Evening Reading

Having a bit of a connection issue this evening but you ladies need a new chat thread! Hopefully we will be seeing a bit of an active weekend around here as we shipped Breckon out to Seattle for PAX.

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From The Chatty
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    August 29, 2008 6:10 PM

    http://www.mmojo.net - thoughts on the design? We're just about done (I know the logo is fucked up, its using the old version)

    Okaria and Myfasha are my gods.

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      August 29, 2008 6:11 PM

      hard to read

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        August 29, 2008 6:12 PM

        yea we're gonna make the main font white

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      August 29, 2008 6:12 PM

      IMO the gray on dark gray is rather hard to read. I'd consider making the text white and the stuff that is currently white the color gray you're using. That said, the white might be excessively bright so I don't know.

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        August 29, 2008 6:12 PM

        i need to stop thinking before i type so that i will be first

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        August 29, 2008 6:13 PM

        Agreed. The mouseover white background for the top nav is awfully bright too.

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          August 29, 2008 6:14 PM

          That said, I really like the picture across the top!

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            August 29, 2008 6:19 PM

            agreed, pic on top is nice. how about instead of block white mouseovers you do some small red/gray graphic that jives with the scene at the top

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      August 29, 2008 6:16 PM

      Better now?

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      August 29, 2008 6:17 PM

      [deleted]

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      August 29, 2008 6:18 PM

      All Okaria I just hacked what he had together hehe.

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      August 29, 2008 6:30 PM

      is that mmo-dojo? or mmo-JO?

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      August 29, 2008 6:32 PM

      needs more information on Darkfall ;)

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        August 29, 2008 6:33 PM

        I'm incapable of saying anything good about the game :P

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          August 29, 2008 6:43 PM

          mark my words! it'll be awesome for pvpers

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          August 29, 2008 7:12 PM

          what? its the only mmo that doesnt sound like a complete was of time

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            August 29, 2008 7:13 PM

            on paper. They've shown nothing that makes it seem like they can actually pull it off. Trust me, I love their ideas, I just have zero faith based on everything thus far that they'll remotely pull off a fraction of what they're promising

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              August 29, 2008 7:15 PM

              What do you mean on paper? Every single MMO out there is a worthless treadmill piece of shit. This game has potential to be entertaining. Seriously. MMOs are for losers.

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                August 29, 2008 7:15 PM

                I mean they have great ideas. I just doubt they can actually implement them

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                  August 29, 2008 7:17 PM

                  and I'm excited for Warhammer :)

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                  August 29, 2008 7:17 PM

                  The video made it look like it's great. The graphics are sub-par. I think that;s actually good as I don't want graphics whore pieces of shit playing my game.

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                August 29, 2008 7:16 PM

                MMOs are for people who suck. Nerds who have no life. I am not generalizing. It's fact. They are shitty games. There is nothing to them. You play more, you get better loot. Better loot means you perform 6.72% better. For no reasons. These games are horrible. World of Warcraft is horrible.

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                  August 29, 2008 7:19 PM

                  Show us on the doll where the bad game touched you

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                    August 29, 2008 7:21 PM

                    Fucking everywhere. Gaming has taken a serious turn for the worse in general in the last 10 years. The fact that gaming has gotten so popular is a horrible curse.

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      August 29, 2008 6:34 PM

      Red on grey is the one of the worst color combinations for reading.

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      August 29, 2008 6:34 PM

      i think its very nice

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      August 29, 2008 6:42 PM

      I can read it fine. Only thing I question is the placement of your logo. Looks kind of like an ad for another site where you have it placed.

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        August 29, 2008 6:48 PM

        yea that's something I go both ways on; I definitely see your point

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          August 29, 2008 6:51 PM

          I thought the 3 recent articles thing was google ads at first too. They're just formatted the same way.

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        August 29, 2008 7:02 PM

        Like it better now?

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      August 29, 2008 6:48 PM

      -the top of the mmojo grey square should align with the top of the grey square that houses the main body of text.

      -search box should be smaller with a smaller font. Or maybe a different colour... I don't know it sticks out a little too much.

      -only some links change colour on mouseover - all should do it

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      August 29, 2008 6:58 PM

      lol...when did you guys start posting again?

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      August 29, 2008 7:03 PM

      Cut off articles after 2/3 paragraphs with a 'Read More' thingy.

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        August 29, 2008 7:07 PM

        yea that's something we'll do within wordpress; we're purposely wall of texting it now for some readability tests

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        August 29, 2008 7:08 PM

        No, no, no, it's "More after the jump!"

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      August 29, 2008 7:11 PM

      Horrible. Hate it. Bunch of fags posting there.

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        August 29, 2008 7:11 PM

        i liked your article, viscy!

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          August 29, 2008 7:14 PM

          It's "just a facts ma'am" kind of thing. Not much editorial content there I'm afraid, but really, what else was there to say about it? I'm be doing another on the Isle of Dawn trial.

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      August 29, 2008 7:27 PM

      Plain, add some graphics to border off the various text holding elements and style the top links more elaborately.

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      August 29, 2008 9:08 PM

      any other glaring issues?

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      August 29, 2008 9:12 PM

      what is this nonsense? http://www.mmojo.net/?tag=clay-loves-vanguard

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        August 29, 2008 9:17 PM

        Hahaha, wondered how long it would take you to notice.

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          August 29, 2008 9:23 PM

          i played the vanguard beta for approximately 5 minutes. i don't get it.

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            August 29, 2008 9:26 PM

            It was massdev's comments last night, I attributed them to you when reading the thread. I'll change it to him :)

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              August 30, 2008 3:25 PM

              haha

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              August 30, 2008 3:27 PM

              clay, massdev, same thing

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                August 30, 2008 3:32 PM

                Your comments were spaced close to each other, I read his comments but saw your name. Opps :)

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      August 30, 2008 3:36 PM

      quite unreadable. Red on black? Grey on grey? No. Try again.

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        August 30, 2008 3:44 PM

        Are people here blind or something? It looks and reads perfectly fine. The colour scheme is daper.

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          August 30, 2008 4:06 PM

          No shit; I'm just ignoring any of these from now on :)

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      August 30, 2008 4:38 PM

      It's not *that* hard to read. Maybe go a shade or two lighter on the text. And make the margin on the left/right of the text bigger so it doesn't hug the edges as much. Really nice site. Do something different with the headers on the right (Blog Roll, Recent Comments, etc).

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      August 30, 2008 4:43 PM

      I like it Bantis!

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