Maxim is a terrible magazine

Pie wrote:Game reviews and tech reviews.

Well it did come in place of EGM...

ReconToaster wrote:I have been receiving Maxim in the mail for the past few weeks now. It seems that Ziff Davis, former publisher of the now deceased EGM magazine, decided to finally make up for the thousands of subscriptions that were cut short without refund, managing to strike a deal with Maxim's publisher.

I guess the biggest mistake you made here is assuming that the articles in such a magazine might be good, when most of the revenue they make is for the pictures.

I wouldn't be surprised if they save all of their money on reporters and simply buy a chatterbot to write their articles for them.

ReconToaster wrote:
Yeah, they can't do that here. I think EU restrictions are pretty lenient when it come to breasts. The FCC isn't.

I once ran low on diesel in the dingier part of town, and I had to stop at one of the more disreputable stations. You probably know what kind of gas station I'm talking about: Dimly lit, back door is open, a couple of cases of beer have been ripped open, the dust bunnies have teamed up with the oily linoleum grime monsters to drive the beetles out, the toilet (Or rather, what's growing on the toilet) is alive and ravenous, there's used hypodermic needles dropped in the candy aisle, and the clerk is most definitely on speed.

You get the picture.

What I remember the most was the magazines, just below the counter. The pictures on the cover were "Oh my God, is that legal?" revealing, but the nipples, crotches, and butts were covered up with what I assumed were peel-off stickers.

Must have made them legal enough to ship and sell.

It is kind of odd how out culture thinks about that sort of thing. I remember seeing some award show on television where the hostess was almost completely topless, but she had tiny little bits of leather covering her nipples... which made it all okay to show on live TV.

It might not be law. It might just be restrictions set by retailers themselves, not to stock magazines like that. 'Cause you know some soccer mom would sue them.

ReconToaster wrote:It is kind of odd how out culture thinks about that sort of thing. I remember seeing some award show on television where the hostess was almost completely topless, but she had tiny little bits of leather covering her nipples... which made it all okay to show on live TV.

I think that the nipples are specifically taboo because that is where the skin changes the most noticeably, and nobody's defined how much of the breast is taboo. Ergo, the easiest way to define it is "Don't show the nipples."

Technically, nudity in media isn't illegal at all, but since the FCC decides who gets funded on the basic cable/free networks, they don't show nudity or cuzz, because then they get cut off.

PiEman wrote:Technically, nudity in media isn't illegal at all, but since the FCC decides who gets funded on the basic cable/free networks, they don't show nudity or cuzz, because then they get cut off.

That's true. It's not illegal because that would be unconstitutional.

I found that spanish maxim has significantly better looking girls, and more well written articles.

KristallNacht wrote:I found that spanish maxim has significantly better looking girls, and more well written articles.

Since when can you read in spanish?

PiEman wrote:

KristallNacht wrote:I found that spanish maxim has significantly better looking girls, and more well written articles.

Since when can you read in spanish?

You'd think by now you would know that NT Knows everything about anything and knows all the languages and dialects in the world. He also can get any woman on the eastern hemisphere. Or that's what he wants everyone to think. When in fact he's just a socially deprived asshole who's mission is to make everyone who hasn't read and seen everything he has feel like complete shit.

...Just for the record, I cant read Spanish.






(yes I can)

Carcarius wrote:
You'd think by now you would know that NT Knows everything about anything and knows all the languages and dialects in the world. He also can get any woman on the eastern hemisphere.

At about here I was hating you

Carcarius wrote:
Or that's what he wants everyone to think. When in fact he's just a socially deprived asshole who's mission is to make everyone who hasn't read and seen everything he has feel like complete shit.

After this I like you

lol