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*Find out more about the intermediate stages of vocal tract development between infancy and full adulthood. | *Find out more about the intermediate stages of vocal tract development between infancy and full adulthood. | ||
*Are there any more details to give about the Time Traveller's unreliability as a narrator? | *Are there any more details to give about the Time Traveller's unreliability as a narrator? | ||
− | *:For example, he determined Weena's "name" during his first conversation with her, when he would not yet have completed his efforts to learn the Eloi language. How do we know that "Weena" is really her name, or for that matter, [[trope:NoNeedForNames|whether the Eloi name themselves at all]]? We don't; the Traveller may have interpreted the wrong word or word part(s) as a name. (This is not a question of phonology — I am not denying that "Weena" is representative.) | + | *:<span id="weena-wrong"></span>For example, he determined Weena's "name" during his first conversation with her, when he would not yet have completed his efforts to learn the Eloi language. How do we know that "Weena" is really her name, or for that matter, [[trope:NoNeedForNames|whether the Eloi name themselves at all]]? We don't; the Traveller may have interpreted the wrong word or word part(s) as a name. (This is not a question of phonology — I am not denying that "Weena" is representative.) |
− | *:TV Tropes would classify this somewhere | + | *:TV Tropes would classify this somewhere between [[trope:VerbalTicName|Verbal Tic Name]], which doesn't quite fit because the typical Eloi vocabulary is too large, and [[trope:NamedByDemocracy|Named by Democracy]], which doesn't quite fit because the Traveller alone isn't a democracy. |
*:Compare the story of [http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/lingo.html#s4 Tsäd the dog]. See also a real-life example, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7899171.stm Prawo Jazdy the alleged traffic offender]. | *:Compare the story of [http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/lingo.html#s4 Tsäd the dog]. See also a real-life example, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7899171.stm Prawo Jazdy the alleged traffic offender]. | ||
− | *:This argument also casts doubt on "Eloi" as the name of the species, though it is not so great a doubt (as the Traveller could have heard the species names from other Eloi, from Morlocks, and/or in later conversations with Weena).{{spoiler box|1=Maintenance note: I read over the indices [[trope:NamingConventions]] and [[trope:LanguageTropes]] | + | *:This argument also casts doubt on "Eloi" as the name of the species, though it is not so great a doubt (as the Traveller could have heard the species names from other Eloi, from Morlocks, and/or in later conversations with Weena).{{spoiler box|1=Maintenance note: I read over the indices [[trope:NamingConventions]] and [[trope:LanguageTropes]]. The article [[trope:AppropriatedAppellation|Appropriated Appellation]] also deserves mention but doesn't fit because the Traveller wasn't willingly derogatory. The key word is "willingly" — the Traveller's statement that the name Weena "somehow seemed appropriate enough" is open to interpretation. Perhaps in the process of mishearing the name, his mind was biased toward "childish" sounds? |
When I said that the Eloi "name themselves," I meant that literally, as opposed to an Eloi child being named by his or her parents. Since Eloi parents form no lasting social bonds with their children, they would not take up the responsibility of naming. | When I said that the Eloi "name themselves," I meant that literally, as opposed to an Eloi child being named by his or her parents. Since Eloi parents form no lasting social bonds with their children, they would not take up the responsibility of naming. |
Revision as of 04:02, 1 October 2011
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Article
- This section is for work on existing articles. For new articles (which should be drafted in userspace), see User.
Eloi language
- Examine the relation between cooing, babbling, motherese, and phonological development.
- Find out more about the intermediate stages of vocal tract development between infancy and full adulthood.
- Are there any more details to give about the Time Traveller's unreliability as a narrator?
- For example, he determined Weena's "name" during his first conversation with her, when he would not yet have completed his efforts to learn the Eloi language. How do we know that "Weena" is really her name, or for that matter, whether the Eloi name themselves at all? We don't; the Traveller may have interpreted the wrong word or word part(s) as a name. (This is not a question of phonology — I am not denying that "Weena" is representative.)
- TV Tropes would classify this somewhere between Verbal Tic Name, which doesn't quite fit because the typical Eloi vocabulary is too large, and Named by Democracy, which doesn't quite fit because the Traveller alone isn't a democracy.
- Compare the story of Tsäd the dog. See also a real-life example, Prawo Jazdy the alleged traffic offender.
- This argument also casts doubt on "Eloi" as the name of the species, though it is not so great a doubt (as the Traveller could have heard the species names from other Eloi, from Morlocks, and/or in later conversations with Weena).
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Maintenance note: I read over the indices trope:NamingConventions and trope:LanguageTropes. The article Appropriated Appellation also deserves mention but doesn't fit because the Traveller wasn't willingly derogatory. The key word is "willingly" — the Traveller's statement that the name Weena "somehow seemed appropriate enough" is open to interpretation. Perhaps in the process of mishearing the name, his mind was biased toward "childish" sounds? When I said that the Eloi "name themselves," I meant that literally, as opposed to an Eloi child being named by his or her parents. Since Eloi parents form no lasting social bonds with their children, they would not take up the responsibility of naming. Fanon: Might Weena be the only Eloi in her community who is intelligent enough to care about naming herself? |
Homebrew downsides
- Put in a link to Sloperama #56: How to Make Your Own Video Game, but where?
HTML5 vs. SWF
- Adobe Shows HTML5 Support With Edge Tool Preview at Gamasutra
- Construct 2 — note: not tested for data storage efficiency etc., and will eventually be shareware
- GameMaker: HTML5 (commercial software)
Public-domain music in video games
- "No. 13" (Bach) in IIDX/DDR - I forgot the full title of the composition
- Multiple songs in Lemmings series
- Multiple songs in Parodius series
- What is the copyright status of "Je te veux," especially in Japan (see Binary Land)?
- What authority do performance rights organizations, such as BMI, ASCAP, and the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique, have over copyright? (For example, see the Wikipedia article mentioned in the item above.)
Selkie
- Physiology:
- vision - compare the Moken people (better accommodation underwater than most human subpopulations, involving greater constriction of the pupil; predominantly learned but hereditary causes also possible(cn))
- wound healing in bottlenose dolphins
- While on the topic of dolphins, mention something about oxygen-carrying proteins in muscle and brain tissue
Single-screen multiplayer
Songs that sound alike
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Songs that sound alike (video games)
- Battle Fleet vs Major Legaue (sic) Baseball - nesdev forums but some may be authorized; probably belongs on the investigation page anyway
Category
Project
- Do we need to write an official policy on dealing with spam? Such a policy should, at a minimum, give guidance on user warnings, block settings, and procedures for handling non-English comments. (Regarding the last of these, when is it necessary to use Google Translate, and when is it acceptable simply to assume bad faith?)
- User:Eighty5cacao/Main Page redesign ideas
Manual of Style
Naming convention note: For its Manual of Style, the English Wikipedia currently prefers subpages to parenthesized disambiguators.
- Additions to Pin Eight:Links (consider moving to Pin Eight:Manual of Style (links)):
- Do not link to TV Tropes URLs that contain
ptitle
. Instead, link to a non-ptitle
redirect that points to the desired page. If no such redirect exists, it is acceptable to use a piped link to provide a human-readable title.
For example, don't do this (User talk:Tepples/Archive 1#TVTropes and the Eloi kawaii issue).[[trope:ImTakingHerHomeWithMe]]
would have been correct in that case. If the redirect trope:ImTakingHerHomeWithMe did not exist, then[[trope:ptitleztvf5oz5|I'm Taking Her Home With Me!]]
would have been acceptable.
(For an explanation of whatptitle
originally meant, see trope:PunctuatedTitles. The current situation is explained at trope:ThePtitleReplacementSystem.) - It is better to link to Kotaku Australia rather than the global (US?) version of Kotaku, because the layout of the former is less JavaScript-heavy and thus more likely to function correctly in a wide range of browsers (especially mobile browsers and screen readers). This applies mainly to archived news; recent news may not appear on Kotaku Australia until after it has been on global Kotaku for a couple days.
- YouTube linking:
- TODO: See trope:Earworm from "Note: When posting links to YouTube here..." on down.
- If you wish to cite a comment on a YouTube video, rather than the video itself, link to an URL of the form
http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=[video id]
, which displays only the comments. (Note: These URLs have changed recently; if you seehttp://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments=1&v=[video id]
, then that needs to be fixed.) Comments take far less bandwidth than the video, and they're less often blocked for copyright reasons. - (this should probably be a note attached to another bullet point, rather than an item of its own:) Please be aware that the two most active editors on this wiki live in the United States, so they will not usually know whether a video is blocked in some other country.
- Do not link to TV Tropes URLs that contain
- The Manual of Style (or a "glossary" section thereof) should explain something about the exclamation-mark notation used to describe character interpretations in fan fiction.
- The maintainer of the aforementioned page believes the ! notation to be inspired by a line of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures, but Template:Trope is deprecated; do not use a possible connection with UUCP bang paths. Most likely, TMNT inspired the use to describe character traits while UUCP inspired the use for the setting in which a character is placed. The MOS should mention something about these etymologies.
- RFC 2119 compliance guidelines (compare User:Eighty5cacao#rfc2119)
Talk namespaces
Nestopia bug needs more testing |
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Please disregard this content until I remove this note Additionally, here's something I first noticed in an older official Nestopia version (1.38?) in which MMC6 battery-backed saves are not properly cleared within a session and can corrupt configuration data: Prerequisites:
Steps to reproduce:
Actual results:
Expected results:
This needs further testing to determine whether the bug is still present & how accurately I have remembered the steps to reproduce |
TV Tropes links to consider
Copyright
- trope:MegaphoneHanging
- trope:PublicDomainCharacter
- trope:DisneyOwnsThisTrope
- trope:RealSongThemeTune (maybe actually for main/userspace, just dumping this here)
Talk:Eloi language
Talk:SUGallery
- Monitor the status of trope:IfYouKnowWhatIMean (currently redirects to trope:LampshadedDoubleEntendre as result of a move). It might be in danger of deletion in the long term(???). Make an appropriate maintenance note on the talk page
User talk:Eighty5cacao/Eloi physiology
Template
- Port over uncyc:User:Pentium5dot1/Storage facility/Google template as
{{google-url}}
(or a sufficiently similar name) {{unsigned}}
, and write a policy expressly discouraging its use for Yerrick family members (who sometimes edit as IPs in special circumstances where it is inconvenient to sign) and spammers(?)
User
- This section includes articles that need userspace drafting.
- Maybe start a page for "Fictional characters that look alike," along the lines of Songs that sound alike but in the topic of Switched at Birth. Some discussion is at trope:Expy. (Should images be used at all? If so, under what conditions? If not, to what extent does this topic overlap with Costume blazons? See talk) The proposed title might not be so great: Switched at Birth is not all about appearance; it also considers occupation and personality. We should too
- See also Totally Looks Like..., where most comparisons involve at least one real person
- Re YTMND is cheaper: Discuss Scratch as a candidate for a "poor man's Flash."
- User:Eighty5cacao/misc/Top misconceptions of an Aspie mind — now at User:Eighty5cacao/misc/Aspie notes
- What not to do at a networking event belongs with the above
- Maybe in Songs that sound alike (investigation needed): "Dreamscape" by 009 Sound System and "Breath Machine" by Momentary Sound Action — are 009 Sound System and Momentary Sound Action the same band under different names? (Neither seems notable enough for Wikipedia.)
- User:Eighty5cacao/Musical self-plagiarism (video games)
- User:Eighty5cacao/Eloi physiology and User:Eighty5cacao/misc/Eloi physiology (fanon)
- Regarding the above: The Time Traveller observes some Eloi "bathing" in a river (Ch. 5, 10). What exactly does this mean - is there any actual swimming, or is everyone sitting still?
- http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2011/03/parasite-eve-tango-and-cash.html (TODO: explain more later once I've actually listened to the songs)
- stsa-vg-IN Smashing Drive
- Video game graphics design tradeoffs: Pocky & Rocky 2 and El Viento use solid-colored tiles for some explosions. The SNES version of Sunset Riders uses "superpixels" of 8x4 or 4x8 pixels for some explosions. Also mention the possibility of displaying kanji or hanzi with superpixels in situations where CHR RAM and/or CPU time are limited but screen space is no object.
Unknown
For maintenance reasons, please check on Special:LinkSearch/pinocchio.jk0.org regularly
Copyright
- Sloperama: So You Wanna Clone Somebody Else's Game (pay attention to the difference between "No problem" and "No! Problem!")
- Under Development Law
- Shmups, Youtube, and Konami - shmups.system11.org forums for general discussion on Content ID, including the automatic vs. manual issue (Tepples has already mentioned this on the NESdev forums)
Needs reorganization/rewording/reconsideration |
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Regarding YouTube Content ID and the use of Vocaloid in cover songs: What does this copyright guideline imply for this video? I know the Content ID robot is supposed to tolerate pitch and tempo shifts, but how did it manage not to get tripped up by the use of Hatsune Miku? Was a similarity found in the backing track? Or was it a manual tagging? (cf. Original "Heaven Is a Place on Earth") Further examples: Compare ID'd and not ID'd - the former has some of Lady Gaga's original voice present In other words: Vocaloid may currently be useful for deceiving the copyrobot. I have in mind not straight covers, for which the fair-use argument is weak, but rather mashups à la STSA demos. Consider for example Robo Roll'd feat. Hatsune Miku. (This is all purely hypothetical, as I do not own the Vocaloid software nor have any foreseeable plans to do so.) It would also be necessary to rearrange the backing tracks using non-infringing samples. The purpose is to prevent the video from being flagged before a human has a chance to review the fair-use statement in the description. However, as both automatic and manual tagging improve ... See also tagged Red Zone cover with Windows 7 sound effects (doesn't involve Vocaloid) |
MediaWiki software
- AbuseFilter extension: Attempting to invoke
diff/prev
on an abuse filter that has only one revision wrongly displays a message, "You are editing an old version of this filter. The statistics quoted are for the most recent version of the filter. If you save your changes, you will overwrite all changes since the revision you are editing." This is wrong because the (single) revision is the newest; a better message would say something about the absence of a previous revision with which to compare. An example on this wiki is Special:AbuseFilter/history/8/diff/prev/21 (which actually redirects to Special:AbuseFilter/history/8/item/21) as of this edit. I have also noticed this on the English Wikipedia, though I have no corresponding example handy.
The Time Machine
- What North Korea has to do with the themes of The Time Machine
- Explain how Weena's characterization is important to the story. Mention specifically:
- In chapter 5 shortly after the Traveller meets Weena, he is forced to alter his belief that time travel is "serious business":
- But the problems of the world had to be mastered. I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation. ... I had as much trouble as comfort from her devotion. Nevertheless she was, somehow, a very great comfort.
- The Traveller's reaction in chapters 9-10 to Weena's presumed death - close to what TV Tropes describes under Kill The Cutie:
- I knew that both I and Weena were lost, but I determined to make the Morlocks pay for their meat.
...I felt the intensest wretchedness for the horrible death of little Weena.
Some [Eloi] were bathing in exactly the place where I had saved Weena, and that suddenly gave me a keen stab of pain.
You may imagine how all my calm vanished...I made a sweeping blow in the dark at the [Morlocks] with the levers...
- I knew that both I and Weena were lost, but I determined to make the Morlocks pay for their meat.
- Revision history of the epilogue — the Holt edition focuses on the characters of the frame story, while the Heinemann/Atlantic text concludes with Weena's flowers as a symbol of "gratitude and a mutual tenderness"
- In chapter 5 shortly after the Traveller meets Weena, he is forced to alter his belief that time travel is "serious business":
Video gaming not otherwise classified
- Something about colorblind accessibility in video games, and how FantaVision is a poor example; for that matter, blind accessibility