The Escapist Wants to Celebrate the Holidays With You!

[Lauren Admire]

The Escapist Wants to Celebrate the Holidays With You!

Cheers for the Holiday season! Here at The Escapist, we thought you deserved something special, as a gift, from our house to yours.

Each day leading up to December 25th, a new panel on this calendar [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/content/advent] will alight with a number. Click on the lighted panels and you'll be taken to a different page. Each day is something new. Maybe something you've never seen before. Maybe a new installment of an old favorite column or video series.

On December 25th, the last panel will alight, and if you've clicked all 25 boxes, you'll get a special Holiday 2009 badge for your forum profile. Only registered users get the badge, but once you're registered all you have to do is click. And wait. OK, the waiting sucks. But the clicking ... it's easy.

To register for The Escapist, click here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/registration/register.php].

Happy Holidays from The Escapist!

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[Katherine Kerensky]

Woo, free links without me having to search for things
It's like a wish come true.
Kinda.

 

[Frequen-Z]

Happy Holidays to you guys too, Escapist!

 

[Gigaguy64]

Nice, i like the way the calendar was put together.
Merry Early Christmas!

 

[Geamo]

Hah, nice! Although there's a typo -

On December 25th, the last box will alight, and if you've clicked all 25 boxes, you'll get a special Holiday 2010 badge for your forum profile.

When on the actual advent calender it's written as "2009". I'm just being nitpicky though. Great idea, looking forward to opening it all!

 

[Sassafrass]

Ah, damn you, Escapist!
You've combined a thing I love and a thing I hate into one package.
See, I love badges, but not Christmas. Ah, I'll go along with it for fun anyway.

Merry humbug to you all.

 

[Jared]

Very nice We like /random!

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

Props to the artist, the advent calendar looks awesome. However, currently it just serves as a really round-a-bout way to get to things easily accessible from the front page.

 

[Tharticus]

Happy Holidays to the Escapists. Of course, it wouldn't be bad having those 2008 holiday badges.

 

[Magnatek]

Sounds like a bit of fun to brighten up the season! Happy holidays, everybody! That goes for you guys on the tech side of the site, too!

wait, so now we have to make effort to get our badges?

...actually, considering I was complaining that badges were becomming too easy to acquire, sweet!

I would say merry christmas... but considering my job (performing juggler), christmas is the busiest time of the year for me... lol...

It's actually easier than, say, the "Starring Mike Patton" badge for Unskippable. You have to click 45 things there, rather than 25 things here.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Yay! The Escapist is not afraid of offending people with Christmas stuff. Sure it called "Holiday", but its an advent calendar and ends on Christmas.

Thanks. Although, are the boxes supposed to close up again every time I visit the page?

 

[Simalacrum]

wait, so now we have to make effort to get our badges?

...actually, considering I was complaining that badges were becomming too easy to acquire, sweet!

I would say merry christmas... but considering my job (performing juggler), christmas is the busiest time of the year for me... lol...

 

[Zombie_Fish]

Can I just ask, do we need to open each box on the day? My reason for asking is that I won't be able to get the badges if we have to, since I'm going on holiday for a few days during the Christmas period and won't be able to go online during those days as a result.

Merry Christmas anyway.

"The world will look up and shout "Merry Christmas!", and I'll whisper "Ho Ho Ho"."

EDIT: When was the Calendar added to the site? As day one won't stay open (I suspect it's because I didn't click it on day one) and I don't think anyone knew about it or if it was even up yesterday for this event, which may be a bit of a problem when it comes to people getting a badge for opening every box.

 

[Russ Pitts]

Hah, nice! Although there's a typo -

On December 25th, the last box will alight, and if you've clicked all 25 boxes, you'll get a special Holiday 2010 badge for your forum profile.

When on the actual advent calender it's written as "2009". I'm just being nitpicky though. Great idea, looking forward to opening it all!

Grr. Apparently our editors are under the impression that copy provided by the EIC should be considered holy writ and naturally free of errors. Sadly, this is not true, of course :-/

By which, I mean to say that the screwup was mine, not Lauren's. Her article publishing skills are sublime. My typing skills, however ... less so.

Anyway, thanks for spotting the typo!

 

[Landslide]

Props to the artist, the advent calendar looks awesome.

Thxu.

 

[dalek sec]

Love the advent calender, it's cute seeing all the stuff from the escapist in it.

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Merry Christmas lads and lassies!

 

[Russ Pitts]

how exactly do we get credit for the 1st box? We didn't find out about the advent calander until today. :S

Click it now! Quickly!