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<blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 1430520" data-attributes="member: 1129">I can't speak for anyone else but sometimes life gets in the way. Visit the old doctor, the bad cholestoral is up. Start going to the gym. Hate it. (Used to go 2 hours a day, 5 days a week and just stopped.) Now I know I have to go so I buy an I-Pod with my income tax return. Love that damn thing but it takes time to copy the old music to the machine and then to the I-Pod which then gets my lazy butt into the gym which eats into my free time.A big part of my problem is that I just have too much stuff to review and when I don't use the material or I'm not familiar with it (got Gamma World and one of the sourcebooks), I hate reviewing it until I'm well into it and have playtested a few characters/ideas. My biggest failure is that PDF's often fall way behind in my list. One, I can't read them on screen. Most aren't designed for it, so I have to print them out. I don't always have the ink for that as I do a lot of stuff for my personal campaign that eats up ink. Second, if I have paper products, and this may damn me in the eyes of the community, I try to give those preferential treatment. If I'm sent a $34.95 hardcover&nbsp; and a $13.00 PDF,and am behind, the hardcover will almost always get my attention first. It may not be right and I'm not trying to discount the hard work that goes into PDF's, but the fact that both have writing, but only one is a physical product (until I spend my own funds to print/bind, etc...) the other, the physical product comes first.Well, that's my lame excuse for why more PDF's arent' reviewed on my side. My apologies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JoeGKushner, post: 1430520, member: 1129"] I can't speak for anyone else but sometimes life gets in the way. Visit the old doctor, the bad cholestoral is up. Start going to the gym. Hate it. (Used to go 2 hours a day, 5 days a week and just stopped.) Now I know I have to go so I buy an I-Pod with my income tax return. Love that damn thing but it takes time to copy the old music to the machine and then to the I-Pod which then gets my lazy butt into the gym which eats into my free time. A big part of my problem is that I just have too much stuff to review and when I don't use the material or I'm not familiar with it (got Gamma World and one of the sourcebooks), I hate reviewing it until I'm well into it and have playtested a few characters/ideas. My biggest failure is that PDF's often fall way behind in my list. One, I can't read them on screen. Most aren't designed for it, so I have to print them out. I don't always have the ink for that as I do a lot of stuff for my personal campaign that eats up ink. Second, if I have paper products, and this may damn me in the eyes of the community, I try to give those preferential treatment. If I'm sent a $34.95 hardcover and a $13.00 PDF,and am behind, the hardcover will almost always get my attention first. It may not be right and I'm not trying to discount the hard work that goes into PDF's, but the fact that both have writing, but only one is a physical product (until I spend my own funds to print/bind, etc...) the other, the physical product comes first. Well, that's my lame excuse for why more PDF's arent' reviewed on my side. My apologies. [/QUOTE]

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