User talk:InsomniacViper

Archive~6 Oct 2007 ---- Archive~19 Nov 2007 ---- Archive~15 Dec 2007---- Archive~8 Feb 2008 ---- Something rather empty~9 Feb 2008 ---- Archive~28 Feb 2008 ---- Archive~29 March 2008 ---- Archive~23 April 2008 ---- Archive~29 May 2008 ---- Archive~17 July (double digits) 2008 ---- Archive~28 August 2008 ---- Archive~6 Oct 2008 ---- Archive~11 March 2009 ---- Archive~7 May 2010 First Spam Yarly. --- -- (contribs) (talk) 20:44, 7 May 2010 (UTC) First non-self spam. RoseOfKali 12:49, May 7, 2010 (UTC) First Mursaat spam.--El_Nazgir 14:10, May 7, 2010 (UTC) First spam today. A F K When Needed 16:55, May 8, 2010 (UTC) First spam by me. ***EAGLEMUT*** TALK 19:27, May 8, 2010 (UTC) First double-post spam.--El_Nazgir 10:49, May 9, 2010 (UTC) First double-post spam.--El_Nazgir 10:49, May 9, 2010 (UTC) Wow What the hell happened to your userpage? o.O --El_Nazgir 15:44, May 13, 2010 (UTC) I accidentally the button. --- -- (contribs) (talk) 15:51, May 13, 2010 (UTC) Can't you restore it? Or something like that? Or perhaps ask wikia to restore it? --El_Nazgir 16:03, May 13, 2010 (UTC) Wikia is what destroyed it in the first place. —Dr Ishmael 16:06, May 13, 2010 (UTC) ^ I initially moved (not deleted, Naz :P ) it because the sidebar was below my page, rather than next to it. I figured it was because of one of the many, many things on my userpage, so I cleaned it out. The sidebar was still broken and I resorted to allcaps, which did just as much good as creating a pretty much blank page. I felt utterly befuddled... So I pressed the Hide button, and now it works, and the Wikia shit is gone. --- -- (contribs) (talk) 16:17, May 13, 2010 (UTC) Oh...--El_Nazgir 16:36, May 13, 2010 (UTC) Thoughts -> Peacekeepers You have to visit the Shining Blade camp at least once before the Peacekeepers show up. That might be why you haven't seen any yet. —Dr Ishmael 21:19, May 15, 2010 (UTC) I think it has to do with playing D2 rather than Guild Wars :) --- -- (contribs) (talk) 08:11, May 16, 2010 (UTC) Needz moar time machine to play D5 --Gimmethegepgun 08:17, May 16, 2010 (UTC) D5's going to be an RTS. I'm positive. That, or an aerial combat sim. --- -- (contribs) (talk) 08:41, May 16, 2010 (UTC) @ Ish: No you don't have to. I've never been at the shining blade camp with my Derv and she had peacekeepers. Unless it also counts whether you've been there before the camp was there, then it's possible I've been there (although I haven't got a clue where the camp is). @Gimme and Viper: Well, I just hope Warcraft goes back to RTS... The storyline got raped by WoW. I'm not even sure how they can claim half of it is canon. --El_Nazgir 12:38, May 16, 2010 (UTC) Hum, when they first added the PKers, Jink and I went looking for them, but couldn't find any until after we visited the Camp. Maybe they've changed it since then. @Viper: That was a unspoken assumption: "That might be why..." = "I assume you haven't been there yet because you haven't been playing GW lately." —Dr Ishmael 15:09, May 16, 2010 (UTC) I'm pretty sure nothing in WoW is canon. MAYBE stuff like Furion getting stuck in the Emerald Dream, but that's it --Gimmethegepgun 16:04, May 16, 2010 (UTC) @Ish: I recall I read somewhere that your character has to finish hell's before they show up. @Gimme: Illidan surviving is one of the best examples of things that cannot be canon. He got his chest sliced open, and then an entire glacier fell down on him! Yeah, I'm sure he'll survive that! Or the worst example of them all: Blackwing. Who got killed in the Warcraft II expansion's human campaign ("ooh no, he faked his death and plummeted into the sea"), which is the canon one. In which also was mentioned that Kadghar went through another portal, which was retconned in WoW, surprise surprise... --El_Nazgir 15:13, May 17, 2010 (UTC) You raised more questions than you answered 15:59, 23 May 2010 Vipermagi (Talk | contribs) deleted Miniature Evenni ‎ (gay sex goes in bed. ) A F K When Needed 15:44, May 23, 2010 (UTC) It was referring to the contents of the page, which was a remark about, well - you can guess RandomTime 15:54, May 23, 2010 (UTC) [[File:Placeholder|right|300px]] Write the text of your article here! terry like gay anal sex --- -- (contribs) (talk) 16:11, May 23, 2010 (UTC) I think the placeholder's what wikia puts in the create article on monaco, or something RandomTime 16:22, May 23, 2010 (UTC) WCIII Well, There's Legion TD It's a fun twist on the whole TD concept. Best played with 8 players, but also perfectly playable with 2 or 4 (although it's harder because you have less allies catching your leaks). It's going out of style on Battle.net because with the latest official version they also said they were quitting and released a public version anyone can edit.--El_Nazgir 20:29, June 8, 2010 (UTC) Yeah, it's pretty fun :P (forgot to put that one on the list tho, so, thanks for reminding me) --- -- (contribs) (talk) 21:10, June 8, 2010 (UTC) adding a typo? Shouldn't you be removing them from the wiki? :P RandomTime 12:22, June 13, 2010 (UTC) Check his edit. He was removing them. Check his edit summary, he was talking to the anon. --El_Nazgir 12:26, June 13, 2010 (UTC) My edit summary was a summary of what the anon added :) --- -- (contribs) (talk) 12:30, June 13, 2010 (UTC) As Arnout's birthday-headers are epic win, such are your edit summaries.--El_Nazgir 13:24, June 13, 2010 (UTC) Hah, my headers are win! Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 20:23, June 13, 2010 (UTC) Did GuildWiki ever have an edit-summary contest? I always thought the final match would come down to Audrey Chandler vs the Viper.  —Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 22:01, June 13, 2010 (UTC) Hmmmm, yeah, that would be nice. Shame Audrey doesn't contribute anymore. Iirc she went off to play WoW. I think she'd win though. It'd be close, but she's just hilarious.--El_Nazgir 11:03, June 14, 2010 (UTC) ^I agree. ^^Not during the time I've been here. --- -- (contribs) (talk) 14:50, June 14, 2010 (UTC) Hello. You beat Entropy. Not Skuld though. --El_Nazgir 16:01, June 21, 2010 (UTC) You so pro at wiki. --- -- (contribs) (talk) 16:11, June 21, 2010 (UTC) Ya I kno.--El_Nazgir 16:15, June 21, 2010 (UTC) You didn't... You didn't realise how far my Mursaat-fanboidom reached? And a DOG? What the hell you must be blind! :P --El_Nazgir 14:43, June 24, 2010 (UTC) Yes, I am blind. You never knew I had a braille screen? --- -- (contribs) (talk) 14:53, June 24, 2010 (UTC) I always thought it was a torch. —Dr Ishmael 14:58, June 24, 2010 (UTC) How can you people not see it's a Mursaat!? --El_Nazgir 17:01, June 24, 2010 (UTC) It is tiny, and the 'focus' (center) is on his bald head, between his... ears, horns, whatever (WINGS!). His eyes are thusly barely recognisable as actual eyes unless you know it's a Mursaat. Eyes are, to me, the most distinguishing feature of a face, and the mouth is not shown at all. Also, I never knew a Mursaat head from above looked like a space ship (excluding upper torso there). I liked the dog better. --- -- (contribs) (talk) 17:15, June 24, 2010 (UTC) By whose definition? Just because you do something all day, every day, day in and day out, doesn't mean it's a job. If it is, why don't we get paid to breathe? :P Besides, my contribs have fallen off in the past couple months :( Also: pot, kettle, black. At least he's not a complete failure: he knows how to troll, that's for sure. Almost makes me respect him. --Macros 17:30, June 27, 2010 (UTC) I've always learnt that the definition of a job is merely "it has a benefit to society" (hence, all edits to the mainspace and related articles. Talk pages are more recreative than a benefit to society, especially in the case of trolls and the feeding thereof). This can be for just a few hours, shorter even, or something you do a life long. Also, I'm too bored to not be trolled. GW:Silencethetrolls can go cry in a corner. --- -- (contribs) (talk) 17:57, June 27, 2010 (UTC) asofterworld.com Reminds me very much of Rock Paper Cynic. I thank you for adding another cynical webcomic to my collection.--El_Nazgir 18:18, July 21, 2010 (UTC) Thanks to both of you for adding 2 webcomics to my collection... and ruining the rest of my workday while I read the archives. >.> —Dr Ishmael 18:27, July 21, 2010 (UTC) You should also check the Rock Paper cynic songs, my personal favourites are Philosophical zombie slayer and one shell two shell. Have a nice non-work day :P --El_Nazgir 18:33, July 21, 2010 (UTC) If you want a big archive to plow through, try (Ir)regular Webcomic. --Vipermagi 18:45, July 21, 2010 (UTC) Yeah, already heard about that one while I was ploughing through Legostar galactica (they did a few crossovers), so I didn't read through it at that time.--El_Nazgir 19:08, July 21, 2010 (UTC) Vice versa for me; I haven't read Legostar yet, but saw the crossovers. --Vipermagi 19:10, July 21, 2010 (UTC) monobook borked Same thing happened to me yesterday. Are you also running Firefox with AdBlocker Plus? Check to see if you've got a rule in there to block '##.content-ads' (depends on your list subscriptions, I had it at home but not at work (dunno why I have different subscriptions, but I do)). I'm not sure why or how, but that class got added to Monobook's main content div at some point yesterday. I disabled the rule and everything works, and I'm still not seeing any ads. (Although some might show up on other sites that use a similarly-named class, but I'll deal with them when I see them.) —Dr Ishmael 16:25, July 23, 2010 (UTC) Thanks, that fixed it :) --Vipermagi 16:43, July 23, 2010 (UTC) Any way we can do a .css hack to remove ##.content-ads from Monobook on GuildWiki? -- RandomTime 17:19, July 23, 2010 (UTC) Pretty sure there's no way to remove a class from an element with CSS. We could do it with JS, though. However, what we should really do is check Wikia's CVS (SVN?) repository to see exactly where/how this got changed, then ask them to fix it. I don't know enough about their versioning system to check it myself, but mendel should. —Dr Ishmael 17:50, July 23, 2010 (UTC) Or we could contact wikia with the change, and they can see what they've done. -- RandomTime 17:52, July 23, 2010 (UTC) I guess I was trying to be nice, so we could say, "Hey, you screwed up right here, fix it," instead of, "Hey, you screwed up somewhere, go find it and then fix it." But you could just go ahead and do that. —Dr Ishmael 18:10, July 23, 2010 (UTC) I'm fine with it either way. --Vipermagi 18:34, July 23, 2010 (UTC) I have done, also - since to day, the edit box with WikEd enabled is showing a tiled version of all .gif images to the right of the edit window. Might well be an issue on my end. -- RandomTime 19:13, July 23, 2010 (UTC) Locked Chests It's not just the desert. We have a saying in our guild: "That locked chest will be the death of you." They've cost us so many Deep and Urgoz runs, in fact, that we've actually started not going for the chests right away. It was rather difficult to convince everyone of the merit of this idea, though. --Macros 17:43, July 27, 2010 (UTC) But if you don't get them right away they'll vanish! 17:47, July 27, 2010 (UTC) Waited to spring a pop up trap, and just as I started walking to the chest, it disappeared, just like that! I swear it was no mirage! (and not a plant either) --Vipermagi 17:51, July 27, 2010 (UTC) Thoughts -> Mamnoon Lagoon If you start from Quarrel Falls, the henchmen are L15, although it won't make much difference - you're still skale food unless you replace Alesia with a hero or two. —Dr Ishmael 14:14, July 30, 2010 (UTC) Except to get to Quarrel Falls you either have to plow through Mamnoon, like I did, or complete two missions. Note that it wasn't really hard in the end, because Strength of Honor is overpowered (DPS +15 kthx), it was just silly to see Alesia spam healing her way through almost party wide -8 degen. But anyways, I imagine a fair number of people complete secondaries before primary quests, and Mysterious Message leads you to what is likely pretty deadly for inexperienced players. I wonder what ANet was thinking when they created an area like that. Another fun fact of the Jungle: Mysterious Message leads you to Aurora Glade eventually (leads you to Quarrel Falls, and the primary quest there has no prereqs). What happened to Wilds and Bloodstone Fen? :P I wonder if people actually missed those two missions because of this? If I didn't know better, I would have skipped them on this playthrough until I figured I'd complete that one primary I took way back then... --Vipermagi 14:30, July 30, 2010 (UTC) Ah, I wasn't thinking of it from a new-character perspective. I still remember the first time Jink and I got there - we saw the first giant group of Riders, thought, "That looks tough, but we can do it," then we got taken from behind by another giant group. We finally dropped off the message after wiping a few times, but we avoided that area for months afterwards (got to Alari from Quarrel), until they introduced the cartographer titles. Another couple in our guild actually did skip those two missions (a long time back), and they were extremely confused by the switch of hostilities after Quarrel. "Why are we suddenly fighting the Mantle? Aren't they the good guys?" "Well, because they killed off the Chosen." "WHAAAAAAAT?????" ".... Did you miss that?" Yeah. —Dr Ishmael 15:21, July 30, 2010 (UTC) ...Yeah. (that's pretty awesome, btw) --Vipermagi 16:29, July 30, 2010 (UTC) "Jink and I... got taken from behind by another giant group." I lol'd 16:48, July 30, 2010 (UTC) Mysterious Message was always a messed up quest in my opinion. You just finished helping out the White Mantle in Divinity Coast, then suddenly Ero is asking you to leave a message with your "friends" in the Shining Blade. Wtf, when did we become friends with them? Also, both npc's get the gender of the other npc wrong (they're both referred to as male but they have female models). Lazy Anet.... Jink 16:57, July 30, 2010 (UTC) Revert Many thanks for reverting that strange guy, it was driving me crazy for the last hour since I couldn't revert him because of the page size. ***EAGLEMUT*** TALK 09:50, August 7, 2010 (UTC) You should ask for rollback rights, so that you can revert like that in the future -- RandomTime 21:53, August 8, 2010 (UTC) "like that"? :P Anyways, rollback doesn't require loading the page, so I guess it could help. --Vipermagi 21:56, August 8, 2010 (UTC) Umm might be a good idea since my internet connection really times out on most of the bigger pages. Thanks for the suggestion! ***EAGLEMUT*** TALK 22:08, August 8, 2010 (UTC) NP - go forth and roll back what needs to be rolled -- RandomTime 22:11, August 8, 2010 (UTC) GuildWiki:Administrator information Can you still contacted in-game? Eaglemut noticed your characters page redlinks. I tried looking at your user page history whether there was some sort of comment when you removed it, but you seem to have deleted your userpage at one point ("Abuse of power", he screamed). --◄mendel► 19:48, August 11, 2010 (UTC) Well, I can be contacted in game.. Theoretically. The odds of finding me online are pretty slim. The last few weeks of July were a massive burst in my playtime, clocking in at around... 15 hours or so. If you really want, you can add "Skin of Vipermagi" somewhere. --Vipermagi 20:06, August 11, 2010 (UTC) Hi there, I have added the name to GuildWiki:Administrator information for you, and noted you are not very active there. Hope you don't mind me doing so. Also, should I take your last edit as a confirmation you going for GW2? :P ***EAGLEMUT*** TALK 20:56, August 11, 2010 (UTC) Greetings, Sir Eaglemut. In response to your recent addition on the GuildWiki:Administrator information page, I would like to hereby show my gratitude. Thank you. As for your query; It is highly likely that I will play the sequel to Guild Wars, namely Guild Wars 2. However, it should be noted that my state of mind may shift over time. This short letter should not be considered binding. Yours sincerely, User:Vipermagi. , 21:04, August 11, 2010 (UTC) I humbly apologize, for some reason I have a tendency to always talk too formally. Doh! Well, talking was always something I was terrible at. Among RL friends, I am called "The Silent Guy" coz I hardly ever speak. Note to self: Before pressing the Save Page button, read aloud whatever crap you just wrote. Like now you dolt! ***EAGLEMUT*** TALK 21:43, August 11, 2010 (UTC) Fixed the extra paragraph break on PanSola's info, well spotted. R.Phalange's info isn't broken, "resigned" is meant to make the entry not appear. Apparently in earlier times, sysops used to resign and return later? ;) --◄mendel► 00:02, August 12, 2010 (UTC) Not really, GWiki just sucked at demoting people who resigned. Pling was the only one I've known to do so on this site. -Auron 01:43, August 12, 2010 (UTC) Makes sense... I guess? Because just removing him wouldn't work. @EMut: No need to apologise :P I kinda liked it, in a way. --Vipermagi 09:08, August 12, 2010 (UTC) The sense is that the entry can be removed (by anyone) even if the person is not yet demoted (by a temporarily inactive bureaucrat or whatever). Thus, the GW:AI has info on all the sysops that are on the userlist. --◄mendel► 20:53, August 12, 2010 (UTC) Thoughts -> H2SO4 That one made my inner chemist chuckle. This one really got me, though, because I am also a connoisseur of bad puns (much to Jink's chagrin). —Dr Ishmael 21:14, August 15, 2010 (UTC) Rock Paper Cynic is just brilliant. You heard any of the songs? --El_Nazgir 22:17, August 15, 2010 (UTC) Some... perhaps half. I've got the rest bookmarked, but I just keep forgetting to get back to them. I think "Rousseau, Rousseau" is my favorite so far, and I'm intrigued by the titles of "Jabber-rock" and "Haiku Song". —Dr Ishmael 01:02, August 16, 2010 (UTC) It has been my experience that all intelligent men revel in puns... but the women that love them do not. 03:57, August 16, 2010 (UTC) I read that book. Rhyme & Punishment: men who like word jokes (and the women that love them, who don't)  —Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 04:16, August 16, 2010 (UTC) Damn, there's even a book about that? Also, my favourites are one shell two shell and the philosophical zombie slayer.--El_Nazgir 08:30, August 16, 2010 (UTC) I only listened to Sansregret, which I did enjoy. And then I switched back to Dream Theater and forgot about the rest. Oh well. --Vipermagi 12:15, August 16, 2010 (UTC) Shut up, whitey "Nigger" is a word that white slave masters used to refer to people they liked to think of as less than human. If white people use the word, they put themselves into that context; by choice, since its use is rarely a necessity. There is no comparable context that works in reverse. (And I would be uncomfortable or offended if someone addressed me as "massa" or "master", for a similar reason.) --◄mendel► 18:29, August 21, 2010 (UTC) And does anyone accusing you of racism actually know that, and does it still apply? Different example; gay. It used to be a British English word meaning "happy", or "overjoyed". Are homosexuals just a bunch of joyous fellows, then, or does 'gay' refer to homosexuality? Also, context is, imo, defined by current circumstance, not that of dozens of years ago. Do two black people call each other 'less than human' as well, or do they mean 'brother'? --Vipermagi 18:51, August 21, 2010 (UTC) The truth is: it's an unfair situation. The context is that, in the industrialized West (more often than not), White ppls get to be the boss and Blacks not. So, it's hardly a fair trade off: whites get the power and blacks get to reserve use of a word. There's no comparable term for whites, btw: whitey, honky, and mother-fucker just don't have the same connotative history. Ask me again when American blacks aren't making $0.60 vs $1.00 for whites, when rates of college graduation are comparable, when the country finally elects a black president, and when life expectancies are closer. BTW: in similar situations, jews can all each other kikes, gays can self-refer to faggots, and so forth. Every group reserves the right to use negative terms for itself, but asks the rest of the world to shut the fuck up — I think it's reasonable to respect that without feeling that I'm being politically correct for its own sake. At the same time, I can understand why it bugs people to be asked to think about the terms they choose to use.  —Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 19:33, August 21, 2010 (UTC) People are attracted to those who are "like them" by nature. This shows in businesses etc. as well, sadly. You also can't stop it, so basically, I won't ever have to ask you again. This does mean I can't forget to ask you again once those conditions are fulfilled, so there's a possitive side as well? ;) I find it odd, almost hypocritical, that they demand to not be called "nigger" (or whichever example you take), walk around the corner, and immediately yell "nigger" themselves. To me, it's like correcting someone for confusing then/than, and yelling at the third for correcting you in a similar manner. --Vipermagi 20:09, August 21, 2010 (UTC) The "like them" doesn't refer primarily to race, though. For example, we're all here because we happen to like Guild Wars, and don't necessarily know (or care) what race the various people are. It's not hypocritical for one person of a given race to demand that you not use a particular word, and then for a different person of the same race to use that same word. If it's exactly the same person, then yeah, he's got no right to complain. Still, arguing about racial slurs is progress of sorts. Two hundred years ago, a discussion of racism in the United States would have focused on people enslaved from birth until death through no fault of their own. One hundred years ago, it would have been about Jim Crow laws that legally relegated people to not having a lot of the normal rights of citizenship. Today, it's mostly about someone saying something idiotic (and often later apologizing), or else about saying something that sounds bad if taken out of context but reasonable in context, and someone taking it out of context. Not perfect, but a lot better than it used to be. Comparing demographic information doesn't necessarily prove anything. Such data nearly always vary from one demographic to another. If Asians have higher college graduation rates than whites in the United States, does that prove that the US discriminates against whites? If women have a longer life expectancy than men, does that prove that the United States discriminates against men? If over 90% of on the job fatalities are men, does that prove discrimination by Grenth? I think it only proves that unequal outcomes aren't, in themselves, proof of systematic discrimination. For what it's worth, the demographic things that Tennessee cites are also very much correlated with the childhood living situation with parents (e.g., live with both parents married and living together, parents living together but not married, living with one biological parent plus a step-parent, raised by a single parent, etc.). Have a regression based on that as well as race and the influence of race looks far less, and in some cases, nearly vanishes. Quizzical 20:43, August 21, 2010 (UTC) Offensive words are really just the legacy of some of history's most successful trolls. The fact that people still get butthurt by them proves how successful they were. --Macros 20:48, August 21, 2010 (UTC)