User:Erik the Appreciator

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All About Erik (AAE)
Hello there! I'm Erik Jensen, a 22-year-old (as of August 7; I was born the same day of the year as Jimbo Wales himself) white male editing from California. As a sysop 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. 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 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:
 * Feizhi: A character. Nuff said.
 * 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
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 /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.