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Hi, I started Destructoid. Ever heard of it?



Destructoid used to be my tiny personal blog on the web, and now it's grown into this crazy monstrosity of a gaming community. Needless to say, I'm proud of what we've done and optimistic we can do a whole lot more. I've been at this with all my heart since 2006. I really love what I do, and hope you enjoy our writers' work.



Left to right: Me, Jim, Rey, Dale, Conrad.

You can learn about the history of Destructoid by on Wikipedia, there's a pretty nice article about some of the things we've done in both editorial and charity work. As for me, I'm pretty busy working on the future version of our site most of the time, so unfortunately I don't get to write as much as I would enjoy doing.

My primary job now as publisher is to keep the editorial team happy and build new features for you guys, our readers. I'm also one of the site's front-end programmers, so I'm always doing stuff behind the scenes. It's a lot of fun for me to switch jobs around the company and do a little bit of everything.



I also volunteer sometimes. I didn't mean to dress like Luigi, it just kinda happened.

Thanks for checking out my blog today! I realize you have may kitten web sites to visit today, so I appreciate you strolling through my site and supporting what we do.

Help us make the site even better by voting on ideas at http://destructoid.uservoice.com and submitting your own!

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Has everyone seen this video yet? It features a younger version of our beloved podcast host Jonathan Holmes before he got old bald and tired, tired, tired, tired.

More importantly, I need this video embedded on a web page for another project I'm working on. You are all now part of my elaborate scheme. All will be revealed soon.










5:02 PM on 10.06.2012   //   Niero Gonzalez



We're hosting an obnoxious party in San Francisco soon. This was the promo photo shoot. Recognize who the DJ will be?
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When I was ten years old, I begged my parents to buy me to Nintendo Power after becoming addicted to the Nintendo Fun Club magazines. I would check the mailbox daily, cover my walls with every issue poster, and write them all kinds of ridiculous letters all the time -- most of which they would kindly respond to.

Inspired by the pluckiness of Howard Phillips, I launched my first video game club. It had a catchy name: "The Totally Top Secret Nintendo Power Nintendo Force". It was just my best friend and I
religiously reading each issue cover to cover, keeping a journal of our best secrets, drawing screenshots (no, really), and trying to beat the high scores published in each issue.

The horrifying proof

My annual subscription came with a giant strategy guide and a "Team Power" membership pin, all of which I still have to this day. Eventually the Internet would be invented and I would launch my second
club, now known as Destructoid. I don't know that I would be doing what I do today if it wasn't for that magazine.
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Did you know you know that anything you post on the Destructoid Cblogs can be sync'd to your Tumblr, or anywhere else you post that can consume an RSS service? It's pretty easy to setup in two steps. However, there is one catch - Tumblr will not consume RSS unless you login and use their service on a regular basis. Otherwise your sync will time out. Easy enough, right?

First step, go to your RSS importer page. You'll probably need this 20 step tutorial to find this damn page, because they bury the fuck out of it. Seriously, why is this page so hard to find?

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/import-rss-tumblr-tumblrss/

Next, paste your blog's RSS:

You'll want to put in your blog's url followed by /?mode=atom&un;=YOURUSERNAME. In my case it's http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/niero/?mode=atom&un;=Niero

And you're done. Easy does it!
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1:00 AM on 08.08.2012   //   Niero Gonzalez



Oh, hi. Unless you're what we fondly call an "oldfag", you might not recognize me. I'm Niero. I founded this site a billion years ago. I definitely don't cblog as much as I should. Shameful! It's not without some sheepishness though, as I've been trying to modernize our software for the last two years (and failed miserably once, on my second go-around now) so I'm usually in my mancave tinkering away at our someday future version of the site. I'm not a good programmer. Luckily I've hired some people. Wheh. More on this later.



Pictured: San Francisco editor Steven Hansen and my neighbor Katy

Anyway, I'll be at PAX in a few weeks with my robot child Mr. Destructoid. Come find me and demand to try the new helmet on. It now has programmable lights, is 3x lighter than the previous one (believe it!) and instantly makes you a sex magnet. There's also an optional pair of pimp shoes if you're a size 10-11.



When I'm not working on the empire you can find me on instagram or twitter as @ dtoidniero.

See you soon!

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Pictured: the current cblogs system without any css. Amazing what a little visual formatting can do, right?

Anyway, I'm talking more than a facelift. I want to fundamentally change the way our blogging system works and show you a demo of whatever I cook up this week at PAX. Have at me!

work in progress...

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