Raptor Byte

Ok so- Reddit has been useless with this thus far, so here's to hoping maybe I could find some assistance on tumblr instead. Even if you don't have info yourself, a reblog could potentially push it to someone who may /nf (r/lostmedia post here, but I'll reiterate everything here)

To not waste any more time, the thing I'm looking for is this unofficial FNaF manga called タイムパラドックス！ (Time Paradox!)

As you can see in the link attached to the image, at least 1 copy exists, but it seems the OP is unwilling to scan over any pages, so that's probably a dead end. I've heard that this specific book was quite rare, with one commenter on Reddit claiming there were only 120 copies (though they didn't provide a source to that info).

I think I found the artist (evidence stuff: 1, 2, 3, 4), but unfortunately I do not have Twitter nor do I speak Japanese, so I haven't been able to contact said artist, and for whatever reason the only posts of theirs I could see were whichever ones happened to pop up in the search results when I searched their user, so it's quite possible I missed something.

They released an album too! I don't think this song is on it but the rest of their stuff is SO GOOD !!

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

dad lore