Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

Four years ago today (or, in Japan, yesterday), Super Mario Maker was released.

Four years ago as of this Friday or so, I saw Mary O. for the first time, marking the beginning of a long-standing crush on the guide to a game manual.

Ah, bittersweet memories... bittersweet because this reminds me that four months ago, she ended up being replaced for literally no reason in Super Mario Maker 2, crushing any hope I had of seeing her in another game ever again. :(

Oh wow - while Internet drama prevented me from getting this posted ON the 12th anniversary of my LJ, I still managed to get it posted less than a week afterwards. Go me! :D

Congratulations, a_newdream4xmas - you're the first to reach 100 comments in my journal since adawnrae in 2013! :D (So close, cactus_rs and remmingtonglock. ;) )

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Top Commenters on matt1993's LiveJournal (and matt1993's DreamWidth)
(Anonymous comments excluded from rankings)

1	matt1993/matt1993	3621½ (3614½ on Aug 19)
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3	glowing_dragon/glowing_dragon	833 (831 on Aug 19)
4	rovanda	185
5	irish_ileana	134
6	adawnrae	113
7	a_newdream4xmas/jalerie	104
8	awehla	100
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Total Commenters: 161
Total Comments: 8248½ (8232½ on Aug 19)
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(First off, unrelated to this entry, but before I forget: thanks everyone for all the well-wishes on my previous friends-only entry!)

Good news: I've finally fixed all my entries from 2007-2014!

Bad news: I MAY NEVER BE ABLE TO FIX ANY MORE. I'M UNABLE TO ACCESS ANY PAGE WHERE THE URL BEGINS WITH MATT1993.LIVEJOURNAL.COM. I can access any other page on LJ, including my inbox, etc. - JUST NOT MY OWN JOURNAL OR PROFILE.

I AM FREAKING OUT NOW. PLEASE FIX THIS SOON, LJ. I AM GOING TO STAY UP ALL NIGHT UNLESS THIS IS FIXED.

EDIT: My LJ actually started working again after about the second refresh after I posted this. But I left this entry as is until about 20 hours later because I thought it might stop working again. That, and I wanted to leave it up as a testament to how LJ and DW outages (especially ones that somehow only affect my own journal and profile) don't have to be very long before I panic and have to post entries like this one.

I'm done fixing all of my entries from 2013! (unless there's something I missed...) Just five more years' worth of entries (and then community entries and such...) to go! :D

Also, I got Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on Friday! Thanks, pathvain_aelien! :)

So as you've probably noticed (unless you read my entries on DW only), I changed my LJ style... turns out the glitch where videos wouldn't show up in IE only happens on outdated journal styles, which my Pale Yellows style was, so the glitch won't be fixed.

So I had to pick a different style, and wow... not only do videos show up again, I finally get to see when someone "likes" my entry since I no longer get the email notifications about it, and I finally found out that to fix the glitch where status bars that used to show up correctly now made pages unreadable, I didn't have to edit them manually on LJ - all I had to do was set "Resize images in entry" to "No resize"! Though I checked just now and DW doesn't have a similar option. Another reason for me to still prefer LJ...

When I changed my style, I also had to go through and look at all the customization settings again to make it look more or less like it did before, including entering my blurb again. I figured since I had to do that, I might as well not re-enter the same blurb as before and instead put in, on both my LJ and DW sidebars, the new blurb I wrote recently that I was planning on replacing it with eventually anyway.

For posterity, the old blurb said:

What has ten fingers, autism, synesthesia, a crush on Enya, lots of Mario games, thousands of regrets, a feeling of worry about being judged for almost everything, and a tendency to write blurbs that become outdated quickly?

Me!

...You're not laughing. Have you heard this one already?

Anyway, in my journal, at first almost all of my entries were public, but lately I've been making more and more of my entries friends-only, usually if they're about things I worry (MAYBE too much) about. I never really intended for it to turn out that way, hence why I didn't put up any sort of "this journal is semi-friends-only" notice until just now (July 2015).


And wow... I've been using the Pale Yellows style since 2009. There were a couple of times I changed the colors to custom color schemes, and then in July 2015 I reverted it back to its original colors so it'd feel like a return to the good old days, and in August 2017 I temporarily made it look as much like my pre-Pale Yellows layout as possible (without actually switching to the old layout) to celebrate the tenth anniversary of my journal... but in nine years, I've never replaced the Pale Yellows style entirely until now.


Now I have to look at my first 700 or so LJ entries again just to make sure the new layout didn't also cause any of them to not show up correctly anymore. At least this should be faster than the first time around since I've already fixed them once. :)

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

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! ;)

SAND KINGDOM BROCHURE IN SUPER MARIO ODYSSEY: "It is said that a legendary artifact called the Binding Band lies within [the Inverted Pyramid], and the upside-down pyramid symbolizes how those joined by it will never part even if the world turns upside down."
MY THOUGHT WHEN I READ THIS WHILE FIRST PLAYING IT: "IF the world turns upside-down?? You mean it hasn't already turned upside-down this year??"

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░T LE ØT TLE ØUPER-L-█⏏ DEL F ME █Ø TL T Y'M P-ØTY█⏏ TLYØ ░FTER ØUPER M RY- M ✉ER \EC ME ░ TLY█⏏ ░█D TLEREF-RE Y ⏏ET T- P-Y█T -UT TL T, Y█ RETR-ØPECT, M RY-'Ø █ ME ØL-WY█⏏ UP ░Ø "M RF-" █-W REMY█DØ ME -F M RF -. (EVE█ M-RE Ø- WLE█ Y ░DD ░█ ░P-ØTR-PLE-Ø`) :P

Translation:

Here's a Super Mario Bros. corrupted gameplay video that I discovered years ago - like, 2007-2009, probably - that I found so hilarious that I probably would've posted it to LiveJournal had I been active on LJ at the time. But I didn't since I wasn't as active on LJ back then. And somehow, I never got around to posting it to LiveJournal (or DreamWidth) in the intervening 8-10 years. UNTIL NOW!! Would you look at that!

At least the super-long delay means that I'm posting this after Super Mario Maker became a thing and therefore I get to point out that, in retrospect, Mario's name showing up as "M RY-" now reminds me of Mary O. (Even more so when I add an apostrophe-S!) :P

So, I posted before when I found out in July that Photobucket made it so that users have to pay $400 a year for their images to show up anywhere other than Photobucket (and how it was disheartening since I WOULD have been able to see them if I hadn't been such a procrastinator for several years, and also couldn't fix them because I don't even use Photobucket and if I did I still couldn't fix anyone else's), but then I think I also posted when I found out that I could still see the images in Photobucket itself by opening the image in a new tab in Chrome.

Well, now I can't even do THAT anymore - the images are broken on Photobucket itself now! I'm not sure whether that's because I switched computers or whether it's because Photobucket somehow made their Terms of Service even WORSE, but one thing is for sure:

I SHOULD NEVER HAVE PUT OFF CHECKING MY FRIENDS PAGE OR ANY OF THE WEBCOMICS I USED TO READ BACK IN 2011-2013. Pretending I've gone back in time to finish all of that sooner is not going to cut it. Even if I also link to the DW version of the entry I just linked to.

I should've at least started catching up earlier than 2015... When I played Super Smash Bros. for 3DS for the first time, I played All-Star Mode, and hearing this soothing but slightly sad-sounding music in between rounds and seeing the years the characters debuted (especially when they were years I was around for, especially especially when it was as recent as 2001-2006 or 2007-2013) written on a wall in what looks like ancient ruins really gave me the feels the first time around and made me think about how long I'd been putting off the stuff I wanted to catch up on - why didn't I start my trip through memory lane THEN (besides the fact that I was still super excited to finally play that game)? If I had, I might actually be done by now!

I feel like the world (especially the Internet) is just becoming more and more destroyed by the minute... not only that, I've been feeling like I'VE let the world get destroyed by waiting all the way until 2015 to start catching up on everything I wanted to catch up on! I know that sounds silly, but it also sounds exactly like how I feel every time something else I could've seen years ago but didn't disappears. Which is ALWAYS.



Well, FINE!! If you can't beat the fact that half of the Internet looks like Comments on a Postcard fanstuff now, JOIN the fact that half of the Internet looks like Comments on a Postcard fanstuff now!

Check out these Miis I just made of the COAP cast:





















EDIT: How'd I forget Margaret considering that I think I did a better job on her Mii than any of the others??