Befriending

- I Can Has Friend? - Add 1 friend
- Bestest Friend - 10 friends
- Lover, not a Fighter - 100 friends
- You Like Me! - Be added as a friend by 1 other
- You Really Like Me! - 10 others
- Socialite - 25 others
- Pillar of the Community - 50 others
- Cyber Celeb - 100 others
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Content

- Escapist Show - Watched 2 / 5 / 20 / 44 episodes, episodes: 7 17 20 and DDKR episodes[1]
- Unskippable - Watched 3 / 7 / 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 episodes and all MGS4 episodes: 1 2 3 4 5
- Escapist Magazine Has read at least one article in 5 / 26 / 52 / 104 / 208 issues
- Apocalypse Lane - Watched 7 / 15 / 25 episodes and episodes: 1
- Rebecca Mayes Muses - Watched 1 / 2 / 4 / 8 episodes
- Stolen Pixels - Has read 5 / 25 / 75 issues
- Doomsday Arcade - Watched 5 / 10 / 15 episodes
- There Will Be Brawl - Watched 3 / 5 / all episodes
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Contributing and Staff

- The Escapist Contributor - Become a contributor to the Escapist
- WarCry Contributor - Become a contributor to WarCry[2]
- Film Maker - Granted for being a movie contributor
- Guest Reviewer - Be chosen to write a Guest Review
- News Hound - Granted for being an Escapist News Contributor
- Tech Team Badge - Granted to members of the Escapist's Tech Team[3]
- OMG Pony!!1 - Members of staff can award themselves this badge (also see 'Expired' contest badges)
- Columnist - Awarded by and for staff members at their own leisure
- On a Role - Have your Forum RPG listed within The Escapists RP digest[4] section
- Trebek in Training - Have a quiz you wrote and submitted published on The Escapist

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Genre Wars

- Fighting 1 / 10 / 100 / 1,000 / 5,000 Battles in Genre Wars[5]
- Winning 1 / 10 / 50 / 100 / 1,000 Battles
- Earning 10,000 / 25,000 / 50,000 / 100,000 / 1,000,000 Treasure
- Winning 1 / 10 / 50 / 100 Battles without the loss of a complete army
- Earning 20,000 / 200,000 Treasure in a single battle
- Winning 2 / 5 battles without returning to base
- Winning 11 / 50 battles in a row
- Kill every single one of your opponents units
- Retreat from 1 challenge
- Win a battle with an army worth less (in treasure) than half of the opponent's
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Messaging

- In Touch - Receive and read personal messages (excluding system) from 10 different users
- Communicator - 25 users
- Connector - 50 users
- Maven - 100 users
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Posting

- Notable Poster - Over 100 posts without incurring moderator wrath[6] (also requires 2 weeks membership)
- Epic Poster - Over 1,000 posts (2 months membership)
- Real Ultimate Poster - Over 5,000 posts (6 months membership)
- Forum Explorer - Post in 4 different forum sections (e.g. Off-Topic, Gaming Discussion, Forum Games, etc.)
- Forum Vagabond - 11 different forum sections (WarCry[7] forums count)
- Chatty! - Comment on 100 different topics
- Prolific - 1,000 different topics
- Regular - Post in 13 different months
- Landmark - 37 different months
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Profile

- Make Yourself at Home - Create a user profile
- Face With a Name - Set an avatar
- Steamy! - Link your Steam account to your profile
- Play(Station)ers - Link your PSN account to your profile
- X-Factor - Link your XBOX Live account to your profile
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Quizzes

- Cinco de Quizo - For completing at least 5 of the Escapist Quizzes
- Decathaquiz - 10 quizzes
- Two Bits O' Quiz - 25 quizzes
- 10 about 4 - For taking the Escapist Birthday Quiz
- Average Bear - For scoring 100% on the Escapist Birthday Quiz
- Live Long and Prosper - Score 100% in the Star Trek Quiz
- Survivor - Score 100% on The Escapist's Left 4 Dead Quiz
- Beat Him At His Own Game - Scored 100% on the Impossible Yahtzee Quiz
- Mmmrrrggglllrlglrlglr! - Ace the Normal WoW Quiz
- An Arcane Intellect - Ace the Impossible WoW Quiz
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Topics

- Excellent Topic - Create a thread that receives over 50 replies
- Amazing Topic! - 1,000 replies
- Hot Topic - Create a thread that receives 1,000 views
- On Fire - 10,000 views
- Forum Inferno - 100,000 views
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User Group

- User Group Member - Member of 1 user group
- User Group Regular - 15 user groups
- User Group Butterfly - 50 user groups
- Temporarily Unavailable[8] - RP Student - Has posted in an RP group 250 times
- Temporarily Unavailable - RP Guide - 1000 times
- User Group Bookmark - Has posted in a user group on over 30 different days
- Founder Lord - Founder of a user group with 25+ members
- Founder Prince - 100+ members
- Founder King - 225+ members
- User Group Director - Founder of 5 User Groups with 15+ members in each
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Other

- Thanks! - For uniquely contributing to or helping out the staff and community
- Arcade Escapee - Complete the Phantom of the Arcade text-based game
- Up Your Sleeve - Finished the PotA2 text based game with the handkerchief[9]
- Rest In - Finished the PotA2 text based game without the handkerchief
- Long-Time Listener, First-Time Caller - Have one of your comments published in the weekly Letters to the Editor[10]
- Bamalam! - Available by joining the 'Dance Dance Kitten Revolution'[11] PM a staff member to attempt to enlist
- 4th Birthday PDF - Available via a link in the PDF version of Escapist Issue #210
- Ubermensch - Awarded by following a link in the Play Life and Live Games article

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Contests

- Awarded during the Film Festival for participating, honourable mentions, and top 3 places
- Awarded in various Gamerlympics contests for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place and for an honourable mention
- Earned an honourable mention or a Top 3 place in any of the Summer E Games events
- Awarded to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place entries in a Photoshop Contest based on video-game mash-ups
- T-Shirt Contest badges: submitting an idea (left), Reaching the finals (middle) and winning a category (right)
- Entering and voting for a Red-Faction video Mashup in the Blow Stuff Up Contest
- This badge was earned by posting an idea for the Escapist Slogan Contest
- Awarded to those with top placings in the Spore Creature Creator contest
- The World of Warcraft Contest badge was given to the winners of various WoW competitions
- Awarded to members who won 'Wrath of the Lich King' Beta keys from WarCry
- The Cookie! badge was awarded to Lvl 64 Klutz (only participant) for sending the Escapist staff the best cookies in a contest
- Given to those who won prizes in an Eve Online Competition
- Evil Raven665 was awarded this for winning the Pony Badge Contest. Also see 'Contributing/Staff'
- Entered a valid entry for the Summer E Games T-Shirt Contest
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Festive

Halloween '08 badges were awarded for completing 30 Monsters in 30 Seconds, 30 Zombies in 30 Seconds and for completing all three festive games from the WarCry website (Phantom of the Arcade being the third)

One of the above (random) was granted to all members on Christmas '08

One of the above (random) was granted to all members on Valentines Day '09

- Granted to all members on The Escapist's 4th Birthday

Halloween '09 badges were awarded for completing 30 Horror Movies in 30 Seconds, 30 Vampires in 30 Seconds, 30 Robots in 30 Seconds and for completing all four festive games (Phantom of the Arcade 2 being the fourth)

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Quizzes and Surveys

- Fable 2 badges were awarded depending on your outcome in a week-running character personality survey
- For taking the Unforgotten Realms Trivia and scoring 100%
- samsprinkle was awarded with this Fable 2 badge for being the grand winner of the character personality survey
- Demographer was awarded for participating in a third party Gamer Lifestyle Survey
- ZP Mashup was given to those who aced a Zero-Punctuation clip show quiz
- Awarded for winning a copy of 'Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning' in a trivia
- Taking part in a Red Faction Quiz
- Scored 100% in all six sections of The Epic Quiz (Summer E Games)
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Other

- Awarded to participants of the Escapist's Team Fortress 2 Tourny and the top 4 winning teams
- Awarded to Project Powder players who achieved top map tunes(blue) and the Project Powder over-all winner (gold)
- Voting for one of four Escapist Staff Members in a Street Fighter 4 Showdown (left) and for voting Keane Ng, the winner
- Awarded for voting in every poll in March Mahem 2009 (left) and voting for Turbine, the winners (right)
- Awarded for voting in every Legacy Battle 2009 poll and for voting for Half-Life, the winning Legacy
- Awarded to users chosen to fight for the Escapist on Planetside and those who contributed to the Escapist's victory
- Given to Escapists who attended an Escapist NY Comic-Con Meet-Up
- Awarded to all Escapists when they won the webby award for 'best gaming related website'
- For having a comment posted in the special Escapist Birthday PDF issue
- Awarded as a celebration to staff members who worked into the early hours finishing a special project[12]
- Given to Russ Pitts for taking a lone vacation, camping in the wilderness
- The 'Beta Chatter' badge was given to those who participated in the 'Escapist Live'[13] beta chat
- Awarded to everybody who successfully guessed the final destination in the Desert Bus charity event

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You forgot Arcade Escapee

I'll be lurking around this thread until I know how to get that star badge...

This thread will be handy for new users.
EDIT: What's the deal with that pony badge? How does one go about getting it?

I saw someone with a pony badge once..

...I want it o.o

I always wondered why there was never a complete list anywhere, and if there is well I guess I missed it. This is very handy, I just hope nobody whores themselves out more to get them now that they can see the requirements. It was fun when I first signed up here, and the badges were coming, and I had no clue that I was going to get one for whatever reason. Just another small thing that makes the Escapist forums more interesting than others.

Well its not complete or a guide really, but it helps.

ansem1532:
I saw someone with a pony badge once..

...I want it o.o

OMG Pony!!1 - Become "one with the pony"

...I don't get it? What is the commotion with badges? I mean, sure Morpheus is cool and all, really, Reaaaallly cool, but...um...what was I talking about? Oooohhh! Badges!

CaptainCrunch:

ansem1532:
I saw someone with a pony badge once..

...I want it o.o

OMG Pony!!1 - Become "one with the pony"

I normally never do this but..

OMG I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one!!!!!!!!!!1!1!!!1!!!

You forgot Zombie repellent as well...

A few no one's mentioned:

Real Ultimate Poster: 5000 posts without incurring moderator wrath (6 month minimum). It's a picture of Neo.

Then there's a badge for creating a thread with more than 100,000 views...
EDIT: Above badge is called "Forum Inferno". I wonder how many users have ever earned it...

ansem1532:

CaptainCrunch:

ansem1532:
I saw someone with a pony badge once..

...I want it o.o

OMG Pony!!1 - Become "one with the pony"

I normally never do this but..

OMG I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one!!!!!!!!!!1!1!!!1!!!

Dude, if you get one by doing this.... I'll probably do it as well.

Zetona:
Then there's a badge for creating a thread with more than 100,000 views...

What does that even look like?!?

Chapper:

ansem1532:

CaptainCrunch:

ansem1532:
I saw someone with a pony badge once..

...I want it o.o

OMG Pony!!1 - Become "one with the pony"

I normally never do this but..

OMG I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one, I want one!!!!!!!!!!1!1!!!1!!!

Dude, if you get one by doing this.... I'll probably do it as well.

>.> this gives me an idea

*sends message to the escapist staff with the message saying: PONY BADGE NOW!

Quite the handy thread :)

I will make-out with my computer screen if this thread reveals how to get either the Thanks! badge with the star or the OMG Pony!!1 badge.

doxcology:
I will make-out with my computer screen if this thread reveals how to get either the Thanks! badge with the star or the OMG Pony!!1 badge.

thats hawt.

I think you gotta have videos or stories for the pony one. And for the Thanks! badge, I'm guessing you gotta complement a staff member or help someone out with a problem, but I could be wrong.

Chapper:
I'll be lurking around this thread until I know how to get that star badge...

That will almost certainly never be revealed.

carnkhan4:

Zetona:
Then there's a badge for creating a thread with more than 100,000 views...

What does that even look like?!?

I think its a yellow flame with a black background. I beleive Greever from the Warcry forums has it.

doxcology:
I will make-out with my computer screen if this thread reveals how to get either the Thanks! badge with the star or the OMG Pony!!1 badge.

From what I've heard, they are specially awarded by the staff.

Do something to impress the staff, and may get a badge.

rottenbutter:

doxcology:
I will make-out with my computer screen if this thread reveals how to get either the Thanks! badge with the star or the OMG Pony!!1 badge.

From what I've heard, they are specially awarded by the staff.

Do something to impress the staff, and may get a badge.

You don't want to know what I had to do to get mine.

I.. I need to go shower. So dirty!

Supernovajake:

carnkhan4:

Zetona:
Then there's a badge for creating a thread with more than 100,000 views...

What does that even look like?!?

I think its a yellow flame with a black background. I beleive Greever from the Warcry forums has it.

That 100,000 views thread is called "Forum Inferno."

CantFaketheFunk:
Quite the handy thread :)

Paging Carrie to the Pony Badge extravaganza...

What about the 1up mushroom? Was that an Xmas gift?
I've got a thing for the 1up Icon. I'm not much for forum-anythings, but when there's the chance for earning that icon, I feel like I gotta make a grab for it. :D

How does one get the OMG Pony!!1

Richard Groovy Pants:
So basically this thread is about badges and their descriptions? Really?

Well then we have tons to discuss don't we!?

Also I have the Thanks! badge. Because I'm quirky like that.

Why, yes, yes we do.

And I've always wanted to know how to do that....

Firia:
What about the 1up mushroom? Was that an Xmas gift?

Yes it was. And apparently a rare one. I've only seen about 2 other people with it. I love my mushroom!

EDIT: Although I would have loved a Weighted Companion Cube badge even more...

Regular - Has posted for more than 12 months

Landmark - Has posted for more than 36 months! Wow!

irishdelinquent:
How does one get the OMG Pony!!1

One achieves true poniosity.

I hate to burst bubbles here, but all this is going to do is spawn more trolls and badge whores. The pony badge is just true randomness in its purest form. There is no one "Way" to get the pony badge. stop asking how to get the pony badge, your never going to find out how to get the pony badge. Its just there for shits n giggles. (I am in no way calling anyone specific a badge whore, but I believe wilson has said there won't be a badge list made by the site because it attracts the wrong kind of posters, no offence intended.)

Badges should simply be something fun, not the one and only reason you post here. I have one more thing to say............PONY PONY PONY!!! ZORT!

Richard Groovy Pants:
Also I have the Thanks! badge. Because I'm quirky like that.

Who do I have to kill to get one of those?

Seriously, gimme a name and a location, double tap, over in seconds.

I think to get the pony badge you need to be an Escapist staff member.
The thanks! badge is surely for helping with something. What I haven't the slightest idea, but I am sure it was something that I had the chance to do, or to volunteer, or generally something I could have done but didn't and then I will feel bummed.

On Fire-create a topic with over 10,000 posts.