User:Kiwismurf

-- Back to top -- Message Me Here -- With due deference to Jimmy Pop, it's the inevitable return of the great white dope. The artist formerly known as smurfynz.

Weekly Tunables update task list
Note: any editor can do all of these.
 * As Tunables update occurs: 20:00-20:30 Thursday night NZT (Thursday 08:00 UTC, 04:00 EST, 01:00 PST)
 * Template:Portal/LuckyWheel to generic screenshots
 * Lucky Wheel prize
 * File:Mainpage-Portal-GTAOe-LuckyWheel-Prize.png
 * Prize Ride Challenge prize and task
 * File:Mainpage-Portal-GTAOe-PrizeRide.png
 * Test Rides
 * After Newswire updates: 02:00-02:30 Friday morning NZT (Thursday 14:00 UTC, 10:00 EST, 07:00 PST)
 * Template:Portal/LuckyWheel back to named Newswire images

My Projects

 * Replace my old images with proper 16:9s, especially the shitty ones I captured at PAL res from PS3 using my old PC capture card.
 * Lifeinvader functional replica profiles - Finish them off
 * New Flexible (non-table-based) template
 * Mission triggered posts (unlock timeline)
 * Checklist on main Lifeinvader page
 * Cross-reference post template on each character Lifeinvader page listing their posts on any other pages.
 * Mobile compatibility: add a screenshot to each and enclose entire replica layout in a div tag that won't render it in the Mobile skin?
 * Real-Life influences on buildings and businesses (in HD Universe particularly). Use Real_life_name/Real_life_name on list pages e.g .Rockford Hills
 * Bleeter.biz user database - propagate IDs to character infoboxes and apply template to appropriate pages as source citations for much of the information disclosed on bleeter.
 * Order all Bleeter/Bleets by logical mission unlock timeline.
 * eyefind/news reports using new template - OCR the text and apply to each individual reporter's page (e.g. Forrest Simon). Add a reference field to link to game event/mission that is the subject of the report?
 * GTA V Maps: Using updated RSSC jobs maps, stitch together all highest high resolution images to 3 large "master" map files. URL example
 * Game
 * Print
 * Satellite
 * Including Cayo Perico (from Snapmatic)
 * Floorplans - aka interior mapping.
 * Locations of HIU interior maps on main maps.
 * In-game HUD mapping/zones vs actual geographical mapping (Print/Manual maps).
 * Eagerly awaiting Fandom's upcoming mapping wiki extension

Longer term projects

 * Graffiti (no, not gameplay tags, I want to document and analyse the actual graffiti and street art that is in the games).
 * Re-replace all the invalid vehicle dashboard photos in design galleries that show none of the actual dashboard - they aren't supposed to be "the view out the window" views!
 * Pedestrians - Grand expansion of un-named peds using file data for naming: Ped models with their model and texture variations, spawn areas etc... For every PC-released title (perhaps not for the 2D Universe sprites). Possibly sub-paged to main Pedestrians page or 2 levels, Pedestrians/GameName/PedName
 * e.g. Fam1, Fam2, CWFYFR1.
 * Prostitutes locations and vehicle compatibility data

Wiki admin

 * Cleanup
 * Particularly gang articles, some of which give the impression they have been written by the gangsters themselves.
 * Redirects policy (aka clutterpages).
 * Manuals of Style - Neighbourhoods vs Towns/Cities and other Locations excluded by Neighbourhood MoS. Businesses. (real) People
 * Orphans
 * Delete any unused redirects to deleted images (and remove/update that that are linked to in error before deleting them too).

Sandboxes

 * General Sandbox testing
 * My Online vehicles
 * Tribute cars
 * Free Cam
 * smurfynz Index
 * Tables
 * General Sandbox

About me
The "s" in smurf is for my real name, Sean. I'm from New Zealand, and I'm old. Yes folks, I really was born in 1969. My first gaming device as a teenager (other than arcades) was an Atari 2600.

I have owned multiple copies of most of the main titles since GTA III, playing them all as an adult. I have played most of the GTA games on PC exclusively up until GTA V which I have played on PS3, (borrowed my son's) PS4, and PC. I am a fan of the worlds Rockstar Games have created for us, and am dedicated to documenting as much of them as I can possibly do.

I started editing here in August 2014 after being a lurker/reader since around 2011. As Smurfynz I was a Patroller and Administrator during 2015. I amassed 14,000 edits in less than a year before leaving Wikia in August 2015, burned out and disillusioned with dealing with the openness of the platform (and dealing with the sort of "community" the games attract).

I returned in January 2017, resurrecting and renaming this "test" account, leaving my prior account globally disabled. For some reason, Fandom re-enabled that account, which I now do still use occasionally for testing "standard" user rights (no Sock Puppetry here) and on other wikis (e.g. Diablo Wiki or No Mans Sky wiki).

I was elected to Patroller again in April 2017, then as Administrator in September 2017, and to Bureaucrat in April 2020.

I am the primary resident rules enforcer here at GTA Wiki. Smurfy: illuminate - communicate - spectate
 * Current signature


 * PC1
 * PC2


 * PC3
 * PC4


 * Currently owned and accessible titles and platforms
 * Original GTA
 * Installed on a Asus eeepc netbook running Windows XP
 * Grand Theft Auto 2
 * Installed on a Asus eeepc netbook running Windows XP
 * Grand Theft Auto III
 * Mobile (Android).
 * PC Steam version.
 * only because my CD version was destroyed by a faulty drive in 2006.
 * Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
 * PC Steam version only.
 * Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
 * PS2.
 * PC DVD version (lost DVD: NoCD patch used, unable to reinstall clean, extremely modified).
 * PC Steam version.
 * Grand Theft Auto IV
 * PC DVD retail version 1.07 (10 year song removal patch, but not the subsequent "Complete Edition" hatchet job).
 * PC Steam version (PC1) patched to "Complete Edition" to include Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
 * Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
 * PC Steam version (PC #2), patched to "Complete Edition" to include Grand Theft Auto IV.
 * Grand Theft Auto V
 * PS3
 * PC Steam Version (PC1)
 * PC Steam Version + CESP (PC2)
 * Epic "free" version incl CESP (PC3)
 * Epic "free" version incl CESP (PC4)
 * Other games I play A LOT
 * Diablo series, particularly DIII and DII LOD
 * No Man's Sky
 * Fallout (4)
 * The Elder Scrolls series, particularly Skyrim and Oblivion
 * Path of Exile (made in NZ!)
 * Path of Exile (made in NZ!)