User talk:KieferSkunk

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Contents 1 Welcome 2 Sig Testing 3 Galaga '88 Rewrite 4 Blocked! 5 I'm sorry 6 "James McCloud is dead"

[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Sig Testing

Testing my sig. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 20:21, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

New sig: — KieferSkunk (talk) — 20:18, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Galaga '88 Rewrite

Thank you for your edits to the Galaga '88 article! I must say I'm very impressed that you were actually able to beat the bloody game to get all that info, and I like the way you have reworded everything I wrote into the article into more clear wordings. I do however have one question: "Warp Cores"? The reason I have been calling them "blue item canisters" is because the attract mode labels them an item, they have the same graphic as the red ones that start to appear crica stage 15, and they are blue; the canister part simply because that's what they look like. Can you find me some official documentation that calls them warp cores? If not I will consider it a fan-created name and again return the name in the article to "blue item canister". Other than that, great job! -- Toksyuryel ^{talk | contrib} 19:57, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I don't think there's any place in particular where those items are specifically named, but the term "warp core" makes the most sense in context considering that their sole purpose is to enable you to warp to other dimensions. (This falls in line with plenty of other places in popular culture where the term and the action go together.) I wouldn't consider it any more a "fan-created name" than "blue item canister", to be honest - the latter name doesn't really impart any function whatsoever on the object.

As for beating the game: Thanks! It's a fun game, definitely difficult, but certainly not impossible to beat. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 21:56, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Well again, my whole reasoning behind it was that during the attract mode, when one appears a word ballon pops up with the word "ITEM" in it. And of course, they are blue. And, look like canisters :) I'm up for dropping the canister part, and just calling them "blue items". I don't consider this name to be fan created because as I mentioned the game's attract mode labels these "items". The designation blue? The "items" that appear starting at stage 15 have the same graphic- except they are a different color (red, flashing a bright white).

And yes, it is a hard game~! I've never been past stage 20 myself. I'm curious on one thing though: after reaching dimension 5, what happens if you get 2 blue items again? I noticed that I was still able to get them, but as I could never reach the challenging stage I could never find out if anything happened. Do you happen to know? -- Toksyuryel ^{talk | contrib} 08:44, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

That sounds like a decent compromise. "Item" is generic enough - there won't be any ambiguity in that.

I think there are only 5 Challenging stages in the game (waltz, tango, jazz, jungly mix, and march - I know the march is the last one). I don't remember what happens if you get the items for all of the stages, but I'm pretty sure it's not possible to go past Dimension 5. I'm gonna have to play it again now. :P (Emulators are cool.) — KieferSkunk (talk) — 19:59, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Alright, works for me :) Yes, emulators are cool^^ shame I don't know how to use them. I currently own the game on PS2 as part of the Namco 50th Anniversery thingy, and years ago I used to play it at the arcade (back when arcades still existed). It has been nice meeting you^^ Maybe we could chat about stuff and things on IRC sometime. I'm available as Toksyuryel on FurNET, and if that network doesn't work for you we can decide on another one, assuming we chat at all. -- Toksyuryel ^{talk | contrib} 03:30, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Cool. :) I got your LJ-friend notice - thanks for adding me. :) I don't get on IRC much anymore - don't use chat programs in general all that much, actually. No biggie, though - we'll find a way to keep in touch. :)

BTW, I've updated the article with all kinds of edits, after playing the game pretty exhaustively in MAME. Cheats are cool too - I can make myself invincible and just glide through the game - makes investigating stuff a lot easier. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 08:15, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Wow! The article really looks fantastic now! And I learned quite a lot of things too^^ Thank you so much~! *offers a gentle huggle* That's too bad you don't really use IRC :( but I'm sure we'll figure something out^^ I don't really get on LJ a lot, and I never update my own XD So it's like one or the other or something, heh. Question: are they really pink? The few times I've seen them they've been red and flashing bright white, but I dunno, memory's a little foggy on them because usually I was too busy trying to collect it. -- Toksyuryel ^{talk | contrib} 01:49, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

If you're used to playing G88 on the PS2, it's possible that they are actually red there. But in the arcade version (which I trust MAME on), they're pink - the white flash is still there, but the difference between light pink and white is so subtle that the flash is pretty much unnoticeable. — KieferSkunk (talk) — — 22:02, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked!

I see my work IP has been blocked due to some other user's actions. That means that everyone else at my company is also blocked. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 20:18, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Follow-up: I was unblocked again shortly after that block went into effect. Here's the accept template for my records:

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reasons: Autoblock of 131.107.0.104. Request handled by:  Netsnipe  ►  20:42, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, guys. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 20:44, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I'm sorry

Hi, I just wanted to apologize for moving the Krystal (Star Fox) article to List of characters in the Star Fox series so abruptly. I realize how much work you've done on that article, and I apologize I had to remove all of it.

However, it wasn't really my decision, but rather one of the administrators. I just followed their suggestions.

Please don't stop editing Wikipedia anytime soon, as you have made some great contributions! PlatformerMastah 18:29, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

I appreciate that. Thanks. It's okay - I took it a little hard right at first because I saw that a lot of detail was lost, but when I went back to look at it again, I realized that most of that content probably belongs in the game-specific articles anyway. So no problem. :) — KieferSkunk (talk) — 19:16, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Excuse me for barging in here, but I really have to agree with KeiferSkunk here that people are seriously going WAY WAY WAY too far. This is supposed to be an encyclopedia, and encyclopedic content should not be "streamlined" in this manner, ESPECIALLY not on an electronic one where you have all the space in the world! What is so seriously hard about having seperate articles for each of these characters? What!? Do you honestly think that someone who types in "Krystal" into the search box is looking for a list of every character from StarFox? Or could they maybe, possibly, be looking for a detailed and informitive page about the character? I have been seeing this happen more and more lately and it's REALLY starting to drive me insane. The people who are running and administering Wikipedia do not seem to grasp the true spirit of an encyclopedia, nor do they seem willing to take advantage of the limitless potential the electronic format can provide. It is long past time for this to change. We need to either pull Wikipedia out of this downward spiral it has gotten itself into, or we're going to have to start over and try again. Please, if anyone understand my meaning in all of this, reword this into a way that is more easy to understand what I'm trying to say. It's too early in the morning for me to find the proper words for this. -- Toksyuryel ^{talk | contrib} 11:22, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "James McCloud is dead"

Are you just trying to cover up spoilers or what? He's repeatedly shown to not be dead. Some guy 11:04, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

What are you getting after me for? I didn't make any edits that claim that James is dead. Also, see my comments on my user page - I'm not even involved in editing the content of those articles anymore. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 19:58, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Also, in response to the "He's dead" assertion: The story is apparently deliberately ambiguous as to what James' fate really was. James is thought to be killed in the storyline of Star Fox 64, but he makes "phantom" appearances at the end of 64 and again in Command. In the first case, Fox seems to be the only one who's aware of his presence, lending some credence to him being a ghost or spirit. In the second case, Fox doesn't even acknowledge him, and there's no storyline explaining what James is doing there or how he specifically impacts things (leading me to think it's just poorly executed fan-service or something). In Assault, his voice is heard by everyone, but as a result of the Aparoid Queen's attempted manipulation of the team, so that doesn't really count.

So basically, while it's never officially stated, there's a lot of circumstancial evidence to support the theory that James is in fact dead, and that his spirit helps out in various places. Beyond that, the story is ambiguous, and it appears to be deliberately so, meaning that you can neither say that he's dead or that he's alive with any real assurance either way. Make sense? — KieferSkunk (talk) — 20:21, 28 September 2006 (UTC)