The Escapist

[Hanzii]

I don't think writing articles is really a creative excersize as much as it is a factual and analytical one.

Then you'd be wrong.

[HaemishM]

I don't think writing articles is really a creative excersize as much as it is a factual and analytical one.

You'd be surprised. Reporting, despite what I think of most journalists, isn't just a rote regurgitation of facts. Opinion articles are even less so.

[Biobanger]

Is this someone from F13? Someone's pen name? http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/3/13 Grats?

[HaemishM]

He used to run Waterthread.org before he got something quite like a real job.

[schild]

Yea, it's Joe. In other words, he's a gamer. He just got burnt out. I'd like to be the first to call bullshit on that article. Ran Waterthread, ran f13 with me for a stint, works for themis warcry the escapist Alex Macris. He's a gamer.

[Biobanger]

Ah, guess it was before my time. /walks away

[Hanzii]

Well, that was bloody pointless.
I've warmed a bit to the layout, and they clearly have the pictures done for the mag (I think, where's the artist/photographers byline?) so even though I still don't feel they're that good, it's clearly a conscious style choice.

But I could have edited all of those articles down to one page (sorry Joe). Actually, the one about spawncamping I would have edited out completely (hard to do when the editor in chief is writing) and the only one with actual newscontent (the one about the horse racing arcade game) I might have kept (but shorter).

[jinxer]

Hmm, the article about Second Life in their latest issue is , um, rather interesting.  It actually kind of makes me want to check out SL, just to see some of the creepy things he talks about.  http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/4/8

[schild]

Their articles have gotten far too long for me to care.

[Samwise]

Second Life is another game I keep meaning to check out.  Emergent gameplay is very much my bag, baby.

This Garry's Mod also intrigues me...

[Yegolev]

I played some Second Life before they "fixed" it.  I totally got that MUSH vibe.  I rode on some sort of machine at an amusement park and started to just float out of the building and away into space.  I mentioned this to one of the Lindens, while it was happening, and the response was "Yeah, that happens sometimes."

[Toast]

Their articles have gotten far too long for me to care.

That's what happens when you pay by the word, i guess.

[HaemishM]

Hmm, the article about Second Life in their latest issue is , um, rather interesting.  It actually kind of makes me want to check out SL, just to see some of the creepy things he talks about.  http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/4/8

I can't read through even half of that article without wanting to smash in the writer's face. Some people (like me) need an editor really, really badly. That article meandered so bad, I stopped reading on the 3rd page, because it took him almost to the end of the second page to talk about anything to do with gaming.

Stop it. Just stop it now.

[Biobanger]

I actually found it creepy enough to keep reading. Like when you poke that weird plant/fugus formation on your sidewalk...

[Fabricated]

Wow, they have an article on Garry's Mod. Someone put this thing out of its misery.

[Trippy]

Hmm, the article about Second Life in their latest issue is , um, rather interesting.  It actually kind of makes me want to check out SL, just to see some of the creepy things he talks about.  http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/4/8

You can read The Second Life Hearld for more details about the "adult" stuff that goes on in the game. TSLH used to be The Alphaville Hearld where they would chronicle the seedier side of TSO like the child prostitution rings but they switched over to covering TSL when it was clear TSO was dying and people were jumping ship.

[Shockeye]

It amazes me how often Zonk posts ads/stories on Slashdot Games dealing with Escapist. These are not submitted from other people, but Zonk himself. I wonder how much Themis is paying Slashdot/Zonk to run ads that look like stories.

[Yegolev]

Please explain why you are reading /. Games.  Oh, right... Useless News.  Carry on.

[schild]

It amazes me how often Zonk posts ads/stories on Slashdot Games dealing with Escapist. These are not submitted from other people, but Zonk himself. I wonder how much Themis is paying Slashdot/Zonk to run ads that look like stories.