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I figured a little introduction was in order in case people were curious. My name is Chris (Magnalon) and I have been enjoying Destructoid avidly since 2008. I finally decided to make an account and start blogging in January of 2009.
I'm in my 20s, I'm married, and I've been playing games since I was 4. I still remember buying my own NES system at Sears and going home and playing Mario/Duck Hunt. Fast forward to the present, my wife and I now own a PS3 and 360, and in the winter of 2009, we bought a Wii simply so we could play New Super Mario Brothers Wii. As far as contemporary systems go, I also own an iPhone 4 (which I game on very heavily - check out HookChamp), a DS, a 3DS, the Kinect, the PS Move, and a PSP-2000. If I had to choose a system I had the "best times" with, it would be a two way tie between the Sega Dreamcast and Sony Playstation 2. My favorite game series is Mega Man Classic, but I own every Metal Gear, Devil May Cry, Zelda, and Resident Evil game ever released in the US, so it's a close call!
There are too many good games out to count now, but recently I've been itching to play my backlog of old PS2 action titles. I'll play anything and everything action-adventure, so if you have a game in mind, drop me a line! I have strong opinions regarding the financial decisions of many publishers, but at the end of the day, I'm willing to give anything a chance; especially if it comes recommended by a community member.
Oh; and in 2012 I started contributing to Destructoid.
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My top 20 games (in no particular order)
Resident Evil 5
Fallout: New Vegas
Dragon Age: Origins
Dark Souls
Demon's Souls
Skies of Arcadia
Lunar 1 and 2 (too hard to decide)
World of Warcraft: All Expansions
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Bayonetta
Tenchu 2
Devil May Cry 3
Phantasy Star Online
Ape Escape 1
Rockman and Forte (Megaman and Bass)
God Hand
Jet Set Radio Future
Ikaruga
Donkey Kong Country
Final Fantasy Tactics
Bonus:
Batman: Arkham City
The Elder Scrolls IV: Skyrim
Metal Gear Solid 4
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Bastion
Mass Effect
Super Mario Galaxy
Assassin's Creed II
Onimusha 3
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Ninja Gaiden Black (Xbox)
Power Stone 2
No More Heroes 2
Mass Effect 2
Disgaea 3
Final Fantasy X
Okami
Bujingai: The Forsaken City
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Odin Sphere
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest
Super Mario 64
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Jeanne d'Arc
Half Minute Hero
Super Meat Boy
Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony
L.A. Noire
VVVVVV
Outland (XBLA/PSN)
Shantae: Risky's Revenge
Mighty Flip Champs
Child of Eden
Shadows of the Damned
Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR)
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Rayman: Origins
Pushmo
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Playing with Others: Phantasy Star Offline
Magnalon's quest to beat every Zelda in 2011
Tips for Securing Your Xbox Live Account
Magnalon's Quests:
2011 - Zelda
2012 - Resident Evil
The following are a few of my favorite fictional characters, compliments of SuitcoatAvenger
My favorite video game character of all time: Magic Emperor Ghaleon.
Legato Bluesummers from Trigun: classic villain.
Although obscure, Zero Beat is among my favorites.
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So was this Fourth of Julah amazing, or SO amazing? Well, it certainly is a kick in the groin to hear one of your favorite quarterbacks, who just ended his career with your favorite team, just died. Throw in some Independence Day+Will Smiff, though, it's been a pretty decent day. /start rant So speaking of amazing: the blogs. I noticed that quite a few new bloggers have come around recently, and that's awesome. For every user that spams WoW content from another website, there's some other guy who is extremely passionate about the game, and loves to talk about it with others. There are new awesome people migrating in nearly every single day of the week. There are still some stinkers around, though. Do yourself a favor and spam this guy's Xbox Live inbox with "stop ruining Destructoid!" I've already whinged about it enough, but if you want to know why, feel free. Maybe I care too much and these spammers aren't hurting the blogs as much as I complain that they are? If anyone's ever seen Curb Your Enthusiasm, you'll know how I feel. Often, I can't ignore it when someone is exploiting a system, or just being despicable I've seen a lot of people get upset over it, but I'm done getting fired up over it, and hopefully it'll run it's course (bans). What I really don't get is why they do it the way they do it: it's so subversive. That WoW spammer hides links to www.ignworld.com inside random sentences, just for the hits. If he came out and said "I write for www.ignworld.com, can you guys visit it", I would LOVE THAT. If the Examiners would comment once and say "look, we're trying to make a living, it's hard, and thanks a lot guys for visiting our articles", I would ADMIRE that. Protip for "professional" spammers: you'd have less of a chance of being banned if you didn't treat this website as a garbage dump! Oh well, there's too much to do, and too many amazing members to chat with. Too many people to play Blazblue wi...wait...I don't have it yet. /end rant 
If you're wondering if the amazing fireworks above were actually THAT amazing: they didn't quite live up to the 4th of July article posted today, but Chad would have been proud. <3 Dtoid. Even if I'm disappointed with the lack of drunk blogs tonight. AMURICA
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(I'm not flaming or anything I'm just interested in your opinion, since you're one of the not-so-many bloggers whose opinion I value)
Drunk video's on the other hand would be awesome. Get to it!
It's a shame really you can't get drunk from Coke. Or smokes. Oh well, you can't have it all.
Also, I prefer drunk comments to drunk blogs; Qraze was on fire last night XD
Drunk blogs usually come from long term members, and are pretty hilarious. I wasn't 100% serious when I said I absolutely love them without question, but I don't get worked up over them.
I'm not a huge hater of failblogs in general as much as I am spam. Failbloggers can be fixed, or told they fail, and can adjust accordingly. Advertising machines cannot. Plus, if a member is bored and thinks it's funny to post (usually the case with drunk blogs), I don't mind it really.
@Silver
This isn't sherrifing, this is common sense that every other website follows. If you're going to attack a site relentlessly with junk without interacting with it, you're just that: a spammer. Also, I get it! I care about the cblogs, so that's "sheriffing", I guess? I support legitimate members more than nearly anyone on the blogs, so sheriffing is hardly what I'd call it.
Actually on second thought, I have a question. I've done nothing but positively comment on all your blogs, support your decisions, and generally support anything you do: so what's with the throw-away comment?
Also, I've decided, like I said in the blog, to stop even caring about the absurd circumstances like the free advertisers who dupe our members. I suppose we're just going to "deal with it, and hope more Examiners don't flood the blogs", and I can't change that.
I will say this though: I want to offer constructive criticism like this. If you read my conversation with the creator in that blog, I think I was able to convey why people have a problem with his past blogs in a respectful manner, and offer helpful suggestions when others would simply might say "fuck you". If you think that even this is inappropriate, I'd like to hear your opinion, truly.
I did stand-up for three years, and one of the reasons I love DToid is that ya'll remind me of an open mike crowd. IF you don't bring the heat, you get taken off the stage. Period. I can't think of a better place to sharpen my game writing skills.
So yeah, I never minded a comic getting on stage and telling the same jokes they told at another club the night before. But if they only got on stage and said, "Hey! Come buy drinks and see me tell some jokes over at this other club!" and then left, they'd never get on stage there again.
I'll say it again , where the f* is Hamza? Those spammers have been around here for quite some time , everyone knows they are spammers and every single blog of them is pure unaldutered trash , however nothing happened to them ...
THE HORRIFYING C BLOG CRYSIS if at full power and it shows no sign of stopping , the banhammer users don't seem to take action and our hate mails are only fuel for their black corrupted troll hearts ...
I think we need another Community Manager , not a replacement for Hamza by anymeans , it's just that Destructoid is so much bigger than ir was before , only one lone guy can't do it all ...
@magnalon
Why the shame? Sheriffing is awesome, you get to wear stylish cowboy clothes , dual wield pistols , kill native americans ! Pure unaldutered fun !
When I call you "the Sheriff" it is a compliment. I think you do an exceptional job making comments on the cblogs. You support people who do a great job, and always give great advice to those who need to do a little better. I honestly think you love this community, and I support you in every way. To call you "The Sheriff", is really a way of me showing you respect. I do not mean any disrespect in anyway.
If you still think I hold some type of ill-will toward me please let me know. I'm not sure where these ideas come from, but I assure you I have nothing but admiration and respect for you. If you think I made a "throw-away" comment on this blog, it's only because I agreed with it and really didn't know what else to say. You know how it is man, sometimes you read a blog and love it, but don't really know how to properly respond. I responded by calling you the sheriff, because in my eyes you are one bad ass sheriff and I would kick anyone's ass who tried to remove you from that position of awesomeness. ;-)
Haha it's just the comments you've been leaving, I've felt like they've been derogatory. Like I said, it was really odd to me, because you're one of my favorite community members.
Where the communication breakdown happened: people have called me the sheriff in a negative context, and said it was hurting the blogs, so I eased off a bit. Then, some weeks later, you use it in a positive manner, but I didn't see it that way, so that's my error.
Any negative thoughts I have are based on your remarks that I took the wrong way, and have nothing to do with your attitude or posts! It's my fault <3 <3
**Hugs**
If you want I can stop calling you "The Sheriff". I you are taking it in a negative manner, others might be as well. I don't want to help build this negative image of you. Instead I want them all to fear your wrath. Now that would be power. :-)
Keep up the great comments man. I will always back you up dude.
"Keep up the great comments man. I will always back you up dude."
Same to you!
Haha, it was a personal issue for me, nothing more.
My only complaint is that the spammers tend to get more attention then legitimate blogs because everyone feels the need to jump in and call them on their suckage. I'm just as guilty of this as the next person, but I know I feel pretty disappointed when I write something that only nets 3 comments while a spam blog can easily go to 2 pages.
Since the examiner people have all been identified by now and aren't responding to their hate mail anyway maybe its time to just start ignoring them until they cross the line and get banned for good. It would be the closest thing we could get to community regulation. I vote we go all puritan and shun them.
SHASHASHAHA!