Destined for lock-down / erasure

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Re: Destined for lock-down / erasure

Postby G3750 » Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:22 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
G3750 wrote: Otherwise, you what are you really buying?


A publication.


That’s the simple answer, but there’s much more to it.

What’s the value of a print publication in a shrinking demographic?
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Re: Destined for lock-down / erasure

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:42 pm

G3750 wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
G3750 wrote: Otherwise, you what are you really buying?


A publication.


That’s the simple answer, but there’s much more to it.

What’s the value of a print publication in a shrinking demographic?


With foaming freak fanatics like the small cross section on the OGR forum, no worries for several years. Long term -- move from print entirely.
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Re: Destined for lock-down / erasure

Postby jlong » Sun Dec 17, 2017 5:09 pm

G3750 wrote:I was more than a bit surprised that this emotional post was made at all. We all know how these turn out.
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Some train people tend to be grossly over sensitive. You can't comment on a product without some foamer blasting his shorts at you. You would think they still live at home with mom as psychiatric out patients.
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Re: Destined for lock-down / erasure

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sun Dec 17, 2017 5:37 pm

jlong wrote:You would think they still live at home with mom as psychiatric out patients.


I suspect that many there do just that....living in the basement.
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Re: Destined for lock-down / erasure

Postby Seaboard Air Line Fan » Sun Dec 17, 2017 8:25 pm

jlong wrote:
G3750 wrote:I was more than a bit surprised that this emotional post was made at all. We all know how these turn out.
George


Some train people......


Substitute just about any hobby, sport, or cause for the word “train” and you’ve got human nature, compliments of the internet, as we know it today.
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Re: Destined for lock-down / erasure

Postby Tom Dempsey » Sun Dec 17, 2017 8:52 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
jlong wrote:You would think they still live at home with mom as psychiatric out patients.


I suspect that many there do just that....living in the basement.


'Cause that's where the freakin' trains are dude!!

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Re: Destined for lock-down / erasure

Postby jlong » Sun Dec 17, 2017 9:04 pm

Rufus, is that the real you?

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Re: Destined for lock-down / erasure

Postby robert. » Sun Dec 17, 2017 9:41 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
G3750 wrote: Otherwise, you what are you really buying?


A publication.

A mailing list, a prorated advertising income and a headache. May not even include the website.
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Re: Destined for lock-down / erasure

Postby Roy » Mon Dec 18, 2017 12:38 am

jlong wrote:Rufus, is that the real you?

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Re: Destined for lock-down / erasure

Postby chuck » Mon Dec 18, 2017 7:10 am

Substitute just about any hobby, sport, or cause for the word “train” and you’ve got human nature, compliments of the internet, as we know it today.


Got that right. I was researching some stuff for a couple of models I'm working on and stumbled into some weird science sh*t on a couple of other boards. The ability to distort science, twist logic and to behave like a spoiled brat is not limited to railroading. The low res reverse angle engineering shots of rocket launches was CGI fiction while the high res pristine true CGI images are real (forget about "where was the camera that took that shot?"). "That's impossible" (except you're looking at archival footage of the real thing). "I worked on the real thing" (only it was something completely different) or "I know a guy who knows a guy ......".
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Re: Destined for lock-down / erasure

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Dec 18, 2017 7:24 am

Roy wrote:
jlong wrote:Rufus, is that the real you?

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Is it ever really him? It's Arthur C. Clarke.


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Re: Destined for lock-down / erasure

Postby jlong » Mon Dec 18, 2017 8:09 pm

chuck wrote:Got that right. I was researching some stuff for a couple of models I'm working on and stumbled into some weird science sh*t on a couple of other boards. The ability to distort science, twist logic and to behave like a spoiled brat is not limited to railroading.


You stumbled on the Flat Earth Society and the NASA conspiracy!!!
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