HipForums is a parody if its former self. If you're looking for all the old school crew of this site from 10 years ago, they've all migrated to www.treefortforums.net.
One day the people in charge decided to purge everyone who didn't step in line with their points of view. So now when you visit this site, it's basically a boring hive mind, and a bunch of geriatrics flooding the forums with.gif images and behaving like schoolyard brats.
Don't get me wrong. I was a 10-year member of this site, and I used to love it here. Main problem is, all the fun, witty, and intelligent people were ostracized and forced to start a new community elsewhere.