Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

You know what?

I decided I'm not gonna post anymore until the coronavirus pandemic is over. (Unless I change my mind for whatever reason.)


It's pretty clear that:
- If I DO post about the coronavirus, I get seen as a bad person for reacting to it in the way I am (wishing social distancing would EVENTUALLY end and stating that I don't think I can be happy again until I know it will end eventually; thinking about it so much since so many things I enjoy might be cancelled or delayed; etc.) or for the way I word it.
- If I post about anything OTHER than the coronavirus, then (assuming I somehow successfully do so without mentioning the virus once, which is almost impossible) I get seen as a bad person for talking about anything else.


So, looks like my best course of action is to not post at all until I can do so without having to worry about being criticized for what I choose to post about. I'll probably still reply to comments, but that's it.


See you when the pandemic is over!... IF the pandemic is ever over, which I still don't think it ever will be...

Can one of you please collide with the Earth already??? I CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Homestar Runner Wiki:

OKAY. I GET IT. THE CORONAVIRUS IS A BIG DEAL AND WE HAVE TO CLOSE EVERY MAJOR SOCIAL GATHERING AND BASICALLY DESTROY THE ENTIRE WORLD TO STOP IT FROM SPREADING.

THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO CHANGE YOUR LOGO TO A SICK HOMESTAR.

LARGE SOCIAL GATHERINGS HAVE TO BE CLOSED TO PROTECT EVERYONE, BUT YOU'RE A WEBSITE, NOT A LARGE SOCIAL GATHERING. YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT AND IN FACT YOU'RE NOT HELPING BY DOING SO. YOU'RE SPREADING THE FEAR AND UNREST THAT EVERYONE ALREADY HAS, FOR NO GOOD REASON.

I WOULD LIKE THERE TO BE *ONE* WEBSITE THAT I CAN LOOK AT WITHOUT BEING REMINDED THAT IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!!!

One hour to go.

Dear everyone who has told me, or their YouTube followers, or whoever, that the YouTube COPPA thing is nothing to worry about:

There's enough of you by now that I can KIND of take your word for it. But I am going to be SO MAD if you turn out to be wrong and this is the end of YouTube as we know it after all.

pathvain_aelien stayed at my apartment for a while; in that time we watched the How To Train Your Dragon TV show! (Specifically, the third of the three shows there were. P_A, what was the third show called again? Dragons: Race to the Edge.) We made it to season 4. :) Have any of you watched it?

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It's no secret that I've fallen really far behind on my plan to backup some of my Miiverse posts on LJ/DW once a week. So I have an idea of how to get on a regular schedule that I'll have more motivation to stick to: start posting them once every two weeks instead of one, and act as if this had been my schedule all along starting from my first Miiverse backup entry - meaning the second Miiverse backup entry is now retroactively considered to be posted a week early (being one week after the first rather than two), the third one is retroactively considered to be two weeks early (being two weeks after the first instead of four), and so on.

As I've posted 23 Miiverse backup entries so far, that means the next one would get posted 23×2=46 weeks after the first, which would be the week of... December 12? So this means I'm now "still" caught up! :)

Do me a favor. The next time I consider doing some sort of regular feature on LJ or DW that requires me to upload new images or post entries with images in them once a week, please remind me about this and try to convince me to bring it down to once every two weeks...

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Finally, now that the last Super Smash Bros. Direct is out, I'll give you another taste of just how weird it is in the mind of Matt1993:

- When I first saw a screenshot of Kirby's Peach copy ability in Super Smash Bros. Melee (when I was 9), I somehow didn't realize that was Peach's crown - my mind jumped to the conclusion that King Bob-omb from Super Mario 64 was playable and either that was his pink alternate costume or Kirby's King Bob-omb copy ability.
- I made up an entire moveset for Mary O. & Yamamura from Super Mario Maker and posted it earlier this year. (And I've brought up the idea even earlier than that - see the music tag on that April Fools entry.)
- And somehow, despite all of that, I still at no point expected a Piranha Plant to be a playable character.

Also, why is it that so many Super Smash Bros. fans hate each other over who's playable or different opinions about who they want to playable?

( This got rant-ier than the rest of the entry. Long story short: I like Piranha Plant and other unexpected SSB characters more than most of the Internet seems to )


*Why couldn't this song have existed when MY world came to an end? It would have been so appropriate for that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHyMORrsaYk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqXKEgTYZBQ
https://www.vox.com/2017/12/14/16774148/net-neutrality-repeal-explained

That's it. The apocalypse DEFINITELY happened now. :(

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Okay.



HOW, JUST HOW, DID PHOTOBUCKET MANAGE TO REPLACE ALL MY DREAMWIDTH USERPICS WITH THEIR PLACEHOLDER IMAGE?!

HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE??

My userpics aren't even hosted ON Photobucket!!!

I'm... quite scared right now. :O



Fortunately, my LJ userpics don't seem to be affected for whatever reason. (YET...)



You know what? I decided I'm giving up on this whole "keep a DW account as a backup" thing and going back to just using LJ. It was so much easier when I only had one journal to maintain... (Though while I highly doubt I'll change my mind about this, please, if you list me as a friend on here, keep me listed just in case).

Goodbye, DreamWidth.

I think there's a glitch in my copy of Windows 7. It says today's date is "1/1/2018". I thought the year 2018 didn't exist - didn't the world end in 2017?

Wait, I got it! 2018 must be like a secret bonus world or something! :P


Happy New Year, everyone! And happy 10,000,000,002,016th anniversary, mezzacotta! ;)

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! :)