They’re not made to be used while pooping.
What? I thought thats what all magazines were for!
Indeed. They’re disposable so you don’t need to worry about the fart dust and quite handy for emergency situations, if you catch my drift.
That’s right, all you new game journalists, I quite literally have wiped my ass with you!
No, the little sticker on the front makes it clear this is our replacement mag for EGM. Thanks for the horror-story warnings, though.
No, it’s allowed, just remember to feign outrage and/or surprise if a chick walks into the room: “Good Lord, how did this trash get here?”
That said, there are better sources of both stupid humor and pretty ladies than Maxim.
There was a computer game magazine that went under–CGM I think–that I got a Robb Report sub instead. I mean seriously… Robb Report?
— Alan
I’m not much of an industry observer but I swear PCGUS started with the lame photo caption snark jokes on every single picture maybe a year or two after these magazines got popular. I don’t know how CGW was but maybe they figured if you actually put up with a subscription then you must have liked that stuff.
At some point my paid subscriptions to GFW and/or CGM through 2008/9 became a free subscription to EGM through 2011, which in turn stopped coming many months ago. I guess when you’re riding the free extended subscriptions to stuff you don’t want gravy train it must eventually come to an end, as no Maxim or other alternative has appeared at my home. No great loss, as like Stusser I can only view so much printed material during “quiet time”. Currently that need is well-fulfilled by ESPN the Magazine (which is actually quite good).
I just got my issue on the mail and its says the sub is till Oct13…whee.
Page 74: “No.”
Wait, is that a REAL Maxim cover? Good lord, looks like a Mad Magazine parody of a bad Men’s magazine.
Seriously. I thought Maxim was supposed to be classy…
It is classy… low classy.
What’s with the arrow? Christ.
Glossy magazine pages just don’t give a good wipe. I personally prefer something with a little more texture.
In an emergency, it’s either gaming magazines or… the shower.
Just picked up my mail. Had not one, but TWO copies of Maxim in the box, because at some point one of my subscriptions ended up being a duplicate subscription for EGM (because one was in my maiden name, and one was in my married name, so they didn’t combine)… and now both of those have converted into Maxim.
The most hilarious part of it all is that I’m FEMALE. Like the complete and total anti-target audience. Some snippets from the cover:
- “America’s Bests Bikini Beaches”
- “Muscle Car Face-Off”
- “Hot Grill on Grill Action”
- “The Real Stimulus Package - the Rise of Recession SEX”
It’s not like I have an androgynous name. Do you think they could have picked something, anything else to replace my subscription with? ;)
The good news is that the cover also includes a sticker they stuck on the front that gives me an address to request a pro-rated refund for the the remaining subscription if I would prefer.
All in all though, I think it’s pretty comical that they assume that anyone subscribing to a gaming magazine would be more than happy to have it replaced with a Maxim subscription.
Honestly though, if you’re going to pick any one non-gaming magazine in the universe to replace a gaming magazine with, what would be a better choice than Maxim? They both mostly target the young male demographic. My military escort in Japan showed up one day carrying a PS3 magazine and a Maxim. So I have my anecdotal evidence.
For no apparent reason, this showed-up yesterday. Even though I had specifically chnaged the subscription. Predicably, my wife was not amused. Thank God it had a huge sticker on the front explaining exactly why it had shown-up, and how to get a refund. Now, it’s time to enjoy this one issue before I have to cancel…
Military Escort? I feel like i’m missing out on an interesting story.