Community Member Spotlight Claymorez

Usually, most people would quit right there and stop coming up with new ideas. However, Claymorez did not quit; he continued to think of ways to improve the forums and contacted me again with the idea of keeping a “community map” of The Escapist and its offerings, services, and features. Unfortunately, we already had one, but it was a quite out of date. He volunteered to keep his version up to date all by himself. He dug around, found out all the information (with the assistance of some very kind users while he was building it), and it is now up and running for everyone to see. If he hadn’t already earned the “Thanks!” badge, he would have definitely earned it for this work of art. Here are his answers to the interview questions: What first brought you to The Escapist? What is your favorite thing about The Escapist? If The Escapist suddenly disappeared, what is the first thing you would do? Well I suppose I have to say the community in general, both on and off the forums. There is something here for everyone, and you can always find people with similar interests and personalities to yourself, which in turn leads to the development of friendships with people I would never otherwise have the chance to meet. But then again I also think the best thing is probably the attitude of the people on The Escapist who generally are really kind and respectful of each other and supportive of each other like an extended family! A zombie is attacking you and you were caught off-guard. You are startled, start running and notice a bag of marshmallows. What do you do? Or, alternatively and more likely, I would go to Google, find out if the URL address is up for sale, if so buy it, then re-create The Escapist in the same way and try and rebuild the community as fast as possible! Within a day or so things would be back to normal, with my obsessive nature driving the project. 😛 My plan is only funny because its true … What is your favorite movie and why? Then I would turn on the zombie and go “Mano-a-mano,” delivering a round house kick, playing dirty and using every tool at my disposal to win. Whilst chanting my war chant, “NO PITY, NO REMORSE, NO FEAR!” What is your favorite type of music, band, and how did you first discover it/them? I want to say Lord of the Rings, but the truth is V for Vendetta takes the gold by the skin of its metaphorical chin! The film is just brilliantly choreographed and presented. There is a dark sense of suspense in parts and at other sections, delightful sprinkles of comedy that don’t ruin the film, but set a nice mood and provide a spectrum of themes for viewers. I still get excited watching all the awesome scenes in it and fights. Not to mention it has so many brilliant quotes! 😛 “Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.” – V Watch it and you’ll known what I am talking about. xD What do you do for a living? Do you find it interesting? Honestly, I play Warcraft III on and off, on it is a community/custom made game called Run Kitty Run, a maze and dodging like game. Someone had sped the song “Numb” by them up, so the lyrics and everything were squeaky and programmed it as the song for the custom game. I played the game lots and eventually found out from another player what song was used and I heard it normally and fell in love with them. Thou I do go and listen to the sped up version on occasion, for old times sakes 😛 If you could change one thing about The Escapist, what would it be? Do you like bacon? If someone gave you a million US Dollars, tax free, and you were required to spend it instead of investing, what would you spend it on? OK … Everyone get on the floor, put your hands on your head, nice and slow, and hand over all the bacon you have on you, no one has to get hurt here. 😛 … So, yes. 🙂 I’ll expect everyone that reads this article will get a free cookie from Claymorez if he ever gets that cash. Many thanks to Claymorez for letting me shine the spotlight on him! If you would like to nominate someone for an upcoming Community Member Spotlight, feel free to let me (that is, Kuliani) know through a PM! When nominating, please tell us why this user deserves to be in the next Community Member Spotlight and provide links if possible.