User talk:Doom Vroom

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Happy eighth!
Hey, I made it! Here's something else that's entertaining. Did you know that Mark Hamill was on an episode of The Muppet Show? Here's the article on it http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_417:_Star_Wars and here's a clip from the show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBJp6-oiXBI. I think we can all agree that Hamill's three greatest performances are The Joker, Luke Skywalker, and this clip. ;-) Raidra (talk) 04:18, February 24, 2016 (UTC)
 * The thing about Hamill is he seems to have fun and enjoy his work (as shown on that Muppet Show clip). He seems like a cool and (ironically) down-to-earth guy.  If he did an album reciting the symptoms of the bends (aka decompression sickness and caissons disease), food poisoning, gas gangrene, etc, I'd buy it.  I don't know if this is on YouTube, but another great moment from that Muppet Show episode is the final showdown between Luke Skywalker & his team and Dearth Nadir (the Darth Vader lampoon, played by Gonzo the Great).  They brag that they have Chewbacca, but Dearth Nadir brags that he has the gargling gargoyle.  Angus starts gargling, causing Chewie to clutch his ears in pain.  Interestingly enough, the gargling does sound a lot like Wookie-speak.  Maybe it reminded Chewbacca of a pop song that they had been playing way too much on his planet, or maybe it sounded like Wookie for "Hey, that holiday special you were in is going to be derided for decades to come!" Raidra (talk) 01:16, February 25, 2016 (UTC)
 * ~laughs~ Oh, those are great! Can you imagine driving, looking over, and seeing Hamill trying out his laughs?  "Holy cow, Luke Skywalker's losing it!" :-D I know from writing comics that giving a character a good maniacal laugh is important.  I'll have to talk more later, but in the meanwhile, here are a couple links you might find interesting.   Raidra (talk) 00:31, February 26, 2016 (UTC)

I hope so too. Shoot, it can't be worse than the introduction of Bane in Batman & Robin. I've never seen it and I know it was terrible. ~shudders~ Had the writers not read any of the comics or seen the B:TAS episode? I don't have the link right now, but there's a story (I think from Peter David) about the screening of Batman & Robin for the DC people. When Batman took out the Bat-credit card, there was a wailing like from a poor, tormented soul. It was Denny O'Neil.

Here's a story I wanted to share last night, but I wasn't feeling well. There was an episode of Mythbusters in which they needed hog carcasses for a test (They couldn't use real people since this wasn't a corrupt section of feudal Japan). Adam picked up the dead pigs and delivered them to the test area in the back of a pickup truck. Jamie asked him what kinds of looks he got, and Adam replied that it was interesting because the other drivers would look at the hogs and look confused, but then when they saw him driving they'd look like, "Oh! Well, that explains it!" Raidra (talk) 18:54, February 26, 2016 (UTC)
 * I am feeling better, thanks. :-) Yeah, from time to time you hear odd stories concerning movies and TV shows, especially comic book adaptations. I read a story that they wanted a certain director to do a Superman movie, and he insisted on having a giant robotic spider.  They changed the plotline, but he still wanted the robot spider.  The movie was never made and the director wound up doing Wild Wild West, the Will Smith movie which was supposedly based on the old television show.  Interestingly enough, that movie did have a giant robotic spider despite being set in the 1800s.  Say what you will, but that guy knew what he wanted!
 * I'm sad that Mythbusters is ending. I don't know if that part about Adam and Jamie is true, but it's a shame if it is.  That begs the question- who do you get to investigate rumors about the Mythbusters?
 * Homer Simpson- I don't know. Coast Guard?  Raidra (talk) 00:22, February 28, 2016 (UTC)
 * I haven't read the whole thing yet, but 1) I love how they also note that the giant spider was later used in Wild Wild West and 2) I feel like an opportunity was missed there. Then again, there were so many changes they wanted to make that it probably would have ended up as one of those watered-down, coulda been films.  I hadn't realized that this was the film project where they considered having Nicholas Cage as Superman.  A friend of mine told me that some bunch was thinking of having Cage play Superman.  When I told my aunt, she just couldn't believe it because she knew him best as the actor from Raising Arizona .  If that movie had been made, here's a scene we would have seen.  If there's a giant robotic spider, you could always combat it with a giant robotic Venus flytrap.
 * Yeah, you're right; it did have a good run. Mythbusters, we raise our diet Cokes and Pop Rocks to you! Raidra (talk) 00:17, February 29, 2016 (UTC)

Happy Leap Day! (It's still Leap Day where I am) "Plants Versus Arachnids!" Hey, I smell a new video game! If the Dark Knight Detective and the Mark Hamill version of The Joker could be in it, that would- Well, I was going to say it would be awesome, but the developers would probably screw it up somehow. :-/ There was the line from The Nanny in which Mr. Sheffield told Fran, "Every time I ask you to do something, you somehow manage to screw it all up!" and she replied, "And yet you continue to ask me!"

Hey, do you have a consecutive day streak going? This is my 55th straight day. In any case, that would be awesome to make your own narration videos, or even audio files Raidra (talk) 01:37, March 1, 2016 (UTC)

Re: Blather-blotter-ski and Not Random
I think to think the title of this post is also random and not random! Wow, talk about coincidences! We got together on Saturday to celebrate, and my brother joked back and forth with the waiter about how he was celebrating his 12th birthday. All right, we both have a streak! I have a more nonchalant attitude too, but it would be nice if we could both get the badge.

Hey, you don't even need to explain that! I get you because I'm the same way. That's why I write and create art. Good luck with all your projects! :-) Raidra (talk) 00:51, March 2, 2016 (UTC)
 * If we get it, then let's stay humble and not turn into Ted Knight from Caddyshack, right? ;-) I haven't seen much of that movie, but I've seen enough to know the character is not someone you'd want to hang out with. I honestly chuckled at the kids prices joke. :-D Thanks for the well wishes! :-)
 * I rediscovered a couple pieces of obscure B:TAS trivia today.


 * In the episode with Jonah Hex, Duvall tells Jonah, "You cannot defeat me. I am a Heidelberg fencing champion." This is a reference to an unsettling trend in some parts of Germany at one time- duelists fighting with swords in order to get scars to show off.  Facial scars were considered badges of courage, and some would irritate their scars to make them more noticeable.  Yikes!  Of course, Hex could not care less.
 * The song from "Harlequinade" is actually from a 1944 movie called Meet The People. Who knew?  A writer was probably watching TV one night, saw it, and thought, "Oh, we have to have that in a Harley episode!" Raidra (talk) 00:51, March 3, 2016 (UTC)

Oh, that's so cool! Thanks for sharing! Maybe I'll do that for mine sometime. I like sharing with readers, and I like it when authors give behind the scenes looks into their works.

I'm sorry to hear you have sleep paralysis. I'll have to give that story a look. There are a lot of sleep disorders, and they really do make great subjects for scary stories. I know where the idea for A Nightmare on Elm Street came from, but I read an article on hypnagogia and wondered if that influenced Wes Craven too. Sometimes I have sleep problems, and occasionally something strange happens. I have a nightmare, but don't remember it. How do I know I had a nightmare then? Because I wake up unsettled with a disturbing topic on my mind. I recall two times that it's happened, and oddly enough one was just a few days ago. If you decide to write a story about that, you can just put, "This pasta was inspired by my weirdo friend Raidra." ;-) Raidra (talk)
 * Thank you. I hope you have sweet dreams too, and I'm glad you've been sleeping better. :-)  There was an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants involving SpongeBob visiting other characters' dreams.  Most of the dreams were about exciting adventures and grand feats, but Patrick's dream was just him riding the mechanical seahorse outside a store.  It ended on an unpleasant note, though, because then he dreamed he lost his last quarter.  Didn't Gary Larson do a cartoon about what happens when you dream about falling and forget to wake up before you hit the ground?  That gives me an excuse to look through my Far Side collections.
 * Remember recently I told you I'd have to talk more later because I wasn't feeling well? Well, not only did I feel sick, but I also had trouble typing straight.  It felt better to lie on my side, so I tried to type half-lying, half-leaning on my left side.  I kept having trouble typing, so I had to sit upright, shorten my messages, and correct the mistakes I'd made.
 * "I'd probably leave out the weirdo part". I can't ask any more of you than that. ;-) Raidra (talk) 00:40, March 5, 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Luckily I felt fine the next morning.  It was just one of those things. That's not my only leaning story.  One year I got a 500-piece Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame puzzle for Christmas.  Shortly afterward we made plans to go down to my grandmother's house in Kentucky to visit for a few days.  I didn't know if we would be leaving the next day or the day after, so I did the whole puzzle in one day so in the event we did leave the next day, there wouldn't be a half-completed puzzle and unconnected pieces lying about.  It took several hours and it was late when I finished.  I worked it on a piece of wood (about the thickness of cardboard) on the floor, and I was half-sitting, half-lying on my left side most of the time.  The next day my left butt cheek was sore.  We didn't travel that day; we just did more preparation for the trip.  I went to fetch something on the other side of my bed, and without thinking I plopped down on the bed left cheek first.  It was like, "Aahhh!! Aahhh!"
 * Incidentally, the last few seasons of SpongeBob have also been a pain in the rear. (rim shot) The only recent episodes I really liked were the stop-motion Christmas special [with the modern classic "Don't Be A Jerk (It's Christmas)"] and the episode with the greasy food war (If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll tell you about it. Some people hated it, but I see it as a satire of the modern fast food industry).  As for the episodes you mentioned, I thought of A) the part where the heavily injured Patrick just lost it and demanded Manray guess the number he was thinking (for an excuse to torment him) and B) Squidward quaking in fear, like he actually thought for a minute that they had lost their arms in an avalanche.  Yeah, the imagination box episode was a good one.  Remember that note memorializing those who gave their lives to fight the pirate robot menace? Raidra (talk) 04:27, March 6, 2016 (UTC)

I love me a good puzzle! Your comments reminded me of a great episode of the '90s Nickelodeon show Salute Your Shorts. These two were stuck in the clinic because one had convinced the other one that they should fake being sick so they could chill in the clinic instead of doing the day's activities. However, it turned out that the counselor was taking the campers on a surprise beach trip, so the two malingerers had to stay at camp instead of going to the beach. The nurse went to town (after locking the freezer so they couldn't get to the ice cream, which was for sore throat patients only), so they were left to themselves. The one found a jigsaw puzzle, but the other one (who had suggesting faking sickness in the first place) snapped that he didn't like puzzles. When the first one pressed further, he snatched the puzzle and drop-kicked it outside. The one cracked, "Okay. What are your thoughts on PLay-Doh?" and the other one dropped the bomb- "Every time my mom brings over a new boyfriend they want me to do puzzles with them like I'm their pal! Well, I don't want to do puzzles and I don't want to be their pal!" The two made up, and the puzzle hater rounded up the pieces of the puzzle. The other one started to turn the pieces over to the side with the picture, but the puzzle hater/expert stopped him, explaining, "I've done a lot of puzzles." He then proceeded to work almost the entire puzzle picture side down, leaving the last piece for his associate. They had it on a piece of cardboard, so to reveal the picture the one put another piece of cardboard on top and flipped the whole thing over. That was one of the best episodes of the series.

Squidward blatantly insulted the memory of all those brave pirate robot fighters. ;-) I haven't followed SpongeBob very much since that gosh-awful "Revenge of Triton" special. There are all sorts of articles and videos on the web about people's picks for the worst SpongeBob episodes, and I've been thinking about making my own.  It's a shame the show has gone downhill so much.  As far as classic episodes go, my favorites are "Suds" and "Sandy versus the Worm".

Luckily I caught the Mythbusters finale too. I missed the reunion show because I had something I needed to do, but maybe they'll re-run it sometime. In any case, yeah, it was good. I noted earlier today that I'd been sentimental since last night. Adam got choked up at one point, and that's when I realized, "This is one part of the viewers' lives; it's been a major part of their lives for the past 14 years." Well, it sure was a great run! ~pours out soda and sings~ It's so harddd to say goodbyeee to yesterdayyy... Raidra (talk) 04:51, March 7, 2016 (UTC)
 * They used to have some classics, like The Adventures of Pete & Pete (which fizzled out the last season or two, but was great overall). Oh, Are You Afraid of the Dark was a classic!  There were some that genuinely terrified me, but then there were others that were moving or even funny.  Here's a blog from last year in which I mentioned some scary moments from that show and from B:TAS- http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Umbrello/Childhood_Nightmares:_TV.


 * "Ohhh, that's its tongue... (gets quieter and quieter) and the whole... thing...is the worm...... RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!" That had so many great lines.  The entire worm chase scene was pure gold from SpongeBob and Sandy's exchange ("What do we do now?" "Run faster!" "I coulda thought of that!") to Sandy declaring, "We'll be safe up here!" just before the worm falls off the cliff. X-D


 * Yeah, they'll have no trouble finding work. At least it ended well.  Some shows either have endings that are so terrible you want to shout, "That's it!?  BOOO!!" or collapsed so terribly you're not sorry to see them go.  Here's a neat book I read recently- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/what-were-they-thinking-the-100-dumbest-events-in-television-history-david-hofstede/1112986047?ean=9780823084418. Raidra (talk) 02:24, March 8, 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, Nick Jr. used to be great too! They used to have shows like David the Gnome, The Little Koala, Maya the Bee (which I think some channel has brought back as a computer animated cartoon), Eureeka's Castle (with one Jovial Bob Stine as the co-creator and head writer), that Grimm's fairy tale show I've talked about before, and, after they stopped re-running that Grimm's show, Papa Beaver's Storytime.  Ever since the 2000s or so it's mainly annoying and/or butt-ugly characters.  Seriously, they ruined Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny. ~fumes~ The little I've seen of Paw Patrol and Wallykazam! isn't bad, though, so there's hope for the future.
 * "...well, minus both endings to it." It's unfortunate when there's more than one ending and they're both bad.  I watched The X-Files on and off, though I didn't watch any of the recent episodes (mini-series?).  You almost had it right.  SpongeBob warned, "It's big, scary, and pink!" and Sandy replied, "So's Patrick's belly button, and I ain't afraid of that neither!"
 * I thought of Two and a Half Men too! I'd say it's the most recent example of a show that definitely wore out its welcome.  I stopped watching it after the first couple seasons, but I watched the finale.  Jon Cryer and Ashton Kutcher were discussing matters with a police officer (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger! :-)), and he recapped the whole series.  As they went to leave, the officer noted, "Guys, it sounds like this has been going on for way too long!" and they admitted, "Yeah, we've heard that before." X-D  Yeah, I enjoyed the book.  It's generally objective while still pointing out stupid and bizarre TV moments and decisions.  It was written in 2005, so I noted that there have been a lot of other dumb decisions in television since then. Raidra (talk) 00:45, March 9, 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, I forgot! Here's are a couple interesting stories- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_film_accidents#A_couple_possible_additions.  Full disclosure- I'm the one that posted this, and, as noted, I might not have the details right. Raidra (talk) 00:52, March 9, 2016 (UTC)

~imitates Face trumpeting~ I remember those too, though I didn't watch much of them. I saw part of an episode of Little Bill in which they introduced a character with cerebral palsy. I thought that was neat. I have a younger relative with CP, though it's a milder case, so you probably wouldn't know it unless someone told you. I refer to the Charlie Sheen meltdown as "the Charlie Sheen death-watch" because every morning I literally turned on CNN to see if something had happened to him. I'm glad he's recovering from whatever that mess was. I saw the beginning of an episode of Anger Management guest-starring Lindsay Lohan. One character asked, "What is it with these celebrities having meltdowns?" He was looking right at Sheen's character when he asked, so Charlie replied, "What are you looking at me for?! How am I supposed to know?!" X-D

I'm not a regular viewer, but here's something I've noticed about The Big Bang Theory. At least three-fourths of them are in serious relationships, with Leonard and Penny actually getting married. I thought the premise of the show was that these four were so awkward that it was hard for them to interact with women. I can appreciate them showing that there's someone out there for you no matter who you are, but I'm now confused as to what the premise is supposed to be. Yeah, being short on money is no fun. The reason I was able to get the two books I mentioned recently (Ancient Chinese Weapons and What Were They Thinking) is because I saved up some of the money I got for Christmas and from shoveling snowy driveways. You have to wait to get what you want, but you're able to get something nice. Here's a tip for buying from the Barnes and Noble website/BN Marketplace- add $5.50 to the price of the book you want to buy. That way you should have the taxes and shipping fees taken into account and you won't have unexpected costs. They say that if you spend $25 or more it's free shipping, but I found out that doesn't apply to the BN Marketplace.

What's really bad is when a stuntman dies during the making of a film, and then the film bombs. At least the stuntman is remembered on articles such as that one. I remember when Vin Diesel was on a show promoting the seventh movie in The Fast and The Furious series. He sadly noted that they teach you a lot of things, but they don't teach you how to act like your dead friend and co-star is there and you're interacting with each other. Then he was talking about stunts, and one time he heard someone say the stunt he was going to do was a 40% (or whatever number it was). He asked what that meant and they replied, "It means there's a 40% chance you'll be killed." He noted that that was unsettling and they replied, "Remember that stunt you did the other day? That was a 75%." :-o I might have misremembered the percentages, but that lets you know something about how dangerous some of these stunts are. You read that list of film accidents and think, "My, gosh! How is Jackie Chan still alive!?" Raidra (talk) 03:07, March 10, 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Chat
Hi there! Do you think there should be a wiki chat implemented?

NathanLeachman (talk) 02:47, March 2, 2016 (UTC)Nathan-L

You know, I agree. I remember when I first joined the wiki they had a chat and everyone was just annoying and abusive; with little productivity going on. Communications through talk pages is a lot more formal and mature, I see. In fact, I'm not innocent either; I was temp-banned from the chat for a few hours, though that was a few years ago.

Huh, I just thought the chat should have been implemented just so I could reconnect with old-friends on the site, cause I did have a few who I truly liked. I'm probably gonna start working on my writing; talk page and user page; as well as editing and contributing to the community cause it seems to have lost some of it's popularity/luster; I guess Creepypasta's aren't in right now.

Though, I do like your input, you do bring up a good point regarding the chat being abused in every way possible.

NathanLeachman (talk) 02:56, March 2, 2016 (UTC)Nathan-L

Pasta review request
Hiya vroomie, I have a Pasta out on the WW and I would be so grateful if you could check it out for me. It's the highly anticipated story which should now free my time and allow me to work full time on our collab.

Rinskuro13 (talk) 18:57, March 4, 2016 (UTC)

Stories
Hi Doom! How's your day been? So I've been working on a couple of stories, and I was trying to flesh out a good exposition for one of my stories. It's in the writer's workshop. Basically it's just an extended exposition, yet to be proofread. I'm looking for an immersion factor, so my spaceship doesn't blow up before it leaves the station. In other words, trying to my best abilities to prevent a failure to launch scenario. Don't look at grammar, I will be able to fix it later; only bring it up if it throws you off.

Much appreciated;

NathanLeachman (talk) 04:23, March 6, 2016 (UTC)

RE
Thank you. I never expected that story to get nominated. I'm glad it did though. :) GreyOwl (talk) 02:13, March 8, 2016 (UTC)

Re: Tragic television
I saw a talk show segment at the time in which they played a game called "Genius or Sheenius". I don't know who created it, but they had quotes and you had to guess which ones were from Charlie Sheen and which ones were from geniuses. The co-hosts got all but one correct. They thought the quote "All women are either goddesses or tramps" had to be from Charlie Sheen, but it turned out to be by Pablo Picasso. :-/

Nine percent? Ouch! Several years ago they raised the Ohio sales tax from 6% to 7.25%. The money was supposed to help schools, but it was eventually discovered that Governor Bob Taft was using the money to buy coins (At least, that was my understanding). Yeah. The sales tax is still 7.25%, but at least the money is being used more properly now.

Yeah, those celebrity death rumors are bad. I bet that every time there's a Jackie Chan death rumor someone makes a joke about the Death at a Funeral remake. You see, in 2007 there was a British comedy film called Death at a Funeral, and in 2010 they made an American version with a mainly black cast. I've never seen ever one, but I've seen previews, and I caught this scene while flipping through the channels. The most notorious scene was the one in which a body was delivered to the church. The son of the deceased (played by Chris Rock) and the guy from the funeral home (played by Kevin Hart) are apparently friends. The casket is delivered and opened for display, and upon seeing the body Rock asks, "Who is this?" Hart solemnly replies, "I asked myself the same thing when my father died. 'Who is this man I see before me?'" and Rock tells him, "No!  I mean who is this in the casket?" "That's not your father?" "No! You know what my father looks like!  Take a look!" It then shows the body in the casket, and it's clearly an Asian man. Rock scolds, "You got Jackie Chan in there!" Hart, a little embarrassed but otherwise nonchalant, tells him, "Okay... your father is one of two places. (beat) I think he's at the second place." The funeral home people then take out the casket so they can make the switch. I just love how Hart's character tries to shrug everything off. The sad thing is there was an incident recently in which a family got the wrong body, and the last I heard the woman's body hadn't been found. I noted, "It's bad anytime life imitates Death at a Funeral." Raidra (talk) 03:51, March 11, 2016 (UTC)
 * Ye gads, that's terrible! My gosh!  My condolences to the victims of those incompetents.  How are you going to have an emergency room without electricity?  "Okay, if you look at the monitor... (sees blank, dead screen) Oh, yeah.  Forgot about that."   It sounds like it would be great if the hospital people and the golf course people would have a no-holds barred battle royal.  My family has a couple bad hospital stories.  The absolute worst of those was when a nurse poured my sick father's soup down the drain.  One of the nurses had said he could have whatever he wanted, so he said he wanted some soup.  Sometime after that my mother and brother were visiting, and this monster took the soup and poured it down the sink in front of God and everybody.  They of course complained, and the explanation was that the monster nurse thought he was on a diabetic diet.  What the what!?!?  Even if he were, you just don't treat people that way!  A couple of my cousins are nurses and they'd never do something like that.  Luckily the original nurse came back and, by request, she brought Dad some Ensure with melted ice cream.  I told Mom that it's a good thing I wasn't there.  She asked, "What would you have done?" and I replied, "I don't know.  I don't want to speculate."  Let's move on, shall we?  I'm a fan of a show called Untold Stories of the E.R. . They may have anything from heart attacks and severed fingers to a naked man stuck with cactus spines and college students with blue urine (and no, I didn't make any of that up).  Next time I'll have to talk about some of those.
 * Have you ever seen Chris Rock's Black Progress Chart routine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OAqx7CJ1ew Raidra (talk) 00:58, March 12, 2016 (UTC)

"Oh, I could have looked the specialist up myself and just paid him/her what I paid you, thanks." ~laughs~ Thanks. Hopefully that nurse isn't working anywhere. Let's hope she's not working in your town, right? If so, then I know who I want to see knocked out first in the battle royale!

I don't remember what it was, but it turned out these guys had ticked off the wrong girl. She was a chemistry major, so she gave them beverages or food spiked with (or spiked their beverages/food with) something that turned their urine blue, but was otherwise harmless. These guys came into the E.R. with blue urine and panic attacks. Even their friends who hadn't had whatever it was were having respiratory distress and whatnot out of panic. The doctor had managed to figure it out and was able to treat them. Well, this incident made the local news because a reporter found out about the story somehow. After the doctor had figured it out, he got a call from a girl telling him (Excuse the language here), "Tell those blue urine guys that their wee-wees are going to fall off!" The doctor asked her if she had used such-and-such a chemical, and she paused, told him, "You know, you are one smart E.R. doc!" and hung up. They never caught who did it, but years later there was an intern who had attended that college. The doctor mentioned the incident and she replied, "You know, you are one smart E.R. doc!" Yep, that's the same TLC. Then again, it's gone so far downhill that I'm not sure that the term "the same TLC" is appropriate. :-/ Oh, that was a great show! It could get horrifying at times, but it was great! Raidra (talk) 02:10, March 13, 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd forgotten that the blue guy had died. Rest in peace, Papa Smurf!  Hm.  "Rest in Peace, Papa Smurf" sounds like it could be the title of a modern jazz song, doesn't it?  For that matter, the idea of a psychotic woman poisoning people to have blue urine due to imagined wrongs sounds like a trollpasta.


 * Remember the episode with them testing the story about the prisoner making a deadly weapon out of torn up playing cards, a metal pipe, some water, and a radiator? They heated the pipe and you think, "Yeah!  Go, baby, go!"  Then a couple pathetic squirts of water shoot out and you groan, "Ahhhh..." :-D I actually had a comic inspired by an episode of that (the urban legends show, not the cheapskate and coupon shows).  It was the one with this guy who set up death-traps all over his home.  That's one that I was surprised to learn was true.  I can tell you about the issue if you're interested.


 * Earlier I thought about the episode of B:TAS introducing The Riddler. There was this beautiful, complicated riddle that was supposed to be so hard to solve, and it took Batman one or two seconds.  Beautiful! :-D Raidra (talk) 03:56, March 14, 2016 (UTC)

There's a Charles Mingus song called "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat", and it's usually instrumental. I'd imagine that "Rest in Peace, Papa Smurf" would either be an instrumental or else have occasional bizarre ramblings in place of real lyrics. "...it slipped his mind (and I think his mind slipped from him)." X-D Classic!

I'm glad you're interested! I have more than one comic series, so this was an issue of one called The White Tigress. This was partly inspired by that story and partly inspired by a friend of mine who, after I had a number of issues with death-traps, asked me who it was making all these death-traps. The authorities find out that the guy responsible for building a number of death-traps lived nearby, so they set out to arrest him. It was a dangerous mission to infiltrate the hideout of someone who created death-traps for hideouts, so they assembled a crack team- The White Tigress, Officer Davidson, The Daring Dhole (a dhole, pronounced "dole", is a wild red dog that lives in India and other parts of Asia), Detective Dan Grover, and Detective Kayla Dimera (Kayla also has her own series). White Tigress, Davidson, and Dan take one entrance and Dhole and Kayla take the other. The first thing Tigress does is take off the door and stick it through the doorway. Confirming her suspicions, the door is hit by multiple poison darts. Tigress decides to take the door along as a shield and Davidson calls for an ambulance just in case someone gets injured. The two teams dodge and disable multiple traps, and after a while Dan and Kayla realize something- some of the traps are set to activate automatically and others need to be triggered. They wonder why the suspect isn't triggering the traps. Finally come to a door. The White Tigress hears faint breathing coming from inside, so she prepares to open the door so Davidson can barge in and make the arrest. However, he gets hit with a poison dart. Things grow dark as Davidson notes that it feels like death is closing in on him. Luckily, W.T. has a fantastic antidote (I've only had two situations in which the antidote didn't immediately neutralize a drug or poison), and she administers it while Dan removes the dart. Davidson makes a full recovery in seconds, and after this harrowing experience he admits, "Tigress? I-I don't ever want to lose you." She admits that she doesn't want to lose him either because he's precious to her. That admission of their feelings eventually led to the policeman and the vigilante becoming boyfriend and girlfriend. They enter the room, and there's the trap-master near death from being hit with a slow-acting poison dart from one of his own traps. Someone did need the ambulance that Davidson had called- the prep.

It's gotten late, so tomorrow, if I'll able, I'll share the story about a Riddler comic I once read and how mice, like science, can also be used mischievously. See you then! Raidra (talk) 04:28, March 15, 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks! :-D Yeah, there aren't a lot of smart people in some of these movies, are there? That sounds like a cool game!  It would be great to have a sequel as long as they didn't screw it all up.  I thought this morning that since that comic is just twelve pages and a cover, I could scan it and post it to your talk page.  Let me know if you're interested and I can start scanning and preparing the annotations (There's a lot of weird stuff in there, so believe me, you'll need it).


 * I once read a B:TAS comic (in a trade paperback) with The Riddler obsessed with creating a riddle that Batman couldn't solve. The thing was, Bats couldn't care less because he was after three other criminals.  He had captured two already, so when he was told about the riddle he replied that he didn't have time for that because he was on his way to apprehend the third criminal.  It just so happened that the third crook was trying to rob the same museum that The Riddler had already robbed.  He noted that the artifact was missing and observed to Batman that Edward Nygma had beaten both of them.  The Riddler was distraught that Batman had learned of his crime, and he tearfully demanded to know how Batman had guessed the riddle.  Batman replied that he hadn't, and The Riddler was overjoyed and celebrated throughout his entire arrest.


 * The book Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand (the premier urban legend expert) has a chapter on contamination legends. At one point he notes, “‘Moused’ food also shows up as a traditional prank.  A review in the June 30, 1986 issue of Time magazine of a biography of George Herriman (1881-1944), creator of the ‘Krazy Kat’ comic strip that ran from 1913 to 1944, contains this detail: [Herriman] had two early loves: language and practical jokes.  The verbal agility could be practiced alone; the gags needed victims.  After George had salted the doughnuts in his father’s Los Angeles bakery and then buried a dead mouse in a loaf of bread, he was informed that if he sought a career away from home, no one would stand in his way.” :-O  All I have to add is A) from what I’ve read, I think everything about both George Herriman and “Krazy Kat” is strange, but that’s just me, and B) I love the subtlety of how that passage ended. Raidra (talk) 00:40, March 16, 2016 (UTC)

Hey There!
I haven't talked to you in ages! (hug) So... What's new with you? As for me, I'm getting much further in my Haunting Hour Pasta and I'm almost done with the first episode of my Pokemon fanfic!

Heeere's Hailey!  Wanna Talk?   21:14, March 13, 2016 (UTC)

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Luckily for you! I just finished Chapter 11 (I had a lot to cram in there). I started Chapter 12 but I don't know what the opening text will be for that chapter. Here's chapter 11: http://pastebin.com/jYXxEH0g

If you'd like, I can send the full length story. Here: http://pastebin.com/3m7JX2QC

I wrote a potential Creepypasta in my writer's workshop notebook. I'll have to type it out though which could take a bit of time but when I finish it, I'll send it to you.

Heeere's Hailey!  Wanna Talk?   13:40, March 14, 2016 (UTC)

Re: Doom Vroom's Fanfiction
[Respond with obligatory 'How dare you, my mother was a saint!' response]

I maxed out my character stats so I can use just about anything I want. Gauss rifle/Grognak's Axe/super-heated sledge are my current top weapons. Currently I'm just trying to max out companions and see what perks I can get. (That means a lot of naked traveling and random drugs with Caitlin and Hancock.) I'm interested to see about the new survival mode as the current one was a challenge, but was a bit lacking.

As for your rampant fan-fiction tendencies, I'm sure Wattpad will amend it. (Maybe my definition of fan fiction is incorrect, but doesn't it have to involve a pre-existing series? Unless.... Are you make fan-fictions of your own stories?) Jokes aside, Wattpad gives me the 'close enough for guvment work' vibe and they'll only do something if they're forced to. As the one person who copied my story without citation is still claiming they wrote an unfinished version of Your Secret Admirer and other stories. If I ever get enough free time, I may post my stories there just to prevent mis-citation, but I'm still wondering how to transfer licenses and all that cal. EmpyrealInvective (talk) 21:56, March 15, 2016 (UTC)


 * I believe I got the gauss rifle from the Brotherhood (until we had an 'explosive' disagreement). I believe I recruited everyone in my first go-around, but I really just wanna travel with Dogmeat. Surprisingly enough, I never really used power armor unless I stumbled across it. Right now I'm just mapping the Glowing Sea in a rad suit.


 * As for Wattpad, that's a pretty nebulous excuse as you could technically call anything fan-fiction with that definition (as most literature draws inspiration/styles/tropes from other sources, especially horror). I would only consider it fan-fiction if it features pre-existing events/characters (Lavender Town Sound or Slenderman for example). Then again, it's up to them how they want to run their site (or how much they don't want to, judging from what I've seen.) EmpyrealInvective (talk) 22:32, March 15, 2016 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I tried to stick with all the factions up till the end (unfortunately I missed the Minutemen due to the fact that I didn't talk to Preston 'another settlement needs your help' Garvey after I helped like twenty settlements) so I got some cool weapons until I decided to betray everyone. I'll look up the tap house on the wiki next and poke around a bit. As per trading glitch stories, my biggest threat in game was elevators. There was a one in three chance whenever I got in an elevator that I'd be stuck in it, which goes to show that nothing good ever happens in elevators.


 * Best of luck with Wattpad, it might be easier for them if they just broke stories into more diverse categories so you can pick out specialized topics. (Who knows, maybe they do that and I haven't researched it enough). I still need to look into Wattpad and Quotev more to see if I should bother posting my stories there or if it'll be more trouble than it's worth. EmpyrealInvective (talk) 03:07, March 16, 2016 (UTC)


 * Oddly enough, I was also idealistic and sided with the Railroad (although I'm kind of disappointed there wasn't a 'eff all ya' ending where you didn't have to side with any faction like FO: NV.) My issue with elevators was that sometimes they wouldn't open and I'd be stuck in purgatory OR if I was in a tall building, it would hollow out the building into a yawning graphical glitch and the first step I took out would plunge me to my death. (The magic of PS4 glitches...)


 * I have an account with with the same information so it'll likely be hard to confuse me as a plagiarist. (Additionally the only time I saw Wattpad directly intervene was when I filled out a claim for a user who kept deleting my messages so the likelihood of them doing plagiarism checks and finding your old posts is very unlikely) Most people had no issue with crediting me so I think that's what's preventing me from putting in the extra work as most were more than glad to copy/paste my info to credit me. EmpyrealInvective (talk) 03:38, March 16, 2016 (UTC)

I was kind of disappointed on that front with the endings, I was kind of hoping Ron Perlman would chime in with the epilogue and wrap it all up nicely (although I assume they can't be too conclusive with DLC on the way). As for games I'm keeping my ear to the ground for, I'm interested in XCOM 2 and my time in PC gave me the opportunity to play through a lot of the Fire Emblem games when my community was asleep so I'll be interested to see how FE: Awakenings is. I still have a lot of games I want to play through so I'll probably bide my time.

Yeah, I noticed that 'sub for sub' mentality on Wattpad with people following each other to bump them up. I think I'll just keep an eye on the site and see if how it's handled. I already decided against uploading to deviantArt so I'll probably just narrow it down to a few sites so I can keep track of everything. EmpyrealInvective (talk) 04:18, March 16, 2016 (UTC)


 * I must have missed Ron Perlman's cameo in FO:4. Onto XCOM and FE, I'm always up for a challenge when it comes to games. Yeah, I hear there was quite a bit of translation issues going on with Fire Emblem. I'll have to see the extent of what they changed. As for censorship, it really doesn't bother me much as most games that tend to get hit from my perspective are RPGs from Japan, and other than Shin Megami Tensei, most weren't too mature to begin with so it comes off as sanding down some aspects.


 * I posted a lot of stories to the Starpolar wiki (now abandoned) and the library wiki so I think I'll try to limit it as monitoring multiple sites for comments/edits can become a bit of a hassle. I do like the view counter concept, but I'll probably end up inflating it falsely each time I go and check. EmpyrealInvective (talk) 18:53, March 16, 2016 (UTC)


 * Oh okay, when I heard reporter, I was thinking of someone from Diamond City I had overlooked (I really didn't investigate the town too much). Survival mode wasn't as difficult as NV, but the elite weapon bonuses for the legendary enemies really made things interesting for me. I never really got too much into COD (likely because I was out of country for most of the releases), but they have quite the franchise. As for XCOM mods, I am quite interested in the Bob Ross voice insert.


 * As for wiki page views/voting, we really don't have a good way to do either which is a shame. Unfortunately we can't really mod or alter coding on the wiki in any way to create the system so we're just kind of left with what we got. EmpyrealInvective (talk) 21:05, March 16, 2016 (UTC)


 * Yeah, everyone seems to hate Travis... until it's time to get him drunk, get him in a fight, rescue him from said fight.... Wait, was I talking about why people shouldn't hate Travis? I kinda like the aspect of them living in a stadium, but they didn't do much. In fact a lot of settlements didn't have the ingenuity or interesting aspect like Little Lamplight or Dog Town. Even some of the vaults could have been a little more interesting like the hallucination vault or the plant-assimilated vault. As for wiki messing with coding, likely not going to happen as they always get a lot of resistance whenever they try to introduce a new layout or site update. EmpyrealInvective (talk) 06:44, March 17, 2016 (UTC)

Reply to "Can't Wait" message
Are you referring to the fan fiction or the pasta when you say you'll be able to read it as soon as possible?

So I'm part of this survey program called "iSay" that's been conducted by Brown University since I was in 6th grade. I got a call from someone who works with the survey program from their personal cell number and they told me that as they were looking at a survey I took from 9... Freaking... Months... Ago, they found something concerning and they're setting me up to talk to somebody about it tomorrow. OK well if it was sooo concerning why did you wait 9 months later to tell me about it? Ugh! I think their "Concern" is that I don't go to public school even though I've been homeschooled since 2014. I've been answering "homeschool" for what school I attend. They have no homeschooling option so I put "homeschooling" under the other box. Yet for that survey 9 months ago, the home schooling option was problematic. Though they never really told me what the concern was specifically. I'm afraid that they might try to send unnecessary services to me or might try and take me away from my home. Have you ever heard of the Troubled Teen Industry? [https://www.google.com/search?sclient=tablet-gws&site=&source=hp&q=troubled+teen+industry&oq=troubled+teen+&gs_l=tablet-gws.1.0.0l2.534108.537638.0.538352.20.16.0.4.4.0.604.2436.3j12j5-1.16.0..2..0...1c.1.64.tablet-gws..0.14.1223.0.bi5_163lHkY If not, click or tap this sentence for more information. ]

I'm extremely scared right now! The information I sent you is something you'd see in a horror story. Unfortunately, it's very real! (tight hug)

Heeere's Hailey!  Wanna Talk?   23:08, March 15, 2016 (UTC)

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This is the website you checked out right: http://www.projectisay.com/index.html

That's their official site. There are four sections on the banner of the site. These are: Home, FAQS, Usay, and Project Team.

Home Section: Takes you back to the first link I sent you.

FAQs section: This should give you a better idea of what the project is like: http://www.projectisay.com/new%20faq.html

Usay Section: Not sure what this section is/was though it might've been a place for participants of the project to post questions or comments about iSay. If you click this tab, nothing happens. I think that this section is either defunct or undergoing maintenance.

Project Team: This section lists most or all of the people involved with the project. The person who talked to me on the phone today said that this person named Sarah would know more about the "Concern". However in this section, no person named Sarah is listed. There's a Suzanne listed (which I think was what she meant to say but im not 100% sure) but no Sarah... Here's the section in question: http://www.projectisay.com/projecteam.html

Heeere's Hailey!  Wanna Talk?   04:13, March 16, 2016 (UTC)

Reply to "Quest for The Wrong Site" message
So I talked with Sarah today and she was talking to me about a survey I took in May. There was a stress category and it gave me a list of options for the type of stress I was experiencing. Under the "other" box, I put "My Brother is Abusing Me" since the abuse was really bad during that time. I told her that the abuse has been dramatically reduced ever since because I told my mom about it and she set some guidelines for me and my brother that I think are very effective in curbing the abuse. She gave me her office and personal cell phone number in case if there was ever a situation where there was abuse that got really bad again. She is one of the psychologists involved with the project. So in other words, the situation has been cleared up and I'm so relieved right now!

On that note, I finally got a new Haunting Hour review up when you get a chance to read it:  http://littleazusblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/every-haunting-hour-ever-30-mascot.html

I was also thinking about doing a riff on 1999 but then again, by the time I would've finished, the current year would be 2999 so I might do it as a review.

Heeere's Hailey!  Wanna Talk?   22:11, March 16, 2016 (UTC)

The Banshee of Connacht
Cool! Hopefully I'll have it posted in a day or two. Yeah, the only reason Batman hadn't figured it out on his own was because he was busy & couldn't be bothered. That's like celebrating a game you only won because the other team had their plane get caught in a snow delay and couldn't make it to the stadium.

I read a joking version of the legend which concluded, "Now, this isn't the place with the guy with the white goatee; the mascot for this place is The Pied Piper! They'll ask you if you want a breast or a tail." I saw a countdown of memorable pranks, and one of them had a group of friends trick their friend into believing he'd won the lottery. One of the commentators joked, "If someone pranked me like that, I'd prank them back by going in while they slept and smothering them with a pillow! Ha ha!  Prank!"

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, here's a story I wrote a couple years ago. This stayed on the site for a while, but was eventually deleted. My understanding was that it was too eerie and frightening. ;-)

The Banshee of Connacht

This humorous story is dedicated to my late father (I encourage everyone to get colonoscopies and other check-ups) who had an interesting sense of humor.

The old man set down his glass. “I was in the peat bog earlier. I saw it.”

His friend gaped. “You mean…”

“Yes. The Banshee of Connacht. She looked just like they say she does. She had a ragged dress, long, tangled locks of green hair, and bloodshot eyes. I was behind a bush gathering some peat when I saw her approach. I knelt down and watched her. She came close enough for me to get a good look at her. Suddenly she screamed and fled.”

“She sensed some poor bloke about to die,” offered the friend sadly.

The old man slowly shook his head. “No, that wasn’t it.”

“Hmm?”

He grinned. “I was close enough to see her, remember? I saw a dark spot suddenly develop on her dress.”

The two laughed and the friend agreed, “Yes, I imagine I’d scream too if I peed myself in a cold, windy peat bog!” Raidra (talk) 00:47, March 17, 2016 (UTC)
 * You're certainly welcome! :-) I have most of the notes, so tomorrow I'll try to scan the pages.


 * No, that's not the one, but I know the urban legend you're thinking of (I thought of it too when I was typing about the prank). The legend says that this guy was in a restaurant having dinner with his wife and friends and/or co-workers, and after being told he won the lottery, he announced that he was quitting, and he told his wife that she could have the house and that he'd been cheating on her with either his secretary or his sister-in-law.  I've heard two versions of that legend, and yeah, they both turn out badly for that schmuck.  One says they broke it to him that he hadn't really won, but doesn't offer further details.  The other one, recounted on an urban legend show on SyFy (formerly the SciFi Channel), has the guy walk out of the restaurant before his stunned associates can react.  He starts running up bills thinking he has money to burn, and his spurned wife does nothing to stop him.  After the bills started coming in, he found out he hadn't won.  That's my favorite version of the legend.  Incidentally, there was an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants in which SpongeBob was pulling April Fool's pranks which were fun and harmless.  A customer asked him if he could have a couple of ice cubes in his drink.  SpongeBob got him the ice, restrained snickers as he drank, and burst out laughing after the customer had finished.  The customer got enraged and scared, thinking SpongeBob had done something nasty, and demanded, "WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY DRINK!"  The still laughing sponge explained, "You asked for a 'couple' of ice cubes, and I only gave you one!"  The customer immediately went from wanting to tear his head off to laughing along with him.


 * Thank you. He passed away April 12, 2002.  Dad was a good man.  His passing was difficult for all of us.  That's very sweet of you.  I'll let you know. :-) I'll glad you liked the story!  I was maybe ten when Dad told me, "Do you know why banshees scream?  They're out there where it's cold, windy, and rainy, and they wet themselves." X-D Yeah, you don't see many monsters running to the washroom, do you? Raidra (talk) 03:17, March 18, 2016 (UTC)

Something Different!
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner but I hope you had a happy St. Patrick's Day like I did. I had some trouble sleeping last night since I went to bed at around 3:00 in the morning which even for me is a bit late. Maybe it was because I was busy working on something or maybe it was because I was too excited for the holiday to sleep. Whenever someone else wakes me up, I feel dizzy and unable to walk in a straight line. However, when I wake myself up, I feel fine. Is that weird or do you have the same experience as well?

You know the Pokémon Farfetched? I feel really bad for it. I mean here we have a Pokemon who almost went extinct due to overhunting for their tasty meat and it doesn't even get to be a good battler! What if there was a Pokemon game where the Farfetched became powerful Pokemon because they were being over hunted again and with this power, they'd have a signature move called "Rain of Leeks" that would do 95 damage and have 100 percent accuracy when it got to a certain level? Maybe it can have an evolution. You something along the lines of this:



Speaking of Pokemon, I'm at the part where Emily is leaving Iroko for Basswood. Here's what I have for that part:

"When she got up there, Emily opened up one of the lower drawers of her bureau and pulled out a pair of black shorts with thick red lines running down both sides of it. She then walked over to her closet and jumped up to grab a short sleeved purple shirt off of the hanger. She wandered around her room for a bit until she found her golden locket with a silver Arceus on the front, lying on the desk. Since the chain was large enough to pull over her head, she wasted no time putting it on and immediately dashed over to the spot where she put her clothes. There, Emily carelessly threw her pajamas on the bed the moment she took them off and slipped on the other clothes with ease. Emily had almost gone downstairs before a lightbulb went off in her head. She peered down at her feet and saw that her blue and yellow sneakers weren't there! Realizing this, Emily scrambled back into her room and found out that they were hiding underneath her bed. She ran over to her closet and leaped as high as she could to grab an empty coat hanger. As soon as she landed, Emily went back to her bed and hastily dragged the sneakers out from underneath the bed. The moment she got the sneakers out, she laced them up faster than someone could say "Woah!"

As soon as her clothing situation was squared away, Emily swiped her bag off of the floor and sprinted down the stairs and into the living room so fast, that she almost crashed into the front door. Once she got outside, she stopped on a dime and took a few moments to catch her breath. She started her way up the gravel road that went past a string of houses on each side and lead to the town's entrance."

Heeere's Hailey!  Wanna Talk?   15:17, March 18, 2016 (UTC)