User talk:Blu3vib3

Welcome
Hi, welcome to Editable Codex! Thanks for your edit to the Anmanivas page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Fenyx4 (Talk) 23:22, October 1, 2010

Thanks for helping out
Always great to see another editor! Dungy 00:29, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, welcome aboard! It's great to have more people who are enthused about contributing aboard. If there's anything you need, don't hesitate to ask. --Warder Dragon 10:38, October 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Btw, what we DO have is a partial Sytle Guide, here: Editable Codex:Style guide. Please do use it as guideline when editing articles. Thanks!--Sega381 18:29, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Got the hint! Working on re-formatting my refs. Much thanks. :) Blu3vib3 07:35, October 3, 2010 (UTC)

Stop rewirting the tenses
Stop rewirting the tenses in character articles. The present tense is intentionally not used after the introduction sentence. Thanks to you I now have to correct all of them.--Tribun 00:32, October 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * In fact, we have NOT decided on this matter yet. There are some articles written in the present tense, and others in the past tense. We should decide on this in the Style Guide, and stick to that convention. And Tribun, there is no need to be so rude.--Sega381 00:36, October 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * My apologies, I didn't see any discussion on a lot of pages and felt that the present tense made more sense, given that the actions of the player in each game are not fixed. I will cease to edit tense until this issue is resolved. (Blu3vib3 00:56, October 2, 2010 (UTC))


 * I've raised the subject here: Editable Codex talk:Style guide.--Sega381 01:08, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * OK guys, we've successfully made a horrible mess out of all those gargoyle articles. Seriously, Tribun, stop and think before shooting your mouth off... again. I tire of your foul attitude. Some of the edits Bluevibe made were good, some weren't, but you erased all of his work, including introducing a LOT of errors back into the work that he corrected. PLEASE, stop using this wiki as an ego trip, and in the future, don't just revert edits like that. Dungy 02:43, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm actually a girl, but thanks for the support. I'm new to this wiki and might be a little over-enthused about my newfound love of Gargish as a conlang. I also realize I have a tendency to create overlong, terrible, Faulkner-esque sentences, so thanks for all of the grammar edits, Dungy. :) (Blu3vib3 02:49, October 2, 2010 (UTC))
 * Yeah, don't take it personally. He seems to do this to noobs. You should have seen what he tried to pull when I first delurked. I'm surprised I haven't reached my boiling-point yet.
 * The rest of us will allow you to learn from your mistakes, and eventually it'll jell with you. AngusM 03:33, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, don't sweat it, the idea of a wiki is that anyone can edit it, so if someone makes a mistake, others can correct it. Don't let this lower your enthusiasms!--Sega381 12:14, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * My enthusiasms are hard to lower! I'm a person on the Internet! 'Sides - the other wiki-ing I do is about depressing things like shootings and prisoner advocacy and crying kittens, so Ultima-drama feels like a refreshing summer breeze. Blu3vib3 07:39, October 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Group hug, kumbajah and s'mores around the campfire? ;) --Warder Dragon 12:22, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Bring the marshmallows and I'm game. Blu3vib3 07:39, October 3, 2010 (UTC)

Blaine
Blaine is now my hero. Thank you for bringing the epic story of The Mustache War to me. I always enjoyed having Blaine in my party but I was never sure why... Until now. -- Fenyx4 13:29, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Seriously Blue, how the heck did you ever find that? That is awesome. Dungy 17:23, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * How did I find it? Paper procrastination can push a woman to unforetold extremes. :) (Blu3vib3 17:32, October 7, 2010 (UTC))

Important wiki decision
Hi, you may be interested in contributing the discussion we're having here: Forum:Wikia's new skin. It may affect the future of our wiki. Thanks!--Sega381 02:45, October 8, 2010 (UTC)

Lord British
I've been enjoying your various rewrites since you joined here, but good grief, your overhaul of the Lord British article was epic. Fantastic work! --Terilem 06:34, October 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * I was thinking the same thing. You do a fantastic job when you rewrite articles. Dungy 10:10, October 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, great job! Pleeaase do come with us when we move this site to our new homw. And btw, thanks a lot for starting to use the new ref templates! They will save us a lot of time in the future in order to easily tweak the references templates. A small notice: it is not mandatory to put each parameter in the template in a new line, in the template page it's shown that way in order to see them more easily. Inside articles, you can put just a space, instead of a newline, between parameters. Though newlines make the references easier to modify, I think they can make the page content flow more confusing when one's editing, as they break the paragraphs.--Sega381 12:28, October 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I'll keep the template formatting in mind for the future. Blu3vib3 18:10, October 17, 2010 (UTC)

Welcome back
Welcome back to the new Codex! Glad to see you made it through the site change!--Sega381 20:00, 3 November 2010 (PDT)

Thank you for tackling the cities
The quality of the city articles has been bothering me for awhile. Thanks for deUltima7izing them and generally making them spiffy. It is VERY appreciated! Dungy 14:32, 4 November 2010 (PDT)
 * Seconded! The standard of writing around here has really gotten a shot in the arm lately. I wish I had the diligence to perform so many rewrites of this magnitude. --Terilem 22:26, 4 November 2010 (PDT)

Good work, but...
You do good work with your edits, but could you please stop the strange gibberish in the edit descriptions. Some, like me, use the recent changes to see what was done, and it being flooded with this nonsense starts to get annoying.--Tribun 12:49, 9 November 2010 (PST)


 * 10-4. Will do.--Blu3vib3 12:51, 9 November 2010 (PST)


 * Again, Tribun, no need to put it so rudely. I kinda like Blu3vib3 descriptions, but I do understand that they should be informative enough. I do believe that it is ok to add funny stuff in the edit descriptions, as long as they also contain the real description. I think that should be the way to go. And Tribun, though your message is good, try and re-read these things before submitting it, and tone them down please.
 * Btw Tribun, I am one of the people that uses the Recent Changes to see what's going on, and you haven't added one single letter to the edit descriptions in all your edits in the last weeks at least. I would appreciate if you (and everyone for that fact) could start writing small descriptions on the edits in the edit summary. But I don't see why you get so angry at Blu3vib3 writing funny edit summaries, when you never write anything on them...--Sega381 16:23, 9 November 2010 (PST)
 * Agreed. I have no issues with edit summaries being humorous as long as they are also informative. Their purpose is to make it possible for other editors to see what was changed and sometimes also why. As long as those criteria are met, I actually enjoy the occasional humorous remark. Why are you always so hostile, Tribun? --Warder Dragon 16:28, 9 November 2010 (PST)
 * I'm completely chill with toning down my rampant love of the absurd for the sake of people's comfort, although it's good to hear that somebody enjoyed my blithe remarks on Balron-os. --Blu3vib3 16:49, 9 November 2010 (PST)

You think I'm rude and hostile? For me that was just a perfectly reasonable request. Maybe English-speakers really have different standards for rudeness. However, I did not lie, all the absurdity did start to annoy me.--Tribun 17:39, 9 November 2010 (PST)


 * Seriously. I'm chill as a cucumber regarding my descriptions, but I've gotten the impression that this sort of criticism has been made of you frequently, and I've thought to myself that, "Yeah. It probably has something to do with the difference in first languages," which is why I don't try to sweat overmuch regarding your occasional barbs. But rather than see this as a source of endless confrontation, might I suggest seeing it as a learning experience?


 * English is a pretty bizarre language, and I freely admit, I wouldn't have the dedication to learn it as a second tongue, but as a person with a passing love for linguistics (as any student of Latin eventually becomes) might I suggest that you take the conflict as a way to better learn the subtleties of English? You speak it very competently, and it seems a shame that so much strife should arise from what may be differences in native speech. My fiance, a devotee of Japanese, has really opened my eyes to the extent which small changes in a foreign tongue can really impact its sentiment.


 * What could you have done differently? The base of the problem is probably in the terms "gibberish" and "nonsense." They are overstatements of what I was doing, and if I were the sort to get offended by this, I might see it as derisive of my style in general. Rephrasing it as a more exacting phrase, such as "farcical summaries" would probably have raised fewer hackles. You did a good job by opening with a compliment (I don't think there's a language in which that isn't good protocol.), but you also used the vague "some" to imply that people aside from you were offended by my humorous stylings. Being direct and using a simple "I" might have personalized the statement, making it clear that this was something that bothered you in particular, rather than bothering some nebulous collective.


 * Hope that helps clear things up. Peace and additional kumbayas around the campfire.--Blu3vib3 18:05, 9 November 2010 (PST)


 * I, like Warder, have enjoyed the humorous summaries (as long as they remain also informative). And they are far superior to no summary which I admit I do too oft. -- Fenyx4 22:58, 9 November 2010 (PST)

Nice Rewrites!
Am enjoying your many contributions to the wiki -- might I suggest that, on any creature rewrites, you retain any appropriate information regarding appearance/associations/habits/weapons/etc? Your articles are, for the most part, highly superior to anything I've written, but do try not to negate anything that could be considered important to those seeking particulars on a given creature. Thanks! --Polygoncount 12:16, 1 December 2010 (PST)
 * Cleaning up and rewriting all of the Ultima VII NPCs is an awfully ambitious task. I salute you! Dungy 15:10, 24 December 2010 (PST)

Since you are back
Seeing the masses of references you put into your newest work, I have to make you aware that we've had a serious discussion about that here Talk:Captain Fox. Please read it.--Tribun 20:50, 6 February 2011 (PST)


 * Really, references do serve a very good purpose, and a handful of them spread over several paragraphs just doesn't seem like that big a deal to me. I don't understand what all the fuss is about. I actually think the way Blu3vib3 handles them is ideal. I guess what I'm trying to say here is that I could at least conceivably understand the point of contention with the Captain Fox article, but the distribution of references throughout the far more voluminous Garritt article really doesn't seem at all unreasonable to me. --Terilem 21:18, 6 February 2011 (PST)


 * Hey Tribs. I'm doing my best to consolidate references (I actually think I was the person who reffed Gwenno as mentioned in the Captain Fox discussion.) Garritt is a bit tricky, however, as there's a lot of different options as to how to handle him and as he lets slip some interesting tidbits that don't get mentioned by others (ex: Feridwyn previously living in Britain). I've read over the discussion and I'm trying to consolidate as I sift through U7 NPCs. Thanks for the heads up --Blu3vib3 19:24, 7 February 2011 (PST)

Welcome back!
I missed you epic edits! Dungy 13:58, 7 February 2011 (PST)

Spell article's name poll
Hey there, I think you may want to contribute to the Forum:POLL: Spell article's merging policy. Thanks!--Sega381 17:05, 6 March 2011 (PST)

Secret Ultima Project
I think I can guess what it is now. :P I can't wait to see your project when it's finished! You rock! Oh, and if you need any help with your project, I'm kind of dating someone currently finishing up her masters in Japanese language studies, and she totally owes me for 10s of hours fixing her broken English :P Dungy 20:04, 13 March 2011 (PDT)


 * I had labeled it "secret" when I started out, thinking it would be done in short order, given how easy the first few pages post-intro were.


 * Then (silly me!) I realized that I had 250+ pages to photoedit into submission, and by about page 60, I decided "Secrecy be damned! Anything to distract me from monotony of rearranging Dragonball Z-style light bursts to match English sound effects!" Seriously though, it's actually coming along pretty well. racapowski has already proven a total rock star in doing the actual translation work and has given me permission to use her script, so I'm just futzing around trying to make the 250+ pages of Deane-Jesus killing orcs look nice and legible to English readers.


 * If you have a Japanese-literate friend, though, you might want to check this out. Sentri's totally a hawt ninja.


 * --Blu3vib3 20:20, 13 March 2011 (PDT)


 * Yay! I too am very excited by this! -- Fenyx4 14:30, 14 March 2011 (PDT)


 * Good job posting the first chapter! You are officially awesome!  Make sure you contact WTF at Ultima Aiera about this.  I'm sure he'd love to post an update about your project and drive traffic your way. Dungy 09:54, 10 April 2011 (PDT)
 * Also Page 14, you spelt "yet" as "ye at". Will there eventually be an option to download the final project?Dungy 10:03, 10 April 2011 (PDT)


 * Fixed the typo and contacted the Aiera-miester! As it stands, I hope to eventually be able to have things in down-loadable form, although I still have a little less than 90 pages of cluttered fight scenes to GIMP my way through. :) --Blu3vib3 10:49, 10 April 2011 (PDT)

Reagent Story
I dunno if you can work this into your Reagent work but it is a fun story nonetheless; Ancient Artifacts of the Origin Museum, Part II -- Fenyx4 22:01, 24 March 2011 (PDT)


 * Wow! This is awesome! I will incorporate the crap out of this. (Also, I'm totally the sort of person in real life who is well served by warnings regarding things I shouldn't set fire to. :P) --Blu3vib3 22:55, 24 March 2011 (PDT)


 * Sorry I just couldn't resist putting the Blood Moss stuff in. Thanks for the awesome rewrite though. :)

FM Towns Intro translations
I just recorded and posted the FM-Towns story videos and I'd love to get translations. Do you think the friend you are working with on the mangas would be available for these? If not I have some friends who probably could but it'd be nice to have someone already groomed on Ultima lore work on them. :)

P.S. And I just saw on your user page you are getting married this year. Congrats! I got married last year and my most active time on the wiki was in the couple months prior to it. I think it helped relieve the stress. :) -- Fenyx4 08:59, 20 June 2011 (PDT)


 * Hi there! I'm the manga translator, and I'll certainly take on the FM-Towns videos.  It might take a little bit, just because of scheduling issues, but not too long; I'll post when the translations are done.


 * (To Blu3vib3: I'm a total jerk and never saw the wedding announcement. Congratulations!) RACapowski 21:19, 26 June 2011 (PDT)


 * Hey Feny and Capowski, I'm not actually dead (just... busy), sorry for the delay in reply, but it appears things have worked themselves out in my absence.


 * BTW, RACapowski, I got your e-mail about the Fall of Magincia, and I totally have most of the pages in question redone... but my scanner has suddenly gone psycho on page 129 and I'm slumped into a brief "do I really have to reinstall you and make you work in Windows 7 again!?" moment. I'm pretty sure I should be able to scan the last two pages anyway with a little finagling, but haven't gotten to it yet.


 * Peace everyone. I promise to reemerge at some point after soon-to-be-Mr.-Blu3vib3 finally manages to confirm the venue such as that I'm not constantly freaking out. (long story but things got pushed back by several months and it sadly doesn't involve pterodactyls this time :P) --Blu3vib3 21:42, 26 June 2011 (PDT)


 * Thanks RACapowski! I added a few more as well . Certainly no hurry on them.
 * I'm sorry to hear you won't have any pterodactyls at your wedding. I was disappointed at not having pachyderms at mine I can't imagine what it would be like to have had a chance at pterodactyls and miss out. Sure you cant have the reception in Eodon? :) -- Fenyx4 08:06, 27 June 2011 (PDT)

Done?
WHOO!!!! Can't wait to see it. Now get back to work! :P Dungy 11:14, 3 July 2011 (PDT)
 * And there was much rejoicing! -- Fenyx4 20:49, 4 July 2011 (PDT)

I hope you're happy
Now I totally want to read The Fall of Magincia. Dungy 16:02, 14 August 2011 (PDT)
 * I'm glad somebody does. Yes... it is the next scanlation project. RACapowski is a total freaking rockstar for trudging through this pile of crap translation-wise - so it's time for me step up to the plate and edit sound effects for a few hundred decapitations. (So many decapitations...) --Blu3vib3 16:06, 14 August 2011 (PDT)

Virtual Richard Garriott 2.0
Due to your love of moustaches I thought you would be amused by this and.

Hey, congratulations!
Just saw your user page update and wanted to congratulate you on your nuptials! :)

And still churning out quality Codex articles by the dozen; that's just dedication you can't beat. --Terilem 23:36, 21 September 2011 (PDT)
 * Thanks! The actual "honeymoon" thing we're embarking on won't be until November, as he's in the middle of a bit of a work crunch, so I unfortunately have a bit more time on my hands than I'd like. :P --Blu3vib3 23:40, 21 September 2011 (PDT)
 * Double congratulations! Dungy 02:30, 22 September 2011 (PDT)

Blu3Vib3, I just wanted to thank you for your continued awesome contributions to the codex. Your Ultima IV rewrites are awesome. Your scantilation of the Ultima mangas are awesome as well. Really, you make this codex a more awesome place. I could never rewrite articles as well as you. We may have a few disagreements on grammar, but I don't want you to feel you aren't appreciated here. I'm sorry if recent events made you feel that way, it was not my intention. Dungy 19:06, 15 October 2011 (PDT)
 * Hey. Sorry if I got a bit hot under the collar. I come from a leftist homemade-granola-eating ex-socialist family, went to Oberlin, and spend a lot of my social life in the company of freegans and anarchists, so I often kind of auto-pilot to a lot of "PC" behaviors that I don't realize people might not be groovy with and its sometimes a little hard to navigate the inevitable clash of worldviews. My redacted comment was redacted because I honestly thought it a good idea not to get too upset and continue into a possible argument and really... playing through NES Magincia is already making my day a lot brighter.


 * Thanks for the appreciation. I know I'm often a mess of typos and I'm always grateful when you clean up after me... I've also rather come to enjoy the quirky psuedo-conversations we often end up having via comments. You, and all the editors here really, are just generally an awesome crew, and I'm glad to be awesome with you.--Blu3vib3 19:17, 15 October 2011 (PDT)


 * And, if you do feel that this wiki does have biases that get too little attention (I, myself, find a lot of principles here lop-sided and overwhelming), feel free to call attention to it yourself. If the reaction is someone indifferent, but not in opposition to you, I'd take that as license to set precedents. The Ultra-Mind 19:24, 15 October 2011 (PDT)
 * I'd like to point out, I did approve of your softening of the language for the various sex trade workers in Britannia. Dungy 19:29, 15 October 2011 (PDT)
 * I will admit that often looking back I realize that my PCness may not have been the best of route... Thinking on it, I don't think a lot of genderqueer people really want to have themselves associated with Brigant... :P--Blu3vib3 19:35, 15 October 2011 (PDT)
 * I'm a little late to the party, but I just wanted to add another note of appreciation for the record. You are a tremendous asset to this wiki; your articles are so well written, researched and referenced, and the volume at which you're able to produce them still kinda boggles my mind. It's also always encouraging to have among us another crusader against the bias and speculation that was once allowed to run rampant here. Never doubt that the occasional typo or disagreement is more than worth it for the end result we get from you! --Terilem 21:43, 15 October 2011 (PDT)

Good job finishing the Ultima VII rewrites
That was a huge job, and the wiki really needed it! Dungy 20:52, 6 October 2011 (PDT)
 * Hear, hear. We're very lucky to have someone prepared to undertake such a mammoth effort and possess a talent for writing and research. --Terilem 21:46, 7 October 2011 (PDT)

Ultima IV NES Screenshots
Nothing against your work, but is there a reason why your screenshots from the NES version of Ultima IV are not in the correct 4:3 format? (like 640x480 or 1024x768) Right now they look horribly stretched.--Tribun 11:22, 7 October 2011 (PDT)
 * To be fair, though, pretty much all our screenshots (i.e. anything that originates from a 320x200 source) are also displayed in the wrong aspect ratio. --Terilem 21:46, 7 October 2011 (PDT)


 * Here you're actually wrong. All 320x200 screenshots are in the correct ratio (scaled up to 640x400), as this is not a 4:3 resolution (don't ask me why it was chosen back then). You can see that because nothing is distorted.--Tribun 03:29, 8 October 2011 (PDT)


 * No, I'm not wrong. The native 320x200 format used rectangular pixels and was intended to be displayed on CRT monitors in a 4:3 aspect ratio. When rendered via modern, square-pixeled resolutions (i.e. 640x480 and above) without any correction, this yields a vertically squashed image that is not what was originally envisioned by the game designers and artists of the period. This is why Exult and DOSBox have options for aspect ratio correction, and why U7 is, in fact, subtly distorted in all our screenshots. Unfortunately I've never seen a scaler that can correct this without introducing noticeable artifacts; CRT monitors are still the most satisfactory option for this purpose. --Terilem 04:14, 8 October 2011 (PDT)


 * Hey uh... I attempted to retake the screenshots to de-squash as best I could, but if anyone else wants to give it a go, by all means do so.--Blu3vib3 04:18, 8 October 2011 (PDT)

Ultima III FM-Towns
See you've been posting a lot of Ultima III FM-Towns images. If you manage to finish the game, could you post some screenshots of the ending? Dungy 10:21, 24 October 2011 (PDT)
 * Thanks! Seems no expense was spared on the translation work! Dungy 12:39, 25 October 2011 (PDT)

Yay! Fall of Magincia!
Atta girl, Blu3Vib3! Can't wait to read it. Oh, by the way, was wondering if you could put up a download of the Quest of the Avatar manga somewhere, maybe if you have a slightly higher quality version available than what is on your website. Barring that, I suppose I could just save every page individually. Dungy 12:59, 27 November 2011 (PST)