I wouldn't mind helping with copy editing on a mag. shidoshi, that's a funny story, despite the underlying double standard within it.
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I wouldn't mind helping with copy editing on a mag. shidoshi, that's a funny story, despite the underlying double standard within it.
I never thought I could feel this giddy about a potential magazine.Quote:
Originally Posted by djpubba
DAVE HALVERSON?!Quote:
The ex-GF folk on board to help so far include me, Wolfie (who's more up for it than I thought, yay!), Waka, Shidoshi, Weising, HiFi, and one surprise bonus member who I can't name yet.
...so anyway, yeah. Awesome thread about the greatest gaming magazine ever. If it hadn't been for Gamefan, I probably wouldn't be into gaming nearly as much as I am today (or, for that matter, anime).
Oh I did. I cocked my arm back like I was gonna sock him, and he flailed his arms up to cover his face. Which was even more funny because of the situtation. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetman
Yeah, it was me that called you Eric. Basically, we were looking through the issue before we sent it off and Jay saw it. They don't call him "The Hatchet" for nothing. I personally had no problem with you doing your AnimeFan. If you recall, I called you again because I was told to work with you on redesigning it. Don't know why, but I enjoyed having at least one section of the mag I could read on white pages without having to squint or go color blind. :lol:
GameFan was THE gamemag for me. To date it was the only mag I ever always got every time I saw it. It was the mag in my backpack at school. Unlike other mags I would tend to reed most of the articles out of it just out of the enjoyment of doing so.
djpubba - I'll go ahead and post what Mzo posted earlier:
I'd be kicking myself for an eternity if I didn't at least try to get in on something like this. My current job is pretty time consuming, and I only get in a few hours of gaming here and there on the weekends, but I'd be willing to sacrifice some sleep to participate wherever needed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
I don't have much experience, but I did contribute to a gaming fanzine once in college, so maybe that counts for something. ;)
Either way, good luck on this venture - and I can't wait to see what you guys throw together.
Yeah, on the afforementioned "I'd be kicking myself for an eternity if I didn't at least try to get in on something like this" tip, I'll gladly offer some illustration if necessary.
More story... nothing mind melting, just a little funny...
The printing on issue one wasn't that great. We printed it at my old job, which used pretty low quality presses and we used too high of a line screen for that type of press. So it was really dark in spots. So we needed to find a real printer. It just so happened that Andy Fell's brother in law, or cousin, or some relative like that, owned a printing company called Wolfer Printing. So Andy hooked us up to get the magazine printed there. Back then, we used to go on what were called "press checks." This was where one or two of us would go to the printer while the magazine was printing and make sure the pages coming off the press were good. It was a hell of a long drive away, so none of us wanted to go because, since they printed in the middle of the night, it basically meant sleeping in their waiting room until the press dude came in to wake your ass up and look at the next set of pages (a sig). It was a crap thing.
So when we'd get the magazines back from the printer, Halverson would always look at every page in the magazine and find some thing wrong and get all pissed off and insult whoever went on press checks. It was always fairly minor stuff -- stuff that happens in every magazine, like misregistration, blues going purple, etc. Finally he got so fed up with printing problems, he decided he was going on a press check himself. So he loaded up a shitload of game systems in the car to hook up to the crappy TV in the waiting room and we head down to Wolfer printing. Of course nobody thought to bring a fucking RF modulator to hook them to the crappy old TV so we're bored out of our skulls by the time the press dude calls us out to look at the first sig. Halverson picks up a sheet and rubs it between his fingers, holds it up to the light and starts freaking out. He's going off that he's paying for 80 lb paper and this is fucking 70 lb paper and he's not paying for this crap. I'm standing there thinking, "no fucking way he can tell the difference between goddamn 80 lb paper and 70 lb paper with his fat fucking fingers." So the press dude hauls out a micrometer and measures the paper. Sure e-fucking nuff old microdigits Halvy caught 'em red handed trying to stiff us on the paper weight. He was the living press check god for a while after that (and more power to him).
Funny thing, at our DoubleJump Publishing offices here in Valencia, CA (different place, way far from where we did press checks), like, 13 years after that, we get mail addressed to Wolfer Printing. They occupied the same suite as us some time in the past. It's usually from the employment board or the IRS. Go figure.
Same here. Near the end it became extra special to buy it because it got so damn hard to find. As weird as it may sound, the paper stock GF used helped set the mag apart too.Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
You weren't too drugged out when I worked with you. You were a genuine, enthusiastic teenager doing typical fucked up teenager things, loving games and fun to hang out with. Glad you survived it.Quote:
Originally Posted by JesusisGod
Do weed and Jesus really mix?
I always thought no, but I could be wrong.