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I figured out a day or two ago that SSO Ridethrough still exists. The unique domain name just expired, so it's back to using a wordpress url, which is why a bunch of the old links don't work
So if you guys want to see the Old Quest Dialogue (like 2018 and earlier), look for ssoridethrough.wordpress.com (not linking it directly because we all know tumblr can be weird about links). If a link on the site doesn't work trying the search function instead, so far it's worked for me.
#sso#star stable online#starstableonline#I was in the processing of archiving a bunch of it on the wayback machine#and also in documents#and realized 'oh wait she switched to a unique domain rather than using the wordpress one oooh'#which answers why so many of the links don't work but the pages actually still exist#I'm still in the process or archiving it's just a long process and I've been hella busy#god I hope one day I can get my own dialogue reference site up and running#boatload of work but also so handy for the community#like I have videos and screenshots and documents of the events and quests going back to 2019 or maybe 2018 so like#I do have all that stuff it's just not very searchable or available for people
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"the magnus protocol had a whole ARG beforehand? what?"
yes! it did!
"oh so I need to have participated in this whole big thing to actually understand the podcast?"
not at all! from the official post-mortem put out by RQ, "while the ARG was not something that was necessary to participate in to understand the magnus protocol, it was designed to contain a wealth of background story and context that would enrich any player's listening experience."
"a wealth of background context that would enrich my listening experience 👀👀👀 how can I learn about this?"
SO glad you asked. sadly, many of the materials made for the arg have been taken down since the game ended 😔 (ex., the official OIAR, magnus institute, and bonzoland websites. (edit ii: I found partial wayback machine captures! see below) though @strangehauntsuk is still up!), so we're a bit low on primary sources, but in terms of learning about what happened:
for a starting point, I would really recommend this video by @pinkelotjeart
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it's super accessible, it was made in real time as the game progressed and follows the solving and revelation of clues as they happened, it hits all the major points of the mystery and moments of community insanity while eliding some of the nitty gritty puzzle grinding, 10/10 would recommend.
here's the official summary put out by RQ, and I'd recommend reading through this once you've already gotten a basic handle on the flow of the story and the basic connections between major clues and events. it's got some fun behind-the-scenes info and lays out the thought process behind the puzzles in simple terms
here's the full masterdoc of all puzzles and resolutions put together in the statement remains discord server. masterdoc my absolute BELOVED, masterdoc my bethrothed, masterdoc my soul mate. I'd recommend this as a second port of call after the above video as it either contains all details about the puzzles or links to other expanded docs that do.
here's the narrative summary doc that lays out all the plot and lore discovered in three pages of plain prose. if you just want to get to the good bits as fast as you can and get blasted directly in the face by contextless lore bombs, this is the doc for you. if you don't want to start with the video, I'd say this is another good entry point.
once you've got the lay of the land, some of the game materials that I found particularly interesting include:
the in-universe east germany expat usenet forum, with all content translated into english. most of it is irrelevant space filler with occasional extremely sus lore, but I still found it fun to read through. love to soak in some fictional forum drama.
chdb.xlsx, the spreadsheet of the names of all the children the protocol 'verse magnus institute was studying/experimenting on. EDIT: here is a version of the sheet without any annotations and with all of the names in their original order, kudos to @theboombutton for catching that the commonly shared copy had the order swapped around.
klaus.xls, a (very corrupted) spreadsheet with what looks like the classifications of a bunch of old OIAR cases.
EDIT: have a few more saved materials from the game that I forgot to include.
an in-universe audio ad to apply to the OIAR that ran before archives episodes and kicked off the whole game.
an in-universe video ad to apply to the OIAR, this one is an official upload that's still up from the game itself. you can subscribe to the OIAR's official youtube channel today, if you so chose.
the robo-voicemail greeting from the OIAR's phone line.
EDIT II:
here is a wayback machine capture of the OIAR's official website.
here is a wayback machine capture of the bonzoland website.
(pretty sure both of the above captures just archived the home pages, though I haven't tried clicking all of the links. I'd say they're still worth looking at, the home pages give a good window into the vibes.)
once you start poking around in these documents, you'll find a bunch of links to others with further information, the materials I've included here just contain what I feel to be the most relevant details to getting a broad feel for the whole game. once again, huge shout out to the statement remains server, I was barely in there as the ARG was in progress and only ducked my head in every so often to find links like these. true mvps of the fandom.
#gonna pin this for a bit because every day I get 2-5 asks saying 'there was an arg? how do I learn about it?'#tmagp#video#marina marvels at life
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Do you reblog the entire blog or just some of the works?
So my process is... complicated and sometimes random.
I eventually intend to archive the entire blog, in fact I have an 11 page google doc with links to blogs I intend to fully archive. However, I also just randomly go down my feed and reblog art from there too (while adding those artists to my google doc). Occasionally I check out tags and do the same thing.
I also have a google doc with my already archived blogs where I denote if they are "dead" (haven't posted Trek art in over two yrs) or "alive". For the "alive" ones, I check them at random (then put the date of the last check-up in the doc).
I also don't like to flood specific tags with to much unbroken content from one artists. So for example, if someone clearly loves Spock and has over 200 posts of Spock content, I will take a dive into the Spock tag and add a bunch of that art to the queue to mix it up. This is just my weird personal preference.
At most times (except for the past two weeks cause I've been busy) I have a completely full queue (1,000 posts) and a shitton of drafts. Sometimes if I have an artist who has produced an incredible amount of content, I regulate at least half of their stuff to drafts for a while.
So that's my process! I have ADHD if that wasn't guessable by this convoluted affair! I also love, love, love sorting things.
Also, when I get into archiving a whole blog, if it's a huge one where the user has been very Trek Active since 2011, I have to block out some time in my day cause I enter an intense state where I refuse to stop until the entire blog is in my queue or drafts. Hyperfixation, huzzah! My college roommate has occasionally yanked me away kicking and screaming cause "I need to eat."
Oh also, if y'all have any blogs that you don't think I've stumbled upon, please send them to me!! The tumblr search engine is shit (the reason for this blog in the first place).
Another note (I'm sorry, I just like explaining my process). Since the tumblr search engine is shit, if I find an old blog, I will also look at the art they've reblogged to find artists I probably wouldn't have found any other way. This sometimes leads to an explosion where I think I'm clearing down my 11 page doc (size 11 font) of blogs to archive, but I end up finding 10 more blogs. That's okay though! It makes me happy to see just how many people are out there making content for this franchise!
I also sometimes go on a specific character kick (yes, you can tell who I particularly favor on this blog due to the amount of art I've collected of them. Nyota Uhura, Kathryn Janeway, etc) where I exhaust all possible ways of getting to art of them. This is far more often for characters like Uhura, not characters like Spock where you can't throw a stone without finding art of them. For characters like these, I will go as far as doing google searches to reverse engineer finding art of them (tumblr search engine I hate you). Still using Uhura as an example, I have actually gone to the BOTTOM of multiple tags relating to her. (Again, showing how shit the tag system is, because I know there is more out there and I WILL find it.) I have used tumblex and those other tumblr dupes to also reverse engineer finding her art. I've been on wayback machine. I feel insane sometimes. Anyways! Yeah! I know the original asker asked a simple question, I'm sorry, this stuff just excites me very much.
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No, dude. The comics do exist and can be found here in the order I could best put them in: https://imgur.com/gallery/oSYzcNQ. While I still don’t like Jon, I do believe in archiving as much of his work as possible (it’s not like he was going to do it himself anyway). I don’t know how you went to google and said “it doesn’t exist” when clearly it does, but it does prove how little people actually know this thing’s mere existence if a google search couldn’t find the results.
Technically, the comic has two names: The Chronicles of Ademar and Lily the Panda. Although, the last one is more of a name for the web domain than a comic title. To put it simply, the premise of the comic looked like it was going to focus on Lily the Panda and Buckley Bunny, two personal bodyguards of the royal Ademar family in the kingdom of Ademar. The two of them have a simple dynamic of Lily being a self-serious and devoted samurai despite her young age and Buckley being the more reckless but seemingly dutiful bunny rogue of the pair. The two definitely would have met their fair share of threats, mysteries, and maybe slight comedic situations with various one-off or recurring characters and ongoing threats and gotten to know the world and its people more in the process.
The problem with this is that even with the comics, it’s still just nothing but a proof of concept for a series either made in Ponikvar’s spare time or for a college assignment he did in the past, especially with how the art contrasts with the tone of the comic pages. He mentioned at one point that he was going to make The Chronicles of Ademar into a series, with the mention of a first issue and a full book no less, until he had to put it in storage for an indefinite amount of time until either Peter and Company or Peter and Whitney ended. Something as you can see we know isn’t going to happen with how plans have changed after the web domain was eventually lost. You can pretty much find a little more info on the concepts of this project on the old site through the wayback machine in general, right here:https://web.archive.org/web/20140614161713/http://www.lilythepanda.com. You can also find it through his Furaffinity and Deviantart accounts. Personally, I would’ve liked to have seen the concept to be realized, but seeing Jon’s many many many…… issues I doubt the results would be favorable if the idea was realized.
As interesting as this is, I am not going to riff it. It's still a bunch of really loose and thinly connected concepts that wouldn't make for a good riff.
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Capcom's Official AA Fanclub Surveys - DGS Edition
Many Western fans may be familiar with the Turnabout 4koma comics that get posted on the official AA fanclub site that Capcom runs, thanks to some lovely fans on tumblr and elsewhere who have shared their translations. What fewer people seem to know about is the character surveys.
Back in the old days, they used to hold a survey on Capcom's official AA fansite every few months where they'd write about the seasonal activities of a handful of characters and ask fans to vote for the funniest/most pleasant/strangest/etc answer.
They stopped doing them in like... 2016? 2017? The original text is lost for good as far as I can tell. Even the wayback machine couldn't help because the content was password locked and you can't get past the password wall while remaining in the archived version.
Fortunately, I saved some of my translations of them so I thought I’d share them.
Cut for length...
"February has begun, and the DGS cast is nearing the end of their journey aboard the RFS Alacrei. Which of them acted the most strangely?"
Ryuunosuke ~ Exhausted from his intensive study session, he decided to try some katana swinging practice as a change of pace and to combat his recent lack of exercise. But because he wasn't used to handling the katana, he swung it too hard and it went flying out of his hands and got stuck in the wall right next to Sherlock, who had just entered the room. Sherlock asked him, "aren't you supposed to be studying right now, Mr. Naruhodo?" and handcuffed him to his desk.
Susato- worked on developing a curriculum for Ryuunosuke. 'If we keep going at this pace, he won't be able to learn it all in time... It'll be hard on Naruhodo-sama, but we'll have to work hard through a couple of nights together.' With that thought, she created a harsh study schedule, and almost seemed to be looking forward to it for some reason.
Sherlock- Driven by excitement over the thought of returning to England after a long absence, he went up on deck to stare at the ocean. Being February, it was very cold out there and he ended up being chilled all the way to the tips of his fingers. He returned to the ship cabins and amused himself by putting his frozen hands on Ryuunosuke, who was stuck in his room studying.
Van Zieks- Upon hearing from Vortex that there was a Japanese exchange student coming to England to study law, he smashed a Lord's Bottle. He apparently also didn't care for the fact that that Japanese student wouldn't be alone, because he proceeded to shatter his chalice, too.
Hosonaga- in order to provide a respite from studying, he provided some hot chocolate. They enjoyed a pleasant tea time, marveling over how sweet and delicious the drink was until Sherlock piped up with some unnecessary trivia: 'Actually folks, chocolate has long been used in Europe as an aphrodisiac!' Everyone promptly spat it out."
"The long winter is nearly over and spring is on it's way, putting the DGS cast members in a celebratory mood. Who found the best way of enjoying spring?"
Ryuunosuke: the Yuumei University faculty members were holding a flower viewing event, and he joined the assistance committee. He exhausted himself keeping the blankets clean so the intense shower of flower petals wouldn't pile up too high on them, delivering sake and snacks, and mediating whatever pointless fights arose. To top it all off, for some reason his compensation was only a single piece of leftover candy. Talk about a sad result!
Susato- her father and the others living in his dormitory were holding the flower viewing event, so she got up early to prepare the bentos. But her father carelessly forgot to tell her that they wanted tea cakes, so she had to go around the house and neighborhood collecting sweets. For some reason, she ended up being able to gather caramels, biscuits, candy sticks, basically everything but tea cakes, for the tea ceremony.
Sherlock- he disguised himself as a beat officer and infiltrated Scotland Yard to have some fun. There was a real beat officer napping on his feet in the spring sunshine, and while observing him, Sherlock ended up falling asleep too. Detective Gregson gave them a good scolding when he found them, but then Sherlock revealed his true identity with a "hey, it's me, folks!" "What the blazes do you think you're doing?!" Gregson shouted, his rage growing even more, and Sherlock ended up making a run for it.
Van Zieks- went to the vineyard to oversee the production of the contents of his Lord's Bottle. As he viewed the still unopened grape blossom buds, he thought about how they would someday grow up to fill his Lord's Bottle, and ended up going around to look at each one. But the farm hands couldn't stop wondering whether the bottle itself or its owner's heel might come flying at them and were quite uneasy.
Asougi: exhausted himself running around since early morning helping with the professors' flower viewing event. When it was over, he took a break, sharing his reward candy stick [the name of the candy literally translates to 1,000 year candy] with Ryuunosuke, who had also been helping out.
"I wonder if the candy's effect is halved if you share it with someone."
"That still gives us 500 years."
They laughed and enjoyed looking at the flowers until dark. Then they parted ways with a handshake and a "see you later, best friend."
(This one was something about celebrating New Years. For some reason I didn't save the original question)
"Ryuunosuke ~ To celebrate New Years, he planned to pound mochi with everyone at the office. He somehow managed to get his hands on some mochi rice and he and Sherlock started pounding. Iris was having such fun watching them that she steamed a whole bunch more mochi rice so they could have some to share, and he and Sherlock spent the whole evening pounding mochi like crazy.
Asougi~ Because it's New Years, he went around to a bunch of shrines. When he drew his new year's fortune, he got a "horrible luck" result. "I'm not worried about it," he claimed, and headed up to the mountains early on New Years morning and work hard on a full training course of purification by water, meditation under a waterfall and wooden sword practice. It seems that he was working really hard to clear his mind of all earthly thoughts
Sherlock- Agreed to help Ryuunosuke pound mochi. As Ryuunosuke was flipping the mochi over, he carelessly dropped his badge into the bowl and Sherlock mixed it in without noticing, so they had to crack open both the hard and soft mochi to look for it. Fortunately they found it in the 4th one they checked, but apparently Sherlock got his hands and face covered in sticky white mochi in the process.
Susato- Wore a furisode and went with her father to do the first shrine visit of the year. The shrine was incredibly crowded and they had to wait in line for a long time, but she brought the Encyclopaedia of British Law and a copy of the Strand Magazine in her sleeves to secretly read as they waited so she actually ended up enjoying the wait.
Van Zieks- Ryuunosuke cheerfully gave him some mochi as a New Year’s (which at that time was celebrated at the same time as the Chinese New Year) gift, which he accepted confusedly, wondering “...Can the Japanese not even keep track of when the New Year is?” Because Ryuunosuke referred to it as a rice cake, he tried to eat it like a regular cake without softening it with heat first. It was so hard that he couldn’t imagine how it could possibly be food, and ended up misunderstanding the Japanese even more!
"Autumn has arrived, and the weather is starting to cool off, which means that everyone is becoming more active. Which character chose the most pleasant autumn activity to keep busy with?"
Iris was making bread but her hands are small and it’s difficult for her to knead the dough, so she asked for Ryuunosuke’s help. She wanted to make enough to hand out to Gina and all the other homeless children in the East End, so she made a massive amount and Ryuunosuke was stuck kneading this massive mountain of bread dough all day. Apparently he became such a expert at kneading that he could be a baker now.
Asougi was practicing with his sword, slicing autumn-colored ginko leaves as they fell from the tree. He cut so many leaves, though, that he ended up making a big mess on the ground, the number of fallen leaves now having increased, and it took him a long time to clean it all up.
Sherlock: Ryuunosuke told him that he was making anpan (bread filled with sweet red bean paste, the bane of my Asian-dwelling existance) and asked Sherlock to help by being in charge of getting the poppy seeds they’d need to sprinkle on top, so Sherlock went out and gathered a ton of poppy seeds. In fact, he got so many of them that no one knew what to do with them all cuz they had a huge amount of leftovers. Sherlock said, “Well, they’re only the size of poppy seeds! Surely you two can deal with them somehow! Ahahaha!” and Iris scolded him.
(I couldn’t capture it in English, but Sherlock’s line contained a pun, and a pretty stupid one at that, so that’s part of why he got scolded)
It’s grape harvesting season, so Van Zieks commutes to the winery regularly to direct the production of the contents for his “Lord’s Bottle.” He demands perfection in everything from the selection of the grapes to the way they’re squeezed, and the winery staff is terrified by the “grim reaper’s” gaze and heel swinging (i.e. the leg thing he does in court) so they grumble as they work.
"Hearing that there’s a holiday in the West called Halloween, the people involved with the court in Japan decided to try it out themselves. Naturally Halloween is a big deal in England as well. So, which member of the DGS cast had the best celebration?"
Team Ryuunosuke and Asougi- Asougi got Naruhodo up on his shoulders and they draped a white sheet over themselves to make a ghost costume. They went out like that, but Naruhodo had such exaggerated reactions to the fear of the people who saw them and to bumping his head on tree branches that they ended up losing their balance and falling on top of each other?!
Sherlock Holmes- went wearing a horse’s head mask. Iris used her skills to make it a fancy horse covered in stars, but the eye holes weren’t well made and he had to wander around blindly. Because of that he tripped hard over a pile of coal! He ended up getting so dirty that the stars on his costume were covered up!
Van Zieks- took inspiration from his nickname and dressed up as the grim reaper. He covered himself up with a skeleton mask and hood figuring no one would know it was him. Unfortunately he got angry when he saw Megundal (McGilded) pass by and started throwing bottles and glasses and ended up giving himself away.
"November has arrived, and autumn is nearing its end. However, the DGS cast is still keeping busy, even on their days off. Which character chose the most interesting way to spend their late autumn day?"
Ryuunosuke- Thinking that he’d better learn more about British culture if he was going to be a defense attorney in Britain, he went down to the East End with Gina for a little observation. However, because an Asian like him stood out so much, he got mobbed by the other children. On top of it all, his arm band got stolen from him and he had to send a replacement request to Yumei University on the other side of the ocean.
Asougi- He went for a meal at La Quantas. The customer at a nearby table got a persimmon for dessert and scarfed it down, saying “Mm! This is it! This sweetness makes it worthy of being called a treasure among foods!” Asougi tried to comment on this by saying, “The customer at that table sure is enjoying his pershim--gak!” but he may or may not have accidentally bitten his tongue in the process and been unable to finish his sentence.
Iris- She accepted Ryuunosuke’s request to learn more about British culture and prepared a bagpipe and kilt costume for him. “This outfit sure is breezy,” Ryuunosuke said shyly upon trying it on. With Ryuunosuke now dressed, he, Iris, and the others from their office headed over to Gregson’s place to get him to treat them to some fish and chips.
Sherlock- He accepted Ryuunosuke’s request to learn more about British culture and cooked up some European style curry for dinner. Thanks to the fact that his secret ingredient was a large amount of Chinese herbal medicine style spice, it caused some strange side effects and Ryuunosuke, who’d eaten it, ended up passing out and falling over.
“Another taxing trial for Ryuunosuke has finished and now it’s December. As the year draws to a close, which character acts the strangest?”
Ryuunosuke- he was recruited to help with snow removal around Yumei University and the courthouse and he enthusiastically began his task with the help of a large shovel. He got a little carried away, though, and ended up accidentally burying his umbrella, which he’d left propped up against the side of the building, in the snow he’d just finished shoveling. He had no choice but to share Asougi’s umbrella on the way home.
Asougi- On the way home, he nods silently to Ryuunosuke’s question of whether he’d finished his travel preparations and changes the subject: “...Come to think of it, it seems that tomorrow is celebrated in the West as God’s birthday.” “I’ve heard that they eat chicken as part of the traditional celebration. Wanna try it?” Ryuunosuke asks invitingly. Asougi is strongly opposed to that particular menu item, however, and they end up going out for their usual beef stew that night instead.
Susato- in addition to her year-end travel preparations, she also was busy with straightening up the book room in her home. She managed to get the law books in order when she suddenly stumbled upon some old issues of Strand Magazine! She hurried through the rest of her cleaning, then began flipping through the magazines she’d found, trying to decide which to take with her on her trip. She accidentally lost herself in her reading and didn’t realize it until it was already the middle of the night.
Sherlock- he was in the middle of a long ship voyage when Christmas night came. His mind on his partner in a far-off country, he made a toast alone on deck, when suddenly the crew began shooting off fireworks with a cry of “Merry Christmas!” Sherlock had to dart back and forth across the deck to prevent the fireworks from hitting him and setting off the explosive chemicals he carries with him.
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#dai gyakuten saiban#tgaa#naruhodo ryuunosuke#asougi kazuma#mikotoba susato#dgs sherlock holmes#hosonaga satoru#barok van zieks#iris watson#gina lestrade#translations#official content#my translation#mikotoba yuujin#ryunosuke naruhodo#kazuma asogi#susato mikotoba#iris wilson
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good list, though I'd also recommend:
Privacy Badger is a tracker and cookie blocker that will work in conjunction with uBlock Origin and Decentraleyes, and it can catch some things neither of the others would (especially if you're using the default uBlock Origin configuration)
SponsorBlock uses a public crowdsourced database of the location of ad reads and other sponsored content in YouTube videos and automatically skips them while watching. it can also be configured to skip intros, outros, self-promotions, etc. the K-anonymity implementation means the server with the segment data never learns which YouTube videos you're watching and thus can't track you
the Wayback Machine web extension lets you check the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for an archived copy of any webpage you're on, as well as submitting any page you want to the project to be archived
Terms of Service; Didn't Read will summarize the contents of a website's ToS for you in layman's terms and show a letter grade on how fair to you the terms are
BitWarden's browser extension is my recommendation for anyone not already using a password manager
and I wouldn't recommend it for everyone, but NoScript is one of the most thorough tools you can use to enhance privacy and security. it is not a hands-off tool by any means, though. NoScript blocks a whole bunch of things that most other tools wouldn't, but it also blocks on a per-domain basis and isn't configured with whitelists by default. this isn't an extension you can configure once and forget about; you'll have to manually whitelist whatever domains are necessary for the sites you want to use to function, and that's an ongoing process (the extension does provide a UI to quickly do this). but if you're overly concerned about online privacy and security and think that trade-off is worth it, it's a good one to have
what addons do you use for firefox? i've just downloaded it to switch from chrome (derogatory)
firefox (affectionate)
UBlock Origin obviously. out-the-box works just fine but has a bunch of extra privacy/tracking/spam filters you can enable
Decentraleyes protects you against tracking through "free" curated content delivery and works alongside UBlock (or any of the other common adblocking addons)
I Don't Care About Cookies good for EU users where GDPR made it so every site ever in the universe asks you to accept cookies and privacy terms seventeen times a day. will just auto-accept for you. never see an annoying popup again! but only use in conjunction with...
Cookie Auto Delete does what it says on the tin. will automatically flush cookies, cache, and data when you close a tab. those cookies you just auto accepted? they're gone now. whitelist any sites you wanna stay logged in on and let the rest fucking perish
Don't Track Me Google removes that annoying link conversion when you copy google results. you know when it changes from "site.com" to "encrypted.google.com/randomnonsensefor200charactersblahblahblah"? yeah. this stops that happening. fuck off, google.
Don't Accept image/webp blocks sites from using the most useless file extension known to mankind so you can save as .jpg or .gif as god intended. fuck webp. seriously. what even is that.
Bypass Paywalls Clean exactly what you think it is
HTTPS Everywhere automatically adds ecrypted security to any site that supports https (you can do this manually by adding the s yourself to any url but... who can be fuckin bothere amirite? this does it for you)
New XKit ...duh
Google Search Filter allows you to remove domains from your searches forever. pinterest? gone. weheartit? nuked. also works on duckduckgo. never type "-pinterest" into a search again.
Simple Tab Groups allows you to group tabs together and shove them out of sight, which is nice if you're researching something and don't want 50 bajillion jstor tabs clogging up your normal browsing session
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Hello, I'm working on my thesis and this seems like an odd place to ask, but I'm always impressed with your ability to dig up reliable sources. Do you have a method of going about finding sources regarding obscure pop culture topics?
it really depends on a project-by-project basis, but here’s my process for an average episode of Nick Knacks.1) I watch all the content available. Every episode, every clip I can get my hands on. I get the official home video releases if I can, but otherwise I go through Youtube, file sharing, tape traders, whatever avenues are available.2) I then go to all basic websites, Wikipedia, IMDb, and any and all fan sites and forums and construct a general perception of the show. What is the show known for? How well received is it? Is there any contradictory information out there. From that, I can start building a profile.3) If a credits list is available, I cross-reference every single name in the credits, mostly through IMDb. I make note of their other works and see if I notice any trends, like “oh, this producer does of kids shows with puppets” or “this director makes nature documentaries.” If there are any public profiles or interviews of anyone in the credits, I make note of that. Sometimes, I find a person’s social media profile, and might approach them for questions, but you have to be very professional and courteous with this. If any of them have written books, especially non-fiction books, I tend to pick them, either through Amazon or the public library.4) I take everything I have from this, the name of the show, the name of the characters, the cast and crew, and I cross-reference them through a bunch of different newspaper and book databases. The ones I use the most often are:Google NewspapersGoogle BooksInternet ArchiveThere are other newspaper archives out there, but they’re usually a paid subscription service. If there are any relevant websites that are now offline, like a production company site or a fan site, I use the Wayback Machine.5) Often in these searches I’ll learn about books that might be relevant. Usually these are general media history or analysis books, but sometimes you get something very specific. If possible, I pick up these books, either by purchasing them on Amazon or eBay, or through my public library. After a while, I’ve collected a general library of reference books that I come back to on pretty much every project.6) I compile everything I have, videos pictures, writings, audio. I double check for inaccuracies or contradictions, and then start writing the video.Hope that helps!
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