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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3480170" data-attributes="member: 14159">I own guns, I like candlelight, I grew up in a rural area but live in a city now.  What is so wrong with polishing guns by candlelight?  I've done it before, I probably will again.I don't care if it's a "micro payment" system, I'd sooner quit buying new gaming material than buy .pdf's or other online materials.  I've got multiple bookcases filled with AD&D/D&D/d20, WoD, and myriad other RPG's, not to mention a big collection of old Dragon Magazines that it looks like will be finished soon.  I could game for decades and not exhaust my supply of materials, I could raise my children to be gamers and they'd have gaming materials for a lifetime.  I've experimented with free .pdf downloads and found them awkward and memory-hogging and cludging to read and outrageously expensive to print out, especially compared to just buying a physical gaming book.Why should I pay 5 cents for a file of yet another prestige class or some spells (especially when they used to put that sort of stuff up for free, reminds me of the line from the Tom Petty song "The Last DJ" about "How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free"), then have to pay several more cents for the ink to print it, and then the time to bind it and put it on the shelf with everything else, especially realizing how hard it.  The more I think about it, the more I realize how little the Digital Initiative interests me.I find that a computer is awkward and cumbersome for browsing reading material, printing what I have on a computer is awkward and painfully expensive with the costs of ink.I paid for a Community Supporter account here, but that was because I like ENWorld, and I did it not for any premium gaming material (I have always refused to use the euphemism "content" to mean material) but because I know it is funded by the support of fans and I bought my CS account years ago when it looked like ENWorld was in dire straits and I didn't want it to go away.</blockquote>

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