matt1993: (vs. giant enya fan)
2017-07-30 03:20 pm
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Matt1993 Nostalgia Month!

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: (ice cream chessboard)
2017-07-13 11:36 pm

Super Smashing Birthdays

Happy a-few-minutes-early-in-my-time-zone birthday to me! :)

And also happy birthday to [livejournal.com profile] 13catswaltz, who has the same birthday as me! :)


And also also to Luigi - because Mario Bros. was released in Japan on July 14, 1983; my negative tenth birthday. ;)



Hey, there's an idea for a totally nerdy survey...

This page has a table (several paragraphs down from the beginning of that section...) that lists the dates every* Super Smash Bros. character debuted (because in SSB4, the order you fight them in All-Star Mode is based on that).

Use that to figure out your answers to these questions:

1) Which SSB character(s), if any, debuted on your birthday in any year?
Luigi

2) Which SSB character(s) debuted closest to the date you were born?
Meta Knight (debuted March 23, 1993 - the date closest to July 14, 1993 in that list).

3) Which SSB character(s) debuted closest to the date you created your LiveJournal/DreamWidth/some-other-journal-site account? (If you have/had multiple journals, you may answer this separately for all of them, some of them, or just one. Whichever you prefer.)
My LJ was created on August 19, 2007 - the character whose debut was closest to that is Rosalina (November 1, 2007).
My DW was created on May 13, 2017, long after the debut of the newest character (Corrin, on June 25, 2015).

:)



*Except Miis, alternate characters (the Koopalings and Alph), and characters from Melee and Brawl who aren't in SSB4. I went ahead and looked up the relevant dates in case you want to include them )
matt1993: (7:97)
2016-10-28 09:23 pm

The scanner exercises!

I HAVE A JOB OFFER NOW! (I've had one since earlier this week but I'm only just now posting about it) :)

In other news, here's some quizzes I took recently:

cut for length again )

And why does the subject line make no sense? Because I found this recently:

http://watchout4snakes.com/wo4snakes/Random/RandomSentence

The portable profit shocks the island against any larger chap. Why does the radio drag the doctrine? The branded bounce leans beside a percent. A surprise conforms a preferable machinery opposite the guy.

The silent sufferer zones
the regulation procedure.
matt1993: (identicon from antheastrezze.com)
2016-07-17 01:48 pm
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List of my userpics by order added

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: (game theory ruined my life!)
2015-09-05 11:55 pm

HOW is the video below physically possible?!?



Let me get this straight. There's a video on Nintendo's OWN YouTube channel where Matthew Patrick (a.k.a. MatPat, a.k.a. the reason your friends are telling you that Mario is mental and are bullying you for playing Mario games) creates a level for Super Mario Maker (one where you have to kill Yoshi, no less)?

This makes me wonder: does Nintendo even KNOW about ANY of the things he's said about Mario that many people are taking WAY too seriously? Because if I worked for Nintendo, I wouldn't think that having the guy who's effectively (intentionally or not) brainwashing fans to hate Nintendo's mascot appear in a video promoting Super Mario Maker (or any other game) would be a good idea.


The mere existence of this video is so paradoxical, it's probably going to destroy the fabric of space-time at any moment nof7(ny p9ru8P(URW*P(ngfrwP?O@-0o43]-0o342o/O~|.P|[p/\~L[.`?L|`.\.`(yugwp9rypfyw9y Welcome! This is Dinosaur Land. In this strange land Hi! I'm Matt Aaron. For more info about what I do most of the time, go to my profile page. Everyone loves the Homestar Runner. He is a terrific athlete.ON MY WAY HOME\\\\\\\\I CAN REMEMBER<<<<<<<<EVERY NEW DAYI haven't seen you in -18,446,744,073,709,551,616 years, Help I'm trapped in a beta testing room's look-alike...ert+ y76p; '0lu8jykee;u4p;e'/Rh Strong ba15456`-------++++++gf +++++-//==========/*8901ikgChoose your fighter! ?lang? VS. ?lang?! It is now safe to turn off your computer. You're wobbling! Try to keep your balance! {moving stones and happiness} How many ▄█ 'M ▒▓s does it take to walk into a bar? Because the doctor was his √(2)th cousin πce removed. Yesterday I accidentally called [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] "ma'am". Weird. On the DIVIDE BY ZERO ERRORth day of Christmas, [livejournal.com profile] invalid_username gave to me... Our only thought is to entertain you. You've unlocked the secret of ultimate waffles! Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH, and AAAAAfAfAf-F D. You do not have sufficient funds to make this purchase. uChIN RA G BEEP! TUMOR I like meat. Thank you Mariw! But our castle is in another princess! YOU ARE SUPER GRAMMAR! For your 47 o'clock Mii News, this is Robert'); DROP TABLE students;--, signing off. that is left is Bowser's This is not the correct amiibo. WARNING: IT IS A SERIOUS CRIME TO COPY VIDEO GAMES ACCORDING TO COPYRIGHT LAW. AUTHOR CANCELLED.

This entry does not get a detect
button because it is fiends-only.
matt1993: (back of riley's head)
2011-08-30 09:03 pm
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Ye Olde Gloſsarie of Matthew-MCMXCIII-iſms.

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: (2010 nnwm procrastinator)
2011-07-17 10:25 pm

My newest anti-procrastination plan

Today I finally came up with a new system to help me not only avoid procrastinating my creative vortexes (and similar things), but avoid always working on things that I won't need to finish for a while just so I won't have to work on the ones that are due sooner!

Here's how it works: I already have a list of things to do sorted roughly from what I have the least time to do to what I have the most time to do, and things that I have practically unlimited time to do are also sorted by my willingness to wait until college to finish them. I also now have a scoring system that retroactively went into effect when I started typing this entry: I earn "procrastination points" when I work on creative vortexes, etc., and then get to "buy" procrastination with my procrastination points. Some examples of point values are as follows:

- Making one userpic (either a new one or a PrtSc Land-styled version of an old one) = +1/x procrastination point, where x is how far down the list PSL-styled or new userpics is (so if I make 3 new userpics, I get 3/44 of a procrastination point since new userpics are the 44th item on the list)
- Writing one paragraph of Moya's Space Log = +1/x procrastination point (x functions the same way as before)
- Adding or editing a line of code in a program or an object on a program form = +1/x procrastination point
- Watching 5 minutes of The X-Files, Roswell, Grey's Anatomy, etc. with [livejournal.com profile] pathvain_aelien = +1/x procrastination point
- Adding to one of my lists of creative vortexes = +1/10 of the procrastination points I'd get by actually making/doing whatever I wrote down

You get the idea - for everything in my to-do list, I have to define how much I need to do before I get 1/x of a procrastination point, and then keep it consistent. Getting procrastination points faster by doing things at the top of the list should encourage me to do those more, yet allow me to work on other things on my list when I get sick of working on stuff at the top.

Some example costs of procrastinating:

- Every Internet browser page load = -1 point unless I use it to work on something in my to do list. (Things that are actually important, such as checking my banking account online, will actually be put at the top of my to do list when I have to do them, so don't worry about me not getting to do something immediately important just because I don't have enough procrastination points)
- Playing video games = -1 point for every turn. What counts as a "turn" depends on the game; i.e., for some, a turn might end whenever I either beat a level or lose a life, or if I decide to play a Mario Party game or Pac-Man Party it'll be an actual turn, etc.

As you can see, it'll be just as arbitrary, yet consistent, as my earning procrastination points.

Now to see if it'll work! :)

EDIT: While it's been helping me avoid procrastination so far, it seems to be having me do too little procrastination because, now that I think about it, when I work on the first thing on my list, I should probably get more than one procrastination point for it, because that's not even enough to post one LJ comment. So, starting tomorrow (I added this part on the 19th), every instance of 1/x in the scoring is hereby replaced with 10/x. :)

Reposting this entry: priceless
matt1993: (annoying orange pac-dot)
2011-05-27 12:03 am

Pac-Matt

Made my first maze in The World's Biggest Pac-Man today.

http://worldsbiggestpacman.com/play/#-116,-57

(I bet you can guess what the maze looks like before you click the link ;) )

EDIT: Uh-oh...I have 666 entries in this journal, not counting the default "welcome to LJ" post (counting it would make this the 666th entry) :O

C····Repost
matt1993: (missingno.)
2010-06-25 12:54 pm

-1 more friends?

Screenshot of Brain Buddies on Facebook saying I need to have -1 more friends playing in order to choose my Logic game

Can someone get J to join Brain Buddies?

Show to your -1 friends
matt1993: (missingno.)
2009-12-24 05:54 pm

Note to self: Either friend more people on LJ or decide to not want pingbacks

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa,

This year I've been busy!

In August I gave [livejournal.com profile] pathvain_aelien a [removed because this meme's immature humor is NOT gonna ruin my joke] (-10 points). In July I put gum in [livejournal.com profile] pingback_bot's hair (-12 points). Last Sunday I set [livejournal.com profile] mollyringwraith's puppy on fire (-66 points). Last Tuesday I [quit trying to put immature humor in my journal, you stupid meme] (-6 points). In February I invaded Iraq, broke it, and couldn't glue it back together before Mom got home (-1012 points).

Overall, I've been naughty (-1106 points). For Christmas I deserve a spanking!

Sincerely,
matt1993

Write your letter to Santa! Enter your LJ username:


"In July I put gum in pingback_bot's hair."

Wait. I put gum in a robot's hair? A robot's hair? I must be part MissingNo.! Time to break the Hall of Fame!! >:)

Put this post in your journal's hair
matt1993: (Default)
2009-12-19 01:33 pm

1st Semiannual Annoying Homework Contest

EDIT: This contest is cancelled because no one submitted anything before school started. :(

I wanted to save this contest for after OWY1U is back up and I've started a new webcomic I'm planning on doing on LJ (so that there's actually something to use the Cameo Tokens given as prizes for), but since I probably won't be able to get OWY1U up and create the first strip of a webcomic by January 5, and I really want to start this contest now, I will.

What are Cameo Tokens for anyway? )

Contest rules )

OMY a cancelled contest?! I'm telling all my friends!
matt1993: (hypercube)
2009-12-04 10:11 pm

Aw gnat, I can't come up with a witty subject today!

So the yearbook class has to write a research paper on... *looks at sheet that was given* ...uh... digital photography by next Friday. And I have to take my SATs tomorrow. *sigh* At least it's the weekend.

Quiz of the day:

No wonder rovanda LJ-cut'd this one )

Say repost!
matt1993: (celery!!)
2009-08-28 04:25 pm

Writer's Block: It Is What It Is

It Is What It Is
What oft-repeated quote or common cliché do you find the most annoying when someone says it to you?

Answer View Answers

All of them. Well, almost all.

SH00P DA REPOST
matt1993: (updated prtsc land me)
2009-05-17 11:27 am

Negative LiveJournal meme

Since no one responded to my telephone game meme, I decided to make a new meme.
(EDIT: This was a lame idea for a meme, so please don't do it.)
In fact, it was so lame, I'm gonna LJ-cut it so I don't have to read it )

.emal s'tI .lanruoj ruoy ot tsop T'NOD
matt1993: (updated prtsc land me)
2009-04-28 09:08 pm

Writer's Block: Wild Life

Wild Life
How long could you survive on your own in the wild?

Answer View Answers

Negative one minute.

Post to the wild