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Quick, contact them and make an interview, that could distract them from suing. Or I could take the links down if you piss your pants. Your sarcasm is not needed, I do my job, you do yours.craigix said:
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Craigix Pandora Article In Click Magazine.
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fearofshorts
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I don't think Click really would care about us uploading the scans.
I mean, what information was in that article that we didn't already know? (Aside from the existence of the PSP and DS emulators, of course.)
I mean, what information was in that article that we didn't already know? (Aside from the existence of the PSP and DS emulators, of course.)
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MWeston said:
Fair enough. The information in Craig's post said it was an email, so I was only going from that.
Either way, if Craig knows that an established magazine is after an interview with him then he should be making efforts to make chase it up, not just be waiting to see if he contacts him.
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TitanUranus
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Maybe I'm just a cynical ex-hack, but looks to me like some third rate journalist just cobbled that article together in 10 minutes hoping to fast track his way to a free Pandora.
Since I've got both writing experience and an ongoing knowledge and interest in the project perhaps I could do a bit of freelance work here. How about you send me my Pandora right away, give me 5 mins on the phone to "glean some vital info" and I'll knock out a proper article with some facts in it. The magazine can publish it for free, I'll get my pandora a bit sooner and you'd not have to part with any extra hardware. All in all it seems like it's an all round winner - PM me if you like the idea. I think I'd do the project more justice than an outsider, and you'd be doing me a big favour.
Since I've got both writing experience and an ongoing knowledge and interest in the project perhaps I could do a bit of freelance work here. How about you send me my Pandora right away, give me 5 mins on the phone to "glean some vital info" and I'll knock out a proper article with some facts in it. The magazine can publish it for free, I'll get my pandora a bit sooner and you'd not have to part with any extra hardware. All in all it seems like it's an all round winner - PM me if you like the idea. I think I'd do the project more justice than an outsider, and you'd be doing me a big favour.
Sugar_Kane
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It's very snippy on the gp32x forums lately, I think everyone needs to have an icecream
mali
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I HATE icecream, GTFO.
craigix
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TitanUranus said:
Sounds like a plan!
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Sugar_Kane
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mali said:
I'll put a flake in it...
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mali
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^ No, thanks. I'd like something with meat. Meat-icecream... yeah, why not 
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I'm pretty sure most review devices are expected to be returned. The journalist would only have a free Pandora for a few days while the article is written and then returned. I would expect the same thing if one were sent to you. Otherwise it looks like you were bribed for your review and can't be trusted.TitanUranus said:
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Bacon iced cream exists. I had some. It was pretty tasty.mali said:^ No, thanks. I'd like something with meat. Meat-icecream... yeah, why not
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WoD
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I tried to fast track my way to an early Pandora/review sample by actually buying one. Didn't work.
Also, isn't it far, far too early for reviews to really count for anything? The people who pre-ordered between 1 and 2 years ago haven't got their Pandoras yet, unless we can entice some lovely programmers, the extra publicity will just bring a whole new influx of whiners.
Finally, how did that barely literate, factually deprived, uninteresting and unenlightening spiel actually get published?
Also, isn't it far, far too early for reviews to really count for anything? The people who pre-ordered between 1 and 2 years ago haven't got their Pandoras yet, unless we can entice some lovely programmers, the extra publicity will just bring a whole new influx of whiners.
Finally, how did that barely literate, factually deprived, uninteresting and unenlightening spiel actually get published?
gruso
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I can't criticise that article too much. The PSP/DS suggestion is pretty bad, but that's nothing they can't correct in a second interview piece. Whoever wrote it has obviously followed the project for a while, and has done their best to tell the whole story to an outside crowd. Lots of enthusiasm is a good thing.
Really?craigix said:
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TitanUranus
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relliker said:
Of course I already paid (first batch) and even without a Pandora I could write a better informed and hopefully more interesting article than the one in 'Click', but then so could most of the people on these forums. I was being a bit facetious, but what I said is true. I'd be deligted to be able to offer a first hand review, and Pandora could get a bit of free publicity.
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CPUnltd
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WizardStan is correct in that the reviewers do not keep their Pandoras (at least not most of them). I know a guy who does reviews for a pretty popular magazine (forget the name at the moment) but I had been talking to him about the Pandora for quite some time now. When I went to talk to him recently, he told me he had one and it was great, cool as hell, etc... I was a bit shocked, because I know he didn't put in to buy one, so I wondered how he got it. He told me that he was reviewing it for the magazine and would have to give it back once he finished, but he admitted that he didn't wanna give it back. I didn't get to really sit and talk with him about it because he was at work, but he DEFINITELY wanted to sit and tell me about his experience with it. He is my real-life proof that reviewers do have to return the unit they use. Maybe not all. And I can't say for sure if it's returned to OP or if the magazine who requested it to be reviewed for their article (if that actually happens)... but I DO know that he CAN'T keep the one he's reviewing.
I didn't get to really sit and talk with him about it because he was at work, but he DEFINITELY wanted to sit and tell me about his experience with it. He is my real-life proof that reviewers do have to return the unit they use. Maybe not all. And I can't say for sure if it's returned to OP or if the magazine who requested it to be reviewed for their article (if that actually happens)... but I DO know that he CAN'T keep the one he's reviewing.
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MWeston said:
Easy tiger, you might want to read the whole thread first. Craig said that ED was emailed, Pleng was only going by the Info he had. Also, I thought Chip was PR guy?
EDIT: Quoted wrong post.
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I miss Chip.
One of the Good Guys.
One of the Good Guys.
torpor
hack hack hack, the little machines fight back
Reading this thread, I can only make the following summary as contribution:
1. Tech guys should not be doing PR.
2. Craig should be chasing down *all* PR leads as much as possible - its true, better not to wait for this PR guy to contact, but instead be pro-active. I'm sure Click magazine is only a phone call away.
3. We all have an opinion about how to do things better.
4. No poofters!!!
1. Tech guys should not be doing PR.
2. Craig should be chasing down *all* PR leads as much as possible - its true, better not to wait for this PR guy to contact, but instead be pro-active. I'm sure Click magazine is only a phone call away.
3. We all have an opinion about how to do things better.
4. No poofters!!!
typs lik dis
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what's a poofter
