User talk:Erik the Appreciator

A Golden Sun joke about an Elephant
The greasebag Mayor of Alhafra kept quarantined in the cave underneath his manor an elephant he illegally imported from the continent of Indra. Of course, he didn’t appreciate the costs of feeding it, but he knew that the citizens of Alhafra would revolt if he didn’t show that he wouldn’t let animals die of starvation. Not that he didn’t find the townspeople of Alhafra revolting enough anyway…

One day, he came up with a scheme to get more money from the Alhafrans’ pockets into his own without them complaining: He saw that his elephant was able to stand on two legs, with the other two not touching the ground. Once in a circus, he even saw an elephant stand in the air on one leg only, with the other three legs off the ground. So, he announced that he would offer a reward of 10,000 coins to anyone who could get the elephant into the air with all four legs above the ground, but anyone who came would have to pay 100 coins to try.

People came from far and near to attempt to win the cash reward, and they tried everything on the elephant from coaxing to hypnotism, but there was never a point in time where all four of the elephant’s legs were simultaneously not touching the ground. The Mayor, in the meantime, was ecstatic with all the dough he was raking in from everyone else’s stupidity.

Then one day a carriage stopped by Alhafra Manor, and out stepped the young Mayor of Madra, representing a city whose boat the Mayor of Alhafra tried to steal from months beforehand. The young mayor asked, “Is it true that you’ll pay me 10,000 coins if I can get all four of your elephant’s legs off the ground for any duration of time?” The obese mayor replied, “Yes, but you’ll have to pay 100 coins to try.” So the young mayor handed him the money, went back to the carriage, and got out a Wooden Stick. Then he went back to the elephant and looked it in the eye. Then he went behind the elephant, swung as hard as he could, and hit the elephant in a certain sensitive area in between the legs. The elephant flew into the air with a shriek.

After the young mayor collected his money, the fat mayor was livid and humiliated. Not only had he been beaten at his own game by his hated rival, but he had only made 8000 coins, so he actually lost 2000 coins from his scheme.

But then, another scheme occurred to him: People know that elephants can move their heads up and down, but the animals never move their heads from side to side like you would expect from a horse. So, he made another announcement: He would offer a reward of 10,000 coins to anyone who could get the elephant to move its head from left to right, but anyone who came would have to pay 100 coins to try. People came from far and near to attempt to win the cash reward, but of course, none were succeeding, and the Mayor amassed up to 7000 coins.

Then one day, a familiar carriage stopped by Alhafra Manor, and out stepped the young mayor from Madra, who asked, “Is it true that you’ll pay me 10,000 coins if I can get your elephant to move its head from left to right without breaking its neck or anything like that?” The fat mayor replied, “Yes, but you’ll have to pay 100 coins to try.” So the young mayor handed him the money, went back to the carriage, and got out his Wooden Stick. Then he went back to the elephant and asked, “Hello there. Remember me?” The elephant anxiously nodded to say yes. “Would you like me to do it again?”

The elephant shook its head to say no.

Templates
Nice job on Template:Summon, especially with the rounded corners (which I have no idea how to make). One thing I did notice is that you don't necessarily have to add in the Template: namespace when adding the template to pages (ie.  ). Just   will work fine. And anyway, it's one less template to do! 05:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually, I myself am not all that happy with the way it turned out; it's just a very general idea of the links. I envision it to be much more of a professionally structured template; I don't even know how to center the dang thing on these pages (it's currently on the left end of each page). I was also trying to not get the whole template box that color; it was supposed to be just the summon sequences title was supposed to have that color in its background Look in the edit history of the template and you'll see that I'm hopeful that you'll restructure it into something prettier; once that's done I'll be able to make similar templates for the characters, locations, classes, psynergies, and maybe the monsters. By the way, the tables on all the class series pages look great, but do you think they could look even better if they were all centered too? And thanks for the syntax advice. :) Erik Jensen (Appreciate me here!) 18:22, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmm. I've edited it a bit. It's lost the rounded edges, but I've made it so just the title bar has the background color, it should be centered in the page now, and a few other things.  I should also note that it's entirely possible to have the template automatically add the page to Category:Summons, though it's a moot point right now. ^_^
 * As for centering the stat tables, I'm not entirely sure about a.) whether it'd look that good, and b.) whether with the way they're currently being used if it's even possible (I'm using two different templates per table--take a look at the page source for how).
 * First of all, the previous version never had any rounded edges on my browser; it seems that it occured to your browser only, so most other viewers would have seen square edges anyway. Now, perhaps the stat tables don't actually need any centering business. It's just the templates I plan to make for the other subjects that need to be centered, and they'll likely have that category added to them for the new articles in those categories. I'm going to continue tinkering with the template until a most attractive version can be achieved. Thanks for the effort on your part to improve it, though. Erik Jensen (Appreciate me here!) 20:24, 18 December 2006 (UTC)