God Bless The Escapist, For I Have Seen The Hell That Is Everywhere Else.
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Damn straight we are!CoverYourHead said:
Eh, this is still kinda my first forum, but I like it here, and I'm not planning on leaving here any time soon. Unless someone makes me. [sub]Please don't make me leave...[/sub]
One of the better forums I've had the pleasure of interacting with. This place rocks.
As long as I avoid the urge to start having controversial "discussions" after returning home from the bar. Always a bad idea... because being drunk and being eloquent or comprehensible rarely go hand-in-hand!
As long as I avoid the urge to start having controversial "discussions" after returning home from the bar. Always a bad idea... because being drunk and being eloquent or comprehensible rarely go hand-in-hand!
I love the escapist! Though I've never been to any other interwebs forums so can't cofirm or deny that the escapist is that good but I still like it and reading some of the crap of youtube and some othe forums that I've browsed I can't say i've been to encourage to go anywhere else.
EDIT: Also I don't see any of this elitism that alot of new users talk about. Were a tight knit community that has some standards and proud of it and why shouldn't we be?
EDIT: Also I don't see any of this elitism that alot of new users talk about. Were a tight knit community that has some standards and proud of it and why shouldn't we be?
Let me ruin the vibe of this thread.
This place is just as awful as any other videogame forum on the internet. Yeah, sure, you don't have opinionated 12 year olds like gameFAQS, and you guys do actually post about videogames unlike 4chan's /v/ board. But you still suffer the same list of problems that any other forum has: Moderator brown-nosing, e-penis numbers, circle-jerking, pointless drama and, of course, snobbery. The key issue with this forum, and every other forum on the internet is, your posts are ever about your opinion - it's about that fact that it's YOUR opinion.
And that doesn't help when your opinions are the epitome of hipster. Nobody heard of that obscure JRPG in your PS2 games collection? Goddamn genius. Mass Effect? Must be garbage!
And allow me to act like some sort of mother fucking mind reader and take a guess that, at one point, you guys planned to develop a game together, but it fell through. Am I getting warm? Because every geeky forum on the internet has tried it. Trust me on this.
I'm not saying you guys are bad or any worse than say, gameFAQs, or /v/, or NeoGAF, or wherever. What I am saying is, you suffer from serious delusions of grandeur and you don't seem to realise that your shit stinks just as much as other people's. And that's fine. Just don't pretend you are special. You spend your time discussing videogames for fuck's sake. Nothing wrong with that, but hey, it's better to realise how unimportant that topic really should be to you.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, throwing in words with more than 2 syllables, and decent grammar, into your posts doesn't make you better than whatever asshole is on the other side of the net. You're just as much of a schmuck as the people you look down on.
Anyway, I'll let the first person who's feelings I hurt to pull apart my post by quoting it paragraph by paragraph and writing a bunch of strawman rhetoric in response, because that's how critical thinking works, amirite?
This place is just as awful as any other videogame forum on the internet. Yeah, sure, you don't have opinionated 12 year olds like gameFAQS, and you guys do actually post about videogames unlike 4chan's /v/ board. But you still suffer the same list of problems that any other forum has: Moderator brown-nosing, e-penis numbers, circle-jerking, pointless drama and, of course, snobbery. The key issue with this forum, and every other forum on the internet is, your posts are ever about your opinion - it's about that fact that it's YOUR opinion.
And that doesn't help when your opinions are the epitome of hipster. Nobody heard of that obscure JRPG in your PS2 games collection? Goddamn genius. Mass Effect? Must be garbage!
And allow me to act like some sort of mother fucking mind reader and take a guess that, at one point, you guys planned to develop a game together, but it fell through. Am I getting warm? Because every geeky forum on the internet has tried it. Trust me on this.
I'm not saying you guys are bad or any worse than say, gameFAQs, or /v/, or NeoGAF, or wherever. What I am saying is, you suffer from serious delusions of grandeur and you don't seem to realise that your shit stinks just as much as other people's. And that's fine. Just don't pretend you are special. You spend your time discussing videogames for fuck's sake. Nothing wrong with that, but hey, it's better to realise how unimportant that topic really should be to you.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, throwing in words with more than 2 syllables, and decent grammar, into your posts doesn't make you better than whatever asshole is on the other side of the net. You're just as much of a schmuck as the people you look down on.
Anyway, I'll let the first person who's feelings I hurt to pull apart my post by quoting it paragraph by paragraph and writing a bunch of strawman rhetoric in response, because that's how critical thinking works, amirite?
Though you have to admit that there are a lot of PC elitist on this forum, most of them aren't douches about it though... until someone brings up the Mac as a subject.Freebird. said:
You created another account just for this? I'm guessing you're just a member who wants to voice his opinion without fear of being completely and utterly torn to peices.TruthHurts said:
I quite like this forum, it's pretty friendly for the most part and there are some good discussions that go around. Don't get me wrong, there are still utter twats and often bizzare trends in thread ideas (like how sometimes you'll get a couple of days where every other thread has "rape" in the title) but on the whole, the problems are relatively minor and don't detract from all the lovely people who are here.
My favourite forums are actually generally the small ones but they tend to implode unfortunately eg, I used to frequent the ConfusedMatthew forum which is now all but dead. Oh well.
On another note, I'm not sure many of the new users really understand what elitism is...
My favourite forums are actually generally the small ones but they tend to implode unfortunately eg, I used to frequent the ConfusedMatthew forum which is now all but dead. Oh well.
On another note, I'm not sure many of the new users really understand what elitism is...
Not meaning to sound stupid, but what does "glomp" mean? I don't think I'm familiar with this word. Just curious is all.Aylaine said:
