How do you view fellow escapists?

[Magicmad5511]

There are a few guys I recognise by their avatars but I don't really know anyones personality or anything. It's like when your at school and you recognise faces of other students but you have no idea who they are because you've never spoken to them.
Anyway from what I can pick up the majority are well educated and have well thought out opinions that I can normally come to some understanding with.

I have seen a few idiots who were then quickly banned and the occasional person who starts an argument but generally your pretty nice guys.

 

[Marter]

Okay, let's see. These are probably the groups I use to lump people into. (Even if you all are unique little snowflakes and I love all of you equally. Except <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles>you. I hate you.)

People I know: These are the people I recognize by name or by their terribly unique avatar. I'll probably know how you type and I'll know how to respond if you decide to talk to me. Which of course rarely happens unless you're in...

People I know well: These are people I talk to rather frequently. No, I don't necessarily like all of the people in this group, but I'll at least know you quite well and I'll talk to you fairly often, either in a friendly way or by criticizing the very land you stand on just because you're on it.

People with poor spelling/grammar: Look, I know. It's the internet, and we don't all have to type perfectly all of the time. (That is, unless you're me in which case the smallest unintentional mistake means 5 whippings.) But if you are typing in a way that makes it difficult for me to read, then I simply won't read what you wrote. There are going to be dozens of other comments that won't suffer from this problem, so if you want my attention, you had better learn to spell, or stop being so lazy that u tiep lik this.

People with avatars I dislike: If you happen to have the misfortune of having an avatar I don't like, well first off I'd need to ask you why you do this to me. Do you hate me so much that you can't respect my feelings in this matter? Did I personally offend you? Yes, this goes for you MLP people. (Well, most of you guys. A couple of them are kind of funny in a really creepy way but they get a pass anyway.) If I don't like your avatar, then I may judge you, silently, behind your back. And you'll know because I'll lace my response to you with sarcasm and also WATCH OUT FOR ME I'M RIGHT BEHIND YOU WITH A KNIFE.

People with stupid opinions (read: opinions I don't agree with): I don't care what you have to say and therefore I am not going to listen to your post. If I think that the sky will fall tomorrow and crush us all, and you don't, YOU ARE WRONG AND I DON'T LIKE YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE STUPID AND UGLY AND SMELL FUNNY. Obviously.

People who fit into other categories: If you haven't been mentioned yet, then you fit into the other category with all the rest of the little monkeys. You are neither special enough to be noticed, nor terrible enough to be hated. So I'll probably just ignore you because I have no idea who you are.

Note: The preceding information may or may not be entirely made up and should not be taken as fact unless you want to. In that case, it's your fault for being offended because this disclaimer is basically telling you that I'm doing this just for fun and that I'm now rambling just because if you're still reading at this point, you must love me.

Note #2: I still hate <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles>you.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Simple answer:

Far more intelligent than the rest of humanity

And this is how I view a lot of Escapists - people who think (notice the stress on that word) things like that. The type of people who think that just because they know how to spell (and not always very well) and weren't the best at socialising, that this constitutes a large degree of intelligence and differentness. The would-be cynics, pseudo-intellectuals and misanthropes of the internet.

That being said, I do see others that I have no issue with. I just wouldn't want to meet most members of the userbase.

What about those of us who are more intelligent than the majority.

I mean, my mother wouldn't lie to me right?

right!?

 

[lRookiel]

Just as fellow individuals (Except the trolls, they suck)....

 

[Jungy 365]

Well, I'm not a regular forum goer, but I think that the escapist users are an intelligent group filled with diverse opinions. I don't necessarily agree with you all, but I love that we DO disagree. It's what discussion should be.

 

[Giest4life]

People I know: These are the people I recognize by name or by terribly unique avatar.

People with poor spelling/grammar: Look, I know. It's the internet, and we don't all have to type perfectly all of the time. (That is, unless you're me in which case the smallest unintentional mistake means 5 whippings.)

Ha! You missed you missed your indefinite article there, didn't you? The correct phrasing is "these are the people I recognized by name or by a terribly unique avatar."

An argument can be made that that the modern English language is not as strict on its articles, but that argument would be wrong. Most nouns still need their articles.

So, who administers the whippings? Susan Arendt?

 

[Marter]

Ha! You missed you missed your indefinite article there, didn't you? The correct phrasing is "these are the people I recognized by name or by a terribly unique avatar."

An argument can be made that that the modern English language is not as strict on its articles, but that argument would be wrong. Most nouns still need their articles.

So, who administers the whippings? Susan Arendt?

Yep, I did.

And I administer them, like that one character does in The Da Vinci Code (Silas?).

 

[Elsarild]

I recognize a few avatars here and there.

I almost never remember or even look at names unless they are pointed out directly or something like that.

And screw ponies, everytime an avatar is a pony they instantly get filed in my brain under the same person.

 

[repeating integers]

I recognize a few avatars here and there.

I almost never remember or even look at names unless they are pointed out directly or something like that.

And screw ponies, everytime an avatar is a pony they instantly get filed in my brain under the same person.

That's the only real problem I have with pony avatars - they all look the same, so it becomes so hard to tell the people apart at first glance...

 

[Brian Hendershot]

With disdain of course! HAHAHA

Anyhow, I really don't post/creep enough on here to get a feel for how people are. Nor do I recognize a lot of avatars anymore...

Soon as I made an account to start posting on here, BAM! Publishers club and everyone decided to jump ship for some reason...

 

[Jonluw]

I view most people with neutrality (and mild dislike after the minecraft debacle)
and most people (other than than that alligator) with MLP avatars i generally ignore on principle.

But other than that an interesting lot. (im fairly sure many around here don't like me in return so its fineeee)

Hey, I recognize you for a very simple reason.
I got the 'on fire' badge today, and was trying to figure out what thread I got it from.
I finally figured out it was my "Do folks recognize you?" thread, which passed 10,000 views yesterday.
(It was the nostalgia this caused that had me make this thread, in fact.)
So when I went to take a look at it, I saw that the last post in the thread was from you. It was posted in march. The last post before yours was posted in december...
Care to explain?

 

[Jonluw]

I view most people with neutrality (and mild dislike after the minecraft debacle)
and most people (other than than that alligator) with MLP avatars i generally ignore on principle.

But other than that an interesting lot. (im fairly sure many around here don't like me in return so its fineeee)

Hey, I recognize you for a very simple reason.
I got the 'on fire' badge today, and was trying to figure out what thread I got it from.
I finally figured out it was my "Do folks recognize you?" thread, which passed 10,000 views yesterday.
(It was the nostalgia this caused that had me make this thread, in fact.)
So when I went to take a look at it, I saw that the last post in the thread was from you. It was posted in march. The last post before yours was posted in december...
Care to explain?

i necro interesting threads that i have posted in before, it makes me sad to see good threads die under the weight of lesser ones.

Ah.
I'll take that as a compliment.

I know how you feel. I do my best to keep "The artist in thee" alive.

 

[Lunar Templar]

how i view them depends solely on what they say

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

I know all. I see all. I hear all. And I judge all. And YOU are fucking disgusting. Yes you, with the hat!

No but seriously, the community here is really nice. And as a result, I try to be nice. Lets all be nice together!

 

[New Frontiersman]

On the whole, I'm not particularly fond of them; some are interesting, or bring up good points of discussion, but most (or at least most of those I remember or notice) are annoying and just complain a lot or act rude or pretentious. I recognize some by avatar or name, even though I kind of wish I didn't. On an somewhat related note, I've been expanding my ignore list a lot recently.

I have one person I consider a friend on here who I like to talk to over private message, but that's about it. Since I don't really look at any of the other features or videos here much anymore, they're the main reason I still hang out here, aside from keeping up with the news, video game related and otherwise, although sometimes the news posts annoy me too (objectivity people! Is that so hard to grasp?).

 

[babinro]

I'm utterly terrible with names and so I don't recognize anyone with the exception of one person here who frequents 4E Enworld as well. I do recognize Avatars but I can't place them with specific posts so they come across as meaningless.

As a whole, I view fellow escapists a good group of steriotypical 'hardcore' gamers with fanboy tendencies who favor a negative outlook on all things.

The good thing about this place is we can often get some very interesting ideas and conversations from the community as a whole. A lot of posters have a good sense of humour as well.

The bad thing about this is that as a group we are too focused on Bethesda, Valve/Steam and Blizzard being the greatest things ever. EA/Origin being hated regardless of it's actions. The Wii, Facebook gaming, Mobile gaming being shoved aside as though we are too good to acknowledge their achievements.

 

[babinro]

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This guy gets it. Also I totally didn't double post for the first time in my life.

 

[shadow_Fox81]

You all seem very empiric in your way of thinking, as if you all draw water sciences well. Even the arty ones seem to have very systematic thoughts grounded more in an enlightened way of thinking rather than the metaphysical or romantic from whence the majority of my thoughts take shape.

Of course thats good, but by enlarge it means eveyone neglects the titans of the art world asuming they are all pretentious wanks like Jeff Kooms and Andy Warhol(to be fair many are).

Also escapists like making lists of what they like.

Also you are all internet people, which as a newcomer makes it sometimes difficult to understand whats going on.

I still struggle with the concept of trolls.

Also i hate this whole grammar nonsense, if it constrains a writer more than it frees them i don't like it. I write like i think, grammar would have my words robbed of that character.

Although some have always thought my approach to grammar was far to loose while some find it refreshingly schizophrenic (but i try restrain myself on the escapist)

Edit: escapists are also generally well versed on their greek philosophers and renaisance artists