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2019 calendar year in review... wow. It's been ten years since the first time I ever did this meme or knew that year in review memes were even a thing. I am old!

(For some reason I can't cross-post entries to LJ automatically anymore - it says that my IP address [or DW's?] is temporarily banned for exceeding the login failure rate. I had to post both copies manually. How did that happen?)

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Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2019. Post the first line of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review".

January 2019

It's 2019 now. So according to Vegas Stakes for the SNES (and Game Boy apparently), there's only one more year to go until it is OFFICIALLY the future!

February 2019

This was an awful week for me... I'd gotten behind on the project at work due to several circumstances outside my control (time off for bereavement; the systems I needed to do my work on all being used at once; my inability to stay focused for very long because of my autism), and had to work extra hours nearly every day this week to get caught up because I thought the deadline was this week.

March 2019

Okay, wow. Last month I posted an entry about how I'd had a rough few weeks but was too lazy to post a full entry about why those weeks were rough.

April 2019

Apparently, the most elaborate April Fools prank of all this year was how I totally tricked myself into thinking I would have a great day because it was April Fools' Day, but, APRIL FOOLS, that happened to also be the day I stumbled on SO MUCH STUFF on the Internet that upset me and made me feel like I'd be hated. :(

May 2019

Happy 10th anniversary apparently, DreamWidth!

June 2019

Was going to Disneyland worth the nearly a year of stress involved in planning it? Yes!

July 2019

Several very different things I've been meaning to post about for a while, in no particular order:

August 2019

Hey look, I'm finally posting another entry! How has everyone been?

(Wow. You'd NEVER guess from the first line alone that this was the entry where I first posted about the Sivir Incident.)

September 2019

Dear larsiusprime and anyone else who happens to be working on this Flash Player emulator:

October 2019

Oh man!!! Could this be the day that Nintendo FINALLY brings back Mary O.?!

November 2019

There's only 52 days left of 2019.

December 2019

I've been really anxious lately because I've been thinking more than usual about all the stupid things I've said and done in the past. To the point that I often have to stop whatever I'm doing just to repress my memories of them.

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. :)

About time I posted another one of these. If I'd stuck to my intended schedule of posting my Miiverse backup entries once a week, this would've been posted between June 24 and 30, 2018.

I'll get caught up someday...

At least I can prove I'm still capable of posting entries that don't mention the Quidd drama!... wait a minute... DANG IT! :P

← June 2013 01/01/2014 →


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 07/17/2013 8:45 PM

For my birthday I got (along with other games and things) money to get NSLU from the eShop, so I'm gonna do that now… If I'm not back in an hour, send a not-being-distracted-by-Miiverse after me XD

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(I wonder what I was doing if it took me three whole days after my birthday to post this. Probably playing Kid Icarus: Uprising - I got that for the same birthday, but didn't get to post about it on Miiverse for a while because there were no 3DS game communities back then except for Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon.

Also, I think this is the only time I posted about a game that was out by then, but that I didn't have yet. I may be wrong though.)


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 07/17/2013 11:14 PM

Got NSLU and liking it so far! I wish there were an official in-story explanation of why Mario's not there, though, if only so there wouldn't be fan speculation... But I'm liking the game :)

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(That's how you know that this post predates Game Theory's "Mario is Mental" videos - I found some other Mario-related fan speculation annoying enough that I had to post a mini-rant about it.

Also, like the next few, this ended up in the NSMBU community instead of NSLU because for whatever reason, New Super Luigi U didn't give me nearly as many opportunities to post from in-game, which was the only way to post in the NSLU community at all.)


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 07/17/2013 11:32 PM

My sister is REALLY enjoying playing as Nabbit and being invincible :)

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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 07/20/2013 12:47 PM



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(Despite making a lot of posts/drawings about things that happened to us in specific New Super Mario Bros. U levels, this is the only time I ended up doing so about a specific New Super Luigi U level. And I don't even know what level it was except that it was clearly a castle.)


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 07/20/2013 2:08 PM



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(This is the second of my only two Miiverse posts to have no words, and technically my last post in the NSMBU community since the next NSLU-related post actually made it to the NSLU community.)


New Super Luigi U Game Posts
Matt 07/23/2013 10:28 PM

Beat the game!
Why is it that this is the first time I've gotten asked to post to Miiverse in NSLU?

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(Again, this is my first AND last post in the NSLU community. I think we continued playing New Super Luigi U for a while after this, but not long enough for us to get around to 100% completing it unlike with NSMBU. I should finish that someday. This was also my last Miiverse post of 2013 - it would be about 5 or 6 months [139 days, to be exact] until I finally started posting again, setting another new record for my longest hiatus.)

More archived Miiverse posts even though I somehow JUST NOW realized that maybe I should check archive.org to see if anything on Miiverse that I thought was lost forever (i.e. wasn't in the backup Nintendo emailed me) was accessible there, and as it turns out, there's a LOT that's still available that way! Including my own posts! And the comments on at least some of them! And my replies to other people's posts! Why didn't I think to try that until now??

I'm still going to make these Miiverse backup entries the same way I was going to (because who knows if they're ALL on archive.org, and even if they are, it'd be easier to find them in these entries, and I like getting to add commentary about some of them in retrospect), but...wow. I can still access so much content on Miiverse that I thought was gone forever! Maybe I'll go back later on and edit these entries to include not just how MANY comments I had on my Miiverse posts, but exactly what those comments were if I can find them!


← 01/18/2013 - 01/19/2013 02/22/2013 - 02/24/2013 →


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/21/2013 9:24 PM



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(Note that this is nearly a year before they introduced stamps for certain games, and even after the stamp update there never were any stamps for NSMBU. I first made this on my computer in Paint by taking the sprite [from a Mario spritesheet I got from spriters-resource.com that had been saved on my computer ever since the days of PrtSc Land] and recoloring it to grayscale and resizing to 500%, then I replaced all the gray pixels with different patterns of black and white stripes. Then I recreated the whole thing pixel-by-pixel on Miiverse. I don't remember how long it took.

Also this is the first of the only two times I made [non-reply] Miiverse posts with no words in them!

And with sixteen Yeahs, I think it's safe to say that this post had the second-most Yeahs of any post I made, second only to the surprisingly popular "unlikely vine, likely vine" one.)


Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/23/2013 9:42 PM

Donkey Kong's Crash Course
After you're out of lives, you can still tilt and move lifts to guide your remains thru the level!

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(I know it's supposed to be "through" but I don't think that would have fit in the 100-character limit Miiverse had at the time.)


Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/23/2013 10:21 PM

Donkey Kong's Crash Course
This time I got TOO enthusiastic about getting past the 1st areas quickly. Only made it to Area 2...

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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/23/2013 10:31 PM



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(At this point I was intending to make a post like this for every multiple of 250 Yeahs up to at least 1,000 - possibly up to 2,000 - then doing it every 500 or 1,000 Yeahs after that. But eventually I forgot about all of this and 250 Yeahs was the only milestone I ended up celebrating.

I don't know how many Yeahs I had by the time Miiverse shut down - I've said before that it was 1,788, but from archive.org it looks like that's actually how many Yeahs *I* gave to *other* people's posts. Now I'm hoping I didn't make the same incorrect assumption when I posted this...

If I counted right, all my posts before this one had a combined total of 307 Yeahs by the time Miiverse shut down. So a lot of those posts probably got more Yeahs even after this one was posted.

Right after this post, I went eight days in a row without posting to Miiverse [except MAYBE replies] - beating out my previous-longest hiatus by one day.)


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 02/01/2013 10:24 PM

Run for It
Getting to the end still isn't easy even w/o having to worry about the first 2 Star Coins…

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(Right after THIS post, I would end up breaking that hiatus record AGAIN by going 20 days without making any Miiverse posts [again, with the possible exception of replies]. And yes, we were still having trouble with this level... we'd beaten it once, but we still had to go back for the last Star Coin eventually.)

Featuring my only post in the Scribblenauts Unlimited community and my only post in the Netflix community! And yay, I'm finally NOT behind on these Miiverse backup entries! :)

← 01/07/2013 - 01/09/2013 01/18/2013 - 01/19/2013 →


Scribblenauts™ Unlimited Community
Matt 01/10/2013 2:34 PM

This game is fun, but I never know how much sense any given task is going to make…

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(I believe the first comment on this was me trying to give an example of what I meant: there's one part where you can put one piece of candy [or presumably any other food item] in an empty vending machine and that somehow makes it a completely full vending machine overflowing with food items besides just candy, so you'd think if THAT can happen in the game, then at another part with the sorority girl who's looking for her helmet, just writing "helmet" and giving her that helmet would work, but it didn't. Both of these are probably pretty early in the game since I didn't play Scribblenauts all that much...)


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/10/2013 4:47 PM

Ludwig's Clockwork Castle
WARNING: Somehow, Ludwig is harder to beat when you replay this level...

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Netflix Community
Matt 01/10/2013 7:24 PM

"I love crayon-breaky Willow, and I love scary-veiny Willow." ~ Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/10/2013 8:42 PM

Lakitu! Lakitu! Lakitu!
"When is it Luigi time? Like 5:30 or so? 7?" ~ my sister

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(And of course, Nintendo answered her question later that year! :P )

...and after that, I didn't post to Miiverse at all (except possibly replies to other people's posts since those aren't included in the backup?) from the 11th to the 17th, which at the time was my longest hiatus from Miiverse just by being my first more-than-a-day-long hiatus. I was probably busy moving into the dorm again and getting ready for the spring 2013 semester of college. :)

Once again, it's time for some archived Miiverse posts I was hoping to have posted here last week! :P

← 01/05/2013 10:30 PM-midnight 01/07/2013 - 01/09/2013 →

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/06/2013 5:13 PM

Run for It
It's so hard to hit the switches! Especially if we bubble if the A button merely twitches!

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(I think this is the only time I actually obeyed the "write a rhyme about this level on Miiverse" prompt that came up in-game, not counting the time I subverted it by rhyming "Star Coins" with "can't think of a rhyme related to this level". I did the "warning sign" prompt a few times, though. And apparently I also only ever followed the "two words" prompt once but didn't think to point it out in these Miiverse backup entries.)

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/06/2013 7:24 PM

Run for It
This is the only level I know that's easier with more players…but we're STILL not past it!

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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/06/2013 7:49 PM

Run for It
I think we'll have better luck if we just stay at the beginning until the timer runs out…

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(Or rather, pathvain_aelien thought this and I made a post on Miiverse about it.)

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/06/2013 10:32 PM

Run for It
FINALLY made it with two ☆ Coins but only because one of us touched the goal by accident!

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(Considering the trouble we had in this level, I'm surprised it apparently only took us two days to beat it [even if that's not counting going back later for the remaining Star Coin]. I see it did take a few hours, though!)

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/06/2013 10:57 PM

Fliprus Lake
If there were ever a Three Stooges video game, it'd be a LOT like 3-player in this game...

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(Oddly enough, within the past month or so I discovered that there are in fact TWO Three Stooges video games already. Since 1984 and 1987, in fact. The former apparently has three-player mode as its ONLY mode, even! Maybe I should try these out someday...)

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/06/2013 11:54 PM

Hammerswing Caverns


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I'm so far behind on these Miiverse backup entries... this one was supposed to have been posted in the FIRST week of April. At least I have several semi-legitimate reasons to put it off this long instead of it being ENTIRELY procrastination this time? :P

← 01/05/2013 3:30-5:30 PM 01/05/2013 10:30 PM-midnight →

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 5:37 PM

Balloon Trip Breeze
Dear birds: How do you fly with boxing gloves on?

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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 5:50 PM

Balloon Trip Breeze
Are the birds in red eggs different from the birds in white eggs in any way other than color?

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(The one comment on this is - if I remember correctly - me eventually figuring out that the bird enemies with the red eggs have one more hit point than the ones with the white eggs. Like the other Nintendo Land games, I don't think I ever 100% completed Balloon Trip Breeze so if they come in any other colors in later stages, I was never aware of it.)

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 8:03 PM

Octopus Dance
Got to Stage 4 for the first time!

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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 8:43 PM

Yoshi's Fruit Cart
My sister saw "You gave this post a Yeah" and thought it said "You gave this post a Yoshi" :)

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I was supposed to have posted this one last week. This feature just keeps steadily getting less and less regular...

← 01/01/2013 01/05/2013 3:30-5:30 PM →


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/03/2013 9:12 PM

Dragoneel's Undersea Grotto
Considering how hard Dragoneel is to avoid, how did we beat it with 3 Star Coins on 1 try?

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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/03/2013 10:18 PM

Which-Way Labyrinth
Sorry, Boos! In Soviet Russia, Baby Yoshis scare YOU!

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(Huh. Apparently my first two [and only two, I think] Soviet Russia jokes on Miiverse were a mere four days apart. I thought there was a longer time span than that between them.)


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/03/2013 10:35 PM

Flight of the Para-Beetles


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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/03/2013 11:13 PM

Seesaw Bridge
This level seems even harder the second time around…

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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/04/2013 10:45 PM

Spine-Tingling Spine Coaster


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Why am I still calling this Miiverse Backup Twuednesday if half the time I'm not sticking to my planned update schedule of every Tuesday or Wednesday?

Oh well, here's the last four of my 33 Miiverse posts in 2012! :)

← 12/30/2012 midnight-9:30 PM 01/01/2013 →


Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/30/2012 9:40 PM

Octopus Dance
Finally made it to Stage 3!

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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/30/2012 10:02 PM

Pikmin Adventure
1-player mode as Pikmin: In Soviet Russia, Olimar follow YOU!

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(This is probably the first Soviet Russia joke I ever made - not just on Miiverse, but ever. I used to find them overused along with many other Internet memes that I hadn't heard of before 2008 or so and didn't understand, but then when I discovered mezzacotta in 2011, I really liked how certain characters make surreal Soviet Russia jokes - with this one probably being the most famous - and decided Soviet Russia jokes in general weren't so bad after all. Most of the Internet memes that annoyed me back then are a lot funnier than certain more recent Internet memes...)

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/30/2012 10:32 PM

Balloon Trip Breeze


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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/30/2012 10:56 PM

Yoshi's Fruit Cart


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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?

Wait, I got it! 2018 must be like a secret bonus world or something! :P


Happy New Year, everyone! And happy 10,000,000,002,016th anniversary, mezzacotta! ;)