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wilsonscrazybed
Red Guard
Posts: 1786
Joined: 16 Dec 2007

So you're new here are you? You want to say hello for the first time, but don't know whether posting a new topic just to say "Hi!" is okay? Look no further, you've stumbled upon our "Welcome to the site thread." As a new member of the site I heartily welcome you and want to steer you at these useful community posts.

Ask The staff thread: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.61112#487952
Suggestions/complaints thread: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.64125

Feel free to tell us something about yourself, age, sex, country of origin, bank numbers, ect. Heck, even if you're an old-timer, feel free to chip in with something we might not know about you.

afrophysics
Muckraker
Posts: 260
Joined: 4 Jul 2008

Hi I joined about two weeks ago. I'm a teenage boy from South East London and I have an afro. I post here because it seemed like a more mature society than the one I was previously posting at and I hope to expand my gaming knowledge!

PurpleRain
Gone Gonzo
Posts: 4235
Joined: 2 Dec 2007

Hi I join about 8 and a half months ago. The Escapist looks like a friendly site so I thought I would join. I hope to meet some interesting people who enjoy what I do.

InfectingTheCrypts
Paperboy
Posts: 28
Joined: 22 Jul 2008

I joined a few days ago. Seemed like a nice community and pretty well-educated too.

Hey Joe
Gone Gonzo
Posts: 1454
Joined: 23 Dec 2007

Hi, I joined at the start of the year.

I'm an aries, 21, Australian and my bank account number is WAIT A MINUTE! What's going on here!? I hope to find my one true love on the forums.

Failing that, creep everybody out.

TomNook
Pulitzer Laureate
Posts: 918
Joined: 21 Feb 2008

Hi I'm Tom, and I'm a recovering fanboy.

zen5887
Pulitzer Laureate
Posts: 740
Joined: 31 Jan 2008

Im Lachlan.. I came here cos.. Uhh.. Purps told me too I think? I study music at uni. I enjoy writing solos and playing toribash

Thats pretty much my live in a nutshell!

This is a really good place to hang out d^^b

Lord Krunk
Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2636
Joined: 3 Mar 2008

Hi, I'm Krunk, I am infamous for my scribbling, and I have recently achieved the status of the world's greatest Surrealonomist... mainly because I'm the only one.

I enjoy sharing my opinion, regardless of others' opinions of my opinions. I also don't like to opinionate other people's opinions of my opinions, but if they are sharing opinions of not my opinions, I like to give my feedback.

I also like to confuse people.

spoilt_kitty
Anonymous Source
Posts: 7
Joined: 24 Jul 2008

Hello - new...ish.... here. New in the sense I finally made an account and finally decided to post in the forums. Less new in the fact I've been watching Zero Punctuation for... six... months? I got linked to him by a friend and just think the site is awesome.

Also love watching Videogame theater and Drawn by Pain.

I'm 22, female (OMG!!) and I live in far north queensland in Australia. It is presently not raining (considering we were at flooding point yesterday - fun) and I have a throat infection after two weeks of pain from wisdom teeth removal... ok now I'm ranting.

I'm Erica, but people call me Erry or Ekka or Errykins, depending on my mood and tolerance level. So HI

Exterminatus
Paperboy
Posts: 38
Joined: 9 Jul 2008

Hello.

I'm not silly enough to post my real name or any personal details on the internet, but lets just pretend I did, cool? Cool.

Also,

spoilt_kitty:
female (OMG!!)

Refer to my avatar.

spoilt_kitty
Anonymous Source
Posts: 7
Joined: 24 Jul 2008

:-P jealousy is curse my friend

Esades
Paperboy
Posts: 46
Joined: 24 Jul 2008

Hello everyone. I have been following the forums for a few months now and finally decided to sign in.

I like cactuses, hate jeans and try to avoid direct sunlight. I also like to make absurd statements in the middle of a conversation.

conqueror Kenny
Gone Gonzo
Posts: 3743
Joined: 14 Jan 2008

Hello, my name is Kenny and i'm an alcoholic wrong introduction.

Well, I was a lurker here for a while but when I did decide to join I made a promise to bring this website to its knees. I am a huge halo fanboy and the only thing I like more than halo is DMC (all the real ones, DMC2 doesn't count.)

Higurashi
Infamous Scribbler
Posts: 676
Joined: 23 Jan 2008

Yeah OK, hi. I've been a member since the start of this year, obviously, but didn't start to actually POST anything until I found there were some really awesome role-players here. So that's where you'll normally find me. In other topics, I prefer to just listen (uh.. read).
I love Zero punctuation, naturally, and all the other features of this site, like Drawn by Pain and De-Rez and whatnot. Oh, and I love them weekly articles being produced here. It's so awesome to finally have found a video gaming focused community that analyses more deeply.
For other info about me, see my profile. That's what they are for, right? ^__^
On a side note, I can also tell you I suffer from transient intermittent insomnia, being one of the reasons I'm so weird at times. ,)

Spartan Bannana
Gone Gonzo
Posts: 3018
Joined: 27 Apr 2008

Hi
I joined a month or two ago to insult what I didn't know at the time, was a mod

Matthicus
Copy Clerk
Posts: 64
Joined: 24 Jul 2008

I'm a bit new in the same way as all of you having watched and read the forums prior to registering.

I'm Matt, I go to College, and I was finally arsed into signing up.

milomalo
Infamous Scribbler
Posts: 645
Joined: 29 Mar 2008

hi my name is milo im from mexico, now im playing mgs4 and gtaIV, i like silent hill and resident evil also im playing in the psp final fantasy, anyone from mexico? contacme!

shufflemonkey16
Beat Writer
Posts: 158
Joined: 7 Mar 2008

Chris from somewhat east of the middle of the US. i joined a little less than a month ago (as in finally starting to contribute to the forums) and i enjoy writng reviews and stuffs here since gaming forums such as these are the only places left on the internet that aren't filled with duchebags. And this is an especially impressive duchebag-free zone.

PedroSteckecilo
Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2544
Joined: 7 Feb 2008

Pedro Steckecilo, now suddenly with more gonzo. I lurked for awhile, mostly just watching ZP and reading the articles but then I decided to start posting because I wanted to say something about...something, it's been awhile so I can't remember what my first post was. Anyway, what else can I say about myself... I'm a Canadian from Canadia, I'm a Traditional RPG advocate and ocasional bulldog, I really love Steampunk and Pulp Adventure and I have yet to be banned or put on probation.

Other than that all I can say is that I'm a 24 year old university graduate who sold his soul to the oil industry for a decent paycheck and benefits.

I'm also (apparently) doing my best to look like Yahtzee, as I've been wearing a trillby and growing a beard, soon I'll find him, kill him and replace him... probably shouldn't have spilled my plan should I... probably not.

1-800-STFU
Copy Clerk
Posts: 92
Joined: 8 Jun 2008

Yeah I am here. I love videogames, baseball, and metal.

Thats about it. Friend showed me ZP's reviews. Loved um sense.

Oh, and I HATE Bush(I am from the US)

DryaUnda
Anonymous Source
Posts: 1
Joined: 12 Jul 2008

Hello. I'm not even much of a lurker here, only knowing of The Escapist via Zero Punctuation. The main reason I joined these forums is to plug Dominions 3 (without being labeled a spammer of course), hopefully getting enough people talking about it to prompt a review from Yatzee (which will in effect plug it even more).

I'm neutral about most things video game, so opine away with me. Politically (because everything online is politics, porn, or publishing, exactly as Ben Franklin intended), I'm (if I may use US terminology) left-center and disgusted by the extremes on *both* wings. My big political interest (if you can call it that) is physically transformative enhancement technologies (If anyone can think up a concise term that doesn't have the stigma that "transhuman"does, I'd love to read it.) I'm not particularly active, however, and won't be until the big names in transhumanism get out of the ivory tower.

Two lean & meaty paragraphs, each with a plug. I think that's a good start.

(Edited, for the mods don't like links. Not a problem.)

josh797
Press Junketeer
Posts: 498
Joined: 20 Nov 2007

PurpleRain:
Hi I join about 8 and a half months ago. The Escapist looks like a friendly site so I thought I would join. I hope to meet some interesting people who enjoy what I do.

purps i hope that was a joke. you arent new here. you have the highest post count of any member.

nilcypher
News Room Contributor
Posts: 1828
Joined: 21 Feb 2008

DryaUnda:

Two lean & meaty paragraphs, each with a plug. I think that's a good start.

No, it really isn't.

Haliwali
Pulitzer Laureate
Posts: 712
Joined: 29 Jan 2008

Hi my name Haliwali, I'm an alcoholic. Wait, wrong place.
I joined to talk about Good vs Evil, but didn't post on it till yesterday. And John Galt's philosophy kind of caught my attention. He reminds me of me about 2 or 3 years ago.

the monopoly guy
Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2719
Joined: 8 May 2008

Hello, my name is the monopoly guy, and I came here because it is immense amounts of unmitigated awesome. I'd known about the site for a while and finally joind the 8th of May and don't want to give up my Pulitzer Laureate

somewhow I haven't been banned yet but it's either because of my charisma or the mods are just waiting in the undergrowth...waiting...but I have a feeling it's coming up soon.
I was put on probation for 1 day for posting banhammer pictures. Oh, yea, and I like bacon.

Furrama
Paperboy
Posts: 32
Joined: 24 Jul 2008

Is new, I live on dA.

Come visit me there :D (Link removed by a moderator)

Bendygibbon
Anonymous Source
Posts: 5
Joined: 23 Jul 2008

I just joined the other day after being a lurker in the forums for a while, although I first came to the site via Zero Punctuation. I'm Hannah, I'm from England and I'm a student in Computer Games Design (just finished my first year). I'm into drawing/digital painting, music and games, of course.

It's nice to see a forum that has some real discussion going on, not just pages of flaming and lolcats.

P.S. I enjoy long, romantic walks on the beach etc.

Thais
Beat Writer
Posts: 185
Joined: 12 Jun 2008

I'm Kate (and if Hannah is who I think she is, she knows me as Amelia Bosque and is the person who pointed me to the site.) I'm in Iowa, sell insurance and if you can't find me here, you can find me at PanHistoria, pretending I know what the hell I'm doing and why I'm suddenly part of the staff over there.

Never looked at ZP, although I understand a lot of you love it and think it's funny. I'm here...well, to avoid thinking about my job, mostly. If I thought about it too hard I'd scream until my head exploded.

SargentToughie
Gone Gonzo
Posts: 4526
Joined: 14 Jun 2008

Hello, my name Is Sargent Toughie, lord of the Kithkins, I joined this site about a month ago because I really needed something to do that did not involve epic battles or pillaging villages.

sammyfreak
Gone Gonzo
Posts: 1550
Joined: 5 Dec 2007

I am the resident ignorant religious nut here, known as Samuel Paulsson. I like making references to books that make me look smart and trying to read them afterwards (often failing).

Playing Devils Advocate is one of my favorite past-times and I have a tendance to be fanboyish to people I admire.

huntedannoyed
Muckraker
Posts: 330
Joined: 23 Apr 2008

Hello everybody. That's my name over there (<--). I came for Zero Punctuation, and stayed for the discussions.

Eiseman
Muckraker
Posts: 300
Joined: 23 Jul 2008

I joined just yesterday, actually. You can thank Yahtzee originally for luring me to the Escapist, that was about two months ago. I decided to join the forums when I discovered how intelligent and, dare I say it, mature everybody acts around here (seriously, you guys know that this is the internets, right?). I was so darn impressed that I even took the trouble to custom-build my own avatar. I think I'm gonna like this place.

Anarchemitis
Gone Gonzo
Posts: 4409
Joined: 23 Dec 2007

imageHi! I joined because I was on the Esca-Hey Cool, they have one of those new-fangled "Forums". Looks neat, I think I'll try it out.
Needless to say it's a place of wonder, comfort, friendship Banhammer upon Anvil with great smiths moderators that keep the place in check (I know firsthand) and intelligence. It's like the Site apart from time!

TomNook:
Hi I'm Tom, and I'm a recovering fanboy.

You're coming along fine, Tom. Tommorow we start step 11.

Cpt. Red
Beat Writer
Posts: 141
Joined: 24 Jul 2008

Hi..
I also came for Zero Puntuation(gotta love those videos) and after som while checking out some threads from the "Whats new" area I finally decided to join...

I whould like to classify me as a wierd dude and a gamer... Im realy fond of intelligent and philosofical discussions and will probably annoy some people with saying that 'you cant know if this exists' and 'you cant know anything, you can only belive' and other philisofical crap that annoyed the hell out of my classmates during class...

oh yhea I am also a skeptic cynic that belives in love(or rather WANTS to belive in love so mutch that I ignore the fact that its realy just a chemical reaction in the brain that last for about 3 years) but realise that I will probaby never find love...

well who cares, its not like somone is actually going to read this crap anyway...

PS oh yhea Im a swede so forgive my occasional grammar and spelling mistakes...

PurpleRain
Gone Gonzo
Posts: 4235
Joined: 2 Dec 2007

josh797:

PurpleRain:
Hi I join about 8 and a half months ago. The Escapist looks like a friendly site so I thought I would join. I hope to meet some interesting people who enjoy what I do.

purps i hope that was a joke. you arent new here. you have the highest post count of any member.

I'm not new?!

Actually there's some who trolls the News Forum with way more then I do. (Shakes fist) I'll get him one day.

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