MotM - Apr - kalmeast

[Wooster]

Kalmeast has answered the question. The responses are in the OP.

[zerosameri]

Originally Posted by MemberoftheMonth Nomibot

Curses. This Nomibot remembers that you said that you've also had access to the committee area before, so you might know the committee.

Wipe his memory!

I did? But it's not hard to figure out who is who... I mean everyone who has access to this account are not even similar in the slightest.

[kalmeast]

OK...Here I Am. I'm Sorry I Didn't Respond Earlier. I Just Found Out This Morning Which Is Actually My First Year Anniversary Of Naruto. Naruto Is The Only Manga I Keep Watching. Thank You So Much Guys! This Is Awesome. I Saw A Few PM's Today And So I Decided To Check Out This Link. Sorry I Didn't Know Where To Go.

Now I'm Super Excited. It Is True That Most People Don't Know Me. Kreegah Does Know Me A Lot And Deidara, I Think You And Zero Responded To My First Post Ever. J3st3r Is Also Someone I Know.
And Wooster, I Responded To Your PM.

I Know I'm A Newbee And I Probably Dont Deserve Member Of The Month But One Thing I Know Is That, I Love The Forum And I Check It Out Everyday After Work. I'm So Busy That This Is Something I Look Forward To After Work, Discussing And Debating With You Guys. I Got Attached When I Realized How Smart And Creative People Are Over Here.

Here's A Little About Me:

I'm In My Early Twenties, An Architect By Profession. Mostly In A Problem Solving Environment And Constantly Thinking Outside The Box. This Is What I Found Interesting About Naruto Series. The Fact That, As Good As I Think I Am At Problem Solving And Figuring Things Out, I Still I'm Unable To Figure Out The Plot Of The Series. It's A Challenge And There're Awesome People Here (You Guys) Who Make It Entertainment And Not Work.

Well, I Only Mostly Post At TB... I Have Some Serious And Unserious Threads. I Just Think It's Too Much Work To Want To Appear Smart All The Time So Sometimes I Don't Care Unless Pushed. By The Way, In Return I Will Put Up One Of My Best Theories Today.

I Don't Know What Else I Can Put Up Here Without Boring You. But One Thing I've Done For Naruto Better Than Almost Anybody Is,

1. I Started Watching May 6, 2010, (Exactly One Year Ago) And I Caught Up To The Most Current Manga Chapter In Less Than A Month Including All The Filler Eps And Anime Ep.

2. I Had A Dreams Where I Was On A Mission With Kakashi. We Pretended To Be Samurai's. But Then I Blew Kakashi's Cover When I Said That He Could Walk On Water, The Samurai's Realized He Was A Ninja. Obviously He Got Pissed At Me But Didn't Make A Big Deal About And Escaped.
I Doubt If Any Of You Can Beat That...Be In A Team With Kakashi...It Was As Real As Anything!

I also Dreamed About Being In The War With Gaara...And Gaara Saved Me Once. He Had This New Jutsu Where He Could Use The Water In A Person's Body And Turn Their Skin Into Wet Sand That He Hardened With His Chakra And Broke In Pieces At Will....

So, All I'm Saying Is, Being MOtM Makes This "Trauma" Worth It.
I Know This Is Super Goofy But I What Gives!

Watch Out For My Theory...This Is About How Naruto Is Fully Senju Even Though Kushina Is Uzumaki...See Ya!!!

[Wooster]

Best winner post ever, I think. =D

[kalmeast]

Originally Posted by Wooster

Best winner post ever, I think. =D

Thanks Wooster...Maybe I Should Make This A Thread So Everyone Knows I Responded...

Edit: Oops! Apparently I Dont Have Permission To Do So.

[Wooster]

Done.

[Kreegah!!!]

Congratulations, kalmeast! An architect? :vorn:

Wondered when you'd notice your name's color-change and whatnot.

[Space Cowboy Sasori]

Congrats with winning! =D

[kalmeast]

Originally Posted by Kreegah!

Congratulations, kalmeast! An architect? :vorn:

Wondered when you'd notice your name's color-change and whatnot.

Hehe...I Did Notice The Name Color Change...I Was Gonna Ask Wassup With That. Thank God I Didn't.
Thank You Kreegah.

[deidara330]

Congratulations! You really deserved it!
(Yes, I am a hypocrite. I'll try not to do that again in the future.)

Thanks for responding, by the way.

[Kreegah!!!]

A1. I was looking for a place other than youtube to share some ideas. I started with Other forums which were too complicated and less organized. NarutoViz was the easiest to become member and there were several interesting threads going on. Besides lots of super smart people.

Sweet.

About myself: I'm in my early twenties, graduated from College with Architecture in 09 and Working for some Archi. firm right now. I reside in US. I'm in a constant problem solving atmosphere and "outside of the box thinker" and generally attracted to things of the sort. Like Naruto. At 7, I wanted to be the greatest architect ever, As crazy at it may seem, I still believe that and working super hard at it. So, you see where this is going...yea, i get a lot of motivation from Naruto...

You know, that explains quite a bit. By the way, straight off a wild tangent, do you like Pink Floyd? Half of them went to school as architects and two of them actually thought "architecturally" as they constructed their music. The same two also couldn't read music and made diagrams like blueprints to use.

Uh, anyway, pointless query.

A2. Naruto Is My Favorite Character. He never gives up. He's not afraid to look uncool, because the next minute he could capture the coolness again. He's so free spirited. Not having grudges. The perfect model of a good guy. He's so goofy on top of it.

Gai's the best!

A3. I have only three official friends unfortunately. I guess popularity is most like it. People have liked my theories (the serious ones) and respected my opinions as well as I do theirs.

I may just add you, but friend lists here mean little unless you greatly restrict your profile and PM settings.

A4. Team Work! A place where 1 or 2 people can work on a theory before disclosing it to the public for discussion. The reason is, that sometime, a post is completely lost and deviates from the main topic. And people never really get feedbacks to perfect the theory. I think it could enforce a strong VIZ community...for example someone say XXX IM's XYZ: "hey, XYZ I have a theory about blah blah, Would you be interested in working with me on it? Maximum of 3 or 4 people. Just something i think about since Naruto is about teamwork anyways. Consistent teams could have a team name and when they get rep, it goes to all the individuals. A person can be part of more than 1 team. A team member is free to go solo on anything at anytime. Things might get creative from there.

:Idea: Interesting.

A5. Encourage the Legends on the forum to answer newbees just like anyother person. I find that since i'm newbee with little rep, when I debate or disagree someone's view (say one who's been here for long) i simply get ignored. Then someone else who's been here for long says something unimportant and they get answered almost instantly. I just think everyone was once a newbee and newbees need the acknowledgment that their opinions matter.

Another problem is sometimes it's just impossible to build upon what is already there. If people cannot gel with your way of thinking or take you seriously, they just kind of skip over you. Not you, personally, I just like the second-person. But it's true, newbies do tend to be overlooked, or worse, spotlighted and derided--although the latter is not as common an occurrence here as it is elsewhere.

A6. Is a place that makes it easy to wait 7 days for another chapter of the Manga because there's actively constant discussions that keeps everything fresh. This is My cyber-Social life. After so much work, here's where I release stress on the internet.

And that's just from one forum section!

A7. Naruto Manga Is my favorite "show". The manga especially captures only essences of the story line and plot and hence makes it more effective.

In other words, it makes you fill in the rest?

A8. The anime is fine. It's actually better when you haven't read the manga previously. It clarifies certain things that the mange does not capture well in "still mode". It's the finest action because the moves are so clear and distinct.

I loved the Naruto Shukaku fight in that regard.

A9. Naruto Series is the greatest thing on television for me because it just contains such ingenious plot and so simple story line. The Character development is so good and consistent. What is most impressive is that, Naruto takes its fans down to the abyss of ridiculousness of Ninja ability without us knowing until it's too late. This is what I mean,

If by the 3rd or 4th episode, I saw a speaking turtle, or a summoned toad so big and it talked, i wouldn't have continued. But the author releases these instances at most appropriate lengths of the series that it is easily accepted without much argument. Unlike other anime where 1st episode shows people capable of seeing dead spirit and things like that. that becomes too complex of a storyline to capture my attention. Storylines are supposed to depend on plot for complexity not the other way round and Naruto does it perfectly.

Never thought of it that way before. Well put, sir!

A10. I was watching a list of most loved and best developed characters. I was thinking Naruto would fall among top three. Well, it didn't. The first position was Kenshin Himura..So i'm like, who's this kid with that cross shaped scar on his face. I checked it out and in 6 days I finished the entire 90 something episodes...Rurouni Kenshin. The character development is most consistent. The transformation of the Kenshin's character from goofiness to Seriousness is unmatched and so well done.

I've only seen a few episodes of that, but I have two mu-mus (it's what I call them) of the bandage-guy that I'm told is from that series, and I'm thinking I'll have to get into it.

A11. I guess I still dont want to take myself too seriously at the same time i'll put up some more good theories because it feels good to be acknowledge and i'm loving it.

Don't swell up too far.


I think some of your response retro-actively display exactly why you should have won, personally. Some have said you shouldn't have qualified, being so new and being in one area (mostly), but I say this: you are in the section of the forum that this forum was built around. Rules? Every forum has that section. Announcements? Natural extension. News? That's cool, but it still isn't the focus. Feedback? That should be a given. Character Talk? Important, but really it is just an off-shoot of Town Bookstore. Off-Topic is a haven for mindless drivel, Entertainment is better but unnecessary for the core experience.

Battlegrounds and RP sectors are sweet but are really just enhancements.

The people responsible for setting up and maintaining those sections deserve a lot of credit (and I'm including every section here, not just the listed ones), but even so, the core experience Town Bookstore was becoming fairly inactive until kalmeast helped stir it to life. In fact, activity's exploded there since he started threads there, and others seem to have unconsciously caught his creative drive. D330 never really quit, but he seems to collected a new fervor there, too. I was torn between the two when nominating, truth be told. But I figure the fresh blooded guy should get the juice because he is so underplayed and doesn't even care. Plus as stated before, he injected some sweet life back into the place. Perhaps the rest of the forum will start to revive more as well.

So a toast to Resurrectionist kalmeast! Toast!!

[Wooster]

A toast of scotch for me.

Port for you, Kreegah?

And what for you, kalmeast?

[Kreegah!!!]

Gimlets, perhaps? The drink of course, not the tool.

Nor the SAM, ASM, Tree, Transformer, Book series and character, nor the city.

And port, yes!

[kalmeast]

Originally Posted by Wooster

A toast of scotch for me.

Port for you, Kreegah?

And what for you, kalmeast?

haha, I was super celebrating All-night for sure...You guys made my day.

Gimlets, perhaps? The drink of course, not the tool.

Nor the SAM, ASM, Tree, Transformer, Book series and character, nor the city.

And port, yes!

Must have gotten something close to that. I just cant remember

Seriously Off Topic:
BTW, I've Heard Something From Pink Floyd Alright. I just Haven't Gotten Into Them. But since you said it. I should take a closer look...I just read some interesting things about them....
Yep! Architecture Is Closely Linked With Music...As A Matter Of Fact, The two represent the Highest Art pertaining to Visual + Auditory Senses. There's also the theory of harmonic proportions by palladio that relate the two.

[AgentShayd]

Congrats Kalmeast! ^^