Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

Mashups and mixes I've made on Rave.DJ with Pikmin music:

Track	Mashups involving this track	Mixes involving this track
Forest of Hope	(none)	Super Smash Bros. Melee - Mother Super Smash Bros. Melee - Icicle Mountain Super Smash Bros. Melee - Great Bay Super Mario Galaxy - Comet Observatory A How to Train Your Dragon - This is Berk How to Train Your Dragon - Test Drive Super Mario Bros. - Overworld

Characters in this game who have C.AI chat index entries: Olimar

Fifteen years ago today (well, tomorrow), I created a Google Site as part of one of my first assignments in a dual credit computer science class I was taking at the time. The assignment was simply to create a Google Site and didn't specify a topic, so some of my classmates made basic profile pages, others made sites that had something to do with their career path... but I, not being a normal person by any definition of the word, made a site dedicated to my then-newest big obsession: listening to music backwards and writing down what I thought the lyrics sounded like when reversed. (And trying WAAAY too hard to make inside jokes out of the backwards lyrics.)

And thus, on that day, Ours Will You 1-Up was born.

Fifteen years later, I'm nostalgic about those days of listening to music backwards, writing down what the backwards lyrics sounded like, and thinking up ideas for features I wanted to add to my site but never did (such as also transcribing backwards cartoons or backwards TV show episodes, or adding a drawing based on a backwards lyric from every song).

Sure, there were some aspects of the site's execution that were... problematic, to say the least, so it's no surprise that I only kept updating the site for a few months, it was eventually taken down by Google in 2014 or 2015 or so, and I don't currently have any plans for making a new version of it or posting backwards lyrics here or anything like that.

But I still miss those days. I think I'm nostalgic for Ours Will You 1-Up right now for four reasons:
1) The obvious fact that it's almost the 15th anniversary of the site. Even though it's been a while since the last time I did anything big to acknowledge a major milestone anniversary of it or my journal or the beginnings of any of my other major hobbies/projects.
2) The fact that Character.AI is a thing and thus I can actually simulate a conversation between Enya and any of the fictional characters she "mentioned" in her backwards lyrics... without having to write it myself!
3) For a multitude of reasons - Character.AI, the fact that my 30th birthday was fairly recent, etc. - I've been nostalgic about basically my entire life, including my obsession with backwards music.
4) And last but not least, the fact that I recently came across the following two videos on YouTube without even trying:

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That's right. Someone besides me played Enya songs backwards. Not just one or two, but six. And not only that, they posted it to YouTube!
If something like this existed when my site was still up, I wasn't aware of it.
While Ours Will You 1-Up was still up, I had wanted to actually post the backwards versions of the songs, so that readers with no audio editing program could actually listen to them backwards instead of just trying to imagine what Enya singing nonsense about Olimar pushing a slush would sound like. But I didn't think I'd be allowed to do so (plus I probably didn't know how).
Well, now I can finally do what I wanted to do! I wasn't originally planning on doing anything special for the 15th anniversary of Ours Will You 1-Up, but when I found this channel I was like "okay, I DEFINITELY have to make an OWY1U 15th anniversary post now". :)

I'm so weird for being so obsessed with all these things and getting overly excited when Enya fans also share at least one other interest with me, aren't I...

If you're not into Super Smash Bros. or Super Mario Maker... and maybe even if you ARE into those games but aren't as obsessed with Mary O. as I am... then this entry will probably be of no interest to you and you should probably skip it unless you REALLY want to know what goes on inside my head. :P


Being the Nintendo nerd I am, ever since the first Super Smash Bros. I sometimes tried to imagine what it would be like if various characters (video game or otherwise) that weren't playable in any SSB games yet were.

But I don't think I've ever come up with a complete moveset for one until now. Usually all I think of is:
- "What would Kirby look like if he copied this character?"
- "What would this character's alternate costumes be?"
- (for characters who aren't from a series that's already in the game) "What would this character's series symbol be?"
- MAYBE a game mechanic that would be unique to that one character
- MAYBE taunts and MAYBE special moves and a Final Smash.

And usually I don't write about or draw any of these ideas either - just think about it.


But lately, due to my constantly being obsessed with Mary O. (who unfortunately is still obscure enough that I feel like I have to link to that article again), I've been thinking more and more about what it'd be like if she and Yamamura were playable in Super Smash Bros. as a 2-in-1 character similar to Duck Hunt.

In fact I first thought of this idea at some point before April Fools' Day 2017 (see the music tag for that entry), but lately I've been thinking more and more about how this could work, enough that I think I have ideas for their entire hypothetical moveset by now.

And I keep thinking about said moveset so much that writing an entry about it is probably the only way I'm ever going to stop being so distracted thinking about it, even though I doubt it'd be interesting to anyone here (none of you are as obsessed with Mary O. as I am, and a lot of you probably aren't even into Super Smash Bros. enough for this to be of interest to you). So I'll LJ-cut it so I won't bore you. :)


( Blah blah blah Mary O. moving sideways )

It feels so weird that I've put all this thought into making an entire moveset and such for Mary O. & Yamamura for literally no reason since I doubt I'd be making a Super Smash Bros. fangame or hack anytime soon... and it feels especially weird to actually be typing out this ridiculous idea after spending so much time only thinking about it...

Well, now you know what goes on inside my head! :P

I made thirteen posts on Miiverse on January 5, 2013 (though I've only put the first six in this entry). For nearly a year, that was the record of most Miiverse posts I made in a single day (if not counting replies since those weren't in the backup...) And no, I can't think of anything about that day that would make me post to Miiverse more often.

Before that, my record was nine posts each on December 29 and 30, 2012 (and thus, so far those are the only other two days that I turned into two-parters in this "backup my Miiverse posts on LJ and DW" series).


What do you think of these Miiverse backup entries so far? Should I post them more often? Less often? Include more Miiverse posts at a time? Less Miiverse posts at a time? I know probably not all of you are interested in these but I like having my Miiverse posts still existing on the Internet in some form. :)


← 01/03/2013 - 01/04/2013 01/05/2013 5:30-9:00 PM →


Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 3:31 PM

The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest (clearly right after the end of the second stage)


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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 3:49 PM

Pikmin Adventure
Was anyone else reminded of Tarantox from Super Mario Galaxy? (weak points that look like blisters)

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(It's been a while so I'm not sure what Pikmin Adventure boss I was talking about [probably was a Bulborb of some sort though] but it must have been pretty early on in that game - presumably before the first timed mission judging by the order of my posts. I don't think I ever 100% completed any of the Nintendo Land games. Maybe I should finish that someday...)


Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 4:02 PM

Captain Falcon's Twister Race


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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 4:21 PM

Takamaru's Ninja Castle


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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 4:51 PM

Takamaru's Ninja Castle


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(For those who haven't played this game, Hawk Eye is an ability that slows down the enemies and projectiles.)


Nintendo Land Community
Matt 01/05/2013 5:11 PM

Takamaru's Ninja Castle


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(Except the invincibility stars from Mario are more commonly known as Super Stars nowadays, and I believe they've been called that since Super Mario 3D Land which is before Miiverse even existed. I guess I thought "Starman" was the term more people on Miiverse would recognize, but now I'm not sure.)

Yay, my first few Nintendo Land posts! And you get to see what is probably my first attempt at drawing my Mii!

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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/28/2012 8:19 PM

Nintendo Land Plaza
So far I've only played Yoshi's Fruit Cart, Pikmin Adventure & Balloon Trip Breeze, but enjoying it!

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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/28/2012 9:02 PM

Octopus Dance


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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/28/2012 9:06 PM

Octopus Dance
I'm bad at this :(

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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/28/2012 9:24 PM

Metroid Blast
The controls are gonna take some getting used to...

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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/28/2012 10:44 PM

Switchback Hill


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(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 )

I'm still not sure whether these are more or less weird than I expected. Or both? :)

Let's get a good stretch

( Original meme (Warning: I used to try to come up with a unique name for the backwards version of every song I wrote down backwards lyrics to, and some of the names sound weird to me now. Especially when the song has no lyrics and so I just used the "opposite" of the original title.) )

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
7. No cheating and doctoring your list to make yourself look cooler than the person you took this from

( New answers! )

You can tell I have a lot of video game music now - and I still haven't actually finished adding all the video game soundtracks that I want on my iPod!

I also removed backwards music from my iPod a while back - I still like backwards music, but at some point it turned out that I wouldn't have enough room for both forwards and backwards versions of every song I have so far.


What’s your sequel’s soundtrack?

A - Autism is annoying to have; I want mine cured
B - Backwards music fanatic
C - College is one year away and I definitely don't think I can make it
D - Distracted by my own thoughts
E - Enya is my #1 celebrity crush
F - Fourth dimension is interesting to think about
G - Grapheme→color synesthesia is awesome
H - Holy whole hand dealer, some of these are pretty hard to come up with!
I - Internet memes are usually annoying
J - Jesus freak
K - Ketchup-flavored potato chips? Strange, but tasty!
L - LiveJournal, where I find it much easier to make friends than in real life
M - Misunderstood a lot
N - Norris, Chuck jokes I only sometimes find funny
O - Olimar, push the slush! (I really can't think of anything other than a backwards Enya lyric for this one)
P - pathvain_aelien and ellaina02 are my sisters
Q - Q qq qqq qqqq qqqqqq qq qqq qqqqqqqq qqq qqqqq qqqqq qqq'q q qqqq qqqq qqqqqq qqqqqqqq qqqqqqqq qqqq qq...qqqq, qq qqq qqqqq qqqqqqqqq'q qqqqqqq (Unqensored version: Q is the only letter of the alphabet for which there isn't a word with sexual innuendo starting with it...well, it was until witchkatt's comment)
R - Random
S - Six sixty-six-related dreams are a bad sign...
T - Teenagers that think they're cool often aren't
U - Userpic limit is too small for all 71 (as of now) of the userpic ideas I came up with :(
V - Video gamer
W - Won't drink alcohol, do drugs, or smoke even when I'm old enough
X - Xtra sensitive sometimes
Y - Yellow is my favorite color, but I don't have a real reason why (maybe it's because my synesthetic color for the first letter of my name is yellow)
Z - Zzzzzzzz until noon most of the time, regardless of whether or not I wanna get up earlier (unless I have school)

Fill out YOUR alphabet!

I just thought of something. You see, on the Homestar Runner Wiki Forum, in the Forum Games section, there was a game where you have to edit the previous person's comment and comment on it. I loved it until off-topic discussions on the HRWF were locked, and just now thought of something: What if I recreated it here?

So here's what you do:

1) Click "Leave a comment" or "Will me 1-Up" (depends on if you're reading this from my journal or your friends page).
2) Quote the previous person (excluding his/her quote).
3) Edit the quote some (at least a little, and don't make it completely different).
4) Below the "quote", comment on it.
5) Keep it relatively clean.
6) If you edit a quote to say something derogatory about someone, your comment MUST be something like "Hey, be nice!"
7) If you like this game, link to this post from your journal.

For example, if the last comment was:

I just ate some macaroni and cheese.
You didn't share it? SELFISH!

you could say:

You didn't scare it? GO FISH!
Wrong game!

If you don't get it, don't worry. I'll be playing this too to help you figure it out.
Start with this:

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Let Olimar push the slush!

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