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My first name is Lou, but my second name isn't Chou. That's a bit I stole from an amazing movie called "All About Lily Chou Chou" to round off my gaming handle.

Like seemingly 90% of the internet, I aspire to write about video games professionally. The culture, community, and to some extent the industry surrounding gaming are something I'd like to live from day to day.

I've been playing video games since I was about 3. My older brother traded 2 packs of cigarettes for his friend's Commodore 64. His friend was ludicrously rich, so it was a pretty amazing deal. I used to play a lot of Paperboy and Batman on that thing. The latter would give me a fucking headache though, they only used, like, 2 colors when they developed that thing.

The best game I've ever played is Final Fantasy VII. I'm sorry I can't pick something obscure and cool, but it had a profound effect on me. I mean, to the point where I was having FFVII-based dreams every other night. I fucking loved that game, and I wouldn't dare play it again now. It needs to stay in that period of time for me.

I have a personal gaming blog, which may well live here:

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Improvements: It's Not You, It's Me Edition - Part 1
Lou Chou \| 6:19 AM on 09.01.2011	9 comments

I'm going to make this a quick one. No one needs to know how I reached these epiphanies taking a dump, or the arduous journey my food endured from mouth to anus. The object here is making some points, and in order to do so I'll use bullet points. Bullet points are fun, and make things interesting. I want them to be my new step dad.

+ @Replies
I'm not the biggest fan of the GiantBomb community. In my experience the people there are either incredibly cool, or far, far up their own brown eyes. However, the way that communication is facilitated between GB members is really well done. If you @reply someone, you're notified. This is a way in which I could see myself spending a lot more time than I already do here at Dtoid; to be notified when someone responds to a comment I've made somewhere on the site. As it stands I'm leaving comments, and then almost instantly forgetting I've done so. If I could get a handy nudge via email to let me know about interactions with me, I'd love it.

+ Threaded comments
As an active community, a lot of people here are leaving comments and actively participating in discussions. It gets to the point where comment threads become like forum threads, full of active conversation. In order to break up daunting reems of commentary, it might be good to see who is responding to who by indenting comments below the users they're left for. This pretty much works in tandem with my previous suggestion.

+ Actual bullet points
Little did I realize when writing that first paragraph, but I don't think we have bullet points? I can't a magic button for them.

And that's me done. For now, anyway. They're mainly just pointers on how I would get more enjoyment out of the community aspects of Dtoid, particularly these here blogs. I love writing here, I just wanna feel a bit more connected to you peoples. Because I love the way you look, and want to smell your hair while you're sleeping.

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9 comments | showing # 1 to 9

djnealb

Threaded comments would be great, especially if you could expand and collapse said threads.

knutaf

Yup, threaded comments with reply notifications. Yup yup yup. It was in beta.destructoid.com, god bless her soul.

Lou Chou

@djnealb making them expandable would be a great touch. hopefully if the folks in charge read this they'll see your suggestion.

@knutaf they've already had features like that around here before? how comes it never stuck around?

Char Aznable

Yeah, the Giant Bomb comment system hits it out of the goddamn park. The @ replies work incredibly well. Now if only I wanted to have a conversation with the people over there...

Nic128

No bullet points? Ouch. An html editor would be great. It would do everything we can so far, and then allow for more fancy design... like bullet points. :D

fulldamage

There have been a lot of really great suggestions from a lot of people on this topic, but I think you just nailed my three main ones right there. (I'm a user and abuser of bullet points. They're what separates us from the animals.)

Lou Chou

@Char Aznable
Indeed. It almost feels wasted that they would get such a well made comment system, when we're generally so much cooler here at Dtoid :)

@Nic128
Definitely. As a web designer, I would love the freedom to spice up my posts with some cool inline formatting and whatnot... Within certain boundaries, of course. We don't want this place turning into one big MySpace page from '07.

@fulldamage
Bullet points make paragraphs come alive. They then shoot those paragraphs in both knee caps and place them in a wheelchair, making those texts shorter, and easier to handle.

Kaggen

You're missing the "a" between it's and me :D Anyways, yeah I really agree with you , it's kind of a hassle to keep track of your comments as it is right now. And you don't want to miss the good ones and you don't want to dismiss people who are engaged so it can lead to pretty much time wasted foaming about in posts :P

Lou Chou

@Kaggen
was that first bit a Mario joke? or am I completely missing the boat here? If it was a Mario joke, then kudos! You are a champion :)

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