More west coast people need to sign up for the PAX train. It was already awesome when it was 24-36 hours. Just think how awesome it'll be when it's 84 hours! #paxeast2010
@Muon: because it would suck? most of the fun comes from being in the same physical space with all those people you chat online with all the time. no, I'm serious. to be able to turn to ten people in the same line and basically be like, "isn't this awesome?" and they all grin back at you.. I live for that.
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
@(Starman) AnalysisDialysis: Dude, it takes about 13 hours for you to get to Seattle. It takes me 44 hours. Going to Boston, it takes me 9 hours. Seriously, you should be able to make the trek to West Coast PAX with no problem. Cut the East Coasters some slack. They've been traveling insane distances for years now. #paxeast2010
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We got this at our household, this came in the mail instead of our sons EGM subscription, both me and my wife looked at it and gave it the total WTF is this response?
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?
I dunno, I was reading Maxim when I was 12 and I'm fine. Believe it or not, I really did enjoy the articles and the pictorials were more of an afterthought. Yeah some of that stuff was beyond me (I remember reading a whole article on cunnilingus and not knowing what the hell they were talking about. Useful knowledge for years later though, I'll admit).
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.
My subscription was up a couple of months before EGM folded but I would've been pissed too because I'm a girl and all (My mom might have just laughed at me though.)
I started getting Maxim for the remainder of my EGM subscription. I used their refund option instead of receiving more magazines. They sent me a refund check for $3.00 US along with another issue.
When I tried to cash the check it bounced and I got hit with a $5.00 fee. Screw you Maxim.
I'm 29 years old and the Maxim switch offended me probably worse than any mother. Seriously... Maxim is the worst, trashiest magazine ever made, and their appeal is the same appeal as cinemax soft-porn... made for 9 year olds left alone at home... and the editorial content seems written for the same crowd.
Not a hit with moms? My mother was fine with it (I'd have worried if she wasn't; I was 18 at the time). *I* was the one who got pissed.
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.
@Owen Good: I have to be suspicious as well. I feel that they may be referring to cosmo-girl which I believe is obviously directed at a younger audience. That may not be quite as bad. Then again. I've barely ever read two words from cosmo... let alone their tween/teen version...
@bwwardiii: I used to read Cosmo Girl. Nothing wrong with that magazine... very highschool, very fashion... very boring and girly.
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...
@titobudd: My wife's been laughing at me every time one of those shows up... my EGM subscription was long over before they folded AND I immediately contacted them and demanded they stop sending me this junk, and the issues still kept coming. It's been a while now... maybe they finally stopped.
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.
The parents have a right to be angry. Maxim is not meant to be read by 12 year olds. It is written as though it is for 14 year olds. Seriously, it was never very sophisticated reading material but I recently thumbed through an issue while getting my hair cut and I only lasted about 4 pages. The cover was an ad for energy shots... the first column I read was an advice column with multiple guys writing in:
"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.
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I am, however, starting to wonder why no one's tried doing something like a "digital convention" #paxeast2010
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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
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Ah well, there's always next year's PAX West, I guess… #paxeast2010
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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.
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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.
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Not condoning either, just pointing out the double standard.
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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...
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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.