matt1993: (Default)
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)
matt1993: (i ♥ grapheme→color synesthesia)
Woefully late in posting this, but:

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Go to Wordle and...

1) Paste in all entries you posted in January 2017 and make a Wordle configured any way you like
2) Paste in all entries you posted in February 2017 and make another Wordle configured any way you like
...
12) Paste in all entries you posted in December 2017 and make another Wordle configured any way you like
13) Make a Wordle out of your entries from ALL months of 2017, configured any way you like

Then post all of these Wordles to your LiveJournal and/or DreamWidth and/or whatever other blogging site(s) you're on!


You may do steps 1 - 12 only or step 13 only if you prefer.

It's up to you if you include subject lines, comments, community entries, friends-only entries, music tags, location tags, etc., and it's up to you whether you post your Wordles in a public or friends-only entry. Anything else I didn't think of is probably optional as well.

And if you're on more than one journal site (in this example, LJ and DW), you may do this for your LJ entries only, your DW entries only, your entries on both sites combined, all of the above - whichever. And you may post it to only one site or the other, or to both - whichever you prefer.

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Personally I opted to do this for my LJ and DW entries separately AND combined, and post all three versions of each to both LJ and DW. Which means this took about six times as long to make as it usually does...

Left: LJ only
Center: LJ+DW combined
Right: DW only

You can also tell because I tried to skew the colors of the LJ-only ones towards LJ-blue and away from DW-red/pink, and vice versa for the DW-only ones. Looking at how some of the color schemes turned out, though, I might need to adjust my algorithm before my 2018 Wordle Year in Review...

Wordles under the cut! )

Oh, and this year, I thought of a little word search game I could add onto this meme! (you don't have to make a little game like this if you make your own Wordle Year in Review though)

Wordle Search! )
matt1993: (Default)
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.(egap eliforp no ofni erom ,niaga) stohsneercs ynnuf ym fo emos rof noitaripsni eht erew dna ynnuf yllaer era yeht ;(moc.rennurratsemoh no) tuo meht kcehc dluohs uoY .ekil eb lliw liam-E daB gnortS txen eht tahw gnirednow m'I ,won thgiR

Silly reference to my first entry ever aside, yes, I'm done copying all my LJ entries to DreamWidth! Well, except for community entries... and making sure that all of my entries copied over the way they're supposed to... I still have a long ways to go. My LJ was kind of a non-Euclidean mess already, and now I'm having to make sure that nothing looks too weird when it was transferred to DreamWidth. If you see anything that looks like it didn't copy over correctly, let me know.

Now I'm going to test to see what happens if I post a poll in a DW entry that gets cross-posted to LJ...

Poll #18369 Testing DW-to-LJ poll transfers
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4


Which of these random non-video-game characters I picked off the top of my head would Bowser be most likely to try to kidnap?

View Answers

Anya (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
0 (0.0%)

Arwen (Lord of the Rings)
2 (50.0%)

Buffy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
0 (0.0%)

Character 22 (mezzacotta)
0 (0.0%)

Daphne (Frasier)
0 (0.0%)

Agent Einstein (X-Files)
0 (0.0%)

Eowyn (Lord of the Rings)
0 (0.0%)

Galadriel (Lord of the Rings)
0 (0.0%)

Heart (Circle Versus Square)
0 (0.0%)

Holly (Lightning Made of Owls)
0 (0.0%)

Irma (Garfield)
0 (0.0%)

Liz (Garfield)
0 (0.0%)

Marzipan (Homestar Runner)
0 (0.0%)

Meridien (Lightning Made of Owls)
0 (0.0%)

Agent Reyes (X-Files)
0 (0.0%)

Roz (Frasier)
0 (0.0%)

Samantha (Lightning Made of Owls)
0 (0.0%)

Agent Scully (X-Files)
2 (50.0%)

Willow (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
0 (0.0%)

matt1993: (homestar essence of gullibility)
(music tag should be: Snippets of Mario, Kid Icarus, SSB, BtVS, Enya, Dido, Céline Dion, Sarah McLachlan, Moya Brennan, Matchbox 20, Rascal Flatts, & Savage Garden music thrown together randomly in Audacity)

This has been kind of a disappointing April Fools' Day because:

1) Homestar Runner didn't update at all today, even though they did for April Fools' Day 2014, 2015, and 2016, and April Fools and Halloween are almost the only times they ever update nowadays.
2) I don't think many people noticed my April Fools prank at all.

For reference, my April Fools prank was this entry; however, when I first posted it (on March 31 in my time zone, but late enough that it was April 1 already for some of you), it was an exact copy of my first entry. Then I waited a few minutes or so and changed it to a copy of a different past entry in the same way... then changed it to another after a few more minutes, and so on - basically, if I was at my computer, I'd change the entry anywhere from once an hour to once every few minutes. (At first. I gradually updated it less and less often because it seemed like no one was noticing...)

By "exact copy", that means including the subject line, repost button, userpic, tags, mood, music, location... basically, everything except the timestamp, the comments, and friends-only status [though, of course, the only friends-only entries I used were ones that probably would've been fine being public]. And anything that I intended to change each time but accidentally forgot sometimes. Though if I used an entry I'd posted in [livejournal.com profile] _dreams_, [livejournal.com profile] autism, or [livejournal.com profile] asperger, I added a notice saying that it was cross-posted (even though I don't think copying a community entry to my own journal years later for April Fools' Day actually counts as cross-posting).

I chose the entries semi-randomly, sometimes by going to my Calendar for random years and months and picking a random entry I'd feel comfortable posting again, and sometimes by just putting in notable entries that I remember and wanted to include in this prank at some point. Some entries were used more than once.

And just to mess with your heads even more, I thought it might be fun to come up with a hypothetical FUTURE entry and add it into the mix! That's what the 2023 year in review is for. It ended up being my favorite thing about this prank, so I left that one up significantly longer than any other single entry.


Now that April Fools' Day is over, all the entries I ended up using are listed below for posterity. (Don't expect the repost buttons to work correctly, though...)


The entries that you could've sworn that you'd seen already and/or that they said something completely different a few minutes ago, in order of their first use in this prank )
matt1993: (game theory ruined my life!)


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.


The mere existence of this video is so paradoxical, it's probably going to destroy the fabric of space-time at any moment nof7(ny p9ru8P(URW*P(ngfrwP?O@-0o43]-0o342o/O~|.P|[p/\~L[.`?L|`.\.`(yugwp9rypfyw9y Welcome! This is Dinosaur Land. In this strange land Hi! I'm Matt Aaron. For more info about what I do most of the time, go to my profile page. Everyone loves the Homestar Runner. He is a terrific athlete.ON MY WAY HOME\\\\\\\\I CAN REMEMBER<<<<<<<<EVERY NEW DAYI haven't seen you in -18,446,744,073,709,551,616 years, Help I'm trapped in a beta testing room's look-alike...ert+ y76p; '0lu8jykee;u4p;e'/Rh Strong ba15456`-------++++++gf +++++-//==========/*8901ikgChoose your fighter! ?lang? VS. ?lang?! It is now safe to turn off your computer. You're wobbling! Try to keep your balance! {moving stones and happiness} How many ▄█ 'M ▒▓s does it take to walk into a bar? Because the doctor was his √(2)th cousin πce removed. Yesterday I accidentally called [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] "ma'am". Weird. On the DIVIDE BY ZERO ERRORth day of Christmas, [livejournal.com profile] invalid_username gave to me... Our only thought is to entertain you. You've unlocked the secret of ultimate waffles! Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH, and AAAAAfAfAf-F D. You do not have sufficient funds to make this purchase. uChIN RA G BEEP! TUMOR I like meat. Thank you Mariw! But our castle is in another princess! YOU ARE SUPER GRAMMAR! For your 47 o'clock Mii News, this is Robert'); DROP TABLE students;--, signing off. that is left is Bowser's This is not the correct amiibo. WARNING: IT IS A SERIOUS CRIME TO COPY VIDEO GAMES ACCORDING TO COPYRIGHT LAW. AUTHOR CANCELLED.

This entry does not get a detect
button because it is fiends-only.
matt1993: (updated prtsc land me)
Hi! I'm Matt Aaron. For more info about what I do most of the time, go to my profile page.
Right now, I'm wondering what the next Strong Bad E-mail will be like. You should check them out (on homestarrunner.com); they are really funny and were the inspiration for some of my funny screenshots (again, more info on profile page).

...

Wow, now that I've changed my journal style back to what it used to be (although my actual first entry predates this style by... I think a year and a half), it IS easier to convince myself that I haven't wasted the past 3½ years worrying about being judged for everything I do! (Or at least it's easier than it was the last time I quoted my first entry. And not just because I misquoted it a little that time.)

Hopefully it'll stay that way!

By the way, you might have noticed that even though I implied that I would only change the colors of my journal back to what they were, I went ahead and changed the font back to whatever it was too. This is because soon after I changed it to Andalus in the first place, I noticed that certain special characters appear slightly misplaced from the rest of the text when written in Andalus (e.g. "Schächter", "Schrödinger", "Wænya" - but apparently not "Pokémon"), so ever since then, I occasionally considered picking a different font but never got around to it. Well, now I did!

I also changed my journal title back to "Tidbits of Matt's Life" - what it used to be long before it was "Life and times of a cancelled author". I'm still referencing "author cancelled" in the subtitle, though - it's "A cancelled author attempting to let go of the past" instead of "My board of regrets".

:)

Repost like it was 2009
matt1993: (updated prtsc land me)
Hi! I'm Matt Aaron. For more information on what I do most of the time, go to my profile page.

Right now I'm wondering what the next Strong Bad E-mail will be like. You should check them out (on homestarrunner.com); they are really funny and were the inspiration for some of my funny screenshots (again, more info on profile page).

...

Oh, it's no use. The past is gone now (obviously not as much so as I pretended it was in my previous entry, but still), and my journal may never again become as interesting as it used to be no matter how hard I try. Not that an entry that's partly about PrtSc Land could be interesting anyway...

In other news, remember how I said most of my classes this semester were easier than I expected? I don't even think I specifically said that I hadn't had any essays yet, and yet the day after I posted that entry, I got an essay assignment. In Programming Languages class, of all things. Due December 6, but still...

Why does that happen EVERY time I post that classes are going well?!?

Hmm...

I also expected most of my professors to give out a lot of Enya concert tickets and pre-release copies of Super Mario 3D World, but that still hasn't happened at all this semester.

In a brief moment of insanity, decide that this is interesting enough to repost

200th post!

Mon, Aug. 17th, 2009 16:09
matt1993: (afer ventus or the river sings backwards)
For my 200th LJ entry (my profile will say 201, but that's because I haven't deleted the welcome entry that's automatically made for new users), I decided to do something completely pointless: take the first word from my first post, the second word from my second post, the third word from my third post, and so on, all the way up to this one. (If post #X has Y words, and Y is less than X, then the remainder of X ÷ Y is Z, and I use the Zth word instead, or the last if Z is zero.) And yes, this is a ripoff of 160 Seconds.

So here goes )

Context )

While doing this, I've noticed that I have quite a few posts that are exactly 48 words long, by the way. Coincidence?

On a less pointless note, I had to get my braces tightened again today. And this time, there are rubber bands holding the top and bottom braces together (which have to be changed every time I eat or brush my teeth, and also before I go to bed), so it probably won't pull a my wisdom teeth this time. :(

matt1993: (updated prtsc land me)
Looking Back
LiveJournal is turning 10 and we're feeling nostalgic. What was your first LJ post about?

Answer View Answers

Here it is, in all of its old-fashioned, n00bish glory.

Hi! I'm Matt Aaron. For more info about what I do most of the time, go to my profile page.
Right now, I'm wondering what the next Strong Bad E-mail will be like. You should check them out (on homestarrunner.com); they are really funny and were the inspiration for some of my funny screenshots (again, more info on profile page).


Why, oh, WHY did I have to have only recently started posting things on the Internet for all to see?!

Apparently, I'm feeling more nostalgic than LiveJournal is, so here is a list of all of my post subjects as well:

Matt1993 Cometh "Drawn" to my attention School fool (Screen)shot in the foot Happy birthday to CPU Insert extra joke here *yawn* PrtSc Land!!!! Whoa, talk about not posting! Holy whole hand dealer, that was a long hiatus! AAAAAfAfAf-F D College Stop eating the math of NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Ababnormal The nightmare before joining a community {} Research paper of the apocalypse Oh yeah! Shy guy (Mario reference not intended...OR IS IT?) Stupid cattle-noting braces! >:( Quiz Galaxy LIES!! Only non-awesome homework Your card was the 3.14159265358979323 of óúlú÷bs! What happened? Matt da Vinci My first meme Telephone game Quiz of the day 25 Meme Done! Raliens! Antiantiantiantichrist SPRING BREAK!!! What is WRONG with me?! Lazy SAT Writer's Block: Timely Departures Make room for healthy and wealthy Ouch Wow Writer's Block: Fresh Flowers or Crunchy Leaves? Ugh Writer's Block: Take Your Chances Ugh, school's back For once, Quiz Galaxy gave me an answer I expected Writer's Block: How Soon Is Now? I can't...remember...cereal... Random updates Most random quiz of them all You are the weakest link. Goodbye! Eh? Writer's Block: Prison Food Is Punishment Enough Writer's Block: No Foolin' Here we go again Writer's Block: Seven Days Daylight Savings Time gets what it deserves Writer's Block: Heavenly Bodies Stupid all-you-have-to-do-is-enter-your-name quizzes Things other people accomplished at age 15 Writer's Block: Sweet Tooth Writer's Block: GIP (Gratuitous Icon Post) Writer's Block: Gamer's Choice LOL! We three topics of LiveJournal post we are... My inbox is possessed! Writer's Block: Looking Back...

Repost like it was 2007
matt1993: (updated prtsc land me)
Hi! I'm Matt Aaron. For more info about what I do most of the time, go to my profile page.
Right now, I'm wondering what the next Strong Bad E-mail will be like. You should check them out (on homestarrunner.com); they are really funny and were the inspiration for some of my funny screenshots (again, more info on profile page).

Post to your journal (again, more info on profile page)

It's hard to describe this journal in just a few paragraphs... but I'll try

Just an autistic guy born in 1993 (hence the username) who's had this journal since I was 14. Has trouble phrasing things well especially in earlier entries, so keep that in mind.

My interests have fluctuated in the 17 years since I've had this journal, but the following has remained constant:
- I like Mario games (mainly the platformers, Mario Kart, Mario Party) and Super Smash Bros.
- I like Garfield
- I like Homestar Runner
- I like Enya
- And I've always loved the idea of wacky crossovers between ANY of my interests, whether it's in the form of a short-lived webcomic in 2006-2008, a short-lived backwards lyrics site in 2008, writing down weird dreams in 2009-2011, playing Tomodachi Life a lot in 2014-2016, or what most of my posts are about these days: playing around with Character.AI starting in 2023. I still can't believe I'm actually in a world where an AI of Enya can talk to AIs of Mario or Garfield or even my favorite obscure characters like Mary O. from Super Mario Maker. :O

Go to my sticky entry for more.

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