User:Mystic Orb

Why hello there! Welcome to my profle where everything about me in general and my life around in Sonic News Network is in this page.

General life
I was born two years exactly before the release date of Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast (9 September 1997; Too bad I didn't get a Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure for my second birthday) in Sydney, Australia. I'm an Australian citizen with a Chinese background and although I lived in Sydney during most of my life, my family recently moved to Darwin in the 'Top End' of Australia and despite that I still miss Sydney, I'm not sad as long as I'm still in Australia. I can only understand Mandarin to a basic degree, making me a bilingual.

Besides video gaming as my obviously favourite hobby I have a musical skill on the violin which I want to develop to professional concert playing because as the modern Sonic games moves into orchestral elements in their soundtrack and in the future, there are some pieces I'd like to play and master, especially Crisis City and Rooftop Run. I'm currently a high school student which means a lot of school work that will keep me from accessing Wikia but during school, there are opportunities to access it though (from breaks etc.).

Being part of the Sonic the Hedgehog series community
I have known and became a fan of the Sonic-franchise for pretty much my entire life. I know the video games (mostly the main-series console and have almost every of them) and the anime Sonic X continuity (so don't question me about the Comics). I own the following video game consoles: Sega Mega Drive (formerly) Nintendo DS, GBA emulator on PC, PSP, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360 and its Kinect. If any of you readers have a Xbox 360 and want to be my friend on Xbox Live, my gamertag is SpiritedOrb8307 and I'm open to any friend requests. Not trying to start a console war and please don't hate me for this but the PS3 is not recommended for Sonic gaming because every Sonic game released for that platform is also on the Xbox 360 and the Xbox 360 has two exclusive Sonic games (Sonic Free Riders and Dreamcast Collection if counting Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure DX for PC version entirely different versions) while the Wii has its own exclusive games. I consider myself to be an optimistic Sonic fan, as I do not have any hatred for any moments in the Sonic the Hedgehog series that would be deemed hateful in other fans' case.



Don't think that Australia doesn't have much to do with the Sonic the hedgehog franchise because of the following reasons:
 * Australia has a SEGA operations in Sydney (now it's named Five-Star Games but that makes no difference).
 * Echidnas are native animals to Australia.
 * Australia once had a SEGA-Sydney world (whatever the name is) in Darling Harbour, Sydney.
 * The setting of Sonic Rush Adventure is heavily based on the continent of Oceania. (The continent that Australia is in and this will be explained in the next section in further detail.)
 * The director of the re-release of Sonic CD (2011) and Sonic 1 (2013), Christian Whitehead lives in Australia.

History across Sonic News Network
Perhaps the first time I looked through the pages of Sonic News Network (SNN) can go as far back to around late 2011, one year before I made an account. I was mainly browsing through the games and characters.

Not long before I joined as a member, I've discovered myself there also a handful of other Sonic articles mostly about the game information, the songs etc. that weren't spoken of in Wikipedia. I realised that there were some articles that look like they could use some more info and this place has made me who I am, a Sonic fan who is willing to contribute information from the franchise I liked for a very long time and hence I registered myself to become a user of the SNN on 6 November 2012.

During my first moments in SNN, after I made my first edit to Sonic Adventure 2, I don't know what else to edit and as such, I wasn't able to edit a lot. I didn't know that there is a community of other users in SNN that socialise with each other and have civilised discussions around the site and since I am very shy and socialising has never been my big interest, I didn't interact with anyone and distanced myself from everyone. From 2013 I am at the busiest chapter of high school education (year 10 at that time) which furthered to restricting the amount of free time I could visit SNN and edit. Six months after I registered, I had around 500 edits which back then I thought that it was a decent edit rate.

This was the time I also discovered all of the community activities in SNN such as Chat and blogs (and Forums later on). When my semester break that has a duration of one month began in June 2013, this was arguably my first and so far major turning point in SNN regarding my activity. It feels I had edited and contributed to both articles and community activities frequently and in addition, interacting with the large community of other users after my semester break finished, I had actually quadripled my edit count, having around 2000 edits at that time. This was the moment which I had discovered that I could potentially be far more active than I ever become (of course, it wouldn't be much of a surprise if you come across this user and you'll know why.) To make matters more pleasing I was successfully promoted to a Rollback (see nomination here) at that time. I had never felt better on my computer than that.

Later, I nominated myself to be Chat Moderator but it didn't go successful. Very soon after that, I got nominated to be Chat Moderator again and this time, I was successful (see nomination here) Even now I still continue to contribute and discover what other features and secrets SNN has to offer.

Friends/Affiliates
Note: If you do consider me a friend/affiliate, feel free to add your username here on the bottom of the list (Make sure you type out your username without adding "User:" and make sure it is linked to your userpage.)

Ultrasonic9000 (first friend)

SplashTheHedgehog

DiscoDuck

Shadowunleashed13

Sacorguy79

Bullet Francisco

Vector T.C.

Merwow

Megaphantaze

Murphyshane

SupeSonicWind2000

PuddingCh42

Psyche The Hedgehog 1997

BlueSpeeder

MintsyWinterBlue

Loudclaw

Ultimate Silver Fan

Mainspace articles

 * 1) Potential
 * 2) Turtle Shell
 * 3) Egg Treat
 * 4) Mad Express
 * 5) Casino Ring
 * 6) Seaside Course
 * 7) Road Rock
 * 8) Pinball Match
 * 9) Casino Course
 * 10) Bobsled Race
 * 11) Quick Race
 * 12) Ring Race
 * 13) Special Stage (Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles)
 * 14) Special Stage (Sonic Advance)
 * 15) Special Stage (Sonic Advance 2)
 * 16) Special Stage (Sonic Advance 3)
 * 17) Gear Parts
 * 18) Special Stage (Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I)
 * 19) Special Stage (Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II)
 * 20) Special Stage (Sonic Rush Adventure)
 * 21) Special Stage (Sonic the Hedgehog CD)
 * 22) Expert Race
 * 23) Action Race
 * 24) Knock Out
 * 25) Rings Battle
 * 26) Capture the Chao
 * 27) Laps Race
 * 28) King of the Hill
 * 29) Tag
 * 30) Zeti Shell
 * 31) Air Boost
 * 32) Speed Boost
 * 33) Special Stage (Sonic Triple Trouble)
 * 34) Special Stage (Sonic 3D Blast)
 * 35) Doctor Eggman (Sonic X)/Gallery
 * 36) Knuckles the Echidna (Sonic X)/Gallery
 * 37) Cheese (Sonic X)/Gallery
 * 38) Emerl (Sonic X)/Gallery
 * 39) Bokkun/Gallery
 * 40) Super Sonic (Sonic X)/Gallery
 * 41) Humming-Top
 * 42) Jump Step
 * 43) Tension Guage
 * 44) Hidden Island 1
 * 45) Hidden Island 2
 * 46) Hidden Island 3
 * 47) Hidden Island 4
 * 48) Hidden Island 5
 * 49) Hidden Island 6
 * 50) Hidden Island 7
 * 51) Hidden Island 8
 * 52) Hidden Island 9
 * 53) Hidden Island 10
 * 54) Hidden Island 11
 * 55) Hidden Island 12
 * 56) Hidden Island 13
 * 57) Hidden Island 14
 * 58) Hidden Island 15
 * 59) Hidden Island 16
 * 60) Sonic the Fighters/Gallery

Templates

 * 1) Template: Heroes Info (It was actually created by this user but I came up with most of the information for it.)
 * 2) Template: Rivals Info
 * 3) Template: Special Stages
 * 4) Template: Video game systems
 * 5) Template: Rivals 2 Info
 * 6) Template: Rush Adventure Info
 * 7) Template: Sonic 1 (8-bit) Info

Signatures and Talkbubbles
OrbAdventures (talk) First former default signature while known as "OrbAdventures".

Mystic Orb (talk) Current default signature (Never used it but it helps to indicate default signatures represented in this format.).

I am Mystic Orb, the overlord of all! (talk page) 01:42, June 16, 2013 (UTC) First alternate signature

Mystic Orb: Who do you think I am?  What do you want?  00:24, July 10, 2013 (UTC) Second alternate signature (followed Wikipedia's guide to making a colourful signature).

Mystic Orb: Who do you think I am?  What do you want?   What do I do?  12:14, July 11, 2013 (UTC) Second alternate signature updated.

Games
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Real-life personalities
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My favourite pages

 * Sonic the Hedgehog (character)
 * Sonic X
 * Shadow the Hedgehog
 * Sonic the Hedgehog series
 * Extreme Gear