I think of toribash now as more of a social gathering.
Its formed quite a nice community of people that can share ideas and art for honest criticism and praise, which is similar to the real world. I enjoy talking with wiser members of the community about absolute nonsense and absolute sense. The game itself is challenging, brutal, requires a vast amount of concentration and in most cases skill, enjoyable, innovative, unique and a giant bloody ball of glorious ragdoll carnage, deep fried and smothered with prostitutes.
I have made many friends that I can imagine would get along with well in reality and I also enjoy fighting friends that I have made in reality, that I have brought into the game.
The real reason is, because it distracts me from the unbe-frikkin-leivable amount of homework I should be doing.. so yeah.