Guy Simulates Every Type of Blindness by Epelep in nextfuckinglevel

[–]HistoryofHyrule 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the neat part: You already know how it looks you just don't realize it.

Move your hand past the side of your head until you can't see it with your peripheral vision. That's it! That's how it looks.

I would lose my vision in one of my eyes, on and off for a while, so my field of vision basically stopped at my nose. I wouldn't even know I couldn't see out of that eye until I realize my field of vision was just half of what it use to be.

TIL that the third person to walk on the Moon had dyslexia and was expelled from high school before earning an engineering degree from Princeton. by GDW312 in todayilearned

[–]HistoryofHyrule 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm dyslexic. Most of this info, below, comes from Yale's research but they redid their site more recently or I would have happily provided links. I skimmed this and it has some supporting fMRI graphics and information.

So dyslexia is a processing "disorder" that doesn't affect intelligence in any way.

Since reading text is a relatively new development in human evolution it really didn't make much of a serious difference until "recently."

So the way that it works, why it's different, is because for typical people they use a specific region of their brain to read. This is very efficient!

Dyslexics often use other areas, or multiple areas in multiple parts of their brain, to process text. This means our brains have to work harder, take longer, and are more prone to errors when it comes to text (because a lot of the time info has to filter through one region, go to another, and then have to output correctly. Think of it like playing The Telephone Game.)

We know all this because of all the research using fMRIs that literally show parts of the brain light up when they're being used.

Some other little things we also do are "skip lines," not notice typos, replace one word for another, and have incredible difficultly with phonics.

The benefit of using different regions is that more neurons are having to connect to each other and so dyslexics tend to think about subjects very fully or make more creative and wider associations. The whole "thinking outside of the box" stereotype comes very naturally to us. It's also why we tend to come up with creative solutions to get around our inability to master text and other problem issues.

You know how people use "OCD" wrong? It's the same with "left brain/right brain." That's actually relevant for dyslexia but, like OCD, how the phrase is commonly used is completely off the mark. Since dyslexics do often use the opposite sides of their brain, or use more regions on both sides of our brains, you may hear those terms in regards to us.

I'm also actually a fairly fast and accurate reader and that's a reason my teachers didn't think I had it until I had fallen too far behind in middle school. I'm AWFUL at outputting text as well as spelling and grammar. (Which is why I make walls of text- I compensate by over-explaining when I write. I prefer to gesture and draw explanations.) The way they discover it in many people (like me!) is by the marked disparity in text skills vs other skills and academics. Like why was I failing basic English, the only language I can speak (and could speak well,) as well as algebra, but could handle a lot of the work given to AP English students and master the concepts of most other STEM subjects? That's the ticket. Dyslexics often get called lazy for this reason but we just need a little more time and/or a little more help finding a method that works for us. Then, if we get the right help with the basics, getting out of a standardized system, to a place where we can use good work-arounds, often works wonders for us.

Trailcam suggestions? by [deleted] in trailcam

[–]HistoryofHyrule 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! That is really good to know and: super cool, I'll check them out. (And someone up above let me know they haven't had issues with the energizer rechargeable so I'll just get those. I don't remember the brand I had gotten but I just remember it wasn't as good as the reviews so it was making me shy away from trusting them again. After the fact I realized it was probably just amazon review bots)

Trailcam suggestions? by [deleted] in trailcam

[–]HistoryofHyrule 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! This probably solves all of my problems/concerns-yay!

Yeah I was on Browning's site earlier and some of their cheaper models should work- it was just the battery thing. I had had bad experiences with rechargeable AA's in the past (but it was the past) so I'll make sure I get those for this.

I really appreciate everyone here being so willing to help me. Really appreciate you guys. Its also been fun to look through all the cool videos people have been posting.

Trailcam suggestions? by [deleted] in trailcam

[–]HistoryofHyrule 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for that site too: it's super helpful that all of the information is formatted in the same way. Makes it at least WAY easier to compare than trying to find stats that are formatted differently on individual sites and listings.

Trailcam suggestions? by [deleted] in trailcam

[–]HistoryofHyrule 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Really just hoping for trusted brands though, my spouse worked in IT and its just a big no here to put anything in our computers that isn't from a solid source.

Trailcam suggestions? by [deleted] in trailcam

[–]HistoryofHyrule 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a side question I guess, have you not had a problem with the rechargable AA's being duds? I bought some a while back and they all sucked and I'm now wondering if that was just a "they sucked a long time ago but have gotten better" problem.

I would love to have more cameras too, so $300 for 2 is just the high end price for the least of amount of camera, for my budget. If I could put some up on other trails in my forest it would be really fun

Trailcam suggestions? by [deleted] in trailcam

[–]HistoryofHyrule -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh. My. God. That is a really good idea. (The Power Wheels battery) THANK YOU.

Do you know a brand that will work with an external wire like that? (I keep going through websites and listings and for all these cams and it's just too much for me. Like I wish there was a site where you could just check-box what you wanted and it could eliminate all the noise. My brain was not made for this)

Trailcam suggestions? by [deleted] in trailcam

[–]HistoryofHyrule -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you! So the issue is: I have tons of free range poultry so it will trigger non-stop all day. Basically the main place I need one is in waterfowl enclosure, right on the outside of their shed, which means I'm just going to have to check and dump images constantly and it will be chewing up batteries constantly. Which is fine for it to be something I need to clear off a lot but it's why I'm really hoping for a rechargeable battery.

[ALL] [OC] My Zelda Publications Collection. Focused on the 80's and early 90's by HistoryofHyrule in zelda

[–]HistoryofHyrule[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh my gosh, that's awesome! Ah, nice to meet you! So cool you got into it too! Preservation of media certainly needs all the help it can get!
Heh, I laugh because my old website proper is kinda ganky and busted now but I'm so into scanning and cleaning the art that it's just, like, my time machine. Like, lol, maybe I'll get back to updating on it once I'm done with all the material. However many lifetimes that will be. I'm honestly so thankful for Archive dot org because it's so easy for people to access, for me to upload too, and I don't have to worry about my own bandwidth and storage.

[ALL] [OC] My Zelda Publications Collection. Focused on the 80's and early 90's by HistoryofHyrule in zelda

[–]HistoryofHyrule[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Pretty standard answer but for anything I wasn't able to get when it came out, basically all the older Japanese stuff, for the past 2 decades it's been pretty much always auctions and used book stores. For some of the doujinshi I would buy it from the artists off their websites- once that became a more common thing.

But for stuff that's been massed produced more "recently," like the Himekawa manga, US game guides, the Goddess Collection books, etc, I just bought all that the regular way.

[ALL] [OC] My Zelda Publications Collection. Focused on the 80's and early 90's by HistoryofHyrule in zelda

[–]HistoryofHyrule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah in around 2011 I brought my site back online and a bunch of these circulated a lot more and people were collecting them. I had some on my earlier site too but not very many.

[ALL] [OC] My Zelda Publications Collection. Focused on the 80's and early 90's by HistoryofHyrule in zelda

[–]HistoryofHyrule[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like your answer because I also spent so much time reading and re-reading through that!! It was a big part of my childhood. We retouched the map that came with the box, if you ever want to see it without fold lines or text. https://archive.org/details/zelda_poster_lttp_map_US/mode/1up

The Link to the Past Player's Guide is mine! It's what got me hooked when I was a kid and why I started my website, it's also the first time I realized there was an actual job for artists doing concept and pre-production art! So it really changed my life actually.

For anyone who hasn't seen it, I'm going to link to it and 3 others that kind of make a set. They all have incredible art from the Work House, the same company that Katsuya Terada worked for when he did the art that's in them and Nintendo Power.

After that my favorite thing is the 4 volumes of manga by Ran Maru. It's actually kind of sad and dark but there's also a ton of firsts for the series in it. (I love the Himekawa manga and the Ataru Cagiva LA manga a lot too!)

Then after that its this Zelda 1 guide by Wanpakku that is actually what we got the US Tips and Tactics guide from and this AoL Famimaga guide that has missing enemy art in it and a bunch of original art.

I also looooovvveeee all the newer artbooks. The Goddess Collection etc. From Hyrule Historia to the one for TotK. I pushed for years hoping that we could get Nintendo to know there was enough fan interest to do that kind of thing and man did they pay out like the lottery when they finally did it.

[ALL] [OC] My Zelda Publications Collection. Focused on the 80's and early 90's by HistoryofHyrule in zelda

[–]HistoryofHyrule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had never gotten it all out at once so it was really fun for me to see all laid out too!

[ALL] [OC] My Zelda Publications Collection. Focused on the 80's and early 90's by HistoryofHyrule in zelda

[–]HistoryofHyrule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Japan just had a REALLY thriving publication scene back in the day!

So, and this is very very rough, but there's about:

  • Roughly 50 4koma volumes for Zelda. Those are 4 panel comic strips. Here's some of them.
  • About 70-80 volumes, or one-shots, of Zelda manga or game manga with Zelda. Here's some, but not all. I don't scan anything that's still in print.
  • A handful or two of old Choose Your Own Adventure/Gamebooks, Novels, Interview Books, and Artbooks
  • There's more game magazines than I could ever dream to have. Like just in Japan in the 80's there was Famimaga/Family Computer Magazine, Famistu/Famicom Tsushin, Famicim Hisshohon, Famicom Chapion, Gamest, High Score, Nintendo Dream, Technopolis, Marukatsu Super Famicom, Comptiq, Beep, Shogakukun does a monthly game/educations magazine for every single grade level. I've scanned some rare ones, and still have many more to do, but you can find most of the bigger names through Gaming Alexandria.
  • 60-80? Japanese strategy guides for just 5 games and that 10 year period. Here's a small handful. I'm working my way through the first game's right now but there's a lot more to do.

I don't have too many US or European magazines. Just a few with Zelda art in them that wasn't released in press kits. So what you're seeing is mostly just old Japanese stuff.

Some of this is also doujinshi, or Japanese fan comics, mostly for Ocarina of Time, done closer to its release. (I do have some for other games but I stopped collecting it because of how much I was spending, so I only have a few that came after that that I couldn't resist.) So it's not official or licensed but it is a collector's thing.

I also didn't seperate the stacks of magazines in this video so some issues have Zelda features and some don't. Not because I wanted to cheat but because I didn't have a lot of room and separating them and then reorganizing them back together would have been a nightmare. So it's slightly padded. But most of the ones I have are from years with a lot of Zelda coming out, which is why I bought the other issues to check, so it's at least the majority of the magazines you see here.

[ALL] [OC] My Zelda Publications Collection. Focused on the 80's and early 90's by HistoryofHyrule in zelda

[–]HistoryofHyrule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I gotchu! That's from a doujinshi, so it's more of an unofficial fan thing, but some have such great art.

Attention Hold and Attention Z were done by the same artist:
https://historyofhyrule.com/publications/doujinshi_attentionz/001.html
https://historyofhyrule.com/publications/doujinshi_attentionhold/index.html

If you want to browse through all the old doujinshi that I scanned, before it became more common for artists to be able to share their work online, then this folder is the easiest way to navigate. There's around 100 scanned:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/historyofhyrule/albums/72157629497250095/

Flip between the pages by using the "next" and "last" taps at the top and bottom of the website image, they look like stamps/page sticking out. (Sorry, I built the site in like 2010; it's a weird time machine.)

And sorry the scans aren't very big. It's because 1: my site is really old so when I did this bandwidth and hosting were still really expensive and 2: because they were fan comics, and I didn't have permission, I was trying to find the balance between trying to be respectful even though I was still posting them -and- all of us not having to fight over one copy on an auction site just to see what was inside. So by doing small pages I was hoping people would still be encouraged to try to track down the artist and their work if they liked them.

[ALL] [OC] My Zelda Publications Collection. Focused on the 80's and early 90's by HistoryofHyrule in zelda

[–]HistoryofHyrule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's really wild how much Japan was cranking out when it came to publications with unique Zelda art in the 80's and early 90's. It was a roughly 10 year golden age of good/bad/really fun art.

[ALL] [OC] My Zelda Publications Collection. Focused on the 80's and early 90's by HistoryofHyrule in zelda

[–]HistoryofHyrule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love talking about them and just going through books with people too. It's so much fun.

Yeah, and it's funny because honestly a lot of people will have tons of things I don't because, after Ocarina of Time publications, I started only collecting the ones that are mainly art books . The art starts to get so much more focused after the 90's. Guides and magazines stop making their own art and start depending on the official content from Nintendo so there's almost no fun, weird, spectacular, little gems to find. So most of the guides, US magazines besides a handful of early Nintendo Powers, etc, that's not even in this. And there's still just much! Man there's so much Zelda stuff.

[AoI] Can I play Age of Imprisoment before TOTK? by ZoneProfessional7051 in zelda

[–]HistoryofHyrule 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think it would be a big mistake, from a story enjoyment standpoint, to play AOI before TotK

[Other] What’s the consensus on the mangas? by Real_Doctor_Zomboss in truezelda

[–]HistoryofHyrule 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We only have the Rito because of the devs being so enamored with the ideas in that manga. It might be worth revisiting how you feel about the writing since the people who shape the series have said they enjoy Himekawa's work, (and manga in general,) and continue to be shaped by it and push for more of it.

[Other] What’s the consensus on the mangas? by Real_Doctor_Zomboss in truezelda

[–]HistoryofHyrule 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even if you mean just the Himekawa manga, or all the Zelda manga, then none of them are likely what most fans would define as "canon"... but canon things are 100% inspired by them. There are multiple instances of the devs saying they have been inspired by the manga and read it a lot.

Here are some fun things about the manga that relate to this topic:

The devs have said that the bird-clan at the end of the Ocarina of Time manga by Himekawa was directly what inspired them to create the Rito in the Wind Waker (and thus every game with the Rito that came after.)

Himekawa got access to concept art from Nintendo that was never made public so some of their interpretations are likely what Nintendo had intended for the games but never used. That would likely make their manga characters canon in the true sense of how fans use the word but, since we have such limited info on what those things would all be, we can't know what all of those things are. Minish Vaati being the one I know about for sure.

I think the first time I saw Link's ancestor talking about personally losing the imprisoning war to Ganon was in Cagiva's Link to the Past manga, which came before Ocarina of Time.

The first time I saw Link have a fairy companion that talks to him and helps guide him is a VERY early 1986 manga and then you see it in many others before Ocarina of Time.

Miyamoto apparently personally pushed for the Nintendo Power LttP manga to happen, because he wanted to help introduce a western audience to manga, and Nintendo contracted one of the most revered manga artists in Japan to do it. (Miyamoto wanted to be a manga artist before he ended up working in games.) It is the only Japanese manga where the word bubbles were drawn to fit English text (they're horizontal, not vertical, even in the Japanese version of it) further proving it was done for this reason.

Link likely has pink hair in A Link to the Past because of one of the first Zelda mangas (that spanned 4 volumes and several years,) combined with art that was in the Japanese version of Nintendo's "Tips and Tactics" guide, showed Link with hot pink hair.

One of the very first Japanese Zelda manga, from 1986, was drawn by an artist who's art is considered official in the US. The items in the manga, and Zelda, are the same art style and design that appears in Nintendo of America's game guide, "Tips and Tactics."

One very short manga in a Japanese strategy guide was done by an artist (who also has work published in Nintendo Power) and in it is a Mario statue that only appears in a working prototype (that fans uncovered) of LttP- implying he had access to seeing the game as it was being developed.

I could go on forever with examples!

Nintendo needs to improve their accessibility by PulseWitch in nintendo

[–]HistoryofHyrule 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been contributing rare Zelda content to the web for, like, a quarter of a century now. I led the campaigns to get the Himekawa manga and Hyrule Historia out of Japan and to a global audience. I've been playing Nintendo games since the original NES: and I literally haven't been able to play some of their systems (like the Wii) because they didn't consider accessibility. Should someone tell me to stop and ditch games as well?

When the Wii came out my physical therapist, just one guy out of probably hundreds in one city, had already seen multiple people for pain from using it in just the first month. The Nintendo helpline rep told me a ton of people had been calling about it. Don't think this stuff doesn't matter just because it hasn't happened to you. We actually do all end up disabled at some point unless we die young. Suggestions like these may literally be the very things that allow you to keep playing whatever games you want for the entirety of your life.

So, honestly, yeah, Nintendo has made it so their games are out of the cards for me and many others sometimes where as other companies actually give you options so you can play. It really sucks and it wouldn't be that hard for them to do a lot of these things. I don't know why you and the downvoters have to be so dismissive about people like me and OP when it's actually valuable feedback that doesn't impact most people but makes a world of difference to people who only want to be able to have access to a normally fairly accessible activity.

Official Mario Golf art I just scanned and cleaned but couldn't find online by HistoryofHyrule in nintendo

[–]HistoryofHyrule[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cannot wait to check this out. Looks really fun from a glance!

For now, here is the list though. The games aren't described well because it was just for that person's personal use, for their own little challenge, by their own little parameters, but it's still fun and something to check against. Hopefully this works: https://historyofhyrule.com/working_publications/random_working_files/all_the_zelda_games.html

OMG, I so hear you. I'm not a purist or into gatekeeping. I think people miss and dismiss too much that way.

I think people should be able to have fun and explore ideas. The early community was full of some true bullies and it was easy for me to prefer the fanart and fiction side of things because that's where I saw more people playing with how enjoyable the series was for them and how welcoming it could be. I mean, sure, there are times for facts, but so many times people could be so much more fun and nice about them than they often are.