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>>11916220
I know how to and have done "traditional" research. That is beside the point. If I want to verify a piece of information before haphazardly proliferating it and risking contributing to the endless sea of misinformation on the internet, I like to be able to do so quickly. Not all research has to be groundbreaking original work to be worth doing.
The full run of Nintendo Power has been on the internet for decades. The full run of EGM has been on the internet for decades. You can't even find a quarter of Famitsu, and I find that annoying. I know I'm not entitled to magazine scans. That doesn't make getting roadblocked by a magazine not being available less irritating.
>Japan is not unique in this regard, you're not finding anything obscure in any obscure language online.
Okay, my claim "no other country has this problem" is an exaggeration. Non-English languages are, in general, underrepresented on the internet. There's a lot of English stuff that is unscanned too. But I still submit that Japan has this problem much worse than other languages. There has been more than one occasion where I could find a scan of a Chinese bootleg translation of a strategy guide, but not the original Japanese version. If I'm looking for a magazine in a European non-English language like Spanish or German, I can usually find it pretty easily. Japanese stuff is a constant struggle.
>>11916227
That wasn't me, but I agree with that anon's sentiment. We live in the 21st century, there's no reason not to take advantage of 21st century convenience.
