Your First Post

[C95J]

So Escapist, I just had a thought, I wonder what my first post was? So I went and checked via: Profile > Posts > Recent > then go straight to the last page, click on the first thread and find your first post!

My first post was: "I would have to agree, Dead Space is a brilliant game and I am hoping Dead Space 2 will be good as well."

I was surprised how late my first post was, with me joining on the 10th April last year, and my first post being on 1st May.
Really this thread is quite useless, but also can be quite interesting as well.

Comments on your first post?

 

[SupabadMan]

I'm too lazy to check my history, but I'm quite certain that it was every bit as awesome as awesome can be.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

In response to a comment on Eversion in a horror gaming topic:

"I downloaded it just now after reading this, and it was indeed freaky... until the 100th time trying level 6. Then it's just frustrating.

I'm going to add another vote for penumbra. The original clocktower is was the best though. The sound of the scissors literally kept me awake for a few nights."

I stand by it. Eversion was incredibly frustrating for me. And scissorman can still give me shivers.

 

[NeedAUserName]

CoD4 cornered by grenades all the time, and you never know what ones are friendly and what ones about kill you. So I just jump cos atleast if you die you get a cool kill cam video

My first ever post, in all its splendor, and glory.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Jules Verne should not be forgotten here. Together with the already mentioned HG Wells, that should be good example for the "first" Sci-Fi.
Which indeed wont be true. but true enough.

btw this may be interesting
The word "scientist" appeared for the first time in 1840, as a deliberate coinage (see Raymond Williams's discussion in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society). The term "science fiction" was used first in 1851 (in Chapter 10 of William Wilson's A Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject): "Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true."

It was about Sci-Fi in general, for yet another kid that was to lazy to do its homework alone so he posted it here.

 

[The Night Shade]

Thread:Stupidest rule in school...

Post:In school we dont have any uniform rule,we have normal rules like no gum or mp3 players in classroom so i guess my school is fine

I was surprised to see a lot of crazy rules

 

[Souplex]

My first post spawned the search button.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.126251-Poll-How-far-we-have-come#2650754

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

My wonderful first post. Start as you mean to go on I suppose...with the whole idolizing Kane I mean.

September 2008:

Kane, from the C&C series, stands out for me as my most favoured/most interesting character. Even when he was telling you that he was going to have you murdered and sent home in a body bag, you couldn't help but feel his charm. It's no bloody wonder that he's hailed as the Messiah. I felt like following him ;/

Yes! Kane has to probably be my fav all time video game character and the actor that plays him is great. "Greetings commander, you seem to be a little lost, you're in Nod territory now. Don't worry I'll have my forces send you home....in a body bag." *cue massive enemy attack on you*

As you've already picked him I'm going to go with Sgt. Cortez from the timesplitters series for his gravelly voice and general badass attitude.

 

[GodofCider]

Posted on the sixteen of November, 2010: (Why is denying Healthcare "evil"?) {page 16}

"I've never understood the: In socialist healthcare systems(Canada for example) you have to wait to be treatment, argument. I live in the US, Vermont to be precise. Since when is waiting unusual? Bear in mind that I pay for healthcare, yet even for a registered visit, a wait time of half an hour or more, is not uncommon in the least.

Continuing in my first post upon The Escapist...

I've already seen it said here, and I can't say I'm the least bit surprised.

"Why do I have to pay for the problems of another?"

.....

It's statements like these, that force me to double check my optimistic outlook. Setting everything else aside, let's run with this scenario for a moment; and you get, yes the classical fall back: Cancer!

It's a good thing you had healthcare, right? You do have healthcare right? Oh good. Let's see here. Oh! Your healthcare premium entitles you to $300k, in benefits should you develop cancer(note I'm assuming you're not just dropped on the spot). Wonderful, and your treatments are going to cost...oh dear, a few complications developed and the bill is $500k.

So, what do we do? Well, you'll find that your healthcare, assuming it hasn't dropped you, has paid $300k worth of the cost of treatment. That's good. Now you can fall back on your personal savings. The average middle-class citizen doesn't have half a million dollars backed up in the bank, so let's go with a modest sum of 30k. Now it's not likely you'll own a house either, at best I suspect you'll be making mortgage payments, so you could refinance your mortgage to cover the costs of the bill; which are growing daily mind you, as you're still in rehab and obviously can't work. Okay, so we've got the bill taken care of, and you'll be able to pay it off with a refinanced mortgage on your house in around...30 years.

What happens if you don't have a mortgage to refinance though?(assuming the bank lets you in the first place) Well you can basically sell everything you have, register for bankruptcy, and be hopeful that the cancer doesn't come out of remission. Should it do so?

Ah well, why should someone else have to pay for your problem.

Bear in mind that throughout the duration of all of this, even after your healthcare paid for it's $300k limit, you'd still be paying for that same healthcare, that refuses to cover the remainder of the bill.

.....

Private healthcare is a business, and we should not in the least be expecting it to act in any manner other than what is most beneficial to itself. Healthy contract owners are a plus, sick contract owners are a minus. How do we resolve the problem? Get rid of the sick contract owners. Either through a preset amount aimed at incurring the minimum amount of losses, in regards to the odds of the sick contract owner pulling through, and becoming a healthy, and positive, contract owner. Or, through simply dropping the sick contract owner entirely should they be unable to return to their former status."

 

[MisterGobbles]

From a thread about the most rage quits:

The demo for Sonic '06. I played it in the middle of a Wal-Mart; camera and controls sucked so I lost all my lives on the first two obstacles.

Oh, and Mega Man 9, but that's obvious.

 

[AgentDarkmoon]

Mine only has 128 viewable comments (because a bunch were in last year's MM threads) and they only go back to the 27th March... thus my first post is lost forever.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

On a thread entitled "How would you die?":

Breaking a world record. That world record you ask?

First to ride a nuke into a tornado.

As you can see, my humor wasn't that great.

Funny thing is, that was on October 15th, around three weeks after I made the account. When seeing my first ten or so posts, they were so far apart it's odd compared to me posting today.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

You think i'm gonna click through all those pages to find out? I don't know. Probably some comment on something back when i decided to finally stop lurking. Timidly, as if testing the waters. Probably polite, too.

Uh, dude.

Go to your posts tab. Now see the bottom, showing the page numbers labeled 1-10? Click the > sign next to the 10 and you're at your first ten posts.

 

[geezah91]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.175910-Stereotypes-of-where-you-come-from#5006058

Ah what better way to start life as an Escapist than with a little self depreciating humour.

 

[Mr. Eff_v1legacy]

On Zero Punctuation: Silent Hill 2:

"My favourite game of all time. I've been it 6 times, and it delivers the experience every time. The many endings and other easter eggs are nice extras. "

I've noticed my typo, and I've beaten it an additional three times.

 

[viranimus]

My first post I unintentionally necro'd a thread about third person vs first person where people were confusing the meaning of the word immersion. At least that was my take on it at the time.

 

[The Afrodactyl]

Post-its. Don't ask why, I have my reasons.

Also, Yay! First post!

I'm still not telling what my reasons are

 

[TheRocketeer]

It appears my first was a couple of years ago during one of the Michael Atkinson flame-ups on this site. Actually, I think Yahtzee suggested bothering him directly, so I did, and posted the email here for posterity. I'll spoiler it because of its size.

Spoiler: The letter in question

Pursuant to Yahtzee's invitation to drop Att.-Gen. Atkinson a line, I did so. Here is the letter I sent him:

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The Principle of the Thing‏
From: R*** **** (*****@live.com)
Sent: Wed 12/23/09 7:03 PM
To: [email protected]
South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson:

I hope this letter finds you in good health and good humor.

Now I realize that, as an American, attending to my opinion probably does not number among your priorities. However, since your decisions do not affect me, please realize that I would not address you except out of sincere principle.

Mister Attorney-General, principle itself is what I find conspicuously lacking in regards to a small but contentious issue which you and your colleagues are handling, namely the censorship of interactive media. Now, I use the term 'interactive media' not to disguise but to somewhat dignify the subject at hand, and I use the term 'censorship' for the same purpose: to regard something as nothing more or less than what it is.

As clearly as I can put it, I can not and will not defend nor justify the use and presence of mature and advanced themes in interactive media, because doing so is entirely beside the point. The idea that it should not have to, since no other form of media is asked to, is both the idea behind and conclusion to my entire standpoint. The idea that one form of media should be held to separate, harsher standards than any other form is an inexcusable contradiction to your office as an impartial and unbiased arbiter and mediator. The common but misdirective idea that interactive media more powerfully affect those that enjoy them does more to acknowledge than deny the idea that interactive media are effective conveyors of ideas and emotions and viable, even opportune vehicles for artistic expression.

If there is restriction due upon the sale and possession of interactive media for its potential content, then there is restriction due upon other media, regardless of shape or purpose, if they are sufficiently unfit for their violent or suggestive content, be they films (like The Untouchables), books (like Crime and Punishment), paintings (such as Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People), plays (The Complete Works of William Shakespeare are particularly inexcusable), poetry (To His Coy Mistress has the nerve to be taught in schools), and music (scars left by The Wall still burn).

But, as I might be so daring to guess, you couldn't see fit to justify the ban on sale of media of every form due to content, does it not blatantly defy principle to impinge specifically upon interactive media? Because at its core, as far as the role of the legal system is concerned, interactive media is only a fatuous red herring for a larger and more important issue: the upholding of longstanding legal and ethical principle. Mister Attorney General, as of this writing you are the only opponent, of six Attorneys-General, to certifying for sale media of an interactive nature that have been heretofore refused certification- or, stated plainly, banned.

I do not believe that supporters of legal and ethical principle comprise merely a 'vocal minority.' If that is true, the experiment of Australian democracy is a futile struggle regardless. You are a vocal minority. Only your vote is needed now and you obdurately refuse it. But I'm sure you can understand that there is often something at stake worth vocalizing about. And that is why I hope you consider this letter on its own merits and, regardless of your decision, take it for what it is worth rather dismissing it out of hand as something intrinsically to be marginalized.

Respectfully,

**** *. ****
Writer, Vocalizer, and Gamer
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I'd encourage you to send him a letter, too. But please, keep this in mind: Michael Atkinson is more important than you will ever be. So please, proffer the proper respect.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I made a thread about buying photoshop, a couple of piracy flamewars started in it and I instantly got the hot topic and excellent topic badges. That was pretty awesome.

 

[Eumersian]

I remember being an idiot. I will not check what it was. But whatever it was, I looked like a moron, I can assure you.