User:Aeroknight

AeroKnight graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Computing and Software Systems. His hobbies include creative writing, gathering statistical data about the world, a little bit of anime and manga on the side, Japanese and role-playing games.

AeroKnight is also interested in computers, specifically in artificial intelligence, macros, and simulations.

Writing links
Mary Sue fanfiction, writing yourself into your favorite fanfic but doing a bad job of it.

Retcon, repairing a lame or boring history.

Stock characters could make for good throwaway characters.

A foil provides a nice contrast to the main protagonist.

Random stuff
Inferior goods, why rich people don't ride the bus.

Soft science fiction, a genre not quite Science Fiction.

Cutting off the nose to spite the face, a stupid way to get revenge.

Godwin's law, a quick way to lose whatever online debate you're participating in.

Plato's allegory of the cave, once seeing reality as it is, it's impossible to help others see it.

Sword of Damocles, don't look up.

Disco Guns, only in America.

Sherman's March to the Sea, pillaging everything in its path.

Turtle (game term), I was known to do with when I would play Soul Calibur 2 with Nightmare, especially against one Taki player who would scream "Stop turtling!". Ironic, Nightmare was wearing full plate armor.

Pareto principle, is 80% of Wikipedia maintained by 20% of Wikipedians?

Forer effect, believing a vague and generic statement applies to you.

State Secrets Privilege, a way for the American federal government to censor information carte blanche.

Unconscionability, an excuse for not fulfilling a contract because the offerer of the contract is a greedy jerk.

Hibakusha, survivors of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

shibboleth: say it.

Production Code, short-lived standards that movies must follow. Defined in the 1930, every rule of "decency" has been broken by today's movies.

Other Random Interests
Galileo spacecraft

USS Monitor, an innovatie ship made with armor. The semi-submersible ship looks like a small floating island with a cannon.

Vanguard 1, the oldest human-launched object still in space today.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a British engineer, whose projects often contained innovative solutions to long-standing engineering problems. During his short career, Brunel achieved many engineering "firsts", including the building of the first tunnel under a navigable river and development of the first propeller-driven steamship, which was at the time also the largest ship ever built.

Eldfell, a volcano that spawned near a small Icelandic city and threatened to cover it with lava.

Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta the first four solar system bodies formerly considered planets

Customs and etiquette of Japan, since Japanese is my second language.

Smart remarks
These are things that, when said, may make you look like an intellectual. Or a intellectual jerk.

Battle of Hampton Roads, "an inconclusive but significant naval battle". Two highly defensive opponents unable to defeat each other. "Watching that political debate was like watching the Battle of Hampton Roads."

Triumph of the Will, using eye-candy to make up for the content of an information resource. "Nice looking web site, but it didn't work for Triumph of the Will either."

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a sarcastic and untrue document about taking over the world, taken as truth by enemies.

Aero Knight the Link Redirector
I was wandering around Wikipedia one day, and I wanted to see more information about "Level treadmills". I was disappointed because it took me to the page "Grind (gaming)" although it would have been helpful to point me to the hyperlink anchor "Level treadmill" instead. I figure that it would make Wikipedia a little nicer if the links were pointing to where they should.


 * Updated 5 articles that referenced "Level treadmill". This topic had merged with the "Grind (gaming)" article.  This article was created Nov 21 2004, changed to a redirect Nov 23 2005, and bylinked Dec 29 2005.


 * Updated 16 of 17 articles that referenced "Player killer". This topic had merged with the "Player versus player" article.  This article was created Jan 20 2002, changed to a redirect Oct 11 2004, and bylinked Jan 3 2006.  One page cannot be changed because, even though supposedly there is a link to "Player killer", I could not find any.  I guess this is something else about Wikipedia that I don't understand yet, but I'll check it out again later.