User:Erik the Appreciator

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All About Erik (AAE)
Hello there! I'm Erik Jensen, a 21-year-old (as of August 7; I was born the same day of the year as Jimbo Wales himself) white male editing from California. I do both heavy page-editing and talk-page-commenting in general, but I'm certainly not the type to spend all day making minor edits to a lot of pages; I often only allow myself a few hours on the Internet in the morning and at night. My typical editing style is to pre-write my big edits on a word document and post it onto this site, and let others correct spelling and/or accuracy mistakes I might make. It seems that I reside only on Wiki-style environments on the Internet; aside from the above sites listed and occasional comments from me at a Golden Sun forum, you will not find me anywhere else on the Internet, and I am not generally reachable by email.

As someone on the Internet, I may be characterized as an online outcast, for my access to the Internet from home is most likely nowhere near as competent as many of yours. The laptop I use to connect to the Internet, first of all, belongs to someone else, and the laptop's both very recent and very cheap ($500), which is probably why it takes a full four minutes to boot up and load everything onto the desktop in spite of pretty good system specs, and another couple minutes is needed in order to fully get onto the Internet through a dial-up connection. Since the laptop's on the floor against the wall, I have to physically lie flat on my belly in front of it in order to contribute (good thing the floor's soft); now you know why I generally edit sporadically. The dial-up connection is just fine to me for editing Wikis and submitting computer-coding assignments for my college and all that, but I can't do anything heavy like streaming video or playing some big online game like World of Warcraft.

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 also 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 Wikipedia for years and seem to know it from firsthand experience as well as looking at 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 throughout. 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 enemies into their downfalls. ^_^ 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, like a Nintendo videogame, I don't like seeing pompous comments that are intentionally inflammatory to certain fans, on or offwiki, especially when those types of comments are posted just for that purpose. 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 - looking at people's pet peeves tend to make me edgy too - so it's not like I'll go out of my way to be be overly unreasonable.

Alright, well, ultimately I hope we can edit harmoniously. Erik Jensen (Appreciate me here!)

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Past and Current Activities
When this wikia started out, I was really in the business of editing a maelstrom, and had made a lot of articles to start out with. Nowadays I'm more relaxed with my editing schedule on here, but once in a while I'll make something big for the wikia.

Here's a selection of pages I might consider models for all the other pages in their respective categories:
 * Mars Lighthouse: A full-blown big dungeon.
 * Excalibur: A weapon.
 * Vale: A giant town page.
 * Minotaurus monster line: Covers three palette swaps of common enemies in an appealing fashion.
 * Quake Psynergy series: Seems about as comprehensive as Psynergy articles would get.
 * Lucky Dice and Super Lucky Dice: Pages I think are well-made and informative and attractive, but get overlooked because they're not a major subject.


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Erik's Miscellany
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?

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 also defeated Dullahan on Hard mode.

Check /GS3 Speculations for what I would like to see in future Golden Sun content.


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