User:Dr ishmael

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Graaagh
Yep, I'm an admin here, as well as one of the main go-to people for wikicode issues (templates, DPL, etc.). I have a shoepuppet account, Dr Ishmael, that I sometimes use for testing stuff. I also have a bot account, Bot ishmael, used to perform Bot tasks and various maintenance duties as necessary.


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About me
Tony, age 29
 * Location
 * Conway, Arkansas


 * Occupation(s)
 * Solutions Developer - Sort of a jack-of-all-trades programmer.
 * Delivery Expert - You give me a tip, or I feed your pizza to my cats.


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 * Chicken. Not because I am a chicken, but because I command an army of chickens.  Don't ask, it's a long story.

I have been playing Guild Wars since my then-girlfriend (now wife) told me about it after the first Beta Weekend Event back in October 2004. The feature that hooked me was that it was free, but the reason I kept playing is because it's fun. I don't play as much anymore, but I still hop on for most special events (I'm also part of Nick's voluntary slave labor force). My wife Jink is the leader and I am an officer of a small RP guild called the Wind Riders [WIND].

In-game
See the tabs to the left for articles on my characters, including background, armor, builds, titles, etc.
 * /Progress - NM mission progression for all characters
 * Event quest checklists: /Wintersday quest checklist and /Festival stuff

Technical stuffs
Yes, I know how to extract most textures and some text from Gw.dat. Click here to learn more.

The best tool I've found for running multiple instances of GW is here. Works flawlessly with the new -character command-line switch, unlike the tool I'd been using previously.

Californication
"Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement." <-- That single lyric is probably the basis of my overall cynical state of mind. Also, awesome video. (It may look crappy now, but remember, this was made 11 years ago.)

anim.o.v.e
The band m.o.v.e (who continue to rank among my favorite artists) has been releasing an annual album of anime song covers and collaborations with other artists that are commonly involved with anime. Today they announced the third installment in this series, anim.o.v.e03, to be released in September, with a partial tracklist, so I went to check out the original versions of the songs. Then I did the same for the previous 2 albums (which I'd done before, just felt like doing again). Then I realized that I could create playlists on Grooveshark to compare the original to the cover, which I thought was spiffy. Then I figured I'd share them here since there are a few other anime fans around.

anim.o.v.e01
Funny story here (that I just learned today) - the song "Gravity" is from the show Lucky Star, where it was an insert song for a scene that was a parody of Initial D. Since m.o.v.e has performed all the intros and most of the outros for Initial D (Extra Stage doesn't count >.>), "Gravity" was written in imitation of their style, with a male rapper, female vocalist, and a techno-ish music style. It's even listed as being performed by "m.o.e.v" on the compilation album.

SOOOO... what we have here, is m.o.v.e covering a parody of themselves. And making it 9000 times more awesome.

anim.o.v.e02
This album also featured a collaboration with Minami Takayama of Two-Mix; on the next anim.o.v.e installment, they will be covering Two-Mix's "Rhythm Emotion."

anim.o.v.e03
Yes, the announcement listed move's own "Dogfight" as one of the songs that will be covered. I'm guessing they'll bring in a guest vocalist and turn it into a duet. Or maybe they'll have Yuri do the rap and Motsu sing the choruses. XD

Full tracklist is now posted on m.o.v.e's website, along with 45-second samples of each track. Turns out they're completely remixing/re-recording Dogfight as a "self cover," and it sounds pretty good. Also, there are *9* other covers on this album, with only 1 original song &mdash; a drastic change from the previous two volumes.

(And yes, I am the same dr_ishmael who submitted the translated lyrics for both Dogfight and Hikari e.)


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