What Sites Do You Check/Read More Than Once A Day

[racketboy]

Other than stuff like email....

I check
Here (of course)
Digg
Engadget
I CAN HAS CHEEZEBURGER?
del.icio.us
Lifehacker
DS Fanboy
Flickr
Seth Godin
Google Finance
eBay

[abeisgreat]

eBay
Gmail
Digg
Sheezyart
Racketboy
Kongregate
Youtube
Auctionads

Hmm thats bout it

[Mozgus]

Here, Destructoid, Evil Avatar, TweakGuides, GameTrailers, /v/

[racketboy]

Here, Destructoid, Evil Avatar, TweakGuides, GameTrailers, /v/

Has Destructoid slowed down their posting? They filled up my RSS reader too quickly and didn't give me much that Joystiq or Kotaku didn't.
I liked them when they first started (Niero, the founder and I shared some email conversations), but lately, it just hasn't been my cup of tea.

[durkada]

This is the only site I visit daily, certainly the only one that gets messages from the corncob smoking bunny. The rest, I usually skim or hit with RSS aggregators:

Engadget
Cute Overload
BBC News
Daily Muckraker
Boardgamenews
Fark
The Cover Project
Uncrate
Gamesetwatch
Kotaku
1Up

[Mozgus]

Here, Destructoid, Evil Avatar, TweakGuides, GameTrailers, /v/

Has Destructoid slowed down their posting? They filled up my RSS reader too quickly and didn't give me much that Joystiq or Kotaku didn't.
I liked them when they first started (Niero, the founder and I shared some email conversations), but lately, it just hasn't been my cup of tea.

I'm trying to break the habit as well. Neiro seems like a good guy, but he also seems like the only sane, professional one, despite the costume, and he's also the only one I'd actually consider a geek and trust his opinions. Most of the others, in posts and podcasts, just seem like cool kids that dabbled in games here or there, and they constantly pretend to know more than they do. I latched onto the site from the very first time you mentioned it, and it's really grown, but really lost what it used to be. At first it seemed like a Kotaku clone, but with a little silliness. Now it's become a huge fucking corporate entity with a ridiculous layout, and borderline retardation in every post. They can't simply share a little news; they have to sensationalize every fucking thing with the dumbest pictures, pointless captions, and raw text that is always sure to ignite a flame war just for the sake of activity.

But hell, at least I was one of the select few who were actually able to make Rob Summa second guess his role there, and then quit. That was a glorious day. He posted hundreds of childish anti-Nintendo articles just to get a rise out of the kids, but a few of us said the right things, pushed the right buttons, and suddenly he didn't find it funny anymore. You can probably still find my comments under his articles. I have the innate ability to turn the tide of a flame war.

Where did he get fired from originally? 1up?

[Ramatut4001]

Racketboy
Chapassgamer
Kotaku

[racketboy]

Here, Destructoid, Evil Avatar, TweakGuides, GameTrailers, /v/

Has Destructoid slowed down their posting? They filled up my RSS reader too quickly and didn't give me much that Joystiq or Kotaku didn't.
I liked them when they first started (Niero, the founder and I shared some email conversations), but lately, it just hasn't been my cup of tea.

I'm trying to break the habit as well. Neiro seems like a good guy, but he also seems like the only sane, professional one, despite the costume, and he's also the only one I'd actually consider a geek and trust his opinions. Most of the others, in posts and podcasts, just seem like cool kids that dabbled in games here or there, and they constantly pretend to know more than they do. I latched onto the site from the very first time you mentioned it, and it's really grown, but really lost what it used to be. At first it seemed like a Kotaku clone, but with a little silliness. Now it's become a huge fucking corporate entity with a ridiculous layout, and borderline retardation in every post. They can't simply share a little news; they have to sensationalize every fucking thing with the dumbest pictures, pointless captions, and raw text that is always sure to ignite a flame war just for the sake of activity.

But hell, at least I was one of the select few who were actually able to make Rob Summa second guess his role there, and then quit. That was a glorious day. He posted hundreds of childish anti-Nintendo articles just to get a rise out of the kids, but a few of us said the right things, pushed the right buttons, and suddenly he didn't find it funny anymore. You can probably still find my comments under his articles. I have the innate ability to turn the tide of a flame war.

Where did he get fired from originally? 1up?

You hit it right on the nose in your first paragraph. I liked the indie roots, so I stuck with them for a while. We also linked to each other and I could contact Neiro whenever I wanted. Once they got bigger, some editor I didn't know (and that didn't know me) just replied like I was some kid that didn't know any better.

Didn't know about the Summa thing. I'll see if I can find what you're talking about
I know he wrote at Joystiq -- is that what you're thinking of?

[RadarScope1]

I use Gametab to check several gaming sites at once and usually read stuff from:

Next Gen
EvAv
Game Politics (one of the best sites on the Web)
Game Life
Joystiq or Kotaku (they're the same thing to me)
1UP
Destructoid
Gamasutra

I also come to this site pretty every day and i also hit:

Wired
Slate
Google News
MySpace
A couple of newspaper sites
My Gmail

[Mozgus]

You hit it right on the nose in your first paragraph. I liked the indie roots, so I stuck with them for a while. We also linked to each other and I could contact Neiro whenever I wanted. Once they got bigger, some editor I didn't know (and that didn't know me) just replied like I was some kid that didn't know any better.

Ugh, thats awful.

I just don't like how their hierarchy goes, and the fact that they get paid a livable amount to do what they do, which is to say, what all of us on this forum do; post bullshit about games. This then leads to thousands of other bloggers desperately trying to make their way into the Destructoid league, in hopes that they won't have to work a real job either. I've known and spoken to a few who have spent so much energy trying to get into this cult, as if their lives have no other purpose. I just don't understand it. I think once all the money was brought into the formula at Toid, they lost focus soon after.

Didn't know about the Summa thing. I'll see if I can find what you're talking about
I know he wrote at Joystiq -- is that what you're thinking of?

It's a lot of digging. I know I started a little revolt somewhere around the last 10 of his articles. Its got at least 100 comments. I was always on that guy's case. It was hilarious.