Catalog talk:Dominus Empyreus/Archive 1

Demonstration of categorization by the infobox
This page is a very good example of what the new infobox can do regarding categorization. The only category that was put manually on it is the Dominus category and the page contains only one template, the infobox. Yet, it has all the following categories:
 * Category:Hats
 * Category:Limited unique items
 * Category:Medieval items
 * Category:Adventure items

Currently, the code of the infobox as used on this page is this:

As you can see, these categories were put automatically by the template. What this means is that, from now on, they do not ever need to be put on pages manually; instead, we can just put the new infobox on a hat page and the template will do it automatically. And if we ever decide for whatever reason that all the categories ending with 'item' need to be renamed such that they instead end with 'catalog item', we can simply change the template and all the pages will automatically be changed. This is very different from the current system of adding categories manually, where if we decide to rename a category, we need to edit one thousand of pages to rename the category... -- Mark Otaris (talk) 19:02, December 21, 2012 (UTC)

Yes Mark, it's a lovely hat.  Your friend, Wookee8wikiperson   04:38, December 22, 2012 (UTC)

Homestuck begins when thirteen-year-old John Egbert receives a beta copy of an upcoming computer game, called Sburb, in the mail. Installing and running the game on his computer triggers a meteor shower to fall on his house in real-life, which he survives only by being transported to a planet in another dimension. As John's friends Rose Lalonde, Dave Strider and Jade Harley join the game with him, they learn that they have unwittingly triggered the destruction of Earth, and that it is their duty to play the game to create a new universe.

As they begin to explore the world of Sburb, John and his friends are harassed by a group of twelve internet trolls who have played a version of the game before. Further contact with the trolls reveals that they are not human at all, but an alien species actually called "trolls". As the trolls gradually become more important to the story, the narrative shifts to a side story arc exploring the nature of troll society and the specific sequence of events that led to this group to enter the troll version of Sburb. The trolls' arc concludes with them winning their game and originally creating the humans' universe.

As the story returns to focus on the humans, the two species start to cooperate to salvage the kids' doomed game session. As the kids’ actions accidentally bring about an unbeatable enemy called Jack Noir, they learn about a game mechanism called the "scratch" with which the humans can reset their session.

By executing the Scratch, the kids create a reset version of their universe, in which their places have been swapped with those of their ancestors. As a result, John's grandmother, Jane Crocker, who had died before the story began, is a fifteen-year-old girl and the protagonist of the new arc. She leads her three friends, Roxy Lalonde, Dirk Strider and Jake English, through their own session of the game, while the original humans and surviving trolls journey to the new session over the course of three years.

Upon uniting in the new session, the kids and trolls enact a plan to finally create a new universe and to defeat Lord English, a purportedly-invincible villain threatening all of reality. Their plan is opposed by the Condesce, the sinister former empress of the Trolls now in service to Lord English, as well as the still-dangerous Jack Noir who also escaped from the original doomed session. Matters complicate further as John develops new powers allowing him to retcon previous events within the Homestuck narrative.