I know this thread has probably been done to death by this point, and I apologize to the oldfags for that, but I'm genuinely curious about how people heard about this site/joined the forums?
I've known about the Escapist for awhile, courtesy of a friend introducing me to Zero Punctuation a while back, as well as Feed Dump and the related video series.
I joined the forums after I was granted a vacation from my forum forum home.