I started out disliking the Escapist because of its name, and the print-ish format they weirdly adhered to (recently abandoned). Then at one point I read a completely ridiculous article by one of the site’s principal authors — it was just way sillier and checked-out-of-reality than most Escapist articles I had seen. So I got into an email discussion with the author about his article, and he just kept defending it with ever-more ridiculous, ever-more fabricated points. And I realized that his goal was just to write what he wanted to write, without regard to whether it was true, or even defensible.

And that’s how I feel about the magazine now — they will print pretty much anything, and in fact, have an active bias toward topics that are lame. Once in a while I go look at their table of contents and skim a few articles, but nothing seems to have changed.

When I want to read relatively thoughtful and well-considered ideas about games, I will usually turn to private mailing lists, or ActionButton.net, or sometimes the qt3 forums.