Looking back on my time here

[2012 Wont Happen]

With this thread, I have officially gone gonzo.

What has kept me coming back for 1,000 posts when I haven't posted more than 20 on ANY other open forum (I was into Runescape's paid forum for a while as well as my tribe's forum in tribal wars, but, I digress)?

Definitely the community. The Escapist has the finest group of individuals as its user base that I have ever seen on a website. Here, we listen to each others ideas respectfully, not feeling the same need to wage immature personal attacks as the people on other websites. Not only do we listen respectfully, but I've found we really attempt to understand the other person's views and, while not always being swayed by them, come, as a collective, closer together in understanding through such reasonable discussion. While trolls do appear in the mix, the top-notch moderators of the Escapist take care of them, leaving a peaceful place for the rest of us.

To be so enamored with this site, many may think I must be of the virulent gamer creed. While I do enjoy games and gamer culture, I am not the sort of hardcore gamer usually attracted to games sites, rarely having posted in anything but the off topic or games forums. It is not the site's focus on video games that attracts me, although I do like it, but the absolute superbness of it in almost all considerable areas.

So, even though 1,000 posts is no true claim to fame here, I felt that I should offer this thanks to both the staff and community of the Escapist for creating the site that it is. I am proud to be any sort of member of the Escapist as a community, and hope to be a part of it for a long time to come.

In addition, I'd like to here from other frequenters of the Escapist what it is that keeps bringing you back to this site. Do you enjoy it for some of the same reason that I do, or for different reasons entirely? Discuss.



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g'night

 

[A random person]

I keep coming back here to check my messages (today I got more than the past few weeks combined).

More seriously, I come back for parts of the community (like the anime fans group and certain members I'm fond of) and occasional interesting topics and happenings (say what you will about trolls, it's kinda exciting when they attack in a weird sort of way).

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Congratulations.

I come back because it's habit, and because I have really awful ADH

So anyway I can't just sit at the computer and do one thing - I have to change tabs every five se

Anyway you know what I really like?

Well, like I said, congratulation

Hey will there be cake?

there sure will:

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

I keep coming back here to check my messages (today I got more than the past few weeks combined).

More seriously, I come back for parts of the community (like the anime fans group and certain members I'm fond of) and occasional interesting topics and happenings (say what you will about trolls, it's kinda exciting when they attack in a weird sort of way).

I must admit, to the point about trolls, that the occasional sighting and swift banning of a new noobjoob account is rather amusing on occasion.

 

[Bob_Bobbington]

I come back here because it's my home page. Every time I open my internet there it is, waiting for me.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Congratulations.

I come back because it's habit, and because I have really awful ADH

So anyway I can't just sit at the computer and do one thing - I have to change tabs every five se

Anyway you know what I really like?

Well, like I said, congratulation

Hey will there be cake?

there sure will:

That "cake" and "cookie" bullshit is one of the reasons I get pissed off at the people on here...

who doesn't like cake and cookies?

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Congratulations.

I come back because it's habit, and because I have really awful ADH

So anyway I can't just sit at the computer and do one thing - I have to change tabs every five se

Anyway you know what I really like?

Well, like I said, congratulation

Hey will there be cake?

there sure will:

That "cake" and "cookie" bullshit is one of the reasons I get pissed off at the people on here...

who doesn't like cake and cookies?

Me, since it was cute when it wasn't overused to fuck and back. Now it's more of a burden, like the junkie cousin that you let live with you...

are you really angry about the cake- or are you taking your anger at your junkie cousin out on the cake?

 

[A random person]

I keep coming back here to check my messages (today I got more than the past few weeks combined).

More seriously, I come back for parts of the community (like the anime fans group and certain members I'm fond of) and occasional interesting topics and happenings (say what you will about trolls, it's kinda exciting when they attack in a weird sort of way).

I must admit, to the point about trolls, that the occasional sighting and swift banning of a new noobjoob account is rather amusing on occasion.

One incident I fondly remember is this one guy who just signed up and made a thread to advertise. We called him on it and he said really stupid things and even posted a picture of corn (guess why I mentioned that, I dare you). The thread became a potluck, I shared a low calorie french fry recipe, and as a result I made a few friends (Suiseiseki IRL and Yegargeburble).

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

I come back here because it's my home page. Every time I open my internet there it is, waiting for me.

Good homepage choice

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

I keep coming back here to check my messages (today I got more than the past few weeks combined).

More seriously, I come back for parts of the community (like the anime fans group and certain members I'm fond of) and occasional interesting topics and happenings (say what you will about trolls, it's kinda exciting when they attack in a weird sort of way).

I must admit, to the point about trolls, that the occasional sighting and swift banning of a new noobjoob account is rather amusing on occasion.

One incident I fondly remember is this one guy who just signed up and made a thread to advertise. We called him on it and he said really stupid things and even posted a picture of corn (guess why I mentioned that, I dare you). The thread became a potluck, I shared a low calorie french fry recipe, and as a result I made a few friends (Suiseiseki IRL and Yegargeburble).

I've absolutely no guess about why you mentioned the corn picture other than maybe that it turned into the potluck thread

 

[LeonLethality]

your username is going to look awfully stupid in a few years...

OT: I keep coming back to check on the forum news mainly then I go on to other things there is often tension (in my final fantasy usergroup there has been nothing but arguements about final fantasy but y'know what? I enjoy exchange of opinions) but all in all I love my fellow escapists to death... yes... DEATH

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

your username is going to look awfully stupid in a few years...

OT: I keep coming back to check on the forum news mainly then I go on to other things there is often tension (in my final fantasy usergroup there has been nothing but arguements about final fantasy but y'know what? I enjoy exchange of opinions) but all in all I love my fellow escapists to death... yes... DEATH

I think my username will still work. Instead of being an arrogant statement of my own belief, it will just be proof that I had nothing to do with the folly of the 2012 apocalypse theory.

In response to the other content of your post, I would prefer that you love me, as a fellow Escapist, to the point of extreme maiming rather than death

 

[Bob_Bobbington]

I come back here because it's my home page. Every time I open my internet there it is, waiting for me.

Good homepage choice

Well it is more exiting than google.

 

[A random person]

I keep coming back here to check my messages (today I got more than the past few weeks combined).

More seriously, I come back for parts of the community (like the anime fans group and certain members I'm fond of) and occasional interesting topics and happenings (say what you will about trolls, it's kinda exciting when they attack in a weird sort of way).

I must admit, to the point about trolls, that the occasional sighting and swift banning of a new noobjoob account is rather amusing on occasion.

One incident I fondly remember is this one guy who just signed up and made a thread to advertise. We called him on it and he said really stupid things and even posted a picture of corn (guess why I mentioned that, I dare you). The thread became a potluck, I shared a low calorie french fry recipe, and as a result I made a few friends (Suiseiseki IRL and Yegargeburble).

I've absolutely no guess about why you mentioned the corn picture other than maybe that it turned into the potluck thread

He posted it while saying to "shove it." No wonder he got banned and any trace other than some memories got erased.

As for how the potluck started, I'm not entirely sure, and I can't look it up as the thread was deleted.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Congratulations.

I come back because it's habit, and because I have really awful ADH

So anyway I can't just sit at the computer and do one thing - I have to change tabs every five se

Anyway you know what I really like?

Well, like I said, congratulation

Hey will there be cake?

there sure will:

That "cake" and "cookie" bullshit is one of the reasons I get pissed off at the people on here...

who doesn't like cake and cookies?

Me, since it was cute when it wasn't overused to fuck and back. Now it's more of a burden, like the junkie cousin that you let live with you...

are you really angry about the cake- or are you taking your anger at your junkie cousin out on the cake?

I have no junkie cousin. It was a metaphor
Anyone who likes that "cookie" bullshit is, har har, the Cancer That Is Killing The Escapist.

Well, seeing as MaxTheReaper- possibly the most notable user of the escapist- requested a cake, it would have been an extreme dishonor to deny him. Also, I wouldn't call Max "cancer" by any means.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

I come back here because it's my home page. Every time I open my internet there it is, waiting for me.

Good homepage choice

Well it is more exiting than google.

That's true. I don't like generic homepages, but I sort of have to have one. I had Socialist Party USA's homepage as my homepage but my nephew, who I share my computer with, kept changing it to generic. So I just settled with that (didn't even go to the effort to pick another site).

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

I keep coming back here to check my messages (today I got more than the past few weeks combined).

More seriously, I come back for parts of the community (like the anime fans group and certain members I'm fond of) and occasional interesting topics and happenings (say what you will about trolls, it's kinda exciting when they attack in a weird sort of way).

I must admit, to the point about trolls, that the occasional sighting and swift banning of a new noobjoob account is rather amusing on occasion.

One incident I fondly remember is this one guy who just signed up and made a thread to advertise. We called him on it and he said really stupid things and even posted a picture of corn (guess why I mentioned that, I dare you). The thread became a potluck, I shared a low calorie french fry recipe, and as a result I made a few friends (Suiseiseki IRL and Yegargeburble).

I've absolutely no guess about why you mentioned the corn picture other than maybe that it turned into the potluck thread

He posted it while saying to "shove it." No wonder he got banned and any trace other than some memories got erased.

As for how the potluck started, I'm not entirely sure, and I can't look it up as the thread was deleted.

Too bad on the deletion of your pot luck. Good that guy got banned though.

 

[Bob_Bobbington]

I come back here because it's my home page. Every time I open my internet there it is, waiting for me.

Good homepage choice

Well it is more exiting than google.

That's true. I don't like generic homepages, but I sort of have to have one. I had Socialist Party USA's homepage as my homepage but my nephew, who I share my computer with, kept changing it to generic. So I just settled with that (didn't even go to the effort to pick another site).

This story makes me happy to be an only child.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

Congrats on your 1000th. Yeah, I mostly come back for the community and any interesting threads that pop up. Oh, and dropping by the anime group's chatroom every once in a while. I used to read the newsletters back when I was new, but I've been doing that less and less.

I know I'm horrendously late, but what in the world did Max change his avatar into?

 

[A random person]

words

Actually, another Escapist potluck thread was started shortly after the deletion of the advertising thread. I also remember a second potluck based on that. If you want more information, ask Suiseiseki IRL.