User:GW-Karlos

Hello and welcome to my little place in the Wiki! :) I am a contributor and admin on this wiki. I am grateful for all the good times and the amazing learning experience. Help the wiki grow and stay strong. Feel free to contact me through my in-game characters.

Saifuddeen Kenaani

 * Hammer wielding tank specializing in damage output and knockdowns.
 * Mostly W/Mo though sometimes I experiment with W/E or W/Me
 * Retired Big time PvE explorer. Thoroughly replaced by Lamees below. He still makes cameo appearances all around helping guildmates and FoW/UW groups looking for tanks.
 * Armor of choice: Gladiator's Armor (15k)



Lamees Ghaznawi

 * Air specialized Elementalist, serious butt-kicker!! :)
 * On November 3rd, 2005, she fully conquered the Fissure of Woe with an excellent group, completeing all quests in one run. She is now enshrined into my RPG characters hall of fame.
 * Somehow I find playing the PvE game with an ele a lot easier than a warrior. Maybe because the warrior was my first character and I was having a trial by fire, or maybe because eles sit in the back. It could also be because AoE spells are very effective in wiping out computer controlled mobs.
 * Armor of choice: Aeromancer's Armor (15k)



Transcendant One

 * Mwah ha ha haah! My attempt at being a monkster!
 * One of a handful of monks at the Ashford Abbey who have mastered the long lost art of Apple Smiting Prayers, including Holy Peel, Crunch Signet and Balthazar's Cider (see picture).
 * Healing others is serious work! Being a good monk requires a lot of skill. It also requires patience as you can see the mistakes of others a lot more closely.
 * Armor of choice: Running around in his undies (Ascetic's Armor)

Real Life Character

 * Tarek:
 * Level: 30 :)
 * Territory: Egypt (living in the Seattle area)
 * Profession: Teacher/Software Developer specializing in low-level Windows programming.
 * PvE kinda person, likes Basketball, RPG games and Reading
 * The last remaining true Utah Jazz fan in the world. :)

Guildwiki
Description: Boss found in the northwestern area of the Wiki.

Skills Used:
 * Conjure Fine Print
 * Form Committee
 * Never Ending Argument
 * Critique
 * "They're penetrating the Bureaucracy!"

Items Dropped:
 * Bureuaucrat's Monocle
 * Tome of Unwavering Protocol

Computer Games
I am a HUGE fan of two genres that are dying right now (but still produce amazing games): Adventure games and well storied RPG games. I enjoy questing and exploring and living the real game experience. I actually abhor much of the most popular elements of MMORPG culture like trading and dissing noobs and playing PvP to climb a ladder. :)

Favorite RPG games:
 * 1) The eternal masterpiece: Planescape: Torment
 * 2) The Baldur's Gate series, especially "Shadows of Amn."
 * 3) Icewind Dale series.
 * 4) Neverwinter Nights (original and Hordes).
 * 5) I currently love the Knights of the Old Republic series for its wonderful storytelling.

Favorite Adventure games:
 * 1) Sierra's old stuff, Space Quest, King's Quest and my most beloved: Hero's Quest.
 * 2) Gabriel Knight series, especially two.
 * 3) Lucas Arts' masterpieces: Monkey Island and Grim Fandango.

Favorite other games:
 * 1) Diablo 1 and 2 for the storyline. If they would just sell the animations as a movie, I would buy it. :)
 * 2) Heroes of Might and Magic (2, 3 and 4). Hands down, the most addictive game I ever played. Heroes 4 had a masterful sound track.
 * 3) WarCraft and StarCraft for excellent storytelling.

I think that it is high time Hollywood made some of these amazing story lines into movies.

The Hall of Coolness

 * Coolest Game: Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.
 * Coolest Story: PlaneScape: Torment, Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within
 * Coolest Hero: Roger Wilco, Guybrush Threepwood
 * Coolest NPC: Zeratul, Ravel Puzzlewell
 * Coolest Villain: Jon Irenicus, Sarah Kerrigan, Trias the Betrayer, The Transcendant One, Captain Le Chuck
 * Coolest Henchman: Entire cast of Torment, Minsc (and Boo), Jolee Bindo, Jan Jensen with Anomen
 * Coolest Character Development: Neverwinter Nights with expansions.
 * Coolest Question: "Not your fault? Tell me, Marius... How is it not your fault?"


 * Special award: Most Annoying NPC: Cespinar from Throne of Bhaal

Discussion
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Karlos, I am very unhappy with the way you replied to Nunix on the community portal. Why? Because I feel that you misread his intentions, that you overreacted to the those (percieved) intentions, that you are antagonizing Nunix and Gravewit with that answer and thus ultimatively are damaging the original goal which I share.

Missread intentions: When you first raised the issue of power over the wiki, you got solid support from almost everyone around. That is because we all feel the same about the wiki, its more than a simple fansite, it is a place where people work together towards the goal of bringing information to GW players, not any other goals. However what Nunix did in his statement was twofold: He stated the realities (they *do* have absolute power over the wiki, thats a fact which is true) and he stated his intentions (they promise not to abuse those powers). Especially he did not stay his intentions are otherwise. You hang your arguments on the word *this*. However both in a narrowminded grammatical sence as well as in a open minded context sence, he is not stating anything different. This (grammatically) relates to "access to all that code, to the hard drive" and from the context you learn that he is not talking about firefox splash pages as that would directly contradict " they choose to do only those things either: 1) necessary for the maintenance of the GuildWiki, including its server and database" one sentence later.

So basically they have read the replies in the first thread and responded with all we (or I should speak for myself only, I) ever wanted: A promise to not use guildwiki for any other goal than informing the community about GW, while keeping doing the administrative stuff that inevitably needs to be done but is irrelevant to the content of the wiki as long as they do not abuse their power. Continuing to agrue a moot point in an already won position will only antagonise your opponents. --Xeeron 13:32, 7 January 2006 (UTC)