Why The Escapist?

[h311str0m]

Honestly, I've never gotten into forums quite as much as I would've liked. Currently, I'm an English major and I figure a message board is a great outlet for me to talk about games and whatnot and still get to write for enjoyment. My question is this: why do you enjoy posting on the Escapist forums?

My reasoning might be silly, but the emphasis on grammar touched the grammar Nazi in me so that was probably one of the biggest pulls. That and from most of the posts I've seen on other forums, this strikes me as the most intelligent crowd.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

I used to enjoy posting here for the intelligent conversation... unfortunately, the quality of new members seems to be declining. Or maybe it's just that I've seen just about every topic posted and reposted to death.

Nowadays, I like to come here to troll.

 

[Ultrajoe]

I was on two other forums when i joined here, it quickly killed the other two (i no longer visit them) for its excellent features and reasonable users.

Also, i foresaw badges in the wind and decided to pre-empt their arrival.

 

[ThePoodonkis]

It feels safer here...

 

[Gotham Soul]

Arguing with people who know what I'm talking about.

 

[perfectimo]

Actual people talking back. Not just those things that swear constantly, can't spell and have nothing to bring to the table conversation and argument wise.

EDIT: Fixed the spelling errors that almost destroyed the internet.

 

[Corven]

the almost non-existence of lolcat and related picture threads clogging up the forums unlike other forums that I visit.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

I love the Escapist, the conversations are intelligent, the people are nice and genuinely helpful and have interesting things to say.

unfortunately, the quality of new members seems to be declining.

Agreed. More than half of the recent recruits can't be bothered to spell words right and use lolspeak instead. Many of them seem to be subtly(or otherwise) trolling our forums and staying under the radar

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

It's one of the last bastions of internet sanity....

Now if that isn't an oxymoron

 

[Spartan Bannana]

Actual people talking back. Not just those things that swear constantley, can't spell and have nothing to bring to the table conversation and arguement wise.

Ironyyyyyyy

 

[stompy]

Intelligent discussion, mostly. That, and great humour.

 

[Jobz]

Before coming here I posted on GameFAQs for a reasonably long time. I stumbled across The Escapist after seeing quite a few people on GameFAQs mention Yahtzee. So I checked it out and after watching a few videos I noticed the "What's New" box on the page and some of the topics seemed interesting so I checked them out.

I was impressed by the literacy of most of the members and the intelligence and maturity they all seemed to display and I joined. Have since stopped posting on GameFAQs.

 

[Aries_Split]

I love the Escapist, the conversations are intelligent, the people are nice and genuinely helpful and have interesting things to say.

unfortunately, the quality of new members seems to be declining.

Agreed. More than half of the recent recruits can't be bothered to spell words right and use lolspeak instead. Many of them seem to be subtly(or otherwise) trolling our forums and staying under the radar

I blame Zero Punctuation. They seem to think we iz the yahtee fan club.

 

[Dogeman5]

Before coming here I posted on GameFAQs for a reasonably long time. I stumbled across The Escapist after seeing quite a few people on GameFAQs mention Yahtzee. So I checked it out and after watching a few videos I noticed the "What's New" box on the page and some of the topics seemed interesting so I checked them out.

I was impressed by the literacy of most of the members and the intelligence and maturity they all seemed to display and I joined. Have since stopped posting on GameFAQs.

replace "faqs" with "trailers" and pretty much my story
(Every other thread was a flame war)

 

[perfectimo]

Actual people talking back. Not just those things that swear constantley, can't spell and have nothing to bring to the table conversation and arguement wise.

Ironyyyyyyy

This would be an example of someone not bringing anything to the table.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

Actual people talking back. Not just those things that swear constantley, can't spell and have nothing to bring to the table conversation and arguement wise.

Ironyyyyyyy

This would be an example of someone not bringing anything to the table.

Chill. It was a joke.

 

[Gxas]

I gotta say, I love the people here. I go to the Halo 3 forums on bungie.net basiacally to troll now. I may start an argument for the sake of arguing, especially if they are way wrong. I decided to come here for intelligent conversation and some funny topics. I love the customer is always wrong thread.

 

[perfectimo]

Actual people talking back. Not just those things that swear constantley, can't spell and have nothing to bring to the table conversation and arguement wise.

Ironyyyyyyy

This would be an example of someone not bringing anything to the table.

Chill. It was a joke.

No, you chill!!!

Just letting myself be an example of what you might find on other threads. Minus the collection of letter that look like this, "OMG" "WTF" "liek" "n00b" and so on, oh and minus the personal insults.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Before coming here I posted on GameFAQs for a reasonably long time. I stumbled across The Escapist after seeing quite a few people on GameFAQs mention Yahtzee. So I checked it out and after watching a few videos I noticed the "What's New" box on the page and some of the topics seemed interesting so I checked them out.

I was impressed by the literacy of most of the members and the intelligence and maturity they all seemed to display and I joined. Have since stopped posting on GameFAQs.

Funny, that's almost my story to the letter. The exception is that GameFAQS is better for individual games, so I still go there for that, but this is my primary forum. Thank god for yahtzee, not because he's funny (in fact, he's in decline now), but because he got my attention so I found this site. I like to think I'm better than the other "New Yahtzee Recruits" (Oh, that's actually good. Hm... NYR, we could use that)

 

[perfectimo]

Before coming here I posted on GameFAQs for a reasonably long time. I stumbled across The Escapist after seeing quite a few people on GameFAQs mention Yahtzee. So I checked it out and after watching a few videos I noticed the "What's New" box on the page and some of the topics seemed interesting so I checked them out.

I was impressed by the literacy of most of the members and the intelligence and maturity they all seemed to display and I joined. Have since stopped posting on GameFAQs.

Funny, that's almost my story to the letter. The exception is that GameFAQS is better for individual games, so I still go there for that, but this is my primary forum. Thank god for yahtzee, not because he's funny (in fact, he's in decline now), but because he got my attention so I found this site. I like to think I'm better than the other "New Yahtzee Recruits" (Oh, that's actually good. Hm... NYR, we could use that)

I came for Yahtzee but i stayed for the forums. I looked at the titles thought these sound interesting, I got a nice shock with the type of language used and people on here, then came the best shock of all idiots being banned for being idiots and so I joined.