User:Wrye

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[edit] About Me

In real life, I'm a monkey living in a major metropolitan zoo in the United States. Life as a zoo animal isn't so bad -- lots of free food, zoo-keepers constantly bringing in monkey females for me to mate with, and best of all -- those damn pythons are safely locked away behind a good foot or so of solid glass! Whenever I'm feeling a little low, I just run around the cage, screaming and making faces at them, and laugh at them because they have no hands to play computer games with. Idiots.

When I'm not taunting the pythons, eating or mating with the monkey females that the zoo keepers bring around, I play computer games. Yes, I do play games other than Elder Scrolls games. Tomb Raider Legend is great, but I wish Lara was covered with hair and said "Ook!" more. But the way she climbs those walls, ropes, etc... Well it's pretty clear she's part monkey. Umm, yeah! Baby! Anyway, back to Elder Scrolls...

[edit] As ElderScrollian

I'm not sure what I'm best known for. Right now, probably for allowing people to relevel NPCs so that they can use Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul with older games. (Apparently 3/4 of the human male population plays OOO.) That and allowing users to import faces between savegames and/or mods. Apparently a lot of players want the faces of their previous PCs put on NPC companions in new games they play. Hmm... I'm going to leave that one alone.

Anyway, that's all very nice, but not really not fair because there's a lot more to this monkey then a pretty face! What I should best be known for are Wrye Mash and Wrye Bash, two kitchen-sinkish utilities that do all sorts of wonderful things for Morrowind and Oblivion respectively. Bash is pretty useful if you're playing Oblivion, but Mash is crucial if you're playing Morrowind. Trust the monkey. It is.

Other than that, I've released my own small (but vastly important, of course) mods and contributed and/or taken up the mantle on several other major mods. For personal Morrowind mods, there's Wrye World and Wrye Patches. The main team mod is Living Cities of Vvardenfell which is the classic scheduling mod for Morrowind, and to which this monkey has made modest contributions. (Okay, I'm lying. Huge contributions. Really big... Lights get dimmer at night! Amazing, huh? No, no applause, just send money.)

For Oblivion, I'm mainly known for putting signs on Ayleid wells that say "Ayleid Well". But really, I should be better known for Rational Names which solves the crucial problem of letting you know that that handbill lying on the window ledge isn't just a "Handbill", but a "Handbill, Southern Stables". How humans live without such clarifications, I don't know. (Sometimes I suspect that humans climbed one step too far up the evolutionary ladder. But then I play Tomb Raider Legend, and after a while, I'm screaming "Swing! Yeah! Swing like a monkey, Lara!" I gotta admit -- those microchips are pretty nifty. And you know what they are? Sand! They're just $400 dollar specs of sand! I have to admit, no monkey could have invented something like that. Or foot thick glass. Good Job humans!)

Anyway, if you want to know more about all that, check out my home page: Wrye Musings.

[edit] Odd Facts

I'm also famous for revealing that Britney Spears is in fact a 38 year old troll-ish man from Milwaukee. Strange but true. I know because 'she' and Kevin were walking by my cage once, and "Britney" said to Kevin, "Oh, what a funny Monkey! Oh, by the way did you know that I'm DarkFlame?" At which point "she" pulled off her Britney mask. Pretty scary, I'm telling you. Oh, Kevin's response? "That's great honey, but you better put the mask back on before we get outside. You know... Paparazzi."

Celebrities. They're just not primates.

[edit] As UESPian

Oops, almost forgot... I do stuff here too. I used to do a lot, now I do a little (see above). Mostly, I just use my godlike sysop powers to annoy the new guys, and make sure that no python, ever, ever, ever posts anything to this site. Hah, hah, hah! (Which actually is not that hard, given their lack of limbs. Did you know that pythons used to have arms and legs, but then gave them up as too much trouble? I mean sure, I give humans grief for climbing up just so they could talk to specks of sand, but going down the ladder just so that you can become nothing but an alimentary canal covered with scales??? Pinheads.)

[edit] Serious Monkey

Okay, putting on my "serious monkey" face... The main areas that I'm interested in are:

• Technical Matters:I've been very active in building utilities for both Morrowind and Oblivion and I know a lot about technical issues of modding (esp. for Morrowind) and about the game file formats. Which means that you'll find me most active in the Tes3Mod and Tes4Mod namespaces.
• UESP Community Policies: In general, I am strongly for open discussion and consensus action. My interest here reflects a more a more general interest in open community projects. (In particular, see the Community section at Wrye Musings.)

If you have a concern in either of these areas, and would like my input, please feel free to contact me. The best way to reach me is through the talk page here, or by PM at the Elder Scrolls Forum (where I am also "Wrye"). You can also email me, but I don't check that email account very frequently, so again, PM or Talk is best. (Note too, that if I'm busy with something else, I may not check either of those forums for a couple of weeks or more.)

--Wrye 00:14, 7 December 2006 (EST)

[edit] Don't Irc the Monkey

Someone asked why I don't use irc or IM. Here's the real reason (taken from my talk page archive)...

Sorry to interrupt here, but have you heard of this latest cool invention? It's some sort of real-time, always on, voice chat system, I think they're calling it the telephone or something like that? ;-) — Endareth^Talk–Edits 00:44, 5 December 2006 (EST)

You could use a java client.. :) --Aristeo | Talk 02:12, 5 December 2006 (EST)

The zoo keeers let us have phones for a little while, but then took them back after some monkey (*cough*, not me of course) ran up a huge bill calling the "All Lara, All the Time" 900 hotline. Actually, the only reason that we have even computers is because some of some research grant. We weren't sure what to do with them at first, so we started knocking out some goofy melodramas. The researchers got pretty excited about the one with dueling families, where two stupid kids end up whacking themselves at the end. We were knocking out quite a bit of stuff like that when Morrowind came out, and we switched to making mods. The researchers were kind of unhappy about that, but one of the other monkeys started working on a mod about this prince in Mournhold (his uncle kills his father, then the prince acts crazy, and in end just about everyone dies). Anyway that seemed to mollify the researcher. :shrug: BTW, did you know that "Oscuro" is actually the codename for a team of Monkeys in the Bronx Zoo? I mean you didn't really think that any single human could do that amount of work, did you?

As for java, we'd love to use it, but the research team is funded by Microsoft and they won't let us install it on our computers. Horatio (the Monkey doing the Mournhold prince mod) suggested that we invite the Microfties to visit the pythons, but in the end, the rest of us nixed the idea. Afraid they might mate.

So, email it is. ;) --Wrye 19:07, 5 December 2006 (EST)

[edit] Status

Semi-retired. The zoo keepers are bringing in better looking monkey females these days. And they let me call them "Lara". Hubba, hubba!

Semi-active here, very busy elsewhere with updates to Wrye Bash. Sigh. Need to start spending more time with one of the "Lara's".

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