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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Niitaka on April 10, 2008, 08:26:15 am

Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Niitaka on April 10, 2008, 08:26:15 am: So as a favor for my friend's frat fundraising thing, I subscribed to UTNE Reader. I was choosing between that and Seed Magazine and this seemed to have more stuff I wouldn't find online or read about otherwise.

(copy paste from wikipedia)
Utne Reader is an American bimonthly magazine. The magazine collects and reprints articles from generally alternative media sources, including journals, newsletters, weeklies, zines, music, and DVDs. In addition, the magazine’s writers and editors contribute original articles, which tend to focus on emerging cultural trends.

Seed (subtitled Beneath the Surface, then Science Is Culture) is a science magazine published bimonthly by Seed Media Group and distributed internationally. Each issue looks at big ideas in science, important issues at the intersection of science and society, and the people driving global science culture.

So do you guys still have magazine subscriptions? Or has the internet replaced them for you?

Edit: Also what can you tell me about UTNE (did I just waste $15)?
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: HL on April 10, 2008, 08:27:06 am: I've had like 2 yrs worth of free EGM subscriptions......and that's it.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: bonermobile on April 10, 2008, 10:14:07 am: I had a subscribtion to LEGO magazine until I was 13, and another to some Disney magazine, it wasn't even full sized.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: theHunter on April 10, 2008, 10:28:47 am: Free EGM and a GI sub from Gamestop.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Grunthor on April 10, 2008, 10:42:57 am: Quote from: theHunter on April 10, 2008, 10:28:47 am
Free EGM and a GI sub from Gamestop.

Same here. Though I'm going to be subscribing to a few others soon.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Impeal on April 10, 2008, 11:40:57 am: Quote from: Dr. Boblet on April 10, 2008, 10:14:07 am
I had a subscribtion to LEGO magazine until I was 13, and another to some Disney magazine, it wasn't even full sized.
Hey yeah I got that lego magazine too. I should try and find those.

More recently, last year I had a subscription to EW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Weekly) for a while, and it was actually pretty good. Currently I have a subscription to GI, but I don't think I'm gonna renew it when it's up, because I can get the same information online easier, earlier, and for free.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Vellfire on April 10, 2008, 02:25:36 pm: I had a free EGM subscription that came from NOWHERE for a while. My parents didn't know why we were getting it, and I didn't know, but it was coming to my name and we weren't being charged for it so whatever. It wasn't from Gamestop or anything. After a year it ran out and I didn't renew it. Also around the time I first got Pokemon I subscribed to Nintendo Power for many years. My brother got the LEGO magazine too, and I'd read it. As of right now I don't have any subscriptions, but I wish I did. I've started semi-collecting (I guess you could say PASSIVE collecting) old gaming magazines after finding some early 90's Gamepro magazines my brother had. Damn, those are good magazines, they still had plenty of ads but the non-ad pages were FULL of information. I use them to find out about older games I should play, or just to kind of laugh at how mindblowing the rumored new Nintendo 64-bit system is supposed to be.

I buy Wired sometimes when I'm in the grocery store. :fogetnaughty:
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Bondo on April 10, 2008, 05:06:50 pm: I have free EGM and a GI from gamestop. I also have a free subscription to Game Developer magazine because they think I'm an independent game dev company, and Popular Mechanics, which I actually paid for.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Blue Cup on April 10, 2008, 05:35:30 pm: Quote from: handsome lamb on April 10, 2008, 08:27:06 am
I've had like 2 yrs worth of free EGM subscriptions......and that's it.

This, but EGM sucks big time though.

I'd much prefer a subscription to GI or Nintendo Power, but I just cannot get myself to put down the money for one.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: jsnnoa on April 10, 2008, 05:53:25 pm: Like most people... free EGM.

I used to have Nintendo Power, but I stopped that some years ago.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Ragnar on April 10, 2008, 07:35:49 pm: I work at a mailroom in college and somebody got a magazine on MULES or something - it was awesome

I think it had some hilarious name like DONKEY ENTHUSIAST or something

or ASSES MONTHLY
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: goldenratio on April 10, 2008, 07:52:57 pm: I had a Game Informer subscription for along time, like 3 or 4 years straight. It was the perfect magazine to leave by the toilet, which is all I really want a magazine for anyway. I don't have it anymore, though. I like that magazine a lot, though. At least, I used to. I dunno how they are now.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: pburn on April 10, 2008, 08:01:02 pm: My very first magazine was LEGO MAGAZINE, great mag. I'm also in one of the photos in one of the jungle adventure whatever issues when I was around 4th grade.

I've been a subscriber to Game Informer since issue 99, and also I'm currently going through a free EGM. Back when I was a japfag I had Shonen Jump, but that shit eventually annoyed me. I also used to periodically purchase issues of Newtype. I also used to purchase Wizard Magazine, but that ended up adding a few dollars to all my comic purchases, plus they're free at comic conventions.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Kaworu on April 10, 2008, 08:14:19 pm: Yeah i also used to subscribe to the lego mag, even when I stopped paying I got like 4 years worth totally free. Now I tend to subscribe to comics so I don;t forget to order them. I was gunna subscribe to Edge and Pcgamer but meh They're like £6 each and I can't afford that.
Just started getting Wizard imported from my local comicstand though.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Mama Luigi on April 10, 2008, 08:24:33 pm: Lots of free EGM... I think I had a free year of GameInformer too.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: AdderallApocalypse on April 11, 2008, 12:57:04 am: I used to subscribe to a boy scout magazine, but that was a while ago. I also subscribed to Game Informer for a short while. Now I am subscribed to Mensa, and Scientific American. I also love to purchase magazines from the store(especially Barnes and Noble), and I probably do so more often than I receive them in the mail.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: the_hoodie on April 11, 2008, 02:05:53 am: I get Wired and The Hockey News.

I'm good to go.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Sarevok on April 11, 2008, 02:10:07 am: Used to subscribe to SONIC THE COMIC (hell yes) and uh... some n64 stuff that was alright but not great.

Been subbing PC Zone for about 5 years now and still do, it's rad.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: the_hoodie on April 11, 2008, 02:49:26 am: Where do you people get all these free EGM subscriptions?
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Feldschlacht IV on April 11, 2008, 03:12:30 am: I think I have a free GI subscription, but since I'm in college, away from my home mailing address (which is what I gave when I got the card along with the subscription), I assume all of the issues are going to my brother at home. Oh well.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Doktormartini on April 11, 2008, 03:21:23 am: Vegetarian Times for another year I believe.
Veg News for I don't know how long is left (I might re-subscribe)
Living Nutrition which sucks there are like two issues a year.
I just got done with a National Geographic
And I finished a Time awhile ago which I got free from some dumb Best Buy offer.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: PTizzle on April 11, 2008, 03:28:20 am: Quote from: Velfarre on April 10, 2008, 02:25:36 pm
I had a free EGM subscription that came from NOWHERE for a while. My parents didn't know why we were getting it, and I didn't know, but it was coming to my name and we weren't being charged for it so whatever. It wasn't from Gamestop or anything. After a year it ran out and I didn't renew it.

One of your friends might've got you a gift subscription? That's about all I can think.

I've never subscribed to a magazine but I've been meaning to subscribe to Hyper (Aussie gaming magazine) for an ice age since it's really cheap and a good read. Just...keep forgetting.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Shepperd on April 11, 2008, 03:37:52 am: Quote from: Doktormartini on April 11, 2008, 03:21:23 am
Vegetarian Times for another year I believe.
Veg News for I don't know how long is left (I might re-subscribe)
Living Nutrition which sucks there are like two issues a year.
I just got done with a National Geographic
And I finished a Time awhile ago which I got free from some dumb Best Buy offer.
allow me to laugh at you some time

no mag subscriptions, but i work in the mag section of my uni so I get free repeated Timers
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Vellfire on April 11, 2008, 12:43:07 pm: Quote from: PTizzle on April 11, 2008, 03:28:20 am
One of your friends might've got you a gift subscription? That's about all I can think.

Nah, growing up only two of my friends would have even known about EGM and neither of them would have done it.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: kentona on April 11, 2008, 05:14:26 pm: I have a subscription to Maclean's and Scientific American.

Good stuff.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on April 11, 2008, 05:20:14 pm: McSweeneys and the Believer

*tosses back scarf*
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: ase on April 11, 2008, 05:24:23 pm: I got a one-year subscription to TIME magazine for a penny through some online survey. It was definitely worth it! I love TIME.
Title: Magazine Subscriptions
Post by: chanicakes on April 11, 2008, 06:12:36 pm: I only have cosmopolitan which I don't even read... someone signed me up for it and they started sending me red notices even when I said I didn't order it so I had to pay 40 bucks.

Total rip off.