Contact / F.A.Q. / About

E-MAIL: xxxxxxie at yahoo dot com

If you wish to contact me, e-mail is the best way, considering it doesn't take three days to arrive like my Hotmail account. Try and give a subject line relating to the subject and not something like "Hello", maybe throw my name into it, as my spam thing is very picky.

MSN MESSENGER: rager_spectre at hotmail dot com

And I'm on MSN Messenger for a majority of the day, so it's the next best way to get to me. Just don't e-mail me on it.

And contrary to what the old versions say, I don't use AIM or play Mario Kart DS online. At least, anymore.

Galvatron can be contacted at super-galvatron at hotmail dot co.uk.

Before you go and start contacting me, here's a couple of topics I'd like to note.

SPRITES: I don't mind requests, as long as they're not ridiculous. Ridiculous, meaning ripping fighting game sprites or making custom sprites.

MS:MIA: Just don't.

IN GENERAL: Believe it or not, but I have a life beyond my site! It's not much, but it's something. And I expect you to have one too. Make your conversations vivid! Talking about what a terrible character Wheelie is just doesn't make a long-lasting conversation. Enlighten me of new things, throw in personal questions like "how's the weather?", just get me interested! Asking what I'll be covering next on my sites just doesn't do it for me, y'know? Nag.

But regardless of all the nitpickings, send email! Give criticism or praise. SEND SOMETHING. SO LONELY. =(

[Q] What the hell?

Good question. This is essentially a compilation of what I find interesting: Art, stupid movies, video games and their production process, and other hoo haas.

[Q] Who runs this place?

Just Ragey. Random Action Hour, OH! MY GOD!! Why'd They Change That? and Super Shinobi II Beta Central are half-run by Galvatron, and other places have contributions from friends and strangers.

[Q] May I use some of your content?

Ask!

[Q] What's up with your crazy e-mail address?

Long story. See, I once had a stupid e-mail address (not that it isn't now), and one day it just refused to let me log in. I tried everything, but no dice. So I went to create a new one, and began by entering an X. It was taken. So I entered another. Taken. Three Xs (kinky) were taken, and I repeated this until I was up to six Xs. Then it suggested added an "ie" to the end. I did so, and that's the story of my e-mail that just about nobody can remember.

[Q] And what about your name?

Belonged to a character I made that just became more annoying and hard to draw and write for with every change, so I scrapped the character and kept the name. Also has a feminine tone, compared to the comically masculine previous name of the same character, Rager. No comedic gender confusion mishaps yet though. :{

(for more information on this character, see Random Hoo Haa's Embarrassing Crap section!)

[Q] When do you update? Do you have a schedule?

I used to have a daily routine for both Random Hoo Haas and Random Action Hour, but it's mostly Sundays now; if I have something to put up then I'll put it up.

[Q] A link is down! When are you going to fix it?

When I'm told about it. Believe it or not, I don't actually look at my site very much! I kind of rely on being told of things to know when something's broken, so pop me a message if so, G.

[Q] Do you really mean what you say in your writings?/Should I take your opinion seriously?

Usually at the faintest degree, so treat them with an unhealthy dose of salt. It's mostly internet exaggeration, see!

[Q] Why are you hosted on a Tenchi Muyo! site?

That site belongs to a great bud of mine, who after some polite asking, gave me a gig of space to screw about with. He also runs AC Studios, for the interested.

[Q] Do you intend to be as offensive as you are?

Sadly not, but you know the effect the internet has on jerks. Plus, I blame the fact that adjectives for homosexuals and fat people, both people I respect for their confidence in their lifestyles (and sometimes for being hot in the case of fat chicks), are childishly hilarious. Simply, don't take a word of me seriously.

[Q] I don't understand you!

That's probably because I use British terms for things, and British spellings. Humor becomes humour, jelly becomes jam and pedophile becomes paedophile.

And it may also be because I overuse in-jokes like a muthatruck.

[Q] Why is the entire site's design so basic?

That's partly because of my minor caring for those with slow connections, by keeping things quick to load with little in the way of unnecessary images (but large HTM files); and it's also because I've no websitery skills at all. I'd like to make the place pretty sometime, but it's not that important.

[Q] Why aren't the sites made for 1024x768? Quit living in the past.

boo hoo cry me a river

[Q] Do you have anything against Flying Omelette?

Not at all! It's one of my favourite websites. It's all confusion and stupidity on my part, y'see. When I first linked there, back when she was removing or moving a lot of things on the site, I hopped on the bandwagon of dickheads and commented on how it rarely updated. Then a few months later she had a rant about people who complained that she didn't update while they whined in their blogs, which accurately summed up what I was doing, and thus thought this was partly targeted at me. I apologised on the link description, and reworded it a number of times but never removed it, so when she finally linked, she saw this crazy ass description and was confused. So everyone ended up confused and I apologise for the inconvenience. :]

[Q] What do you have against the Metal Slug Database?

Nothing personal. I'm just not a big fan of the fact it's yet another of the millions of game sites that focus entirely on news and downloads, ignoring the actual games themselves entirely except for screenshots, concept art and maybe a video. And also the fact that the designs always look bloated and the forums are a themed GameFAQs. But in the end, it could be worse, and the rare times I talk to him, Enomosiki and I get along okay albeit being total assholes to each other. :]

[Q] Why do you hate Metal Slug: Missing in Action?

I don't, actually! I kept avoiding looking at it for a long time because of all the people telling me pointless crap to add that I just hated it because of that; but when I finally looked over it, it wasn't all that bad! I would love to cover Metal Slug 6 and get to the bottom of Metal Slug Advance some time, and finally get around to putting up Galvatron's Metal Slug Mission stuff, but yeah, it's more the fact I hate the fans of it who love to tell me of things that are already noted on it. Yeah, I know you can get the backwards shooting animations in the first game. It's written there quite clearly.

[Q] Who are all these guys you mention, like Galvatron, Steve, Aodhán and so on?

Friends, relatives, strangers, or on the rare occasion, asshats!

[Q] Why Random Hoo Haas and Random Action Hour? Are you prejudiced towards the predictable?

The former was merely something that sounded good, while the latter was just a cheap and easy way of mimicking Marvel Action Hour without having to draw a new word. Random can sometimes be good, but unless it's done well then it comes across as lack of comedic skill.

[Q] Have I seen you before?

Possibly. You may have seen me ...

• In Nintendo Official Magazine (Issue 135, December 2003), where I sent in a letter about the lack of good ports and remakes and rereleases on the GBA (which later on was replaced by my distaste of crap). [scan, provided by Galvatron]

• In the places in the Links page that are labelled "Other work of mine". Obviously.

• At 3DMM.com in 2003, where I didn't do much but get called a wigger by a druggy and showed some images I made.

• At SFGHQ back in 2001, where I was an immature nuisance in the forums.

• At YTMND, where I have quite a number of stupid and offensive pages. hey look out

• At deviantART, where I used an account for all of two hours, and then questioned what I was doing and cooked up this site instead.

• At SMBHQ, where I sent an answer to the Mysteries section, case 9, about why Shy Guys are shy. Ignoring the language and DOT DOT DOTs I use, it's a good answer I guess.

• At I-Mockery, where I sent in a sloppy Law Stripz entry.

• At various sprite places; namely The Mystical Forest Zone forums (where some guy posted sprites for me and things cocked up the wizzoo), The Sprite Database, and such.

• At various ezboard places, where I was a flaming homosexual.

• And at various message boards in general where I usually sign up, make one or two posts and decide "this isn't for me" and leave.

See other FAQs!

| RHH | MS:MIA | SS2BC | OMGWTCT | RAH |

I'll be blunt; writing about myself at this point is kind of redundant. As of this writing, quite a number of ramblings on RHH have been particularly personal, detailing my thoughts on relatives you don't know, what kind of shit I find hot, my unhealthy obsession for all things pathetic and nerdy and my dislike of inconsiderate cyclists. But, well, I love filling in information about myself, whether it just be putting in my whole name (It's got five parts! Five parts!) or rambling about what music I like, I'm an absolute sucker for self-whoring. I've no idea why. Which is a shame, because I like answers.

So to be an utter self-centred fag for twenty minutes, let's mimic MySpace!

And the site?

The site itself doesn't have much of a story either. I'd made two sites before (see Random Hoo Haa's FAQ!) that were more just showcases of my more embarrassing stuff, but when I began making stuff that was a little less crap I only really got to showcase them by saying "hey you seen this thing I made" in IRC chat rooms, so I thought I may as well be less of an advertising jerk face and get an actual site for them. And Metal Slug: Missing in Action came before Random Hoo Haas so yeah it only made sense to make use of the web space. And it went on from there. And now you know the rest of the story!

I really should've just kept this as "actual about section coming whenever".