Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

Tomorrow will mark the 14th anniversary of my LiveJournal.

But at this point, I don't think that's worth celebrating. Because I don't think that's a GOOD thing. It means I've been saying stupid things online that I can never be forgiven for for 14 whole years now. I should've quit when I found out just how stupid all my past entries are. :(

https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XLXg4fYsc

Good news: Someone finally made the news about the coronavirus less confusing and put all the data together in a way that makes it so that if things get better in a country, then we'll KNOW that things have gotten better!

Bad news: That's still never going to happen in the US. The US is still doomed.

https://www.ssbwiki.com/Talk:2019-20_COVID-19_pandemic_and_its_impact_on_competitive_play

"From Sakurai's latest Famitsu column (http://ryokutya2089.com/archives/29665), he states the presentation of the next Smash Bros. DLC fighter has been delayed due to the coronavirus."

Great. That means the last six DLC fighters will NEVER be released, because as we all know, "delayed" means that it'll just keep getting delayed over and over again until the apocalypse is over which it never will be no matter what we do. The world is going to end no matter what we do and nothing we can enjoy will ever be released. :'(

Happy Pi Day!

...oh wait. Happiness doesn't exist anymore.

Um... Have a slightly less miserable Pi Day!

Well, it would be weekly if I'd posted this between June 3 and 9, anyway...

Featuring my first and only post in the Legend of Zelda Series community, and surprisingly many Zelda-related posts in general!

(And yeah, I know I'm posting a lot of gaming-related posts lately between my Miiverse backup posts, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate hype, and my fanboying over a certain cute manual guide. Sorry.)

← March 2013 04/21/2013 - 04/22/2013 →

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/08/2013 8:17 PM

Nintendo Land Plaza
Saved up so many coins that when I left the coin minigame, the prizes shot out rapid-fire XD

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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/08/2013 9:03 PM

The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest (in that time trial mode, to be specific)
I'd like to see someone TRY to beat my best time: a mere… -:--.--? Yeah, alright, I'm bad at this :(

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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/08/2013 9:10 PM

The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest (still in time trial mode)
NOW I beat it! If it takes 1:11, though, I don't think I can get those 25 / 20 sec or less stamps…

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(How did this post get more Yeahs than the previous one?)


(Also, as some of you who've known me for a while know, I made a LJ entry in 2013 about my first Miiverse post to get misunderstood; that misunderstood post isn't in the backup I got from Nintendo because it's a comment on another post, but chronologically it was before this next one.)

The Legend of Zelda Series Community
Matt 04/13/2013 12:13 AM



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(That inside joke ended up not being used a whole lot, but a couple of years later I did nickname my Zelda amiibo "100PctZlda" [would've been "100% Zelda" but percent signs aren't allowed in amiibo nicknames for some reason?] because of it.
Also, in addition to this being my first and only post in this community, this is also my first Miiverse post to lack the "has played this game" icon, because it's the first time I posted in a community where the icon never appears because the community is for a whole series and not one specific game.)


Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/19/2013 8:42 PM

Donkey Kong's Crash Course


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Every time I see that a LJ username that was not previously crossed out is now, it feels like several punches in the face.

(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 _dreams_, autism, or 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 )

Lately I've just had SO MUCH to do that not only do I not get much time to relax, but whenever I do get to take a break, it's usually not actually that relaxing because I still end up thinking about the stuff that has to get done soon.

As I mentioned a while back, I've been working on that physics research project as a part-time job. The conference that I have to attend is coming up soon (it's from March 31 to April 2), and at some point before that (probably THIS WEEK), I'll have to completely wear myself out putting together the information for the poster so I can present it. Hopefully this is the last time I ever have to give a presentation about this project... but with my luck, there will probably be about three more conferences I have to present at. :(

Not only that, but even though I have a part-time job already, I'm now required to look at two listings for potential full-time jobs every week. And I've been having to do more of the chores at home... which I'm not very good at remembering to do. AND recently there was a whole bunch of paperwork I had to do, AND I had to update my résumé recently, AND there's probably more things like that that I'll have to do soon... and so on and so forth.

About 117 days until I get to be happy again...

I'm definitely not even close to being ready to be an adult, even though I'm SUPPOSED to be because I was in college for 4½ years. :(

This entry does not get a repost button because it is friends-only. I decided to make this and the next one public because of later public entries that mention this conference.

Over the past week or so, my depression about the Forbidden Comment Threads, my ability to focus, my common sense, and my ability to speak without stumbling over words have all steadily gotten worse.

You know I've said how if I end up with too many creative vortexes stuck in my head at once, I might end up regressing? I think it's actually happening now, except most likely because of the Forbidden Comment Threads instead. I probably don't have much time left...

On some more positive notes:

( - SIX new quizzes!! )

- This is my 900th entry!!! At least it is if you include my glossary. If you don't, then my next entry (whatever it happens to be) will be the 900th.

- I changed the "# comments" and "Post a comment" text in my journal to say "I glued # blenders to my face" and "Is it Saturday night already?!" (both of which are a Garfield reference or - perhaps more famously - a Square Root of Minus Garfield reference). I've been considering changing that text ever since I took Ours Will You 1-Up down and thus made "I'm #-Up"/"Will me 1-Up" stand out as oddly-phrased. (Actually, it probably stood out like that even while OWY1U was up.) And now I finally did! I also changed the current mood text to "This mood coming through", another Garfield/SROMG reference.

Glue this entry to your journal! (well, probably not all, but maybe part of it)

I'm finally done with my second semester of college! Although so far, the only courses I know for sure I passed are Computer Science (with a B) and Chemistry Lab (with I'm not sure what). I did feel more confident about Computer Architecture and Chemistry class than I did with Computer Science, though. No idea about Statistics, though :(

I used to be good at math! In first grade, while the rest of the class was taught addition and subtraction, I was taught that and multiplication, and as those of you know, I took Calculus I as a high school junior and did well in it. Whatever happened to that?

Ah well, at least I get to relax for...about 12 days, because I have to take two summer classes and one of them's English II. :( So I'm probably still not going to catch up on my friends page yet if I want to have even the slightest chance of getting done with my program to prioritize everything before I need it for my summer classes.

Happy belated birthday to krickadoodle, squidmuse, barrakuda_a, hartlyn, karla_somebody, gettingoutthere, kandigurl (I think I already wished you happy birthday on Facebook on time, but still), and darkdragoonfan! (I know, I'm too pathetic to wish any of my LJ friends a happy birthday on time...)

Some funny videos I found:



( Five more like it )

So...you'll play?