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I wish I had never found out that these specials exist. Because now I need to see them and they're not available.

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The second animated collection is the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/tales-from-the-far-side-ii_20240...

Good chance the first is kicking about there also.

Addendum: Yep - Books & both animated series https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Gary+Larson%22

Thanks for the link.

Watching the second one is almost depressing, because there's some good jokes in there that are just ruined by the scene dragging out for way too long. Several of them got a smirk out of me but then it's like, "Oh...we're still going, are we?"

If they had just had a decent editor who could've shortened them to have the punch of a Family Guy cutaway gag, I think they would've worked better. Larson's comics certainly had that punch--I just don't think he was quite prepared for how to translate it successfully to the animation medium.

If only the first video were archived, this is amazing! Thank you.

Uncertain about ripping and post-processing used, but both volumes can be found here:

https://archive.org/details/gary-larsons-tales-from-the-far-...

Lammy's seems like a super hi-fi rip: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41326459

Thank you and tbh I could do even better if I re-did it today. This one is from 2020 and since then I've gotten into doing my DVD encodes at 540p for that sweet sweet integer-scaling to 1080, 2160, etc avoiding the shitty scalers built in to most modern displays.

Ah cool. I've been buying few various obscure movies in 4:3 PAL/NTSC and 16:9 DVDs in various regions and converting them to h.265 using slow processing. As I don't trust ffmpeg and handbrake to perpetually be superior, so I'm always keeping around at least unencrypted VOBs if not the DVD .iso. Including pristine source artifacts along with prettified ones is important for archival. (My inner archivist is a choosy beggar Karen.)

Same here — I always always keep the untouched DVD image and usually even keep the physical discs. I tend to leave CSS intact in the name of doing as exact a copy as possible since it’s so fully broken.

Decrypted VOBs are nice to have(tm) additional intermediate products because nearly all players and some transcoders are idiotically region locked but will generally accept decrypted VOBs (same field data) just fine.

thanks!

Here's my personal x265 encode: mega dot nz/folder/It0CwI6I#ty1ux-A9HDeGi8gkDbzjjw

t00lz:

— Pioneer DVR-108 (RPC-1) + DVDfab Passkey + MakeMKV

— Vapoursynth (crop, denoise, deinterlace, resize, colorspace conversion)

— x265 (custom SD tune) + FDK-AAC

— ScanMaker 9800XL + Photoshop CS3

— MKVToolNix

Thank you, kind human!

Suggestion: Anonymously mirror on archive.org with the original and decrypted VOBs.

One thing to note that don’t know, when “anonymously” uploading to IA, the email you use for the account will be visible in the archive manifest. Or something along those lines, it’s been a while.

So make sure to use a throwaway email for the throwaway account.

Exactly. Limits any possible DMCA claim to the one thingy.

Thank you so much for helping to preserve this!

Awesome

bless you sir

Before the internet any town I visited I would comb used record stores looking for songs, albums, or artists I had read about but never heard.

I would also comb used bookstores. Around 42nd in NYC there were huge used magazine stores. One could go looking for Jan. 7th 1954 Life magazine and find it. That was the early 90’s and I miss it.

There’s an entire universe of small press books and magazines that it is even hard to find evidence existed - let alone a copy of them.

I know of a few from personal connections and there’s some really good stuff in them!

I obviously went through a book ephemera collecting phase. Just getting to the point at looking at all the things I came across I once thought were important.

Information used to be hard to find and small magazines always developed around subcultures.

I'm surprised how ancient magazines in box have more intrigue and accessibility than archive.org's search box. Archive.org represents a much broader reach and depth of information.

I wonder what I would have done if I wasn't actively physically searching for something.

I look forward to cataloging it.

Not available, except on all of the major torrent sites.

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