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10/20/09
10/20/09
I am, however, starting to wonder why no one's tried doing something like a "digital convention" #paxeast2010
10/20/09
plus you need to be within a certain distance to be able to draw cookies in Pictochat and have somebody else turn them into testicles. #paxeast2010
10/20/09
If I have the time, I'm definitely going to Boston in March. #paxeast2010
10/20/09
10/20/09
Ah well, there's always next year's PAX West, I guess… #paxeast2010
10/20/09
08/12/09
It was laughably stupid and annoying that they would substitute Maxim for a gaming magazine.
Gee, if Mad Magazine goes out of business, are they going to send "High Times" instead?
08/12/09
But that said, I'm still offended that they would replace EGM with Maxim. Not because I hate Maxim, but I hate how that's the perceived substitute. Just like when G4 started showing Cops and the Man Show. I love the Man Show, but what the fuck does that have to do with video games? Not a goddamn thing. The execs just think that all of us gamers are stupid jockish males and are all into that kind of stuff.
I guess it's it's no worse than the days when we were all thought to be geeks and nerds, but maybe I'm just still mad that "frat culture" has co-opted our pasttime.
08/12/09
08/12/09
I'm 22.
08/12/09
I was away from home, and I came back to 2 Maxims with the news that EGM was cancelled. My mom handed me the second and told me- straight quote, "This is the magazine you get now because your old one isn't printed anymore... and this one is half-porno."
She gave me the the most skeptical look ever, as if I knew this was coming.
I got her to read an article in it though, haha!
STORY: I'm flipping through it, and I got to a feature on Lauren Storm-- my mom worked with her dad while we were growing up. Needless to say, there were some risqué shots of the little girl my mom knew 10 years ago. I showed it to her, and she said, "What... why am I looking at thi-- Oh my GOODNESS! I'm calling Dr. Storm."
08/12/09
When I tried to cash the check it bounced and I got hit with a $5.00 fee. Screw you Maxim.
08/11/09
08/11/09
Give me a subscription to another game magazine or give me (at least some of) my fucking money back. There is no reason why Maxim suddenly showed up on my doorstep. I didn't want a subscription to that magazine, so I didn't buy one. Gaming magazines and Maxim are not interchangeable.
Not to mention that my subscription was supposed to last from Christmas 2008 until Christmas 2009, yet EGM ended in January. This makes me angry because not only do I not WANT Maxim, but I didn't receive anything between February and May, when my first Maxim arrived. On top of THAT, I haven't gotten any issues of Maxim SINCE May.
So yeah. I feel pretty fucking robbed right now. I won't be buying anything from Ziff Davis Inc. for quite a while.
EDIT: Er, there was a notice for refunds on the issue of Maxim? not on mine.
08/11/09
08/11/09
Not condoning either, just pointing out the double standard.
08/11/09
08/12/09
08/12/09
Cosmopolitan on the other hand... Every single issue I see at the stands has something like "325 new positions to PLEASE HIM" .... Again?! Really? Last month you had 60 new ways...
08/11/09
Or wives.
08/12/09
Just about the worst way I can imagine for all of this to get handled. It says a lot for what they assume about gamers, but gamers who want smut know where to find far better smut that doesn't smell like Axe Body Spray scratch-n-sniff advertisements.
08/11/09
"My girlfriend doesn't like video games. What can I do to get her to like video games???" etc.
She gave some bullshit answer.
The real answer?:
DON'T FUCKING BOTHER. IF SHE IS NOT ALREADY INTERESTED, IT IS UNLIKELY SHE WILL EVER BE. DEAL WITH IT.
Losers.