User:Mases554@legacy41957662

=Biography= Hey guys, my name is Mases Hagopian and I am a Webmaster at Zelda Dungeon. Born October 11th, 1986 in Morton Grove, Illinois, a suburb to the north of Chicago. I still reside in Morton Grove, where I've lived all 22 years of my glorious life. In the summer time I get outside a lot doing various activities. I love swimming, bike riding, and playing various sports, especially baseball. I also umpire and coach little league baseball, which I find to be a lot of fun.

I'm currently a student at the University of Illinois @ Chicago studying Economics. I should be through with my bachelors degree in Spring of 2009 and then I am most likely will be off to graduate school to get my MBA.

In my online world, I spend a majority of my time working on my own Zelda website, Zelda Dungeon. In addition to that, I used to play a bunch of online Chess as well as online Poker. I used to be a super big Starcraft fan back in the day. My favorite PC game has to be Sim City. Not sure why or how I really got into the series, but It's probably my favorite PC game of all time. I still throw in Sim City 4 every so often.

For general gaming, I love Zelda of course, although it probably isn't my favorite game series anymore, at least not the modern games. I really don't play much of anything on the current generation of consoles even though I have a Nintendo Wii and a Microsoft Xbox 360. I'm a huge fan of survival horror games, with my favorite game series being Silent Hill and Resident Evil. Not sure how I'd rank these two with Zelda, but the 3 of them combine to be my favorite game franchises. The new Silent Hill title is schedule to release in August, so it's something to look forward to.

I listen to almost any type of music you can think of, from heavy metal, to rock, to country, etc... I have over 225 CD's in my collection and my favorite artists include Garth Brooks, 3 Doors Down, Iron Maiden, Sonata Arctica, Dragonforce, Celine Dion, and a few others.

=Zelda Dungeon= I started Zelda Dungeon on August 19th of 2001 and it has ruled my online life ever since. It has been so satisfying working on the site, creating game guides, and watching the site grow to what it is today. I've met a ton of new people in the Zelda community and have created close bonds with many of the staff members that I've had at Zelda Dungeon. It's hard to believe that I've been running the website for more than 7 years now... Wow!

The site is all about game guides, which has become second nature for a lot of Zelda sites these days. Most sites and the community in general have shifted from site content towards community interactivity including fan submissions and message boards. I suppose we are old school a bit, strictly working on content and one of the few sites that actually works on full game walkthroughs, and not just item/character/enemy guides.

I launched a community message board in October of 2007 and it has grown quite rapidly over the last few months, accumulating over 500 registered members and over 25,000 total posts. A forum was one of the things that Zelda Dungeon was always lacking, but with the recent growth the site has experienced, the forum has become quite an active place to be.

=Zelda Community= When I'm not working at Zelda Dungeon and not at Zelda Wiki, there are a few places I frequently visit and participate in.

North Castle
One of the websites that I'm always looking at while surfing the Zelda community is North Castle. I'm good friends with Juliet, who owns the place and I used to be a huge fan of their fan fiction. I frequent their site and look at all the latest fan art and fan movie submissions that they have. There really is a ton of fan material at their site. North Castle is also a site that is a part of the Zelda Dungeon Alliance.

Legend of Zelda.com
You can occasionally see me posting over at LegendOfZelda.com as well. I used to help out over there by acting as a news poster. I usually didn't post basic Zelda or Nintendo news, but more random and obscure things that I find over the net. I usually just stop by every few days and make a post or two.

=Zelda Wiki= Since I re-joined the Wiki in April of 2008, there are a bunch problems I see and a lot of new ideas that I'd like to implement.

Idealogy
At the Zelda Wiki, there are a few things that I firmly believe in, and think they must be implemented in order for the Zelda Wiki to thrive. Consistency throughout, quality references, the Wiki and Quality Sourced Images.

Consistency
The Zelda Wiki needs to have more consistency and cannot settle for mediocrity. Take, enemies or characters for example. There are infobox templates for both enemies and characters, but large amount of them are not in these templates and are just randomly displayed. Many pages for enemies are very poorly written and poorly displayed.

Images
Images on the Zelda Wiki are an absolute must and we need more of them. However, we MUST properly credit any image that is added. I feel that there is nothing worse than using images from other sites without properly crediting them. In addition to that, there are too many pages that just slap images up randomly and make the page look very unprofessional. These need to be taken care of. I've worked to create the image crediting system we have at the Zelda Wiki, even though I'm not 100% satisfied with it, I think it works. My goal is to eventually have ZERO unsourced images. Ideally, we'd also like to have as many images as possible that are from the supporting sites of the Zelda Wiki, rather than relying on images of random Zelda websites.

Contributions
I've made miscellaneous adjustments to the Wiki, mostly just adding a few infoboxes to pages, some new fan sites, and managing enemy pages. My Contributions

Completed Projects

 * Legend of Zelda section.
 * -Created a gallery for all the Legend of Zelda Enemies.
 * -Created a gallery for all the Legend of Zelda Items.
 * -Created a gallery for all the Legend of Zelda Characters.
 * -Created a gallery for all the Legend of Zelda Bosses.


 * Link's Awakening section.
 * -Created a sprite gallery for the Link's Awakening Enemies


 * Oracle of Seasons section.
 * -Created a sprite gallery for the Oracle of Seasons Enemies


 * Oracle of Ages section.
 * -Created a sprite gallery for the Oracle of Ages Enemies


 * Managing the revamp of the Twilight Princess Character Page.
 * -Added correct chatacter infoboxes for all the characters.
 * -Replaced almost all images with rendered png images.


 * Standardizing Sprite Images for several games.
 * -Created sprite images for every enemy, item, character, and boss in Legend of Zelda
 * -Created sprite images for every enemy in Link's Awakening
 * -Created sprite images for eveyr enemy in Oracle of Seasons
 * -Created sprite images for every enemy in Oracle of Ages.

Ongoing Projects

 * Managing the revamp of the Legend of Zelda enemies.
 * -Consistency across the various enemies and the various games is needed.
 * -Sourcing official guides and instruction manuals, as well as fan sites for accurate information.
 * -Adding quality rendered artwork images and sprites for every enemy.


 * Adjust Zelda Fan Site pages.
 * -Added a few new Fan Sites to the Zelda Wiki.
 * -Added layout thumbnail images for several Fan Sites.
 * -Delete or merge unnecessary fan site pages.

Friends
Here at the Zelda Wiki I've had the luxury of being able to make a few good friends. These friends have since stemmed outside of just the Zelda Wiki and Zelda community in general.


 * Ando
 * Steven

Enemies
I've also run into a few particular people that I have a bit of an unsteady relationship with...


 * Jason - This man is the antithesis of Mases Hagopian. The plague, the evil scientist, the Like Like of the community, and my number one nemesis. Jason is like that one little fly that somehow makes it into my house during those hot summer days. I curl up a newspaper and take a swat at it, and miss terribly, completely unknowing that its reaction time is far superior than my basic skills. However, with time and patience, I develop a strategy to take down that fly and SWAT, it's gone... only to realize that yet another fly has made its way into the room. This never ending battle between Mases, his news paper, and Jason, the flies, will continue for years to come until I reign supreme and become the Lord of the Flies...... On a side note, Jason does run the website, Zelda Universe, which while I have my little quarrels with from time to time, I do respect the website and acknowledge, reluctantly, its status as the number one community oriented Zelda website.


 * Nathan - Mases does not like this person very much. The history of this hatred is beyond the understanding of the human mind, but still can be summarized in a short paragraph. The Nathan or The Idiot, as Mases refers to Nathan as, was the Webmaster of a website known as Zelda Domain. Prior to its complete and utter collapse from stardom, it was a...... good website. Soon after, a website known as Absolute Zelda was in the works. Very high expectations were set forth, 1 month past... 2 months past... 3 months past... 6 months past... 1 year past... but nothing happen. The site has since been merged with a website ZeldaInformer, a site that Mases really liked... until Nathan jumped aboard. After being announced in late Spring of 2007, and after several failures to reach a scheduled launch date, Absolute Zelda is now slated to be revealed in later 2009, which Mases believes is just an arbitrary date. The real release date is unknown and it is likely the site will never reach its day in the spotlight. The absolute failures... delays... of the website, has made Mases establish a catchy nickname for the website known as, Absolute Suck...... On a side note, Mases and Nathan talked on a relatively frequent basis once upon a time, often times to discuss the shortcomings of Jason and Zelda Universe. Subtle messages of the greatness of Absolute Suck are often leaked by Nathan, but then the conversation comes back to reality and perspective is reached, thus the coining of the word, Absolute Suck. In recent times, communication between Nathan and Mases has been limited, since the frequency of lies and deception have caused the words of Nathan to become increasingly useless.


 * Matt - Mases used to like this person, but has since realized he is a very hypocritical, deceitful, manipulative, arrogant, ignorant, close-minded, yet caring person. In the War vs Nathan and Jason, Mases formally viewed Matt as an ally to Team Mases. However, it is now clear that this alliance between Mases and Matt was only because they shared common enemies. However, this bond between super powers of the World of Wiki was not everlasting. After the dusk had cleared, and new lines have been drawn, the true evilness of Matt had been revealed. Matt will do all it takes to preserve the greatness of the Wiki, including launching a selfish war against those who desire to preserve the greatness of the Wiki. The ideology differences between the world of Mases and the world of Matt are on complete opposite sides of world spectrum, much like Alaska and Siberia. The bigotry of Matt has left a distasteful feel inside of Mases, much like the feeling when you take a bite out of an apple, just to find that there is a rotten portion in the middle, which causes you to immediately spit it out. In the world of Wiki, Mases is a lesser known, yet self described clairvoyant of the Wiki, while Matt is the uber popular, blind man leading the blind. This rivalry spawns battlefields across the Earth, the galaxy, and the entire Universe, with the central battlefield being a Skype textual chat room. Who will prevail in this lasting war of attrition is yet to be seen, but it is well know that Matt will not be victorious.

Wannabe Enemies
There are other fake users on the Wiki, but Mases doesn't exactly hate them. However, their desire to be on the enemy list of Mases has caused this Wannabe section to be born.


 * Cody - Mases almost likes this kid. Almost. There was a time where Cody was viewed as a friend to Mases, somebody that seemed real and truthful, something that was very uncommon from the position of Webmaster at Zelda Universe. Cody soon went down the road of his fellow Webmaster in Jason. It became more and more telling that Cody was a selfish prick who's interests were solely that of Zelda Universe and that he would do anything and everything to secure Zelda Universe's spot as the definitive Zelda website online. Cody passed himself off as this nice, caring, willing to help person, but the sole purpose of these actions were not to help others, but rather to attempt to cleanse the tainted reputation of Zelda Universe. These fake and selfish acts of Cody have caused others in the online Zelda community to think of Zelda Universe with a much more positive outlook. Cody's work, along with Jason finally understanding how to run a Zelda website, has likely secured Zelda Universe's spot on top of the Zelda Community for the foreseeable future. Today, Mases and Cody speak frequently, and Cody constantly gives off signals of the superiority of Zelda Universe. Mases almost likes this kid. Almost.