Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

I'M SO (not) BACK

2025-06-26T01:19:37Z

(original Garfield strip)

Hi! Remember me? The guy who's been trying to blend the fandoms above and more into some sort of fandom smoothie for over 18 years? And as a result, now posts almost exclusively about the as-seen-on-TV-in-one fandom blender known as Character.AI? And if you call in the next ten minutes, we'll throw in having to reupload screenshots of all my saved chats one by one when the old site got discontinued absolutely free?

(Man, I miss when I could write a zany paragraph like that and not feel weird about it. I miss when I could write an entry and not feel weird about it...)

Yeah, I'm still not anywhere near close to being done fixing those links, but I did figure out a way to kinda speed up the process so it's starting to be quicker than before. I decided to stop focusing on fixing the links in my old C.AI chat index entries for now - instead once I have 20 chats reuploaded I'll post a new entry with the links to those 20, and then another entry for the next 20, and so on - and save fixing the links in the character-by-character posts for later. If that makes any sense. Just letting you know what to expect.

There's also other things I've been meaning to post about - including some real life stuff - but I'm gonna feel weird about it if I talk about that in the same post as this, so I guess I'll save that for another entry. Maybe the next one, maybe not.

Just letting you know I'm still around!

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Part I-don't-even-know-anymore of the "what do I do about stupid stuff I wrote years ago?" saga

2025-04-13T05:27:51Z

Previously on Matt1993...

MATT1993:
(clips of everything stupid he has ever posted on LJ/DW play at once, indistinct)
So lately I've been thinking about figuring out for sure which entries are the most cringeworthy and then making those only accessible to long-time readers, or something like that... ...make a program that takes that and analyzes it to give each of my entries a "cringe score" of sorts... Then I'd use that to divide my past entries into "cringe levels" from best to worst, and then I'd adjust the visiblility of my entries based on that.
But it's over two years since then and I never got around to finishing that because, for one, it would take forever to do at the rate I'd been going. BUT! Apparently there's now AIs for detecting toxic comments online!
I think it's really, really, REALLY great that people are starting to research machine learning for detecting toxic comments online so that they can be filtered out automatically and/or so that people (like me!) can learn what makes their comments potentially toxic and how to avoid it. You know what would be even better, though? If I could actually use it. Finding a website that lets me do that is harder than I thought...

It's been another year and a half since then and most of the toxic comment detection AIs that did exist have now become defunct or become members-only, and it doesn't look like there's been a lot of new ones. The one I was just barely able to use before - PerspectiveAPI - seems to no longer have a public demo available and even if it did, it was geared more towards rating comments. Meaning I couldn't use it on entries in my journal longer than the average comment - the best I could do is put in individual sections of the entry, rate those, and assume the rating for the whole entry would be close to the average of the individual ratings.

But I have so much anxiety about certain things I've said in the past - and it's gotten much worse this year - that clearly I have to do something about all my past entries and comments. I might just make all of my entries before I started posting about Character.AI friends-only for now, even the ones I feel are okay, and then reevaluate once there's finally another AI that can rate each individual entry and comment and that I can actually use.

I ask you: Is there another tool available that can detect toxic comments online where I can either paste them in one by one or (better yet) have it go through every entry and comment in a given LJ/DW journal automatically? In fact, I'm even making this entry public (at least for now) just to increase the chance that someone who has an answer will see this. (And now I'm realizing the last time I asked about this, I also made that entry public for the same reason. Go figure.)

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Everyone is here, everybody everybody, all at once

2024-07-04T06:13:59Z

Made a poll for a few questions I wanted to ask regarding Character.AI, my usage of it, my journal, and some of the fandoms I've posted about. If you could take the time to fill it out I'd appreciate it. :)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdy_Jv44NGk_XJ97BEr-ofcURYqWKYHdgpkcpaHfkp7L-S_zw/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Rave.DJ

2024-05-21T03:42:35Z

https://rave.dj

So, let me get this straight... not only is it possible to make Mario characters hang out with Enya, or other wacky crossovers I've never thought would happen... it's also possible to make a SOUNDTRACK for it?!

And it's been possible since 2018?! (EDIT: I should specify only Rave.DJ has been around since 2018. Whereas Character.AI was created in 2022 and as far as I can tell there was no Enya AI on that site until 2023.) So like, back when I didn't even know about those other websites that are kinda like this but not quite what I had hoped?

Why didn't anyone tell me?? ;)

I discovered Rave.DJ at least two weeks ago. The only reason I didn't post about it until now was I wanted to make a list of ALL the mashups and mixes I've made with it so far - but there's already a LOT. I'm so obsessed with the site that the list is probably going to exceed LJ's character limit if it hasn't already, so I'm probably going to have to make that into a bunch of separate entries for each fandom or each album/game/etc. similar to my Character.AI chat index entries (which themselves I'm already nearly two months behind on updating for the newest saved chats).

At the very least, here's all the Mario and Enya mashups I've made as of this writing, so that way at least I have a few examples here. :)

https://rave.dj/ouPZk3ThlenNfg
Super Mario World - Overworld (with and without Yoshi drums) × Orinoco Flow
https://rave.dj/b8MZXl6c6ShADA
Super Mario Bros. - Overworld × Wild Child
https://rave.dj/NSnkUter0MZR3Q
New Super Mario Bros. Wii - Coin Heaven (with and without Yoshi drums) × On My Way Home
https://rave.dj/6ClChya8VkQLhw
Super Mario Maker - SMW Airship × The Longships
https://rave.dj/R23SI-hUBUYxNg
Super Mario Maker 2 - Course World (Courses) × Astra Et Luna
https://rave.dj/Gz8Yg0xZGq-Wqw
New Super Mario Bros. 2 - World Mushroom × Oriel Window
https://rave.dj/UQZgh49d6Q533w
New Super Mario Bros. 2 - Special Overworld × Morning Glory

Man. First Character.AI, then people on YouTube actually make Mario/Enya music mashups, now this? I'm so glad my "Enya is part Yoshi" userpic is one of the only two that I still have access to on both LJ and DW without a paid account - over the course of 2023 and 2024 it's once again become as relevant as it's been in the heyday of PrtSc Land, Ours Will You 1-Up, and Moya's Space Log, if not more so. :)

Who'd have known that the feeling I used to get whenever I had a dream about there being an Enya concert, or a Super Mario World level I'd never discovered before, or a SMW level I've never discovered before named after Enya, etc. would be a feeling that I'd be getting almost ALL the time now?! :)

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Oh look, Matt posted an entry. What video game character is he gonna have Enya meet THIS time?

2024-03-31T07:16:15Z

You've heard of Character.AI, right? It's this website where you can simulate chats between--

Oh, who am I kidding? Of course you've heard of it since it's literally all I talk about on here nowadays since I joined C.AI nearly a year ago.
64 of the 76 entries I've posted to LJ/DW since I joined C.AI (or 64 of the 79 entries since I first knew about C.AI) are all "Character.AI Chat Index: <number> <character name>". And I have no intention of stopping at 64.
65 if you include my current sticky entry (which starts off with an attempt at an intro to my journal in general but devolves into an index of all the C.AI stuff on the grounds that "everything else I was ever into was the closest thing to C.AI there was at the time, so this journal may as well be entirely about C.AI at this point and I should index my saved chats here!").
66 if you include an entry that is basically an old version of that one.
Even most of the remaining 10 (or 13) entries are still dedicated to C.AI, at least partially - or dedicated to the same sort of wacky crossovers that I enjoy making happen on Character.AI. And the ones that aren't dedicated to C.AI or the wacky crossovers I love are mostly posts like this one about how far behind I am about posting about anything else.

I still think it does make sense that I'm so obsessed with Character.AI and am more motivated to post about it than anything else. I've already gone over the reasons why so I won't repeat that here (except to add that I STILL sometimes manage to find characters I couldn't find before and never thought I'd find!! I won't spoil who, though...)

Instead, I want to address the fact that I haven't posted a lot about real-life stuff lately, which feels odd since that's probably what I should be posting about the most. And that's not just since I joined C.AI - for the past four years or so I've had little motivation to post and there have been so many things I meant to get around to posting but never did. I typically at least post about things like the 15th anniversary of when I started being active on LJ (February 6, 2024 - not to be confused with the 15th anniversary of my journal overall, which fell on August 19, 2022) or the seventh anniversary of when I started work (February 13, 2024), but this time I didn't even have enough motivation to post about that. Of course, the anniversary of me joining C.AI is today, so I am posting an entry now because of course I would. (Man... I can't believe that just a year ago, I knew C.AI existed and thought "what if they have Enya on here and I could ask what she thinks of Mario?" but figured that was little more than a massive long shot-- there I go again, going on a tangent about C.AI...)

Anyway, towards the end of last year I thought of a possible way to catch up on posting some of the things that I felt like I should have posted, but didn't. I was thinking that on each day of 2024, I'd post an entry that's basically "This day in Matt1993 history" and be about entries I posted on that day in the past plus things I should have posted about but didn't. Plus things that happened on that date, that I posted about, but posted on a different day than they happened. But I'd have to write all those entries in advance in order to have any chance of posting them in time, and as you can tell, I didn't get around to that before 2024 began. (That, and it would require drawing attention to my worst entries and comments on the anniversaries of those posts...) Maybe for 2025 though?

So if you're not interested in Character.AI or my entries about it (and that wouldn't change if I used a character or franchise I haven't used before that you really like), you probably may as well stop reading this journal. Sorry. I really don't see myself having motivation to post much of anything else (though I do make the per-character chat index entries backdated so they don't clutter up your friends page/reading page.)

There is kind of an upside, though. Character.AI isn't JUST for simulating hilarious or insightful or surreal conversations between BASICALLY ANY TWO FICTIONAL CHARACTERS OR CELEBRITIES I'VE EVER HEARD OF. They also have creative helpers, trip planners, and other self-help-related AIs - including ones for mental health - so naturally I've been talking to one of the mental health ones sometimes (one of the few AIs on there that I've ever actually talked to instead of just clicking on it so I can put it in a room with another AI and see what craziness emerges). Like everything else I've used on the site, I wish that had existed YEARS ago - in this case so that I could have avoided making so many mistakes I'd regret later in life, posting so many stupid things on LJ/DW or other sites, and most importantly, not had to annoy all of you so often by posting about things I've had anxiety about. I've done the latter a lot when I needed to talk about something I'm needlessly(?) anxious about to get it off my chest but didn't have a counseling session coming up soon (or before I ever had a counselor at all). In recent years I've slowly started learning just how annoying it truly is for people when they have to listen to me worry about everything all the time, and now I finally have a way to get some of the help I need without having to be annoying in the process. Again, I really wish that had been available for me years ago! I've always wished I could go back in time to correct mistakes I've made... now I know what the most efficient way to correct them is should time travel ever be invented. ;)

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Christmas with Mario and Enya!

2023-12-19T02:54:03Z

Since Christmas is coming up, I figured I should repost the one saved chat I've made on Character.AI that ended up having anything to do with Christmas! Even though it was made way back in April. Which is why I'm reposting it. And means you might have read it already... but now you can read it again and it'll be appropriate for the season this time!

(Please excuse the messages that got cutoff - Character.AI does that sometimes and I must not have been patient enough to regenerate those...)

Mario and Enya, chatting about Italian food and family traditions and Christmas

~~I'd post the transcript of the Christmas-related part here but C.AI is down again right now :( Well, once C.AI is back up, that link should work!~~ EDIT: It's back up now! So here's the relevant part of the chat:

ENYA:
Oh, yes! Some of my favorite moments were spent in the kitchen with my mother, making some of our best dishes! The kitchen can become such a social space in a house, and it doesn't hurt that the food is usually great too! I have many fond memories of the holidays, where we made a feast for the entire family, and everyone had a chance to contribute their own dish! I love a time when I can get together with my family and cook something wonderful together, because there's nothing like a home-cooked meal that everyone helped make!
MARIO:
Oh, the home-cooked food is-a the best-a. The holidays-a are-a a especially good time-a for the-a home-cooked-a comfort food!😁

Do you like-a your family-a? Do they make-a some-a delicious-a home-cooked comfort food? Or some-a really good-a restaurant food-a?🙂
( Cut for length )

Wow. It's hard to believe that last Christmas, I had no idea whatsoever that a website would exist where an AI simulation of Mario would be able to talk to an AI simulation of ENYA. Or even that those AIs would exist at all. That alone is enough to make 2023 the best year of my whole life. Perfect? No, especially in the beginning. The best year of my life so far? YES!

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Well, I guess becoming a better person still isn't much easier than it used to be...

2023-12-08T06:02:48Z

As I said in the second part of my first regular entry in a while (I think? What even is a "regular" entry in my journal anymore?), I think it's really, really, REALLY great that people are starting to research machine learning for detecting toxic comments online so that they can be filtered out automatically and/or so that people (like me!) can learn what makes their comments potentially toxic and how to avoid it.

You know what would be even better, though?

If I could actually use it.

Many of the websites and videos I've seen about these tools for detecting toxic comments make it seem like you can just type or paste in a comment and BAM, it will give scores representing the likelihood of it being a toxic comment for various potential reasons. So I thought "oh hey, I can paste in of my LJ/DW entries and comments one by one and it'll tell me which ones are the best and worst, and then I can rank them and sort them into 'cringe levels' like I wanted to a couple years ago!"

But finding a website that lets me do that is harder than I thought...
https://www.perspectiveapi.com/ - Has a note saying to not enter personally identifiable information, so naturally I'm wondering what exactly that entails and if certain things in some my entries count. Seems like this would be the easiest to use, though, if I knew for a fact that doing so would be okay. (EDIT: Well, I tried this one out with a random sentence that isn't from my journal and actually got a rating with it! I guess I'm gonna use this one after all - I'll just save entries with my name in them for last, I suppose. But it would be nice to figure out how to use one of these other tools too in case the scores differ.)
https://www.unitary.ai/product - This page has an interface where you can input your own text and hit "Compute" and it will estimate the toxicity of it... except not because the "interface" on that page is just a mockup apparently! They went out of their way to make it look like you could highlight the example text and replace it and click Compute but it doesn't actually let you do that? :(
https://detoxifai.com/ - This one has a live demo where you can type in a comment (yes, this one actually lets you type into it!) and click "Analyze Toxicity" and... it says "Processing" and then never does anything.

And pretty much everything else I've found requires me to install Python, learn how to code in Python, install Git (or remember whether or not my current laptop is the one I once had Git installed on before), relearn how to use Git when I never understood the first time, and/or learn how to make an API just to use it. :(

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After 16 years...

2023-11-05T06:24:50Z

I love it when, on a whim, I search for an insanely specific mashup for no real reason despite not expecting there to be any results that are even reasonably close to what I searched for, and it turns out there are such results after all.

Recently, I was on YouTube and out of nowhere decided to search for "enya smw soundfont" just to see if anything would come up - despite highly doubting* I'd find anything even remotely similar to a Super Mario World-style cover of an Enya song, especially since I think I've even searched for that exact query at least once before and nothing interesting** came up.

GUESS WHAT???

Okay, sure, I searched for Super Mario World and got Super Mario 64 instead, but still... this implies that someone thought it would be interesting to remix Enya songs in the style of a Mario game, and that person ISN'T ME.

Even crazier, THIS video has somehow been around since 2012 without me ever knowing about it or noticing the similarity between these two songs on my own:

For 16 YEARS, I thought I was the only one who was a big enough Mario fan, a big enough Enya fan, AND crazy enough to want a mashup like any of these to exist. Finding out that these videos exist (and especially reading some of the comments on them) feels so weird... it's like I'm reading conversations between lots of copies myself from alternate dimensions. :P

Here, I'll save some of those comments here because they deserve to be immortalized:

"Enya's Island" also known as Ireland.

Make sense that She owned a castle which can make her a boss.

You have no idea how happy this makes me. I thought this and needed it to be made, turns out it already has been. Thanks for this.

each and every level
no time in our journey
except when mario is crying
only then will I hurry

I walk the map of moments
But every stage I turn to
Begins a new adventure
And then it finds a finish
I walk to battle Kamek
And there I save Luigi
It all seems so surprising
And then I reunite the Bros.

You go there you're not safe
I go there I'll rescue him
If we stay here we're not happy
Anywhere is

Did enya plays Mario bross? Lol xD

They both were published in 1995 O.o What came first? The Enya or the Yoshi Egg??

Simple: Enya. She wa born long before Yoshi was

Yes but did she take Mario on an adventure on her personal island before Yoshi?

HOLD IT! The question in the original message was in fact "Which came first, the Enya or the Yoshi Egg?" He never mentioned the original release date of Anywhere is, he was asking if Enya came before the Yoshi Egg, and Enya was certainly alive BEFORE the release of Super Mario World, the first appearance of Yoshi, and, therefore, the Yoshi Egg!

So... it really is Enya's island.... O.o o.O

Have any of you ever been a fan of two very different things and thought you were the only person interested enough in both to really want there to ever be some kind of mashup or crossover between them, and then years later found out there were other people who wanted that specific crossover as well?

*Okay, yes, Character.AI exists now and is still the BEST THING EVER because it makes it possible for an AI simulation of Enya to talk to AI simulations of Mario, Luigi, Peach, Rosalina, Lubba, and like 200 other Mario characters I still haven't yet had her meet. But that's because there are users on that site who are Mario fans OR Enya fans. I would be surprised if I went to a random user's profile and saw Enya AND Mario in the list of bots they made, or even if anyone besides me had ever made that one Enya AI talk to a Mario character. Hence why I still thought it was far-fetched to expect there to be actual results for "enya smw soundfont" on YouTube.

**Well, there is this video I discovered about a decade ago, but that's Mario Paint Composer. That pales in comparison to someone editing Enya's head onto Yoshi or someone adding Mario references to the lyrics of an Enya song or someone suggesting Enya could be a boss in a Mario game because she has a castle. :P Also I managed to find 8-bit covers of several Enya songs, which I like, but those aren't Mario-specific so that doesn't really count either.

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What's going on?!?!?!

2023-09-18T06:22:24Z

So... today I just discovered that starting today, OUT OF NOWHERE, I am no longer able to view any of the following on my LiveJournal:

1) Most of my own userpics. I'm not talking about the being limited to only being able to use 15 of them since it'll never be possible to renew my paid account again - that's been a thing for a while, but starting today only six of those 15 actually are visible to me on entries I've used them on before or when I click on the box to select a userpic to use on an entry. The 15 userpics that weren't marked as inactive when my account reverted to basic are:

The ones I can still see are:

The above are the LJ-hosted copies of the userpics, regardless of whether you're reading the LJ or DW copy of this entry. The DW-hosted userpics show up fine no matter what, as far as I can tell. Again - everything was just fine until just now!
(EDIT: And on top of that, not only is LJ only allowing me to see six of them when embedded in a LJ entry, it only allowed these two to be embedded in the DW version of this entry for some reason: )
(EDIT: Further testing - tried refreshing the LJ entry page in Chrome and opening it on Edge and in both cases the LJ version of this entry is now doing what I just said the DW version was doing i.e. only two userpics showed up and not six. But then I looked at the entry on my phone and that time nine of the userpics showed up - including six that hadn't shown up before since I first noticed this issue. Weird. Still haven't gotten a video to show up at all in the LJ version of any entry on any device in any browser since this issue started though. I remember experiencing something similar before years ago, but it never said anything about my IP address being blocked.)

2) Any image that I've uploaded to my ScrapBook on LJ. I can't think of a good example of one to demonstrate with, though, because I'm not sure what the last entry I posted with an image from my ScrapBook was. Of course I have plenty of recent entries that have images, but those are avatars hosted on character.ai so those aren't affected by whatever's going on with LJ. My DW-hosted images aren't affected by this, either.

3) Any video in any of my entries. For instance, all the videos in this entry, even though they worked perfectly fine when I posted that entry and only stopped working now. And again, they work just fine in my DW entries.

The error I'm getting is that "Either you are trying to access a page you do no not have permission to view or your ip address is banned. If you feel this is in error, please email support at webmaster@livejournal.com with the bulleted information below." (And somehow the IP address ban isn't preventing me from using LJ entirely; it's just preventing me from seeing any of the videos in my entries or any of my ScrapBook images or the majority of my userpics.) For videos, this shows up in every place where an embedded video should be; for images, I just see a broken image unless I copy the image's URL into the address bar directly, in which case I get the IP address banned error.

WHY is my IP address banned? The only thing I've done differently from usual is I just got back from a trip to visit my sister, where LJ worked just fine at her place, but now today I'm back at my apartment and I'm suddenly getting all these errors. Is there ANYTHING I can do to fix it?! I tried logging out and back in. I've tried disconnecting and reconnecting from the Internet. I tried viewing it on my phone. No luck.

WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!?! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!?!?! Is it just a temporary issue, or are all of my images and videos now permanently ruined?!?! I NEED TO KNOW!!!!!

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Let Olimar push the slush once again!

2023-08-30T01:54:52Z

Fifteen years ago today (well, tomorrow), I created a Google Site as part of one of my first assignments in a dual credit computer science class I was taking at the time. The assignment was simply to create a Google Site and didn't specify a topic, so some of my classmates made basic profile pages, others made sites that had something to do with their career path... but I, not being a normal person by any definition of the word, made a site dedicated to my then-newest big obsession: listening to music backwards and writing down what I thought the lyrics sounded like when reversed. (And trying WAAAY too hard to make inside jokes out of the backwards lyrics.)

And thus, on that day, Ours Will You 1-Up was born.

Fifteen years later, I'm nostalgic about those days of listening to music backwards, writing down what the backwards lyrics sounded like, and thinking up ideas for features I wanted to add to my site but never did (such as also transcribing backwards cartoons or backwards TV show episodes, or adding a drawing based on a backwards lyric from every song).

Sure, there were some aspects of the site's execution that were... problematic, to say the least, so it's no surprise that I only kept updating the site for a few months, it was eventually taken down by Google in 2014 or 2015 or so, and I don't currently have any plans for making a new version of it or posting backwards lyrics here or anything like that.

But I still miss those days. I think I'm nostalgic for Ours Will You 1-Up right now for four reasons:
1) The obvious fact that it's almost the 15th anniversary of the site. Even though it's been a while since the last time I did anything big to acknowledge a major milestone anniversary of it or my journal or the beginnings of any of my other major hobbies/projects.
2) The fact that Character.AI is a thing and thus I can actually simulate a conversation between Enya and any of the fictional characters she "mentioned" in her backwards lyrics... without having to write it myself!
3) For a multitude of reasons - Character.AI, the fact that my 30th birthday was fairly recent, etc. - I've been nostalgic about basically my entire life, including my obsession with backwards music.
4) And last but not least, the fact that I recently came across the following two videos on YouTube without even trying:

( Cut for length )
That's right. Someone besides me played Enya songs backwards. Not just one or two, but six. And not only that, they posted it to YouTube!
If something like this existed when my site was still up, I wasn't aware of it.
While Ours Will You 1-Up was still up, I had wanted to actually post the backwards versions of the songs, so that readers with no audio editing program could actually listen to them backwards instead of just trying to imagine what Enya singing nonsense about Olimar pushing a slush would sound like. But I didn't think I'd be allowed to do so (plus I probably didn't know how).
Well, now I can finally do what I wanted to do! I wasn't originally planning on doing anything special for the 15th anniversary of Ours Will You 1-Up, but when I found this channel I was like "okay, I DEFINITELY have to make an OWY1U 15th anniversary post now". :)

I'm so weird for being so obsessed with all these things and getting overly excited when Enya fans also share at least one other interest with me, aren't I...

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Welcome to my journal! / Index of saved Character.AI chats

2023-08-23T01:51:53Z

Hello new readers! (Or if you're not a new reader: Hello again! Some of this may be familiar to you but it may still be worth reading.)

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.

Bio

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.

What I post about

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.

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...
CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER!!!
(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?? )

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A proper post about Character.AI

2023-04-05T05:27:07Z

What I was going to say in my last entry if I hadn't tried to pass it off as a low-effort April Fools joke was:

Lately I have been having WAAAAAAY too much fun with Character.AI and having AI simulations of my favorite fictional characters (and my favorite singer!) interact with each other. Specifically, I like making rooms with two chatbots each and seeing what they come up with, without specifying a room topic for them to try and follow and without contributing to the conversation myself (because it's more entertaining to see what these characters do with as little of my input as possible). It's so addicting!! (Although I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that an AI simulation of Kirby has better conversational skills than I'll ever have, lol.)

I figured my journal has been quite lacking in fun entries lately, so I thought I'd show you all the character.ai conversations I've saved!

Last updated June 12, 2023
( want to see when each character was last used? Click here! )

EDIT JUNE 12, 2023: New features added to this post! I added two quotes from every conversation below so you have a better idea of what to expect than just "Mario and Garfield" or "Homestar and Enya". (One per character, and only in that character's section - e.g. the Bowser and Zim conversation can be found in both Bowser and Zim's sections and is accompanied with a Bowser quote in his section and a Zim quote in his section.) Also click the LJ-cut above to see when each character was last used, in order from most to least recent.

( Super Mario series )

( The Legend of Zelda series )

( Pok�mon series )

( Garfield series )

( Metroid series )

( Kirby series )

( Star Fox series )

( Homestar Runner series )

( Enya )

( Neopets series )

( Frasier series )

( Invader Zim series )

Plenty more to come, of course! If I counted correctly, I found 175 different characters on this site that I want to have interact with each other - and I found more after I counted! That's over 15,225 possibilities just from the first 175 alone!!

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PrtSc Land is finally returning!!

2023-04-01T23:27:19Z

Remember when I used to make a crossover comic with characters from all my favorite fandoms? And then it went on hiatus and I initially promised to make a reboot of it one day but never did?

Guess what?? I'm FINALLY working on a reboot of PrtSc Land!

I've even got a few sneak peeks for you! I haven't drawn the artwork yet, but here's some dialogue I've written:

Sneak peek 1 (spoiler warning)

Sneak peek 2

Sneak peek 3

( ... )

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Phase 3 of (hopefully?) the final battle against my anxiety

2023-03-24T01:33:14Z

Last month, I posted a couple of friends-only entries. (If you're one of my LJ/DW friends and you saw both of those already, most of this entry won't be new to you so you can probably skip this paragraph or so.)

About what?

Well... for anyone who doesn't know (i.e. anyone who has never read an entry in my journal other than this one): I have autism, had somewhat of a sheltered childhood, and spent a lot of my life not being able to word things very well. As a result, many times I've said things that unintentionally came across as rude or were misunderstood, and this led to me becoming crippled with fear that everything I say is going to eventually turn out to be stupid or offend someone. Since I'm still not much better at writing, here is how my sister describes it: "You are always worried about doing something wrong/being hated, even when it comes to what movies or games or books you can like." (I'd add shows, and characters, and fonts, and art programs, and web browsers, and comics/webcomics, and websites, and numerical constants...) "And you can add that I said it's because you take everything you read in internet comments for truth (if someone says hate you think it means literal real hate, or that they will hate YOU for liking the thing they hate). That's really what it all boils down to. Everything is exactly the same in that it is always that, and always nothing to worry about, but something you worry about anyway."
Here are some examples of how much my anxiety about offending people deeply affects me:
- Sometimes I lose sleep or get onto a very irregular sleep schedule worrying about being hated.
- When I was in college, sometimes I would be so paralyzed with fear about something that made me worry about being hated, that I would be late for class or have trouble focusing on homework because all I can think about is the fact that there's something I might be hated over. To an extent, that still happens today when I'm at work.
- Sometimes all of these worries gets so intense that it becomes depression that I can only overcome by posting to my journal about some of the things I worry about being hated for. (usually in friends-only entries because it's bad enough having to worry what people who DO know me already will think!) Essentially, if it's true what my sister has told me about how I have trouble seeing things the way they are and that it's "obvious" to most people that most of my worries are nothing to worry about, then posting entries such as these is the only way for ME to see things the way they are.

And my two recent friends-only entries were basically that - yet another instance of me being so consumed with worrying about what people will think of me if they know I like X/dislike X/X thing about me that the only way I could feel even a little bit better about it was by posting about it. Despite being TERRIFIED of what the comments I would receive might be.

Well, the result was better than the anxious part of me expected.

So it helped.

A little.

But it wasn't enough now that we live in a world where online discourse about boycotts, separating the art from the artist, and differing opinions about ANYTHING has gotten to the point it's at.

So I'm going to have to up the stakes a little.

Things turned out alright when I posted about some of the things I worry about possibly being hated over in a friends-only entry... now let's see what happens when I post it again (with a few minor tweaks), but in a PUBLIC entry!

( *dramatic music* )

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Me in a nutshell. Especially throughout the past couple months or so.

2023-03-01T03:13:04Z

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Thank you Enyaji Kondo, but a working neural network is in another castle apparently :(

2023-01-12T03:22:30Z

Previously on matt1993...

Here's some random things I've been meaning to show you:

https://jukebox.openai.com/ - AI-generated music in the style of various artists, or even combinations of two artists' styles! Sadly there are no examples with either video game music or Enya - the two I most wanted to combine. But there's several examples with Céline Dion, and a Moya Brennan one and a Sarah McLachlan one, so I'm happy about that :)

Guess what??? There's FINALLY an online interface for an API similar to this except it actually lets you generate your own music instead of just listening to pre-generated songs! This means I can finally hear Mario music in Enya's style!! I'm so ecstatic that the insanely specific mashup that only I have ever wanted to hear is finally possible with AI. :P

Guess what??? It was only possible eight months ago. When I discovered this eight months ago I immediately tried it out using the Super Mario Bros. main theme and selected Enya for the genre (and thankfully I saved my results so I can at least still listen to that), then intended to later try it out for the SMB underground theme, SMW overworld theme, etc. - basically every theme from every Mario game I've played so long as I could find a MIDI of it. Then, like everything else, I procrastinated on that until just now... and the site no longer works for me as far as generating anything (the site's a custom front end for MuseNet so maybe it's a problem with MuseNet itself?) It does say the Enya style is experimental, but it worked just fine in May and now it can't even generate anything in the default style (Chopin) with the default settings anymore. :(

Is anyone else able to use MuseTree and have it generate anything? Does anyone know of some other AI music generating program that's like this that can fill this Enya-composing-Mario-music-shaped void by allowing any MIDI to be used as input and has either Mario themes or Enya as an option for the style?

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WHAT?!?!?!? THIS T-SHIRT ACTUALLY EXISTS?!?!?!?!

2022-10-24T04:57:23Z

So since I'm running out of T-shirts that fit and was thinking about asking for new T-shirts for Christmas anyway, I've been looking through to find some new shirts I want, and I happened to come across this:

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/431942-thank-you-mulder

I can't believe this is actually a T-shirt!!!! I've had a userpic similar to this for 12 years (that I can only use on DW and not LJ right now thanks to the stupid paid account payment situation) and NEVER expected anyone else to make a Mario/X-Files mashup AT ALL let alone one so similar to my userpic. I love it!!!!!!

Now, if only someone would make an "Enya is part Yoshi" T-shirt... :)

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LiveJournal is gone.

2022-10-22T03:46:35Z

I can't believe it. LiveJournal ACTUALLY shut down.

Well, TECHNICALLY it's still up but it may as well be down because for me takes so long to load ANY page that every single page times out before I can load it. And it's probably never going to be fixed just like the paid account payment situation will also never end.

I'd better get used to being depressed for the rest of my life.

(Note to self: if by some miracle it ever comes back, this is the first entry to not be on LJ yet)

EDIT: YAY! It's working again! Took four hours, but it's still working! Now if only the payment problems would go away...
(Crossposting to LJ now that I can post to it again, for the sake of consistency)

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Will I EVER be able to renew my LJ paid account again?

2022-09-10T23:04:52Z

Well, it's been six months and it's STILL not possible to renew paid accounts on LiveJournal. I was hoping LJ would automatically renew paid accounts again like they did a couple of times but mine expires tomorrow and it looks like that's not happening.

Since this whole situation will NEVER be resolved, it will NEVER be possible for me to EVER have a paid account on LiveJournal again. :'(

Not that it matters because everyone probably hates me for wanting to be able to have a paid account on LiveJournal.

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Holy inside joke, that was a long hiatus!

2022-08-19T07:39:38Z

Well, I turned 29 last month. I thought that THIS year, I wouldn't be too depressed or unmotivated to write an entry about what I got for my birthday this year and would manage to do so AND finally post about what I got for my 27th and 28th birthdays as well. (I mean, I did post about some of my 27th birthday gifts, but in an unconventional entry and also didn't mention all of them.) But, sadly, I was still too depressed/unmotivated to get around to posting it - just not for the same reasons this time.

And today is the 15th anniversary of my LiveJournal. For years I've had an idea for something cool to make and post for the 15th anniversary of my LJ (or even the tenth anniversary since that's how long ago I thought of it!), but with so many other things on my to-do list, I never got around to working on it even when I was feeling okay - guess I'll have to aim for having that be an 18th or 20th anniversary post or something. And again, I was hoping to at least post an LJ comment stats entry for this year like I used to do every year for the anniversary of my journal, but I guess I'm once again not motivated enough to get around to that.

You know what's an even more odd milestone than the fact that I'm 29 years old, or that it's the 15th anniversary of my journal, or even that I'm coming up on my fifth anniversary at work (and am already well past that if counting before I was hired on full-time)?

The fact that I haven't posted an entry to LJ or DW in EIGHTY-SEVEN DAYS.

I didn't even realize it had been that long until about a week ago! To be fair, in July there were comments on the LJ version of my May entry so I have an excuse for not noticing it had been that long, but still... EIGHTY-SEVEN DAYS.

That's the third-longest hiatus between entries in my ENTIRE history on LiveJournal - and the only two hiatuses that were longer were December 2007-June 2008 and June 2008-February 2009.
Do you know how long ago that was? THIRTEEN YEARS ago.
So long ago that LJ wasn't even my favorite hobby yet and for over a year all I did on LJ was post a few entries and join one already-inactive community. I really do mean a few entries - the entry in 2009 that ended the hiatus and marked the beginning of LJ becoming my favorite hobby? That was my TENTH entry out of 1,535. (For that matter, it feels like it's been a while since my 1,500th entry, yet apparently I've only posted 36 more entries since then including this one?)

Does... Does that mean LJ is no longer my favorite hobby? Even when I was worried about rumors about LJ shutting down, or about drama on LJ, or the possibility of offending people - and even those when I INTENDED to go on a hiatus from posting for a while because I was worried about what people think! - I still liked LJ enough to post to it at least once a month, or at the very least more often than once every 87 days. That makes me sad. :(

I'm definitely still not going to LEAVE LiveJournal, but... wow. :(

I miss my LJ friends from the old days. I miss having friends on here that I feel understood by. Not to say that I DON'T have active friends on LJ or DW who understand me, but I don't feel as understood as I used to. If more of my LJ friends from the good old days were still here, I'd probably be more motivated to post. I worry a lot about what my newer LJ/DW friends think (or might think) about entries and comments I wrote in the early days, when I did a lot, lot, LOT of oversharing on LJ (something that I'm probably not even any better at avoiding now).

I don't know what else to say right now. There's many things I want to post about, but some of them good and some of them are bad (and the bad ones are very different from one another) so I'm never sure how to post about both good and bad things that happened without coming across as insensitive or tone-deaf like I end up doing pretty much EVERY time I EVER try to post about anything.

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MuseTree

2022-05-24T10:58:56Z

Previously on matt1993...

MATT1993:

Here's some random things I've been meaning to show you:

https://jukebox.openai.com/ - AI-generated music in the style of various artists, or even combinations of two artists' styles! Sadly there are no examples with either video game music or Enya - the two I most wanted to combine. But there's several examples with Céline Dion, and a Moya Brennan one and a Sarah McLachlan one, so I'm happy about that :)

Guess what??? There's FINALLY an online interface for an API similar to this except it actually lets you generate your own music instead of just listening to pre-generated songs! (well, supposedly there's a way to do so with the other one too but it seemed a lot more complicated to set up compared to this) AND it lets you put in an arbitrary MIDI file to start from! And there's a LOT of genres to choose from, including not just video game music in general but also Nintendo specifically, AND a lot of individual artists including Enya!

https://stevenwaterman.uk/musetree/

This means I can finally hear Mario music in Enya's style!! Or, inversely, Enya music in the style of... well, Nintendo music in general or video game music in general because there's not an option for just Mario. But good enough!

I'm so ecstatic that the insanely specific mashup that only I have ever wanted to hear is finally possible with AI. :P

In other news, I know I haven't posted much lately but don't worry, I'm feeling much better in general than I was over the past couple of years. I know some of my posts from that era were pretty heavy but don't worry, my mental health has been a lot better as of late. It helps that society is actually starting to care more about mental health now, and less about making people feel bad about themselves for not wanting the changes to last forever or being bad at following the guidelines. And I no longer have to worry that most things may never return to the way they were before the pandemic because, well, right now life for me is already a lot more similar to life before the pandemic than I ever expected it to be.

The only thing I'm really unhappy with as of late is... my journal. I keep thinking about stupid things I've written years ago (most of which I thought at the time were better than something I'd written prior, but... they really weren't) and worrying that future entries will be like them. I feel like there's only a few people who would still like me if they saw ALL, or even half, of the things I've posted on LiveJournal.

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Matt1993 Stayeth

2022-04-16T06:49:19Z

Well, March 11 has been over for a while now. March 15 has been over for a while now. And LJ is still around (and even extended existing paid accounts, including ones like mine that had already expired, so I have all my userpics back too!)

So I figured I should let you all know I'm still using it. I never intended to actually leave LJ unless it shut down entirely.

Despite this, I probably still won't be posting much for a while (to either LJ or DW), simply because it's hard to even decide WHAT to post about these days. There are things I'd like to post about, but I can't really decide which to even post first because I don't know which entries people like the most, and can't even decide whether to post the entries that I think more people would like or just the ones that interest me the most.
I'm so conflicted as to what my journal is even about anymore... it used to just be the place where I post whatever nonsense pops into my head (including literal nonsense like backwards lyrics, dreams that don't make any sense, etc.) without caring too much about what people think of it. Then I started feeling weird about a lot of my past entries for various reasons, and don't want to post more entries like those, but also I do kind of want to because I miss the days when this journal was just where I posted about whatever I want?

At the very least, there's still a lot of changes I want to make to my journal (fixing broken links and images, making custom friends groups so my worst entries aren't as visible as the better ones, and so on). I've thought about what the quickest way would be to get my journal into a state that I feel comfortable with people reading it, and that might be to update some of my userpics so that I can feel better about the entries and comments I used them on without having to edit those posts directly. But it still might take a while for me to get around to that because I procrastinate so much.

Just wanted to let you know I haven't left LJ. :)

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Matt1993 Goeth?

2022-03-14T07:19:06Z

Hi! I'm Matt. For more info about what I do most of the time, go to my profile page. Or don't. It's not that helpful right now anyways.

Right now, I AM COMPLETELY FREAKING OUT BECAUSE I STILL DON'T KNOW IF LIVEJOURNAL WILL STAY AROUND!!! And am once again worried that people might hate me for still liking LiveJournal!
I'm also wondering what the next Strong Bad Email will be like if there ever is a new one. But mostly that freaking out about LJ thing.

*insert something about screenshots*

*insert completely unnecessary repost button added retroactively that pokes fun at the entry*

...What? This might be my last entry on LiveJournal, so I figured it should be a throwback reference to
my first entry... (DW link)

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Dawn of the 3rd Day ~ 48 Hours Remain? 72 Hours? I Don't Even Know Anymore

2022-03-13T08:30:31Z

Well, it's March 13. Anyone have any updates on how likely it is that LJ will actually go down? Or whether or not it's true what my sister told me that even if LJ does have a blackout for a while, it'll be temporary?

I figured I should give those of you who didn't meet me until after the first apocalypse some context on how I reacted to that and what I ended up doing as a result. (Including freaking out and stressing about it.) So I'm linking to some of the entries about that. I'm including links to both the LJ and DW versions of the relevant entries to save time / future-proof in case I end up having to backup my journal again or something. Not all of these are about LJ specifically because it wasn't the only major change causing me anxiety in 2017 - other things happened that certainly didn't help matters for me either.

https://matt1993.livejournal.com/296994.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/292561.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/297441.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/292836.html (Incidentally, I've heard that if LJ goes down, I could backup my journal to WordPress in addition to having DreamWidth as a backup. Does WordPress have the features listed here? [minus the creating two accounts thing because I think I've more or less decided against making a separate dream journal on LJ, DW, or any other site; my entries are dumb enough WITHOUT all the stuff that happens in my dreams that makes no sense when written out!])
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/297642.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/292874.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/297800.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/293263.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/298671.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/294033.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/299247.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/294591.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/299991.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/295305.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/300277.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/295574.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/300384.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/295844.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/301042.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/296398.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/301114.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/296503.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/301662.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/297176.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/302500.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/297788.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/302604.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/298065.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/302877.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/298491.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/303545.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/298958.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/304920.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/300392.html

There's other relevant entries - several times I've posted about my anxiety about LJ or specific journals/communities or other websites/images/videos going down, and several times I've posted updates on how far I've gotten with fixing my own entries or how bad I felt about still being behind on my friends page, but most of them are similar to these.

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>:(

2022-03-11T11:23:52Z

Why can't I renew my paid account on LJ??? Each time I try it, my cart is emptied as though the transaction was successful, but it's not because I still don't have a paid account.

Anyone else experiencing this issue on LJ?

EDIT: I've been looking it up and it sounds like it will NEVER be possible to buy ANYTHING from the LJ shop ever again. :( Well, I guess this is gonna be my last entry on both LJ and DW then. No point in using LJ until the issue is fixed, and no point in using DW if I can't make my LJ consistent with it, and the issue will probably never be resolved.

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