User talk:Incisivis

"Sweet guinea pig of Winnipeg!", welcome to the site ^_^ btw, what does your screename mean?--V 10:30, 23 August 2007 (EDT)

That's supposed to be a quote from Hermes Conrad, right? Yer link's wrong :P As for my name, it's a play on the word "incisive", which means sharp or keen, and it's often used to refer to writing. The "is" on the end is a reference to Transformer naming like "Cyclonus" and "Rodimus Prime". It did start out as the name of a Transformers fanchar, but now it's taken on a life of its own. Incisivis 12:26, 23 August 2007 (EDT)

I just saw the "Transformers" Michael Bay movie Sunday night, (right before it went out of theaters): suffice to say, I was "not amused". Fixed the link. Well, Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name...--V 13:37, 23 August 2007 (EDT)

Nor was I. But I'm almost alone on that: the fandom as a whole *loved* it. I disliked the movie because it focused too much on the humans (though I know the reasons why), and was generally loud and obnoxious with the TFs not having much personality. And "Sympathy for the Devil" is a rockin' song, though I associate it now with an AMV a friend made, which used the song as a tribute to the great villains of American and Japanese animation. Incisivis 13:31, 24 August 2007 (EDT)

Starscream had literally one line of dialogue, but they force me to sit through half an hour of PAINFUL dialogue from a moronic "special agent" character, while another Transformer's maximum screentime was devoted to a urination joke? Didn't they realize that if you make a film aimed at fans of a show that aired 10-20 years ago, don't insert humor for 5 year olds? And then, why fill it with so many masturbation/sex jokes? The whole thing was a fusion of Michael Bay (Director) and Steven Spielberg (producer)...and not in any wholesome SilverBolt way; dear god, I mean Spielberg's approach is to have "everyday kids from suburbia affected by great extraordinary adventures (this can work and even be mature if handled well), and Michael Bay's formula is to focus on military characters and experts: so what was their plan for this? shoehorn both narrative formats into each other and have both the suburban everyteenager character and military characters, resulting in not enough real development or screentime for EACH set of characters, while depriving time from the Transformers.....er, but I digress....(sorry the forums are down and I had nowhere to vent this; I just saw it Sunday and I still feel....dirty...btw, where do I find this AMV?--V 15:03, 24 August 2007 (ED

But...but I liked it ;_;--Szmitten 16:09, 24 August 2007 (EDT)

Open your eyes to the wool that has been pulled over them, Szmitten; the Matrix has you. --V 21:18, 24 August 2007 (EDT)

Szmitten, if it's any consolation, most fans really loved it, as I said. V and I are mostly alone on this. I'm not bitter, though. I just forget the movie and go back to the TF stuff I do like. It helps that I was never a big fan of the first two years of the TF cartoon (which this movie tried to replicate), but only liked the characters introduced in the '86 movie and afterwards, though I'm also a big fan of Beast Wars

And V, the video I mentioned can be found here . For the record, I have read the original V for Vendetta comic, but didn't see the movie: I'm a huge book geek, so my thought process always is "If you've seen the book, who needs the movie?" :P Incisivis 22:46, 24 August 2007 (EDT)

Check out the movie ("for free" through the wonder of the internets). On the one-hand, it was not a direct, page-by-page adaptation of the graphic novel. Then again, a page-by-page adaptation would have been 6 hours long. Sort of like LOTR, I thought it a great adaptation and condensation of the comic. Naughty-fun-bits: V fighting police, V's Televised speech (having rewatched the movie something like 50+ times on DVD, I kind of intentionally talk like this now ^_^), At this point, all V needs to do is keep his word...and then--V 23:19, 24 August 2007 (EDT)

1. If you remove an extra link by removing the double brackets, i.e. [[Shinji Ikari]] to just "Shinji Ikari", you don't need to add "nowiki" tags around it. Simply removing the double brackets removes the links.
2. For god's sake stop spelling words with extra U's. The metric system is a tool of the Devil. --V 17:56, 7 October 2007 (PDT)

Is this about something on the pages? Because if it's not, quitcherbitchin'. It's my user page, and I can spell using the completely senseless combination of US and British spelling that my home country provides. :P Incisivis 18:29, 7 October 2007 (PDT)

No, no you figured out what I meant on the Asuka page; good to go. Otherwise, my car gets 5 rods to the hogshead of gasoline, and that's the way I likes it!--V 19:05, 7 October 2007 (PDT)

FYI, yes, drop what you're doing and marathon Avatar seasons 1 and 2; astonishingly one of the best series on ANY channel of the past 5 years; so much sharp dialogue, well rounded characters, innovative storytelling, and uber attention to continuity that it makes a grown man cry. --V 19:11, 7 October 2007 (PDT)

Oh, thank god, I thought you were talking about my spelling of "dialogue", which Firefox for some reason doesn't accept, but does "dialog". It's one of those godawful spelling shortening like "nite" that I hope never catches on. Sometimes I wish a bottomless pit of artistic mispellers did exist. :/

And yes, season 3 of Avatar started airing in Canada at the same time as yours (though now you're an episode before us). I'd caught the show off and on before, but season 3 made a full convert. It is an amazing show, for all the reasons you say. I'm going to check if any of the local places have all the DVDs for rental. Incisivis 19:32, 7 October 2007 (PDT)

Cool you're back

Thanks for coming back: you're a professional short story writer and all :) TV now stinks seeing as Canada is getting the second half of Avatar season 3 and we are not. Anyway, thanks for the new drive on the character articles: please go full steam on those, hold nothing back, just go wild. Kick-ass: you have fully mastered how to play around with image files on wiki format ("right" "250px" "thumb" etc in various combinations). That's great. Please keep this up I've noticed a great dearth of images and I'm a moron that doesn't know how to create screencaps. Btw, the blind date Hikari set up Asuka for was with a "College aged guy"? Really? I don't remember that episode (V goes to look for transcript)...er, when did they say that? I always envisioned it as a blind date with some Kensuke-esque dork. --V 18:47, 30 January 2008 (PST)

Ah-ah-ah! I'm not a pro until I get published, not win a dinky local contest. :) As for coming back, I had figured a while ago that I should get off my fat butt and do some work here, but I was limited in what I could do. Character stuff is just about all I know, and I seemed stuck, until now, when I realized that I'd ignored just simple grammar-scrubbing. The initial profiles were a rush job all done simultaneously, and I'm hoping to improve them in structure and content.

As for screencaps, I badly need to figure out the "code" for episode screencaps. I uploaded one scene before I realized that there was some specific number designations. Oops. :(

I'm afraid I might have made a mistake about Asuka and her date. There's nothing in the Platinum subs to indicate how old Kodama's friend was or what his position was; I'll take care of that right away. Though I don't think he was a "dork", since Asuka referred to him as "a hunk" to Misato when she was eating some potato chips.

By the way, my e-mail is still open if you're ever wondering where I am or if I've quit the project.Incisivis 18:07, 31 January 2008 (PST)

OMG, you aren't thinking of quitting are you? (there's a ton of stuff to do and few that understand it well; you've been heavily involved since the original commentary project). Wait, what's your e-mail?--V 18:43, 31 January 2008 (PST)

Relax, V; I'm going nowhere. I just meant that if you ever wanted to reach me, or were worried about me going away, to call. And my e-mail is my username here, at hotmail dot com. Though I have to admit, I'm not really in on "the ground floor" so to speak. I only get my non-series info through the forums, and am never the first to hear. I also only know a few words and structure of Japanese, and cannot read any characters or form a complete sentence. Incisivis 18:48, 31 January 2008 (PST)