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The Sorrow

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You know, the kind the author inserts in Chapter Two once he's established that the main character is a BAMF.
How'd you get here? I don't mean just "I heard about Yahtzee, so here I am".
Me:

Well, I first learned about ZP while browsing Weebl's Stuff, specifically the MoH: Airborne review. I began watching regularly, but did not join the actual forums until I saw a topic I absolutely NEEDED to respond to (unfortunately, its name has been lost to time).
I just hung around, not really participating until I saw the origin of the Forum Games & RP section: PurpleRain's Starcraft lynching game. Though I was too late to join that one, I did participate in the following two sequels, hosted by John Galt.
I ended up participating in a few random RPs, and adding my take to some random topics. The only real significant things I've created are the two Ratings War RPs.
Halfway through the second one, Gonzo, and probated twice, here I am.
 

Sewblon

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I saw a segment of Zero Punctuation on Xplay. 6 months later I logged on to the escapist, watched every Zero Punctuation over and over and lurked around the forums before setting up this account. My most notable achievement is my thread about the Wii's success which got me my Hot topic and excellent topic badges.
 

The Eaten Cake

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A friend's sister who is now a friend introduced me to Yahtzee. After seeing the review section which enticed me with the prospect of reviewing things (I have currently one review under my belt, so shine on you crazy diamond and all that), I decided to join the community proper.
 

ygetoff

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I read about Zero Punctuation on GamesRadar and started watching regularly until I saw a topic I wanted to respond to. And here I am. I AM, however, a BAMF.
 

Say Anything

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I think I joined in January of '08 to enter a contest or something the Escapist had that I found on google. It wasn't until I rediscovered this site in October after looking for a friendly gaming community that I started posting.
 

CZTM

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XPlay showed Yahtzee's review of 2007, which lead me to look for him on the net. Found the Escapsist, and just watched a lot of Yahtzee, until I actually decided to look on the forums and decided to write my own reviews this holiday season, due to extreme boredom from not having the winter semester started yet at my University. >_>
 

LewsTherin

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My friend had a bunch of ZP's uploaded to his Touch.Went to Youtube to investigate, poor quality displays leading to me going to the source. Later, noticing forums leads to lurking and even later joining in on the tomfoolery.
 

thiosk

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bah another yahtzee initiate.
but it was a link to the spore review while I actually played that game.
 

DuncanRR

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I was channel surfing one night, and I caught an episode of X-Play on G4. They had started showing previews for Zero Punctuation, and I found Yahtzee's reviews more entertaining and insightful than Adam and Morgan's. I typed in the URL on the TV screen and bookmarked it.

As for getting a profile set up and all that jazz, I'd usually kill time by checking out forums. It got to a point where I just felt like I wanted to share my opinions on certain topics, so I figured "what the hell" and signed up.
 

Jumpman

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Yahtzee. more specifically his review of assassins creed. pure gold. anyway, I eventually read some of the articles and thought they were very articulate and well thought out. I've been gaming since I could hold a controller so I figured I might as well join. As to why I chose the escapist as opposed to another site? I just like the tone of the site, its more mature than allot of what's out there and I like the articles.
 

Duck Sandwich

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I was browsing some random Gamefaqs board when I came across a link to Yahtzee's first impressions video of Heavenly Sword and Resident Evil 5. Shortly after I joined, an epic saga began: The Reign of Moogly Googly Great. It was an epic battle, in which Haliwali, the King Trollslayer, led a ragtag band of fighters, among them were PurpleRain, Fire Daemon, Enigmatic Apple, Duck Sandwich, The Necroswanson, Gyro Captain, Monodiabloloco, Talisker, John Galt, and a handful of others against the Troll King.

The following account of the war was chronicled by an unknown bard whose name has been sadly forgotten, and it's pretty freakin' long.

This is the tale of a small group of warriors, a brave band of brothers who have fought and still fight to this day, the king of trolls?the master of madness?Moogly Googly The Great?

The battlefield has been torn to shreds; broken English lay everywhere?Only a group of survivors stand?This is the last revolt.


*TheNecroSwanson stands at top of hill wielding flamethrower*

?My noble brethren, we stand here in the name of our king Haliwali, the troll slayer, ready to throw flames upon this beast. I ask unto you, will you set fire to this beast without a clue for your king, for your country!?
CHARGE!?


Haliwali knows what he has to do
?I have been summoned from my dark throne...?

*PurpleRain stands aloft on the edge of the cliff. His cape blowing in the wind, to his side is Haliwali the notorious troll slayer. Down at the bottom of the cliff amongst the ruins of the English language lays the Troll in wait. Waiting for the battle to begin. He turns around to address the men (and women) who have gathered together for the nearing assault.*

"Brothers and sisters! We have been united together in a common cause! Many adjectives and pronouns have fallen in this trolls wake. It obtains the mighty power to slay any capital letters, commas and full stops that dare oppose him. He has destroyed those words for which we hold dearest to ourselves. I say do we let this happen! Do we allow the destruction of such an ancient and beautiful languages go to waste! Nay! Today we flame!"

*He holds his keyboard in the air and his dictionary close to heart.*
*GyroCaptain boosts morale with a speech reminiscent of Shakespeare?s 100 Year War*
?We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that posts his bile with me
Shall be my brother; be his avatar ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And forum goers in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they flame not here,
And hold their post counts cheap whiles any hits reply
That flamed with us upon Saint Crispin's day.?

*PurpleRain begins the assault*
?Chaaaaaaaaarge!?
*The keyboard crusaders take to arms. The Troll unleashes a cluster of his most devastating moves to date:

YOU BUGGER YOU RETARDED CAMMELS OR DONKEYS THAT HAVE NO PURE ESSENESE OF LIFE.

GOTHZ (A BUNCH OF R3TARDED BUNNIES THAT DONT KNOW IF THEY JUST HAD SEX OR A VERCECTERMI).

AND THEN YOU BEALEVE THAT YOU HAVE BALLS BUT THEN LOOK DOWN TO MASTUR BATE TO FIND THERE MISING YOU THEN WONDER WERE YOU PUT YOUR PLASTIC BOLLUX.
The word warriors, stunned by sheer awesome power of this raping of the dying language, quickly move in to defend it.
Talisker:
The fuck.....? Is this even English?
Jagdedge:
Goddamn... How? How is this even possible?
Talisker and Jagdedge say, wide eyed, underestimating the creature.
Looking around him, seeing his brothers lost for words, monodiabloloco brings forth a devastating blow,
monodiabloloco:
Buggering "DONKEYS THAT HAVE NO PURE ESSENESE OF LIFE"?
Have you had a bad donkey dating experience? That is a pretty bitter view of donkeys in general. Or are you meaning that we are to bugger ONLY those donkeys that have no 'pure essenese of life?' Where would a donkey obtain 'essenese' of life? Isn't that the juice used by the Skeksis to stay young?
"AND THEN YOU BEALEVE THAT YOU HAVE BALLS BUT THEN LOOK DOWN TO MASTUR BATE TO FIND THERE MISING"
You masturbate your balls? I mean, if you are REALLY into it you could fondle them I suppose, but to actually masturbate them? Doesn't that hurt? If you are wanking your sack, I think you need to look up the proper techniques online.
The rest of the brother?s band together and fire there report buttons to summon the mighty gods down to crush the troll with the full might of the Escapist!*

*thebobmaster shouts*
?We must all unite, in order to protect our brethren from the foul beast that dwells inside this topic! Who will stand for our right to our eyes remaining unraped?!?

*John Galt flies in on wings of Objectivist majesty; he clearly just wants attention though.*
?Rain! Take my +9 Copy of Funk & Wagnall! It's pre-internet; the beast will not be able to handle it!?

*PurpleRain catches it mid air. He utters the following:
"You disgust The Escapist as well as myself with you're verbal raping of the English tongue! The contaminated lexis you type within these pages revolts and horrifies youngest of children. I desire for you to depart this existence and smolder in misery at the perpetually depths of despair."
*The beast withers at the foreign language spoken.*

*Melty Blood joins the fray and utters*
?Ah, we're smiting him now. Can I help??

*PurpleRain finds time even amidst battle to inform his comrade*
?Tell him a big word that he won't understand. That should do it. Or just tell him that his mother was good in bed last night.?
*Fire Daemon glares down at the battle field, his cloak flapping in the wind, his fists clenched. As he watches the troll struggle with the weight of the Escapist Guard a hawk shrieks and land on his shoulder. Without a word Fire hands the hawk a piece of paper and the bird takes to the sky again, gliding over the battle field and disappearing into the horizon.*
*He looks down again on the battle field, hat nearly falling over the cliff
"Bloody fools" me mutters, voice muffled by the cloth rapped around his face.
He knows only to well that the trolls can never been beaten. He knows that for every troll destroyed another will come to take its place. He knows that the members of the escapist may win this battle, they may win the next but when the sun sets once and for all he knows to well that the trolls will have won the day.*

Knight Templar interjects
?Maybe if we exorcize the troll within??
*Purple Rain walked around MGG, chanting from a dictionary held open in his hands.*
*John Galt threw under-flavored juice in MGG's face shouting:?I before E except after C!"*
*He joins in now, "The power of logic compels you!"*

Duck Sandwich narrates the ongoing battle:
Enemy trainer wants to fight!
Enemy trainer sent out MGG=REVIEWS!
Go! PURPLERAIN!
MGG=REVIEWS used BASH FACE INTO KEYBOARD!
It's Super Effective!
PURPLERAIN used REASON!
It's not very effective.
MGG=REVIEWS used DEMONIC TONGUE!
Sp. Attack went way up!
PURPLERAIN, return!
Go, ZEN5887!
ZEN5887 used SPELLCHECK!
MGG=REVIEWS' Sp. Attack went way down!
MGG=REVIEWS flinched!
Return, ZEN5887!
Go, FIRE DAEMON!
FIRE DAEMON used LECTURE!
It has no effect!
Return, FIRE DAEMON!
Go, JOHN GALT!
MGG=REVIEWS used REST!
MGG=REVIEWS fully recovered!
JOHN GALT used EXORCISM!
Sp. Attack went way up!
JOHN GALT, return!
Go, MOD!
MOD used LOCK THREAD!
It's super effective!
MGG=REVIEWS fainted!
Enemy Trainer sent out MGG=REVIEWS!
To be continued?

*John Galt holds the demon down by the arms. He then beats him silly with a copy of Atlas Shrugged.*
"Read foul beast! It's over 30 pages! READ!"
*Beast convulses, the very thought that English could contain complex philosophical statements baffles him. Duck Sandwich, clearly still narrating the Pokemon fight in his head, shouts out "HIT WEAKSPOT FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE!"*

*Melty blood starts chanting for a spell:
"I summon you, powerful ruler of worlds, come forth and smite those that have wronged you. Come forth, ENGLISH!"
*A stream of words fly about, and separate into syllables. They fly around the beast, and smash into it. The beast is obviously wounded.*

*The Beast begins to attack, uttering a fair warning to the warriors, but then releasing a devastating stream of twisted letters and broken English*
?One minute igno this if you want but just to se if it works

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Apone, in horror, exclaims
?Even more nonsensical rubbish??
*Melty Blood starts humming the kefka battle theme*

To Be Continued . . .?
 

Avatar Roku

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I was on the GamFAQs board for Psychonauts when someone linked to the ZP video for it. I watched it, thought it was funny, etc, then forgot about it. A few months later, XPlay showed a preview to one of his videos, and I was like "I remember that guy." So, I watched some more on the Escapist, lurked a bit, then decided to join.
 
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In early 2006, the Slashdot games page linked to a series of really interesting articles from a site called The Escapist, which published a weekly PDF of half a dozen articles - with a gorgeous graphic or illustration on every page - that spoke about video games as a mature art form, as though the debate "are games art?" had been resolved years ago (which it has, honestly; some people are just late to the party). It was a magazine better than any magazine I'd ever read, and free. Issues still stick in my mind, like this one about A World Without Games [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/pdf/35] - discussing what the world would be like if anti-games groups succeeded, how our pastimes define us as a civilisation and how the games industry can avoid the fate of the comic book industry which was infantilised by the Comics Code Authority in 1954.

It soon became my favourite site, and although I didn't join the forum right away, I've been coming back at least every Tuesday ever since.
 

PlasticPorter

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I found yahtzee on youtube and followed him here.
watching him grow from a good natured quirky breathless game reviewer to a mile a minute screaming ball of australian fury we all know and love
 

Haliwali

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Duck Sandwich said:
I was browsing some random Gamefaqs board when I came across a link to Yahtzee's first impressions video of Heavenly Sword and Resident Evil 5. Shortly after I joined, an epic saga began: The Reign of Moogly Googly Great. It was an epic battle, in which Haliwali, the King Trollslayer, led a ragtag band of fighters, among them were PurpleRain, Fire Daemon, Enigmatic Apple, Duck Sandwich, The Necroswanson, Gyro Captain, Monodiabloloco, Talisker, John Galt, and a handful of others against the Troll King.

The following account of the war was chronicled by an unknown bard whose name has been sadly forgotten, and it's pretty freakin' long.
Those were the days, weren't they.

EDIT: I believe the tale was by Daezd.
 

RedDiablo

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I first heard about Yahtzee in youtube, when watching his Fable: The Lost Chapters review. Then I went to The Escapist, and then I became a member. I joined the forums because they looked nice, and wasn't filled with flaming and trolling compared to where I was before.