Why The Escapist?
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I joined because I need somewhere to hang for the moment. It seemed delightfully clean of religious zeal and self-righteousness. Been lurking for a month now before I signed up. I like being able to comment on what you people say. Even if I am still just a worthless newbie.
Why? Why? Why!?
Because there was a shiny register button, I had to click it. Once I had clicked it was just rude not to post. Once I posted I responded to a response. Now I'm trapped in a cycle of making points, then responding to whomsoever makes counter arguments.
Because there was a shiny register button, I had to click it. Once I had clicked it was just rude not to post. Once I posted I responded to a response. Now I'm trapped in a cycle of making points, then responding to whomsoever makes counter arguments.
Here's a list of possible reasons to join the Escapist
A.The sites has pretty colors?
B. You converted yourself to Ultrajoeism
C. CUz no1 speakz lik this Lol pawnzorz
D. You don't remember that Hypnotizing moment?
E. Subliminal messages in Zero Punctuation video (Possible)
F. You pissed the internet for bad grammar and now you're in purgatory.
G. You can have an intelligent discussion.
H. Heck, you just wanted to join.
I. Because your mom said so.
J. You're like me and you wanted to try a new experience.
A.The sites has pretty colors?
B. You converted yourself to Ultrajoeism
C. CUz no1 speakz lik this Lol pawnzorz
D. You don't remember that Hypnotizing moment?
E. Subliminal messages in Zero Punctuation video (Possible)
F. You pissed the internet for bad grammar and now you're in purgatory.
G. You can have an intelligent discussion.
H. Heck, you just wanted to join.
I. Because your mom said so.
J. You're like me and you wanted to try a new experience.
Why the Escapist? ...
*Pictures other worldly distopia where all humanity has been destroyed and every building is inexplicably on fire.* The zombie things from I Am Legend stalk the ground feasting on the brains of the intelligent or, worse, converting them to the horde. The sky is a black slick devoid of hope and stained the color of misery. A shout is heard.
A single zombie abomination points at him, wailing incomprehensable ululations as the flesh of the fallen drops from his mouth. In a single motion the horde is upon him, chasing him, thirsting for his blood. "NEWB!!! PWNZORZS!!! ROFLCOPTER!!!" they scream at the single fleeing man.
But they are too many. They move too fast. The man is cornered, captured! At the mercy of a barbarian bloodlust and the horrors of the hoard.
The menacing monsters bludgeon the poor man and beat him to within an inch of his life. After hours the crowd grows board of the slaughter and wanders off in search of fresher meat. As they depart they whisper to the poor wounded man huddled on the ground holding his legs next to his chest: "Pwned Nub".
The man remains as the crowd departs. He stays huddled there for hours, days, waiting for some sign from fate that everything would be alright. That really ... life was just.
A golden silhoutte fell from the roof top of a building, cape fluttering in the wind. A hero! A vigilante! Someone who would understand his plight!
"Please." The man begged through peirced lungs. "Please ... help."
The golden avenger approached the man and kneeled before him. Inspecting his corpse. "Yeah," he spoke with riteous boredom "I saw everything. Don't worry, if they do it again I'll send them a warning."
*fades back into present times*
... The RP section. I guess.
*Pictures other worldly distopia where all humanity has been destroyed and every building is inexplicably on fire.* The zombie things from I Am Legend stalk the ground feasting on the brains of the intelligent or, worse, converting them to the horde. The sky is a black slick devoid of hope and stained the color of misery. A shout is heard.
A single zombie abomination points at him, wailing incomprehensable ululations as the flesh of the fallen drops from his mouth. In a single motion the horde is upon him, chasing him, thirsting for his blood. "NEWB!!! PWNZORZS!!! ROFLCOPTER!!!" they scream at the single fleeing man.
But they are too many. They move too fast. The man is cornered, captured! At the mercy of a barbarian bloodlust and the horrors of the hoard.
The menacing monsters bludgeon the poor man and beat him to within an inch of his life. After hours the crowd grows board of the slaughter and wanders off in search of fresher meat. As they depart they whisper to the poor wounded man huddled on the ground holding his legs next to his chest: "Pwned Nub".
The man remains as the crowd departs. He stays huddled there for hours, days, waiting for some sign from fate that everything would be alright. That really ... life was just.
A golden silhoutte fell from the roof top of a building, cape fluttering in the wind. A hero! A vigilante! Someone who would understand his plight!
"Please." The man begged through peirced lungs. "Please ... help."
The golden avenger approached the man and kneeled before him. Inspecting his corpse. "Yeah," he spoke with riteous boredom "I saw everything. Don't worry, if they do it again I'll send them a warning."
*fades back into present times*
... The RP section. I guess.
That sucks..... There are times that I wish the mods were omnipotent, omniscient beings. Then people could be banned the instant they created those ignorant posts.Shivari post=18.73640.809069 said:
"why do you enjoy posting on the Escapist forums?"h311str0m post=18.73640.802680 said:
Im not sure I post out of joy on this board. I "like" this place for what it could be and not for what it is. I have posted here out of little more than whimsy.
I see a lot of intelligent people here but very few wise ones. I see a real passion for gaming and a willingness to create change.
Then I see an inability to disguish the lines of game and story. Skill and mechanic. Player and premise.
Worst of all I see an unwillingness to draw the lines that would disguish them.
And why would there be? In our current state of gaming we have the focus of developing story through gameplay. Bigger and better things on the horizon. Its a wonderful concept well ahead of its time. It doesnt work.
The greater the introduction of story into gameplay, the more confined the outcome of said gameplay is towards the conclusions of the story. Designers of course are no more foolish than the rest of us so they proceed with mulitple story branches for the gameplay to extend itself towards,complete with alternate endings. This only further confines the gameplay to story,difference being that now the story is diveded and giving the illusion of depth. Gameplay essentially becomes auxiliary to story structure no matter how divided. Both Portal and World of Warcraft suffer the same restraint.
I dont believe video gaming will grow untill story becomes a byproduct of play. I believe mechanic should be created to facilitate ability and imagination.
I think players should be distinguishable from each other and particularly from their circumstances.
I hate what video games have begat and everyone that refuses to see what they now are
I'm assuming that was a made-up word, cause, well, you're only exercising your right. You're a Pulitzer Laureate.TheGhostOfSin post=18.73640.805898 said:
Sorry for changing the subject here, but what do all those titles under everyones' names (such as beat writer, paperboy, gone gonzo, infamous scribbler, etc) mean?
Because I think the average intelligence excluding any member with >50 posts is about 30% higher than the people I deal with in person. Not tomention the lack of lolspeak, flamers, trolls, and shockposters. Could deal with a bit more lolcat though*.
I cam ethrough ZP, as I genuinely enjoyed it, and initially though thats what escapist was. yes laugh at the old me. Anyway I realised there was more, but never really looked into it. I emulate to the best of my ability how everyone else speaks, on here so, I'm glad I'm not reguarded as a "literate fag" for being able to spell words correctly about half the time.
I stay here, because I like it. I like the personalities on here. I recognise people, and I can generally tell the big posters simply by avatar. And everyone here aside from the occasional troll is well excellent.
*does not actually need more lolcat, I can get more lolcat else where.
I cam ethrough ZP, as I genuinely enjoyed it, and initially though thats what escapist was. yes laugh at the old me. Anyway I realised there was more, but never really looked into it. I emulate to the best of my ability how everyone else speaks, on here so, I'm glad I'm not reguarded as a "literate fag" for being able to spell words correctly about half the time.
I stay here, because I like it. I like the personalities on here. I recognise people, and I can generally tell the big posters simply by avatar. And everyone here aside from the occasional troll is well excellent.
*does not actually need more lolcat, I can get more lolcat else where.
I followed a link to the site over a year ago but only now started posting.
I like to wait and analyse the personalities and previous posts of all the forum regulars before I post, it means that I can predict and counter their responses.
I like to wait and analyse the personalities and previous posts of all the forum regulars before I post, it means that I can predict and counter their responses.
