User:KrytenKoro

Sandbox

 * DVR Translations
 * V-Tamer 01 Notes
 * Royal Knights
 * Draft to be merged with DigimonWiki:General guidelines, once finished and approved
 * Digivolution refs
 * Deva Translations
 * Dawn/Dusk Digimon
 * Dawn/Dusk Attacks

Profile

 * Education: Halfway through college, majoring in Aerospace Engineering, with specialty in Space
 * Likes: Digimon, Pokemon, Transformers, The Legend of Zelda, Mega Man, Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry, Harry Potter, Naruto, Bleach, D. Grayman, South Park, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Family, Babies, Sleeping, Fish, Cats, Dogs
 * Religion: Modified Roman Catholicism, some Episcopalianism
 * Pets: Used to be Megan (Russian Blue) and Ginny (German Shepherd cat). Now it's Damien (Goldfish) and Bran (Shibunken).
 * Dislikes: Moral relativists, Global Warming unless someone can genetically engineer some new dinosaurs, Trolls and Vandals both online and off - I don't give a **** about your B.S. that it's a "legitimate social experiment". It's not. You're simply a selfish, malicious, and/or idiotic person who honestly isn't worth any noticeable amount to society.
 * Aspirations: Trick my way onto "Are you smarter than a 5th-grader?", win $1 million several times. Oh, umm, world peace. Yeahhh.... I don't know, maybe become a high school science teacher.
 * Flaws: It's a damnably long list. The important ones are that I'm overly aggressive, sarcastic, and a compulsive liar. Fortunately, my lies are usually obvious.

Digimon
Since apparently I'm going to be working on Digimon for a while, I might as well talk about it a little, just to humor myself.

Blah, blah, yada, nada, bla. In conclusion, Digimon Tamers was the best season, Savers was the worst (the villains, the main characters, and even the esteemed saviors of the Digital World had the brain-power of a cantaloupe, and none of them were believable). V-Tamer 01 is on par with Tamers for how good it is (not only is the main character realistically intelligent, if not above average, but all the characters are believable), as well. Adventure and Frontier are pretty good, but the Adventure 02 epilogue was an abomination unto man. I truly believed they pulled an "Evangelion Ending" there.

Partners
Yes, I realize they're almost all Nightmare Soldiers. It's not my fault the cool ones are all evil. In fact, it's your fault. That's right, you. Thanks a lot buddy, for making the path of evil so attractive to humanity. Are you proud of yourself?

Todo

 * 1) Get a working computer.
 * 2) Finish the MoS Draft.
 * 3) Be more vigilant about welcoming new editors and going out into the community to spread the word (might want someone else to do this, I'm not a very friendly person).
 * 4) Split off all species pages, and fix associated redirects and links.
 * 5) Rename, remove, and replace images. Create image-naming standard, if possible, and categorize images by fan-fiction, stats, etc. Upload small and large sprite's from the DS games, if one can find a good spriters' site. Possibly upload sprite's from the Wonderswan games. Make sure image's do not have invisible background, to prevent dotting when shrunk.
 * 6) Figure out how to deal with the Hybrids.
 * 7) Dump info from Digimon World: Dawn/Dusk
 * 8) Revise Coupling article Guidelines and articles
 * 9) General cleanup on articles, create redirects for various forms of a character Digimon.
 * 10) Create articles for prominent members of the franchise and community.
 * 11) Setup partnership with With the Will or something similar, or at least, links.
 * 12) Set up "News" section.
 * 13) Set up Walkthrough sections for the various games.
 * 14) Set up Userboxes page, possibly "Digimon Partners" Template, or "Wishlist" Template. More user involvement.
 * 15) Set up Featured Article/Image process.
 * 16) Set up Card Encyclopedia for all cards - maybe in partnership with the Card Terminal. Have English translation of the cards, maybe Japanese too.
 * 17) Get more information on the items in the series, including personal items.
 * 18) Set up a Japanese and/or English Episode streaming video thing.
 * 19) Set up Digimon radio feature.
 * 20) Create section on Digimon pages for the official Japanese bio's.
 * 21) Set up links section to With the Will, Digimon Channel, etc.
 * 22) Possibly set up Christmas raffle.
 * 23) If Wikia problems persist or prove stressful, look into moving to a new server.

Dubbed Names
'WARNING: THIS SECTION HAS NAUGHTY LANGUAGE. DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE A MINOR. OR A MINER. NO MINERS.'

'I apologize in advance for the out-of-character language employed in this section. I am in a fowl mood.'

Now, normally I'm pretty much the opposite of a weeaboo - I have no problem with the VA's used in dubs, and I almost always like the dubbed script as well as the original. I can even accept replacing the Japanese names with similar-sounding English ones - the Japanese names are likely to wrench the viewer out of the show, and remind him that he's watching something foreign. I can even stand stuff like Citramon - after all, we don't want Digimon canceled because someone thinks it's terrorist propaganda. It's a logical change.

Putting that aside, though, there's certain...decisions made by the dubbing team which only seem to have the purpose of assuming the viewers are idiots.
 * BioSupinomon - the fuck? Why, no American kid's going to recognize that dinosaur! It's not like it was the main damn antagonist of Jurassic Fucking Park 3! No sir, no one's ever heard of that one before!
 * Kentarusmon - yes, because it's not like we don't already have a Digimon with the same damn name, and the fact that that's not what Sleipmon is at all. Or the fact that his name has already appeared in dubbed materials, and didn't need to be "translated". Fuckers.
 * Kurisarimon and Kokatorimon - seriously, raising butterflies is one the things American grade-schoolers do at what amounts to state-sponsored daycare. THEY KNOW WHAT A DAMN CHRYSALIS IS. Anyone who doesn't, needs to stop watching TV and open a damn book. As for Kokatorimon - I grant that there's not much need to be familiar with medieval bestiary's, and I grant that the correct spelling...would lead to ignorant parents whining. But how is Kokatorimon better than simply using Kokatrimon? Same pronunciation as what it's supposed to be, and you get rid of the spelling problem.
 * Apokarimon - thank goodness it only appeared on the cards. Still, why? Why did it need to be changed? Could the translators honestly not figure out the reference, or was it considered so horribly taboo to reference something which is talked about day and night on the news, on Buffy, by politicians, in church, etc.?
 * Creepymon - SERIOUSLY? That's the best you can come up with? Not even, "Monstermon", "Evilmon", "Doommon"? I mean, it's not like SCOOBY FUCKING DOO uses the word "Daemon" all the damn time. Daemon this, Daemon that. FUCK YOU, BANDAI.

I don't even like Scooby Doo, and I've still heard them use the name several times.

I mean, honestly, what purpose does it even serve? All it does is require an additional copyright, while annoying people who understood the etymology. Honestly, why not just have named Chrysalimon "Jahebanimon"? It makes as much sense as "Kurisari". It's not even making it simpler for viewers! It's a mindless, pointless, infuriating change!

Forget world peace. The first thing I'm going to do when I build a time machine is to 1) strike it rich with oil prospecting, and 2) personally fund the original dubbing teams to NOT ASSUME THE VIEWERS ARE IGNORANT BUMS.

You know what, I'll do one better - I will either buy out TV or conquer the USA, and make it written law that no show will be allowed more than one episode if it is "dumbed down". I'll have to do some finagling to make sure that certain programs, such as Digimon and TFA, still come into existence, though I could always just take the tapes with me when I go back in time.

And you know what? Anyone who did need the names or references dumbed down? Fuck you. Seriously. Get the hell off the internet, away from the TV, and open a kor-damn book. It's people like you (or possibly, your parents), who are making TV into exactly the mind-sapping brain-melter your grandparents always said it was. I had to get straight A's for half a decade in order to convince my parents to let us get basic cable, and the few shows that had promise either drop off the air because Johnny Public can't understand them, or have stimulating intellectual material removed in order to not intimidate him. I don't even want to hear the excuses about "Children won't get the reference!" because it's bullshit. When I was four, I knew what a Spinosaurus was, and I knew what it's name meant. My parents wouldn't let me watch Land Before Fucking Time until I knew the correct greek name and translation for each of the dinosaurs which appeared in it, and which of the characters weren't even dinosaurs (Petrie, I'm looking at you, you pterodactyl bastard). I knew basic Greek mythology by first grade, and had started a "greek dictionary" by exhaustively going through each dinosaur's name I could find.

If your damn kid isn't smart enough to get basic references in a children's show, YOU AREN'T BEING AN EFFECTIVE PARENT. I'll give you a pass if you're a single parent, but that's just more reason to find someone who can help make sure your children get an education.

And I'll be the first to admit that I let my brother and sister watch too much TV, when they still don't know all the stuff I did. But you know what? I'm actually doing something about it. I've taught them the Japanese alphabet this summer, and since I'm staying home this semester, I'm going to be teaching them high school geometry. They are going to be the smartest little blighters that graced the halls of academia, if I have anything to say about it.

In summary: You know what? Fuck Savers/Data Squad. It took everything that made the series unique and great, and decided "to hell with that". The whole thing's a damn mess filled with cliche plots and idiot characters, before and after the dub. Not even Mr. Lister's Koromon survived intact. 05:34, 16 August 2008 (UTC)