Those Things You Can Count On Here

[DeltaEdge]

That the majority of responses/retorts to an opinion in a heated topic will be 10% counterpoint, 90% passive-aggressive condescension.

That despite the hostility, everyone can usually put their differences aside, and come together to enjoy joke threads, or threads like these and laugh at themselves a bit.

That most people will not buy an Xbone out of principle.

That any thread/article that cites Ben10toys.com as its source will be an extremely funny thread.

That, unfortunately, some escapists will waste their time on threads that were obviously created by someone who has no intention of learning from what arguments people make against them, and argue against a poll for a good chunk of time, all for naught. Basically, a lot of Escapists have trouble resisting the bait of an ignorant thread, and getting their chance to set the OP straight, and will continue to try, even if the OP has selective reading that prevents them from responding to any post that runs an effective counter argument.

Still, love you guys though. <3

 

[Lunar Templar]

I can count on the only places on the whole site people are able to take a joke to be user groups anymore.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

Someone, somewhere will take issue with something you said and be an asshole about it.

And at the end of the day, isn't that the one thing you can truly count on on the escapist?

It's the only thing i really count on, which is why i became very self-conscious about posting here just a few weeks after i joined >_> ...the other kids were being mean to me! D:

OT: Here's something i wonder why people don't count on more often; the fact that they're never alone about an opinion. After that one Critical Miss strip people slowed down on doing "Am i the only one that..." threads, but they resurfaced shortly after. And, hey, if you can't find someone on the Escapist who's weird enough for you there's always tumblr or "that site that shall not be named".

 

[Casual Shinji]

You can count on counter threads... Lot's of counter threads.

I'm counting on a 'Things You Can't Count On Here' thread to rear its head pretty soon.

[sub]I'll make one myself if I have to.[/sub]

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

You can count on certain threads about why we have certain threads.

 

[Xangba]

You can count on obvious flamebait topics to show up, in title and the original post, and plenty of people will still go nuts over it. Back to the shadows with me now.

 

[Pink Gregory]

You can count on people attempting to imitate Yahtzee and just end up sounding like smug, snooty cunts.

Also the misspelling of his name as 'Yathzee'.

 

[RedDeadFred]

You can always count on someone to make an "Am I the Only One Who..." thread and then be berated by multiple people because "NO YOU ARE NEVER THE ONLY ONE".

You can count on me to talk about how great Breaking Bad is and how great Community used to be.

You can count on The Scary Thread to be necro'd on a fairly regular basis.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

You can count on counter threads... Lot's of counter threads.

I'm counting on a 'Things You Can't Count On Here' thread to rear its head pretty soon.

[sub]I'll make one myself if I have to.[/sub]

Go for it, Shinji! I'd actually love to see some of the responses and then someone to counter a response with evidence that whatever the quoted poster mentioned did happen here.

 

[Evonisia]

You can count on counter threads... Lot's of counter threads.

I'm counting on a 'Things You Can't Count On Here' thread to rear its head pretty soon.

[sub]I'll make one myself if I have to.[/sub]

Wouldn't we just get "I can't count on feminism topics to end well"? On second thought, I'd like this. DO IT!

On-topic: I can always count on seeing references to some obscure game from the aether being brought up in every fourth thread.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Well, you can count on TheRightToArmBears to make me feel really dizzy thanks to his freaking rainbow cat avatar, that's for sure.

You can also count on me to be that weird crawler who is somewhat active but not always and pretty much never leaves any insighful post on any thread ever. Like this one. I dare anyone take that title from me!

Hey, at least I'm not memorable for having one of those personality thingies!

And you can count on everyone to have Ctrl+F'd their way through this thread. [small]I definitely didn't. Honest.[/small]

 

[RariShyZealot]

You can always count on me defending my OTP to the death.
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And not doing much on these forums...

 

[Fox12]

Hmm, well Zhukov will probably be the first to post and say what everyone else was thinking. Queen Michael will italicize everything he writes.

I don't know, I'll probably ***** on a sarkeesian post even though I don't actually like her that much, then get bored after arguing with the same two guys about whether boob physics are sexist.

 

[The Wykydtron]

You can count posters to always have a holier than thou attitude towards EVERYTHING .

You can count on people not using the searchbar

You can count on a bot thread to suddenly become a spiderman thread.

You can count on half the posters only reading the title of a thread and not the actual post.

Edit: you can count on Wykydtron to talk about blazblue and hazama every chance he gets.

Ah you said the word "hazama" Y'know there's a (totally amazing swagtastic, trolltastic badass) character in a game I like with that name, what a coincidence

Edit: you can count on Wykydtron to talk about blazblue and hazama every chance he gets.

Don't forget about Persona 4 and LoL (which I can hardly blame him for).

So in this current patch, (in which Riot nerfed everything possible) TriForce is fucking broken and there's a shift towards picking/banning naturally high mobility Champions. Every single bruiser and carry who TriForce was good on (Irelia, Jax, Corki, Ezreal for only a few example) has seen a HUGE resurgence in popularity. Vayne is Permabanned (for a good fucking goddamn reason too) and it's looking like Ahri and maybe Ezreal is going to go same way. Still not sure if I like this or not but hey, at least it's moved away from the League of Bruisers. I used to build TriForce on everyone I could get away with in Season 2 anyway, best item EU. Speaking of EU, the EUW servers went down today for a few hours. Good to see you've returned to the status quo Riot, well done.

In another update Persona 4 is confirmed as still the best game in existence.

 

[CommanderL]

That it won't be classy as fuck until Blunderboy gets involved.

Also you can count on someone disagreeing with every damn thing you say.

I hearby declare my disagreence with what you said (^_^) You can always count on daystar clarion

 

[Daystar Clarion]

That it won't be classy as fuck until Blunderboy gets involved.

Also you can count on someone disagreeing with every damn thing you say.

I hearby declare my disagreence with what you said (^_^) You can always count on daystar clarion

I dunno man, I've only got 10 fingers and 10 toes, once you get past that mark, it's gonna get more difficult to count on me.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

In another update Persona 4 is confirmed as still the best game in existence.

With the gameplay adjustments made in the portable version, I think Persona 3 is a contender. Although, to be fair, most of the adjustments came from Atlus's experience with Persona 4, so maybe it doesn't count. Either way, I definitely think that Persona 3 wins in the soundtrack department by leaps and bounds.

I haven't played LoL for a while. Does this update to the Trinity Force mean that I can kick even more ass with Volibear? If so, I'll have to find the time to get back into it.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

You can count on me being completely unremarkable and unknown here (even after 4 years (I thought it'd been longer. Huh.)). All day erryday.

That's the one thing I love and hate about this place.

I love how many people post on The Escapist Forums!

I also hate that so many people post on The Escapist Forums...

 

[White Lightning]

It's a thread talking about prominent posters (not me, I just never leave, cos I'm a shut in )

Therefore someone will post about how we're all circle jerking each other and blah blah blah blah.

Blah blah, blah blah blah.

Sorry I'm late, I had trouble finding the place. Luckily all your loud sounds drew me here.

Also something about women all being the same and circumcision .