User:Durango95

Κι αν δεν μπορείς να κάμεις την ζωή σου όπως την θέλεις, τούτο προσπάθησε τουλάχιστον όσο μπορείς: μην την εξευτελίζεις... Κωνσταντίνος Καβάφης

And if you can't have your life as you want try this at least, as hard as you can: don't degrade it... Constantine P. Cavafy

Welcome
Welcome to my user page. I am Montechristo95 and I'm glad you visited my page, even if you did so by accident or even because you were bored and you wanted to visit something random. I'm 14 years old and I live in Greece in a city called Patra. I apologize for any spelling or grammar errors that you may bump into while reading this page (provided of course you are still interested in doing so). Here you get to know a few things about me and you can also read my opinion about some aspects of the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise. If you want to leave me a message please do so by visiting my Talk Page. Just remember to abide by the rules it has.

Origin of username
Since there have been certain misundertandings in the past regarding my user name, I want you to know that it has absolutely nothing to do with "The Count of Monte Cristo". My user name is after the infamous comic hero of the Greek comic series "The Lifer" who is called "Μοντεχρήστος". He is an arrogant, cynical, greedy, unscrupulous, vulgar and egocentric rat. Come to think of it, it's higly possible the rat's name to be related to the afore-mentioned count...

Why did I join this Wiki?
I joined this Wiki after a long time of being out and at that time, I hadn't had a contact with Yu-Gi-Oh! for almost two years. I thought it would be fun vandalising pages and I didn't really care about being blocked. Besides, the blocks used to last for about a day or two. However, eventually I saw the error in my way and with the help of Deltaneos, I managed to become a part of this community. Moral of the story: Don't vandalise wikis guys. The unknown, foreign internet fella with the lame user name says so.

What am I doing here anyway?
I'm a card names translator. I'm translating card names to Greek and I also add some Greek lores whenever I feel like it. You might also see me adding some trivial facts in the Trivia sector of some cards. They usually get deleted after a couple of hours but still, it's all good. Apart from those, I also fancy creating redirects to card articles named after the OCG name of each card. Hey, can't everyone know the crappy English translations we are fed up with.

Acording to the translation policy followed by the wiki, all translators are to add the official translation of card names, which mostly derive from the dub of the anime of each country. Unfortunately, it goes without saying that many of the official translations turn out to be wrong or unsatisfactory.

Since they have to stay regardless of whether they are accurate or not, greek users can visit this page in order to take a second opinion on some of these card names.

Personal Opinion Regarding the 3 Main Aspects of the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise
So yeah...I figured such a section was a must for this user page. I mean c'mon we are at a Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki. If you disagree with any of the statements below please don't vandalise them. You can instead click here and argue with me all you want.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime
I won't take part in that stupid "war" that rages for years now between the fans of the sub and those who support the dub. Neither of them suck, but also neither of them is perfect. I'm annoyed by the censoring policy followed by 4Kids, which I think is extravagant, but on the other hand, I'm not thirsty for ultra violence.

My opinion of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime Series is generally positive. Despite the fact that the series' beginning season was totally lame, the continue was surprisingly interesting. I started watching the anime when I was 8-9 years old and it was first broadcast in my country. I wasn't (and still aren't) impressed by the first season, with the exception of the last few episodes when the series finally began to obtain a worth-watching plot.

My interest in Yu-Gi-Oh! skyrocketed with the introduction of the second season, Battle City. It was like watching a whole new show. The characters were presented as teens and not as children and they were far more mature; although I have to admit that Tea's constant frienship speeches bugged the hell out of me. The anti-hero, Seto Kaiba, was finally given the role he deserved and was at long last treated as a main character. However, the main thing that made this season my absolute favourite was that the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game was finally presented as a real, complicated and difficult game, worthy of respect and not as a children card game. With the introduction of the new rules (hooray for Kaiba the game genius!), some very serious flaws in the game were corrected.

The following two season were quite good, with the Virtual World arc being my favourite. I wanted to learn some things about Kaiba's past and I enjoyed the fact that for once the plot didn't revolve around Yugi's necklace and the Millennium Items.

The next season, Waking the Dragons arc, was one of the worst anime works I've ever made the mistake to watch; the theme songs were recycled, the plot was way off, the bad guys were some street punks and all the new cards introduced were out of this world.

The final arc was... Hmm... Not exactly what you would call disappointing but it was a bit...boring...in some parts. Too much ancient egyptian history for one season don't you think? They overdid it a little. Of course the No1 thing in this arc was that Kaiba FINALLY after 250 episodes became a believer.

Season 0 was a worth-watching show, totally based on the manga series. I really liked it but I also understand why 4Kids prefered to dump it; if the company members are shocked by guns and punches then this season is clearly not for them.

Ten years later, a new show began. To my way of thinking, GX was better than the previous show in many ways. It had less talk and more action. We were finally freed by the Egyptian history and the Millenium Items and most importantly, this show didn't have a counterpart of Tea. What else could you ask for?

5D's. At first, I didn't like it. Card games on motorcycles, what a joke! I believe the main reason that I disliked it from the very first episode was appart from the terrible beginning season the grave mistake I made to watch the dubbed version. From episode 65 and on, the show has been surprisingly good. So I take back everything that I used to say about this show. It's not that bad after all...

Yu-Gi-Oh! Manga
I got to read the manga series after my decision to watch the infamous Season 0 of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, a season greately worshipped by the fans of the sub. The manga series gave me an idea of what to expect from season 0. I have to say that the manga series is quite good; it doesn't focus on card games (at least in the beginning) but on games in general. Interesting to read while watching the anime adaptation.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game
Despite the fact that I have a deck and I generally like playing the game, I'm not a regular player. In my country, everyone ignores the card game, considering it a game for kids. That makes it difficult for me to find opponents. I know you wonder why don't I duel online; I just don't feel like it. I'm kinda like Pegasus, I want to have personal contact with my opponent. (wait a minute is that a good thing?)

You can visit this page to take a look at my decks and tell me your opinions about them.

Random Crap
Well, as its name suggests, here in this sector I'm gonna list some pointless stuff and probably not even worth mentioning. It's a common practise among user pages; fills the emptyness. I'll add more eventually.

General

 * Card I'm most like: That Guy
 * Card I wish I were like: That Other Guy


 * Cards I wish they were created: The sets of cards used by Zigfried von Schroeder and Dartz.


 * Due to the fact that from times to times I'm feeling a bit creative and since I'm the kind of guy who mixes information in his head and tries to fuse two completely irrelevant to each other things, I have created a few Duel Monsters cards. If you don't have anything better to do at this moment, why don't you take a look at them? Yes I have posted them here in the form of subpages.


 * Spirit Partner: Fallen Angel Zerato


 * My Sandbox

Favourites
This a list of my favourite things (I'll add more, eventually).


 * Favourite show: Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series
 * Favourite movie: A Clockwork Orange, 1971 directed by Stanley Kubrick
 * Favourite line from Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series: "Look, I'm not British, I'm just gay" Yami Bakura
 * Favourite line from all Yu-Gi-Oh! shows: "There must be a glitch in the hologram!" Seto Kaiba
 * Favourite Archetypes: Destiny Heroes, Dark Counterparts, (The) Fabled
 * Favourite Yu-Gi-Oh! show: Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
 * Favourite book: George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945
 * Favourite literary hero ever: Nancy from Oliver Twist (i only pray i one day find a girl like her!)
 * Favourite song: Denver Grab performed by 16 Horsepower
 * Favourite pages here at the Wiki: Card storylines, Female Card List, List of modified cards, Card Evolutions
 * Favourite comic artist: Arkas
 * Favourite novel writer: J. R. R. Tolkien
 * Best fanfiction I've ever read: YuGiOh! Negative Zero Too bad it will never be finished.
 * Favourite Manga-only cards: Angel Sing, Angel Fallen into Darkness
 * Favourite Anime-only cards: Apple of Enlightenment, Climax Hour, Lullaby of Obedience (is it me or are this card's art and name an innuendo to what religions really are?)
 * Favourite Yu-Gi-Oh! season: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's - Crash Town
 * Favourite Yu-Gi-Oh! characters: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's - Sherry LeBlanc, Kyosuke Kiryu

(I apologize for having tyrannized you with the obsession I have with the OCG card names. I hope the redirects make up for the trouble.)

Things that annoy me
Here is a list of things that really piss me off. (I'll add more, unfortunately)


 * Irresponsible jerks with no other interest other than violating pages. (kinda like the one I used to be)
 * People calling me "baby" when they find out I'm playing the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game.
 * All those pet-owners who let their pets make a mess in the street and then they leave as if nothing happened.
 * Waking up everyday at 7:30am in order to go to school, promising myself a nap when I return and instead of that surfing for hours.
 * People who ignore the Trivia sector just because of its name.
 * Having my Trivia edits reverted every now and then.
 * The worst archetype ever created. (and to think there are duelists who want further support cards for this already broken arch. be creative people. don't fall for the temptation of sheer force)
 * Street punks with noisy motorcycles. (and no, I'm not making a 5D's reference. this goes for the ones in real life)
 * The creepiest card ever made. (although it can be proven to be quite useful)
 * The most ridiculous card artwork in existence. (and tell me fine readers, isn't it a real shame that the same person who created all the great cards mentioned in the above section chooses to sink to this level?)
 * The damn Genex archetype. As well as the Cloudians. I just can't translate them.
 * The most f*cked up card ever. (acording to the Greek mythology, kerberos wasn't like this hybrid of a monster at all. i admire Takahashi for being inspirational with the names of the cards he creates -which i afterwards have to translate- but this time he screwed up big time.)

Talk Archives

 * January 6th 2010 - July 9th 2010
 * July 10th 2010 - August 13th 2010