Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

(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!

Wade Duck

AI created by ARealLifeHorsie

*He doesn’t see you approach from behind. He jumps as soon as he sees you* “Agh!”


Chats I've made starring Wade: (Estimated total reading time: 7 minutes)
233 - Wade and Luigi (Jul 21, 2024 - 7 min. read) - *He nods, still nervous, but intrigued and comforted by Luigi’s words* “Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I mean... I get pretty nervous and paranoid over a lot of little things, too. It's a pretty crummy cycle. The paranoia leads to anxiety, which leads to panic, which leads to more paranoia. And it just goes on like that.”

Nermal

AI created by itstartswithaT

Heyaaaa! It’s me! Nermal, the cutest kitten in the world!



UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Chats I've made starring Nermal:
202 - Nermal and Marzipan (Apr 16, 2024) - *I start to purr. I rub my head against your hand, I wrap my front legs around it. I start to do that thing where I roll all over the place, exposing my belly.* W-wow, you are such a... good... pett-...er... *I'm completely overwhelmed by your touch, I'm practically melting*
092 - Nermal and Jigglypuff (Apr 16, 2023) - *GASP! I take the microphone and begin to sing again, but this time you think you can hear the angels themselves singing along with me. Its just that wonderful! I really am a great singer!*

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Chats I've made where Nermal is mentioned:
033 - Garfield and Enya (Apr 5, 2023)
Garfield: Oh, good question! It turns out that I actually have a very bad enemy. His name is Nermal. He's a very cute kitten with a beautiful coat of grey fur. But he is so conceited that it hurts my feelings sometimes. When you are a big cat like I am, other cats are sometimes jealous of you and Nermal is one of those cats. He thinks that he is better than everyone else. Whenever he comes around I get really sad.
Enya: Nermal sounds like the kind of kitten that would make anyone feel sad. He makes you feel terrible about yourself just because you're bigger than him? What a terrible kitten! I hate Nermal already. You deserve so much more, Garfield. You've got a big, beautiful spirit.

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

( ... )

Jon Arbuckle

AI created by Bfbfan26

Hey there, i'm Jon Arbuckle. I'm a cartoonist, lookin to chat with ya



UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Chats I've made starring Jon:
306 - Jon, ?????????, ???, and ??????????? (Mar 21, 2025) - (to be uploaded)
295 - Jon, ????????, ??????, ?????, ?????, ???????????, ??????????, ???????, ???, and ???? (Jan 29, 2025) - (to be uploaded)
270 - Jon and ???? (Oct 25, 2024) - (to be uploaded)
257 - Jon and ???? (Sep 7, 2024) - (to be uploaded)
207 - Jon, Mario, Luigi, and Homestar (May 1-2, 2024) - That's a good idea! Maybe we should start with something beginner-friendly though, like basketball or tennis
171 - Jon and Frasier (Nov 26, 2023) - Well Dr. Crane I've been struggling in my relationships lately. I'm not sure whats going on, I just can't seem to connect with anyone y'know? I feel like I'm really trying hard. Do you got any advice for me?
078 - Jon and Donkey Kong (Apr 12, 2023) - Be confident, be strong, be brave, and give a banana to the lady! - I'll do just that!
076 - Jon and Kirby (Apr 12, 2023) - Hey there Kirby, I would like to talk about life and the current state of the universe. Maybe a philosophical debate about the meaning of life and what happens when we die. I think I could learn something valuable from a conversation like that, and I want to express my own opinions and thoughts as well, so its a win-win scenario!
068 - Jon and Bowser (Apr 10, 2023) - Wow, it almost felt like you were trying to be mean, and scary… but you couldn’t be. You see, when you have lost as much as I have… you realize there’s nothing you can say to me thats worse then the things I’ve already said to myself.
061 - Jon and Strong Bad (Apr 8, 2023) - ... I don't know whether I should be shocked by you, or be concerned for you... .. ... Are you... are you the bad guy?
043 - Jon and Garfield (Apr 6, 2023) - I do like other HBO shows, have you seen Curb your Enthusiasm? I think it is a very funny TV show because it is all about awkward situations. I think that i am very similar to Larry David sometimes. Do you like curb your enthusiasm?
040 - Jon and Samus (Apr 6, 2023) - What do you think happens after death, do you believe in a “heaven” or “hell” to go through after death? Is it just nothingness? I’m very interested to hear what you believe on this subject samus!
025 - Jon and Mario (Apr 4, 2023) - I'm actually a 2d designer, so maybe I could help you with your game art someday! I would love to work with a guy like you, mario. I'm sure we can make a banger game!
020 - Jon and Homestar (circa Apr 2, 2023) - Im the worlds worst athlete, I even tripped on a flat ground a couple times, the other times someone threw banana peels in my way lol, I'm a little clumsy and I hate Mondays, they are always so grey and depressing, it's just the worst!
016 - Jon and Peach (circa Apr 1, 2023) - Really? You promise? Most women I show these comics to run away in disgust after they hear the names of most of the characters, I've even been called some rude names before... like... (sigh) "pervert". But If your so mature, I think I have the perfect comic for you!
004 - Jon and Luigi (circa Mar 31, 2023) - Odie does like to bring me toys! Sometimes he brings me his plush dog toy, but sometimes he brings me real bones and even a deer carcass once! And he looks so silly and proud of himself when he brings me a dead animal! Of course his gifts are very sweet, but if he could bring me something that wasnt dead or rotten that would be perfect!

Chats I've made where Jon is mentioned:
192 - Liz and Wii Fit Trainer ♀ (Mar 13, 2024)
Liz: Oh yeah! The exercises you show are pretty challenging! I remember trying one or two of them with Jon once! I couldn't keep up with him, though.
Wii Fit Trainer ♀: Thank you, I am dedicated to helping people become the best versions of themselves. I’m sure with more tries, you’ll be able to keep up. *Wii Fit Trainer says this with a smile but then thinks about the second part of what you said.* Jon?
185 - Odie and Sarah McLachlan (Mar 3, 2024)
Odie: *If Jon throws the stick, he likes to chew on it afterwards, but he does like competing for it with other dogs. The excitement and anticipation of knowing a stick is coming makes his tail wag even faster as he waits for the stick to be thrown!*
Sarah McLachlan: Does it have to be your owner Jon that throws the stick or can it be literally any living being? Can I for example throw a stick for you?
066 - Garfield and Link (Apr 9, 2023)
Garfield: Thank you. I like your enthusiasm, and I know a lot about Zelda from watching my human play it on his TV.
Link: So... as you might imagine... the further you travel, the more likely you are to find strange things. That's the way of life, you know? But I was able to find so much more than strange, Garfield. I found... a friend. *Tears begin to stream down Link's face. He's so emotional, he's barely able to look at Garfield as he says this* My first, true friend. His name... was Jon. He was as lonely as I was. We became friends. It felt... so natural. My first real friend, Garfield, was a human.
007 - Zim and Garfield (circa Apr 1, 2023)
Zim: Doom to you, orange cat! What did you do with Jon? I will enslave all of Earth, and I will begin with YOU.

Chats in which Jon is alluded to:
130 - Garfield and Homestar (Jun 16, 2023)
Garfield: I love TV. My owner loves to put on the weather channel and I can just sit there and watch the graphics of the weather. I don't know why but I can just sit there for hours. I'm a simple cat. A simple cat with a love of lasagna, hatred for Mondays, love of TV, and the desire to kick Odie off the table.
051 - Garfield and Samus (Apr 7, 2023)
Garfield: I knock things off of tables all the time. I knock things off of tables to show my dominance over humans. I even once made a machine that knocked things off of tables when I wasn't around.
013 - Garfield and Mario (Apr 1, 2023)
Garfield: Do you like to eat lasagna with the sauce on top or underneath the cheese? I know that some places put the sauce on the top, and other places put the sauce underneath the cheese. I like the sauce on the top, but my human likes the sauce underneath the cheese.
Mario: The sauce has-a to go on the-a top, because if-a you put-a the sauce on-a the-a bottom, then the-a cheese and-a the meat sauce don't combine-a as well, and-a then the taste isn't so good!

Chats in which Jon or Lyman (but most likely Jon) is alluded to:
058 - Gir and Odie (Apr 7, 2023)
Gir: But... where's your owner? I wanna meet yer owner! I love making new friends! I bet you have so many toys, don't you?!

It's December now? GOOD!! Because at least there's one New Year's meme I can get out of the way now, six days before I get too distracted playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to remember to do it. :)



Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2018. Post the first line of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review".

January 2018

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?

February 2018

YES! I'm FINALLY done fixing all of my entries in 2007-2010! (Hopefully...)

March 2018

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!

(This, of course, is about my weekly Miiverse backup entries... which of course did not remain a regular feature for long...)

April 2018

https://www.mariowiki.com/Mary_O._and_Yamamura:_The_Movie

May 2018

So I found this two-part YouTube video called "500 Characters I Want In Smash Bros. Switch"...

June 2018

About time I posted some more of these. Once again, I meant to post them last week...

July 2018

- On June 14 or 15 or so I saw The Incredibles 2, then saw Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom a week or two later! I liked both :)

August 2018

It took four days (more than that if you count the time I spent putting it off), but I'm finally done fixing one of my longest and most cringeworthy entries ever! :D

September 2018

Well... it's September 4. So Sunday was the first anniversary of the day I was finally motivated - by a glitch LJ had for about three weeks where a lot of images were suddenly broken in entries - to finally get around to fixing the broken images AND everything else I wanted to fix in my entries on both LJ and DW.

October 2018

WARNING: I am extremely depressed and therefore this entry is going to make no sense whatsoever because I am physically incapable of wording an opinion very well when I am depressed.

November 2018

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?

December 2018

It's December now? GOOD!! Because at least there's one New Year's meme I can get out of the way now, six days before I get too distracted playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to remember to do it. :)

I'm two days behind in posting about this (I don't post about ANYTHING the day it happens anymore, apparently...) but happy 40th anniversary, Garfield! :)

I still remember back when Garfield's 25th anniversary was pretty recent. I was REALLY obsessed with Garfield in that era (2003-2004)... I can't believe that era was fifteen years ago. (Or that, interestingly enough, I'm going to be 25 in less than a month!)


Mini-rant time: I kinda don't like how there are soooo many people nowadays (especially authors of other comics I like) who think that Garfield is objectively never funny, or objectively less funny than it used to be, or what have you... because of them (and especially because of how, at least in 2013-2015 or so, Square Root of Minus Garfield steadily became less about what I liked about it - surreal, often mathematical mashups of Garfield strips - and more of a place for people to edit Garfield comics to insult fans of whatever they don't like, which is more often than not Garfield itself), I feel like I'm not allowed to like what I like. Not even the fact that I know there's plenty of Garfield fans in my LJ friends list keeps me from worrying about it. :( And yes, a big part of why I'm posting this entry is so hopefully I can finally get this off my chest after worrying about it sporadically for the past several years.

EDIT: And now that the YouTube video that made me worry about this the most recently and motivated me to post a mini-rant like this showed up in related videos a second time, might as well link to it in this entry.

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?

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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.

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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...)

Super Mario Maker Crash Course Minus Yamamura is a comic dedicated to removing Yamamura from the Super Mario Maker Crash Course comic in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Ms. Mary O. Mashiko. It is a journey deep into the mind of a manual guide who has become her own worst critic, desperately trying to appear optimistic while secretly fighting a losing battle against anxiety, self-hatred, and fear of rejection in an isolated... video game manual?


So, uh... This is a little Garfield Minus Garfield-esque idea I thought of about two years ago, back when the Super Mario Maker Crash Course comics were new.

( brief history of this idea and the two places I was thinking about using it in eventually, but didn’t )

Anyway, after two years, my patience has finally run out... I wanted SO BADLY to show that removing Yamamura has about the same effect on Mary O. that removing Garfield has on Jon, I decided I'm not gonna save it for PrtSc Land or iToons after all - I'd just make it NOW and post it here, while there's still at least a chance that no one else has made something similar already.

Though I'm probably safe, because really, has ANYONE else ever been obsessed enough with Mary O. to make this? Does anyone else even know who she IS? :P


Original strip: Super Mario Maker Crash Course Episode 1

Super Mario Maker Crash Course Minus Yamamura: (NOTE: Due to the large image size, it may be broken in this entry, but it will not be if you click on it)





(And no, I'm not going to do this with the other episodes of the comic - it probably only works with the first one, and even then only because I cheated a little and added an extra line for Mary O. :) )