Rumor: PS4 50% More Powerful Than Xbox 720
Rumor: PS4 50% More Powerful Than Xbox 720 Conflicting reports from developer sources may reveal next-gen console specs. With reported E3 2013 announcements and holiday season releases, rumors about...
View ArticleCongressman Seeks New Game Rating Legislation
Congressman Seeks New Game Rating Legislation Another U.S. legislator is seeking a law against selling M-rated games to minors. It's been awhile since the last time we did this dance, so here's a quick...
View ArticleMovie Defense Force: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 Movie Defense Force takes up the shield to fight for another mauled victim, this week tackling one of the most loathed horror sequels of all time. Follow Jim on twitter...
View ArticleAcronym my username
Well it's pretty much what the thread title suggests. For the those of you unclear on what an 'Acronym' is: An acronym is an abbreviation formed from the initial components or first letters of a phrase...
View ArticleStupidist things youve heard people say
I dont mean this to be a hate thread...people both smart and dumb somtimes say the most hilarious things my example is from my mum a couple of days ago....we were in the city and I met up with her and...
View ArticlePoll: Lets pretend the government passes a law stating that you can't have a...
Hypothetically of course. But what would YOU as a gun owner do? Hide your guns? Would you kill the person that comes to your house trying to take them? Is gun ownership worth your life or the life of...
View ArticleFavorite Let's Plays
I'm nearing the end of the notorious Game Grumps Sonic 06' LP series here's the first video and I thought it would be neat to hear about everybody's favorite LP series'/videos. My personal favorite is...
View ArticleWe Are Our Avatars VI (Open)
Welcome to We Are Our Avatars VI Ahem. Welcome to We Are Our Avatars VI, or WAOAVI for short. My name is Saltyk, and I will be acting as the Game Master for this thread. That means that I am more or...
View ArticlePoll: SCIENCE DEMANDS ANSWER: Who do you have sexytimes with?
As I've spent my time on this here glorious Escapist, I've seen many people comment on their wide and varied sexualities. Recently, however, a particular poster commented that he believed that there...
View ArticlePoll: Open World or Linear?
Games come in many shapes, forms and sizes but I'm pretty sure that we can commonly use "linear" or "open" to describe how we progress through them. I can also assume that after playing a wide variety...
View ArticleWhat is being homophobic?
Okay firstly let me clear up where I'm coming from, I'm your typical heterosexual male aged in his 20's. And I have a dilemma - you see, I absolutely love the sight of two women kissing or getting it...
View ArticlePoll: Hack and slash fans- your favourite game?
So, having been reading around the new DMC (let's just say I'm not impressed), and getting excited for Bayonetta 2, I got to thinking about hack-and-slash games in general. The genre really does seem...
View ArticleWorst (Trivial) Feeling Ever
What is the worst TRIVIAL feeling ever? By "trivial" I mean something that doesn't have a huge impact on your life. So, for instance, my worst feeling is when my tea gets cold before I can finish the...
View ArticlePoll: Which Chaos god would you serve?
This popped up on my mind today. Of the 4 Warhammer great Chaos gods, Nurgle, Slaanesh, Khorne and Tzeentch, which one would you serve? Here's what each one would offer: Khorne: ultimate physical...
View ArticleStupidist things youve heard people say
I dont mean this to be a hate thread...people both smart and dumb somtimes say the most hilarious things my example is from my mum a couple of days ago....we were in the city and I met up with her and...
View ArticlePoll: Let's settle something right now, can you defend yourself with a gun?
There's been this discussion in the Religion and Politics section of the forum and it concerns this. Can you use a gun to defend yourself? At least one person claimed it's a myth and that it never...
View ArticlePiracy: How would you stop it?
Now plenty of people on the Escapist have made it clear that piracy is wrong.But I now pose a new question to you: How would you go about preventing piracy without having the majority of the internet...
View ArticleHow are YOU holding gaming back?
There was a time I believed that gaming could be a purely individual experience, a way for me personally to unwind and have some fun in my spare time... I never felt I was hurting anybody else with my...
View ArticleGlee Rips Off Jonathan Coulton
Glee Rips Off Jonathan Coulton The Glee version of "Baby Got Back" apparently used Jonathan Coulton's arrangement without his knowledge or permission. Glee, the fairly popular Fox TV show featuring the...
View ArticleWhere the hell is the Tropes Vs. Women video(s)?
I am legitimately curious as to where the video(s) Ms. Sarkeesian promised on her Kickstarter are? The deadline she projected was somewhere in Aug., but in Sep. after missing the deadline, she admitted...
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