User:Erik the Appreciator

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All About Erik (AAE)
Greetings, y'all. I'm Erik Jensen, a 23-year-old (as of August 7) white male editing from California. As a sysop I do both heavy page-editing and some important housekeeping, but I'm certainly not the type to spend all day making minor edits to a lot of pages. I pretty much 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.

I'm very much relaxed, collected, and non-aggressive, and quite frankly lazy and prone to procrastination. On any Wiki-based project, I always try to think from the perspectives of the other people making edits, and if there's someone I disagree with, I look for ways to compromise and collaborate. The name "Appreciator" refers to my tendency to be very forgiving with what I see and read in stories; I can appreciate pretty much any type of character and plot element, and if there's something in a story or game I don't like, rather than bitch about it I ignore it so I can focus on the aspects of the story/game I do like. I frankly don't enjoy being angry at anything.

Something I don't like to see in people is flippancy, which to me is pretty much equivalent to pomposity. In particular, probably my great hate in life is seeing someone trying to push their opinion as if it's some sort of fact that everyone else is "supposed" to mirror. A main example of this is when someone says something like "This Pokemon is pure lamesauce!"; I'd much rather hear folks expressing how much they hate something like a Pokemon than hear them making the statement that it is a bad thing and everyone else "knows it". The former, in this case, comes across as an opinion that is open to the concept of respect for other people's opinions. That's pretty much why I often say "in my opinion"/"IMO", because that's my way of avoiding offending people who happen to think differently.

Golden Sun is the one series I ended up deciding to embrace completely because I really loved it back when I played the two games back-to-back in 2004 (at a time when my life also happened to become a lot easier since I was coming out of high school x_x). I definitely like high fantasy and magic and the sorts, and there's certainly huge examples of that in World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings which I pay attention to, but what endeared me to Golden Sun is that, at the same time it felt somewhat complete as a setting and mythos, it has so much potential for future expansion and development. Golden Sun DS certainly looks set to realize this. As for the characters, what made me appreciate them for life is that they're not insanely developed and deep; they're probably the only characters I've seen where a lack of development makes them more interesting, because the reader then wants to see them developed and starts imagining ways they could be. I theorize this to be the driving force behind Golden Sun's fan fiction and shipping communities. ^_^

Let's all have a nice day now. Erik Jensen (Appreciate me here!)

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Past and Current Activities
This wiki's pretty much my "constructive" free-time activity, and I've certainly made use of that to supply a large portion of the wiki's content over the years. Some examples of my insanity dedication:
 * Writing the complete articles on the main characters and rewriting them: Isaac, Garet, Ivan, Mia, Felix, Jenna, Sheba, Piers, Alex, Saturos, Menardi, Karst, Agatio, Kraden, and Babi.
 * Completely writing every article in the following templates, attempting to make the Wiki the ultimate Golden Sun bestiary:


 * Completely writing every article in the following template, hopefully giving the Wiki another layer of informative prestige in that there is now no better resource on or off the Internet about the somewhat complicated Djinn business:


 * Writing the merged article on the complicated subject of Alchemy, including explanations of the Golden Sun and the Stone of Sages
 * And a lot of other things, such as updating 4-Koma Gag Battle and having written Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

It is pretty much my dream at this site to work on pages about Golden Sun DS-related matters. 8D

In pretty much all of these ventures and the other stuff in between, I work closely with Zabbeth and (at one time) HungryPaperweight, as well as any other user that attempts to be "mainstream".
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Erik's Miscellany
Who doesn't love pimping in the Golden Sun world? Or buffing?

Check /A_Man_In_Black_user_page_preservation for a troll's rant on Wikipedia that you might find extremely funny too.

Then, take a look at /Erik's own sandbox to see my own, uh, sandbox. You know, where I put up drafts of my own if necessary.

Finally, check my collection of snapshots of Isaac in Brawl to see how he sure would've fit as a playable character.