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MarcusSA posted:I am sure no one is shocked about this. Really not surprised after hearing about the Emmy scam they had going. Felt like someone was desperate for validation.
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DreadUnknown posted:Behold! https://www.mobygames.com/game/157383/the-voyage-of-the-mimi-maps-and-navigation/ Huh. Still doesn't ring a bell but it definitely looks like an Apple ][ game we might have played (this was the 1994-95 school year).
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Twobirds posted:Really not surprised after hearing about the Emmy scam they had going. Felt like someone was desperate for validation. The Emmy scam was ESPN but yeah SI is still complete poo poo. As someone who read the mag and visited the site daily for many years the fall is not surprising but somewhat disappointing to see, especially in real time.
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Growing up in the 90s, you sure heard allusions to "The Swimsuit Issue" a lot in sitcoms
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credburn posted:Growing up in the 90s, you sure heard allusions to "The Swimsuit Issue" a lot in sitcoms and Victoria's Secret catalogues.
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Bloopsy posted:The Emmy scam was ESPN but yeah SI is still complete poo poo. As someone who read the mag and visited the site daily for many years the fall is not surprising but somewhat disappointing to see, especially in real time. Oh geez, you're right, I blanked on the name.
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Bloopsy posted:The Emmy scam was ESPN but yeah SI is still complete poo poo. As someone who read the mag and visited the site daily for many years the fall is not surprising but somewhat disappointing to see, especially in real time. I remember renewing every year and getting tons of hoodies and fleece throws, still have a bunch of them too. I think I started losing interest when Rushin and Reilly left. Hadn’t heard anything from them in years, probably part of the reason they’re struggling
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credburn posted:Growing up in the 90s, you sure heard allusions to "The Swimsuit Issue" a lot in sitcoms Gotta admit that I always wanted the football phone.
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I remember being a kid and staring at wonder at a 10 minute Sports Illustrated commercial at all the stuff you'd get just from subscribing. I also remember thinking, "Too bad it's for a sports magazine, how boring." I'm sure the VHS tapes of sports bloopers are online somewhere. Relive the good times.
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Magazines were enshittifying long before websites were. Print probably could have lasted a lot longer if it weren't for endless self-inflicted wounds.
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Who likes all sports? The idea of a pan-sports magazine makes no sense to me.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Magazines were enshittifying long before websites were. Print probably could have lasted a lot longer if it weren't for endless self-inflicted wounds. I got a stack of old popular mechanics mags dating from the 1930s and 40s and even back then they were still at least 50% ads and 20% life hacks of dubious quality like for example unclog your sink with only a bicycle pump, a rubber ball, a nut, two washers and the valve from an inner tube.
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coldpudding posted:I got a stack of old popular mechanics mags dating from the 1930s and 40s and even back then they were still at least 50% ads and 20% life hacks of dubious quality like for example unclog your sink with only a bicycle pump, a rubber ball, a nut, two washers and the valve from an inner tube. thats what made the mechanics so popular
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Vegetable posted:Who likes all sports? The idea of a pan-sports magazine makes no sense to me. I don't follow any sport in particular or in general, but I'll watch a Jon Bois video on anything. I imagine there are compelling stories in every sport, but I imagine the work needed to output those stories impedes the number going up.
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coldpudding posted:I got a stack of old popular mechanics mags dating from the 1930s and 40s and even back then they were still at least 50% ads and 20% life hacks of dubious quality like for example unclog your sink with only a bicycle pump, a rubber ball, a nut, two washers and the valve from an inner tube. I would read a magazine containing Fallout style stuff like this
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Professor Shark posted:I would read a magazine containing Fallout style stuff like this You're in luck they have been archived for free viewing on google books.
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coldpudding posted:I got a stack of old popular mechanics mags dating from the 1930s and 40s and even back then they were still at least 50% ads and 20% life hacks of dubious quality like for example unclog your sink with only a bicycle pump, a rubber ball, a nut, two washers and the valve from an inner tube. What do you think MacGyver read growing up?
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To be clear, the people that owned SI were the worst kind of corporate vultures that had no intention of turning the brand around
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Was it SI that had the VHS football highlight tapes? Where everything was in slow motion and dramatic looking? That's all we had to watch at my grandparents' house. Well, that and Dorf on Golf. It really feels like this is the death kneel year for the magazine industry. Anyone whose business model was 'doctor's waiting rooms' or who never transitioned to the web is going under. Hell, even the online only Pitchfork...which couldn't have cost that much to run, is on death's door.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Was it SI that had the VHS football highlight tapes? Where everything was in slow motion and dramatic looking? That's all we had to watch at my grandparents' house. Well, that and Dorf on Golf. Probably, I think a semi-random NFL Films highlight tape (Like the previous season or Super Bowl or whatever) was a regular part of some of their renewal packages like the infamous football phone.
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coldpudding posted:I got a stack of old popular mechanics mags dating from the 1930s and 40s and even back then they were still at least 50% ads and 20% life hacks of dubious quality like for example unclog your sink with only a bicycle pump, a rubber ball, a nut, two washers and the valve from an inner tube. And if you were reading that article, you already had the nut! 
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GrandpaPants posted:I don't follow any sport in particular or in general, but I'll watch a Jon Bois video on anything. I imagine there are compelling stories in every sport, but I imagine the work needed to output those stories impedes the number going up. The fact that a feature length two-parter documentary about the name "Bob" is the greatest thing on the Internet says a lot about that man's skills.
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I’m now realizing that I could save a lot of time reading books or watching films by just reading the Wikipedia synopses
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GrandpaPants posted:I don't follow any sport in particular or in general, but I'll watch a Jon Bois video on anything. I imagine there are compelling stories in every sport, but I imagine the work needed to output those stories impedes the number going up.
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Why would I watch the movie when I can watch a 2 hour YouTube essay about the movie??
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MarcusSA posted:Why would I watch the movie when I can watch a 2 hour YouTube essay about the movie?? Pfft, amateur. I only watch two-hour reaction videos of people (doing the :-O face) watching the youtube essay about the movie 
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I limit myself to 2-part, 7-hour treatises on how that reaction video was filled with plagiarism.
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Subjunctive posted:I limit myself to 2-part, 7-hour treatises on how that reaction video was filled with plagiarism. And I read the comments on those
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TotalLossBrain posted:And I read the comments on those Post-username combo 
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Cowslips Warren posted:and Victoria's Secret catalogues. ....Sears catalogue
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MarcusSA posted:Why would I watch the movie when I can watch a 2 hour YouTube essay about the movie?? No, there's AI voiced summaries of media now so you don't even need to watch someone think about it.
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Waste of Breath posted:No, there's AI voiced summaries of media now so you don't even need to watch someone think about it. Those videos probably saved my life in 2021 when I was recovering from a back injury and surgery, and deep in the throes of acute Depression. Some tts voice explaining the plot of Narnia or whatever while soothing elevator music plays in the background.
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Honestly I'd watch them narrating long stuff I'm never gonna watch like one piece but I'd rather have a nice audio book narrator voice
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Subjunctive posted:I’m now realizing that I could save a lot of time reading books or watching films by just reading the Wikipedia synopses It’s always annoying to go to Wikipedia to read the plot and twist for a movie and find no one’s bothered to write it because it’s so bad. Most of the time I end up waiting for the Pitch meeting episode to find out. It’s barely an inconvenience.
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GoutPatrol posted:....Sears catalogue Ding!
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Comstar posted:It’s always annoying to go to Wikipedia to read the plot and twist for a movie and find no one’s bothered to write it because it’s so bad. Most Wikipedia plot summaries are completely incomprehensible from what I've seen. They seem to be written by aliens who have no concept of what a narrative is.
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Waste of Breath posted:No, there's AI voiced summaries of media now so you don't even need to watch someone think about it. I only watched a couple of these, but they were for super weird movies I never heard about and never would have watched otherwise. Like, the one I remember was a movie entirely about high school students spontaneously exploding throughout the school year.
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GoutPatrol posted:....Sears catalogue ...Fingerhut. (it even sounds dirty)
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rydiafan posted:I only watched a couple of these, but they were for super weird movies I never heard about and never would have watched otherwise. I do the same. Usually it's some low budget or foreign movies I was never going to watch anyway, they're good as background noise.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Most Wikipedia plot summaries are completely incomprehensible from what I've seen. They seem to be written by aliens who have no concept of what a narrative is. Wikipedia writers tend to be an odd bunch in my experience. Odd and very angry about being corrected on obvious errors.
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