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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3471391" data-attributes="member: 13966">Eh, I don't want to pay for online content, so no.  What disposable income I have I prefer to spend frugally on good, time-consuming games, movies, or reading material, not something I'll read in a day and never look at again (or never be able to look at again, if it gets taken off the internet or my files are corrupted/lost by my cruddy machine).My computer is awfully unreliable sometimes, I can't even come close to affording another or even just some disks (doesn't help that my CD-ROM/RW inexplicably quit working half a year ago and I don't have the cash to do anything about it), and I just plain don't like electronic media for gaming material.It's more cumbersome with my mediocre, refurbished laptop (that I only got by chance from my parents, something they won at work, and which I normally wouldn't be able to afford), and my computer is strained enough when I run a campaign over OpenRPG while referencing notes on my Rhunaria webpage and my text documents for it and my HTML copy of the previous week's session log.....I can easily carry the few books and magazine issues I may need for any given face-to-face gaming session, and they're generally quicker/easier to spread out and check through any time I need to find a particular piece of info.  I know their layout and material well enough, it's no hassle, and it's generally easier to mark spots in a book than it is for an electronic document or the like.I'll buy a magazine or two on most months when I go up to the bookstore or something, but that's reading material for when I don't have access to my computer; or don't feel like staring at a screen for several more hours that day; or don't feel like booting up my PC just to read for twenty minutes or so while I'm waiting to leave the house for a movie or something.  I spend enough time each day staring at computer screens or TV screens, and typing, and probably growing ever-closer to extreme nearsightedness and carpal tunnel syndrome.  I really don't want to develop those conditions, let alone speed up their arrival if I'm going to suffer them anyway.*grim treehugger mode engaged*Besides, it's not like the end of two gaming magazines is going to save a bunch of trees.  Now if all gaming-related magazines went purely digital, it might save some slightly-noticeable number of trees, but really the paper industry is just going to continue contributing to deforestation anyway regardless.  It'd take a huge conversion of paper media to electronic media for this sort of thing to make any kind of dent.  Most likely, reducing the amount of wasted office paper and school paper used is going to be the most effective, efficient, and agreeable manner of reducing deforestation.*grim treehugger mode disengaged*</blockquote>

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