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Don't make the magazine crap ok?
Put some funnies in it.
Make them obscure and clique with references to grown up stuff, y'know, the way they used to.
I know I only pay £6 per year and abuse the forums daily, but dammit I want some intelligent, humorous stuff in my monthly tome please.
You can do it here, don't make it look like the Argos catalogue with "!" to stress how good a game is.
Lazy-ass journalism which I know you good folk abhor.
I know it's professional and serious and explanatory about the products, pricing, offers etc.
But the main thing about SR is you guys are the C4 of games sites/stores.
A little bit different and risque, a tad culty and knowing in references.
Don't be ITV, be C4.
Upmarket, intelligently funny and well produced.
There, I've had my little plea as a customer that appreciates decent games mags.
Put some funnies in it.
Make them obscure and clique with references to grown up stuff, y'know, the way they used to.
I know I only pay £6 per year and abuse the forums daily, but dammit I want some intelligent, humorous stuff in my monthly tome please.
You can do it here, don't make it look like the Argos catalogue with "!" to stress how good a game is.
Lazy-ass journalism which I know you good folk abhor.
I know it's professional and serious and explanatory about the products, pricing, offers etc.
But the main thing about SR is you guys are the C4 of games sites/stores.
A little bit different and risque, a tad culty and knowing in references.
Don't be ITV, be C4.
Upmarket, intelligently funny and well produced.
There, I've had my little plea as a customer that appreciates decent games mags.
i love the comment goatboy about don't be ITV be C4 LOL
ITV always reminded me of basildon and Barrymore (spelt wrong i suspect)
C4 well i used to like C4 but since having sky i find i watch MTV base and Sky one the most oh and of course paramount for seinfeld and sci-fi for sliders ;)
anyway back to the mag, Add some wit will ya and whats with the woman on the service bay as if she'd know what she's doing, she's putting ram in with a screw driver!!!
ITV always reminded me of basildon and Barrymore (spelt wrong i suspect)
C4 well i used to like C4 but since having sky i find i watch MTV base and Sky one the most oh and of course paramount for seinfeld and sci-fi for sliders ;)
anyway back to the mag, Add some wit will ya and whats with the woman on the service bay as if she'd know what she's doing, she's putting ram in with a screw driver!!!
That's the best news I've heard all day.
Upwire.com is undergoing a major monkification as we speak.
The News Monkey should have his own site.
What's pron?
And yeah, the magazines can be SO much better, and you damn well know it.
I know you have a duty to try your best to sell games to everyone, but that doesn't stop you from making monkey jokes and the like.
And yeah, the magazines can be SO much better, and you damn well know it.
I know you have a duty to try your best to sell games to everyone, but that doesn't stop you from making monkey jokes and the like.
C4 used to be pr0n channel
now ITV shows all the crap C4 are damn decent and C5 show pr0n
now ITV shows all the crap C4 are damn decent and C5 show pr0n
Goatboy wrote:
> Don't be ITV, be C4.
I demand porn as art!
> Don't be ITV, be C4.
I demand porn as art!
One simple idea you could do to liven it up is captions. You have loads of pictures of screen shots in games in the mags, so why not add an amusing caption?
Doesn't have to be anything to do with the actual game - just the kinda thing you may get if you put it into a caption contest. As long as it ain't rude I'm sure you won't get any complaints. A bit of sarcasm/irony etc is always amusing.
Doesn't have to be anything to do with the actual game - just the kinda thing you may get if you put it into a caption contest. As long as it ain't rude I'm sure you won't get any complaints. A bit of sarcasm/irony etc is always amusing.
I'd love to, but I can only do what I'm told. It's a little better this month. I've been going back reading old copies of the mag, the club pages were great.
"To produce the Special Reserve Discount Magazine, get some words, drop a monkey from a great height onto the keys of a suitably reinforced Macintosh. An infinite amount of monkeys will eventually result in a series of random key depressions that will result in Volume 4.6."
An infinite amount of monkeys, that pretty much sums up the company.
"To produce the Special Reserve Discount Magazine, get some words, drop a monkey from a great height onto the keys of a suitably reinforced Macintosh. An infinite amount of monkeys will eventually result in a series of random key depressions that will result in Volume 4.6."
An infinite amount of monkeys, that pretty much sums up the company.
Don't make the magazine crap ok?
Put some funnies in it.
Make them obscure and clique with references to grown up stuff, y'know, the way they used to.
I know I only pay £6 per year and abuse the forums daily, but dammit I want some intelligent, humorous stuff in my monthly tome please.
You can do it here, don't make it look like the Argos catalogue with "!" to stress how good a game is.
Lazy-ass journalism which I know you good folk abhor.
I know it's professional and serious and explanatory about the products, pricing, offers etc.
But the main thing about SR is you guys are the C4 of games sites/stores.
A little bit different and risque, a tad culty and knowing in references.
Don't be ITV, be C4.
Upmarket, intelligently funny and well produced.
There, I've had my little plea as a customer that appreciates decent games mags.
Put some funnies in it.
Make them obscure and clique with references to grown up stuff, y'know, the way they used to.
I know I only pay £6 per year and abuse the forums daily, but dammit I want some intelligent, humorous stuff in my monthly tome please.
You can do it here, don't make it look like the Argos catalogue with "!" to stress how good a game is.
Lazy-ass journalism which I know you good folk abhor.
I know it's professional and serious and explanatory about the products, pricing, offers etc.
But the main thing about SR is you guys are the C4 of games sites/stores.
A little bit different and risque, a tad culty and knowing in references.
Don't be ITV, be C4.
Upmarket, intelligently funny and well produced.
There, I've had my little plea as a customer that appreciates decent games mags.