User:HungryPaperweight

Hello. My name's...well, you can see that just by looking up a bit. Oh, my real name? Well, if I wanted you to know that, I would've incorporated it into my User name like Erik did. I still feel kinda new here, and I'm still learning more about editing and wikis in general, but even I think I've done quite a bit considering how long I've been here (maybe a little too much at once, though). I don't know if I can match up to what everyone else has already done, but I love the Golden Sun games so much that I don't care what I can do as long as I can help. Actually, I've been keeping an eye on this wiki since it was still relatively young (only 100 and some articles), but one day I finally decided I should help out too. I just didn't think I'd get so much done so quickly, but that's probably just because I've had a little too much free time on my hands lately.

Before I go any further, I should probably tell you a little bit about myself. Well, I'm a guy, 19 years old (time sure flies, huh?), and I'm a student at Lane Community College (in Oregon). Nothing fancy, I know, but I'm sure most of us are just average people in the first place. I'm normally not a very talkative person, but it seems that only applies to talking. When writing or, in this case, typing, I have enough time to think through what I'm going to say, er, type, so I might say quite a bit (which is why this page is so long). I also might start rambling on something fairly simple, so I'd like to apologize ahead of time. (I also seem to use parenthesis a lot while typing. If I make any major edits that seem to have a lot of parenthesis, I'd appreciate it if you went ahead and rewrote it so it has less. Except here, of course.) I can also have a short temper at times, but, like my rambling, I have enough time while typing to make sure I don't blow up on someone.

For the time being I have two major goals here at GSU:
 * 1) Make at least one equipment article per day. There are lots of red links on these kinds of pages, plus all the articles I made from scratch have been equipment (not counting Talk Pages, Redirects, and this page). I might make several equipment articles on some days, but I'm not planning to make any more than one per day, mostly so that I can work on other parts of the wiki, or do some things in the real world. Plus, considering how many articles there are to make, this is a rather long term goal.
 * 2) Begin expansion on the many location stubs. It seems to me that most locations are stubs, which is depressing compared to pages like these. So I decided I'd start expanding these stubs, which is easy since there's a lot to say about the games' locations. I can't hope to measure up to the links above, but I hope to at least help make them worth reading. This isn't as long term as the above goal, but it will still take a while; ever since the Elemental Rocks, I've given up on doing an entire article in one sitting, so I'll probably do a section or two of an article each day.

What I've done
This is just a section I made to keep track of all the major (and some minor) things I've done here at GSU. Feel free to look. I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm gloating, because, well, I'm not (gloating, that is. I really am sorry). I just felt like letting you know what I've done...just in case you wanted to know.

Project: Prices
This is something I did on my first day here (in my time zone, anyways). When I looked at the lists of different equipment (like here and here), I noticed that it didn't show the prices. I knew that most equipment are Artifacts and so got their own pages, and that their prices could be added there, but non-Artifact equipment and most items only appeared on pages like these, so I worked on and off all day adding the purchase prices to all the lists. This is also convenient for comparing the prices of different pieces of equipment, since price can (sometimes) be a better judge of how good something is. The "project" wasn't as simple as I thought, though, and since then I've added the buy and sell prices on individual pages.

Pages I've started
When I first got started here at GSU, I didn't think I'd make any pages for a while. But I've always wanted to see an article on Lachesis' Rule, and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. This is a list of all the articles I made from scratch (like I said above, this is not counting little things like Talk Pages and Redirects). It was getting big, so I decided to sort it by "type." Beyond that, it's in chronological order:

Weapons
Lachesis' Rule Atropos' Rod Stellar Axe Cloud Brand Kikuichimonji Swift Sword Crystal Rod

Armor
Mysterious Robe Cosmos Shield Lure Cap

Misc.
Golden Shirt Golden Boots Golden Ring Mythril Shirt Running Shirt Silk Shirt Quick Boots Leather Boots Turtle Boots

Most Recent Articles
(a.k.a. I made them since I last updated this list) Shaman's Rod Hypnos' Sword Pirate's Sword Corsair's Edge Shamshir

Pages I didn't start
I didn't start any of the following pages, but they were stubs when I found them (or as good as stubs compared to now) and I contributed most of their content since then, so I felt like mentioning them as well (again, chronological order):

Arctic Blade Cleric's Ring (same situation as Tundaria) Trident of Ankohl
 * Izumo
 * Apojii Islands
 * Tundaria (not much to say in this article, but it's much better than what it used to be)
 * Loho
 * Champa (okay, this one wasn't a stub, but I must have at least doubled its size)
 * Prox
 * Elemental Rocks
 * Madra

These lists might not be as up-to-date as possible, but I don't want to have to edit them every time I make a new article/major edit. Just wait a few days and check again.

Et Cetera
This is for extra things that probably aren't important but they are to me so ;P

I managed to develop a little "theory" about Alex quite a while before I joined GSU (probably before I even knew this place existed). I don't have much in-game proof...in fact, I'm not sure I believe it myself, but it's still a possibility. If you want to read it, click here.

After Erik helped me with the Trident of Ankohl, I figured out where he got the images and got my own copies. I didn't expect to use them anytime soon, but then an idea popped into my head: Why not put the in-game icons for the Summons on the List of Summon Sequences page? So I did just that. If anyone doesn't like it then they can just change it back and I'll take the hint.

Random end-of-page stuff
The title should be self-explanatory.

While I was surfing the net the other day and decided to look for Golden Sun videos. Most were pretty lame, but this one was pretty good. In fact, I'm listening to it as I type right now. You might like it to, but no promises. My favorite part is the Summon collage on Venus Lighthouse.