What do you think of The Escapist community as a whole?

[PsychicTaco115]

Well only the sexy will survive the Ugly Removal act anyway so all is good.

And people laughed when I wanted funding for the State Home for the Ugly

Well, who's laughing now!?

Besides me, because I already stated that I was

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

Well only the sexy will survive the Ugly Removal act anyway so all is good.

And people laughed when I wanted funding for the State Home for the Ugly

Well, who's laughing now!?

Besides me, because I already stated that I was

I think you should recant that laughter sir. Many people would not consider a talking man with a taco head pretty!

 

[neonsword13-ops]

I love it here!

That is, when there are no threads complaining about "sexism" in the gaming industry, Anita Sarkeesian, or why I shouldn't like a game because my opinion is subjectively wrong or whatever the kids are coming up with these days.

The Escapist will be my internet home until the end times, and for good reason.

A lot of the users here a really friendly.
The content from Jim, Yahtzee, the LRR team, and everyone else is extremely entertaining.
I can gush about Persona 4 without consequences. (JOIN THE PERSONA USER-GROUP, DAMMIT!)
The staff are excellent and always give me something great to read. (MISS YOU ALREADY, SUSAN)
Critical Miss is great for cynical comedy every once and a while.
The mods keep the forums clean of scumbags.

AND SO MUCH MORE.

Seriously, I love this place to death and I would be devastated if something happened to it.

 

[PsychicTaco115]

I think you should recant that laughter sir. Many people would not consider a talking man with a taco head pretty!

Tell that to my fangirls

I even have an action figure after me, brah

Bitches be loving the taco

 

[Lord Garnaat]

I've enjoyed being a part of the community since I first joined, and plan to continue enjoying it for some time. Discussion is good, nice variety of people, great content, moderators are vigorous enough to stamp out trolls and disrespect. My only real complaint is that there seems to be way too much hatred towards religion on the board. I understand that some people have a bit of a bone to pick with religion, but some of the things I've seen written around here about religious followers are just appalling. Apparently fundamentalism and intolerance are acceptable so long as they're directed at people you don't like.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

I think you should recant that laughter sir. Many people would not consider a talking man with a taco head pretty!

Tell that to my fanthings

I even have an action figure after me, brah

Ugly bitches be loving the taco

Brehbeans. I'm sure your lack of taco eyes has something to do with this but your fangirls are all teh butt ugliness.
Almost as ugly as you.

 

[PsychicTaco115]

Brehbeans. I'm sure your lack of taco eyes has something to do with this but your fangirls are all teh butt ugliness.
Almost as ugly as you.

Then why's your mother the President of said fanclub? :3

And just because I don't have eyes, doesn't mean I can't see! Sixth sense much?

 

[lacktheknack]

You guys are all too driven and volatile. Games are for UNstressing, not ultra-stressing.

Re-laaaaaaaaaaaaaax.

Beyond that, though, you guys are great. Most know how to take a good joke, too. Most.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

It is a wonderful site filled with wonderful people! Even with all the arguing, it just makes the site more interesting!

I mostly post in User Groups and the Forum Games but I often come to the forums to see the latest topics and contribute! This place is also where I get all my gaming (and odd) news.

I think I have friends here than I have in town!

Tizzy, go home you're drunk.

Can't be drunk, on holiday in Florida and the legal drinking age is 21 (woe is me, 19 year old Irish with no alcohol)

Now you know how the law abiding teens in the US feel! I laugh in your general direction.

Hey don't laugh! It sucks that my parents can drink while I am there drinking Dr Pepper without vodka (although refills are free in TGI Fridays so that is something)

How long will you be suffering through our wonderful drinking laws?

A good 3 and a half weeks (although 5 days have passed already) You people and your drinking laws, I am Irish and I am disappoint!

You'd think a people descended mostly from British, German and Irish people would be more liberal with their drinking laws.

Brehbeans. I'm sure your lack of taco eyes has something to do with this but your fangirls are all teh butt ugliness.
Almost as ugly as you.

Then why's my fat mother the President of said fanclub? :3

And just because I don't have eyes, doesn't mean I can't see! Sixth sense much?

How can you have a sith sense if one of your 5 is missing?
You charlatan! You only have 5 senses!

 

[Basement Cat]

It's a wretched hive of scum and villainy!!!

>_>
_>

...I love you guys and gals! ^_^

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

I like it but it might be because of the moderation rules. No body really wastes anyone's time here and I like perusing threads to read up on other people's opinions. The community is overall pretty thoughtful. Though it's a little too negative for my tastes when I think the future of the gaming industry is looking interesting

It is a definite pro-PC crowd here, feels a little like being second class gamer if you're a console gamer here.

Even if you are a pc gamer, god forbid you bought a prebuilt pc or *gasp* an alienware. It completely throws you credibility out the window. And they make jokes about the pointlessness of console debates

 

[Nazulu]

Love it. People of all sorts with different opinions all make pretty good discussion when it's needed. Sure there is anger but sometimes it's for good and most other times it's just others learning when/how to use it. I reckon it's great for anyone to see all the different opinions. You just have to learn to know who to ignore.

 

[Aeonknight]

mmmm...

It's nice to keep up on the news w/ gaming. but sometimes people here tend to make mountains out of molehills (have to type in a registration code? THE INJUSTICE!), and gets very repetitive, but meh if I can put up w/ EA's "bullshit" enough to buy most of their games, I can put up w/ the shenanigans from this site.

 

[Rad Party God]

Although sometimes things can get a bit overwhelming with hot topics, I always return and stick around for a while longer, there's always that familiar feel here. Indeed, I like it just fine here.

Although I don't personally know anybody around here, I know enough of most to tell if it's a nice person, of course there are a couple I dislike (and probably dislike me).

EDIT: I see most view it's a PC biased site. Well, yes and no. Although I'm a PC gamer myself, I'm not an elitist prick (like some people that actually quoted me for their long rant about "how I can play a thousand mods in Stalker"), in fact, if I could, I'd be a console gamer and have a ton of games, but due to financial restrictions and my country's love to overprice console games, I'm kinda forced to be a PC gamer, but still, I certainly love my platform of choice, but not for the reasons you may think might be and I'm certainly not rubbing in anyone's face why "it's better".

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

It's gotten so BIG!

Seriously, it was near impossible to keep up with new faces when I joined. Now it is unthinkable.

I don't know a lot of you guys. I hope you're all decent people but I expect the occasional a-hole.

 

[sky14kemea]

As a Mod, I get to see the worst of the site some times, and yet I still love this place. It's a safe haven for me on the internet, and I'm willing to protect it, even if that makes people think I'm "over-zealous".

Everyone I'm friends with right now came from this site, My life would be entirely different if I hadn't found these wonderful people.

So yes, I'm willing to go through the trolls and insults of the Mod Queue, because I always find a few funny and delightful things hidden between those.

 

[Realitycrash]

It's kinda awful, but at least I know where to go if I want the most liberal side of an issue

Any issue

As long as it's the issue we're into this month


EDIT: There is (or at least appears to be) a massive proportion of the community here who is thin-skinned and white-knighty and absurdly proud of it. I had to add this when I looked on this thread and saw how many people were praising the lack of "trolls who just want to start shit"

Part of growing up is knowing when people are messing with you and making you look foolish, right? Maybe it's just my hardcore, EVE Online, KaoS Legion, PC Gaming side talking, but trolls are what make a community real. Real interactions between real people, not happy and fluffy all day.

I learn that every day from assholes I meet at work (I'm a part-time bartender). I don't need it from a friendly place I go to in order to discuss video-games. 'Real interaction' isn't necessarily assholish. Nothing about interaction is necessarily anything. It is what you make out of it.
I study Philosophy at the University. Go there and act like an asshole while discussing a serious issue and the professor is going to kick your ass out the door. Mature people carry mature conversations without being dicks about it.

 

[piinyouri]

Like most any forum, plenty of dicks, plenty of hypocrites, plenty of nice enough folk.