User talk:Cogsan

welcome to my talk page. feel free to do whatever you want here. vandalize it, comment on my edits, have an admin block me over a nonexistent edit war, whatever you want. or at least whatever isn't illegal enough to get you blocked lmao



Fun facts
Fun fact #1: Your signature contains pink and green text. Fun fact #2: I set my interwiki links to be pink and my redirects to be green Fun fact #3: I changed my global CSS so the links in your signature appear blue.

-- Quick Quokka  [⁠talk • contribs] 23:26, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
 * (P.S. No hate, this is just a fun coincidence ) -- Quick Quokka  [⁠talk • contribs] 23:26, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
 * lol
 * i only used those specific colors because they look hideous in light mode and
 * thank(s) cogsan  •  (give me attention)  •  (see my deeds)  11:30, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Fun fact #1: You just wasted 2+ seconds reading this not so fun fact
 * Fun fact #2: Nobody lives in Antartica
 * Fun fact #3: This fact is a useless placeholder DonDistalimino (talk) 16:37, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
 * joke's on you, i can read really really fast ლ(òvóლ) cogsan  •  (give me attention)  •  (see my deeds)  17:41, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Fun fact #1 An octopus can fit in holes as small as 2cm
 * Fun fact #2 The average human anus is 3-5cm
 * Fun fact #3 A racoon can fit in 4in holes
 * Bonus fun fact A human anus can stretch up to 7in wide Abdullah raji (talk) 07:26, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * ...should i be worried that i knew the second fact from cruelty squad shitposts?  cogsan (give me attention)  (see my deeds) 12:21, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Probably. Abdullah raji (talk) 16:44, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Strike the advice
Hello. Here you are guilty of exactly what everyone is warning and blocking that user for. You are exactly as much of a newbie as that guy is. Stop stalking other people's talk pages, stop giving terrible advice, stop contradicting the word of every single other person on the entire page, stop dogpiling on already handled situations. While admitting you're unqualified, you gave bad and needless advice anyway, purely for the sake of inserting yourself to hear your head rattle, and you worded it with gibberish about "bad vibes". Go back there and don't delete it but strike through it all with a tiny note of apology. Look up how to do strike through formatting. Users can be blocked for doing that. Thanks. — Smuckola(talk) 19:43, 5 December 2023 (UTC)


 * harsh, but not harsher than i was
 * i'll deal with it in a few minutes, because my pc is going through some "technical issues"  cogsan (give me attention)  (see my deeds) 19:59, 5 December 2023 (UTC)


 * It is not harsh whatsoever. It is merely direct. It's just basic and obvious info, and the minimum at that. It is simply not coddling, that's all. That is unlike all the other editors who helped enable and wind up that other arrogant editor until they too were forced to address him like I did from the start and then block him and lecture him ten times more than I ever did. All for nothing. If he ever changes, it will be 0% due to coddling or lecturing and 100% due to blocking. Unlike him though, you seem to be really nice! I'm sorry about your PC, and having computers is almost as terrible as not having computers! I'll go through your edit history and see if I can "thank" bomb you, and I thank you for being a positive and helpful person from what little I've seen at a glance! Let me know if I can help with anything. — Smuckola(talk) 20:27, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * alright, it's struck
 * sorry for the delay  cogsan (give me attention)  (see my deeds) 20:30, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * p.s. The real culprit is Wikipedia, which lures people in here, as if it's easy, with no real training or credentials, and set them (and thus all of us) up to get punished for it. Truly truly, one of the biggest scams online next to its fundraiser spam. ;) — Smuckola(talk) 20:32, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * honestly, i don't feel like his situation is worth worrying about too much
 * his block will expire in 5 days, and i don't really think he'll go on a vandalizing rampage for revenge or anything
 * he's absolutely more interested in and maybe capable of improving wikipedia than me, for starters  cogsan (give me attention)  (see my deeds) 20:36, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * ...oh
 * it was unstruck
 * not gonna question it  cogsan (give me attention)  (see my deeds) 13:17, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay. You're completely wrong about him, and about the Wikipedia concepts you're winding him up about, and you just won't stop. In addition to you aggressively contradicting all the experts including an admin handling a blocked abuser, a lot of what you said to him on his talk page was extremely incorrect and misguided. You called counter-vandalism a basic activity and even gave him a pointless dare of 3 minutes to be as fast as possible with it, when in reality counter-vandalism requires a training course and tons of discernment, after lots more experience than both of you combined. Every word you said about MelonDS's notability and sources is just absolutely hopelessly wrong, just like here so you need to read WP:RS another few thousand times because that is the worst cardinal sin against the very existence of the encyclopedia. Another editor was also forced to warn you on his talk page.


 * You are taking one of the worst problem editors I've seen in a long time and just winding him up. Even after multiple other editors (including one admin) had said "let me spell it out for you", you thought you were the first to say "let me spell it out for you". He said countless times and demonstrated exhaustively that he is explicitly committed to anti-encyclopedic principles, is at war against the encyclopedia, and loves doing wrong things and fighting right things. That's the definition of bad faith. And you haven't even bothered to catch up with that history anyway. Multiple editors have said he is blatantly incompetent, and one said he is the absolute height of clinically arrogant and oblivious incompetency as per the Dunning-Kruger effect (overvaluing self competency and devaluing everybody else's). By contrast, you're actually decent, on the other side of the Dunning-Kruger effect, of devaluing your own competency and overvaluing his. Think about it! That means he is literally dragging you down. No he is NOT more able or willing than you. You're more competent AND in good faith!


 * He accidentally said one correct thing, that your comment you struck is not uncivil, though of course he violated WP:OTHERSCOMMENTS in the process. And you left all your direct meddling and contradictions intact, but whatever. None of your comments to him are uncivil, just wrongly meddling with a severely problematic and fellow newbie user. Anyway, omg, c'mon. Stop. — Smuckola(talk) 01:13, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * fine, even if i'll admit to disagreeing about him not being more able (that's not a matter of me being competent or not, it's a matter of the pc i use on weekdays blue screening at any given chance and having most reliable sources blocked)
 * either way, it's probably time for a self-imposed interaction ban and retraction of that time i said i wouldn't mind helping work on a draft
 * if all goes well, this will end here  cogsan (give me attention)  (see my deeds) 11:09, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Greetings.
I heard you have a photo of garlic bread. Can I see it? Many thanks. Parameci (talk) 18:30, 9 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Bread (of garlic).jpg
 * i also said in that specific line that the picture looked "like shit"
 * i don't think this can be used on wikipedia, no matter how you twist it
 * which is a shame, because despite looking nothing like the disgusting american idea of garlic bread, it was actually really good  cogsan (nag me)  (stalk me) 18:51, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Undid revision at List of Pokémon
Greetings. I have noticed that my recent edit about Slaking has been reverted. I agreed that up to this point there's no individual article of Slaking, and I don't think I need to create one.

However, the current link directs readers to a disambiguation page, and my intention of adding Slaking (Pokémon) into the link is to disambiguate them and directs the readers to this page instead: List of generation III Pokémon (where more details about Slaking can be briefly found).

I hope this clears up the confusion.

Rimapavadria (talk) 09:08, 25 January 2024 (UTC)


 * oh, i clicked the wrong link when i undid it, and didn't notice the disambig
 * my bad lol  cogsan (nag me)  (stalk me) 11:02, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Color
#30cb5a is certainly the best color. I can very much agree with that. Coulomb1 (talk) 00:33, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Sounds riveting!
"ultrakill is like getting your blood replaced with adrenaline via the urethra or something". That made me chuckle! soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 21:54, 6 February 2024 (UTC)


 * sorry, the riveter is actually from dusk  cogsan (nag me)  (stalk me) 11:32, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * thanks lol
 * no regerts  cogsan (nag me)  (stalk me) 12:06, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Penguin pokemon
Hello, I see you nominated Penguin pokemon for RfD, but it seems someone removed its log entry from the discussion page. Could you please fix it so that I can mark it as reviewed? Thanks! DreamRimmer (talk) 16:57, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * got it
 * apparently time4learning accidentally replaced it with ROADCROSSING!  cogsan (nag me)  (stalk me) 17:02, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks. — DreamRimmer (talk) 17:07, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

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 * oopsie poopsie
 * pokémon it is >:3  cogsan (nag me)  (stalk me) 18:07, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

 * thanks lmao :D  cogsan (nag me)  (stalk me) 12:20, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! - Master of Hedgehogs (converse) (hate that hedgehog!) 12:04, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

+1 the above cheeseburger
Your userpage and wikiwide comments are very funny in an extremely drab, boring Wikipedia. Thank you. Dialmayo 13:09, 7 March 2024 (UTC)


 * thought this was sent yesterday, whoops
 * thanks  cogsan (nag me)  (stalk me) 19:03, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

another +1 for the cheeseburger
I love that you have a pic of your cat at the bottom of your userpage. You are a funny guy and I appreciate you for that. Wiki is a serious place most of the time and I enjoyed going through your page, seeing all the little jokes and details throughout it. I should do more of that, to be honest. (also, I Hate what Wiki is doing to my signature right now. sorry for the eye pain.)  20:14, 21 March 2024 (UTC)


 * that cat has caused me more pain than bills have caused me to be broke
 * thanks
 * not sure what the eye pain in question is supposed to be though, at least on dark mode  cogsan (nag me)  (stalk me) 03:58, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I guess the blank code block takes on the color of the background - in light mode it's terrible. It's fixed now, though.
 * (I didn't even consider that Wikipedia had a dark mode... maybe I should try that. I'm used to default light mode, haha.)  04:14, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Zelda CD-i Plot Summaries
I know this is a very late response to your edit in the Zelda CD-i games, but I wanted to say that the reason why parts of the plot were edited out because they are unnecessary and actually go over the 400-700 word limit. Anyway, I'm just saying that and hope you are doing fine. 🤗 2603:6010:8B00:44FF:E8E0:71B0:B229:3157 (talk) 18:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)


 * will argue against that first part. the dinner blaster guy taking the triforce of courage was a decently-sized deal
 * the limit seems fair though, so that should probably be handled a bit better sometime
 * no idea if it'd be 700 words total or per game though  cogsan (nag me)  (stalk me) 18:43, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Spinda
is a source on Spinda patterns :) Dialmayo 16:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)


 * sorry for being gone for a few eternities, i got a little tangled up in a flood
 * while that source seems good enough for the standard pattern rate, it then makes the claim that it can have over 8 billion patterns because any of them can be shiny
 * in most normal situations, this claims seems to be wrong, as its shininess and patterns are both determined by its personality value
 * unless i looked into it wrong and the ot number and secret id have no bearing on personality values outside of shininess, in which case you'd need roughly 3 fucktillion trainers per spinda, and with that specific mechanic having been seemingly overhauled in gen 7 with no documentation i've found, and it being bugged in bdsp (and only bdsp), it's-
 * whoops, too much rambling
 * it might be a little confusing and potentially not correct, but it could maybe make running doom a little easier. i could use it for the 4.3b claim, but not the 8.5b one  cogsan (nag me)  (stalk me) 14:02, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

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Praise
I do not see why you are not a stand up comedian already. It is another talent to add after your work on Wikipedia. You funny! 79.153.226.3 (talk) 14:36, 16 June 2024 (UTC)


 * And yes, this is a plus one for the cheeseburger. 79.153.226.3 (talk) 14:45, 16 June 2024 (UTC)