すべてを書きます、今年の出来事を…
といっても、やはり無理か。
まあいい、言いたいことを今年が終わるまでここに残す、これぐらいは大丈夫かな。
といっても、やはり無理か。
まあいい、言いたいことを今年が終わるまでここに残す、これぐらいは大丈夫かな。
☆゜・。_。・゜☆゜・。_。・゜☆゜・。_。・゜☆゜・。_。・゜☆
1. Site renovation
A rather intense task but still fun as usual. The biggest change would be the "archiv" page now blends both post and art stuff. I once tried the format of the calendar but that's way more complicated and less visually pleasant, so it's eventually deleted forever. The new archive page inherits the clean page view from the previous, and uses icons to differentiate the two categories. This is probably the first time I use emoji icons rather than old style symbols for the site. It won't be a concern at all nowadays to worry about outdated machines that can't display them, nicht wahr?
Other renovation works were mostly done invisibly, like how config and constants are read, between php blocks or printf, and a (supposed to be) smarter way to process page contents, plus a new Kouyou theme (thanks to my recent anime mode). All updates have been done locally and pushed to remote repo, and hopefully I'll FTP sync everything alongside finishing this last page.
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2. Super speeding card works
As described and nothing else. Earlier this year it was at a normal pace. Although occasionally being a bit faster, it's mostly slower than expected. Because my initial calculation was one or two pieces per month that will take 3-6 years, I got so impatient and really want to move faster. Since the second half of the year, I put myself into a speeding mood, and tried to be lazy whenever possible to save some extra effort.
The result wasn't bad, especially the 3rd round -- Round 1 was turtle-paced and all set by the end of January, round 2 was basically going well but interrupted by many things in the 3D world, while round 3 was doomed to finish in time or I won't have the motivation to even sync with my dA page. Therefore I made it in time. Satisfied.
In the meantime, I've even got inspiration for a cover page, but only when the whole deck is done, which will not happen soon so I shall not reveal too much more. A quick draft is, bird's eye view, string trio or quartet plus vocal, in the Bishop (?) Turtle's quiet garden, maybe in light rain or clear night. Inspiration: "for dark souls" from the DS3 soundtrack.
Since I've stacked two entire rounds of card works, it would be impractical to individually mention each of them in a post. So another site-wise update that I've already planned is to add a larger liner notes section, and also add a one line field for a quick catcher message. Existing text would be linked, or manually extracted from the original post, as I can't think up how to auto detect what to retrieve. Perhaps there's none.
On the second last day, when I finally got the energy to sync with my dA, their auto tagging system attracted some of my attention. Apparently the AI can somehow predict the picture content, but very limited. Maybe their AI is less trained compared to other bigger ones, or maybe using AI in tagging pictures is just this bad. (I don't understand at all why it tagged many pieces "touhou" while I have no clue what it is at all!) Either way, regardless of seeing some looks-nice AI made pictures and videos, asking AI to fully interact with a given piece is far from usable, though I myself don't see when I'd need such a smart AI either. ┐(・_・)┌
Now, look back at some works at the beginning, maybe I shall plan to remaster selected ones, only after the whole deck is finished of course.
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3. A colourful dream
It's probably in the beginning of this month when I saw it. I'm not attempting to keep a dream diary so just leave some keywords here: Torrent, tombs in forest with ghost flowers around, night. Scene switches to a beach with bright green-blue sea water. The cosmos with bright coloured nebula was right above. Finally, I was probably trying to find the armour set: a dark blue magic girl long dress with a red ribbon. I must have had too much card works to see such a dream, and even remember it! Now when recalling it again, maybe I shall put that "armour" dress as the cover image!
And this is how ideas usually just appear in my mind.
Then, a few weeks after when I saw the news about the ER spin-off. I was indeed excited but not as much as the expansion when I learned it's a spin-off. Will have to wait and see.
Speaking of ER. Since it's expansion and my long anime mode started, I didn't have a whole block of time to taste its soundtrack until yesterday. Looking at the composer names, there's only one thing I have.
-- Shoi Miyazama is God.
-- Shoi Miyazama is God.
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4. Nothing but Baumkuchen
Anime mode have I been in the last 2.5 months and it's not ended yet. Detective Conan is the only thing I have during this. I know that I've watched all episodes up to 2015 or 16, but except for some events, I remember nothing more. Of these, one special and fun thing I clearly remember was the Baumkuchen episode, where the type of cake impressed me so much and I even remember I tried to learn how to make one -- though I soon gave up because it's too hard.
Sweets are as important as a murder case to solve.
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This year's biggest step has to be granted to No.2. While I'm so far pleased by the outcome, I really wish I can get the rest of the cards done in the next year. Also hope I can start working on the planned cover image asap!
A fruitful 2024 ☆ The End ☆
