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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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Re: are all magazines useless?
I like cooking magazines for flights, the pictures make me a little hard.
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Re: are all magazines useless?
I like The Economist but there isn't much coverage of video games in it.
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Re: are all magazines useless?
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I like The Economist but there isn't much coverage of video games in it. [/ QUOTE ] can't go wrong with the economist..you feel smarter after an hour. |
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Re: are all magazines useless?
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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Re: are all magazines useless?
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[ QUOTE ] I like The Economist but there isn't much coverage of video games in it. [/ QUOTE ] can't go wrong with the economist..you feel smarter after an hour. [/ QUOTE ] I agree-just don't become pretentious to the point where you're this guy |
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Re: are all magazines useless?
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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Re: are all magazines useless?
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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Re: are all magazines useless?
What about the national geographic magazines? They seem to have lots of articles that aren't so shallow.
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