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Tue, Nov. 7th, 2017 17:05
matt1993: (conga of the apocalypse)
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! :)
matt1993: (vs. giant enya fan)
The tenth anniversary of my LiveJournal is on August 19!!!


To celebrate, August 2017 is Matt1993 Nostalgia Month! (Okay, so that would also be an accurate description of basically any month from October 2015 to July 2017... but for August 2017, it's an even MORE accurate description!)

When I joined LJ nearly ten years ago, I never thought I'd be still on it for this long - especially given how I kept going on hiatuses from it until February 2009. I also never thought so many things would have changed since then, or that I'd be posting about so many new things since then.

I keep wondering what basically everything I've posted to LJ in 2009-2017 would look like to my 14-year-old or 15-year-old self (i.e. from the era when I wasn't that active on LJ and didn't think I ever would be).


Well, now that question will be sort of answered, because:

1. I'm changing my journal style back to Blue Gray (which is what I think I was using at first and had left as for... I'm not even sure how long; probably until early 2009 but MAYBE earlier) for a month, then will change it to Pale Yellows again at the end of the month. Though I'm leaving the journal title and subtitle as is because I don't remember what those were back in 2007 - and I decided that if I'm keeping those as is, I'll also leave in other anachronistic references such as the comment text being "# Doom 2 bad guys will come out of my ears"/"Rob Morrow to you!" :)

2. As those of you who've known me since 2009 know, five of my oldest userpics used to look different until I updated them late that year (and I don't think I had any userpics at all before 2009). Well, I'm temporarily changing those five userpics back to what they looked like in 2009!

Back to the good old days! (I can't believe 2009 is “the good old days”...) )

3. And why stop there? If my newer userpics had also existed prior to November 2009 or so, some of them likely would've looked different back then, too - so I've taken what I call the "Super Mario Maker approach" because I'm a dork and retroactively created "older" versions of eleven more userpics, and am temporarily changing them "back" to these versions for the month!

What would my journal and some of my comments have looked like if...
- that brief era when I played D&D had been at least a few months earlier
- I'd started watching The X-Files before 2010
- I'd had my first /crazymegavideo/ dream before 2010
- the Forbidden Comment Threads had happened at least a couple of years earlier, resulting in 2009 being during the four years or so of depression and angst they caused me
- and so on
...and therefore some of my userpics about these had been made when I was 15 instead of 16-22?

Let's find out!!

Draconian userpic poink! )

It was fun using my 2008-2009 drawing/spriting styles once again in 2016-2017! Even if the old-style versions of the 7:97 and /crazymegavideo/ userpics don't sync up as well with the regular versions as I thought they would. :)

4. And, as if making ancient in-jokes look even more ancient wasn't anachronistic enough already, I'm even applying the same temporary changes to my DreamWidth account! This includes the same userpic changes, and... okay, not the SAME layout changes, because LJ and DW have different default layouts. Still, I figure if DreamWidth had existed in 2007 and I'd had an account on it back then, I probably would've used its default layout for nearly two years like I did on LJ, so I'm temporarily using that layout (Neutral Good) for a month. :)


(Before I actually make any of these changes, though, I'm going to make sure both the LJ and DW versions of this entry look okay - so my journals may or may not still be yellow when you see this.)


I've got some more ideas for celebratory posts as well, so stay tuned! :D
matt1993: (Default)
.egap eliforp ym ot og ,emit eht fo tsom od I tahw tuoba ofni erom roF .noraA ttaM m'I !iH
.(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: (matchbox 20 how far we've come backwards)
With Valentine's Day coming up, I decided to post these quiz results now:


Valentine's Day and/or love quizzes )


Also, since some of you probably don't know this about me yet: Even though I'm single, I love Valentine's Day! And I love Valentine's Day candy and I think romance can be so sweet. (I happen to have a userpic with half of a candy heart in it, so I know that kind of makes it look like I was in a bad breakup or something, but no, I've never been in a relationship at all - I just made the userpic so I could reference a backwards lyric.) Anyway, my point is, the only thing that makes me depressed on Valentine's Day is people complaining about how much they hate Valentine's Day. It always makes me feel like they'll hate me for liking Valentine's Day... :(

So if you're planning on posting some sort of rant about how you hate Valentine's Day and how anyone who likes it is clearly delusional, etc... go ahead, but would you mind putting it under a LJ-cut or having a special tag for it so I can easily skip it? Please? :)

Complain about this entry
matt1993: (identicon from antheastrezze.com)
As I've mentioned a while back, I plan on replacing some of my userpics with more legible versions. (even though I've procrastinated that for probably at least a year now...)

Since I knew that doing that will cause me to lose track of what order I added my userpics, I kept a list of my userpics in my profile in order added - but I'm starting to run out of room on my profile now, so I moved it here and reformatted it into a table that hopefully looks better than the old layout.

Note that this excludes the following:
- Old versions of these userpics
- Alternate versions of some of these that I made to protest SOPA/PIPA/ACTA/etc. a few years ago

Here they are! )
matt1993: (Default)
Single pride day
Given that we're less than a week out from Valentines, how do you feel about the approaching holiday? Will you participate or abstain? If you're not in a relationship, how will you celebrate your single status?

Answer View Answers

I'm single, but I'm not depressed about it - after all, I'm only 16. Of course, I did want my braces to be off by Valentine's Day (since last Valentine's Day is when I got them put on), but that's probably not gonna happen.

*For those who haven't seen my posts about userpics I plan on making, "Heart, give up my east self" is from the backwards lyrics to How Far We've Come by Matchbox Twenty.

Romantically repost
matt1993: (infinite-paragraph essay)
Well, I finally finished the fourth HAS assignment. Yay! Hopefully, adding only one feature to something still makes it count as a new invention.

I haven't taken a quiz in 8 days, so:



You Follow Your Heart



You're romantic, sentimental, and emotional.

You tend to fall in (and out of) love very quickly.

Some may call you fickle, but you can't help where your emotions take you.

You've definitely broken a few hearts, but you're not a heartbreaker by nature.

Your intentions are always good, even if they change with the wind




1-to-1 repost
matt1993: (backmask mushroom)
Theme Dining
If you were to open your own theme restaurant, what would the theme be and how would you express it to the customers?

Answer View Answers

The theme would be... wait, I probably couldn't do a backwards music-themed restaurant, seeing as I couldn't have the customers eat their food backwards. *sigh*

EDIT: After thinking about it a bit more, maybe not all of it has to be backwards. I could still have menu items with backwards lyric-based names like "the ice cream ear", "loose heart symbol" (that counts as a food since Sarah McLachlan said to eat it backwards; maybe it could be a heart-shaped steak or something), and "down waters with night ice". I could refer to appetizers as "things to nibble on like the dinner alley bus". You'd have to pay for your food first, then type up your receipt, then you get your food, and then once you're done you have to recite what you ordered backwards (the menu will show you how). Backwards music would play on the radio. Finally, the waitresses would be dressed up as Waenya, Wadido, and Warah McWachlan and walk backwards all the time.

EDOT: Another funny thing I thought of! If you got food poisoning somewhere else, you can come to my restaurant and yell "WHAT THE (insert cuss word or euphemism here) DID YOU PUT IN OUR FOOD?! THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM MY LAWYER!!" backwards and we'll cure you before you order!

Regurgitate to your journal
matt1993: (updated prtsc land me)
Sweet Tooth
What is your favorite holiday-specific candy or treat?

Answer View Answers

Candy hearts. They tasty!

RPST 2 UR JRNL

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Sat, Feb. 14th, 2009 13:50
matt1993: (updated prtsc land me)
I had to get braces today. Stupid non-parallel teeth. What good is Valentine's Day if there's certain foods you can't eat starting that day?

Eat chocolate heart in front of me

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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