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Rosicrucian: Protected "User:Repowers": Not your userpage. No touchy. [edit=autoconfirmed:move=autoconfirmed]

2009-08-30T03:00:39Z

Protected "User:Repowers": Not your userpage. No touchy. [edit=autoconfirmed:move=autoconfirmed]

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Rosicrucian: Restore.

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Restore.

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76.73.1.50: over 9000 smiles

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Repowers: /* You pad out your writing with pointless verbal fluff */

2009-08-11T17:32:59Z

You pad out your writing with pointless verbal fluff

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	* "This is a reference to" - in addition to being a verbal packing peanut, this is the most ham-handed method of linking two sentences imaginable.		* "This is a reference to" - in addition to being a verbal packing peanut, this is the most ham-handed method of linking two sentences imaginable.
	* "As the episode begins" / "The episode ends with" - what? The first line of the summary describes what's happening in the beginning of the episode?! NO! Thanks, I never would have guessed!		* "As the episode begins" / "The episode ends with" - what? The first line of the summary describes what's happening in the beginning of the episode?! NO! Thanks, I never would have guessed!
			* "If you look, you can see" - so if I don't look, I can't see it? Wow.

	===Your trivia notes suck===		===Your trivia notes suck===

Geewunling: /* You suck at choosing quotes */

2009-04-12T18:51:17Z

You suck at choosing quotes

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	==Why I hate your writing==		==Why I hate your writing==
	===You suck at choosing quotes===		===You suck at choosing quotes===
	A lot the quotes that show up on our pages aren't even quotes in a functional sense. They're transcriptions of entire scenes, which may be fun or memorable scenes, but not feature especially noteworthy dialog. Or they're descriptions of action which happen to have some words in the middle of them, or attempts to transcribe a moment of particularly memorable voice acting, or totally mundane bits of dialogue that are only there because someone thought of a "clever" comment to put after it (or worse still, a really-stretching OMG G1 cross-reference.)		A lot of the quotes that show up on our pages aren't even quotes in a functional sense. They're transcriptions of entire scenes, which may be fun or memorable scenes, but not feature especially noteworthy dialog. Or they're descriptions of action which happen to have some words in the middle of them, or attempts to transcribe a moment of particularly memorable voice acting, or totally mundane bits of dialogue that are only there because someone thought of a "clever" comment to put after it (or worse still, a really-stretching OMG G1 cross-reference.)

	But that's not what a quote is really supposed to be. A quote should be memorable or clever or character-defining even out of context, even without scene descriptions, even if a person's never seen the episode. It should be relatively short and succinct, require minimal description, and not rely on prior knowledge to make sense. That time when Prime went "UUUGAAAUGUAGH" may be hilarious to listen to, and it may be a great voice acting moment for Peter Cullen. But put it in print and it's a ''terrible'' quote, and you deserve to be executed for putting it there.		But that's not what a quote is really supposed to be. A quote should be memorable or clever or character-defining even out of context, even without scene descriptions, even if a person's never seen the episode. It should be relatively short and succinct, require minimal description, and not rely on prior knowledge to make sense. That time when Prime went "UUUGAAAUGUAGH" may be hilarious to listen to, and it may be a great voice acting moment for Peter Cullen. But put it in print and it's a ''terrible'' quote, and you deserve to be executed for putting it there.

Repowers: /* You pad out your writing with pointless verbal fluff */

2009-04-12T16:19:44Z

You pad out your writing with pointless verbal fluff

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	* "It is worth noting that" - does that mean everything else is not worth noting?		* "It is worth noting that" - does that mean everything else is not worth noting?
	* "It should be noted that" - if we weren't planning to note it, we wouldn't be reading in the first place!		* "It should be noted that" - if we weren't planning to note it, we wouldn't be reading in the first place!
	* "This is a reference to" - in addition to being a verbal packing peanut, this is the most ham-handed method of linking two sentences imaginable.		* "This is a reference to" - in addition to being a verbal packing peanut, this is the most ham-handed method of linking two sentences imaginable.
			* "As the episode begins" / "The episode ends with" - what? The first line of the summary describes what's happening in the beginning of the episode?! NO! Thanks, I never would have guessed!

	===Your trivia notes suck===		===Your trivia notes suck===