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: (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: (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: (plaused)
http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html

This is really cool - upload a song (or select one that's already been uploaded) and it plays it, but at any point in the song, it has a chance of following a "branch" and skipping forward or backward to a similar-sounding part of it, so you can listen to it on repeat without it being exactly the same. :)

You have to have Chrome or Safari for it to work. I hadn't reinstalled Chrome on my computer since I reinstalled Windows in August, but it's definitely worth reinstalling Chrome for :)

Post to your journal on repeat
matt1993: (updated prtsc land me)
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 →



Top Commenters on [livejournal.com profile] matt1993's LiveJournal
(Anonymous comments excluded from rankings)
1[livejournal.com profile] matt1993 1731 (same rank as last year)
2[livejournal.com profile] pathvain_aelien 979 (same rank as last year)
3[livejournal.com profile] glowing_dragon 285 (same rank as last year)
4[livejournal.com profile] rovanda 151 (same rank as last year)
5[livejournal.com profile] irish_ileana 134 (same rank as last year)
6[livejournal.com profile] awehla 100 (up one rank)
7[livejournal.com profile] penelopexxx 96 (down one rank)
8[livejournal.com profile] adawnrae 84 (first appearance, thus up anywhere from 40-∞ ranks)
9[livejournal.com profile] eccentricrabbit 44 (shown as same rank as last year, but now tied with xlormplover, so down 0 or 1 rank(s))
10[livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] scrapdog's LJ Comment Stats Wizard 1.7




I think it's interesting how last year there were 47 total commenters and this year there were 74 total commenters :D
matt1993: (Default)
Yep - I created my LJ account on August 19, 2007. Sad how the anniversary of LJ should happen to be the day after I accidentally deleted a lot of LJ-related stuff, though... in fact, I was so busy after that happened, I didn't get to finish this post until the day after the anniversary of my LJ. :(

I also wanted to include LJ comment stats (which I said I'd do every three months starting on the fourth anniversary, but ended up deciding to just do once every year), but since this post is already late, I'll post them later.

First line of my first entry on or after the 19th of every month )

5post
matt1993: (liberty mutual sense-make)
(I finally posted it. Here goes nothing...)

(By the way, [livejournal.com profile] pathvain_aelien and [livejournal.com profile] ellaina02, I added a few things after the proofreading)



What's sad is that recently-- Well, okay, not that recently, due to the long amount of time it took to write this entry, have it proofread, and continue to worry about whether or not it makes sense even after I had it proofread. But last October, I was hit with a realization similar to Character 15's, and I'm not even a randomly generated webcomic character.

This post is so long, I'm even using lj-spoiler tags as lj-cuts )

Rant about the inevitable part of this entry that doesn't make sense
matt1993: (Default)
#1 )

#2 )

EDIT: Can't believe I forgot to say this last time, but this is my 800th entry!!! :D

Sum up YOUR 2011!
matt1993: (back of riley's head)
EDIT ON MAY 12, 2018: THIS IS THE OLD VERSION OF MY GLOSSARY... or at least the oldest version that was a sticky entry rather than on my profile, anyway. THE NEW GLOSSARY IS... nowhere, yet, but I'm going to FINALLY get around to updating this glossary for the first time in years after I'm done fixing all my entries on both LJ and DW.

I made this sticky entry in 2011, but then I didn't update it much after that and left it outdated for nearly SEVEN YEARS - long enough that I decide I might as well preserve the old version of the glossary, but make it no longer sticky in favor of a NEW sticky entry with the updated glossary.

Everything below this point is as the entry originally appeared, except I got rid of the lj-like buttons. The former subject line was simply "Glossary of Matt1993isms".

----


I finally got around to updating this glossary and moving it to a sticky post so that it wouldn't clutter up my profile and I could have LJ-cuts to jump to certain sections!

Although the whole point of these multiple LJ-cuts is for ease of navigation (i.e. if I reference a Matt1993ism in the definition of a Matt1993ism in a different section, I'd link to the proper section), I haven't had the time to actually go through and add all these links, so stay tuned for that. I also thought about adding artwork for certain entries *cough*/crazymegavideo/*cough*, so stay tuned for that too. :)

As I said in the old glossary, if you spot a Matt1993ism I used that I haven't defined here, or if FoxReplace messes up the "pucker up because it's time for lunch" entry again, etc., please let me know :)

EDIT: Added some more Matt1993isms and tags, but still need to add the links and artwork. I'm also pretty sure there was another Matt1993ism that I still forgot to add...

/-7 ) A ) B ) Ca-Ch ) Co-Cr ) D-E ) F-G ) H ) I-K ) L-M ) N ) O ) Pi-Pro ) Prt-Pu ) Q-R ) S-T ) U-W ) Y ) Abbreviations )

Too bad I don't have a Matt1993ism that has to do with reposting
matt1993: (celery!!)
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http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/random-words.html

There are no words to describe either of these hi-larious pages, but if there were, they would include:

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Do you could repost but yournal!
matt1993: (celery!!)
It seems that nowadays, I only post comics made with the Garfield Randomizer once I've went for a while (even a short while) without posting to LJ, so yesterday I made a few more to make up for my absence due to the Puerto Rico trip:

← Comics 131-150 Comics 159-163 →

Comics 151-158 )

Oh look! My good buddy, the repost button!
matt1993: (infinite-paragraph essay)
I just worked on the rough draft of my research paper for 4 or 5 hours. Guess what I managed to finish? Editing the outline. About half of the introduction. A tiny bit of one body paragraph. And that's all I have to show for myself. And I only have 2 more days to work on it.

"Research Paper of the Apocalypse" is an understatement now. So is "Research Paper of the Apocalypse of the Apocalypse". In fact, even...

10 print "Research Paper"
20 print " of the Apocalypse"
30 goto 20
40 end

...is an understatement, because at this rate, I'll be done by Thursday. No, not the Thursday it's due on - the one after that. Which is also two days after the Day of Frozen Pets (it gets tedious to say "the 666th day after my first 666 dream" over and over).

Speaking of the Day of Frozen Pets, today I realized that that's 100 days before my birthday. Scary...

Anyways, don't expect to see me for a LOOOOOOONG time. :(

Your reposted entry will be due in 4000 B.C. NO late papers!
matt1993: (missingno.)
"That is, if while coping an IBSN number you miscopy a single character or transpose two adjacent characters, then the sum (*) will no longer be a multiple of 11."

R.I.P. multiples of eleven ☠ Infinitember ∞, ∞ B.C. - June 23, 2010 A.D.

Cope to your journal
matt1993: (back of riley's head)
Young and driven
What is the legal drinking age where you live? Do you think it should be higher, lower, or remain the same, and why?

Answer View Answers

21. I personally wish it could be raised to infinity without any black market forming, but NOOOO, the world has to be too corrupt for morality to be legislated. :(

(Yes, I'm answering this with a pro-Prohibition point of view. Deal with it.)

Legislate morality
matt1993: (plaused)
I wrote my regional short story yesterday a lot faster than I thought I would! (Which isn't saying much - it still took from about 6 PM to almost midnight.)

Today, I went to a math competition and won first place in both the individual and team divisions just like last time and won another iPod nano (though this one's green whereas the first, which I apparently didn't mention in that other post, was silver). I'm still not sure what I'm gonna do with it, though I've been thinking about giving it to [livejournal.com profile] pathvain_aelien since she lost her iPod shuffle recently.

Repost in your journal and win a FREE iPod nano!!! (infinite purchases necessary)
matt1993: (plaused)
Kill the music
What is the absolute worst song ever written? For what amount of money would you consider listening to it over and over again for 24 hours?

Answer View Answers

The "pants on the ground" song. I'd consider listening to it over and over again for 24 hours for $∞, which, sadly, is not what Mom gives me when she sings it. Grr...

Look like a fool with this post in your journal
matt1993: (autism)
Would you sell out for reality TV stardom?
For what amount of money (if any) would you consider appearing on a reality TV show? Which one?

Answer View Answers

About $∞. The one place I have the biggest worry of making a fool of myself on is TV. (Yes, even more so than the Internet or camp.)

I'm not paying that much to repost this
matt1993: (updated prtsc land me)
UGH.

For history class, I have to write a 3-to-4-page paper on how the Age of Reason compares to modern times, which is due tomorrow, and for English class, the 30-40 notecards for the Research Paper of the Apocalypse are due Monday. I'm not even close to being close to being close to (insert infinite loop here) being close to being finished with either one.

It sucks being only good with math, computers, drawing, and having weird dreams. :(

A really old post complaining about homework? SWEET! I'm reposting this!

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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