Fun fact: In 18th century Liberia, not having an avatar could get you stoned to death in the village square.Necrohydra said:
The finer points of Escapism
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So what I think we need to do is have us all send messages to Joe to get another post rank: 3000 poss gets you
[insert very cool something here]. Or, once you reach 1500, you get the option of making your own rank.
[insert very cool something here]. Or, once you reach 1500, you get the option of making your own rank.
Fun fact #2: There was no 18th century Liberia, Liberia being founded in the nineteenth century to allow freed slaves an opportunity to return to Africa.wilsonscrazybed said:
Even before slavery was completely abolished, the USA looked for a way to make it up to the freed slaves. Ideally they'd be sent back home, but there was a problem: For most of them, home was the USA. (You can't really give a man back his freedom if it was stolen from his great-grandfather.) They might have family stories of Africa, but that didn't lend itself to repatriation in a country where you didn't know the languages or customs, even if you actually knew the country and region, and most freed slaves at the time were born and raised in the USA. (I forget the exact dates slave importation was prohibited.) So returning them to their homes was out for pretty much everyone.Saskwach said:
Someone decided the next best thing would be to make a new colony, where freed slaves could start over. So for those slaves who wanted to get the hell out of Dodge, the USA purchased some land (or maybe just took it; I forget) and set up a colony. Which is why Liberia can mint US coins and has a US-style system of government (when it HAS a system of government), and why men with names like Charles Taylor tend to be president. (For most freed slaves, even their family names had been lost. Names and cultures were brutally supressed during slavery.)
No I live in a Plastic Surgery Rehab Ward. I'm pretty, pretty, PRETTY!!!!!!! Look at me!nilcypher said:Do you live alone in the woods?Fire Daemon said:
Ahem, thats enough of that.
I also like the variety of the Users of the Escapist. Its like a watering hole.....and I'm the prettiest damn animal in that hole!
I did, and I didn't even think of it. The red guard got me on this one. Been a long time since I really touched history. Used to be fond of it too.Saskwach said:
@fire daemon: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and quite frankly, I don't want to be turned to stone.
What we all love in a mutual context is video games and the realistic (albeit commonly cynical) discussion thereof. And we are very encouraged to do so and threads targeting the ZP bandwagon and the odd hate thread are simply those few threads expemt from this common (should I say?) joy. If this site was a country, it surely would be a good one, as long as we never see each other or hear each other, because frankly that would be weird [http://www.hrwiki.org/images/5/5b/ryans.png].
I've been a regular reader of the Escapist for quite some time, ever since Teleios posted this little gem 3 years ago [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_17/109-OMG-Girlz-Don-t-Exist-on-teh-Intarweb-1]. There have been times where I've lagged behind in issues but have always liked the writing style of the contributors here as it is distinctly different from more visible publications.werepossum said:
I only joined the forums recently, but being on them has been great. The thing that got me here as a regular was the existence of a politics thread that didn't devolve into a bunch of name-calling, complaining, and general references to someone's (supposedly inferior) genealogy. As a moderator at other forums, I know to have a pleasant community is to have a productive community, and this is definitely one of them.
In the cycle of forum-talk someone is inevitably going to bring up concerns about the "current state of the forum" and how things might have been better "before". But what people should realize is that community is a changing, growing, thing, and as long as the standards of the community are adhered to now as they were on day one, there really isn't going to be a problem. There's always going to be idiocy on the 'Net - no one should have any illusions about any place being a utopia of idealism, smilies, and rainbows, including this one. But if the community is relatively civil that's much better than a ton of the other places you can find discussion about games these days.
In concurrence with fsanch on mysoginistic internet users, I still endorse the production of a device designed to punch people in the face via computer monitors.
