音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Regardless having no guts to break into Hunk/Tofu episode, I eventually couldn't resist trying Biohazard 3 last night (I want to continue "Call of Cthulhu", but my body rejects it by giving me severe motion sickness). I've only watched someone's playing video quite a while ago, but because that guy was way too boring, I dropped barely after 10 minutes (right around the old man who lost his daughter locked himself inside a truck). So I can say Bio3 is completely new to me, and thus I'm excited (how far I can go by myself).

Being afraid to get spoiled, I didn't read anything about this game except its user manual, so the "choose a costume" was very mysterious--how could my fresh install grant them?! Anyway, I don't mind being spoiled in this aspect...

Jill simply fits the police cosplay S.T.A.R.S. uniform~

But comparing with Bio2, Bio3 was worse in terms of key controls. I spent much time adjusting keys, and while getting myself used to the system, I touched something interesting:

Does it mean Bio3 also has "B side"? Since I did learn that there's another main character in this game. By the way, Bio2 was currently my favorite one in Biohazard series (1-5), because its duo-side setting, like parallel worlds.

In Silent Hill, the thing on the ground is probably a pipe~

At first I thought he's Chris, but soon realised he's not.
--He's the guy who gave Bio2 players the key to the costume closet~

A simple lock.. I need Jill's key-pick. Understood!

And now it's our familiar R.P.D.~ (the only place I don't need a map~~ w)

Right after entering the R.P.D., here came the parallel world again. Bio3 is supposed to be before Bio2's story (since Brad was alive), but most areas in the R.P.D. building was sealed--who opened them in Bio2 then, and many statues were absent or with a completely different description. What's going on?! Well, guess I shouldn't be so picky..

Like Bio2's B-side story, a boss-ish gorilla showed up (and you have to choose a way to deal with him). Last night, I ran into the building but he appeared when I was about to leave. And.. he got me for all my 3 tries! Today, I chose to fight first, yet he still appeared. Fine, I get it, perhaps he's like Tyrant in Bio2 or the Pyramid Head in SH2 who can't be defeated until the last battle. Nice, Bio3 is not action, it's survival horror--You don't need to do too much but running away--like what I do in CoC (at least I don't have motion sickness and I have maps)!
--And there's no screen shots for him since I don't have chance to do it! xD

Yet different from Bio2, why the area to search is SO BIG!! °A°

I like horror games, but I never say my play skill is good enough to survive even under normal mode. So for a new game, I always start from easy mode (and in case of Silent Hill 2 it was beginner mode ^^;), and that's why I have almost endless ammo.
But what I want to say is what I just took:

火かき棒... reminds me SDK (Suda Kyouya from SIREN)!

Now, I'm trying to mess up my item box with this or that, especially herbs. Since it says for Lite Mode the grade won't be displayed, I decided to abuse all First Aid Spray first before touch these herbs, and see how many life supplies I'll have by the end--as a measurement of entering Normal Mode--just hope the arrangement of items are the same. But currently I think I'm lost in the downtown area. I spent ~8 hours for the first-time play of both Biohazard 1 and 2, let's see how long I'll need to finish Biohazard 3!

Bonus

The photo of S.T.A.R.S members. HD(?) version.
Front (left-right): ?, ?, Chris, Jill, Joseph(?)
Back (left-right): ?, ?, ?, ?, Wesker, Barry, Brad

"I have no interest in business." -- "That's why you're in science."
This conversation happened yesterday, when we finished the last session of the "end-up-to-do-the-same-task-1k-times" (scripting) class. Although for lots of things in that class I've already known, such as how to tame a camel, or how to sing out the magic spell of regex, the rest was really very helpful and activated more shining sparkles in my brain. Now I'll at least know where I'm going next time when I get lost. Of course, I'm not a FBI hacker (I wish I were), so I'm not doing things that's hard to figure out. Although I wish there were more about how to tame a penguin, guess I shouldn't ask for too much.

Since last year, I do believe my logic has changed a lot, which helped a lot to follow easily in that class. I myself would assume I don't really need to take it, but I won't tell I took it because it almost means an automatic "A" -- I know it's not correct because one guy dropped half way. Anyway, that was indeed three happy weeks. Yet again, I'd say it's such a nice thing to learn how to manage the best swiss army knife on one line. Meanwhile, outside of the class, I finally figured out an acceptable way to save money & time from EndNote (have never bought and never tried though) and Word Reference, which I once stalled in the end of last year. Plain text, sometimes with simple markups, solves everything for me (and people who have similar logic to mine).
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Penguin is hard to tame indeed. I've spent the whole night yesterday to try to install XML::Simple, but I kept getting the same test failure. Same for R. I sudo-apt-get-ed this or that, and then got a new error after every step. This morning, I tried around again, and sudo-cpan-ed to make a upgrade (not sure if that worked though). Afterwards, "I know I'd get the error again but I just want to type it".

--->>> install XML::Simple.

and like a magic, I got it.

I feel surprised, released, but not happy. I know I'm becoming much more complicated.
I also know I've been spoiled too much by the pretty and adorable Strawberry. ~_~

Yet originally I was planning to write other things--3 days ago.

This week's greatest news:
Penguin Village now has its own opera house~~
---> Opera finally came to Linux as Developer version!
(I really feel like I'll lose my intelligence if I keep watching that anime... ^^;)

So finally I can say goodbye to chrome for pages that Opera 12.16 can't deal with smoothly. (Maybe the only google product I don't like so far is chrome.) And now the next wish is that they could solve the data sync so I don't have to copy back and forth to keep all have the same settings.

Now, I wonder, when we can have gdrive on PenOS? Hope they haven't forgot (or given up) on that~~

Life updates:

Side complaint:

And at the very last of this post,

Raining makes me happy.
↑ Although I tried hard to find a good opening line after about a month of absense, this is what I decided to use.
--It's raining♪ so who cares about today's special property? -- I mean, it's Jun-13th, Friday.
Some Silent Hill will help to create the superb aura, so I switched from Mozart (who I wasn't with for quite a while) to my self-made SH selection:

Akira Yamaoka is so awesome, so is Mary's performance. Although I still don't like how the "main theme"-ish track in Silent Hill 2 got to be named as "Laura's Theme" (right, I don't like kids, especially brats like her).
I also I need to start SH 4 some time...

Yet previously I was doing some other horror games.

First, "Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth". Someone recommoned me this game. It is scary, more in some other meanings though. I do want to continue, but I've been stuck at a the beginning of chapter 3 (or 2, I don't remember) for a month (because I didn't intend to resume). The first-person view annoys and makes me dizzy < an outsider reason unfortunately. Seems my maximual limit of being fine under such a view is less than 20 minutes, so thus I got stuck, because there's no map and I have no sense of direction and my own sake doesn't allow me to keep searching the way out. ^^;; Go back one step, this game is also too mean: the character should automatically switch to jump mode since no one would be aware of looking around like in the real life! (I believe people who've played it know what I mean).

And the second, "BIOHAZARD 2". An awesome game and I may have a folder containing all my random screen caps for it in future days.
But I'll still put one here:

↑ I couldn't make it in "BIOHAZARD 1", but I got it easily here~
Here, I'd like also to thank to Kotumeko, the live streamer who did both, and made me set up my trip to Raccoon City.

His nick-naming style is super too!

Moreover, Leon's custom shotgun gives such a nice sound. I think I'm getting it that why guys love guns! xD

Even I've cleared BIO2 for many rounds, I still haven't got the courage to run Hunk&Tofu's mini-chapters. For sure I'll do it as a happy end of this game, but now recently.
Finally, I'm happy that we can see Chris appears here again:

Well done, Chris, you made my screen into 5k pieces!! <3

Last thing. About SIREN2.
I've made myself convinced: if one day I actually play SIREN, it's all because of Takeuchi Tamon, and If I do SIREN 2, it's all for Itsuki Mamoru and Fujita Shigeru.. SIREN NT? I'm not sure. Maybe it'll be all for Sam. :3
Anyway, what I want to say is:

Itsuki, you do like Steins;Gate, don't you?!


BANZAI!! The best kaomoji fit I've seen so far!

I believe I've forgotten how to write a blog post. So I'll end here and hope I can manage myself next time.