[edit] All About Erik (AAE)

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.

I always liked Smash Bros. for being the most awesome crossover that has ever been realized, and for Brawl I was especially excited by the possibility of there being an appearance by Golden Sun, my pick for most treasured game series ever. Of course I was disappointed when it was revealed there would be no playable characters or stages, but it still was a major event for me when Isaac at least made an appearance as an Assist Trophy and there was some battle music in Norfair. Perhaps when there's an SSB4, the Golden Sun series (which finally made a resurgence over a year after Brawl's release) will finally get the representation and global recognition it deserves. ;)

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

[edit] Past and Current Activities

You may view me as I view myself on SmashWiki: The Master of the Universe. MWAHAHA!!! The main reason being that between January and May of 2007 I underwent an epic editing project for the site, creating the majority of the content of every single Universe article in the below template (which I also made):

Since then I've done general editing.

[edit] Erik's Miscellany

In June, I got into the crazy wacky world of Action Replay for Melee. Prior to that, my Melee credentials included the following more hardcore achievements, all without the help of any Action Replay:

• I have collected all 290 non-AR trophies
• I have beaten Event match 51 without losing a life.
• I have beaten Classic mode on Very Hard
• I have beaten Adventure mode on Very Hard
• I have beaten All-Star mode on Very Hard. Took forever, but I pulled it off with Roy on April 13, 2007.

A joke subpage, detailing this incredibly funny incident I saw on Wikipedia years back: /A Man In Black user page preservation

A subpage displaying all the various Universe templates: /Universe templates