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Iam a gammer from the harsh uruguayan jungle (we dont even have a jungle down here, too cold, go and do some wikipedia of Uruguay). I used to do a podcast in spanish about videogames at Radio LevelUp but I dont do it anymore... anyway those guys are there still making it so you can give it a try if you understand spanish
And i can say "�aca �aca �aca" and i know how to pronoaunce it well since im a spanish speaker, so Im a superior race.
A couple of idiots may find funny that I dont have good english grammar, but again, they are probably idiots since they only speak/write one language...

Most of my time in the internet is because of games. I love videogames so much that i sleep with my girlfriend and my ds, at the same time... i call that a "threesome" and my humor doesnt get anything better than that.
Mostly im a PC gamer, i was going to buy a 360 but faulty crappy hardware told me not to since if it goes RRoD here I would have lost my money, and as a man Im entitled to the sweat of my brow. I want to fuck the Wii and I believe the PS3 is going to be the first console in space.

In the "real" life (come on, internet now is part of our lives anyway...), I study medicine (takes a lot of time and I cant spend enough of my time playing videogames). Is not what you would call a marriage made in heaven, if I wanted to game more I should have sutdy something related to pc�s, but I grown surrounded by computers and stuff so I chose the bio stuff instead. Anyway, little time to play video games if you dont want my biographical shit.

And the main reasson I play games for the story behind them. I love well written stories like Half Life series, of course Portal (kind of a Valve fan). Other great games include World Of Warcraft (not currently playing, actually I was never hardcore, but I enjoyed the experience a lot), and of course the classics like System Shock 2. Other great titles had stuck with me over the years, classics adventure games like Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and Grim Fandango.

So, best game experiences:
Half Life 2 (and the original Half Life of course).
System Shock 2
Grim Fandango
Indiana Jones and the Fate Of Atlantis
Monkey Island

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Does dtoid needs a redesign?
Velt | 9:32 AM on 10.17.2008 16 comments


Im having this idea on my mind, I think Dtoid is way over the blog type, since there is so much to read I have to go back a couple of pages to find out everything that happened on a day. If you are not of those who spend all day in front of the browser hitting refresh key every half an hour, then you miss a lot of updates.
I dont say that it should be completely different, the comunity blogs are good. A minor problem: I can only see the last 10 comunity blog posts, that sucks and I think they made that change not so long ago.

But maybe diferent, Im not a web designer, but still, it would be nice.



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garison's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 11:12
garison
CHANGE IS BAD!!!!

Fear the change.
free touch's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 11:34
free touch
Maybe they could change the auto play trailers for shitty online games, or maybe the fact you have to refresh 2 or 3 times to get the page to load up correctly.
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 11:37
Tubatic
I like to see more stuff at one time.

So personally, I would want to see 20 c-blogs in my sidebar.

Also, I would want the top whatever most recent articles, then more older articles listed at the bottom (more than the last 5/6 that are there now), which addresses that issues that Velt and I share of not seeing enough into the past at first look.
Niero's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 11:54
Niero
That's good feedback. I'll give it a shot!

The trouble with showing multiple cblogs is that some people have animated gif avatars that are over half a meg, so loading the site is painfully slow. I could show 50 cblogs without avatars though but it would seem less personal, or limit avatars to small JPGs that we host locally. We are switching back to 20 though, the 10 was just an experiment to test speed.
Niero's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 12:02
Niero
@freetouch - we actually don't allow audio ads on the site. We use external networks to fill the ad space and sometimes an unscrupulous company sneaks one in. It can take days for our support emails to get through and get them banned which is why they aren't nuked right away. I can't stand those ads either!
PhazonYoshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 12:05
PhazonYoshi
Half a meg?
What the hell <_<
free touch's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 12:06
free touch
@Niero -
Sweet
all <3 Niero.
Its all good.

What about limiting the avatars size to less than half... like keep it 128kb max. that's plenty fine for a gif?
Nick Chester's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 12:08
Nick Chester
Niero is working hard to redesign the site all of the time; you'll see subtle changes pop up here and there. A lot of the problems you mention are totally valid. Keep this kind of feedback coming.
Velt's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 12:18
Velt
Great, it all sounds good Niero, really it does.
Half a meg? really? some people should learn to see how big a file is...
Kinji's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 13:29
Kinji
A few days ago the site doesn't display properly for me, I'm using Firefox. The first 2 stories appear normal, then everything after that gets justified to the left. There's also nothing on the right side, all the Cblogs and stuff appear at the bottom, underneath all the news stories.
stevephoenix's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 13:31
stevephoenix
i like the way it works, just the having to refresh alot to load the site can be frustrating. Plus iexplorer which i have to endure at work hates this site.
entrager's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 14:51
entrager
@Kinji I'm having the same problem both in Firefox 3 and Chrome.
Funktastic's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 15:26
Funktastic
@Niero

Personally, I really dislike the new CBlog sidebar, as opposed to the old one. Not only that, whenever I click "View Last 10 CBlogs" in the mini-sidebar, it links to the CBlog homepage and the scrolling is terrible. Just my thoughts . . .
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 15:52
RonBurgandy2010
Is the site all out of whack for anyone else? Everything is....everywhere.
Remo's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/17/2008 16:03
Remo
I liked the main link bar back when it changed the lower links depending which of the higher buttons you hovered over. So you could get to friends blogs straight from the main page.
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