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I just had to order a new scanner.
My old one, which I have had for just under three years, at some point between July last year and...whenever I last scanned stuff (a couple of months ago, I think), developed a judder when the scanner head got to a certain point in the scan. I didn't think anything of it at first, except that when I went to image edit today, I discovered that that judder makes a smeary looking jerk in the image.
Some of this stuff was intended for printing, so that's no good.
I opted for an Epson XP-455 (I think that's the right number???) as it was on offer on PC World's website for £40 instead of one hundred. It's an All-In-One, so it copies, scans, and prints. I was going to spend ~£50 on just a flatbed scanner, so I think I got a bargain? I also bought some ink which should work with it, and got some money off that, too (I can always return it if it turns out it's incompatible, but it shouldn't be). I also paid for next day delivery, since that wasn't really going to make a difference in the price, and I didn't want another fiasco like the art supplies delivery.
Anyway, yeah, one of the things I was hoping to do this year was offer prints of my stuff, sold by me, rather than via somewhere like Redbubble, so hopefully I can do that! Also this new printer/scanner combo is able to print both sides of paper, which is awesome, as I was also planning on making books/zines.
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lassarina asks: Is there a piece of media you didn't like at first, but grew to love? Why?
I assume we're talking TV/video games/music here, not art supplies? I mean, I can answer that, too (probably), but for now I'll stick to visual stuff.
There's a whole stack of games I didn't like at first but slowly they grew on me. Some of them are Final Fantasies - so V, VI, and probably IX (! which is a surprise, but I didn't like Zidane at first). V and VI, it took replaying them to make me realise that actually they were okay (apart from the Arcaeoaevis in the Ancient Ruins in V, but I think it's That One Boss for that game). I think I may have played them not that long after VII, so the jump backwards in graphics and gameplay was a surprise, probably.
I didn't like The Last Remnant, either, when I first played that - I'm still not good at commanding my units, but I like the story/character stuff more than the actual fighting. I didn't think I was going to like Mass Effect, either, because it was the first shooter I'd ever played and...I can't hit the broad side of a barn on a good day. But it is like every eighties cliché about science fiction, including the soundtrack, and I LOVE.
(There are probably even more games than this, but my mind is drawing a blank).
Again, with music, there's a whole stack of stuff - a lot of times with that, my exasperation is hearing it too much on the radio/adverts, and then maybe I'll come back to it years later, and it won't sound as bad. My most recent "hey I actually like this!" is At The River by Groove Armada, which I hated for almost twenty years. And pretty much everything The Beach Boys ever did - although that started when I watched a thing about how they put together Good Vibrations, and that was really interesting.
I can't really say anything about TV because there's no shows I like where that was the case? I wasn't gripped by Farscape when I first saw it, but I didn't dislike it.
For films, I'd say Bladerunner. The first time I saw it was the original cut, with the voice over and it was...Not Good. Thank frogs for the director's cut, is all I'm saying.
(Sorry if this wasn't the answer you were after. Like I said, I can probably do the alternative).
My old one, which I have had for just under three years, at some point between July last year and...whenever I last scanned stuff (a couple of months ago, I think), developed a judder when the scanner head got to a certain point in the scan. I didn't think anything of it at first, except that when I went to image edit today, I discovered that that judder makes a smeary looking jerk in the image.
Some of this stuff was intended for printing, so that's no good.
I opted for an Epson XP-455 (I think that's the right number???) as it was on offer on PC World's website for £40 instead of one hundred. It's an All-In-One, so it copies, scans, and prints. I was going to spend ~£50 on just a flatbed scanner, so I think I got a bargain? I also bought some ink which should work with it, and got some money off that, too (I can always return it if it turns out it's incompatible, but it shouldn't be). I also paid for next day delivery, since that wasn't really going to make a difference in the price, and I didn't want another fiasco like the art supplies delivery.
Anyway, yeah, one of the things I was hoping to do this year was offer prints of my stuff, sold by me, rather than via somewhere like Redbubble, so hopefully I can do that! Also this new printer/scanner combo is able to print both sides of paper, which is awesome, as I was also planning on making books/zines.
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lassarina asks: Is there a piece of media you didn't like at first, but grew to love? Why?I assume we're talking TV/video games/music here, not art supplies? I mean, I can answer that, too (probably), but for now I'll stick to visual stuff.
There's a whole stack of games I didn't like at first but slowly they grew on me. Some of them are Final Fantasies - so V, VI, and probably IX (! which is a surprise, but I didn't like Zidane at first). V and VI, it took replaying them to make me realise that actually they were okay (apart from the Arcaeoaevis in the Ancient Ruins in V, but I think it's That One Boss for that game). I think I may have played them not that long after VII, so the jump backwards in graphics and gameplay was a surprise, probably.
I didn't like The Last Remnant, either, when I first played that - I'm still not good at commanding my units, but I like the story/character stuff more than the actual fighting. I didn't think I was going to like Mass Effect, either, because it was the first shooter I'd ever played and...I can't hit the broad side of a barn on a good day. But it is like every eighties cliché about science fiction, including the soundtrack, and I LOVE.
(There are probably even more games than this, but my mind is drawing a blank).
Again, with music, there's a whole stack of stuff - a lot of times with that, my exasperation is hearing it too much on the radio/adverts, and then maybe I'll come back to it years later, and it won't sound as bad. My most recent "hey I actually like this!" is At The River by Groove Armada, which I hated for almost twenty years. And pretty much everything The Beach Boys ever did - although that started when I watched a thing about how they put together Good Vibrations, and that was really interesting.
I can't really say anything about TV because there's no shows I like where that was the case? I wasn't gripped by Farscape when I first saw it, but I didn't dislike it.
For films, I'd say Bladerunner. The first time I saw it was the original cut, with the voice over and it was...Not Good. Thank frogs for the director's cut, is all I'm saying.
(Sorry if this wasn't the answer you were after. Like I said, I can probably do the alternative).