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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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Redeye wrote: | Cycle wrote: | Chet and Erik are morons, barrels aren't the same thing as crates. |
The barrel was the original Shipping Container.
You could roll them in/out of storage areas.
I wonder if there was some sort of removable grommet system that would allow rows of them to be attached to a pair of ropes (guidelines) then lifted and "poured" into a cargo hold/dockside rack.
The crate is just a square barrel.
Functionally.
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And yet they are still not the same thing! _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | sounds like we should rename the magazine to "the quarter"! |
Yeah! If only someone would design a logo for you! |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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Heck, I'll do it!
So Dess, if you had time, you would finish laying out the magazine and e-publishing it? Is it just your current lack of time and the HEADLINE ARTICLE holding you back? _________________
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SuperWes Updated the banners, but not his title
Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 3725
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | Mr. Mechanical wrote: | I'm pretty sure there's no money actually being made either. I have my doubts as to whether or not Shaper gets enough money selling print copies to pay for the cost of printing them in the first place (pretty sure he's been making that difference up out of his own pocket). |
we usually don't talk about this, but yes. |
For the record we've made not a dime. We charge more for the mag than it costs to print, but not by much, and any profit that we made and then some (a lot actually) was all spend on bookmarks and trying to pimp the magazine to advertizers that never came.
So yes, nobody's made any money and most of us are out by a bit.
-Wes _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 6563 Location: bohan
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Cycle wrote: | So Dess, if you had time, you would finish laying out the magazine and e-publishing it? Is it just your current lack of time and the HEADLINE ARTICLE holding you back? |
pretty much. i'd totally be willing to finish the magazine. i'd feel bad doing it without matt though, since it's his baby. i should call him and see what's up. _________________
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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I'm almost done with my move, so expect things to shape up for print within the next month.
I wasn't aware of any honest concern over the release. I still think that the headliners will be topical, but we did miss our window for "OMG AWESOME COVER STORY" so now it's been downgraded to "good cover story"
We also need back cover art (one of the major things holding up the issue) if anyone wants to help out with that. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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boojiboy7 .
Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 248 Location: Yeah, THAT Cleveland.
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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Have you found a place to move in to?
And yeah, I figured it would get done when it did, what with all the various upheavals in people's lives and all that. I still think TGQ puts some great stuff out there that is completely underrepresented otherwise, so the wait is worth it. |
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | sounds like we should rename the magazine to "the quarter"! |
in all seriousness this was my original suggestion for a name. _________________
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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boojiboy7 wrote: | Have you found a place to move in to? |
I did, and the lawyers are currently working on the contracts so that I don't get screwed. I should be in a house by Mar 14th at the latest. Getting all of my stuff out of storage is a totally different story. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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dhex wrote: | Quote: | sounds like we should rename the magazine to "the quarter"! |
in all seriousness this was my original suggestion for a name. |
I did draw Dess a logo for the Quarter but she gave it the (o_ _ )p
I might have another go.
MAN WE SHOULD MAKE LIKE EVERY COVER LOOK LIKE IT'S DRAWN IN BIRO IN AN EXERCISE BOOK |
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Cycle Mac daddy
Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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In the next issue you should include an advertisement for advertising. It's worth a try! Also make sure to advertise it with STYLE and offer STYLE to your clients if they choose to advertise with you! _________________
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Lackey .
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Then the hate mail started rolling in because people thought we were a bunch of snooty, monocled, wannabe-academic types trying to wrest "games journalism" or whatever from its "rightful owners". |
You guys got hate mail? What the hell? Probably making anything worthwhile involves hate mail sooner or later. _________________ | Little bird fighting against a bat sect game | |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Cycle wrote: | In the next issue you should include an advertisement for advertising. It's worth a try! Also make sure to advertise it with STYLE and offer STYLE to your clients if they choose to advertise with you! |
We did something like this for a while in the back of the older issues.* We kind of gave it up when no one responded to that, or direct attempts with really friggin awesome ad request pamphlets we got to about thirty PR people or more.
*print only _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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Mr. Mechanical Friendly Stranger
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | Mr. Mechanical wrote: | I'm pretty sure there's no money actually being made either. I have my doubts as to whether or not Shaper gets enough money selling print copies to pay for the cost of printing them in the first place (pretty sure he's been making that difference up out of his own pocket). |
we usually don't talk about this, but yes. |
Oh, I'm sorry. _________________ Mr. Mechanical |
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boojiboy7 .
Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 248 Location: Yeah, THAT Cleveland.
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:11 am Post subject: |
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Shapermc wrote: | boojiboy7 wrote: | Have you found a place to move in to? |
I did, and the lawyers are currently working on the contracts so that I don't get screwed. I should be in a house by Mar 14th at the latest. Getting all of my stuff out of storage is a totally different story. |
This is good news. Well, aside from the storage shit. I am glad to hear that all is coming together finally. Maybe you can return to live more often then. I have almost finished my first prestige run through on Call of Duty. |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:23 am Post subject: |
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Dracko wrote: | Academic is pretty gross, man. |
Speaking as someone who has two older sisters who work as university lecturers, STFU DRACKO |
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Dracko .
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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Speaking as a student, no you. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Way to pull rank, Private Pike
If academia is so gross why are you a student? I'm a graduate and no-one's ever checked my certificate before giving me a job, they just look at my (extra-curricular) portfolio work and judge me on that. Almost as if I needn't have gone to university at all. So leave if you don't like it. |
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daphaknee just enemies now
Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 892 Location: YAY AREA
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:48 am Post subject: |
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this has turned into an exciting thread!
issue issue issue |
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Lestrade Bug Fister
Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 1760 Location: Toronto
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:44 am Post subject: |
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Shapermc wrote: | boojiboy7 wrote: | Have you found a place to move in to? |
I did, and the lawyers are currently working on the contracts so that I don't get screwed. I should be in a house by Mar 14th at the latest. Getting all of my stuff out of storage is a totally different story. |
Hey, awesome news. Glad to hear you're almost out of the woods. I keep experiencing these visions of a destitute, haggard Shaper dragging a beat-up laptop and wander the streets. You'd probably be carrying a sign that says, "Will edit game magazine for food/shelter." |
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boojiboy7 .
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:22 am Post subject: |
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or "will edit game magazine for shadowrun team." |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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The Gamer's Quarter is pretty well regarded! It's definitely got a reputation for itself. Penny Arcade seem to like it, and one of the Jill Off reviews described it as , and I quote, ' the closest thing the game industry has to a journal of serious critique'. Man if you ever run adverts that's your quote right there.
It's a hefty tag, though! You'd need a pretty stringent editorial policy to live up to that. Man! |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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at least once per issue i beg shaper not to run one of the submissions we've gotten. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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the next issue should have some ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL where you pull together all the wonderfully hateful things have said about the magazine. such as KEEP YO DICKS OUTTA MAH HOBBY _________________
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JamesE .
Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 168 Location: Straight Up, Straight Down
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:32 am Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | i've always believed our great task was providing a model for videogames journalism and discourse in the twenty-first century.
how successful we've been so far i don't know. |
ha ha ha ha ha _________________
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JamesE .
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:37 am Post subject: |
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Cycle wrote: | Chet and Erik are morons, barrels aren't the same thing as crates. |
Oh man Cycle did I ever tell you about the time Chet went on a massive rant over at POE-news about the evils of piracy and I pointed out he runs four shell websites that encase other people's content in his own google ads and forums? He got so mad! _________________
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