What if Facebook Bought the Escapist?

[Daniel_Rosamilia]

Then we would rally up all the Escapists and assault whatever building is Facebook's HQ. You know Furburt would be up for it.

Hell, I've already got a plan for it.
Convert the trolls using promises of gaming porn adn infinite access to Internet, trap them, and unleash on the Facebook HQ.

After elimination is complete, launch an armada of space-version Spartan Lasers, boosted with Magic Sentry to find the sneaky ones, then a plasma bombardment, followed by an army of TF2 Heavies and Scouts, Gordon Freeman, and GLaDOS, finished off with the ENTIRE Escapist user group (staff included), with Yahtzee at the head of the group yelling some random quote that causes their heads to explode!

I MAY have overthought this.

 

[oppp7]

It would be awful... all the user groups would be about laughing or sleeping or something mundane like that.

They're not too far from that now actually.

 

[Tuddle]

TITLE: What if Facebook Bought the Escapist?

ANSWER: This site would be dividing by zero.

 

[oppp7]

To the OP(p7, see what I did there?), why did you change your avatar? This one's okay, but the old one was better, I think.

What do you mean? My avatar was always Weegee.

Are you sure? I thought you had a black and white anime-ish one last week.

I'm sorry, I must be going crazy again. *twitches*

Nope. Weegee for ever and ever. Don't worry about the insanity. It will go away soon enough when the conversion is complete.

 

[silver wolf009]

They need to make no changes or the entire place would be forsaken.

 

[Shepard's Shadow]

There is a good chance I'd stop coming here. Well, come here less often. I'd be back for about 5 minutes each Wednesday and... that's about it.

 

[vaderaider]

Then we would rally up all the Escapists and assault whatever building is Facebook's HQ. You know Furburt would be up for it.

If ths ever happens, count me in.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

My dear sir, if Facebook bought The Escapist but left it unchanged, there may not be a problem. As long as it didn't get swamped in Facebook Users. Some of the things I have seen taken from that site... *Shudders*
Of course, not everyone on Facebook could possibly be bad...
but if Facebook bought and corrupted this beautiful site... I don't know what I'd do...

 

[OptimalPrime]

The Escapist would never be up for sale first of all. The group that owns it now is making bang off of this site.

If it did, i wouldnt give a shit as long as they didnt make changes in the wrong direction. say like getting rid of Zero Punctuation or Unskippable. NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Eekaida]

HORROR!! CHAOS!! TERROR!!!

But seriously...
isn't gaming dimetrically opposed to the notion of being sociable? Every gamer I know either can't be bothered or point blank refuses to join such websites (me being one of them).

 

[surge199]

I'd leave the second it would happen.
Why?
because I hate Facebook
and love the Escapist

 

[Sjakie]

i would commit virtual suicide [http://suicidemachine.org/]
I despise facebook/twitter and all that social network shit.

 

[ad4m101]

RAGE! if zynga wins MM now imagine the horror!

 

[Super Toast]

It would make me a sad, sad panda.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Well...

The Escapist would get quite a bit more money... but the user-base would be ruined...

 

[Thrashgrinder]

I would yell "NOOOOOOO" very dramaticly

 

[oppp7]

I would crawl back into the abyss that is 4chan...

It would be horrible...

Why would you go to 4Chan? That site sucks.

 

[Brad Shepard]

a hell of a lot of fans of the escapist would be pissed off to the point where i think we would be willing to crash the site out of rage.

 

[AkJay]

I would crawl back into the abyss that is 4chan...

It would be horrible...

4chan merged with Facebook as well, go take a look for yourself!