User:SacValleyDweller
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Powers | (in dreams) Flight, Telekinesis |
Alias | SVD |
Sex | 'Male' |
Age | 22 |
Home | the Northern-Central Sacramento Valley |
Occupation | Student |
Favorite colors | Orange AND Black |
Favorite sport | In order of preference: Baseball, Football, Soccer, Hockey |
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About Me
I joined the Wiki on June 19, 2007.
I live in the north-central Sacramento Valley.
I am also found at the 9thwonders.com boards under the same name.
I now have a You Tube account
I have had questions answered in Behind the Eclipse
I've got a blog
I am embarking on a quest for a BS in Computer Science.
Non-Heroes TV shows I watch:
- Lost
- FlashForward
- The Amazing Race
- MythBusters
- Deadliest Catch
- Deadliest Warrior
- The Mentalist
- Dirty Jobs
- I Survived a Japanese Gameshow
SurvivorNot THIS season with that Russel!
- Brilliant, but Canceled:
Non-Heroes Graphic Novels
- Read:
- Some of Dynamite Entertainment's The Lone Ranger
- Dabel Bros. The Dresden Files; Welcome to the Jungle
- Jason Badower's Zero G
- Reading: The Dresden Files; Storm Front
Miscellaneous favorites
- Favorite Musical artist: Herwig Holzmann
- Favorite baseball team (and source of fave colors): The San Francisco Giants.
- Favorite radio station: KZFR 90.1 FM in Chico CA.
Please,
Characters
- From Episodes: Ando, Claire, Claude, Daphne, Hiro, Matt, Micah, Mohinder, Molly, Tracy, Elle, and Usutu.
- From GNs Evan, Haram, Donna, Evs Dropper clone, Donald
- Something about Sylar makes me both love and hate him
Episodes
- Company Man, Five Years Gone, How to Stop an Exploding Man, The Second Coming/The Butterfly Effect, I Am Become Death,
GNs
In no order of preference, I liked the story in the following GNs:
It Takes a Village, Heroism Is Found in the Heart, Road Kill, The Path of the Righteous, String Theory, Blackout, The Crossroads, Revolutionary War, Berlin, Root and Branch, Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, The Caged Bird
Artist grades
With regards to the artists themselves, I give them the following grades and my critiques and comments on them. Not surprisingly, my favoritism of the GNs themselves on the basis of art alone tends to follow these grades
Artist | Grade | Critique and Comments |
Jason Badower | A+ | + Spot on likenesses + Deep, Moody, coloring + Crisp and solid + Otherworldly/cinematic quality to art + High impact action |
Robert Atkins | A | + Smooth and clean with rich texture + Flowing lines convey energy and action well + Good likenesses + Great work in Bounty Hunter + Soft, yet solid |
Michael Gaydos | A | + Gritty, thick, rough, earthy texture + Good likenesses + Conveys shadow and darkness well + Conveys action moderately well |
Dennis Calero | B + | + Somewhat rough, with good use of shadows. - Hardly any lips |
Tom Grummett | B | + Gritty lines + Flowing lines convey energy and action well + Good work on Revolutionary War - Too lumpy, especially with regards to the cheek bones & chins - Poor likenesses due to lumpiness - Clothes drawn fitting too tight |
The Kotzebue bros. | B | + Good likenesses |
Staz Johnson | B | + Smooth, flowing lines + Energetic art |
Alitha Martinez | B | + Largely soft and smooth + Art sparkles a little - Flat faces in profile shots at times - Slight babyface-ness |
Siya Oum | B | • Art is like oil paintings |
Luis Puig | B | none |
Marcus To | B | + Cartoony, but great guys in suits! + Angie, and Anna, and Sheila nicely drawn in their respective GNs |
Phil Jimenez | C+ | none |
Ryan Odagawa | C+ | + Smooth and clean |
Adam Archer | C | none |
Micah Gunnell | C | + Smooth and clean + Conveys energy somewhat well + despite a glaring error, good work on Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration - Poor likenesses at times, making characters hard to recognize - Lack of detail in wide shots - Poor anatomical rendering |
Dan Panosian | C | • Angular art with thick lines |
Peter Steigerwald | C- | - Too rough for the thinness of the lines at times |
ChrisCross | D | - Poor likenesses |
Greg Beeman | F | - Poor likenesses - Poor anatomical rendering |
Steven Lejeune | F | - Poor anatomical rendering - Poor likenesses |
Eric Nguyen | F | - Dirty, sketchy, thin lines |
Abilities
If I could have any of the abilities seen in Heroes, I would find the following abilities at the very least handy, and at the most "OMG how did I live without this?":
- (In order of preference) Telekinesis, Regeneration, Flight, Teleportation, Telescopic vision, Enhanced Hearing, Lung adaptation, the time stopping aspect of Space-time manipulation, Freezing, underwater breathing.
The following abilities (in no order) I like seeing on the show because they look awesome and are quite handy. However, I wouldn't want them because...
- ...they would be too dangerous if accidentally activated:
- Lightning (and to a lesser extent, its cousin, Electrical absorption), Induced radioactivity, Acid secretion, Microwave emission.
- ...their use seems to come with some complications:
- Telepathy: I'd hear stuff that I shouldn't, might turn an advanced aspect (like nightmare induction) on at the wrong time.
- Lie detection: Trust issues come with that one, although it would be handy if I were in some occupations.
- Invisibility: How do you know when it's on?
- Phasing: How do you know when it's on? How do you not accidentally fall through the floor?
- Enhanced speed: I'd have to watch what I'm doing and look where I'm going too much.
- Space-time manipulation (the whole ability): the whole Rift thing
- ...they are plain unneeded in my day to day existence.
My Wiki Works
Feathers in my cap!
- Strengthened the Blood recipients page.
- Numerous revisions in December 2007 and January 2008 strengthening the Shanti virus article.
- Spearheading a legitimate article on Global News Interactive.
- Collaborating with fellow Wiki member MiamiVolts on classifying abilities by the classical elements.
- Created and collaborated with others on a page the homology of some abilities
- Reorganized and renamed the Bloopers page in December 2008.
- Created a page on spirit walks.
- A 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 step revamping of the organization of Portal:Fan Creations in March 2009
- January, 2010: started an article on the ability negation system used by Building 26.
Subpages
Archive and Reference Subpages
User subpages that I have created, have had created for me, like and/or find handy.
Archive
Reference
- User:SacValleyDweller/Release and Arc Order
- User:SacValleyDweller/GN info table
- User:SacValleyDweller/Episode Table
- User:SacValleyDweller/Lost abilities
- User:SacValleyDweller/Major Characters
- User:SacValleyDweller/Grain of salt
- User:Laughingdevilboy/mylistofabilities Pages showing various links between abilities and possessors.
- User:Laughingdevilboy/Unconfirmed abilities -- sorted listing of unseen evolved humans
- User:Level/List of graphic novels
- User:SacValleyDweller/unaired
- User:Chrisyu357/bagntag
- note to self: Needs more work to make mainspace quality
- User:SacValleyDweller/Company arc timeline
Personal Use
For fun
Just so I don't lose them
- User:SacValleyDweller/Artist grades
- User:SacValleyDweller/favecolors
- User:SacValleyDweller/TalkHeader
- User:SacValleyDweller/sig
- User:SacValleyDweller/autosig
- User:SacValleyDweller/storage current content: my Christmas sig
Projects
To Do List
Weekly
Eventualy
- Update User:SacValleyDweller/Lost abilities
- Update User:SacValleyDweller/Company arc timeline with an interpretation that incorporates the negated materials at the Timelines
- Update Theory:Abilities by classical element
- make a navbar for my subpages.
Other
- User:SacValleyDweller/Scraps
- for incomplete subpage ideas
Priority projects
These may get done. They may not get done.
- User:SacValleyDweller/Theory:Ability Mechanisms and Nature
- User:SacValleyDweller/Ability types
- promote User:Chrisyu357/The United States of America to the mainspace an put it in Portal:Locations.
- Idea: Make this page list of US locations and put as a see also in the US locations portal
- User:SacValleyDweller/Jesus
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