User:Hb1290

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Userboxes This user is on the AVID Community Discord. This user is Australian. This user is a Bureaucrat This user is an administrator. This user was active during the CLG Wiki era. This user was a writer on the old CLG Wiki on Wikifoundry This user has been on AVID since 23 November 2015. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

My Likes:

• All things Marvel!
• Doctor Who (I like classic and modern Who equally, Though I must say that the final 2 seasons of classic Who are highly underrated.)
• Superhero Movies in general (yes, Marvel or DC, but I do prefer Marvel.)
• the 80s! the Music... the movies... the Games... all of it!
• Back To The Future! (1 was best, followed by 2, 3 was OK, but doesn't quite stack up to its predecessors.)
• Animals.
• Star Trek (My favorite movies are I, II, VI and First Contact. My favorite series are TNG and Voyager equally, TOS is a close second. Strange New Worlds might make the list soon if it keeps the level of quality I've seen so far.)

My Dislikes:

• Antivaxxers and Flat-Earthers
• The 2015 Fantastic 4 movie, they got their powers from their OWN STUPIDITY! Fantastic indeed! and the Final battle- five minutes? is that all you could do after all that build up?! Sorry, I could rant for ages on that disaster of a movie...
• Tilt-and-scan and stretching old stuff into widescreen. My pet peeve when it comes to remastered TV shows. What's wrong with watching TV in 4:3? Surely people could cope with some black bars on the edge of their screen for half an hour? Besides, people coped with 4:3 for decades before widescreen TV was created.
• the SPT and CBSTD logos! The banes of a logo hunter's existence.
• Only a slight one, but, The 1993 Columbia Pictures logo. It's looking stale and in dire need of updating! all the other major Hollywood studios have updated their logos at least once since 1993, not just an "enhancement".
• SLOW INTERNET!!!

My Favorite Movies:

• Deadpool (2016)
• Back to the Future Trilogy (1985-1990)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• Iron Man (2008)
• Iron Man 2 (2010)
• Avengers (2012)
• Star Trek The Motion Picture (1979)
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
• Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

My Favorite Singers/Bands:

• Elton John
• David Bowie
• Rolling Stones
• Cold Chisel
• Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen
• Billy Joel
• Queen
• Freddie Mercury
• AC/DC (Bon Scott all the way!)
• Huey Lewis and the News (They always make me want to go and watch BTTF...)
• Cat Stevens
• Split Enz
• Crowded House
• Paul Kelly
• Mental As Anything
• Midnight Oil
• Icehouse
• U2
• The Police
• The Travelling Wilburys (A supergroup consisting of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne from ELO, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison)
• XTC
• INXS
• Hall and Oates
• John Farnham

I could continue this list for ages, but I won't. Because I don't want to bore you with names of bands and singers from the 70s and 80s.

My Favorite Songs

• The Show Must Go On (Queen)- it would be an awesome song on its own, even if it hadn't been sung by a man with one foot in the grave.
• Hammer to Fall (Queen)
• The Great Pretender (Freddie Mercury)- Better than the original, trust me!
• Summer of '69 (Bryan Adams)
• Flame Trees (Cold Chisel)
• Footloose (Kenny Loggins)
• Don't You Forget About Me (Simple Minds)
• Back in Black (AC/DC)
• Thunderstruck (AC/DC)
• Highway To Hell (AC/DC)
• TNT (AC/DC)
• It's a Long Way To the Top (AC/DC)
• Don't Pay the Ferryman (Chris De Burgh)
• Power and the Passion (Midnight Oil)
• Beds are Burning (Midnight Oil)
• Power of Love (Huey Lewis and The News)
• Back in Time (Huey Lewis and The News)
• Piano Man (Billy Joel)
• Khe Sanh (Cold Chisel)
• We Didn't Start The Fire (Billy Joel)
• Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (Green Day)- Gets me all reflective and nostalgic every time I hear it.
• Jessie's Girl (Rick Springfield)
• Centrefold (J. Geils Band)
• Uptown Girl (Billy Joel)
• King of Wishful Thinking (Go West)
• I Can Dream About You (Dan Hartman)
• You're the Voice (John Farnham)
• Every Little Thing She Does (The Police)

My Favorite TV Shows:

• Doctor Who (Naturally!)
• Top Gear (pre-2016 of course, I'll take Clarkson, Hammond and May over the new guys any day! Though it is looking a lot better now since Chris Evans left)
• The Grand Tour.
• Mythbusters (RIP Grant)
• Thunderbirds (I like the new series, but nothing beats the classic)
• Diagnosis: Murder
• Get Smart
• Family Ties
• Sherlock
• House M.D.
• NCIS
• NCIS: New Orleans
• NCIS: LA
• The Muppet Show
• Bones
• CSI
• Star Trek: TOS
• Star Trek Voyager
• Star Trek TNG
• Strange New Worlds
• Mystery Science Theater 3000
• Spicks and Specks (A comedy music quiz show here in Australia. If you're British, think Never Mind the Buzzcocks.)
• QI *cue klaxon*.

My Favorite YouTubers

• Oddity Archive - The show that (insert witty line here.)
• BrightSunFilms
• Company Man
• Cinema Sins- *ding*
• Electroboom- FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!!!
• Linus Tech Tips
• Any good Analog Horror

My Favorite Celebrities

• Stan Lee (Rest in peace). 'Nuff Said, True Believers!
• Robert Downey Jr. He is Iron Man!
• Samuel L Jackson, Motherf**ker!
• Jim Carrey.
• Michael J Fox
• Christopher Lloyd
• Steven Spielberg
• Deforest Kelley (I would have loved to meet him- he seemed like a great guy!)
• James Doohan (Like De Kelley, I would have loved to meet him.)
• Mel Brooks
• Betty White (RIP)
• Michael Fassbender
• Patrick Stewart- Make it so!
• Stephen Fry
• Tony Robinson
• Christopher Lee

My Favorite Logos:

• United Artists (1995)
• United Artists (1982)
• MGM/UA Communications Co.
• Rankin-Bass (late 1960s)
• Paramount Pictures (1953-75)
• Roadshow Entertainment (1994-)
• Warner Bros Pictures (1998, 75th anniversary version)
• Warner Bros (1979-84)
• Paramount Pictures (1986-2002)
• Universal Pictures (1963-1990)
• Universal Pictures (1990-1997)
• Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment (2004, DVD Version)
• ABC For Kids (1995-2005)- My childhood summed up in one clip!

My CLG Milestones:

• November 23, 2015: Joined the original CLG Wiki
• December 2015: Promoted to Writer by Paperking99
• Late March 2016: Reached 100 contributions
• May 7, 2016: Reached 200 contributions
• May 25, 2016: Reached 300 Contributions
• June 7, 2016: Reached 400 Contributions
• June 23, 2016: Reached 500 Contributions
• August 16, 2016: Reached 600 Contributions
• September 12, 2016: Reached 700 Contributions
• October 19, 2016: Reached 800 Contributions
• November 23, 2016: Marked 1 year on the Wiki
• March 13, 2017: Reached 900 Contributions
• April 16, 2017: Reached 1000 Contributions
• May 23, 2017: First Capture Featured.
• June 29, 2017: First Thread Featured
• November 23, 2017: Marked 2 years on the wiki
• November 23, 2018: Marked 3 years on the wiki
• November 23, 2019: Marked 4 years on the wiki
• May 5, 2020: First edit on the new CLG Wiki (now AVID)
• May 7 2020: Became Administrator on the new Company Bumpers Wiki
• May 21 2020: Reached a cumulative total of 2000 contributions (counting both WF and Miraheze)
• June 29 2020: Reached a cumulative total of 3000 contributions
• July 30 2020: Reached a cumulative total of 4000 contributions
• August 11 2020: Promoted to Administrator by MatthewLMayfield
• September 5, 2020: Reached a cumulative total of 5000 contributions
• September 30, 2020: Reached a cumulative total of 6000 contributions
• November 23, 2020: Marked 5 years on the wiki
• November 18, 2020: Reached a cumulative total of 7000 contributions
• December 29, 2020: Reached a cumulative total of 10,000 contributions
• May 8, 2021: Reached 10,000 Miraheze contributions
• November 23, 2021: Marked 6 years on the wiki
• September 29, 2022: Became one of AVID's first community-elected bureaucrats
• November 23, 2022: Marked 7 years on the wiki

My logo history

1st Logo/Profile Pic (November 2015- June/July 2016?)

Used on the original wiki from when I joined on November 23 2015, appeared earlier in Company Bumpers as I joined slightly earlier there. Used on Company Bumpers for several months after being replaced by the 2nd profile pic on the main wiki..

2nd Logo/Profile Pic (Mid 2016-November 8, 2018) Used regularly across the wiki from mid 2016 to late 2018, also used on the Hb1290 Logos channel from its launch in August 2016.

Early Variant (Mid 2016): the original version of this profile pic did not have the "HB1290" text.

Second Variant (Mid 2016-August 24, 2017):

The word "HB1290" is added in Orator STD font, as seen above. This was used regularly on the CLG wiki and YouTube from mid-2016 to August 2017, this version most likely appears as part of of the montage in the unreleased project Spotlight on the CLG Wiki, due to this variant still being used at the time of its production. This variant was in use as late as 2020 on the original Company Bumpers site before said site was abandoned following the Miraheze migration.

3rd Variant (Prototype)(August 24, 2017)

This Prototype variant only went live for a few minutes on August 24th 2017 before being replaced by a refined version, it uses a sleeker, new font called Trench.

3rd Variant (Final) (August 24, 2017-November 5, 2018)

In this refined version, the new text was made bold to be more readable at small sizes, it was also spaced further from the edges. this and the prototype above also use a higher quality version of the Iron Man image than the previous version. This version went live on the CLG Wiki on August 24, 2017 and on the HB1290 logos channel the following day.

3rd Profile Pic (November 5, 2018-)

This new profile image drops the Iron Man imagery that had been used since the very first profile pic in favour of a style more in line with that of the HB1290 Logos channel. From January 2019, the text becomes 3D and metallic.

You can also find me on:

• YouTube
• TV Tropes
• AVID Forums