The Escapist

[Signe]

But... but... we've always been so close.  Hold me, Strazos.  Hold me like you did that time by the lake on Naboo.

[SuperPopTart]

She's not my favorite poster, for teh hate is strong with her.

To be on topic, Haemish's entry was funny.

Yeeah.

Oh you crazy boy.  You know you love me. 

Oh yes.

Signe, I love you. You are my favourite poster.

[Strazos]

But... but... we've always been so close.  Hold me, Strazos.  Hold me like you did that time by the lake on Naboo.

[Soukyan]

Well, the site is live, but the links give multiple SQL errors... how... quaint.

[edit]And suddenly it works. Somebody is manning the DB server. ;)[/edit]

[Shockeye]

EDITORIAL

Content Editor
Julianne Greer

Contributing Editors
Joseph Blancato
JR Sutich

Research Manager
Nova Barlow

Contributors
Tycho Brahe
Jennifer Buckendorf
Kieron Gillen
John Tynes

PRODUCTION & DESIGN

Production Manager
Jonathan Hayter
Lead Web Developer
Whitney Butts

IT Director
Jason Smith

BUSINESS

Publisher
Alexander Macris

Chief Financial Officer
Thomas S. Kurz

Director of Advertising
Susan Briglia

Associate Publishers
Jerry Godwin
Gregory Lincoln

Volume 1, Issue 1, © 2005. The Escapist is published weekly by Themis Group, Inc. Produced in the United States of America.

[Biobanger]

Buckendorff has a good point there...

[schild]

Contrary to popular belief, I am not John Tynes.

Edit: I bet Tycho got paid more than 25c a word.

After reading it, all I can say is:





Whoa.

[Signe]

The Escapist has Casual Fridays.  We should have, like, silly hat day or sommat.

Just sayin'....

[HaemishM]

After having read one article, I can honestly say I REALLY REALLY HATE THE DESIGN.

The web is not a magazine. It isn't. It's vertical. It involves scrolling. I like pages that scroll.

As a web designer, I hate horizontal, placard type design. I hate it when there isn't even a lot of text on the page. I hate it even more when there is a lot of text on the page that's all trying to fit horizontally. It makes my eyes hurt, and I don't want to read it anymore.

[Biobanger]

After having read one article, I can honestly say I REALLY REALLY HATE THE DESIGN.

The web is not a magazine. It isn't. It's vertical. It involves scrolling. I like pages that scroll.

As a web designer, I hate horizontal, placard type design. I hate it when there isn't even a lot of text on the page. I hate it even more when there is a lot of text on the page that's all trying to fit horizontally. It makes my eyes hurt, and I don't want to read it anymore.

Stuck in the box? :)

[HaemishM]

I like my box.

[WayAbvPar]

She's not my favorite poster, for teh hate is strong with her.

To be on topic, Haemish's entry was funny.

Yeeah.

Oh you crazy boy.  You know you love me. 

Oh yes.

Signe, I love you. You are my favourite poster.

Hawt.

[Righ]

Yes, because Themis is original in every aspect of what they do. 

Such as the title of their gaming site

[Soln]

EDITORIAL

Content Editor
Julianne Greer

Contributing Editors
Joseph Blancato
JR Sutich

Research Manager
Nova Barlow

Contributors
Tycho Brahe
Jennifer Buckendorf
Kieron Gillen
John Tynes

PRODUCTION & DESIGN

Production Manager
Jonathan Hayter
Lead Web Developer
Whitney Butts

IT Director
Jason Smith

BUSINESS

Publisher
Alexander Macris

Chief Financial Officer
Thomas S. Kurz

Director of Advertising
Susan Briglia

Associate Publishers
Jerry Godwin
Gregory Lincoln

Volume 1, Issue 1, © 2005. The Escapist is published weekly by Themis Group, Inc. Produced in the United States of America.

Well good to see they have someone with odd parents, or just a moose-fanboi with a fake nose.

[Lum]

Tycho Brahe is the nom de plume of Jerry Holkins from Penny Arcade.

[Biobanger]

Yes, because Themis is original in every aspect of what they do. 

Such as the title of their gaming site

Good lord almighty, Themis Group needs to give that "highly-skilled web designer of vertical scrolling" $50 and take his domain...

[Shockeye]

I give up. The Escapist is just too damn professional. f13.net shutting down in 3... 2... 1...

[schild]

/.vertised.

[Signe]

Hush.  I read every one of their articles.  I don't think anyone has anything to worry about.

(except maybe the 2 lawyers who own Themis if that name is protected under a copyright)

[Strazos]

I would expect as much from Slashdot...

Can someone please instruct them on proper web design and color combonations? It's like the person who does their designs has a constant supply of LSD and/or E.

[Righ]

/.vertised.

Bill Walton of theescapist.com confirmed that he is not involved with the Themis games site of the same bloody name. I pointed out their cheek on the slashdot advert thread. Just count yourselves lucky they didn't go with f13 for a name.

[Hanzii]

I would expect as much from Slashdot...

Can someone please instruct them on proper web design and color combonations? It's like the person who does their designs has a constant supply of LSD and/or E.

Nothing wrong with the colours (unless you're talking about Slashdots?)
But it's a stupid design nonetheless.
Wan't to make a magazine? Go make a magazine and fucking print it. Want to make a website about gaming? Use links, use hypertext, use the tools of the net (and while I don't NEED the text to scroll, like Haem, there's nothing wrong with scrolling text.) Even if you imagine this as a printmagazine, its badly designed.

The illustrations serve no purpose. Illustrations are good - most webjournalism could do with more - but illustrations should illustrate (d'uh). It's a diffrerent way to tell the same story, an added entry point to the story (both the picture itself, which should have something to tell, easily decoded, and the text accompaning the picture... which only really arty magazines are allowed to do without... and in most cases it's a bad idea even for those magazines)
Here there's no additional text. The pictures, just break the monothomy of the text (and badly so) and add nothing, because it's just stock-illustrations.
Crappy webdesign and crappy web-writing ...oh wait, The Contrarian (When gaming is everywhere, gaming is nowhere - WTF?) has a few links... so that's allright then.

well, it's a job for Joe... bully for him.

[Strazos]

Nothing wrong with the colours (unless you're talking about Slashdots?)

I was referring to the Slashdot link, yes.

It makes me stabby 

[jinxer]

Ok, Issue 2 of the escapist is out and there's an article where-in the DS, PSP, and N-gage powered smartphones are ranked.  DS takes top slot!  And guess who takes second, according to the writer?  You'll never believe it!  www.escapistmagazine.com

LoL.  I kindof agree with the DS part, I have one and love it.  Don't know about the rest, though.  Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Also, there's an article about RPGs on phones and portables, I don't understand it.  I'd much rather play RPGs on my PC, sometimes a console, but mainly PC. 

[stray]

Not linking directly to the article tells me that there's more to this post than just an interest in the DS.

[Shockeye]

Pathetic.

I'll let Haemish or schild go batshit insane and wield the banstick.

[jinxer]

Not linking directly to the article tells me that there's more to this post than just an interest in the DS.

In case you didn't notice, yeah, there was a bit more interest than just the DS.  The RPG article I mentioned above, also.  I don't agree with putting RPGs on mobile platforms, but that's just my 2 cents.  I didn't feel like putting two links in to each of the articles, so sue me.

*bounces around*  Sorry, too much coffee this morning.  :)

[Hoax]

Wait is this in the Den or not.... I'm confused

[Samwise]

The posts are not in themselves denworthy, but they didn't require a brand new topic either.

[jinxer]

Sorry, that was my bad.  I should have replied to this Escapist thread to start with.   

Like I said, too much coffee does bad things to me.   

[Biobanger]

Yeah, so anyway, the new issue taps Tom Chick and has him blow out a review 1/3 the size of Schild's PSP rantings.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/2/16

[Shockeye]

I despise the layout more and more as each "issue" is released.

I did notice that Joe got to write something for last week's "Casual Friday".

[stray]

Yeah, so anyway, the new issue taps Tom Chick and has him blow out a review 1/3 the size of Schild's PSP rantings.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/2/16

With a name like that, he should be doing game commentary in the form of a Jack Chick comic.

I'd probably read it then.

[Yegolev]

I don't know about Jack Chick, but Tom wrote one of my favorite articles on Qt3 titled something like "Aliens vs Predator is better than sex".  Hilarious.

[stray]

I didn't mean that I actually like Jack Chick.....Just in case anyone's wondering. I just like the format. It'd be a great parody is all I'm saying (so long as the one doing the parody is just as batshit insane).