User talk:Guido

I'd like to help you out with your user space : since it's more than just one page, with linking and such, it gets messy rather easily.

For now, just have a look at the changes I made... And check out THIS, too.

geyser 19:44, 27 September 2006 (CEST)

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Ok...

Guido

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USE THE PREVIEW BUTTON MORE.

PLEASE.

geyser 17:15, 25 November 2006 (CET)

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Images

As for the roughs : it might be a good idea not to upload some of them on the wiki.

Because there's a lot of them and some of them you may want to dismiss pretty soon.

Also because they can't be renamed, and names like "Kon face 1.jpg" are easily overloaded.

(dunno, you could/should have called them "experimental" or something ^^)

If you can get an FTP client, then hosting "exploration" on guido.oni2.net is optimal.

Then again, thumbnailing and gallerying go so much faster with wiki-based images...

...yeah, leave them where they are, just try to pick more specific names.

(I don't mean additional info on the face expression :

just "Kon face study 1.jpg" instead of "Kon face 1.jpg")

Commenting on those faces some time this week.

geyser 13:59, 27 November 2006 (CET)

Acknowledged.

guido 21:33, 29 November 2006 (CET)

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As for the node-related pictures (graphical replies to my talk page entries) :

I definitely think your talk pages could/should be moved over to the Oni2 namespace

as potential nodes of a story (or stories). Script, discussion, actual content.

Then the page and image names should be somewhat systematic (that will make linking easier).

(something like Oni2:Node42 as the article name and Image:Oni2node42image1.jpg)

(give or take a few spaces in the names ^^)

geyser 13:59, 27 November 2006 (CET)

We may do this, but how do you think we can organize a framework-page for these nodes? Of course you have my blessing.

The nodes we have been discussing so far are not linked each other in a linear way. Connection among nodes should be shown through something like a table or an input-output matrix... (I am sorry, I got carried away, please forget this one)

guido 21:41, 29 November 2006 (CET)

If you have any idea, or you think you can handle it, you have my blessing, of course.

guido 21:34, 29 November 2006 (CET)

Indeed. This is no single, linear progression of events : it's all connected.

But actually, I think there doesn't have to be a "framework-page" at all...

About the double entry matrix : it's not as nice as a flowchart and wastes a lot of space.

Just as a graph, it is likely to get unreadable past a hundred nodes or so.

I'd say there's nothing wrong with nodes just linking to each other : no overview.

(that's how gamebooks work, after all : every page is a "local graph" of sorts)

Additionally, I think an up-to-date semi-automatic index page of existing nodes will do fine.

(with descriptions and non-trivial link information transcluded from the nodes themselves)

I may have to experiment a bit more with hoverbox captions and even graphs

(if GraphViz produces nice-looking diagrams with default settings, why not?)

If you're really bothered about the lack of flowchart support right now,

I can have GraphViz installed. Do you want it? I'm not sure it'd be much more than a toy...

We could render flowcharts of whole stories (large, messy graphs), or regions (vicinities of certain nodes).

That would be a lot of work for no big benefit, though, keeping those graphs up-to-date...

There's a good chance the graphs will end up unreadable pretty soon, though (I'm repeating myself).

I'm glad to have "your blessing, of course", of course. ^^

geyser 22:59, 30 November 2006 (CET)

Oh, and there doesn't have to be a single storyline out there.

Conflicting entities, contradictory events. Sequels, prequels, paraquels, whatnot.

Definitely, no matrix can do the job properly. No global graph, either.

Every story is best outlined in a textual way.

Every link of a fancy graph can take the form of a sentence or paragraph,

that will be more informative and less ambiguous than a flowchart.

Yeah, something like storylines-in-progress.

Not sure what we'll call them (tree pages?) but they'll definitely do the trick.

Bottom line : screw flowcharts; plain-text "framework page"

And that's it, off to sleep.

geyser 22:59, 30 November 2006 (CET)

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On second thought, about those roughs (mostly those of Kon's face)

If there's enough to comment on (or complain about) on a pic-per-pic basis,

then of course we can issue those comments on the "image page" ov every pic.

Then you can either overwrite the pic with a new version, or upload it with a suffix (e.g. "a", "b", ...)

• If you overwrite the old image, you can keep the old around on an external server.

(and show it along with the new one, like I did for the tandem ride HERE)

• If the image is a new one, its page can inherit the old discussion and/or link to the old page.

Global comments on a group of images should probably go in some global talk page.

(same as for the "nodes", I think Mai's character study could/should go over to the Oni2 namespace)

I understand "Kon" is a nice original touch, but in terms of Google hits it's about as ambiguous as Mai.

So I'd just put it HERE, along with THIS. See you there.

geyser 13:59, 27 November 2006 (CET)

I am the first one who should complain about my drawings. I am disappointed by what I manage to do these days. I lack the time, the concentration, and the sharp eye I used to have only half a year ago. Even when I find the time, all I get is just a fuzzy mess of sketches: each of them is just a clumsy reflection of what I've been aiming at. There has always been a gap between my hand and my imagination: today it seems larger than ever. It does not depend on the subject I am focusing on, it has to do with a personal state. I hope I will find a way through it. Sadly there's no one who can show it up to me.

guido 21:32 29 November 2006 (CET)

Take your time, man. And try using the eraser more ^^ << ACTUAL ADVICE

Or listen to something else than NIN for a change ^^ << STUPID JOKE!!!

geyser 22:59, 30 November 2006 (CET)

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Will you be discontinuing THIS as announced?

(Practically, should we terminate the links to that blog?)

geyser 17:14, 27 November 2006 (CET)

I feel sick, I feel depressed, I hate all I do. and all I know to do in such times is to be self-destructive.

Apart from that, I got no comments. and noticed how the access counter has been idle for long, too long.

Anyway I am not going to close the oni2blog for a while (a couple of months at least). In any case I am intended to find a substitute for it.

Maybe it is time to reconsider the idea of getting an Oni2.net account...

guido 21:17 29 November 2006 (CET)

Welcome to the "disgustipation" club. This is what you get when you "get creative"...

(I used to have bipolar disorder a lot, and as you know I wouldn't call myself "cured")

On the subject of self-desctruction, late reply to you :

if earth has become an evil place because of people, and we cannot escape it, what can we do?

If we are confined in a place for all our life, and everything is getting worse, what shall we do?

Quoting Seal, "no we're never gonna survive, unless we get a little crazy"... So true.

Those for whom REM sleep is not enough have to freak out in a way or another to "deal" with reality.

Practically, there are people who take chemicals and go to shrinks, and those who ought to. Like me. ^^

And then your only hope is to be your own shrink, to take some distance with respect to your craze.

That's when you have a chance to come up with a "way through" that doesn't destroy you completely.

(I didn't realize you were quoting Reznor, not Frost, with that sig of yours...)

Nice work, Guido. This is becoming an agony column. Or group therapy. Or something...

You're always welcome on oni2.net. Alloc's contact info is on the main page of the server.

Hope that helps. Expect a mail either before, during, or after this weekend ^^

geyser 22:59, 30 November 2006 (CET)

Oh, BTW : seen THIS?

"Well, admitting you have a problem is the first step, I suppose. - I like to think so."

Rather fitting to the private hells of a few people I know...

geyser 22:59, 30 November 2006 (CET)

guido

I like the Black ops Konoko!

EdT 04:11, 1 April 2007 (CEST)