音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

I was (sort of) expecting this, but at least it's something today.
For too long I haven't written much and it's all of a weird feeling right now.

Though the plan to resume was kind of settled back to this March, the truth was I got more hooked with git than working on the content itself! Still I get an issue with how to properly tag stuff, or maybe I should just stick with the long version strings.. it's not how I'm supposed to write right now.

Anyway, earlier this week, I finally got another push. I was working on a website earlier this week, which was not built with source code but a WYSIWYG tool that stupidly doesn't support much of css/custom codes, which brought my expectations to a dead end. However, on my own end, I was rather motivated, as I finally come back to look at the main page again.
For a while I've been using the official twitter widget -- regardless that I'm not a social media person -- and I'm never happy with how it looks nor how it arranges stuff. Previously I was using a 2 or 3-column layout for it that was retired as I revised my whole site content. While my experience told me multi-column won't be my type, I was also too lazy to redo the barely-used twitter stuff, until this time.
Probably because of the multi-column design I had to extract all tweet content into an individual file before arranging them (there has to be a better way but I don't remember why I couldn't make one, again, laziness it seems). This time with the much simpler one-column layout, there were no more issues and I was able to do it without any problem. Meanwhile, also noticed that in inspector mode you can create a temporary CSS file instead of inserting each rule individually.

So that was it, hopefully I can now move on to the beta stage -- some visual works that I've been planning since this February but had totally no progress!
And Elden Ring is all blame should point to...

I'm not planning at all to talk about my thoughts toward Elden Ring, but in short I like it, mostly.
The point is, after this 90% blind run, I can finally listen to its soundtracks without worrying about spoilers. I do hope they will have a more formal release of it, as it's a shame there's no lossless format available at the moment. Besides, all field battle BGM, that should cross-fade well with normal field BGM, are missing -- I don't really care about most of them but I just like the drums in Caelid.

Then talk about the main dishes, the boss music. There are quite many that caught my love from the first time, especially...

Godskin Apostles
Top 1 love. It was engraved on my mind since the very first fight. The boss fight is okay, excluding the stressful duo -- Thanks to this BGM I didn't throw curses at it.
Also there's a trace of Akiko-taste from it, which is a nice experience.

Omen Illusion/Mohg, Lord of Blood
I prefer the illusion version more, probably because I enjoy vocal-less versions in general. Unlike the above, I like the first phase part more (and it's NOT because of him throwing blood-flame everywhere). The timpani are superb!

Godrick the Grafted
Even I myself don't believe it's on the list (though I can't explain why). But honestly, it's here only because of the first part.

Godfrey, First Elden Lord
A classical boss fight piece. This piece can be replaced naturally by Gascoigne's BGM.

extra: Starscourge Radahn
This one is a special assignment, as I love the piece each time I play it but can't recall the melody at all.

Still, others are great too, of course independent of how good/bad the fight itself isElden Pest, I mean you!.

Another shame is the ending music, if there were a song like those in DS1,2,3...
A rearranged medley isn't bad, but they didn't include all boss fights, which made this ending piece as a whole incomplete.

One more small thing, I wish I knew Windows Terminal much earlier. It's so nice to use, and more importantly, it's so visually appealing!

Time to bring things back to my weekly routines.