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A day late, but man, it's been 4 years of running this website. That's a whole degree's worth! Cooking up something good to celebrate the anniversary. Whether you've been a follower of capstasher's Corner since the beginning, or you've just started following me, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Here's to many more years of csC!
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I have explored around the web a fair bit in the past week and I have come to the conclusion that Otaku magazines are surprisingly poorly documented. There are hardly any scans of the big ones, like Newtype USA or Animerica, let alone any of the smaller ones Chibi Pop, Manga Max or the English language Manga Mania. V.Max is surprisingly well documented.
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capstasher's avatar capstasher 6 days ago

But yeah, while with Fortean Times I can have a gallery of all the issues' covers, it won't be as easy to do that for these. Plus, it's not just one, there is an unknown number of publications, each with an unknown number of issues to them. It's all very poorly documented. Wikipedia has a list, but it's both incomplete and inaccurate.

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capstasher's avatar capstasher 6 days ago

Regardless, this tells me there is a severe need for someone to actually go through and document these, make scans, and archive them in a public manner, before the last of these issues rot in someone's storage, or are thrown in a landfill for being, you know, old magazines. I have already published the ISO of one of my Newtype USA DVDs (it took a whole day, incredibly painful experience)

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capstasher's avatar capstasher 6 days ago

My biggest issue with scanning is that unless you are willing to sink hundreds to thousands of pounds into equipment, you're pretty much forced to destroy your copies to get good scans. You have to use a guillotine to slice off the spines of bound magazines, and then scan the pages individually. I uhhh refuse to do this. You will never catch me destroying them to get good scans.

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capstasher's avatar capstasher 6 days ago

I will likely figure something out, eventually, but it will be very time consuming.

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capstasher's avatar capstasher 6 days ago

I once bought the cheapest CZUR model as it was coming out, only to find out I wasted loads of money on what was essentially a shitty camera on a stand. Could try to use that, could try to use my proper camera, could try the office flatbed scanner I have. We'll figure it out. Archival scanning, like anything else involving optics, suffers from extreme prices. We will fix this when we win.

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I should give my collection of otaku magazines the same treatment as the Fortean Times ones... But there are multiple publishers, so I might have to track each of them independently? Maybe I should go the route of my computer zines page? I should also scan them if no scans are available and rip the ISOs of the Newtype DVDs. Many things to consider...
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Oh we passed 3milly! I will... uhh... do something for it on the 24th. That's when the anniversary is. Celebrate both at once. Anyway, thank you all very much for visiting my wreck of a site. I am immensely grateful for your patronage <3
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capstasher's avatar capstasher 1 month ago

To celebrate, teach an Irishman about fire or fishing today.

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literaturegirl's avatar literaturegirl 3 weeks ago

I can't believe I missed craic day... Although, in my defense, you failed to teach me about fishing or fire. I'm still cold and starving here.

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capstasher's avatar capstasher 3 weeks ago

@literaturegirl It would upset the ecosystem of Ireland if one of you knew about this. Your ancestors endured harsh winters, you will also survive.

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vhsmaronite's avatar vhsmaronite 1 month ago

My heart bleeds for you. I'm in the exact same position with my degree. Thankfully I decided to work all throughout my college days, so I'm at least able to be promoted with my degree. But it's far from ideal- and far from the field I actually went to university for. Hang in there, brother. I hear you.

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capstasher's avatar capstasher 1 month ago

@vhsmaronite: Things are better now, this was just a small update to an old article. I managed to get the job mentioned there but even now, with a year experience, I still get rejected from everywhere else. Dunno what I would do if I got fired.

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