User talk:RAP/Archive 12

Hello, Ryan here. And this is the talk page, where anything goes, except the following things that should not be allowed here:

Good enough to suit ur needs? Grood. Chat along here in this relaxing area, or talk to me in the chatroom !

It's been too long
Er, sorry for taking forever to respond, but I've been insanely busy. I've been volunteering every Saturday, and I've had to do lots of projects, essays and presentations for school; we're into exams now, which means no homework, but tonnes of studying. I won't bore you with specifics about all my projects... though I know you'd like my art final: it's a dragon XD I've been spending all my little scraps of free time editing the Wiki so I don't get demoted for inactivity, but soon I'll be able to help out with the next big project I've set my sights on: deleting redundant templates :evil: I've already singled out my victims, and I'm gonna post the list on the forums tonight to get the rest of the Sysops' approval. You asked about Swine Flu... my mom's boss was in Mexico at the time, and he got sick soon after returning so we were a bit concerned, but it turned out to be nothing :o Happy belated birthday; too bad you didn't get all the images you wanted to upload, but you still uploaded and edited A LOT. I wish my Photoshop was working, then I could go around and remove watermarks like I've been dying to do. Talk to you later (but hopefully not too much later)! - 22:56, 9 June 2009 (EDT)
 * Yeah, I wish I had joined the forums earlier, but I always made excuses to put it off <_> I have dreams that come true all the time; I actually had a dream that my Wiki account got hacked, and then 48 hours later Stooby's account was hacked! Again, sorry for not responding quickly - my friends in RL go for months without returning my phone calls, so I know how you feel... I am done my dragon, but it's still at school... My vision is for some templates to be species-specific (and other Mario-groupings), and then others will be huge templates that cover all the aspects of a game (i.e. ) - none of that, , foolery. But I'm a long way from combining templates like those - oh no, I'm only good at deleting and then systematically replacing one thing for another and removing/adding things... For now ;D Cool; I didn't know about the DS successor. I actually like how this generation of Nintendo consoles is lasting so long; my family can't afford to keep up when they turnover every couple years. Today, I am pretty good. My calculus exam was bad, but my friend and I got to ride in the elevator and run around in the school basement with our English teacher, which we've never gotten to do before - and all because I wanted a copy of King Lear X3 -  00:07, 10 June 2009 (EDT)

It's exam season, and since I don't have any exams today, I get to stay home! - 13:45, 12 June 2009 (EDT)
 * I generally patrol during my Wiki breaks, but now I've finished checking most of the recent changes... Hmmm... what to do, what to do... Maybe I'll go downstairs and have a snack... - 13:52, 12 June 2009 (EDT)

I have one more school-related project to finish (for Monday, hopefully) before I can turn my attention to the templates. However, today I did a little mini-project with CheckUser instead, with fairly successful results (check the admin forums - I made a new thread for it). And yes, I've seen your "Growth of the Summer" project - it's quite ambitious; whenever I make big summer plans they always come up short, so hopefully you'll have better luck with your endeavor. Also, Tucayo turned the PipeProject idea into an actual Proposal, so you should take a looksie. Well, I have rough drafts of projects on the go saved on my computer, and the History of my Template page is a fairly good record of all the proposals I've done, MarioWiki and Special talk pages also record my Wiki-meddling, as do the tonnes of notes lying around my computer. (One Post-It note lists Location Templates I singled out and destroyed; the results of the hated First English Name Proposal; a reminder to clean-up after two particularly irritating n00bs; notes about Angry Aztec and Pokey; and some scribbles I'm too tired to decipher at the moment (3:00 AM).) I also write notes on the kitchen calendar and keep all my old paperwork (so I have cancelled hand-drawn comic pages to laugh at too); but yeah, certainly your binder is much more organized than my mess *is envious* - 02:59, 19 June 2009 (EDT)

TimeQ probably removed your Proposal vote because there's no "real" reason, and he'll revert it again unless you say "Per my ideas" or something like that. Just so you know. -
 * No problem. I think whoever removes votes should tell the voter to recast them, but seeing as TimeQ does so much for the Proposals page, I don't hold it against him. *sigh* I have chronic bronchitis, so every month or two I get to spend two weeks coughing like mad too; it doesn't matter what time of the year it is. It's when you start horking up yellow/green stuff that you worry ;D Right now we're being spammed by Maria. I can tell who she is before she even does anything (if you read my forum thread, you'd understand how, but it's been ignored all week, and tonight's a perfect example of how my innovation works! So I'm plugging it on another thread). - 01:44, 24 June 2009 (EDT)

Hi RAP. Sorry, I should have told you why I removed your vote. I tend to think that everybody checks the history of the proposals page regularly and thusly knows when and why their votes are removed, but obviously that's not true. I'll try and contact the users whenever I remove their votes from now on. But if I do forget it, I recommend you to check the history before voting again. And thanks Walkazo, that was my reason exactly ;) 02:01, 24 June 2009 (EDT)

Ah yes, the lingering cough... There's no telling how long that will last. Yeah, I sometimes wonder how many of our recently created yet inactive accounts are just her, but I guess as long as they're not doing anything it's nothing to worry about. I could never get into editing other Wikis - I'm busy enough with this one, thank you very much. I saw your new topic; it's pretty sweet. I'm rarely left twiddling my thumbs because I obsessively patrol all recent mainspace changes (I think I'm the only one who actually marks things as patrolled as I go along <_<), and then I can always find neglected pages in need of gnomework when that runs out. And soon I'll pitch my Template plan, so that'll be a lot to do for both me and the other Sysops (if they're interested). My day's been pretty uneventful, which is a nice change. How about yours? - 02:40, 29 June 2009 (EDT)

Reply To The Welcome
Hey, here. Just wanted to thank you for the welcome and the help pages. And thanks for the page cleanup. I'm not that used to the page setups just yet.

Why did I join MarioWiki, you ask? Well I stumbled upon the website one day and thought,"Hey this is pretty cool," and added it to my favorite websites. Then I found myself visiting the site more and more and then thought,"Why not just join?" so that's what I did.

And about the image upload. It was just something I put together using Photoshop a couple months back and decided that this would be the proper place to upload it just to get it out there on the internet. When I uploaded it, though, it did say it was a very large file, so I tried shrinking it on Windows Photo Gallery, but the program wouldn't recognize the file, so then I decided to just try to upload it and when I did it showed up blank, probably due to the large file size, but I'm clueless as to what to do next to it to get it on here. If you've got any tips, I would appreciate it. -

It worked!
Yeah, what ended up working was just saving the actual file again in a different format, which wasn't corrupt and it was smaller in size. So the pic is up. I just saved it over the old one and now everything works.

Now a Question about my signature. I want mine kinda like how yours is, just for mine the main page, talk, and contribs pages would be the different color coded parts of my signature, but there is nowhere in the help page that tells me how to do it. And do I want to be friends with you, why not? =D Yoshi Koo pa (talk &middot; edits)