User talk:Darth Culator/Archive 1

Maybe one day I'll have enough stuff on this page that I need to archive it. :-)

User page
Cool idea with the user page, Darth-culator. :) -- Riffsyphon1024 20:32, 5 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Why, thank you. It seemed like a good idea at the time. :D Darth Culator 20:45, 5 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Pig Latin
Oh I gotta have your pig latin template. Lol. -- Riffsyphon1024 02:04, 16 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Go for it! Heck, why not turn it into an actual template for all to enjoy? -- Darth Culator 02:14, 16 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Thanx!
Thanks for replacing my OOU image on Tsil with the one in the Essential Guide to Alien Species. Oh, by da way, cool idea for your userpage. KFan II 20:22, 3 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Image Uploads for August 12, 2005
I appreciate your mass imaging for planets that needed something to fill their articles up. Ooh the moons of Iego...

Also, how close did you say you lived near that chemical dumpsite? :) -- Riffsyphon1024 20:07, 12 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * There are still more to come. I haven't even started on the planet pics from the Decipher CCG. Those were annoying to download, because they took down chunks of their website after they lost the license, so I had to get most of them from the Wayback Machine.
 * And the toxic chemical thing is sort of a joke. They quit dumping Kepone in the river six years before I was born. The Department of Environmental Quality still monitors it, though, since the sediment might still be full of it. I just think it lends a sort of X-Men-like quality to my biography. 8-) -- Darth Culator 23:08, 12 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Alternative physics argument
I don't subscribe to the idea of the Star Wars galaxy operating under alternative physics principles from our own, but it's a useful method of counter attempts at using logic to overcome canon, as in the case of Walabio's edits on the TIE/Advanced fighter article. --SparqMan 01:08, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Your name
When I saw your name, I thought it read: "Darth Calculator" :P Adamwankenobi 22:53, 12 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * That was the idea, as explained on my (way too long-winded) user page. :-) &mdash;Darth Culator   (talk)  22:57, 12 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * LOL, I see! Adamwankenobi 23:27, 12 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Concerned about user
Since you seem to be handling the Derek J. Reda/Rise of the Dark Falls incident, I thought I'd mention that someone should keep an eye on 199.79.168.160. I started looking into him after he defended a nonsense edit the Dark Falls person made to Bib Fortuna, and he'd made a few fanon entries/edits himself recently. If (well, when) the two days are up and those pages get deleted, I'd say both IPs should be watched for related fanon or vandalism. CooperTFN 23:11, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)

uhh...
i just remembered something. doesn't the supershadow article call as much attention as the attack on wikipedia page i made to the fact we don't have nough admins?-user:remoh

H-wing??
Isn't there an H-wing starfighter or is it just fanon? Because its super-awsome!!!!!!! -Bwingfreak
 * The H-Wing isn't fanon, but it's not exactly canon either. -LtNOWIS 23:08, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * So what exactly is it?? -Bwingfreak
 * Its canonicity hasn't been determined yet. --Imp 23:18, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

K'Kruhk's Hat
The discussion page for K'Kruhk is currently debating the hat. I don't appreciate your comments in the history though. My hasty deletion (which I apologized for) doesn't really require you to start throwing insults. Please contribute to the discussion, however.--DannyBoy7783 20:22, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Insults? Please. Nobody on this wiki has ever heard me be genuinely insulting. If they had, I wouldn't be here any more, because I can be pretty colorful. Saying something is "retarded" is more insulting than I've been. &mdash;Darth Culator   (talk)  20:29, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Saying I'm "trying to suck all the fun out of this wiki" is fairly insulting. I'm just trying to keep this place free of irrelevant information.--DannyBoy7783 20:40, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * You've repeatedly called things "crap" and "sucky" and "stupid" in edit summaries, and you were both impolite and condescending on the Palpatine debates, yet you think I was insulting. And your comments on Jack Nebulax's talk page are exactly the opposite of the position you're taking now: "Expecting people to be nice when confrontations arise here is like asking someone not to get angry when some jerk on the highway cuts them off. People have anonymity here and confrontations arise quite often I am noticing. I'm all for people being friendly and diplomatic but expecting it is a bit naive. Telling Nebulax to cut it out isn't going to do anything but annoy him :)" The only difference is that now you feel that you've been slighted. That's pretty impressively hypocritical. I'd tell you to calm down and have a nice cup of hot chocolate, but you'd probably complain about the picture on that page being non-canon. After all, it does take up ten times as much space as the whole paragraph about K'kruhk's hat. &mdash;Darth Culator   (talk)  21:00, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Heh, point taken. I guess my issue is the fact that you put your comments on the history page. I'm not going to make an edit just to comment on them there. It seems more visible to me and it's not really the right place for it. I do like hot chocolate though. The picture should actually be bigger I think, though, on a square inch basis the K'Kruhk hat paragraph takes up more space than the hot cholocate image. Though I must say that the Palpatine debates escalated. They didn't start like that (unlike your history comment which is smarmy from the get-go)--DannyBoy7783 21:08, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Smarmy, eh? Fair enough. :P I've been called worse for doing less, and rightly so. And I can be pretty fanatical about squashing fanon, so I certainly understand your position on people rambling away in the "Behind the scenes" sections. I'll try to keep the edge out of further edit comments. :) &mdash;Darth Culator   (talk)  21:20, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks :)--DannyBoy7783 21:36, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Crazy Russians
Sweet zombie, those are some amazing links, especially the Russian comics site. I don't mind the links being up there as long as we *ahem* don't draw attention to it. --Imp 21:14, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * The filefront links no longer work, anyway. &mdash; Silly Dan 22:50, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Good thing I got most of them while it was still up. This thread will be updated if it ever comes back. &mdash;Darth Culator   (talk)  23:24, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

So...
Why don't you go ahead and nominate yourself for adminship? You have my vote! --Imp 17:38, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
 * If I was an admin I'd approve you. Even though you think I'm a party pooper, heh--DannyBoy7783 21:27, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
 * ya'don't know me,probably won't like me because I'm a kid,But I agree._Fireball93 03:30, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Zsinj
For your efforts at turning a stub of a fat man into an article that is practically Featured material, I present you with this wookification award. The Force is strong with you. -- SFH 21:36, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Cool, my first award! Thanks! I just felt like I had to do it -- I just reread the X-wing series over the last month. I started working slowly on it just after I posted the scan from the New Essential Guide to Characters, and worked full-bore on it yesterday and this morning. While I was offline finishing it, 2,500 items built up in the Recent Changes. Now we just need to fill out the redlinks. &mdash;Darth Culator   (talk)  21:58, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Very nice work indeed. I'm going to check it for all the minor things such as dashes and links, and then nominate it for featured article. --Imp 22:19, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Scratch that&mdash;it's perfect. All that remains is shortening the intro and filling the redlinks. --Imp 22:32, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes! BRAVO! Good job! Fireball93 00:31, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

SWCCG
The Players Committee isn't exactly a fan site, at least I wouldn't call it that. They're the ones making new SWCCG cards, which (to me) makes it worthy of inclusion, but as I'm new here I'll stop adding anything. Echo Base Trooper 00:28, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

WEG space speeds to MGBTXVWZ's or whatever
Just tried putting the new ship template on Vangaard Pathfinder...had trouble filling in some of the boxes using just WEG RPG stats, though. Is there an official conversion between their "space speeds" and some slightly more in-universe ratings? If there's no official one, is there a fan-made one that's close enough you think we could put it on this wiki? Thanks, &mdash; Silly Dan 02:59, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * It's all arbitrary and subjective, you say? Oh well, worth a shot.  Thanks! &mdash; Silly Dan 04:13, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Vong Bashing
Hey, Darth Culator, can we start bashing the Vong here? And what is your major opinion on New Jedi Order?
 * I'm not a big fan of the Vong, though I try to refrain from "bashing" anything too much. But since you asked... I think pretty much everything about the Vong as an antagonist was just wrong. Their ships are made of rocks and meat, while the indigenous civilizations of the GFFA have weapons that should be able to easily vaporize them. But, oh no!, they have mini-black holes--which they shouldn't realistically be able to generate or control. Their main weapons are bugs and lava-but lava shouldn't pose a threat to deflector shields, since we've seen Y-wings fighting in an active volcano and Episode III featured people surfing on molten rock. And the idea of snakes that can block lightsabers is just ludicrous.
 * BUT, and this is a big "but," even though the NJO is inferior to the Bantam era, it's still better than no Star Wars at all. I read the entire NJO series simply because I can't don't like to leave anything unfinished, and in general the stories were OK even if some of the details sucked.
 * In general, I stay mostly clear of NJO-related articles unless I see a major factual error or NPOV violation. &mdash;Darth Culator   (talk)  19:09, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Completely agree with you. Other than the Yuuzhan Vong, NJO was also horrible in the characterizations from *everyone*, agreed? And how the hell did Borsk Fey'lya get elected to Chief of State? He nearly destroyed the New Republic twice, and probably poisoned Mon Mothma.
 * There was also an issue of the Marvel comics where a group of rebel ships were able to hide inside a star, which one would expect would be much hotter than lava. (Myself, I never started into NJO, and kind of lost any interest I may have had in it after finding out how many interesting planets they completely demolished. Seemed too grim to me.) &mdash; Silly Dan 23:01, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

The Soiyo
Sorry about that, i removed all the links on my main userpage when i noticed that but forgot about that one. Thanks for drawing my attention. Jasca Ducato 17:27, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Chev liberation, Quelii Oversector, etc.
Since you seem to be the go-to guy for Zsinj-related topics, would you be able to add information on the liberation of the Chev from the Chevin? The Quelii Oversector article mentions that the New Republic freed the Chev, but the only one of those sources I've been able to consult, Cracken's Threat Dossier, doesn't mention them at all. Thanks, &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 03:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * The only major sources on the Chev/Chevin that I have are Galaxy Guide 2 and The Essential Guide to Alien Species, and neither of them mention Chev liberation. I'm not even sure where the mapping data for Vinsoth came from. My only references to Quelii came from Cracken's Threat Dossier. (It may be in Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds, but my access to that book is limited. I don't have a lot of D20 materials on hand.) &mdash;Darth Culator   (talk)  03:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, I was hoping it was in a Zsinj-related novel I hadn't read. Thanks all the same. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 04:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

IRS
Presumably it's a case of either deleting the original and moving the temp, or copying the temp content to the original and deleting the temp, the means shouldn't matter too much I don't think. YIIMM 21:15, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Images
Stop putting up XWA pics, damn it, you're giving me flashbacks. =p What are you working on, Category:Medals? CooperTFN 20:25, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm just putting up appropriate pics for a load of XWA articles that others have made recently. It's an easy process for me and I don't feel like doing anything more productive right this moment. &mdash;Darth Culator   (talk)  20:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Duplicate Image
Man, that was really weird. I personally like my image more but I won't make a stink. --DannyBoy7783 04:14, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Haha, thanks. Seriously. 12 minutes apart on that. That is SO weird...--DannyBoy7783 04:28, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

X-wing Alliance
It would be fantastic if you could put more pictures for the various ship and station classes up.

One thing has been bothering me about the X-wing series games:- how do we resolve the size difference between the XQ platforms in XWA compared with the other games? Are they to be considered different designs, or do we simply accept XWA as the canon-defining source? &mdash;Dengar Antilles  (talk)


 * Would it be possible for you to post images of all 3 versions of the tug? (from the same angle) Also, what program do you use to create the screenshots? I have been trying "OptGL", but that doesn't open XwA .opts, and OPTech has no bilinear filtering of the textures, so they look all blocky. &mdash;Dengar Antilles  (talk)


 * The other Tug I mentioned is [[Image:BoP_Utility_Tug.jpg|thumb|this]] one, from XvT:BoP. As you see, I've posted a picture, but it is blurry and in normal perspective as opposed to the isometric forced perspective of the other two. I think it would be better to keep the pictures consistent. Dengar Antilles 10:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)


 * The graphics card I am using to take screenshots is an ATi Radeon X800 with 6X Temporal Anti-aliasing and 16X Anisotropic filtering. Due to the technical limitations of my monitor, I only run a resolution of 1280x1024, so none of my screenshots will exceed this size. I use OptGL to view the models, then crop and/or rotate and compress the image using an elderly version of Micrografx Picture Publisher. -- Dengar Antilles 09:59, 21 April 2006 (UTC) (talk)

Question

 * I thought I'd ask you, as you seem to have experience in identifying this. Is there some sockpuppetry going on at the Eeth Koth talk page? All these new users seem to have popped up at once, and, surprise surprise, all agreeing with original poster. I'd rather not get out the banning stick until I know for sure. QuentinGeorge 11:33, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
 * There's no way to tell for sure without seeing their IPs, all we can do is judge them based on the context and their contribution history. The one anon IP in the edit history is a web cache at the University of Sydney, so by that and from looking at the user pages, I figure this guy got some of his friends to back him up so he can "win" that silly debate with sheer numbers, because he couldn't do it otherwise. -- Darth Culator 13:33, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Template:Ship
After seeing a few articles where Ship was used to repeat the full information of the shiptype (see Avenger), it's time to make the changes you mentioned on the template talk page. It will just need to be made clear that for unmodified ships of a standard type, the full information isn't required. --SparqMan 00:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Any thoughts on my proposed changes? See User_talk:SparqMan. --SparqMan 19:00, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

How do you make such big, clear pictures?
I've seen several go up recently. Flippin' amazing! 8D VT-16 15:34, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow, that's quite a catch! They're really detailed, very nice. I even see a couple of bizarre lighted blots on each side of the ROTJ BG ship (upper right and lower left). 8) VT-16 09:25, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Adminship
Grats! :p WhiteBoy 08:19, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Congratulations, Dark Accountant of the Sith. :-) jSarek 08:31, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Together we will rule the Wiki-verse! QuentinGeorge 08:56, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Congratulations! :D VT-16 09:29, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * All salutations to you, New Admin. May swift bans come to your vandalizers. -- SFH 15:11, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Seeing all these positive and encouraging messages brings warm feelings to my heart. Having new buttons brings slightly different feelings. http://media.ign.com/boardfaces/16.gif ... No, seriously, I want nothing more than to improve politeness and civility on Wookieepedia... BY FORCE.

"It is with great reluctance that I have agreed to this calling. I love Wikis. I love Wookieepedia. I am mild by nature, and I do not desire to see the destruction of democracy."

OK, enough kidding. I promise to use my powers for good. Really. Seriously. http://media.ign.com/boardfaces/16.gif -- Darth Culator 16:04, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

What Were They Thinking
Thanks for getting rid of that Grievous removing his mask thing. Thought maybe I could give them a chance to expand on it, thought maybe I had my informtion wrong. Blast those Nubes! --Quidon88 20:11, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Edit
why change by edit of Vegere...im right Jedi Dude
 * What book says Vergere is a Sith? What page of that book confirms that fact? -- Darth Culator 18:56, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * In betrayel.....its not fanon. GO read the spoilers...or if not trust. Jedi Dude
 * Betrayal isn't out yet. Spoilers may not be trustworthy, especially when they sound so ludicrous. -- Darth Culator 19:03, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * some ppl have got the book.... http://p105.ezboard.com/funjoefrm107.showMessageRange?topicID=1.topic&start=81&stop=86
 * This is canon, and I'll ask you to stop deleting it. Kuralyov 19:16, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Ha, why do people on here that do hundred of edits belive that what they think is right is right. Jedi Dude
 * It has to be a hoax. It has to be. Otherwise, the Expanded Universe is well and truly screwed. I think the guy made up some SuperShadow-esque nonsense and posted one accurate page to fool everyone into believing his tripe. -- Darth Culator 19:50, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * well until its unproved or w/e stop deleeting it..put it under a tag or something maybe =] Jedi Dude
 * I'll let you know when I get my copy on Tuesday (or Wednesday if it's late) if this is for real or not.  StarNeptune Talk to me! 19:54, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

CUSWE Permalinks
>>When is Bob going to restore the ability to click on an item to get a permalink? Bob has said he will be implementing this feature in the next main update which should occur in July. --Azizlight 14:14, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Establishing a blocking policy
I have started a CT thread about creating a unified blocking policy here. As an admin, your input would be appreciated. Thanks, RMF 01:51, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

A toast is in order...
To you and me, working from both ends to undo that moron duplicate's moves. Thanos6 12:44, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Who, that user 'Crumb'? Snoop 13:17, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Mmhmm, somehow masquerading as the real Culator. Thanos6 13:23, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It's pretty simple, actually. My username is Darth Cu(lowercase L)ator, he was Darth Cu(capital I)ator. The really advanced vandals use special characters, like User:Sikon%C2%AD, but it's still not hard to tell if you know what to look for. -- Darth Culator 13:35, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Aw, Culator, you make me blush. Though if you really want to thank me, a nomination for adminship wouldn't be looked at askance. ;) Thanos6 13:26, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Harsh
"The Jedi Exile is canonically female, as per the New Essential Guide to Droids. Any attempts to change this will result in a week long ban." That seems a bit extreme, don't you think? --SparqMan 04:11, 29 June 2006 (UTC) I guess. It just seemed out of line with this new move towards a more moderate banning policy. --SparqMan 15:23, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I didn't put it there, Jaymach did. I'm just enforcing it. The guy actually edited the warning message. I have no sympathy for that level of ignorance. It would be like someone saying "oh, everyone knows you're really allowed to park in the fire lane" and then painting over the "FIRE LANE NO PARKING" sign on the ground, and then being pissed off they got a ticket. I can't think of a better analogy right now, I'm too tired. But the bottom line is that it was really, really dumb. -- Darth Culator 04:16, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * After I thought about it a bit more, I came to the same conclusion. I unbanned him earlier this morning. -- Darth Culator 19:12, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Vandal buster

 * I think you should get an award for Vandal busting. Demolitions Expert RC-1187 Helmet Comlink [[Image:Galactic_Republic.JPG|20px]].
 * Indeed. But perhaps another method should be tried. As much as I can tell that you despise this guy (so do I) but perhaps you should give him some advice if he truly wants to contribute something useful. Tell him to create a brand new account, nothing to do with Pepsi, beverages, nothing. Act like he is just some guy who wants to contribute and knows nothing of the vandals. -Redemption 06:48, 1 July 2006 (UTC) (name fits, eh?)
 * You'd think he would have thought of that already. -- Darth Culator 06:50, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * He has nothing of value to contribute, anyways. Kuralyov 06:50, 1 July 2006 (UTC)