Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

So, you know how about a year ago Photobucket changed their Terms of Service so that users had to pay $400 a year for their images to be visible anywhere other than Photobucket itself, and sometimes it wasn't even visible there?

And you know that made me upset because even though I've never used Photobucket for image hosting, a lot of things online I wanted to catch up on someday have used Photobucket, and that would mean I'd never get to finish catching up on them?

And you know how I've made various jabs at Photobucket because of it such as claiming that Photobucket managed to even take down my userpics on LJ but not on DW (or vice versa depending on what site you read my April Fools entries on) and being like "These people think Quidd is the worst company ever - haven't they ever heard of Photobucket?!"


Um.


So today I was working on fixing my old entries, and I got to one* that does have an image hosted on Photobucket in it (because it was uploaded by glowing_dragon, not me), and... IT SHOWS UP.

Then I went to a couple of other places on the Internet that I'd been to before that I knew had Photobucket images in them because they became broken when Photobucket changed their TOS.

THOSE IMAGES SHOW UP NOW TOO. (I haven't seen any "3rd-party hosting disabled" placeholder images, anyway - images that users have deleted entirely are obviously still gone.)

...

I need to ask...

Did, uh...

DID PHOTOBUCKET FINALLY COME TO THEIR SENSES?! I'd Google it to find out for myself but I'm too afraid of finding more online drama that'll upset me. (Yes, even when I thought Photobucket was the one company that actually deserved the hate it was getting for changing their TOS, I still couldn't always bear to read it.)


Even the thought that Photobucket MIGHT have realized their mistake is so surreal... I feel like I'm dreaming. I might as well act like this is all a dream, but I can't do that right now because I'm supposed to take Enya to see another Enya perform live at 103:206 PM. :P




*Note: yes, that entry mentions that I was doing an MS Paint meme but I gave up on that years ago because I procrastinated it for so long and felt overwhelmed by it. :(

(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 _dreams_, autism, or 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 )

Four things to mention:

1) I moved into my dorm today... and it was REALLY stressful, as usual. :( And I have so much to do tomorrow... I know I said I'd move into the dorm Monday, but then I found out I'd get to wait later before I moved in.
2) Last Wednesday was the 9th anniversary of the original version of PrtSc Land, and I still don't have a USB floppy drive. So remember how I said I was planning on remaking PSL and putting it up on LiveJournal starting on the 10th or 12th or (some other nice number)th anniversary? It's probably not going to be for the 10th anniversary...
3) Lately I've been working on an Excel spreadsheet with the dates, subject lines, userpic keywords, URLs, etc. of every entry I've posted on LiveJournal - AND notes on what I hope to update in each entry eventually, like adding tags, fixing broken images, etc. so that I can keep track of it all more easily. It's far from being done (even just for entries in my own journal), but I'm hoping to get all that maintenance I've been meaning to do on my old entries finished as soon as I can!
4) Today is the 8th anniversary of my LiveJournal! And, for once, I'm doing the LJ comment stats entry on time!
Although on my computer, bar graphs have lately been looking messed up in entries like this one. Does it do that for anyone else - in this or the other LJ Comment Stats entries?

← 2014 2016 →

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Top Commenters on matt1993's LiveJournal
(Anonymous comments excluded from rankings)

1	matt1993	2210
2	pathvain_aelien	1240
3	glowing_dragon	454
4	rovanda	180
5	irish_ileana	134
6	adawnrae	113
7	awehla	100
8	penelopexxx	96
9	cactus_rs	59
10	eccentricrabbit	46

( 11-85 )
Total Commenters: 85
Total Comments: 5032
Report generated 8/19/2015 10:46:37 PM by scrapdog's LJ Comment Stats Wizard 1.7

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Considering that glowing_dragon took this quiz one day before I first read the Forbidden Comment Threads, the last part seems almost ironic, but I do tend to undertake projects that seem impossible :)

Color me reposted with a hint
of probably-reused joke

Here they are finally :)

I also manually added information to make it easier to compare to last year's results. The colors aren't coordinated to the amount of ranks you've went up or down, but rather to (1/y-1/x), where y is your rank this year and x is your rank last year. This means that a jump from, say, 5th to 4th is better than a jump from 23rd to 21st.

Ties, at least for the purposes of how many ranks people went up or down and the colors, are handled by ( I worded this in a weird and kind of cringey way, so I'm retroactively LJ-cutting it in 2018 ) If you weren't on last year's list, you're considered to have been tied for 48th through (how many LJ users there were, are, or will be)th place that year, since there were 47 total commenters.

← 2011 2013 →

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Top Commenters on matt1993's LiveJournal
(Anonymous comments excluded from rankings)

1	matt1993	1731 (same rank as last year)
2	pathvain_aelien	979 (same rank as last year)
3	glowing_dragon	285 (same rank as last year)
4	rovanda	151 (same rank as last year)
5	irish_ileana	134 (same rank as last year)
6	awehla	100 (up one rank)
7	penelopexxx	96 (down one rank)
8	adawnrae	84 (first appearance, thus up anywhere from 40-∞ ranks)
9	eccentricrabbit	44 (shown as same rank as last year, but now tied with xlormplover, so down 0 or 1 rank(s))
10	xlormplover	44 (down 1 or 2 ranks)

( 11-74 )
Total Commenters: 74
Total Comments: 3932
Report generated 8/20/2012 1:20:36 PM by scrapdog's LJ Comment Stats Wizard 1.7

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I think it's interesting how last year there were 47 total commenters and this year there were 74 total commenters :D

http://stabyourself.net/mari0/

Thanks, glowing_dragon - this is neat!

It's a lot harder than the original Super Mario Bros. though. Then again, that may be because I have yet to play regular Portal...

0 ← portal to your journal

This past week has been pretty stressful, because even with pathvain_aelien's help, both my Computer Science essay and my career portfolio took all weekend because I kept procrastinating throughout the week. But at least it's over now and there's much less homework this week!

Remember those unusual online clocks I found? I found another one, which was part of the reason I was procrastinating so much:

http://base36.org/

This one doesn't seem to have as much potential as the rest, though; it's only synchronized to seconds, thus causing the other units to be "36 seconds", "about one third of an hour", "about 13 hours", "about 19½ days", and "about 23 months", which don't correlate very well to the normal clock or calendar system. Still interesting, though!

Two more world domination quizzes:





And another completely random quiz:



I find it depressingly ironic that the one person on here that I've actually thought was dead (several times) ended up being the squirrel that died... I'M SORRY FOR NOT PICKING "AWWW, HOW SAD"! :( :( :(

*This date and time in the Base 36 clock is actually not too far off; it's on September 23, 2012. Hmm...

Fall victim to my mind control-- *cough* I mean repost this entry

In honor of today being the 4th anniversary of my LiveJournal, I have decided to start posting LJ comment stats every 3 months (so the 19th of August, November, February, and May every year) :)

Go here if you want to try it yourself.

2012, since I ended up just doing it every year →

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Top Commenters on matt1993's LiveJournal
(Anonymous comments excluded from rankings)

1	matt1993	1319
2	pathvain_aelien	818
3	glowing_dragon	174
4	rovanda	132
5	irish_ileana	127
6	penelopexxx	95
7	awehla	92
8	xlormplover	43
9	eccentricrabbit	36
10	erm_dreams	29

( 11-47 )
Total Commenters: 47
Total Comments: 3005
Report generated 8/19/2011 10:09:47 PM by scrapdog's LJ Comment Stats Wizard 1.7

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I think it's funny how awehla is the 7th-highest commenter in my journal, and when she did this I was the 14th-highest commenter in her journal, since 7/14 is my birthday :)

glowing_dragon: FINALLY HAS MAIL! Hahahaha... why is my hydro bill only $7.97?! (Matt Aaron would get a kick out of this)
ME: Maybe /crazymegavideo/ stole all the water you didn't use? :)
GLOWING_DRAGON: HAHAHAHA! Maybe that's so! In that case, why are your dream characters stealing MY real-life water?!
ME: I suspect it's a top-secret mission from The Back of Us. They do lots of evil things like that, and yet apparently I support them for some reason.
GLOWING_DRAGON: Your subconscious is a riot, I tell ya!
ME: By the way, can I post this conversation in LJ? (the part about the dreams, anyway) I wanna keep it :)
GLOWING_DRAGON: Hahaha, sure... as long as you give me my own tag. :D
ME: Will do!
GLOWING_DRAGON: Sweet.

Post this entry to your journal before /crazymegavideo/ steals it!