If the Escapist Forums were like a city....

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Pm0n3y

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.... What do you think it would look like?

Would it be a clean city, filled to the brim with productivity and happiness?

Or a seedy little hellhole, chock full of violence and death?

Or something in between?

Let's Discuss, shall we?
 

Emphraim

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It would be a clean and productive city, with its citizens taking care of the streets and general maintenance. Occasionally, some troublemakers would come in or people would get out of line, and the elite mod law enforcement team would come in and make everything better.

Generally, it would be awesome and be filled with laid back but still intellectual people.
 

khaimera

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I think it would be full of supervillians who would give a long elegant speech before ripping out someone's entrails and strangling them with them. And then everyone would eat cookies at the local coffee shop.
 

RavingPenguin

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It would be the most fun place to live ever. Everyone is so cool and laid back while still being serious and intellectual. Max can have his own little meanspririted warehouse, the rest of us will have fun. I nominate Neonbob for mayor.
 

Pimppeter2

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It would support the death penalty.

(Ha, I would have been on death row twice before being acquitted)
 

siffty

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probably look like something from the matrix with everyone hooked up to PlayStation's and xbox
 

Bigeyez

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With the average age being somewhere in between 12-25 there'd be very little knowledge of how to maintain modern utilities so we'd be reduced to living in piss poor conditions with little to no running water and forced to scrounge for food. Unable to make fuel for ourselves would make oil and gas extremely expensive commodities. "Expensive" itself will become a very relative term because money will hold little to no value here. Knowledge of growing food would be highly praised and the secret of growing edible food would be a highly guarded secret.

With the population being about 95% male, women would be a highly prized currency. With a single woman being traded for barrels of food and supplies. Butchery and barbarism would run rampant over the constant struggles that would take place in order to control the resource known as Woman. Warlords will soon rise to power and be measured upon how many procreating woman they have control of.

Eventually due to lack of proper maintenance whatever structures we have left after the "Women Wars" will collapse. Our guns would soon either run out of ammunition or degrade from lack of maintenance and replacement parts. Eventually we'll be forced to live in shanty towns with nothing but wooden barricades and spears preventing our nieghbor from robbing us of our few possesions.

Eventually some foreign culture will discover us, enslave us, rape the few women we have, kill all our old men, steal our lands so that they can plop a Wal-Mart on them and end our tiny civilization.
 

Clashero

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I imagine the Mods' House being like the Palace of Versailles, but on the roof there'd be a huge retractable hammer than can reach anywhere in the city.
 

Kollega

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I suppose it would be like any superhero city in any fiction (New York,Gotham,Paragon City,etc.). The mods would be superheroes,trolls would be street criminals,and people like MaxiTheReaper would be Villains With Good Publicity.
 

Soulgaunt

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If the Escapist's forums have become a city, then do we get to be our avatars?
Please say yes,[small]or you will burn....[/small]

Also, I think the forums would be an ok place, with ok people.....Until a troll pops up.
Fire the tactical nukes!
 

Ursus Astrorum

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It's a large, sparkling city, full of intelligent, psychological debate and video games. Everyone seems to be happy, and things are idyllic enough. It's a good place overall.

The mods government seem really keen on putting these things everywhere, though. [http://www.moonbattery.com/big-brother-is-watching-you.jpg]
 

Gigaguy64

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fenderstrat said:
siffty said:
probably look like something from the matrix with everyone hooked up to PlayStation's and xbox
what about pc's?
pc gamers would flote around yatzi style with there super micromanaging skills.
the city would be huge, but easaly transvesable, most of the people are friendly, though there would be a lot of the same types of stores, just with different names. but not for long as the exclent police force would crack down quickly.
i second neonbob as mayor and nominate ChromeA as the district of Wiitown Rep.
 

Tanfastic

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It'd be a beautiful metropolis. But with every city there's its gangs/mobs/rebelious teens that cause the mod police to come a runnin' and fixin' it up. Everybody would also be aggresive and at the slightest statement whip out their middle fingers and their angry looks. Kinda like New York.
 

NotAPie

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shadowgaunt said:
If the Escapist's forums have become a city, then do we get to be our avatars?
Please say yes,[small]or you will burn....[/small]

Also, I think the forums would be an ok place, with ok people.....Until a troll pops up.
Fire the tactical nukes!
If thats true then I'll be the serial rapist that comes out of your toilets.
 

Combined

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It'd be a heavily divided tiny metropolis surrounded by an empty desert. The streets would be filled with communists, socialists, liberals and many others idly believing in the lies these ideas propagate. The city would be filled with sex, violence, murder, drug use and all other accumulated filth of society, with only a small amount of decent people left.

This flimsy city would be held together by a few figures of absolute power, who can order anyone to do whatever they want. Law enforcement would be almost a joke and every liberal alive would constantly complain about there being too much, followed by angry citizens who demand that law enforcement be as tight as possible. There would be little education and even less people interested in it. There would be only a single news outlet and everyone would be rather satisfied with it.

Once in a while, a band of human filth would arrive, only to be thrown out quickly.
 

TheAmazingTGIF

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It would be a vast metropolis. Massive news screens would be posted all over the sides of buildings broadcasting a constant stream of information to the citizens below. There is something for everyone to find. The city is so vast that is quiet easy to get lost. So easy in fact, that sometimes some places are duplicated to the point of absurdity (much like Starbucks).

Speech is wildly regarded to be the most powerful force in the city, except for the feared "Moderators" the local police force who wield a super powerful weapon known as The Banhammer. It can easily silence someone, place them in limbo for an extended period of time, or outright kill someone in a single blow.