Wouter Hindriks

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I'd like to thank the UK Supreme Court for refusing my appeal. They claim I haven't raised an arguable point of law, despite the text of the law already recognizing me as nonbinary. 🤷

This means I can now appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, which my lawyers are already working on.

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Denmark Vesey !

When you haven't been exposed to advertising for a while and it's no longer normalised, it's quite jarring. Not because it's annoying or shit, rarely lacking any artistic merit, begging and pleading and lying for attention and complicity - that bit you remember.

But because the only way this crap exists at all is through force, ramming it through devices without permission or consent. An entire industry based on tracking and surveillance to target assault.

It's fucking despicable.

#advertising

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It might be a long shot, but I have to try.

If there is anyone out there with a scanner, who has issue 11 of Total! magazine, would you be willing to scan a part of a page for me.

Below is the cover of this issue as well as the affected page.
A previous owner has cut out a coupon on the opposite side.
That side is no issue as the ad is reprinted in the following issue as well, which I have, so I can replace that easily.

The problem is page number 61, where the bottom review for a Super Nintendo game is also gone.
If anyone can get me a clean scan of this part, I'd be able to complete this magazine without any missing sections.

#RetroGaming
#Nintendo

*EDIT*

For the people who might see this post for the first time.

A kind soul has bought a copy of this issue himself and will be scanning the missing part.

So thank you so much, once again, Charles! 😊

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It might be a long shot, but I have to try.

If there is anyone out there with a scanner, who has issue 11 of Total! magazine, would you be willing to scan a part of a page for me.

Below is the cover of this issue as well as the affected page.
A previous owner has cut out a coupon on the opposite side.
That side is no issue as the ad is reprinted in the following issue as well, which I have, so I can replace that easily.

The problem is page number 61, where the bottom review for a Super Nintendo game is also gone.
If anyone can get me a clean scan of this part, I'd be able to complete this magazine without any missing sections.

#RetroGaming
#Nintendo

*EDIT*

For the people who might see this post for the first time.

A kind soul has bought a copy of this issue himself and will be scanning the missing part.

So thank you so much, once again, Charles! 😊

@outofprintarchive there's at least one copy on eBay, hopefully intact: https://www.ebay.com/itm/306382764115. National Library of Scotland has a complete run except issue 30: https://search.nls.uk/permalink/f/sbbkgr/44NLS_ALMA21447057720004341
TOTAL! - Nintendo Magazine - Issue # 11 - November 1992 - NES - GAME BOY - SNES | eBay

Having flicked through the magazine I can confirm that there are no missing pages, there is no scribble etc. on any of the pages, and none of the puzzles have been completed.

eBay

@mackensen
I just bought 12 issues that arrived this past Friday.
The problem with buying individual issues is that I’m in Belgium so it’s prohibitively expensive as the shipping most often is around £15 and due to Brexit, there are taxes on top of that.
If those forms aren’t filled out exactly right, that can be another €32.

So I can only buy packs of issues at a time to split those costs over a bunch of magazines at once.

@outofprintarchive Gotcha! ILL is probably out for me, I don't think my library can request from the UK. I'll see if I can find someone there who can help.
@outofprintarchive @mackensen
I haven't paid taxes on old magazines sent from the EU (or the rest of the world) to the UK. Doesn't the EU have tax and duty exemptions for printed matter like educational material, newspapers and periodicals? Do you pay VAT on magazines in Belgium? They're zero-rated in the UK.

@geoffl @mackensen
There indeed is a lower rate for printed papers which would only be 6%.
The problem here is, customs just doesn’t care about that in the slightest and thus, when they intercept a package they calculate at 21% instead, but also use an estimate of how much the package is worth and it’s always more that what’s stated on the invoice.

That should be illegal, but that doesn’t seem to matter in this hellhole.

Oh and on top of that, they charge a handling fee which can be as much as €32.
I’ve had orders for a film which cost about 35€ and had to pay €46 in fees, otherwise they would destroy it.

@outofprintarchive @mackensen
Wow. The Royal Mail handling fee is only £8 (€9.30).
@outofprintarchive @mackensen
Just checked my 'uncatalogued' boxes of retro computing magazines and haven't got a Total! 11. I sold off most of my Nintendo stuff a while back, not that I had much.
@geoffl @mackensen
Ah, that’s a shame.
Thanks for looking though. 😊
@outofprintarchive I had to reduce my collection somewhat. I've still got around 55 vintage computers, countless peripherals and shelves full of software and documentation. I even drove to Belgium once to pick up a British Micro "Mimi 802".

@geoffl
Now that’s dedication! 😅

The only time I was deeply into pc gaming was around 1988-89 when I pulled all my communion money together to buy a second hand IBM with tons of copied MS Dos games.

My first love was arcade games as I grew in the small pub that my mom owned so there always was an arcade cab and a pinball table around.
I moved on to the NES and then Mega Drive and stuck with consoles all the way up to now.

Just got home from a long and exhausting day at work and I’m sitting on the couch with a big Hori and Taito VLX arcade stick in my lap and ready to play some Dodonpachi Dai-Ou-Jou until I get too tired to stay up.
So yeah, I have my own peculiar things that I tend to remove deeply into. 😆

@outofprintarchive @geoffl I confirmed with the seller that page 61 is intact and I've bought it. I'll scan it when it arrives.
@mackensen @geoffl
Oh wow! You’re amazing!
Thank you so much! 😄

@geoffl @mackensen
It used to be much lower here as well. But a couple years ago they upped it to an unreasonable amount.
Pretty much trying to get us not to order anything from outside the EU.

I’ve even had packages from Japan that had the paperwork filled out perfectly and all taxes paid in advance, get blocked by customs and fees slapped on to of them.

Japan post even did an investigation of their own and could not find anything that went wrong.

@outofprintarchive @mackensen
That's crazy. Custome here seem to take the oppisite view. I've had vintage computers and software delivered to the UK from Australia with the correct declarations, expecting to pay, and customs let them through without bothering to charge me.
@outofprintarchive It irritates me a little because I had this issue as a kid, a few years ago I could have sent you my copy! I've got a folder full of slightly bodgy scans collected from the internet over the years and issue 11 is the only scan I'm missing hahaha

@MutantFuturist
So many people lost their own magazines in one way or another.
It’s always sad hearing those stories. From losing them in a move to their parents throwing them out after they moved out of the house as they thought nothing about them.

That’s one of the big reasons why I keep doing this.
Besides the historical value, so many memories are also stored into these old issues. So tons of emotional value as well for us who were there at the time.

@outofprintarchive Yeah. I had to face the hard call of either selling mine on or throwing them away. I sold them for less than half their worth, but at least - I hope - they're well cared for.

@outofprintarchive

Do you have a national library or a local library system that could get a scan for you?

@PostcardsFromParadise

There's a library about 15km from me, but since I'm in Belgium, they don't have any UK magazines from the 90's sadly.