User:Erik the Appreciator
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All About Erik (AAE) As someone on the Internet, I may be characterized as an online outcast, for my access to the Internet from home is most likely nowhere near as competent as many of yours. The laptop I use to connect to the Internet, first of all, belongs to someone else, and the laptop's both very recent and very cheap ($500), which is probably why it takes a full four minutes to boot up and load everything onto the desktop in spite of pretty good system specs, and another couple minutes is needed in order to fully get onto the Internet through a dial-up connection. Since the laptop's on the floor against the wall, I have to physically lie flat on my belly in front of it in order to contribute (good thing the floor's soft); now you know why I generally edit sporadically. The dial-up connection is just fine to me for editing Wikis and submitting computer-coding assignments for my college and all that, but I can't do anything heavy like streaming video or playing some big online game like World of Warcraft. 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 the Appreciator |
Erik's MiscellanyIn 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:
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