音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Recently when I was tuning my site, I suddenly realised there's nowhere to see the .htaccess file! So I entered my customised URL and found they all worked fine. Could that be a kind of magic of the server? I'd rather like to believe so but my hunch told me it's not possible.
Eventually, I remembered how to turn on displaying hidden files on WINSCP; this must happened when LipAura was reset in this February.
Really I was in panic for a short moment.

While browsing aimlessly on w3schools' colour section, they got pages for CMYK, HSL, and some similars -- these aren't the point. I just wanted to say, there's a line of text caught my attention:
CMYK is a suggested standard for CSS4.

Instant reaction: CSS4 is coming?!
Second reaction: I don't like this decision, as I prefer HEX only.
Remnant reaction: whatever, I believe HEX will just be supported forever. So it's alright.

Although seems it's still of a fairly long while till the real arrival of CSS4, perhaps also HTML6, I more feel bad for people who don't want to give up the legacy (and classic) XP. u___u

Tanabata passed last week, and I totally forgot what it's supposed to be.
"Is it a day for living people to have a meet with the dead?"
But I vaguely know I was wrong, and soon recalled the right answer.
No, it's not because the bad news from ZABADAK.. >//<

"diez"
without looking up I guessed right it means "10".
that binaria announced their 10th anniversary box paralysed my brain. So I made my pre-order without thinking anything.

Previous 9 singles (remastered) + the newest album "diez".
I'd wish "sonido" could be included, as the rearrangements were also beautiful. But since "jardín del aire" was only in "ALHAJA", I shall not ask for too much.

After 2010's "LIMBO", the same team made a new game called "INSIDE". (Looking at the staff roll I thought they're from Norway, but wikipedia told me Denmark is the correct answer -- the two languages are so similar, at least in terms of the alphabets!)
Whatever, I'm not in this kind of game at all, based on my terrible experience in LIMBO -- I don't mean the biggest problem is I'm not interested in little boys. Yet I like to watch others playing (or simply dying) so I followed this video from the beginning to the end.

To be honest, I like the ambience and their way of giving hints to reveal the true story. But sadly, again the main character is a little (monkey-like) boy!!
Fine, at least seeing a boy dying doesn't hurt. =ω=

Many people say the appearance of the "flesh creature" near the end make them sick. In my case, I didn't like it at the first glance, but turned to be thinking it being "sickly cute" and like a piece of "flesh mochi". It might be partially because the player's sound made me cheerful though.
Or is that because I'm too twisted after doing so many horror games? xDD;;

Here I just want to give my own opinion. I'm never fond of unclear told stories. I like to have alternative ideas or ways to interpret something, but when the outside big world itself is too abstract or lacks almost anything, it annoys me as I didn't come to find inspirations, I want an actual story that bears its own "rules". On the other hand, somehow I know Playdead wants people to think (?). Whatsoever, let me accept their way of story telling. At least fortunately there's no text to lead or mislead people's thought toward the core of their world.

In contrast, Clock Tower series makes me mad even more, solely in terms of how they tell the story. In "1", there was barely any piece of text. In "2", it didn't really improve but at least the basic story was acceptable. Then jump directly to the newest Night Cry, nothing has changed! Even after watching all 8 endings!
I do think some jump scares scared me, how people are killed is brutal and the world is insane (I don't want to "waste" the word grotesque as it's like a sacred word in my mind). In the aspect of "horror", it's not bad. Yet again, what the hell the develop team was doing?! °A° Purely a monster appears and butchered lots of people and the main characters try to escape. This won't make a good horror. The lack of any kind of explanation made me (perhaps also lots of others) feeling it's nothing but a cheaply made horror movie -- I like how some say the first horror scene as "the case of a vendor machine murder", as well as the twitter-ish SNS interface.

While few, really only few pieces of text exist, they never serve what they're supposed to do, to help us understand what the staff was planning. They literally are full of occult stuff or religious or this kind of "knowledge", but not everyone is a scholar in such a field. I believe the team is responsible to let the players know, or be able to deduce the hidden message through text they provide without looking hard for other sources. Whether or not that's true, the current situation made me thinking nothing but the staff was showing off how much they know and could create "profound" stories.

Stop complaining, be calm and feel how water colour brush is awesome~ hopefully I can finish my another 2-month spanning drawing next time! (・ω・’)

Sir Gardiner is for sure my favourite conductor when it comes to Mozart works. Beginning with his vivid "Le Nozze di Figaro", I gradually became his fan and had got quite a collection of his recordings. Perhaps one big reason is his use of period instruments. Frankly I can't differentiate them from contemporary ones, the overall ambience is obviously different, which also fits my inner-and-indescribable taste.

And 2 days ago this arrived.

I wanted this long time ago but didn't get any until I found this CD box -- if to buy them individually, it's much more expensive and not all are in stock, which including used copies.

However, for Beethoven symphonies, Furtwängler's top position never changes on my mind.

Before I barely used a coaster, but since I got a new desk that uses tempered glass, I naturally tend to take more care of it.
I'd buy some cuties if I didn't get a set for free. Yet still, I don't like its own pattern on the front side. As I just bought a roll of decorative tape on this Thursday, I decided to "mutate" them in my way.

A question raised meanwhile was, how many possibilities there are to play with 2 lines one square. Therefore, although I first attempted to use more, I didn't.
Any way, the back sides are now front, and probably I'll soon forget the original design unless I accidentally turn them over.

Nonetheless, the tape was just an extra item when I went to the store. I wanted a steel ruler so I could have better slices of paper,
which was mainly for self binding loose pages, with beauty~

Good thing, I drew today!
The shadowing was going well, so I entered the next phase of designing a background. I did have a raw idea back to 1 month ago, but as usual, I changed my mind.
Therefore, I began to loop "tsukikage ni shizumu", the track where I got my initial inspiration. For a moment, my mind went blank, plus I saw on Google Image about "Mandala", that led me into a totally different world.

Since a lotus was one of my planned objects, I doodled a geometric lotus with 8 petals. The impression of Mandala retained strong, So my hand moved on itself. Starting with this core, more were expanded. I also tried to read more on Mandala (while Eiko Shimamiya's black butterfly song echoing in my head). The fact was my compatibility with such kind of thing is poor, that just reading the simple intro almost drove me nuts. I gave up and focused on the pure doodling...

Why it's representing the universe? was my very question. Especially for these simple examples I saw on Wikipedia.
Even though I stopped reading, I wouldn't avoid thinking of it. After 2 or 3 layers, I found I could still expand it.

-- It can really expand forever. Suddenly I felt it's a little scary. Exploding, composed by various ideas from one's mind, and (although through intended processing) well-balanced.
I wanted to call it the rule of the universe (or 世界の理). Even not for the real and objective nature, it's of my self, my "mindsphere".

Maybe somehow I understood it, ambiguously though...

Unfortunately, I don't think this fits my girls. So I get to think for the background again tomorrow. orz
I'll the how I can blend this into the background, but the hope is tiny..

The last 2 lines:

Hide-and-Seek~

Mei-chan sandwich!! xD

-- I got an intense impulse in my current project, so although I wanted to write this at Friday evening, I couldn't.

Mainly, it was because of the rain that lasted since Friday to Saturday. It has been a long time when there's such a great long-lasting rain. The air was sweet with the relaxing sound of rain, no much wind and it wasn't cold (it was if comparing to how days around midsummer are supposed to be), I felt I could stay outside all the time.
When it's cloudy or rainy, I always wish there's some Chopin -- unfortunately due to my past hard drive organisation I could only have some Tchaikovsky instead (of course it's good too!).

The rain gave me a superb mood, so I bought more weird teas:

Note that any kind of non-green teas is weird in my world~
-- simply being attracted by the key word "berry" though. Yet the red pack doesn't have any taste of chocolate! °A°''

Perhaps it's never exact, but at least more or less so let me call it my one year war, and happily, I eventually made the decision to shift into the third position. I knew I could do it a few months ago, but always couldn't find a good timing. Still, I didn't think it was the time when I should proceed, but just considering "give it a short attempt" being pushed by my curious, I stepped out and thus concluded the past year.
Even though I have a vague idea on how shifting is, it was never clear unless I formally followed the "fundamental" instruction. The technique itself isn't that hard, and is more of the issue on how I memorise things "physically". But to me, my current biggest problem is of my "physical" state -- I wish my fingers can be longer so I'll have much less trouble while dealing with strings III and IV! xD;;

Any way, it's challenging but very fun. And it's also amazing to get the awesome sense when you can do more without switching between strings (perhaps only people do it will know how good it feels)!
Just I hope this time it won't be another one year war. I believe it won't!

Now my world expands into D6! (o・ω・o)

After a nearly 2 months' span, I eventually finished NipponIchi's new dying game "ローゼと黄昏の古城" -- longer than HtoL#NiQ, but less pressure, in terms of game control.
I made it to the very end, with almost no help (only 2 hints after dying over so many tries), so the results look miserable, especially the second last:

MAX TIME!! The timer probably has reached its maximal value and couldn't keep recording any more. I know thus I must have spent longer than displayed.. orz

The next thing is for sure time attack, and I need to update my long forgotten gamelist.html!

↓ when she rises up, I knew this would happen! lol

When I pressed Alt+Tab just now, I noticed my desktop is quite busy during these days -- in spite a lot of them are side entertainment.

最後に、
描きたいわ！志方あきこさんの「この世界のあなたと、あのセカイのあなたへ」を聞きながら、手が自然に動き出して新しい草稿ができたのが、積もったものはまだ三枚あるのでどうしょう…(ﾟДﾟ#)