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Super Mario Maker 2 has been updated?!

Sun, 06 Oct 2019 16:53:23 GMT

Oh man!!! Could this be the day that Nintendo FINALLY brings back Mary O.?! It's probably too late to have her be part of the tutorial, but maybe there could be DLC jobs in the story mode and some of them could be by her?? Or at the very least, a Mary O. Mii costume as DLC??

Version 1.1.0

On October 1st, 2019, an update was made for playing online with friends, minor changes and bug fixes.[17]

Course World

Network Play
Added "Play with friends"
Added features to "Nearby Play"
Added "LAN Play"

Official Makers
Added a list of Official Makers in Leaderboards

...oh. I see Nintendo still doesn't care about the feelings of Mary O. fanboys like me. (Unless Mary O. is one of the "official makers" like she was in the first SMM, but I think we all know that won't be the case.) :(

( the more rant-y portion of this entry is cut for your convenience )

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Miiverse Backup: Posts From ????????

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 04:24:41 GMT

( I WILL put the rest of them under a LJ-cut (paper cut?), though )

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Weekly Miiverse Backup: Posts from June 2013

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 04:01:20 GMT

SOMEONE on here sure has been falling behind on his promise to archive a few more of his Miiverse posts on LJ and DW every-- oh wait, that someone is me, isn't it... :P

If I'd been on schedule, this entry would've been posted between June 17 and 23, 2018. It's kind of hard to motivate myself to post these sometimes because I have to write the DW version of the entry, have that automatically be cross-posted to LJ, and then edit the LJ version to use the LJ copies of all the images (community icons, handwritten posts, tiny icons like the one for Yeahs, etc.)...

Hopefully it'll become easier now, though... Recently I made a little program where I can write the LJ and DW versions of an entry simultaneously, where I type into one text box and the program copies it into separate text boxes for LJ and DW; it copies text into both text boxes until it gets to a "▌" character (meaning everything until the next "▐" or "█" should be on LJ only), a "▐" character (meaning everything until the next "▌" or "█" should be on DW only), or a "█" character (meaning everything until the next "▌" or "▐" should be on both). For instance, the last word in this sentence is different on here from what it is on LiveJournal. The use of left/right half block characters makes sense to me because I typically put LJ-related tabs on the left side of my screen and DW-related tabs on the right so I can tell them apart. :)

(Though this one still took a while. Maybe I need to modify my program to add shortcuts specifically to make these Miiverse backup posts easier by making it so that if I type ☺Y☻ or ☺SSB4☻ or ☺:O☻, for instance, it'll be replaced with the Yeahs icon or the SSB4 community icon or my Mii's shocked expression, complete with it being the LJ version on LJ and the DW version on DW?)

← 04/21/2013 - 04/22/2013 July 2013 →

Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U Community
Matt 06/17/2013 10:54 PM

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(In addition to my first Miiverse post in over a month, this was also my first one in the Super Smash Bros. series community. The backup Nintendo sent me incorrectly says these are in the Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U community, but that was the community created after the game was released, which I never posted in because by then I'd already become sick of Miiverse; the SSB series community was created after the Villager, Mega Man, and Wii Fit Trainer reveals at E3 and existed until the game was released.

( Oh boy, I remember the SSB community... )

Two more things to point out: This had the second-most comments of any of my posts on Miiverse - surpassed only by that surprisingly popular "unlikely vine, likely vine" one - and was my first Miiverse post to end up having more comments than Yeahs.)

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 06/17/2013 11:06 PM

Donkey Kong's Crash Course
You'd think not playing this for awhile would've helped me quit going too fast and always crashing…

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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 06/27/2013 6:07 PM

Yoshi's Fruit Cart

Apparently there's a trend of drawing stuff in Fruit Cart. At first I thought "pointless but might as well try it" but when I started I thought "It's harder than it looks…so THAT'S why they do it!"

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(That's supposed to be my Mii. I don't know why I merely said that there was a trend of people drawing "stuff" in Yoshi's Fruit Cart if the only pictures I remember anyone drawing in that game were of their Miis. I don't think my drawing turned out well... I found it hard enough to draw my Mii as it was, and then to try and do so with a single connected line...)

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 06/27/2013 6:26 PM

Takamaru's Ninja Castle
Whenever I have to throw stars rapidly, I end up doing so to the rhythm of the music :)

1 0

(As it turns out, this was my last post in the Nintendo Land community for whatever reason. I still haven't gotten around to 100% completing the game. Which attractions [plus the plaza] did I post about the most?

( cut for length )

Note that I did play the last three on the list, but not as often because they are multiplayer-only - and in multiplayer modes there's less opportunities to take a break to make Miiverse posts.)

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 06/27/2013 8:18 PM

Finally beat the Mini Mountaineer challenge! But if getting a gold medal for it is required to unlock anything, it still might as well be "Prove the Riemann hypothesis without touching the ground" :(

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(And this was my last post in the New Super Mario Bros. U community, excluding posts about New Super Luigi U - and my only post in that community to be about Challenge Mode instead of the main adventure. Makes sense since I'd already gotten all 5 stars in the main adventure.

This was probably also my most obscure joke throughout my entire history on Miiverse, too... if you don't know what the Riemann hypothesis is, all you need to know to understand my joke is that it's a certain mathy thing that is probably true, but so difficult to definitively prove that so far no one has been able to do so. I guess I was hoping that people would at least know that, but I was wrong. This is about the only reason I know what it is, in fact.

Back to NSMBU... I still don't think I've 100% completed all of the challenges in Challenge Mode - I'm pretty sure there's still some I haven't beaten, with gold medals or otherwise.

Which New Super Mario Bros. U levels did I post about the most?

( cut for length again )

This excludes New Super Luigi U levels and cases where I can't deduce exactly which level I was playing.)

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TWENTY-FIVE!

Sat, 14 Jul 2018 05:48:59 GMT

I've been trying to cut down on the "express everything I want to say by editing Garfield or other comics and/or making stuff with my sprites" thing that I did on LJ a lot in 2012-2013 or so, but I just HAD to make THIS one:

(Original Garfield strip: June 19, 2003)

Hmm... Seeing those three versions of myself in one room like that really makes it stand out that the modern sprite version of myself has a skin tone noticeably darker than my real skin tone. Oh well.

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Weekly Miiverse Backup: Posts from 04/21/2013 - 04/22/2013

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 22:00:21 GMT

I'm so behind my planned schedule of posting these Miiverse backup entries - if I'd kept to my schedule, I would've posted this entry between June 10 and 16. Maybe this will become Daily Miiverse Backup until I'm caught up!

← 04/08/2013 - 04/19/2013 June 2013 →

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/21/2013 9:14 PM

Balloon Trip Breeze

6 6

(I'm surprised this had 6 Yeahs, because it's kind of hard to tell what's going on and I remember one person couldn't even read the third panel. In fact, it's kind of hard to illustrate any sort of "I died because of this" moment in Balloon Trip Breeze in a way that it's easy to tell what's going on, especially if I try and illustrate two in one post...)

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/21/2013 9:21 PM

One of these prizes is not like the others...

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(Yay, my first Miiverse post to have a screenshot in it! Did the screenshot feature not exist until then, or did I not know how to use it until then, or did I simply not have a good reason to post a screenshot until then? Who knows?)

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/22/2013 7:36 PM

Anyone know why my TV doesn't show anything from the Wii U now even though it's still plugged in?

6 6

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/22/2013 9:40 PM

Pikmin Adventure
For me, this was the first level that seemed more difficult than just "throw Pikmin at everything"…

6 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/22/2013 9:52 PM

Nintendo Land Plaza
That awkward moment when you accidentally shove a random Mii out of the way in the plaza...

6 0

(And then after this was my first longer-than-a-month hiatus from Miiverse; my next post was 56 days after this one. Hopefully it won't take me that long to post the next Miiverse backup entry!)

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Weekly Miiverse Backup: Posts from 04/08/2013 - 04/19/2013

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 08:11:21 GMT

Well, it would be weekly if I'd posted this between June 3 and 9, anyway...

Featuring my first and only post in the Legend of Zelda Series community, and surprisingly many Zelda-related posts in general!

(And yeah, I know I'm posting a lot of gaming-related posts lately between my Miiverse backup posts, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate hype, and my fanboying over a certain cute manual guide. Sorry.)

← March 2013 04/21/2013 - 04/22/2013 →

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/08/2013 8:17 PM

Nintendo Land Plaza
Saved up so many coins that when I left the coin minigame, the prizes shot out rapid-fire XD

3 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/08/2013 9:03 PM

The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest (in that time trial mode, to be specific)
I'd like to see someone TRY to beat my best time: a mere… -:--.--? Yeah, alright, I'm bad at this :(

3 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/08/2013 9:10 PM

The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest (still in time trial mode)
NOW I beat it! If it takes 1:11, though, I don't think I can get those 25 / 20 sec or less stamps…

4 0

(How did this post get more Yeahs than the previous one?)

(Also, as some of you who've known me for a while know, I made a LJ entry in 2013 about my first Miiverse post to get misunderstood; that misunderstood post isn't in the backup I got from Nintendo because it's a comment on another post, but chronologically it was before this next one.)

The Legend of Zelda Series Community
Matt 04/13/2013 12:13 AM

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(That inside joke ended up not being used a whole lot, but a couple of years later I did nickname my Zelda amiibo "100PctZlda" [would've been "100% Zelda" but percent signs aren't allowed in amiibo nicknames for some reason?] because of it.
Also, in addition to this being my first and only post in this community, this is also my first Miiverse post to lack the "has played this game" icon, because it's the first time I posted in a community where the icon never appears because the community is for a whole series and not one specific game.)

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/19/2013 8:42 PM

Donkey Kong's Crash Course

7 0

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Weekly Miiverse Backup: Posts from 01/18/2013 - 01/19/2013

Mon, 14 May 2018 02:21:26 GMT

Speaking of Miiverse, here's a Miiverse backup post that I meant to post last week! :)

Featuring what apparently was my first few Nintendo Land posts in 13 days. At the time, that was my longest hiatus from any specific Miiverse community in addition to this being the first time I posted to Miiverse at all in over a week.

← 01/10/2013 01/21/2013 - 02/01/2013 →

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/18/2013 8:45 PM

Nintendo Land Plaza

8 7

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/18/2013 8:50 PM

The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest
Having to keep refilling my quiver makes ME quiver...

3 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/18/2013 9:02 PM

Metroid Blast
Wow, Level 6 was easy compared to the one before it...

5 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/18/2013 9:54 PM

Donkey Kong's Crash Course
Finally made it to Area 8!

6 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/19/2013 7:19 PM

Pikmin Adventure

7 1

(It turned out I was remembering wrong when I drew that first panel - in that section, the ? Block [that I'd opened by that point on the first try but not the second try] has a clock IN it; the ? Block and the clock are not both there at the same time. I'm pretty sure the one comment was me pointing this out.)

*I always assumed this was specifically the theme for timed missions in Pikmin Adventure, but apparently it's not!

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Weekly Miiverse Backup: Posts from 01/05/2013 3:30-5:30 PM

Sat, 31 Mar 2018 05:21:08 GMT

I made thirteen posts on Miiverse on January 5, 2013 (though I've only put the first six in this entry). For nearly a year, that was the record of most Miiverse posts I made in a single day (if not counting replies since those weren't in the backup...) And no, I can't think of anything about that day that would make me post to Miiverse more often.

Before that, my record was nine posts each on December 29 and 30, 2012 (and thus, so far those are the only other two days that I turned into two-parters in this "backup my Miiverse posts on LJ and DW" series).

What do you think of these Miiverse backup entries so far? Should I post them more often? Less often? Include more Miiverse posts at a time? Less Miiverse posts at a time? I know probably not all of you are interested in these but I like having my Miiverse posts still existing on the Internet in some form. :)

← 01/03/2013 - 01/04/2013 01/05/2013 5:30-9:00 PM →

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 3:31 PM

The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest (clearly right after the end of the second stage)

5 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 3:49 PM

Pikmin Adventure
Was anyone else reminded of Tarantox from Super Mario Galaxy? (weak points that look like blisters)

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(It's been a while so I'm not sure what Pikmin Adventure boss I was talking about [probably was a Bulborb of some sort though] but it must have been pretty early on in that game - presumably before the first timed mission judging by the order of my posts. I don't think I ever 100% completed any of the Nintendo Land games. Maybe I should finish that someday...)

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 4:02 PM

Captain Falcon's Twister Race

1 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 4:21 PM

Takamaru's Ninja Castle

6 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 4:51 PM

Takamaru's Ninja Castle

7 0

(For those who haven't played this game, Hawk Eye is an ability that slows down the enemies and projectiles.)

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 5:11 PM

Takamaru's Ninja Castle

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(Except the invincibility stars from Mario are more commonly known as Super Stars nowadays, and I believe they've been called that since Super Mario 3D Land which is before Miiverse even existed. I guess I thought "Starman" was the term more people on Miiverse would recognize, but now I'm not sure.)

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Weekly Miiverse Backup: Posts from 01/03/2013 - 01/04/2013

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 03:05:38 GMT

I was supposed to have posted this one last week. This feature just keeps steadily getting less and less regular...

← 01/01/2013 01/05/2013 3:30-5:30 PM →

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/03/2013 9:12 PM

Dragoneel's Undersea Grotto
Considering how hard Dragoneel is to avoid, how did we beat it with 3 Star Coins on 1 try?

1 0

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/03/2013 10:18 PM

Which-Way Labyrinth
Sorry, Boos! In Soviet Russia, Baby Yoshis scare YOU!

2 0

(Huh. Apparently my first two [and only two, I think] Soviet Russia jokes on Miiverse were a mere four days apart. I thought there was a longer time span than that between them.)

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/03/2013 10:35 PM

Flight of the Para-Beetles

1 0

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/03/2013 11:13 PM

Seesaw Bridge
This level seems even harder the second time around…

1 0

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/04/2013 10:45 PM

Spine-Tingling Spine Coaster

1 0

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Weekly Miiverse Backup: Posts from 01/01/2013

Sun, 18 Mar 2018 08:41:49 GMT

You know what? I'm just calling it Weekly Miiverse Backup from now on instead of Miiverse Backup Twuednesday. My goal is still to post these on Tuesday or Wednesday as many weeks as possible - I'm just not gonna keep pretending that I'm good at sticking to it. Since now it's closer to next Tuesday and Wednesday than the one I was supposed to post it on. :P

Here's my first Miiverse posts of 2013! I get to ring in the year 2013 again five years later! :)

← 12/30/2012 9:30-11:00 PM 01/03/2013 - 01/04/2013 →

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/01/2013 9:59 PM

Metroid Blast
Rotate the Control Sticks around randomly on the intro screen if you're in the ship...Looks funny :D

6 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/01/2013 10:28 PM

The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest
I finally made it to the level 2 boss even though I got this and Ninja Castle mixed up at first…

2 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/01/2013 11:03 PM

Donkey Kong's Crash Course

2 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/01/2013 11:08 PM

Donkey Kong's Crash Course
Now I made it to Area 7! Getting there :)

1 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/01/2013 11:33 PM

Captain Falcon's Twister Race
Where's Lakitu when you need him? Lol

3 0

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Miiverse Backup Twuednesday: Posts from 12/30/2012 9:30-11:00 PM

Sat, 10 Mar 2018 03:31:58 GMT

Why am I still calling this Miiverse Backup Twuednesday if half the time I'm not sticking to my planned update schedule of every Tuesday or Wednesday?

Oh well, here's the last four of my 33 Miiverse posts in 2012! :)

← 12/30/2012 midnight-9:30 PM 01/01/2013 →

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/30/2012 9:40 PM

Octopus Dance
Finally made it to Stage 3!

1 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/30/2012 10:02 PM

Pikmin Adventure
1-player mode as Pikmin: In Soviet Russia, Olimar follow YOU!

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(This is probably the first Soviet Russia joke I ever made - not just on Miiverse, but ever. I used to find them overused along with many other Internet memes that I hadn't heard of before 2008 or so and didn't understand, but then when I discovered mezzacotta in 2011, I really liked how certain characters make surreal Soviet Russia jokes - with this one probably being the most famous - and decided Soviet Russia jokes in general weren't so bad after all. Most of the Internet memes that annoyed me back then are a lot funnier than certain more recent Internet memes...)

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/30/2012 10:32 PM

Balloon Trip Breeze

3 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/30/2012 10:56 PM

Yoshi's Fruit Cart

2 0

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Miiverse Backup Twuednesday: Posts from 12/30/2012 midnight-9:30 PM

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 10:19:10 GMT

It's Friday already and not Tuesday or Wednesday... but at least this is still the most regular feature I've had in my journal since the weekly Garfield Randomizer comics in 2009!

← 12/29/2012 5:30 PM-midnight 12/30/2012 9:30-11:00 PM →

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
( This was marked as a spoiler on Miiverse )

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/30/2012 12:37 AM

Beat the game!
That final boss was really clever, but hard. I didn't use a single continue until there!

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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/30/2012 7:24 PM

Yoshi Hill
We got all 3 Star Coins, like a... guy who can't think of a rhyme related to this level?

1 0

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/30/2012 7:36 PM

Mushroom Heights
WARNING: Collecting all 3 Star Coins somehow resulted in forgetting where the last 2 were.

1 0

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/30/2012 9:02 PM

Morton's Compactor Castle
Why does it rarely ask me to post here unless I've got nothing interesting to say or draw?

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(Strange how this post, which is just me saying that I had nothing interesting to say about that level, had more Yeahs than some of my other posts do...)

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Miiverse Backup Twuednesday: Posts from 12/29/2012 4:00-5:30 PM

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:18:48 GMT

A little late this time because it's already Thursday :(

← 12/28/2012 12/29/2012 5:30 PM-midnight →

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/29/2012 4:24 PM

The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest

6 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/29/2012 4:32 PM

The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest
Does anyone else subconsciously walk forward a bit in real life when their Mii's moving too slowly?

4 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/29/2012 4:40 PM

The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest

5 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/29/2012 4:59 PM

Donkey Kong's Crash Course

4 0

(Fun fact: I can no longer read the words "Crash Course" without thinking of Super Mario Maker Crash Course. Yes, I'm THAT obsessed with Mary O. :) )

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/29/2012 5:16 PM

Nintendo Land Plaza

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(This is the first thing I posted to Miiverse that is also something I considered making into a userpic! Though since I'm a procrastinator, I didn't actually make the userpic. I see it's not even in my current ideas file, but maybe I should readd it?)

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Miiverse Backup Twuednesday: Posts from 12/28/2012

Thu, 08 Feb 2018 03:36:43 GMT

Yay, my first few Nintendo Land posts! And you get to see what is probably my first attempt at drawing my Mii!

← 12/26/2012 12/29/2012 4:00-5:30 PM →

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/28/2012 8:19 PM

Nintendo Land Plaza
So far I've only played Yoshi's Fruit Cart, Pikmin Adventure & Balloon Trip Breeze, but enjoying it!

2 1

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/28/2012 9:02 PM

Octopus Dance

2 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/28/2012 9:06 PM

Octopus Dance
I'm bad at this :(

3 0

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/28/2012 9:24 PM

Metroid Blast
The controls are gonna take some getting used to...

2 0

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/28/2012 10:44 PM

Switchback Hill

1 0

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Miiverse Backup Twuednesday: Posts from 12/26/2012

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 01:32:46 GMT

I feel like there should be some sort of header here. Um... Here's more archived Miiverse posts! Still only New Super Mario Bros. U so far, but that's about to change!

I made it so that if you click the green bookmark icon on NSMBU posts that say what level they're from, it'll take you to the Super Mario Wiki article about that level. :)

← 12/25/2012 12/28/2012 →

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/26/2012 7:08 PM

The Mighty Cannonship
That was unexpected...

1 0

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/26/2012 8:06 PM

Snake Block Tower
You'd think Giant Snake Blocks would be EASIER to stay on than normal ones. Apparently not

1 0

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/26/2012 8:14 PM

Snake Block Tower
About time! It helps to not try to go over/under the Amps if you don't have to

1 0

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/26/2012 8:40 PM

Painted Swampland
WARNING: If you're playing multiplayer, jump one at a time on the pipes. Easier to stay on

2 0

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/26/2012 9:10 PM

Seesaw Bridge
Two words: Don't fall!

1 0

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/26/2012 9:28 PM

Wiggler Stampede

1 0

(I like how I wrote "1000 or so". :) )

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Armiigeddon

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 23:31:23 GMT

Well, today is the day that Miiverse is shut down at 10 PM PST. (which would be midnight in Central where I live, so... I guess for me, it's not actually today? Whatever.)

Out of all the drastic changes this year (so far), I think this is the only one that I'm not all that upset about. Miiverse started out as probably the most positive online community ever, but it didn't stay that way for long - eventually it went so downhill, it's been years since the last time I visited Miiverse itself. I'd still read posts whenever they appeared in game (Super Mario 3D World, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Nintendo Badge Arcade, etc.), but I think the last time I went to Miiverse itself was 2014. Maybe 2015. I didn't even hurriedly try to find a way to save my own posts somewhere. (Though while looking up information about the discontinuation, I did notice that there's a way to request a downloadable archive of my posts, but I doubt I'll have time to figure out where to go to do that in the next few hours.)

...okay, forget what I said about not being all that disappointed. NOW it's making me kind of sad. :( Maybe I'll try and get an archive of my posts after all.

EDIT: Submitted the request! That was easier than expected. So easy, I must've done it twice by accident because it told me I submitted it already. :)

While I'm on Miiverse for the last time, have some random stats about my Miiverse account:

Following 53 users

13 followers

256 posts (hey, a nice nerdy number! And I wasn't even trying to have any of these be interesting numbers!)

1,788 Yeahs

Last post was on November 23, 2016 in Nintendo Badge Arcade. (Though it ALMOST was not the last post; for Valentine's Day 2017, I had every intention of celebrating by putting badges of the lovely Mary O. and a bunch of hearts from Zelda on my HOME menu ~~because I'm the sort of dork who would at least consider doing that~~ and posting that to the Nintendo Badge Arcade community. I did in fact make such a HOME menu, but didn't post it because it wasn't Valentine's Day yet - and for whatever reason, making it again on Valentine's Day and posting it slipped my mind. Probably because that was so soon after work started.)

I only made two Miiverse posts overall in 2016, and none in 2015 - the last one before that was on July 29, 2014 in the NES Remix 2 community. (I'm not surprised that this was so soon after Lucina and Robin were confirmed for Super Smash Bros. 4 - I do remember how the last time I checked Miiverse regularly, it seemed like EVERY SINGLE POST in the SSB community was like "With my Levin Sword, I'll _____".)

Speaking of which, my bio is:

"I'm a sensei; i.e., SNES am I!
(translation: I've been playing video games since the NES and SNES. My all-time favorite classic game: Super Mario World!)

I can't wait to play Super Smash Bros. 4, but I'd be even MORE excited if people would stop whining about the roster being just SLIGHTLY different from what they want. I really hope that there'll be less of that once the game's released..."

...SSB3DS has been out for over three years, and in a couple of weeks, that'll also be true of SSBU. I went THREE YEARS without updating that bio. Why do I have the sudden urge to turn up the hearing aid that I don't have?

Well, whatever. At least now my Miiverse posts will be turned into an ice cube so future generations can thaw them out and marvel at my same-length legs! :)

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WHY HAPPENING?

Sat, 04 Nov 2017 21:09:17 GMT

So, I posted before when I found out in July that Photobucket made it so that users have to pay $400 a year for their images to show up anywhere other than Photobucket (and how it was disheartening since I WOULD have been able to see them if I hadn't been such a procrastinator for several years, and also couldn't fix them because I don't even use Photobucket and if I did I still couldn't fix anyone else's), but then I think I also posted when I found out that I could still see the images in Photobucket itself by opening the image in a new tab in Chrome.

Well, now I can't even do THAT anymore - the images are broken on Photobucket itself now! I'm not sure whether that's because I switched computers or whether it's because Photobucket somehow made their Terms of Service even WORSE, but one thing is for sure:

I SHOULD NEVER HAVE PUT OFF CHECKING MY FRIENDS PAGE OR ANY OF THE WEBCOMICS I USED TO READ BACK IN 2011-2013. Pretending I've gone back in time to finish all of that sooner is not going to cut it. Even if I also link to the DW version of the entry I just linked to.

I should've at least started catching up earlier than 2015... When I played Super Smash Bros. for 3DS for the first time, I played All-Star Mode, and hearing this soothing but slightly sad-sounding music in between rounds and seeing the years the characters debuted (especially when they were years I was around for, especially especially when it was as recent as 2001-2006 or 2007-2013) written on a wall in what looks like ancient ruins really gave me the feels the first time around and made me think about how long I'd been putting off the stuff I wanted to catch up on - why didn't I start my trip through memory lane THEN (besides the fact that I was still super excited to finally play that game)? If I had, I might actually be done by now!

I feel like the world (especially the Internet) is just becoming more and more destroyed by the minute... not only that, I've been feeling like I'VE let the world get destroyed by waiting all the way until 2015 to start catching up on everything I wanted to catch up on! I know that sounds silly, but it also sounds exactly like how I feel every time something else I could've seen years ago but didn't disappears. Which is ALWAYS.

Well, FINE!! If you can't beat the fact that half of the Internet looks like Comments on a Postcard fanstuff now, JOIN the fact that half of the Internet looks like Comments on a Postcard fanstuff now!

Check out these Miis I just made of the COAP cast:

EDIT: How'd I forget Margaret considering that I think I did a better job on her Mii than any of the others??

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Super Smashing Birthdays

Fri, 14 Jul 2017 04:55:38 GMT

Happy a-few-minutes-early-in-my-time-zone birthday to me! :)

And also happy birthday to 13catswaltz, who has the same birthday as me! :)

And also also to Luigi - because Mario Bros. was released in Japan on July 14, 1983; my negative tenth birthday. ;)

Hey, there's an idea for a totally nerdy survey...

This page has a table (several paragraphs down from the beginning of that section...) that lists the dates every* Super Smash Bros. character debuted (because in SSB4, the order you fight them in All-Star Mode is based on that).

Use that to figure out your answers to these questions:

1) Which SSB character(s), if any, debuted on your birthday in any year?
Luigi

2) Which SSB character(s) debuted closest to the date you were born?
Meta Knight (debuted March 23, 1993 - the date closest to July 14, 1993 in that list).

3) Which SSB character(s) debuted closest to the date you created your LiveJournal/DreamWidth/some-other-journal-site account? (If you have/had multiple journals, you may answer this separately for all of them, some of them, or just one. Whichever you prefer.)
My LJ was created on August 19, 2007 - the character whose debut was closest to that is Rosalina (November 1, 2007).
My DW was created on May 13, 2017, long after the debut of the newest character (Corrin, on June 25, 2015).

:)

*Except Miis, alternate characters (the Koopalings and Alph), and characters from Melee and Brawl who aren't in SSB4. ( I went ahead and looked up the relevant dates in case you want to include them )

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