[HN Gopher] Tales from the Far Side
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Tales from the Far Side
Author : nikbackm
Score : 163 points
Date : 2024-08-19 13:43 UTC (4 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.kleefeldoncomics.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.kleefeldoncomics.com)
| aaron695 wrote:
| > Neither of the two specials, either in their original or
| editted forms, are online.
|
| They are on The Pirate Bay and there are videos, but I guess they
| mean Netflix. The videos are kept alive off the torrents
| normally, as the video sites go down, torrents are quite the
| internets backbone.
| thanatos519 wrote:
| Now that I know about it, I'm seeding this torrent forever.
| OccamsMirror wrote:
| I wish I had never found out that these specials exist. Because
| now I _need_ to see them and they 're not available.
| defrost wrote:
| 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
| metadat wrote:
| If only the first video were archived, this is amazing! Thank
| you.
| hi-v-rocknroll wrote:
| Uncertain about ripping and post-processing used, but both
| volumes can be found here:
|
| https://archive.org/details/gary-larsons-tales-from-the-
| far-...
| metadat wrote:
| Lammy's seems like a super hi-fi rip:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41326459
| Lammy wrote:
| 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.
| hi-v-rocknroll wrote:
| 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.)
| Lammy wrote:
| 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.
| hi-v-rocknroll wrote:
| 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.
| kragen wrote:
| thanks!
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| 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.
| Lammy wrote:
| 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
| hi-v-rocknroll wrote:
| Thank you, kind human!
|
| Suggestion: Anonymously mirror on archive.org with the
| original and decrypted VOBs.
| Modified3019 wrote:
| 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.
| hi-v-rocknroll wrote:
| Exactly. Limits any possible DMCA claim to the one
| thingy.
| Loughla wrote:
| Awesome
| devoid31 wrote:
| bless you sir
| TheCraiggers wrote:
| Thank you so much for helping to preserve this!
| cwillu wrote:
| Not available, except on all of the major torrent sites.
| detourdog wrote:
| 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.
| bombcar wrote:
| 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!
| detourdog wrote:
| 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.
| mccolin wrote:
| A VHS of this I taped from broadcast is bopping around my
| parents' basement somewhere. I need to find that.
| kennyloginz wrote:
| Awesome! Please share if you are able to recover it.
| hi-v-rocknroll wrote:
| I wonder if content on VHS tape can be read and/or post-
| processed better than the best Toshiba or Sony (PAL|NTSC) VCR
| in history using fancier techniques and modern technology.
| Sesse__ wrote:
| https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode
| actionfromafar wrote:
| Was about to say that.
| hi-v-rocknroll wrote:
| Awesome, thanks. I guess one just needs benchmarks of the
| sensitivity of various compatible hardware solutions.
| stavros wrote:
| I wonder if the newer reading technology offsets the
| degradation of the magnetic tape, or whether it's better to
| digitize X years ago, using the older digitizing technique,
| but with a stronger magnetic signal.
| hi-v-rocknroll wrote:
| Every time it's played, there is mechanical wear on the
| tape surface and mechanical stretching to place it under
| tension.
|
| Probably always best to digitize it then because there's
| quite a bit that can happen to tape magnetically and to the
| plastic tape itself.
| ericzawo wrote:
| My orthodontist growing up had these books in the waiting room
| and I found them hilarious as a kid even though I only understood
| maybe 30% of them.
| CoastalCoder wrote:
| > My orthodontist growing up had these books
|
| When I first read that sentence, I thought you were talking
| about your orthodontist's upbringing.
|
| I eagerly anticipated hearing about how that affected his work
| with you :)
| SamBam wrote:
| Dentist eschewed traditional drills and explorers for
| handmade stuff that looked like _Cow Tools_.
| talldayo wrote:
| > even though I only understood maybe 30% of them.
|
| My parents got me a _Far Side_ collection when I was younger,
| and I understood maybe 15% of the comics _tops_.
|
| But it's still a great read; as an adult I'm stupefied by how
| much mileage Larson squeezed out of single-pane comics. He was
| willing to run the gamut of sight gags to double-entendres even
| to the coming-of-age _Calvin and Hobbes_ style comedy. There 's
| also a pervasive disdain for humanity that lovingly graces most
| of his comics. Humans are portrayed as baser and stupid
| compared to talking cows and sapient insects. Children
| regularly endanger themselves in outrageous situations and
| their caretakers respond in even stupider ways. Scientists and
| doctors are portrayed as self-congratulating frauds that care
| too much about their work to notice or interact with the
| consequences.
|
| Larson's cynicism is what connected me to his comics as a kid,
| even when I couldn't get the jokes about taxes and car
| maintenance. That, and his incredible knack for illustration.
| UberFly wrote:
| I remember watching this on TV. It was a big deal at the time due
| to the massive popularity of the strip, but didn't translate
| well. The whole thing kinda fell flat.
| NickC25 wrote:
| Larson is an absolute national treasure.
|
| Some of my favorite memories of my youth were reading and re-
| reading some of the Larson books my uncle handed down to me -
| _Far Side Gallery1, 2, 3 & 4 _, _It Came From The Far Side_ , and
| _Tales From The Far Side_. Some of the jokes I didn 't understand
| until I was older, some I understood right away, and some of them
| I remember so fondly I could re-create them in my sleep.
|
| A genuine master of his craft, sheer brilliance.
|
| My all-time favorite: https://i.redd.it/my-daily-farside-dump-
| caw-caw-v0-l7k98dab4...
|
| Another gem:
| https://i.pinimg.com/736x/26/b4/21/26b421ae077069c6de1f2da18...
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