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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 968585" data-attributes="member: 515">I always get a kick out of people complaining about a magazine changing its style over a lengthy period of time. I work at a small daily newspaper that is still owned by the same family which has owned it for decades. I've worked here since 1983. I've been involved in pushes to see our publication change and "modernize," and I've been involved in pushes to see our publication "stay in touch with its roots." I have to regularly deal with people who have been reading the newspaper for 70 years or more, and don't like the changes we've made, and with people who have been reading it for less than 5, and want us to change to become more modern and put in more content they want to read."Dragon" has changed because the environment in which it exists has changed. Gaming has changed. Gamers have changed. Publishing and the information industry have changed. The society of the U.S. has changed. The world has changed. Too often we forget that when we are looking at our favorite magazine, or our favorite restaurant, or our the work of our favorite movie director, or our favorite sport."Dragon" is being written and published by people who weren't even born when many of us started gaming (raises hand). Or at least they were still in elementary school. They have grown up in a different society than the one in which we were raised. The in-your-face style of the magazine and its staff is reflected in other magazines, TV, movies, our society as a whole. I see it in all the new journalism school graduates our newspaper has hired over the past decade or more. I'm sure the old timers who were working here when I started saw the same thing in me.That doesn't mean you can't pine for "the good old days." Just don't expect things to go back to the way they were. Because they can't.</blockquote>

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