This is our EIC, talking plainly about the harms GenAI does to many smaller publications, including ours.
Needless to say, Anime Herald does not, and will never support or condone the slop generators.
I didn’t think I could appreciate Douglas Adams’ absurdism any more than I already did, but this decade has learned me all kinds of things
a digital illustration of the anime herald's mascot, hera, reading the magazine. it's drawn to resemble illustrations in old anime magazines
a photo of the anime herald magazine
I finally read through all of @animeherald.com's new magazine and it was awesome! It's so great to physically hold and flip through such a thing, and I love the focus on animanga culture history.
"What led to the great data loss of the 2020s?"
"Well, you see, some dipshit had a great idea to allow emojis - those little faces that nobody uses anymore - in filenames. Suddenly, you had defining works named '😭❤️😭😭😭" or "💃💃💅" meaning that the filenames lost all meaning."
We’re fully exploring the limits of the politics of language when it comes to effecting actual changes these days. I worried at the direction activism took after Web 2.0 and hoped I was just being old and paranoid. But when people just want to feel superior to each other what can you do
Free thyself (and thy screen space). I switched to primary Mac user after it became difficult to exorcise Microsoft’s AI bunk and tame Edge’s proliferation thru systems, especially after onerous price hikes for 360. Cancelled my sub and now I only use Windows for gaming.
Open Office works well.
Thanks! I noticed (what for me was) a decline in sub quality around the same time Funimation took them over. I was not a fan of hard to read colors being experimented with later, and before, they were excellently timed even with minimal words on screen. But anything is better than missing content 😭
A photo of the cover of Noragami omnibus volume one, english version, physical copy
A photo of a page of English language translator notes found in Noragami omnibus, volume one, physical copy
16 pages of excellent translator notes in the first volume of #Noragami 🥰 please pass on my love to Alethea and Athena Nibley, @kodansha.us
Lovely! I hope things work out! (Also that was a very polite stare about the advice)
Next you’ll be trying to trying to treat your papercuts with a bandaid. You’re practically doomed!
I've looked into the international shipping costs for AH Mag and it looks like it's a combination of tariffs and Shopify's shipping partner getting a taste
Costs to ship a magazine with the specs outlined by our estimates to Halifax are about $24.88 CAD, or $17.85 USD
$35 CAD comes to $25.11 USD
Cover visual for Anime Herald Magazine Issue #1, which depicts Hera - a red-haired woman in a grey suit with a red tie, walking out of a convenience store - Anna Drees - while carrying an ice cream cone and carrying a bag full of of snacks.
We have an update on Anime Herald Magazine today! 💖 We're excited to share our (near-) final cover and logo, as well as news that folks who order will get a free bonus with their magazine. 🥰
Link: hera.fyi/ahmagissue1up2
#anime #magazine #zines
As I'm sitting here watching the UPS tracker get closer to my house, I'm struck by how much different things have become since I was a kid.
Gather 'round, children, and let Grammy tell you a story of The Olden Days.
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Such a long way in so few years! Thanks for the great times, Owlcat!
At some point UI designers need to decide if they are going to use mysterious glyphs for their drop-down menus, or standard language words. Cramming in both on every line leads to illegible cluttering. It is not cute. Better yet, give people an option to select which works best!
I haven’t and won’t return my Medicare survey because I have no idea how the data will be cooked or used by our beloved elected profiteers and entertainers 🤷
😱 & TRUE!
I love it. ❤️ I’d add a slight correction to the one about gatekeepers being able to ask about tasks—that’s only true if it’s not “obvious” that a dog is a service dog. See Q7. I got stopped about my vested/labeled dog so much due to these kinds of misinterpretations proliferating through media.
Cedar Waxwings checking out a Pokeberry bush. These birds love Pokeberries, which are poisonous to humans but are used to make a natural dye.
Any dime for Trevor project is a win. Others have done all the moralizing already so I had a dark chuckle and called it good
I was so sad when they dropped that for Gintama. In later seasons I have to wonder how much of Sorachi’s corvid humor the loc paves over. Another example is Funimation’s loc paving over the awesome wordplay in Noragami, which was spectacularly explained in endnotes in the manga
Love how market practices repeat with some fresh new spin when the only thing that has been proven to correct it (for the companies too!) is valuing human labor. Especially when it comes to art. Ugh.
Crunchyroll used to have the best subs in the industry until Funi-Sony got their paws on them, in both formatting and thoroughness. Their localizations were great too. No jelly donuts. Now they’re feeding us AI??? If I were the original creators I’d be losing my mind.
It's been about a half a day since we hit this, and it still hasn't fully sunk in.
I'm genuinely grateful to everybody who backed us this month, and helped to make this happen. 💖💖
Happy Pride, everyone.
Looking Back on Protoculture Addicts 15 Years Later: Red Bard covers the history of Protoculture Addicts, which currently stands as the longest-running anime magazine in North America. They examine the publication's founding, its partnership with ANN, and its settling into dormancy.
My service dog Anjelika makes it possible for me to do things that I could not do without her assistance. Here she is exhausted after spending the day with me in DC. I’m so grateful that I have her in my life and I was able to do this trip. This bill cannot pass. I did everything I could to stop it.
These guys again. A universal anything concerning disability is pure fantasy. It’s appalling they’re trying to sell it as science when it’s just a socioeconomic, political and cultural erasure-laden shortcut.
Important article about proposed changes to disability survey methods that could result in significant undercounting of Americans with disabilities. Learn more in this Health Affairs piece.
So glad I didn’t crash out and burn it myself. Truly the self destructive impulses of creativity are best controlled 👀
Just got minimal edits back on a piece I thought would be slashed full of holes and bathed in red ink. I was sure it would be wrapped around a brick and hurled through my window with the words TRY AGAIN written in bold sharpie. It belonged in the dumpster, I thought…it was even praised?
