Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

If you're not into Super Smash Bros. or Super Mario Maker... and maybe even if you ARE into those games but aren't as obsessed with Mary O. as I am... then this entry will probably be of no interest to you and you should probably skip it unless you REALLY want to know what goes on inside my head. :P


Being the Nintendo nerd I am, ever since the first Super Smash Bros. I sometimes tried to imagine what it would be like if various characters (video game or otherwise) that weren't playable in any SSB games yet were.

But I don't think I've ever come up with a complete moveset for one until now. Usually all I think of is:
- "What would Kirby look like if he copied this character?"
- "What would this character's alternate costumes be?"
- (for characters who aren't from a series that's already in the game) "What would this character's series symbol be?"
- MAYBE a game mechanic that would be unique to that one character
- MAYBE taunts and MAYBE special moves and a Final Smash.

And usually I don't write about or draw any of these ideas either - just think about it.


But lately, due to my constantly being obsessed with Mary O. (who unfortunately is still obscure enough that I feel like I have to link to that article again), I've been thinking more and more about what it'd be like if she and Yamamura were playable in Super Smash Bros. as a 2-in-1 character similar to Duck Hunt.

In fact I first thought of this idea at some point before April Fools' Day 2017 (see the music tag for that entry), but lately I've been thinking more and more about how this could work, enough that I think I have ideas for their entire hypothetical moveset by now.

And I keep thinking about said moveset so much that writing an entry about it is probably the only way I'm ever going to stop being so distracted thinking about it, even though I doubt it'd be interesting to anyone here (none of you are as obsessed with Mary O. as I am, and a lot of you probably aren't even into Super Smash Bros. enough for this to be of interest to you). So I'll LJ-cut it so I won't bore you. :)


( Blah blah blah Mary O. moving sideways )

It feels so weird that I've put all this thought into making an entire moveset and such for Mary O. & Yamamura for literally no reason since I doubt I'd be making a Super Smash Bros. fangame or hack anytime soon... and it feels especially weird to actually be typing out this ridiculous idea after spending so much time only thinking about it...

Well, now you know what goes on inside my head! :P

More archived Miiverse posts even though I somehow JUST NOW realized that maybe I should check archive.org to see if anything on Miiverse that I thought was lost forever (i.e. wasn't in the backup Nintendo emailed me) was accessible there, and as it turns out, there's a LOT that's still available that way! Including my own posts! And the comments on at least some of them! And my replies to other people's posts! Why didn't I think to try that until now??

I'm still going to make these Miiverse backup entries the same way I was going to (because who knows if they're ALL on archive.org, and even if they are, it'd be easier to find them in these entries, and I like getting to add commentary about some of them in retrospect), but...wow. I can still access so much content on Miiverse that I thought was gone forever! Maybe I'll go back later on and edit these entries to include not just how MANY comments I had on my Miiverse posts, but exactly what those comments were if I can find them!


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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/21/2013 9:24 PM



16 3

(Note that this is nearly a year before they introduced stamps for certain games, and even after the stamp update there never were any stamps for NSMBU. I first made this on my computer in Paint by taking the sprite [from a Mario spritesheet I got from spriters-resource.com that had been saved on my computer ever since the days of PrtSc Land] and recoloring it to grayscale and resizing to 500%, then I replaced all the gray pixels with different patterns of black and white stripes. Then I recreated the whole thing pixel-by-pixel on Miiverse. I don't remember how long it took.

Also this is the first of the only two times I made [non-reply] Miiverse posts with no words in them!

And with sixteen Yeahs, I think it's safe to say that this post had the second-most Yeahs of any post I made, second only to the surprisingly popular "unlikely vine, likely vine" one.)


Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/23/2013 9:42 PM

Donkey Kong's Crash Course
After you're out of lives, you can still tilt and move lifts to guide your remains thru the level!

5 5

(I know it's supposed to be "through" but I don't think that would have fit in the 100-character limit Miiverse had at the time.)


Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/23/2013 10:21 PM

Donkey Kong's Crash Course
This time I got TOO enthusiastic about getting past the 1st areas quickly. Only made it to Area 2...

6 0


Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/23/2013 10:31 PM



5 0

(At this point I was intending to make a post like this for every multiple of 250 Yeahs up to at least 1,000 - possibly up to 2,000 - then doing it every 500 or 1,000 Yeahs after that. But eventually I forgot about all of this and 250 Yeahs was the only milestone I ended up celebrating.

I don't know how many Yeahs I had by the time Miiverse shut down - I've said before that it was 1,788, but from archive.org it looks like that's actually how many Yeahs *I* gave to *other* people's posts. Now I'm hoping I didn't make the same incorrect assumption when I posted this...

If I counted right, all my posts before this one had a combined total of 307 Yeahs by the time Miiverse shut down. So a lot of those posts probably got more Yeahs even after this one was posted.

Right after this post, I went eight days in a row without posting to Miiverse [except MAYBE replies] - beating out my previous-longest hiatus by one day.)


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 02/01/2013 10:24 PM

Run for It
Getting to the end still isn't easy even w/o having to worry about the first 2 Star Coins…

2 0

(Right after THIS post, I would end up breaking that hiatus record AGAIN by going 20 days without making any Miiverse posts [again, with the possible exception of replies]. And yes, we were still having trouble with this level... we'd beaten it once, but we still had to go back for the last Star Coin eventually.)

Once again, it's time for some archived Miiverse posts I was hoping to have posted here last week! :P

← 01/05/2013 10:30 PM-midnight 01/07/2013 - 01/09/2013 →

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/06/2013 5:13 PM

Run for It
It's so hard to hit the switches! Especially if we bubble if the A button merely twitches!

2 0

(I think this is the only time I actually obeyed the "write a rhyme about this level on Miiverse" prompt that came up in-game, not counting the time I subverted it by rhyming "Star Coins" with "can't think of a rhyme related to this level". I did the "warning sign" prompt a few times, though. And apparently I also only ever followed the "two words" prompt once but didn't think to point it out in these Miiverse backup entries.)

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/06/2013 7:24 PM

Run for It
This is the only level I know that's easier with more players…but we're STILL not past it!

3 0

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/06/2013 7:49 PM

Run for It
I think we'll have better luck if we just stay at the beginning until the timer runs out…

2 0

(Or rather, pathvain_aelien thought this and I made a post on Miiverse about it.)

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/06/2013 10:32 PM

Run for It
FINALLY made it with two ☆ Coins but only because one of us touched the goal by accident!

2 0

(Considering the trouble we had in this level, I'm surprised it apparently only took us two days to beat it [even if that's not counting going back later for the remaining Star Coin]. I see it did take a few hours, though!)

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/06/2013 10:57 PM

Fliprus Lake
If there were ever a Three Stooges video game, it'd be a LOT like 3-player in this game...

5 0

(Oddly enough, within the past month or so I discovered that there are in fact TWO Three Stooges video games already. Since 1984 and 1987, in fact. The former apparently has three-player mode as its ONLY mode, even! Maybe I should try these out someday...)

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/06/2013 11:54 PM

Hammerswing Caverns


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

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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


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

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

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

Spine-Tingling Spine Coaster


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Haven't you always wondered what a certain bizarre unfinished Super Mario Galaxy 2 / Enya / Moya Brennan crossover I wrote when I was 17 would've been like if I hadn't been 17 when I wrote it, but it was still just as unfinished?

Probably not, because most of you hadn't even met me yet when I wrote Moya's Space Log.


If you weren't friends with me in November 2010 and have not read the FAQ in my profile, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about, so I'll link to an entry that'll hopefully explain it... basically, a series of inside jokes and my thoughts while writing an entry about what I got for my birthday somehow led to me attempting to write a silly fanfiction for NaNoWriMo that year where Mario, Luigi, and Enya and Moya Brennan all adventure together in Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Moya's always questioning the logic of Mario games while Enya simply accepts it.

But then I didn't finish writing it past the first mission of SMG2. And I never get around to finishing it for at least seven years despite occasionally promising to. I don't think that'll change anytime soon since there's still so many other things on my to-do list (that is probably even longer by now than Moya's Space Log would be if I had completed it).


BUT! As I said in a friends-only entry recently, I finally got around to something else I've been meaning to do for years - I combined all I've written so far of Moya's Space Log into one entry and revised it all again to change the things I really wish I'd written differently!


Now after seven years, you can FINALLY read what I've written so far of Moya's Space Log while only sometimes cringing at my 17-year-old self's poor choices of wording, sense of humor, or sense of... anything else!

( This explanation of some of the stuff I changed turned out longer than I expected... )


Here we go!

( Slightly de-cringed edition of Moya's Space Log under the cut! )

Let me get this straight. There's a video on Nintendo's OWN YouTube channel where Matthew Patrick (a.k.a. MatPat, a.k.a. the reason your friends are telling you that Mario is mental and are bullying you for playing Mario games) creates a level for Super Mario Maker (one where you have to kill Yoshi, no less)?

This makes me wonder: does Nintendo even KNOW about ANY of the things he's said about Mario that many people are taking WAY too seriously? Because if I worked for Nintendo, I wouldn't think that having the guy who's effectively (intentionally or not) brainwashing fans to hate Nintendo's mascot appear in a video promoting Super Mario Maker (or any other game) would be a good idea.


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This entry does not get a detect
button because it is fiends-only.

Thanks, glowing_dragon!



EDIT: It's more likely to play if you watch it at YouTube Repeat. EDIT AGAIN IN 2018: That doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

In other news, I'm done with my College Connections final, and aside from taking the other three finals, my only homework is writing notes for my English one! Which I'm halfway done with! Yay!

5,330 words in Moya's Space Log now. And still no Stars. If the D&D-style boards I've been making take a while to play through with only four enemies, imagine how long bosses and Cosmic Clone missions (which I will actually have to use the boards for) will take!

Current progress towards word count goal:


Current progress towards end of story:


Current progress towards end of story plus retroactive artwork:
(The clear part of this status bar has a width of 797 pixels ;) )

←Part 6 Part 8→
( Moya's Space Log, part 7 )

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Note: I was originally going to have Team Brennario members always restart at the checkpoint flag regardless of whether or not they all died at once, but then I realized that in some galaxies, anyone that dies would end up dying over and over until the other three commit suicide, so I had to change it to the New Super Mario Bros. Wii way (i.e. they end up in bubbles). That's why Mario never told Enya & Moya the part about the bubbles until just now.

*pathvain_aelien told me about a time that her foot got stuck in a hole in the couch while she was playing NSMBW with Stephen, and she said, "My foot's stuck. I'm bubbling." :D

Somewhat boring MSL excerpt today, but at least I wrote today :)

←Part 4 (unedited) Part 6→

( Moya's Space Log, part 4 (edited) )

( Moya's Space Log, part 5 )

*Aw gnat! I should've used the term "Team Brennario" in-universe before part 5 so I could use this line in MSL itself! :(

☆ ← (pretend that's a Launch Star)