User:Erik the Appreciator


 * I can use these links to look up new pages, new images, active users, and categories.
 * And who doesn't love pimping in the Golden Sun world? Or buffing?

Ahoy, y'all. I've been editing on Wikipedia for a long while now, you can see my other user page here. I'm also assisting the Smash Bros. Wiki, as I registered into SmashBoards recently. Perhaps the online Wiki-exploit I am most proud of is that I completely wrote every single article in this SmashWiki template.

As a REAL Golden Sun fan, my credentials include having defeated Dullahan on Hard Mode and having created the majority of the content (text and images) to the five Golden Sun-related articles on Wikipedia: Golden Sun, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, List of characters in Golden Sun, Weyard, and Psynergy. Since I also have the two games emulated on my computer (I've had the game carts long before then, of course), I can upload any image necessary from the games into any page here. At that rate, I might consider myself a Doctor in Golden Sunology or something...

I bought both Golden Sun used for 15 dollars and The Lost Age new for 20 dollars right before Summer of 2004, and I played them both in succession, and all the while I thought they were nice and well-crafted, but I didn't really find it exceptional, even after I beat Doom Dragon and Dullahan... But it was when I started my second playthrough of Golden Sun after that and started seeing how the story and characterization fit together that something inside of me... snapped. I've been luvvin this franchise wholeheartedly ever since. There's my autobiography for you.

I have developed a unique way of looking at gaming, movies, and other media since my self-induction into this franchise; If a game or movie or show makes me want to pretend that Golden Sun characters are taking part in similar situations, it means that whatever I'm playing around with or watching is of a very high quality. Whenever I look at the latest episode of Naruto, I ALWAYS like to think of fanfiction scenarios of Golden Sun characters in similar situations. That anime/manga I honestly find hard to believe could have been conceptualized by one guy; even though I like Golden Sun better, I will not blindly reject that Naruto is superior to this or any other game franchise.

I also just played Elite Beat Agents for DS, and it made me crave a Super Smash Bros. edition of that crazy experience. Translation: That game is seriously good and entertaining.

All About Erik (AAE)
As a person, I'll admit that I'm quite different from a lot of people you'd see on the Internet. I'm totally a Type-B personality; I'm just consistently relaxed, collected, non-aggressive and non-confrontational, and in fact quite lazy and prone to procrastination in real life. On any Wiki-based project, you have my word that I'll never use a cross word against someone in the personal attack sense, such as calling someone dumb, let alone calling someone a dumbshit. And I think I can give you my word that I always look for ways to collaborate with others I might be disagreeing with. I doubt you'll ever see me outright angry over how an article's content should be structured or something like that, because all the reasons I can imagine getting angry over something like that would have to include some elements of my asserting a level of ownership over the article, which violates Wikipedia policy. (I haven't actually read most of Wikipedia's policy pages thoroughly through, but I've been around for years and seem to know it from other policymonger users.)

I think I could theoretically deal with an abusive user on my talk page for literal years, and only respond civilly and sensibly. This would actually be a tactic on my part; people who are aggressive and abrasive tend to look silly in the eyes of many and usually don't become so popular, so I just gotta keep on being the model of easiness-to-work-with to get my enemy into his downfall. ^_^ This is not to say I try to be overly friendly either... The point is that I don't think you should ever assume bad faith on my part whenever I'm doing stuff at any Wiki. If you see me in any instance where I'm violating any of what I said above, I'd appreciate it if you notified me on my talk page.

That said, there are things that cause me to feel bitter towards whoever might be causing them. When the subject's about something that's supposed to be entertaining and/or relaxing, like a Nintendo videogame, I don't like seeing pompous comments that are intentionally inflammatory to certain fans, at least those types of comments that aren't well thought out. And I don't like similarly inflammatory rants that make everything about some particular thing sound awful when it itsn't. But these aren't actually pet peeves of mine - people's pet peeves tend to make me edgy too - so it's not like I'll be overly unreasonable.