User talk:Dreaded Walrus/Archives/September 2006

eBaum's World

Dreaded Walrus, Fun fact, eBaumsworld DOES infact steal things from other websites to use on their own for profit. Maybe if you did research and weren't such a prick by calling it nonsense and actually looking into things, you would have noticed the truth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wildarms7000 (talk • contribs)

Hello! Thanks for the kind comment! To be completely honest with you, I do not like eBaum's World myself, and I know that they have taken things from, say, YTMND in the past without giving credit. But this is an encyclopedia, and if you turned to any page in a real encyclopedia, you wouldn't expect to see comments (poorly formatted) suggesting that they engage in anal sex with dogs.

If you spend time actually reading the article, you will see that it mentions that they have used things from other websites without permission, and without giving credit. We feel, as a community, that portraying the facts in cases like this often is a much better way of conveying what a website/person/idea is about than simply getting rid of everything on a page and putting the letters "NEDM". --Dreaded Walrus 04:44, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Dreaded, just wandered over from YTMND, and thus via eBaum to your page; I'd like to salute your dedication to Wikipedian policy. I don't like eBaum either, but at least we can keep it to the facts.--Unnatural20 02:44, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello! Thank you for the (genuinely) kind comment! Like I say, on subjects like this, Adolf Hitler and Jack Thompson, it is best to merely list the facts, and they will often speak for themselves. It almost beyond logic that someone who hates something that deserves hating so much, that they would get rid of all the facts on those pages and replace it with, for example, "hitler sucks cocks". DAMNING indictment there!

But seriously, thanks for the compliment, it looks like you've been doing some vandal fighting too, so have a big pat on the back from me. And another reason I like you? The contribution you made before this one was to Mother 3, so have a high five for that. :) --Dreaded Walrus 06:10, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

d'oh.

Hey sorry about the accidental vandalism! Bad form on my part - I'm new to the whole wiki thing and didn't do my homework well enough it seems. The content of the part of the article I deleted is incorrect. Since it can't be edited or deleted, can it be disputed? :)—Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghostgirl (talk • contribs)

Don't worry about being new, everyone's new at some part, and I made mistakes back then too. The thing with that section is that it can't really be "disputed", as it can instantly be proven or disproven. What needs to be discussed is what part of that section you feel is incorrect, and in what way it is incorrect. Feel free to discuss this on the talk page of the Oblivion page. In fact, I'll give you a bit of help here. Click this link and you're all ready to start typing. And don't forget to sign all your messages on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~), as that will automatically change to say who wrote that bit, and when they wrote it. Thank you. :) --Dreaded Walrus 10:36, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

I like

I like how you mark almost all of your edits as minor, as if you're too humble to suggest that anything you add is major. The Mekon 12:13, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I am a humble man. My only love is for the goaste.--Dreaded Walrus 12:17, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Brothers in Arms 3

About the camera in BIA3, it is a camera placed inside a 3rd person character. I know there are other games where you can see your feet, but they are not really there. They are attached to the camera as well as the gun and what you see is different to everyone else. The level of detail on the gun you see through the camera is a lot more detailed than what others see when they look at you, say in multi-player. Some games when you reload, you see your hands and pulling the clip out, but when others look at you, its a low res gun and the clip doesn't even move. Gearbox has said their idea is new and called "first-person actor" so it's worth having the info there. X360 07:26, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

A poem

I have left you a personal poem on your user page. There is no need to pay me for this service. The Mekon 14:25, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

vandalism revert

Thanks for reverting that vandalism on my talk page. I am very grateful. Kingutd 06:43, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Haha, no problem mate. I have your page on my watchlist from back when you did the Football Manager templates, and I just happened to see it, that's all. :) --Dreaded Walrus 06:45, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Lair (video game) vandalism

I didn't see the original request when I first posted and only spotted it later, I was reading up on the info in the original request when your message arrived. Would the best course be to remove my request or just mark it as being a mistaken multiple request? - X201 13:48, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

I'd probably just leave it there, to be honest. We'll see what they'll do. It might just make the urgency of the matter clear. As most of the vandals seem to be either IP or new, semi-protection will probably be what they'll choose, but either one is probably necessary, I'd say.--Dreaded Walrus 13:54, 22 September 2006 (UTC)