User:SacValleyDweller

SacValleyDweller
About
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

(an important tool for me: Spoiler free recent changes)

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
• Survivor Not THIS season with that Russel!

• Brilliant, but Canceled:

• Smith
• The Dresden Files
• New Amsterdam
• Moonlight
• My Own Worst Enemy
• American Gladiators (2008)
• Knight Rider 2008

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,

Talk to me!

My Heroes related favorites

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.

Technopathy

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

• User:SacValleyDweller/Maybecannon

Reference

MiamiVolts' Broadcast Schedule page

Chrisyu357's GN depictions of characters across artists

Thrashmeister's condensed Assignment Tracker data

• User:SacValleyDweller/Release and Arc Order
• User:SacValleyDweller/GN info table
• User:SacValleyDweller/Episode Table
• User:SacValleyDweller/Lost abilities
  • Its TOC
• 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

• User:SacValleyDweller/Specials in other media

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

• Update User:SacValleyDweller/Release and Arc Order
• Update User:SacValleyDweller/Episode Table

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

• User:SacValleyDweller/Company Missions
• User:SacValleyDweller/US Armed Forces

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

My tool box

Help Files

Help
General Help Characters Editing Layout Naming conventions Style Sources	Special Topics Caching Collapsible tables Disambiguation Images Interviews Int'l characters Portals Quotes Signatures Spoilers Tables of contents Templates Theories	For more help... Contact an administrator Admin Level Radicell RyanGibsonStewart	Or leave a message Administrator Portal

• Heroes Wiki:Patrollers
• HW Help files
• Template:Todo
• signature and timestamp info
• admin list

Reminders

• You can set the Wiki to prompt you for a summary in your preferences.
• Archiving guide

Tools

• User:SacValleyDweller/Sandbox
• User:SacValleyDweller/Sandbox2
• Special:Log
• To list the pages in a given namespace, you can put this DPL template on a page:

  {{#dpl:|namespace=<---DESIRED NAMESPACE HERE-->}}

  Or, use Special:Allpages
• Template:Blurb
  • made black and orange:

    {{blurb|width = |color=#FF8640|border=#000000 |padding= }}TEXT GOES HERE{{blurbclose}}

• to create a redirect page, put the following in the page:

  #REDIRECT [[Target page goes here]]

• To create a link to a image/file that doesn't not produce the target image/file, put

  [[:Name of file|link text]]

  where you want the link.

To make text look like this do this:

<tt>Text</tt>

• AFD template code:

{{afd 
| reason = <!--Reason for proposing deletion--> 
| date = <!-- optional date of nomination, should be in Month Year format -->
}}