User:Golden Sea

Well, howdy do! Welcome to this small corner of the Ether! Perhaps you thought my username was smashing enough to warrant a click? Maybe you decided to investigate That Guy who just fixed (ruined?) a bunch of stuff? Mm? Getting warmer? And maybe, just maybe, you were drawn here as if by Fate; the mouse seemed to MOVE BY ITSELF AND YOU WERE HELPLESS TO STOP IT.

Or, you accidentally clicked on that little blue "Golden Sea," and you're frantically pounding the Back button to be rid of this atrocious place. Yeah. That's it. Sorry to trouble you. You'd best be off now. So long. Farewell. Auf Wiedersehen. Good night, sir! (or ma'am)

In any case, I'm Matt, and I like to fix up writing and omit needless words on this great Wiki. I've found that If needless words that are very unnecessary are removed from the sentence a whole lot, much is added to the meaning that the writer was trying to achieve , and in turn strengthening the Wiki as a whole. I guess "as a whole" could have been thwacked as well, but there's a difference between conciseness and stripping the language down to bare functionality. William Strunk wrote:

"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell" (Strunk and White 1972. The Elements of Style, p. 23).

I love writing. It's what I do. In fact (if anyone cares), I'd like to be a FULL FLEDGED AUTHOR someday. And when I've inevitably made millions from my books, I'll pack my bags and take a trip across the United States, down Route 66, to the west, to the sunset. I'm a wanderer... a sojourner... a traveler... a soldier... a--

Erhem. I digress.

I played the first Golden Sun a year or two after it came out; loved it. I've probably finished both games five times each, and sometimes I break out the ol GBA and play it again. Great stuff, that is.

And... I am a Mudshipper, and I was floored when I saw the Isaac/Jenna-->Matthew thing. An icy shiv in my back. Why, Camelot? Why?

(In case you're wondering, "Golden Sea" doesn't correlate with Golden Sun. It has something to do with one of my stories. Given the chance, I'd probably change it, but hey! presto! It looksa like I'mma stucka wit it, eh? Aye!)