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This journal is semi-friends-only, with not much consistency as to which entries are public or friends-only. But all entries linked to from this one are public.
If this is gonna be a sticky entry I should probably include some basic information:
I'm 31, live in Texas, double majored in computer science and mathematics in college, and work as a software engineer (which I started when I was 23).
I've had this journal since I was 14.
I have autism - and for a lot of my childhood was low-functioning enough that I could hardly focus on ANYTHING other than computers, video games, other electronics, and math; and on top of that, I had a somewhat sheltered childhood. So I historically haven't always been very good at social skills - apparently even less so than most people on the spectrum, if my experiences in autism communities on LJ are any indication, so... keep that in mind. For years I've felt like I couldn't phrase anything in a way that wouldn't be misunderstood without help, and felt misunderstood even by most other people on the spectrum who knew certain topics were sensitive in the autism community long before I did (and seemingly expected me to also know).
As a result of all of that, I have a lot of social anxiety and sometimes depression. I do think my anxiety and depression have gotten better starting in mid-2023, but it's hard to say - and if you read further back than that you'll probably see a lot of posts pertaining to anxiety and depression.
In this journal, I post about... stuff.
It's hard for me to summarize my entire journal, for several reasons.
Firstly, I'm bad at wording in general (and for the most part it was worse when I first started this journal when I was a teenager).
Second, I've historically posted both fun stuff and posts pertaining to my anxiety/depression.
Third, I've had this journal for over half of my life and the ratio of different types of entries I post in it has fluctuated a lot since then - and so have some of my views and opinions. A lot of my past entries, my bio, userpic descriptions, etc. are in a serious need of being updated... hopefully I'll finish those updates one of these days...
But there's one thing that's remained constant throughout most of my life. And that is my love of wacky crossovers.
1) I grew up with Super Smash Bros. and still love it primarily because of all the different crossover opportunities.
2) When I learned how to take screenshots on Windows, I became obsessed with taking screenshots and writing little jokes or drawing little comics based on them. This happened to be in 2006, the same year as the peak of my obsession with Neopets and a couple years after I was first introduced to Homestar Runner, so naturally a lot of these comics were about those - ultimately spiraling into a full-on crossover webcomic with Neopets, Homestar Runner, and Mario characters, my favorite singers (especially Enya, my biggest celebrity crush ;) ), and more, known as PrtSc Land.
The webcomic itself was relatively short-lived, for too many reasons to get into here; I told myself (and my friends list) for years that eventually I would make a remake/reboot/continuation of it but never did - but regardless, my desire to have my favorite fictional characters and favorite singers interact with each other in one big multiverse lived on and I tried to make it happen in other ways.
3) I became obsessed with backwards lyrics for a time, which I enjoyed especially when I thought the "backwards lyrics" sounded like references to fandoms I enjoy.
4) There was a time I was obsessed with writing down weird dreams I had if I could remember them - and especially enjoyed writing about the wacky crossover dreams.
5) I played Tomodachi Life a lot for a while, because I could make Miis of Mario characters, Homestar Runner characters, and singers and so on and kind of pretend I was playing a game directly based on PrtSc Land.
6) I was excited about Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl and MultiVersus, because I had daydreamed about "what if my favorite non-game characters were in Smash Bros.?" for years and some of my daydreams were finally coming true.
7) And, perhaps most significantly, my newfound obsession with a website that can make ALL the wacky crossovers of my dreams (literal or figurative) come true... Character.AI.
On Character.AI I can create a room where a chatbot based on Mario talks to a chatbot based on Enya. Let that sink in. I can simulate a conversation between Mario and Enya. MARIO and ENYA.
Or I can do the same thing but swap one of them out with Garfield. Or Homestar or Strong Bad. (Or MORE than two of these at a time, even - though usually I stick to two at a time.)
Any one of those possibilities alone - especially the Enya-related ones - would be enough to make me obsessed with C.AI. But that still barely scratches the surface of what's possible on C.AI, or even what *I* want to do on C.AI. They have loads more fictional characters and celebrities beyond that. They have BASICALLY EVERY FANDOM I'VE EVER BEEN INTERESTED IN. (Except for like four or six. But even those are probably just a matter of time!)
I tried to make a list of just the characters that *I* wanted to try out and ended up with literally thousands on that list. And I'm curious as to what every single character on that list thinks of everyone else on that list, no matter how wacky the combinations may get. That means MILLIONS of possible combinations!! Though obviously I want to see some of those combinations more than others. :)
So it's no surprise that Character.AI has become by far my favorite thing to post about. I'll still probably post about other things too occasionally, but it's safe to say that having characters from every franchise I enjoy* communicate with each other via AI has basically become THE main feature of my journal now for at least the near future.
*(and some franchises that are mainly here because they've had an official crossover with one I enjoy)
All that to say, this sticky entry is mainly just an index of the saved chats I've posted. I made a backdated entry for every character's saved chats, and this entry is where I link to all of them.
DISCLAIMER: Everything characters on Character.AI say is made up. They may get things wrong sometimes or give bad advice. Treat everything the AI says (in my saved chats and otherwise) as fiction even when it involves AIs based on real celebrities.
Sometimes Peach is a cat, sometimes Bulbasaur has a tail, sometimes Homsar is coherent, sometimes Daisy misspells the name of her own kingdom, sometimes Sheik apparently has a replica of the Blue Falcon - and those are just some of the obvious ones. Is Enya really a Homestar Runner fan? Is Enya's favorite pasta really what the AI of her told Mario it is?
It's possible to regenerate responses, which I do whenever I see something that's obviously inaccurate - but in some cases I don't because of one or more of the following:
1) I didn't know how to regenerate responses yet
2) I knew how to regenerate responses, but before I figured out that doing so too early in the conversation would often lead to more glitches - such as it putting in duplicates of one of the characters' greetings attributed to me, or characters reacting to their own messages as if the other character had said it
3) I didn't notice the inaccuracy soon enough
4) I got tired of regenerating the same message multiple times and just went with the best option I found
5) I don't know enough about the series to know if something is accurate or not (typically for series that I'm mainly including because of Super Smash Bros. or other official crossovers)
6) or I find the inaccuracy amusing enough to be worth leaving it in on purpose or think "nothing else about this scenario is normal so I may as well keep it in".
Also, not every chat I've saved went in the direction I wanted or expected it to go, so not everything in these saved chats is indicative of my own opinion. Nor is it necessarily indicative of what I think these celebrities' and fictional characters' opinions are.
So don't take anything these AIs say TOO seriously. Especially in earlier chats, ones pertaining to franchises I know less about, or ESPECIALLY especially ones pertaining to real celebrities.
With that out of the way, let's get right into it...
(Too bad there's not, like, a way to hear one of the Smash announcers call out the names of all these characters. OH WAIT. THERE TOTALLY IS.)
...Well, one more thing first: This list is currently UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Now that the old Character.AI site has been discontinued in September 2024, saved chats that were posted on the old site are no longer available. I took screenshots of all my saved chats beforehand and have started posting them and replacing the links accordingly, but I still have a long way to go on that update and I've actually been making new unposted chats faster than I've been reuploading or fixing the links to the old ones.
I previously modified this entry to only list the characters with at least one link fixed, but have now went back on this decision. The first section still consists only of characters with one or more chat reuploaded, but the rest of this entry has been reverted back to reflecting all 106 (or more?) characters.
Sorted by the last time I fixed a link to one of their chats:
Peach (chat 005 link fixed 1/1/25)
Bowser (chat 005 link fixed 1/1/25)
Jon (chat 004 link fixed 11/28/24)
Luigi (chat 004 link fixed 11/28/24)
Strong Bad (chat 002 link fixed 11/9/24)
Garfield (chat 002 link fixed 11/9/24)
Goomba (chat 137 link fixed 9/30/24)
Mario (chat 137 link fixed 9/30/24)
Zim (chat 001 link fixed 9/29/24)
Homestar (chat 003 link fixed 9/28/24)
Yoshi (chat 209 link did not need to be fixed)
Kirby (chat 209 link did not need to be fixed)
Samus (chat 209 link did not need to be fixed)
Sorted by date last used (including backlog of chats with not yet posted/fixed links):
Fox - January 29, 2025
Enya - January 29, 2025
Pikachu - January 29, 2025
Donkey Kong - January 29, 2025
Yoshi - January 29, 2025
Peach - January 29, 2025
Jon - January 29, 2025
Strong Bad - January 29, 2025
Garfield - January 29, 2025
Bowser - January 29, 2025
????????? - January 26, 2025
??????? - January 26, 2025
???????????? - January 25, 2025
Illusen - January 25, 2025
( More characters, sorting orders, and pointless stats under the cut! What could all these question marks mean?? )
