How and when did you discover the Escapist?

[Aerosteam]

In no way am I advertising these other sites in anyway, You can go check them out but I haven't visited them myself for a while now.

Started at Stickpage.com, a website a friend of mine told me to check out.
Get bored with the website, clicked on an ad which took me to Flashportal.com.
Came across a flash animation series called 'Unforgotten Realms'.
Enjoyed watching the 8 episodes, wondered why there was no 9 though. Waited till Friday despite a new episode was said to be out then.
There was a web address to the official site for UR in the description of the episodes, Urealms.com. I thought the new episodes were there.
It turns out the entire series was remade even better and the episode 9 for the older version was never made.
Found episode one of the new version and when I clicked on it I was taken to the Escapist...

So that's my story on discovering the Escapist. How about you?

I know my account age may not show it, but I have been visiting the Escapist at least every 3 days for 3 years now!

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On a completely unrelated note, here are 5 people who have made a thread on the same thing, at the same time...

Holy shit the Escapist has changed looks!
Wolfram01
13 Dec 2011 8:16 pm

Poll: New Escapist look?
OniaPL
13 Dec 2011 8:16 pm

I refresh the page and suddenly the site's been totally restructured
Freaky Lou
13 Dec 2011 8:16 pm

So...site looks different.
anthony87
13 Dec 2011 8:15 pm

New Forum Layout?
NameIsRobertPaulson
13 Dec 2011 8:15 pm

Yes all of them were about the new Escapist layout. (the times shown was GMT time)
I don't think these are all of them, but they were all adjacent and it looked kind of funny.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I first discovered ZP around March of '09 on YouTube, but I didn't go on the Escapist after I found he moved there. It wasn't until the summer that a few pals were watching the video on their phone, so I decided to catch up on it. Then I made an account sometime in September.

 

[lRookiel]

I discovered the escapist when an episode of Doraleous and associates was placed on the front page of newgrounds. there was a link to the escapist so I followed it to watch the rest of the series, then I found ZP and the Jimquisition, followed by my forum account being created on June 30th.

So yeah, thats my story and I'm very glad I found the escapist

 

[Jonluw]

Back when Halo 3 came out, this gaming website I used to hang out at - spill.no - linked to the Zero punctuation review.
I lurked from ca. 2007 'till my join date. The rest is history.

 

[MisterGobbles]

My friend showed me a ZP back when it first came out, and I started watching them regularly. Eventually I checked out the rest of this site. Turned out this is a pretty awesome place. So here I am.

 

[Drave]

I found yahtzee on youtube then he got bought by the escapist simple really

 

[Hazy992]

Sometime in 2009 I think. One of my freinds told me to watch Zero Punctuation and as they say, the rest is history.

 

[Nouw]

MARCH MAYHEM!!!! FANBOY RAAAAR!!!
I came from the Dawn of War 2 Community. One fateful afternoon, they gave me a link to here on the front page. This is now my internet home.

 

[Firoth]

Well, it was sometime before my join date of July 14, 2010. I was googling for gameplay footage of Devil May Cry 4, and found the ZP review episode. All I did on the site for a few months was watch ZP. It wasn't until I saw a forum topic that JUST HAD TO comment on, that I made an account.

 

[The Pinray]

Heard about Yahtzee in like 08. Lurked for several years then decided to finally join this year.

 

[Jak23]

Extra Credits, I watched them on Youtube then they moved here.
I thought it was a cool site so I joined.

 

[Zen Toombs]

Zero Punctuation. I watched him on Youtube and then he moved here. I followed, and recently joined the forums for fun and profit.

Spoiler: Also, someone was WRONG. On the INTERNET!

[sup]Alt Text: What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong![/sup]

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I came here from G4, back when X-Play used to show segments of Yahtzee's clips on their show.

 

[217not237]

A friend showed me Zero Punctuation about 2 months ago. I used to just watch that, but then I started watching Unskippable, Escape to the Movies, and everything else good.

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

I watched Zero Punctuation on X-play when they showed part of his Console Rundown video. They said where to find him and I came here.

 

[Krion_Vark]

March Mayhem 2010. When I still played Zynga games on facebook they linked to try and win it. Have been here every day since. I have also stopped playing Zynga games for the most part lol.

 

[nbamaniac]

Zero Punctuation brought me here.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Must ... resist ... urge ... to ... post ... snarky ... comment!

All these threads turn out the same, fella. 90% of people arrive here thanks to Yahtzee and stay for the forums.

Sorry, that sounded cynical.

Actually it sounded accurate, but it read as cynical.

 

[Phlakes]

...Yeah, it was ZP. A while ago, then I lurked for a bit and watched some Unskippable and Escape to the Movies, and eventually made an account.

snip

And we joined on the same day. Interesting.

 

[Dethenger]

My brother showed me ZP a long time ago, and I loved it, but I didn't really give it much thought until, a year or two later (earlier this summer), I was bored and had nothing to do. I remembered ZP, and spent the next hour or so watching whatever episodes intrigued me. Then, whenever I found myself with nothing to do, I'd browse ZP. I watched MovieBob's review of Captain America because I had just seen the movie myself. I liked it, and I liked the Big Picture as well. I eventually noticed the Recent Activity window, lurked on the forums for about a month, then eventually made an account.