User:Vindicator4021

Hi. You can call me "Vindicator" or just "V". Normally, on pages like this, I ask "how the heck did you find me", but you probably found me on the leaderboard thing because I edit this wiki a fair bit.

Discord notice: I don't use Discord. Privacy policy and all that rubs me the wrong way. If you need to get ahold of me, feel free to post on my discussion page. If it's relevant to a specific article I've edited or made, you can also @ me on the article in question's discussion page; every page I edit is on my watchlist, so it should notify me.

Statistics

Created Pages

1. Bumpgate

Notable Edited Pages

• Nintendo 3DS - First edit! (otherwise minor lol)
• Crash Team Racing [Nitro Fueled] - Various major edits (also, fun fact: the 1999 version was basically my first video game lol)
• Nintendo - The Big House Online Tournament (2020)
• Minecraft account migration - Introduction

Milestones

• Account created & first edit - May 17th, 2025
• Account confirmed - May 29th, 2025
• Created first article - June 1st, 2025

See also: User contributions for Vindicator4021

Public To-Do List

UPDATE, June 27th, 2025 - This was originally for all of my article ideas, but that purpose has been deprecated in favor of placing researched ideas onto the Incident backlog (more people will see them there anyway). This section is now for incidents/ideas I intend to research so I can place them on the backlog, or existing pages I wanna address that don't belong in the backlog.

Top Priority

• Sony article - Bumpgate mention; needs fixed for tone and the sources need upgraded.
• Microsoft article - Bumpgate mention; probably same problem as with Sony, but at least needs checked for issues.

Car Stuff

• JATCO (Nissan) CVT transmissions - Reputation for being unreliable; investigate.
• Northstar Engine (General Motors) - Early 2000's, infamous engine used primarily in Buick vehicles that constantly blew head gaskets. Bolts that held the motor head down were poorly designed, causing the problems. Many Northstar engine cars still have this issue; GM may have had poor response?
• Hyundai/Kia engine issues - Some engines prone to failure- companies recalled those motors. May just end up being a mostly positive incident.

Gaming Stuff

• Ideas for the Switch article (some may be moved to the article discussion later) -
  • MrMario2011 had to send in his launch Switch for repairs multiple times. Investigate these videos to see what happened; see if there were many others experiencing the same issues.
  • Joy-Con Drift - Should probably be a dedicated article; red links on Switch article and it was major- lawsuits and all.
• Platform-exclusive games - Unsure if this is something that should be on the wiki; dropping it here to think about it. Hurts consumer choice and even ownership, as some platforms don't like it when you own things. General topic article?
• Epic Games - Check if there's an article for 'em; they need one:
  • Online-only DRM on singleplayer games - Lookin' at you, Kingdom Hearts series Epic Games version. I wanted to play overcomplicated w(h)acky key game on my Steam Deck while waiting in the car for my mom at the optometrist before the Steam version came out (which does not have this problem), but no~ooo, we had to be Mr. "no internet means no fun" for no reason. >:| PC version was exclusive to Epic from 2021-2024.

Tech Industry Stuff

• YouTube - Check if there are any Louis vids that need adapted; otherwise, the page needs some minor tone and grammar edits.
• Discord alternatives - Might be wise to have some pages about alternatives to Discord, considering winter is coming for it and users might be looking for places to jump ship to if it gets too bad. Not much research done yet, but some alternatives from a quick search have some questionable policies.
  • Guilded - Forced arbitration in TOS.

Shopping Stuff

• AliExpress (Alibaba?) - Should probably have a company page. Bad customer service; believes company over consumer. Not US-based, but sells to US and internationally. Folks should be aware of their practices- especially since their products are usually very cheap (and hence, enticing). MattKC video on Surface Studio monitor could be a source?

Yapping time

What do you do on the wiki?

I mostly edit existing wiki pages for grammar, spelling, formatting, and clarity. Might add onto a page or make one if I'm feeling particularly passionate about a topic. Despite how much I edit, I am not an admin, or a mod, or anything; I'm just some rando who likes editing pages. :P In fact, I'm pretty new to this. This is my first wiki editing account, and I don't think I've ever edited any other wikis anonymously in the past.

You also will notice that I may have one (usually minor) edit right after another sometimes. This is just because I almost always finish editing and then realize I forgot to do something minor on the page (i.e., put a period somewhere) and I'm a forgetful perfectionist who has to fix it immediately, lol. I know this does kind of bloat my edit count a bit, but it's not my intention to manipulate the leaderboard thing (I don't really care about being high up on it).

Why'd you decide to start editing the wiki?

Probably the same reason you likely visited or started editing: saw one of Louis Rossmann's videos where he mentioned it and wanted to help out. It wasn't until I kind of started editing in detail that I remembered that I sort of have skills and interests that would help a lot with this project.

What kind of "skills and interests" do you have that would help?

Almost ten years ago now, I edited articles and wrote a monthly editorial for my high school newspaper (that nobody read except the Boomer teachers at the school, lol). Nonetheless, I enjoyed it so much that I'd wanted to pursue journalism in college. There are many (mostly personal) details to why that fell through that I won't get into, but the significant thing that I will mention is that I had some concerns with the integrity of the field that made me hesitant to get into it. Once again, without too many details, though my personal beliefs have shifted much in (almost) ten years, I'm not convinced that my younger self's concerns were totally unfounded.

I don't think I'd go as far as to call editing wiki articles "journalism", but editing and making wiki articles for a project like this really isn't much different from writing an unbiased news article, so it kind of satisfies the same interest for me. You need to try to follow a lot of the same base standards to make a good article: present the facts and let people come to their own conclusions without leading them in one particular direction. Also, research. (So much research...)

How'd you come up with your username?

Technically, a username generator on a password manager. Probably about a year or two ago, I made a "throwaway" account on another website, and needed a username. I usually click until I find something that I'll remember, and for that website, it came up with... "Vindicate". I just changed it to "Vindicator".

What's funny is that I use this pseudonym on many websites- with random number combinations on the end ("4021" does not mean anything). That was actually my intention here as well, just to maintain a vague sense of anonymity, but then I accidentally ended up making myself known from editing a lot and ending up on the "Top Contributors" page. Whoops! :P

Why do you put so many links and comments on article discussions sometimes?

I treat the article discussion pages a little bit like notes that anybody can read. Though, I will admit- I can be a little prone to going overboard at times. Come to think of it, when I was in school, I was the one in the group project who put a bunch of links in the Google Doc for everyone to potentially reference, so I guess it's a bit of a habit. I don't think it's necessarily bad to do it, but I do worry it crowds out the discussion page a bit too much. Again, I'm pretty new to all this, so I'm still finding a happy medium for it.