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Ridiculously early 2018 Calendar Year in Review?!
Sat, Dec. 1st, 2018 00:19
It's December now? GOOD!! Because at least there's one New Year's meme I can get out of the way now, six days before I get too distracted playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to remember to do it. :)
Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2018. Post the first line of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review".
January 2018
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?
February 2018
YES! I'm FINALLY done fixing all of my entries in 2007-2010! (Hopefully...)
March 2018
It's Friday already and not Tuesday or Wednesday... but at least this is still the most regular feature I've had in my journal since the weekly Garfield Randomizer comics in 2009!
(This, of course, is about my weekly Miiverse backup entries... which of course did not remain a regular feature for long...)
April 2018
https://www.mariowiki.com/Mary_O._and_Yamamura:_The_Movie
May 2018
So I found this two-part YouTube video called "500 Characters I Want In Smash Bros. Switch"...
June 2018
About time I posted some more of these. Once again, I meant to post them last week...
July 2018
- On June 14 or 15 or so I saw The Incredibles 2, then saw Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom a week or two later! I liked both :)
August 2018
It took four days (more than that if you count the time I spent putting it off), but I'm finally done fixing one of my longest and most cringeworthy entries ever! :D
September 2018
Well... it's September 4. So Sunday was the first anniversary of the day I was finally motivated - by a glitch LJ had for about three weeks where a lot of images were suddenly broken in entries - to finally get around to fixing the broken images AND everything else I wanted to fix in my entries on both LJ and DW.
October 2018
WARNING: I am extremely depressed and therefore this entry is going to make no sense whatsoever because I am physically incapable of wording an opinion very well when I am depressed.
November 2018
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pathvain_aelien stayed at my apartment for a while; in that time we watched the How To Train Your Dragon TV show! (Specifically, the third of the three shows there were. P_A, what was the third show called again? Dragons: Race to the Edge.) We made it to season 4. :) Have any of you watched it?
December 2018
It's December now? GOOD!! Because at least there's one New Year's meme I can get out of the way now, six days before I get too distracted playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to remember to do it. :)
Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2018. Post the first line of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review".
January 2018
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?
February 2018
YES! I'm FINALLY done fixing all of my entries in 2007-2010! (Hopefully...)
March 2018
It's Friday already and not Tuesday or Wednesday... but at least this is still the most regular feature I've had in my journal since the weekly Garfield Randomizer comics in 2009!
(This, of course, is about my weekly Miiverse backup entries... which of course did not remain a regular feature for long...)
April 2018
https://www.mariowiki.com/Mary_O._and_Yamamura:_The_Movie
May 2018
So I found this two-part YouTube video called "500 Characters I Want In Smash Bros. Switch"...
June 2018
About time I posted some more of these. Once again, I meant to post them last week...
July 2018
- On June 14 or 15 or so I saw The Incredibles 2, then saw Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom a week or two later! I liked both :)
August 2018
It took four days (more than that if you count the time I spent putting it off), but I'm finally done fixing one of my longest and most cringeworthy entries ever! :D
September 2018
Well... it's September 4. So Sunday was the first anniversary of the day I was finally motivated - by a glitch LJ had for about three weeks where a lot of images were suddenly broken in entries - to finally get around to fixing the broken images AND everything else I wanted to fix in my entries on both LJ and DW.
October 2018
WARNING: I am extremely depressed and therefore this entry is going to make no sense whatsoever because I am physically incapable of wording an opinion very well when I am depressed.
November 2018
pathvain_aelien stayed at my apartment for a while; in that time we watched the How To Train Your Dragon TV show! (Specifically, December 2018
It's December now? GOOD!! Because at least there's one New Year's meme I can get out of the way now, six days before I get too distracted playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to remember to do it. :)
Three more random updates
Fri, Nov. 2nd, 2018 15:05pathvain_aelien stayed at my apartment for a while; in that time we watched the How To Train Your Dragon TV show! (Specifically, ----
It's no secret that I've fallen really far behind on my plan to backup some of my Miiverse posts on LJ/DW once a week. So I have an idea of how to get on a regular schedule that I'll have more motivation to stick to: start posting them once every two weeks instead of one, and act as if this had been my schedule all along starting from my first Miiverse backup entry - meaning the second Miiverse backup entry is now retroactively considered to be posted a week early (being one week after the first rather than two), the third one is retroactively considered to be two weeks early (being two weeks after the first instead of four), and so on.
As I've posted 23 Miiverse backup entries so far, that means the next one would get posted 23×2=46 weeks after the first, which would be the week of... December 12? So this means I'm now "still" caught up! :)
Do me a favor. The next time I consider doing some sort of regular feature on LJ or DW that requires me to upload new images or post entries with images in them once a week, please remind me about this and try to convince me to bring it down to once every two weeks...
----
Finally, now that the last Super Smash Bros. Direct is out, I'll give you another taste of just how weird it is in the mind of Matt1993:
- When I first saw a screenshot of Kirby's Peach copy ability in Super Smash Bros. Melee (when I was 9), I somehow didn't realize that was Peach's crown - my mind jumped to the conclusion that King Bob-omb from Super Mario 64 was playable and either that was his pink alternate costume or Kirby's King Bob-omb copy ability.
- I made up an entire moveset for Mary O. & Yamamura from Super Mario Maker and posted it earlier this year. (And I've brought up the idea even earlier than that - see the music tag on that April Fools entry.)
- And somehow, despite all of that, I still at no point expected a Piranha Plant to be a playable character.
Also, why is it that so many Super Smash Bros. fans hate each other over who's playable or different opinions about who they want to playable?
( This got rant-ier than the rest of the entry. Long story short: I like Piranha Plant and other unexpected SSB characters more than most of the Internet seems to )
*Why couldn't this song have existed when MY world came to an end? It would have been so appropriate for that!
I'm so behind my planned schedule of posting these Miiverse backup entries - if I'd kept to my schedule, I would've posted this entry between June 10 and 16. Maybe this will become Daily Miiverse Backup until I'm caught up!
← 04/08/2013 - 04/19/2013 June 2013 →
Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/21/2013 9:14 PM
Balloon Trip Breeze
6 
6 
(I'm surprised this had 6 Yeahs, because it's kind of hard to tell what's going on and I remember one person couldn't even read the third panel. In fact, it's kind of hard to illustrate any sort of "I died because of this" moment in Balloon Trip Breeze in a way that it's easy to tell what's going on, especially if I try and illustrate two in one post...)
Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/21/2013 9:21 PM
One of these prizes is not like the others...
5 0
(Yay, my first Miiverse post to have a screenshot in it! Did the screenshot feature not exist until then, or did I not know how to use it until then, or did I simply not have a good reason to post a screenshot until then? Who knows?)
Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/22/2013 7:36 PM
Anyone know why my TV doesn't show anything from the Wii U now even though it's still plugged in?
6 6
Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/22/2013 9:40 PM
Pikmin Adventure
For me, this was the first level that seemed more difficult than just "throw Pikmin at everything"…
6 0
Nintendo Land Community
Matt 04/22/2013 9:52 PM
Nintendo Land Plaza
That awkward moment when you accidentally shove a random Mii out of the way in the plaza...
6 0
(And then after this was my first longer-than-a-month hiatus from Miiverse; my next post was 56 days after this one. Hopefully it won't take me that long to post the next Miiverse backup entry!)
← 04/08/2013 - 04/19/2013 June 2013 →
Nintendo Land CommunityMatt 04/21/2013 9:14 PM Balloon Trip Breeze6 6 (I'm surprised this had 6 Yeahs, because it's kind of hard to tell what's going on and I remember one person couldn't even read the third panel. In fact, it's kind of hard to illustrate any sort of "I died because of this" moment in Balloon Trip Breeze in a way that it's easy to tell what's going on, especially if I try and illustrate two in one post...)
Nintendo Land CommunityMatt 04/21/2013 9:21 PMOne of these prizes is not like the others...
5 0 (Yay, my first Miiverse post to have a screenshot in it! Did the screenshot feature not exist until then, or did I not know how to use it until then, or did I simply not have a good reason to post a screenshot until then? Who knows?)
Nintendo Land CommunityMatt 04/22/2013 7:36 PMAnyone know why my TV doesn't show anything from the Wii U now even though it's still plugged in?
6 6 Nintendo Land CommunityMatt 04/22/2013 9:40 PM Pikmin AdventureFor me, this was the first level that seemed more difficult than just "throw Pikmin at everything"…
6 0 Nintendo Land CommunityMatt 04/22/2013 9:52 PM Nintendo Land PlazaThat awkward moment when you accidentally shove a random Mii out of the way in the plaza...
6 0 (And then after this was my first longer-than-a-month hiatus from Miiverse; my next post was 56 days after this one. Hopefully it won't take me that long to post the next Miiverse backup entry!)
Weekly Miiverse Backup: Posts from 01/10/2013
Thu, May. 3rd, 2018 23:29Featuring my only post in the Scribblenauts Unlimited community and my only post in the Netflix community! And yay, I'm finally NOT behind on these Miiverse backup entries! :)
← 01/07/2013 - 01/09/2013 01/18/2013 - 01/19/2013 →
Scribblenauts™ Unlimited Community
Matt 01/10/2013 2:34 PM
This game is fun, but I never know how much sense any given task is going to make…
3 2
(I believe the first comment on this was me trying to give an example of what I meant: there's one part where you can put one piece of candy [or presumably any other food item] in an empty vending machine and that somehow makes it a completely full vending machine overflowing with food items besides just candy, so you'd think if THAT can happen in the game, then at another part with the sorority girl who's looking for her helmet, just writing "helmet" and giving her that helmet would work, but it didn't. Both of these are probably pretty early in the game since I didn't play Scribblenauts all that much...)
New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/10/2013 4:47 PM
Ludwig's Clockwork Castle
WARNING: Somehow, Ludwig is harder to beat when you replay this level...
3 0
Netflix Community
Matt 01/10/2013 7:24 PM
"I love crayon-breaky Willow, and I love scary-veiny Willow." ~ Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
7 2
New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/10/2013 8:42 PM
Lakitu! Lakitu! Lakitu!
"When is it Luigi time? Like 5:30 or so? 7?" ~ my sister
3 1
(And of course, Nintendo answered her question later that year! :P )
...and after that, I didn't post to Miiverse at all (except possibly replies to other people's posts since those aren't included in the backup?) from the 11th to the 17th, which at the time was my longest hiatus from Miiverse just by being my first more-than-a-day-long hiatus. I was probably busy moving into the dorm again and getting ready for the spring 2013 semester of college. :)
← 01/07/2013 - 01/09/2013 01/18/2013 - 01/19/2013 →
Scribblenauts™ Unlimited CommunityMatt 01/10/2013 2:34 PMThis game is fun, but I never know how much sense any given task is going to make…
3 2 (I believe the first comment on this was me trying to give an example of what I meant: there's one part where you can put one piece of candy [or presumably any other food item] in an empty vending machine and that somehow makes it a completely full vending machine overflowing with food items besides just candy, so you'd think if THAT can happen in the game, then at another part with the sorority girl who's looking for her helmet, just writing "helmet" and giving her that helmet would work, but it didn't. Both of these are probably pretty early in the game since I didn't play Scribblenauts all that much...)
New Super Mario Bros. U CommunityMatt 01/10/2013 4:47 PM Ludwig's Clockwork CastleWARNING: Somehow, Ludwig is harder to beat when you replay this level...
3 0 Netflix CommunityMatt 01/10/2013 7:24 PM"I love crayon-breaky Willow, and I love scary-veiny Willow." ~ Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
7 2 New Super Mario Bros. U CommunityMatt 01/10/2013 8:42 PM Lakitu! Lakitu! Lakitu!"When is it Luigi time? Like 5:30 or so? 7?" ~ my sister
3 1 (And of course, Nintendo answered her question later that year! :P )
...and after that, I didn't post to Miiverse at all (except possibly replies to other people's posts since those aren't included in the backup?) from the 11th to the 17th, which at the time was my longest hiatus from Miiverse just by being my first more-than-a-day-long hiatus. I was probably busy moving into the dorm again and getting ready for the spring 2013 semester of college. :)
And yet it somehow took me twelve years or so to realize that "Chip Shot Challenge" (the name of one of the minigames in Mario Party 3) is likely a reference to Chip's Challenge?! I literally just realized it yesterday! Wow.
Has that ever happened to you where some game/movie/book/show/song/etc. you like makes a reference to another game/movie/whatever you like and you don't realize it until years after you first liked both? :)
(EDIT IN JUNE 2019: ...Okay, now the consensus of Super Mario Wiki is (and has been since February 2018) that the name of that minigame is NOT a Chip's Challenge reference - it's most likely just a coincidence that they both happen to have the words "chip" and "challenge" in the name. But still, I'm surprised it took me twelve years to even mistakenly think it might be a reference! And reference or not, this entry still led to some interesting comments on LJ. :) )
In completely unrelated news, now I've fixed 218 out of 1,193 entries. At the rate I'm going, I won't have them all fixed until about November 28. And by then something else will have probably gone wrong and I'll have to spend three months fixing something else on LJ and/or DW. :(
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Sat, May. 13th, 2017 18:53
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.(egap eliforp no ofni erom ,niaga) stohsneercs ynnuf ym fo emos rof noitaripsni eht erew dna ynnuf yllaer era yeht ;(moc.rennurratsemoh no) tuo meht kcehc dluohs uoY .ekil eb lliw liam-E daB gnortS txen eht tahw gnirednow m'I ,won thgiR
Silly reference to my first entry ever aside, yes, I'm done copying all my LJ entries to DreamWidth! Well, except for community entries... and making sure that all of my entries copied over the way they're supposed to... I still have a long ways to go. My LJ was kind of a non-Euclidean mess already, and now I'm having to make sure that nothing looks too weird when it was transferred to DreamWidth. If you see anything that looks like it didn't copy over correctly, let me know.
Now I'm going to test to see what happens if I post a poll in a DW entry that gets cross-posted to LJ...
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Silly reference to my first entry ever aside, yes, I'm done copying all my LJ entries to DreamWidth! Well, except for community entries... and making sure that all of my entries copied over the way they're supposed to... I still have a long ways to go. My LJ was kind of a non-Euclidean mess already, and now I'm having to make sure that nothing looks too weird when it was transferred to DreamWidth. If you see anything that looks like it didn't copy over correctly, let me know.
Now I'm going to test to see what happens if I post a poll in a DW entry that gets cross-posted to LJ...
Poll #18369 Testing DW-to-LJ poll transfers
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4
Which of these random non-video-game characters I picked off the top of my head would Bowser be most likely to try to kidnap?
View Answers
Anya (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
0 (0.0%)
Arwen (Lord of the Rings)
2 (50.0%)
Buffy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
0 (0.0%)
Character 22 (mezzacotta)
0 (0.0%)
Daphne (Frasier)
0 (0.0%)
Agent Einstein (X-Files)
0 (0.0%)
Eowyn (Lord of the Rings)
0 (0.0%)
Galadriel (Lord of the Rings)
0 (0.0%)
Heart (Circle Versus Square)
0 (0.0%)
Holly (Lightning Made of Owls)
0 (0.0%)
Irma (Garfield)
0 (0.0%)
Liz (Garfield)
0 (0.0%)
Marzipan (Homestar Runner)
0 (0.0%)
Meridien (Lightning Made of Owls)
0 (0.0%)
Agent Reyes (X-Files)
0 (0.0%)
Roz (Frasier)
0 (0.0%)
Samantha (Lightning Made of Owls)
0 (0.0%)
Agent Scully (X-Files)
2 (50.0%)
Willow (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
0 (0.0%)
Color me midnight disappointed
Sat, Apr. 1st, 2017 23:00
(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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
_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 )
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 )
Three more revisited quizzes!
Sun, Nov. 13th, 2016 13:44
I retook three more quizzes that I first took in March 2009, but I got the same results as last time for these two, so I won't bother reposting them:
http://matt1993.livejournal.com/6897.html (What Historical Figure Are You?)
Still Leonardo da Vinci. Some of the answer choices are a lot funnier than I remember, though :)
http://matt1993.livejournal.com/7661.html (How are you going to die?)
Still extreme sports, but looking at the possible answers, the other results probably don't fit me any better.
The one that I got a different result on:
Old result:
Originally posted bymatt1993 at Raliens!
Stupid aliens.
Abduct this post
New result:
You have a 17% chance of being abducted!
You don’t really believe in extra-terrestrials, but you should! The chances that another intelligent life form exists is far greater than the chance that it doesn’t.
Weird. I got a higher percentage before I started watching X-Files. :)
http://matt1993.livejournal.com/6897.html (What Historical Figure Are You?)
Still Leonardo da Vinci. Some of the answer choices are a lot funnier than I remember, though :)
http://matt1993.livejournal.com/7661.html (How are you going to die?)
Still extreme sports, but looking at the possible answers, the other results probably don't fit me any better.
The one that I got a different result on:
Old result:
Originally posted by
matt1993 at Raliens!| You have a 33% chance of being abducted! | |
 | You have a fairly good chance of being abducted. You may be somewhat skeptical about the existence of aliens, but you know that they could exist… somewhere. |
Stupid aliens.
Abduct this post
New result:
You have a 17% chance of being abducted!
You don’t really believe in extra-terrestrials, but you should! The chances that another intelligent life form exists is far greater than the chance that it doesn’t.
Weird. I got a higher percentage before I started watching X-Files. :)
List of my userpics by order added
Sun, Jul. 17th, 2016 13:48
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! )
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! )
Icons/Userpics Meme
Tue, Jan. 21st, 2014 23:42
Well, looks like my Psychology class (while possibly not as reminiscent of the Forbidden Comment Threads as I was worried it'd be) is A) still going to be pretty tough and B) not yet guaranteed to never turn into a heated debate, even though one hasn't happened yet. Software Engineering and Game Graphics look like they're gonna be pretty tough too.
Things usually don't turn out this way until after I make a post saying that things are going well so far, so why isn't that the case this time? :(
Also, a meme I got fromcactus_rs:
( 5 of My Userpics Explained )
And it wasn't even real cream cheese,
it was light cream cheese! And now
you want me to run off and
repost another entry?!
Things usually don't turn out this way until after I make a post saying that things are going well so far, so why isn't that the case this time? :(
Also, a meme I got from
cactus_rs:( 5 of My Userpics Explained )
And it wasn't even real cream cheese,
it was light cream cheese! And now
you want me to run off and
repost another entry?!
Garfield Randomizer Etc. 9
Mon, Mar. 12th, 2012 00:42For those of you new here, it's become a tradition for me to post comics made with the Garfield Randomizer after I've been on hiatus for a while. And I've also promised to post some comics made with Garkov as well, but I never did, and I found about two more similar randomizer things in the meantime, so here you go!
I don't have any vision-impaired transcripts for my older ones yet, but I've added that as yet another entry on my to-do list :)
( Garfield Randomizer #159-163 )
( Garkov #1-10 )
( Previously on the X-Files #4-8 )
( Jesus Markoving Christ #1-5 )
Maybe this entry could get going if it lets you kill it without an.
I don't have any vision-impaired transcripts for my older ones yet, but I've added that as yet another entry on my to-do list :)
( Garfield Randomizer #159-163 )
( Garkov #1-10 )
( Previously on the X-Files #4-8 )
( Jesus Markoving Christ #1-5 )
Maybe this entry could get going if it lets you kill it without an.
THE WORLD IS SAVED!!
Sat, Jan. 21st, 2012 00:16http://news.yahoo.com/congress-puts-brakes-anti-piracy-bills-050144281.html
YES! I had a feeling they would listen to Wikipedia, Google, and so on! Dunno if anyone in Congress saw some of my replaced userpics too, but I'll keep pretending they did :P
Starting tomorrow, I'm gonna change the userpics I did manage to replace back to normal, although the darkened versions will remain in my userpic space until a) we find out for sure that the compromise won't be just as bad (which I doubt it will, but still...) or b) I run out of room for normal userpics (which will take a while, as I'd need over 120 more for that to happen).
I'll also continue to make more, because even if SOPA did not ruin my life by making it impossible to ever finish my creative vortexes, the darkened userpics still count as at least 300* new creative vortexes that I've gotta get rid of. They just won't be my highest priority for now.
To celebrate, I'm gonna type as many words and phrases that SOPA's too-vague wording could have cracked down on my use of despite them being fair use or not even trademarked as I can in 10 minutes:
Mario. Luigi. Peach. Daisy. Yoshi. Homestar. Strong Bad. The Cheat. Neopets. Aisha. Acara. Poogle. Illusen. Fyora. Jhudora. Garfield. Odie. Jon. Liz. Nermal. Arlene. Pooky. Lyman. Irma. /crazymegavideo/. Google. Wikipedia. /tensen/. Bowser. Koopa. Goomba. Enya. Moya. Dido. Homsar. Wænya. mezzacotta. Garfield Minus Garfield. Square Root of Minus Garfield. Taelia. Gnorbu. Nimmo. Zafara. Kyrii. Petpet. Weeble. Spaghatta Nadle. Hyperbole and a Half. Alot. xkcd. Clean all the things. Facebook. LiveJournal. Blogger. Strong Sad. Strong Mad. Hammer Bro. Bullet Bill. Super Mushroom. Fire Flower. Ice Flower. Cape Feather. Tanooki Suit. Sarah McLachlan. Celine Dion. Pac-Man. Ms. Pac-Man. Blinky. Pinky. Inky. Clyde. Pac-Man Party. Toc-Man. Dry Bones. Dry Bowser. Rosalina. Super Mario Galaxy. Super Mario World. Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros. 2. Super Mario Bros. 3. Super Mario All-Stars. Super Mario Galaxy 2. Mario Kart. Mario Kart Wii. Wii. Nintendo 3DS. Mario Kart 7. Super Mario 3D Land. Boomerang Flower. Wadido. Super Smash Bros. Master Hand. Crazy Hand. Final Smash. Giga Bowser. Ganondorf. Link. Zelda. Sheik. Toon Link. The Legend of Zelda. Twilight Princess. Twilight. Harry Potter. Lord of the Rings. Frodo. Sam. Gandalf. The One Ring. Sauron. Sauraman. Legolas. Arwen. Gimli. Aragorn. Merry. Pippin. Bilbo. Mocorono Nodle. Pahckle. Pahrple drahnk. Parp. Parplegar circopomber. Garfield Plus Garfield. Garfield Divided by Garfield. PrtSc Land. Ours Will You 1-Up. Liobits. Cobrall. Teen Girl Squad. Trogdor. Bubs. Coach Z. Pom Pom. Marzipan. The King of Town. The Poopsmith. Stinkoman. 1-Up. Pan Pan. 20X6. Marshie. Mr. Shmallow. Mr. Game & Watch. Dr. Octagonapus & Watch. Grey's Anatomy. X-Files. Buffy. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Spike. Angel. Xander. Willow. Giles. The First. Mulder. Scully. The Lone Gunmen. Skinner. Kersh. Doggett. Reyes. Fowley. Cigarette-Smoking Man. Super Mario Advance. Yoshi's Island. Donut Plains. Vanilla Dome. Forest of Illusion. Chocolate Island. SNES. NES.
Time's up. I managed 172 (if I counted right), although there were a few times that I paused because what first came to mind would have been a bizarre juxtaposition had I written it down right away (though apparently not always, as I put Mocorono Nodle next to Bilbo, Pac-Man next to Celine Dion and Grey's Anatomy next to Dr. Octagonapus & Watch).
*It's been a while since I counted how many unmade normal userpic ideas I have and added them to the amount I've already uploaded...
YES! I had a feeling they would listen to Wikipedia, Google, and so on! Dunno if anyone in Congress saw some of my replaced userpics too, but I'll keep pretending they did :P
Starting tomorrow, I'm gonna change the userpics I did manage to replace back to normal, although the darkened versions will remain in my userpic space until a) we find out for sure that the compromise won't be just as bad (which I doubt it will, but still...) or b) I run out of room for normal userpics (which will take a while, as I'd need over 120 more for that to happen).
I'll also continue to make more, because even if SOPA did not ruin my life by making it impossible to ever finish my creative vortexes, the darkened userpics still count as at least 300* new creative vortexes that I've gotta get rid of. They just won't be my highest priority for now.
To celebrate, I'm gonna type as many words and phrases that SOPA's too-vague wording could have cracked down on my use of despite them being fair use or not even trademarked as I can in 10 minutes:
Mario. Luigi. Peach. Daisy. Yoshi. Homestar. Strong Bad. The Cheat. Neopets. Aisha. Acara. Poogle. Illusen. Fyora. Jhudora. Garfield. Odie. Jon. Liz. Nermal. Arlene. Pooky. Lyman. Irma. /crazymegavideo/. Google. Wikipedia. /tensen/. Bowser. Koopa. Goomba. Enya. Moya. Dido. Homsar. Wænya. mezzacotta. Garfield Minus Garfield. Square Root of Minus Garfield. Taelia. Gnorbu. Nimmo. Zafara. Kyrii. Petpet. Weeble. Spaghatta Nadle. Hyperbole and a Half. Alot. xkcd. Clean all the things. Facebook. LiveJournal. Blogger. Strong Sad. Strong Mad. Hammer Bro. Bullet Bill. Super Mushroom. Fire Flower. Ice Flower. Cape Feather. Tanooki Suit. Sarah McLachlan. Celine Dion. Pac-Man. Ms. Pac-Man. Blinky. Pinky. Inky. Clyde. Pac-Man Party. Toc-Man. Dry Bones. Dry Bowser. Rosalina. Super Mario Galaxy. Super Mario World. Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros. 2. Super Mario Bros. 3. Super Mario All-Stars. Super Mario Galaxy 2. Mario Kart. Mario Kart Wii. Wii. Nintendo 3DS. Mario Kart 7. Super Mario 3D Land. Boomerang Flower. Wadido. Super Smash Bros. Master Hand. Crazy Hand. Final Smash. Giga Bowser. Ganondorf. Link. Zelda. Sheik. Toon Link. The Legend of Zelda. Twilight Princess. Twilight. Harry Potter. Lord of the Rings. Frodo. Sam. Gandalf. The One Ring. Sauron. Sauraman. Legolas. Arwen. Gimli. Aragorn. Merry. Pippin. Bilbo. Mocorono Nodle. Pahckle. Pahrple drahnk. Parp. Parplegar circopomber. Garfield Plus Garfield. Garfield Divided by Garfield. PrtSc Land. Ours Will You 1-Up. Liobits. Cobrall. Teen Girl Squad. Trogdor. Bubs. Coach Z. Pom Pom. Marzipan. The King of Town. The Poopsmith. Stinkoman. 1-Up. Pan Pan. 20X6. Marshie. Mr. Shmallow. Mr. Game & Watch. Dr. Octagonapus & Watch. Grey's Anatomy. X-Files. Buffy. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Spike. Angel. Xander. Willow. Giles. The First. Mulder. Scully. The Lone Gunmen. Skinner. Kersh. Doggett. Reyes. Fowley. Cigarette-Smoking Man. Super Mario Advance. Yoshi's Island. Donut Plains. Vanilla Dome. Forest of Illusion. Chocolate Island. SNES. NES.
Time's up. I managed 172 (if I counted right), although there were a few times that I paused because what first came to mind would have been a bizarre juxtaposition had I written it down right away (though apparently not always, as I put Mocorono Nodle next to Bilbo, Pac-Man next to Celine Dion and Grey's Anatomy next to Dr. Octagonapus & Watch).
*It's been a while since I counted how many unmade normal userpic ideas I have and added them to the amount I've already uploaded...
Previously, on the X-Files...
Fri, Jan. 20th, 2012 03:12
http://muldersbigadventure.com/markov/
Similar to Garkov, except instead of Garfield comics it uses X-Files transcripts and screenshots. Neat! It's a lot harder to find funny stuff with this than with Garkov or the Garfield Randomizer, though...
EDIT: Finally found an interesting one!
POTXF #3 →
EDIT IN 2018: It's gone now, but luckily I remember most of what it said:
SCULLY: This man's been shot.
MAN OTHER THAN MULDER (I remember assuming he was Cigarette-Smoking Man but not being sure): !!!
SCULLY: No aliens. Have you looked outside, Mulder?
MAN OTHER THAN MULDER: (with mouth agape in a bit of a smile) ...
EDIT: Another good one I wanna keep:
( LJ-cut time )
You already know the truth. I assumed that was
the address of that warehouse?
Similar to Garkov, except instead of Garfield comics it uses X-Files transcripts and screenshots. Neat! It's a lot harder to find funny stuff with this than with Garkov or the Garfield Randomizer, though...
EDIT: Finally found an interesting one!
POTXF #3 →
EDIT IN 2018: It's gone now, but luckily I remember most of what it said:
SCULLY: This man's been shot.
MAN OTHER THAN MULDER (I remember assuming he was Cigarette-Smoking Man but not being sure): !!!
SCULLY: No aliens. Have you looked outside, Mulder?
MAN OTHER THAN MULDER: (with mouth agape in a bit of a smile) ...
EDIT: Another good one I wanna keep:
( LJ-cut time )
You already know the truth. I assumed that was
the address of that warehouse?
Various New Year memes
Sat, Dec. 31st, 2011 01:30
( #1 )
( #2 )
EDIT: Can't believe I forgot to say this last time, but this is my 800th entry!!! :D
Sum up YOUR 2011!
( #2 )
EDIT: Can't believe I forgot to say this last time, but this is my 800th entry!!! :D
Sum up YOUR 2011!
http://www.fastweb.com/student-life/articles/3328-does-jersey-shore-belong-on-a-college-campus?utm_source=nlet&utm_content=fw_c1_20111108
Compared to this, "Smash Bros. Theory" sounds like a legitimate college class...
Gym, tan, repost (I actually never heard the original GTL phrase until I read this article, btw)
Compared to this, "Smash Bros. Theory" sounds like a legitimate college class...
Gym, tan, repost (I actually never heard the original GTL phrase until I read this article, btw)
sherrybabyxxThese are a few of my favorite things
What do you like most about LiveJournal?
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The fact that people here are generally more tolerant of eccentric interests and fetishes than people I meet in real life.
Sail-a away to-a your journal (because-a the truth is out there)
My newest anti-procrastination plan
Sun, Jul. 17th, 2011 22:25
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. withpathvain_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
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
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
More random stuff
Sat, Mar. 19th, 2011 23:57I finally won an X-Files Bingo round with pathvain_aelien! Yay!!!
( Meme yoinked from sarea_okelani )
( Quizzes )
( First Garfield Randomizer comics in over a year )
Post this entry into your journal! (well, it'd be weird to repost all of it, but you could repost some of it)
pathvain_aelien! Yay!!!( Meme yoinked from sarea_okelani )
( Quizzes )
( First Garfield Randomizer comics in over a year )
Post this entry into your journal! (well, it'd be weird to repost all of it, but you could repost some of it)
Gun control issue: slightly shotgunned?
Sun, Feb. 13th, 2011 17:54For once, my random associations actually may have paid off!
Yesterday morning, something reminded me of something that reminded me of something else that eventually made me think about how if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns, but allowing guns to be too easy to obtain leads to family shootings, school shootings, bank robberies, and so on. Then I suddenly came up with ideas for some possible solutions to the issue! All of them involve special guns being made that only work under certain circumstances, and all other guns being outlawed:
( LJ-cut contains less than $20 )
If you think any of these might work, feel free to shoot this entry into your journal!
Yesterday morning, something reminded me of something that reminded me of something else that eventually made me think about how if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns, but allowing guns to be too easy to obtain leads to family shootings, school shootings, bank robberies, and so on. Then I suddenly came up with ideas for some possible solutions to the issue! All of them involve special guns being made that only work under certain circumstances, and all other guns being outlawed:
( LJ-cut contains less than $20 )
If you think any of these might work, feel free to shoot this entry into your journal!
