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. :(

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

I can't believe it - I finished the creative vortex poll I mentioned I've been working on!!

( cut for LOTS of length )

I hope the poll shows up...

EDIT: It did, but I accidentally put "Finish rereading" as an option when it should've been "Finish rereading therapy notes" and I can't change it now. Oh well.

Have a surprisingly good reason to repost this

Well, after 32 days, I finally finished everyone's MS Paint meme drawings!!

...Oh, did I say everyone's MS Paint meme drawings? I meant just bender_927's, based on her interests of "mario" and "near death experiences". Yes, it took me 32 days just to finish this drawing that's only almost worth the time it took.

Oh well, at least I finished one! Here it is :)



(I'm doing these first come, first serve. Considering how long it takes, it doesn't seem like a good way to do this meme, but it's better than any other way...)

Oh, and while it does make sense to use the Super Mario World font for this since it's Mario-related and all, I actually used it solely because I've been planning to use it in PrtSc Land if I ever remake it again. I'm even planning to use it in Lightning Made of Owls so I can practice my planned speech bubble style some more. (Which is also why I bothered trying to draw really well in Paint - I need practice before I start drawing anything for either of those. After all, it normally doesn't matter how well you draw in this meme.)

This entry does not get a repost button because the entry where I originally posted this meme should be reposted (and edited) instead.

(I finally posted it. Here goes nothing...)

(By the way, pathvain_aelien and 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

coffeekinns
Critical mass
How well do you take criticism? Do you deflect it or take it personally? Does it usually inspire you to change? Are you more critical of yourself or others?

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I'm perfectly okay with kind, constructive criticism. It's nonconstructive criticism that gets to me. Sadly, most of the comments I received back when I was making PrtSc Land (a webcomic I had, for those who don't know) were nonconstructive: "learn Photoshop", "half the comics don't make sense", and all that junk, so I tend to be more critical of myself nowadays. I guess that's better than being more critical of others, though.

Learn Photoshop

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing, in any fandom I am familiar with. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. If you aren't a writer, express yourself in some other way for different fandoms!

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My version: Since I'm not a writer, I'll make avatars instead. You can choose between these three styles:

1) The style I'm planning on drawing a new comic in after OWY1U is back up. It involves using MS Paint sorta the way one would make Flash or 3D animation (i.e. saving lots of individual frames separately so that, when those exact frames are needed again, they can be pasted in), and would take a while (but only because I don't have any of those frames yet), and I would probably procrastinate a lot, but it will help me experiment with the style.

2) A style similar to style 1 except that I won't save any frames separately. It would look kinda like this style (warning: City of Ashes spoiler). If you don't want City of Ashes spoiled for you, it would also look like this style, but to a lesser extent.

3) Super Mario World-styled sprites (regardless of the fandom you request) similar to this userpic and my "Enya is part Yoshi" one. (EDIT: How'd I forget my default userpic?) Will be a lot faster.

EDOT: I just noticed this was my 350th entry!

Make drabbles, avatars, or whatever for YOUR friends

forecastisrayne
Take my advice
What's the best and worst advice you ever received? Did you follow it even if it ran counter to your gut intuition? How did it turn out?

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I've answered a question like this before, but I guess I'll try to again.

Uh...let's see. Both of these obviously would have to do with PrtSc Land. So...

Best advice: That one piece of constructive criticism I got on PrtSc Land way too late, which said that the drawing style is, in fact, better in the later strips, that people don't like reading really long explanations (stupid TL;DR), and that I'd be better off starting over again from when I actually started having a plot (which I seriously think I'm just gonna replace with a new webcomic, but I might restart PrtSc Land again too)

Worst advice: "Learn Photoshop." If I wanna use MS Paint, I use MS Paint! It might take three revamps to look good, but I use MS Paint!

Revamp twice

Folktales of the City
What is your favorite urban legend? Have you or anyone you know ever been fooled by one?

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UGH. Urban legends are the twelfth worst thing on the Internet. Until I remember which other things I forgot, that is. The list is as follows:

1. Rickrolls (and alternatives to it)
2. The Internet's tendency to pick completely random things and be like, "Okay, everyone, portray Clippit as being evil!"
3. People who are biased against MS Paint
4. "IT'S OVER 9000!"
5. "That's what she said"
6. "Your mom"
7. The "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" banana
8. Screamers
9. Chuck Norris jokes
10. Jokes about the swine flu
11. "SH00P DA W00P"
12. Urban legends

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