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Once and only once and again

Hey Bad Bad Guy. Those two pages describe specific DVD featurettes, and as such are different from the larger lists. Thus, they should not be deleted. Talk atcha later. — It's dot com 19:23, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I look back on this as one of the gleaming signs that that template needed to be reworded. Bad Bad Guy 18:24, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Link

Hey, saw a recent edit was reverted. In case you wonder why, here's a resource at Wikipedia which explains why and why it's not a great idea to make a big change just to illustrate a point. Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point I find it's an excellent article in that it explains this rather simply. Keep on keepin' on... - Qermaq - (^T/C)  06:38, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

It's gone. Bad Bad Guy 17:23, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

sbemail173

Copied from Talk:sbemail173:

Could someone tell me how everything disappeared? I didn't get to finish what I was writing. Bad Bad Guy 02:46, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

This page was deleted on the grounds that unreleased emails do not merit an article, and that nonexistant unreleased email articles do not merit talk pages. If you'd like to discuss the concept of an article on this, I'd suggest Talk:Main Page as a better location. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  02:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

By the way, Bad Bad Guy, I can post the paragraph you had written on this talk page before it was deleted on your talk page if you like. Just let me know. However, this talk page will be deleted soon, for Qermaq's reason. Trey56 02:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

The talk page has been deleted again. Please do not re-create it. Keep on tranglin'! Loafing 03:03, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I won't revive it, but here was my idea. Strong Bad receives an email asking him if The Paper's really getting replaced. He starts to go into some talk revealing he didn't actually get to by a new printer, but he believes we shouldn't be surprised after his predictions in stunt double and 2 years didn't come true. While he is talking, Strong Sad walks in carrying what appears to be a new printer, so Strong Bad beats him up and returns the DNA Evidence so he will finally leave him alone. Strong Bad asks us all to rejoice that The Paper is staying and proceeds to DELETE a few other emails regarding The Paper. An Easter Egg involves Marzipan discovering the Evidence Strong Bad gave Strong Sad was another tampered piece. Bad Bad Guy 03:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Interesting — that makes me wonder if there's a place on the Fanstuff wiki where users write possible scenarios for sbemail 173... it sounds like the thing that would fit right in there... At any rate, I'm looking forward to sbemail 173 — it'll be interesting to see if TBC remember what Strong Bad said so many emails ago. Trey56 03:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

My theory on this is on my user page. Good idea, though, BBG. :-) --TheYellowDart—(t/c) 03:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I thought originally the "DNA evidence" thread might lead us there, but it's going to be a while (I'm guessing early to mid May) till this email is released, so I doubt it now. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  03:17, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Since now it seems unlikely sbemail 173 will be related to DNA Evidence (I already knew there were other things it could have built up to, though my guess was the final Lappy email), I guess Strong Bad will put off any montage references until the very end, which I hope will go something like this:
STRONG BAD: Now, I'm sure these next few seconds are a moment of suspense for you guys. I'm sure you remember watching me creat credits for those pancake montages, and I got cancelled from Animal Planet, and The Paper got replaced in Sbemail 173. Well...
{drumroll, then the same The Paper that's been used since cartoon comes down.}
STRONG BAD: It's the same old The Paper you've seen since sbemail 21. {sarcastically} Big surprise. Especially after the stop sign and the cinder block didn't break up and I didn't make a 3-D Dangeresque movie. If you guys believed those credits the crap in your brains has crap for brains.
Bad Bad Guy 19:20, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

STUFF

Hey there, Bad Bad Guy. STUFF is for making decisions on disputed fun facts, not for proposing new ideas. If you're unsure if your suggested fun fact "This toon might include references to old Disney movies that began with a storybook opening" should be in the article, then you should post it on the articles talk page. Keep on tranglin'! Loafing 22:51, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

This thread was originally two threads. The second one began here.

Hi there, Bad Bad Guy: STUFF is only for Fun Facts. For other issues, such as the one you raised at Inconsistencies within the Homestar Runner universe, start a discussion on the talk page instead. Keep on tranglin'! Heimstern Läufer 00:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

How do you explain the existence of Talk:Fourth Wall Breaks#Closed STUFF? Bad Bad Guy 00:16, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

That is a good question. As far as I can tell, the answer is that those items should not have been STUFF'd. The dates on those are from relatively early in the existence of STUFF; that may have some to do with it. Heimstern Läufer 00:20, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Foot in mouth

I guess I was unaware that you were the one who put that comment there... Sorry. DeFender1031 22:16, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

The funny thing is, this is the 1st message I got since the welcome 1 and the fanfic comments where no one is telling me what not to do! And it's easy not to know that I wrote that. Bad Bad Guy 23:58, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

STUFF votes

Hey there, Bad Bad Guy. I noticed at STUFF:Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon#Where Credit Is Due that you voted to accept both the original fact and a revision. According to the STUFF rules (see the top of HRWiki:STUFF) you can only vote to accept one version of a fact. By default, only the bottommost of your two votes will count; if this isn't what you want, feel free to delete one of the two votes. Thanks, Trey56 20:08, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

"Only Time"

Continued conversation from Talk:Everybody to the Limit#"Only Time", since it no longer pertains to the content of that article.

It's not "Evident STUFF" that makes me think you hate me; it's "Where Credit is Due." How can you seriously think opening credits will come back soon if the last 6 or 7 Big Toons had none? Bad Bad Guy 00:52, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

You might be right that there will never be another big toon without opening credits; I personally voted against the fact because I didn't think it was notable enough. But I assure you that I and most other people vote on facts based on their merit, not based on the people who proposed them.

Honestly, I didn't even know you proposed both of those. I considered the facts, and did my best to make a decision on whether they should be in the respective articles. I'm sure this is true of most other people, too. There's no cause to become personally offended by people declining facts if most of them aren't even aware that you're the one who proposed them. Trey56 01:18, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Disc Five

Hey there, Bad Bad Guy — before you get too far into the tagging of the Disc Five emails, one correction. The "s" should be lowercase, like so:

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Five}}

Thanks, Trey56 00:35, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

By the time I got this, I was on bedtime story. Bad Bad Guy 00:38, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

It's okay, I fixed 'em up. Trey56 00:39, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Hold on, one more thing — you should actually put use this template:

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Five}}

rather than manually typing in the "DVD: ..." This will automatically categorize them... Trey56 00:40, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey

Hey, judging by the overall tone and feel of your edits and summaries, you seem like a real cool guy. Why don't you hang out in the IRC channel? It's a cool place to get to know the other editors. DeFender1031 00:22, 18 May 2007 (UTC) P.S. watch out, ch`mera bites.

edit summaries

These summaries were vague at best and didn't tell me anything about why you made the changes you did. I have reverted them. If there was a good reason, (as I assume there was, you're generally a good editor) please let me know. Also, please be more specific with your edit summaries, and try to get your meaning across, rather than using vague ideas that only make sense if one knows where you're coming from. We now return you to your regularly scheduled trangling, already in progress. — Defender1031*Talk 12:12, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Main Page Messages

I see no warning anywhere. Also, why should that be the case? — Defender1031*Talk 18:16, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

The warning comes right before the fan costumes button. I'll move it to the bottom of the edit window for the convenience of people like you. It is the case because the "dna evidence" button repeats the name of the 'toon it links to. The part of the talk page that says not to add buttons like that comes before the contents thing:

Where would the navy blue "Sbemail 150?!?" one go? - Qermaq - (^T/C)  23:53, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't think we record main page messages that simply state the toon's name. - Joshua 00:02, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I can't believe I had to explain to you how adding "dna evidence" went against that warning. Bad Bad Guy 18:33, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Dude, i didn't see the warning. And it would've taken a lot less time if you had included something like "We don't include buttons named after the toon on this page" in your edit summary, rather than just criticizing someone for not seeing some warning that may or may not be very noticeable. So what there was a warning? People may miss it. Better to just re-explain why you're removing it than make people hunt for something to figure out what you mean. — Defender1031*Talk 18:44, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

{replying to BBG after EC} Def's comment was not to ask how the message went against that warning; it was about where the warning itself was. Furthermore, your comment above was rude, implying that there's something wrong with him for asking the question he did. Please don't write comments like that again. Heimstern Läufer 18:45, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Why is this being called a "warning"? It's a notice; a request. Don't assign undue importance to something that has none. Or is there more to the discussion that you quoted above showing that more than just one user expressed an opinion? I'll grant that the intervening year could be taken as tacit approval of his statement, but it's not like we had a full discussion or anything. Moreover, if you're gonna put up a notice, then the place you moved it to is way better than where it was; I doubt anyone would have ever noticed it there. — It's dot com 18:57, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Requested in history

I find it interesting that instead of just saying "Does anyone have the 'interactive menus' thought balloon from sbemail dvd disc 5", you included the phrase "that I requested in history". I'm not sure exactly what that last part means. — It's dot com 17:12, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Read the 1st summary in the "history" section of Interactive Menus.

Oh, I understood that part. Where I was unclear is in interpreting the underlying meaning. Did you mean "see the history for more information", or "why haven't you guys responded yet? I left a note in the history"? If it's the former, then please let me suggest that it would be easier for someone reading the note if you just put your entire request on the talk page and ignored the history. If it's the latter, then please let me suggest that, relatively speaking, the history is an extremely low-visibility spot to request information and that the talk page for that article would be the place to bring anything up regarding what kind of image the page should have. — It's dot com 19:53, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

This is one of my little crusades. :) I am as guilty as the next guy, but summaries aren't a good place to put conversation. When I feel like I'm replying to another summary in my summary, I think hard about whether it'd be better as a Talk post. Often, it is. Just sharing the theory of wikiing... - Qermaq - (^T/C)  03:20, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Non-ownership of articles

Hello, BBG. I've noticed that you've said something like "link to my article" ([1]) three times now. I just wanted to point out that articles belong to the wiki, not any user in particular. Keep on tranglin'. — It's dot com 03:04, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Dot Com, but would like to add that pride in your contributions to the wiki is healthy, positive, and encouraged. It's just that once you put it on the wiki, it's no longer yours exclusively, it's ours collectively. If you were not tranglin' already, feel free to commence forthwith. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  03:17, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

MVU (Most Valuable User)

Hey Bad Bad Guy. I saw your edits and might I say, very very good. You cleaned up Strong Bad Email Spin-Offs and wrote tons of pages. So I'd like to award you (Drumroll...) The MVU.

This award is given by Sam the Man for users contributing their hearts out and showing just everything the wiki is about. This is the 6th MVU award given out. It is a monthly feature only given to few users.

Keep up the awesome work! Sam the Man 14:51, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

More Main Page Messages

Hey BBG, I see you're complaining about nobody documenting new main page messages. I must say, that's completely unfounded. Main Page Messages are constantly being documented on this wiki. We have this guy who seems to be mainly doing it. What's his name... Ah, Yes, Bad Bad Guy. You may have heard of him. So, yeah... no reason to complain. And I am out! Loafing 23:03, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

If you weren't volunteering to help me, what were you trying to teach me? To be more overt? Do you know how frustrating it can be to be the only person who cares about these things sometimes? Bad Bad Guy 18:20, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

I was trying to say that you're doing a good job with the main page messages. And that they apparently do get done - by you. But yes, I know how frustrating that can be. But that's how our wiki works: everybody works on the parts that they're interested in. There is no roster, and so there will always be parts that very few people work on. And that changes over time. You'll find that eventually, more people will work on the main page messages. And please don't forget that the main page messages are important to many people who don't actively edit them. For example, I care about many more parts of this wiki than I have time to edit. So don't let it get to you, things will change over time. And keep up the good work! :-) Loafing 18:32, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Small pictures

In reference to this edit summary: It's the large amounts of whitespace left from (I'm guessing) erasing the rest of the screenshot rather than cropping it out. I've taken the liberty of cropping that particular one for you. If you need any help on the rest, or even future ones, let me know. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 02:55, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Um, in addition to Coffee's comment, it would be good if you would crop out the black from images before uploading them, because somebody else needs to do it, in this case me, and it's usually the job of the original uploader to do said work.--~ SlipStream 00:55, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Sysnop

hey, i've noticed that you seem to keep misspelling sysop as sysnop. there's no n... Hope it helps. — Defender1031*Talk 23:01, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Them pesky weeklies

Whuttup, BBG? We moved your image to Image:Sketchbook 10-18-07.PNG. Well, not exactly moved, but re-uploaded.

And by the way, when you upload sketchbooks and weekly fanstuffs in the future, can you please go to the .html main page and take a screen capture of them there? When looking at the .swf, the pictures get stretched out and pixelly. This is because the sketchbook and fanstuff images are not drawn with vectors like the flash cartoon images, so they get distorted when stretched or compressed. Thanks for the uploads. —BazookaJoe 05:42, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

this edit

Nice job. I was hoping someone would put up a more relevant photo, i couldn't come up with one myself, but the one you put up works... I didn't see the cat change though. — Defender1031*Talk 14:25, 21 November 2007 (UTC)