are all magazines useless?
 

Every once in a while, when I am flying or have a long trip I will get a magazine. Gradually my disdain for magazines has grown. This stems from the realization that all magazines seem to have just genvery basic, general info about whatever topic they are about. I find it pretty weird that a magazine targeting a specific group of people who will for the most part be knowledgeable about the topic will only have really simple obvious advice. Like the poker magazine I found in the cardom today had articles like "5 tips to avoid tilt. #1 take a time out", as well as pathetic interview of unknown "celebreties" who play poker. I don't mean to just hate on the poker magazine, but all magazines on a topic like this (golf, fitness, poker) seem to be filled with complete crap.

The only magazines that were ever really worth the 6 bucks were the video game magazines I used to get, and that was only because they had pictures of video games I would drool over. Do magazines ever have anything useful/interesting?

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I like cooking magazines for flights, the pictures make me a little hard.

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I like The Economist but there isn't much coverage of video games in it.

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Are we talking just magazines, or all periodicals? If the latter, then I highly recommend Granta.

Scott

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I like The Economist but there isn't much coverage of video games in it.

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can't go wrong with the economist..you feel smarter after an hour.

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Yea classic Nintendo Power and Next Generation were amazing; videogame magazines were good up until the late 90's when the Internet took over.

I was flipping through Psychology Today today and there's a ton of interesting stuff in there.

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For flights I like reading Playboy or the Atlantic because these are two of the handful of magazines that have 3 hours or so of interesting and well-written material in them. I mean, Maxim is great light reading but you're done with it in 20 minutes.

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Try Fine Cooking or Cook's Illustrated. If you're hungry, it's better than porn. And you'll get tons of ideas for recipes and learn about different ingredients.

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What about the national geographic magazines? They seem to have lots of articles that aren't so shallow.

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magazines need to sell to the masses. so they tend to be simple. so the ones to get are for things you dont know alot about and the basics are good for you.
or get one like mother earth new that have many articles about making different things all of which make you a more rounded person.