The Room of Awesome (as you see it here) is a tiny, sleepy little community site located somewhere in the great and terrible sea of stuff called The Internet. Marco designed this site mostly from scratch, with the help of a few suggestions and criticisms from the community’s regulars. It’s still a work in progress, and we’re working on making it thoughtfully designed, attractively minimalist, nicely featured and a welcome place for anybody who actively tries not to be an internet douchebag using their anonymity as a weapon.

So all of this mess started as a little channel called #theroomofawesome on the Xelium IRC network as a refuge for a few individuals, inspired by sarcastic cynicism, random amusing conversations, a wee bit of seriousness and copious use of hyperbole. There, nothing really happened much until some random people that were more well-known and somehow respected on that network decided to be dicks and screwed around with the channel regulars. It grew annoying and tiresome so we jumped ship a couple times to various networks, most of which were revealed to be havens for porn and warez and didn’t give us much reason to stay. But the channel grew in population a little bit each time we moved, and we finally landed not too long ago on the GameSurge network where the various gamer-types seem to like being. And so we stayed.

Those origins are why the vast majority of the action goes on in our IRC channel. It’s acessible via the #theroomofawesome Java Chat at the top of the page or by pointing your IRC client of choice to irc.gamesurge.net:6667 and joining #theroomofawesome. When there, don’t mind TheMedic… he won’t bite. He might steal your papers without asking, insult you and saw your limbs off in the name of a medical victory though.

We also have a Steam Community group. It’s not as active or highly-rated as a clan might be… because we’re not a bloody clan in the first place.

A guestmap also exists, and has apparently been visited by such illustrious bastards as Borat, Santa Claus and some kind of sea dragon. Probably not, but their markers have mysteriously appeared there nonetheless.