ruined sinbads career. I also remember the fact that there was an indentical movie staring shaq and it was even titled very very similarly. That movie still exists kazaam or whatever. I remember thinking how dumb it was they would do such similar movies at the same time. It was a planned psyop all along i imagine.
H: Anyways, people remember very specific scenes that match up including wishing for a huge thing of gumballs and they got a gumball mountain. Some other things were also remembered by many people.
H: I didnt see the movie but i remember specifically the shaq movie and the sinbad movie being out at basically the same time and how stupid that seemed.
H: I wouldn't have that memory if shizaam never existed.

P: i used to always shrug off mandela effect stuff, even though the concept been around forever before it had a name. now i find this stuff interesting. memory holeing. people that remember. interesting.

P: how bout them shekelstein or shekelstain bears, changing logos, etc.

H: I think maybe that was a planned psyop from the begining. Similar to sex and the city vs sex in the city, interview with a/the vampire. They could have the title one way but always say it another way. Berenstain bear books often had a cursive looking font where e and a would look similar. And if its always read to you as stein you wouldnt notice its spelled stain. In and and sound the same. A and the can sound the same.

P: well that's a simple easy explanation for such a big mystery haha.
P: just ping me whenever you get an interesting thing to talk about. i'm surprised though that no one compared copies of books or dvds with different titles printed on.

H: Koko died twice too...

P: died the first time they threw out the bad old fursuit, died again when the second fursuit had a problem

H: Yeah people give way to much mysticism to mandella. I think its simple.