音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

This is just how it goes, when I couldn't catch up what I wanted to record, and return to it a few (or even longer) days after, the topics would either completely change, or totally rearranged/weighed.

先週や先々週にに書こうと思ったにも関わらず、なかなか書けなかったの、書く暇がなかったんだから。
だって、この前には「サイレントヒル2」を完成したかったので、ずっと頑張っていたの。
幸い、この願いは前の日曜につい叶った！

This is literally my first 10-star rank. I clearly remember that my rank was usually 40-50 while playing SH1.
But also, I'm not quite sure whether I'll still play it again. I've got the green spray, so I'm done (?).

Just want to state, that Eddie is the most annoying boss, and I still have trouble and have no idea on how to pass the second stage without much damage (on the run of getting 10-star, I thought I was even out since I used the first aid kit 3 times). Other bosses, they're either easy or having a special way to fight quick. But like many people said, the "daddy" x2 in the hotel became my second biggest worry after Eddie. I got hugged 3 times and also felt I was out. Yet as it wasn't far to the end, I finished that round and was sort of surprised I made it.
Just out of expectation, the kill number by fight was much lower than I thought -- I don't understand why the number was so low, since was even counting it on a piece of paper!
The boat stage was never a problem any more -- once you get the idea on how to properly rolling the two little mushrooms! -- NICE BOAT (I honestly wish Makoto to die)!
At least the result was alright, and now I can I say my wife will be proud finally? (*・ω・*)

As for the ending → いぬ, which was also the last one I haven't got at the 10-star round. Someone said without reaching to this ending, this game can't end. Now I believe I got why was it. Right after James speaks in Japanese. (I was really astonished since I never expected hearing something exactly matching the subtitle! xDD)

And now I've decided I'll using this as my ringtone (whenever I get into the mood to deal with the non-android system)!

But when I was trying hard in the 10-star run, see what Piccolo was doing... I appreciate the "pause" does actually stop the in-game timer, unlike BIOHAZARD series. ^^;

P.S. I really enjoyed these guy's gameplay of SH2 as well~

Some good time in Shin-Yomawari's (hiragana-only text was hard to read as usual) post-story mode.

Top-class fan-service #3

Top-class fan-service #2

and,
Top-class fan-service #1!!

Don't remember if I've mentioned this before, but I was very happy to see seach by regex became available in google docs! Plus I've found an add-on that deals with cross reference, so seems there's really no more point to keep using office series (I hope! ><)

Finally, on last Saturday's night, somewhere was having a small firework show. I heard the sound and took some horrible shots, including this..

Any way, without a tripod there's no way to hold the camera without shake!

Even though I've finished 99% of the remake of "last show", I paused it since 2.5 weeks ago. Not because the visual work itself, that technically I only need to change just a little bit more on the canvas; the real reason was..
No wonder, the title.
I have to think out one, something different.
I felt I need Okarin's help.. xD;
But I shall get this done by this weekend! (´・ω・ﾉ)

"The end of summer". Usually there's no such a thing but only a sudden weather change.
Being about 25 last week with a strong sunlight, now it had been cloudy + rainy for almost the whole week. Which definitely made me happy.
Meanwhile, the darker days also brought me a little change in music I wanted to loop.
Solely based on my current memory, the best one in an autumn rainy day has to be...
"人工庭園は翆緑石の雨に霞む" from "Yorlga II". Plus, taking a deeper consideration in its lyrics, it's giving me more stimuli... >///<
In case of classical music, Tchaikovsky and Chopin will be a good choice. But it's generally more abstract and harder to form a sharp "concept art" (I've tried with "Dumka Op. 59" and ended with nothing).

Apparently this stimulated my brain to air-sketch my next piece. Perhaps a while ago I also had some vague design ideas, though never came out so clear.
Right now, I believe this is the first time I'm writing it down, I'm focusing on the remake of "Last Show" I did based on KOKIA's "最終上映" back to 7 years ago. It had been largely redrawn comparing to the first time. As I said before, I'm becoming more and more used to multi-chars, so was this time. It did take a while to have the rearrangement, which ended up by combining two other old works -- also with large renovations. Now I had the same problem again. While I finished the character part within basically 3 days (on Sep. 4), I left them in my hard drive until last night without even thinking for a suitable background. Was such blank time necessary? I didn't know and I'm not intending to figure that out. The only thing I was sure about was the original background won't ever work, since that wasn't me who drawing it. So last night, when I eventually out of anime or gameplay videos to watch, I decided to resume.
Only talking about the outcome, it went pretty smoothly, and I gave it a boost this morning, to make it more "complicated": To fit the inspiration song, certainly there should be film strips -- flying around a music box, the pocket-watch-ish round type. The "assembly" itself was fun, since I mainly grabbed all elements from google image and applied scaling and/or distorting. But when the final makeup is done, just looking at all those rough edges or remaining pixel speckles or discontinuous tones/hues/shades going away does put me into a great mood. Ideally, some old film noise effect will make the entire thing even better (I highly expect it), but whether I can make it remains in question.
↑ Many points along with the second remake~

Things I forgot to bring up since last time:

"Kobayashi-san chi no Maidragon". First knew about it was from its OST, by Ito Masumi. The music is good, so is the anime!
↓ I especially like this pair! xD

Maybe I shall mention it here together (since that's what they're playing in the above gif), I've reached the counter-stop in Dark Souls in last week!
To me, the most annoying boss is the Gravelord Neet. Four kings are actually easier, and I always skip the fight with Kalameet..

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I must have bookmarked this page quite a while ago, maybe even back to last year, but never remember to test it out.
But it's working perfectly: to ignore the shebang line on my testing windows+apache server. Another reason to not use php! xD

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Photoviewer is the classic. It runs faster, and easier to zoom in/out. Glad to get it back on win10!

I'm sure next time I'll be bringing the finished "last show remake"~

Even though I should have finish some notes about the largely mutated "lantern" image art, the majority of my free mind had been gone into the world of dark souls. I know I'm dying way too frequently, by all kinds of things, from walking into an endless hole by myself, forgetting the stamina bar while keep doing shield-guard, losing balance while rolling through layers of swinging axes, or messing up so many keys -- the control is indeed complicated!
But still, It's fun. And I've learnt that one important technique: hit and run~

The main topic today, the make-up of:

記憶の再結晶化を司る番人達

Next:
The draft was almost ready even including the background, and following my current plan, time for some (Taishou-romantic) "kinema mosaic" blending with (black) military uniforms.
I am excited, especially for the outfit, and its overall ambience.
Can't say when it's going to come true though..

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Maeda Jun is having a new "Love Song" project! But sadly the featuring singer isn't Annabel.. (even though I know it may not be possible at all I'm still having such a little wish) Instead, that's someone that I don't even know how to pronounce her name, although I'm pretty sure I've seen her name for a few times before, somewhere.
I'm afraid I'm going to pass it, for such (?) reasons.

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Just noticed my "R" key begins to show a sign of death! It'd be fun to get an order of how each of my keys retires.. xD

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Double stop! I'm taking more seriousness in it!!

↑タイトルは結構適当ですけど…

Last Thursday (or Friday), I eventually realised that comiket was going to be coming day. Wasn't it usually at the end of August? Did it change recently or just because my memory got some problem and messed up?

But, since Haruka had her new high quality canoe release as usual, and Akiko's preview of the coming album "Ayashi" (although the orgel track isn't as delicious as I'd expect), I'm fine with it.
Speaking of Haruka's canoe unit, I'm assuming they're making a long story through all these albums, but sadly, I never paid much attention -- I might if they're in one single album though -- I just can't stay focused. In this sense, a concept album suits me much better. Then it comes to "Ayashi". Be frank, it's not that impressive compared to when I fist listened to the "wokashi" preview. There's somthing not enough.

Or is that my sense in music starting to fade out...?

No, you won't know how much I got hyped when I looped "The for kings" or "Knight Artorias" on the train for weeks. Great feelings indeed, which also made me changing files of my player the first time since the end of last December.
Although right in these days, I've been switched to loop "Lacrimosa" (yet once again I failed to finish their 3rd and 4th albums). The sense retains sharp.

Back to the "something".
It must be the dark aura hidden in the depth. The exact reason stopped me catching up with Kalafina, which immediately attracted me through the overlaying thick darkness. Naturally I always wish for it, and so shall I be the same this time. To me, the first impression from the title "Ayashi" was, that could be an excellent counterpart to "wokashi", but still there will be some dark songs. It has to be!
Even more ideally, could "かくれんぼ" be turned into a full vocal version, like "オトシモノ"? (*´∀｀)

However, due to the lack of dark touch, my motivation was totally quenched for imagine something new. So I can stay at ease and finish staining the coloured glass I made for "Kinema Mosaic" 2nd! I got 80% done in an unexpected quick speed within two days only, but suddenly this was suspended again, because I with all my capriciousness wanted a decent score of this song itself. I tried to search online, and had absolutely no luck.
Which meant I had no choice but to get one myself. Not being confident, but this was something I can somewhat handle, at a certain level. I didn't think doing this before, simply because the piece as a whole "scares" me. When >2 strings mix up, to me it seems impossible to split out each single melody line easily.

What's different about this piece, was also the key, with so many temporary sharps or flats. Although I myself put 2 flats and assumed it's a G minor, who knows what the true key it might be? (つд⊂)
The digital tunes never sound good, well, at least I said "decent", so it made me feeling less stressed out for "forgetting" the so artistic interlude part. My attempt told me I can't work it out, unless I spend much more time which I didn't want to. Moreover, sometimes I made the chords up just to make the overall thing sounds richer.. << No way I'm going back.
However, better than nothing. If someday, they decide to publish the original score, I'll definitely buy it!
Together at the same time, I considered to get a decent duet arrange for "serenato", but soon I dropped the plan.
↑こんなことは、「愛」がなければできない！

Summer brings up horror!
But, regardless of season, as long as it's horror I'd love to see☆

↑I wonder if I'm the only fool who didn't realise you could turn the screen around? ← Apparently I never realised what the so-called "360° video" means..

Hopefully this time I can get to play it longer. Such type of games only give you the best experience at the first round after all. Still, I'm going to play it, unfortunately (not ready for PS4 yet). Just hope they don't kill a cat in the introduction. -_-||

I was planning to write this journal back to last Sunday, but...
who would expect that Kuroshitsuji hacked into my mind and I'm still pretty off-track..!!
I'll allow this since the last time I got so burnt up for an anime was 2 or 3 years ago, with Steins;Gate. However, since the end of last summer, my progress in playing its original game never proceeded. I didn't make it a sort of belief. Simply, I'd like to retain things stay uniformed on my mind. If the first encounter was an anime, then it's getting a bit hard for me to accept other types of media. Although it's not an absolute, shall it never go across the border -- no live action, musical, etc.
There's no fun to transform a perfect 2D imagination into the real 3D, but not vice versa. ^^;

There're always things you'll never understand. Such as UTF8 rendering between Perl/CGI, HTML form submission and storing in database files. Even though everything stored in SQL was using UTF8, I kept getting problems about improperly displayed characters, especially the degree sign ° and German umlauts. Although I expected Japanese characters might cause a bigger problem, it wasn't the case. Which is good, looking at a full screen of weird symbols is never a pleasant experience.

I brought this up, simply because I was playing around with them again. Also because of this issue, I'd considered for so many times to completely convert to use PHP. My hunch was it's going to be hard, if not impossible. I'm very aware of its fitfulness with web stuff, but I'm not comfortable at all with PHP, especially while dealing with "undef" strings, and I'm not used to while calling specific piece of data from complex structure (the very annoying "quoting" of every key name -_-'').

So, as a faithful Larry Wall follower, I'm happy that DBI has got it ready for an expected smooth transfer from MySQL to SQLite. Note, it's not because I don't like MySQL. It's very easy to use and fully manageable, however, since my stuff isn't big at all, I'd be very glad to store all my data into a single file, so it becomes portable all the time. (Yet, I'm not planning to write my journals directly with that.. ^^;)

The whole progress indeed was a quick one. I like how DBI served as a wrapper and thus no many edits were needed. Essentially, all checks I needed to do was minor variations between SQL statements. But there are surely something I don't understand well. I can't use "show tables" or "describe table", and I still haven't figured out the correct statement to achieve the same in SQLite. Also, while doing "insert into table", "set xxx=?" doesn't work, and I have to use the more tedious (?) "values(?,?)".

Whatever, the transfer is done. Sometimes there is a need of "encode('UTF-8',$string)" for showing all text correctly. But when I check back contents stored in the SQLite file, everything looks perfect. This means all character issue must be from the crosstalk outside of the original data, which also means I don't need to worry about anything in my submission form at all. If something behaves weirdly, ask "Encode"~

There's more than one way to do it, so what I've done makes sense! ( ˘ω˘)

Plus, with this chance, I also rewrote my css, including splitting out a separate css file for only colour related settings. I perhaps won't change the design layout so frequently, but I do with colours! Moreover, now the main theme is (supposed to be) based on my recent artwork -- maybe someday I shall switch to use my previous "lantern" background for a while, and for fun!

Since this week's big cleaning of my laptop, a few more keys were behaving weirdly after the 90% dead "D", 50% dead "R": "Down" is 85% not working, and "W" sometimes gives two characters in a row.
Great. At least the fan itself is fairly quiet till now. The keyboard isn't the most essential part after all.

50 Shades of grey.
When I first saw this, I wondered "Why it's worth posting? Isn't that true? This would be my first impression too." But later I learned it was the title of a horribly rated film. ^^;
However, I mentioned it just because of now I'm moving on to the main topic.

『星輝夜のための舟唄 -barcarolle for a radiant starry night-』
Overlaying variations of dark blue and pink means a calm night with dancing sakura petals~

Two month one piece, which is current progress since about 2 years ago. Regardless I do have so many inspirations or even vague ideas, becoming a gamer is eating up lots of my leisure time which slowed down this side. Now doing my 5th run of Dark Souls... Seriously poisoned! @@;;
Next, finally I can move on to the long wish: "kinema mosaic" again! \(T)/

べ、別に私はなんのネタもなくて書かなかったわけじゃないよぉ‥ただダクソにハマりすぎて何かを書くチャンスさえ奪われてしまったので…
はい、すみませんでした！
反省しますぅ…(つд⊂)
ダークソウルまさに神ゲー！！←反省する気なし‥

そして…↓

こいつもサマーセール中！なんと半額だけでＤＬＣ入れ済み！！
ほしいわ、プレステ4今持ってなくても（いつか持つんだからね、サイコブレ2も必ずやろうと決めたし）。アマゾンで中古のコピーでさえこれより高そうだし。
まだ一週間なので、ちゃんと考えないとっ！
ちなみにソウルシリーズの2、3は（少なくとも今は）プレイ予定なし、理由はよく分かりません～(・ω・｀)

ではでは～少しずつ「この前」の私に戻りましょう～
だから音楽の話をしましょう～

１．麻枝准さんの新しいラブソングプロジェクト
試聴です： https://youtu.be/wkkT6503KLc
あんまり気に入らないから動画の埋め込みなし

新しい歌い手さん起用には別にいいけど、あの人の声、全然アウトです！どうしても私の受け入れる程度ではない。ただ書き込みの曲を歌いだすだけじゃん。固い、味も薄い。中途半端な感じで、印象的なものは音が終わったら何も残していない。
無理だと知っていても個人的にはこの新しい歌い手さんはAnnabelさんにやらせてほしい!!>_<
叶わぬ夢のせいで、今度このアルバムはスルー確認です。
本当にすみません、麻枝さんの曲は悪くないよ！｡･ﾟ･(ﾉД`)･ﾟ･｡

２．やはり最近のテーマであるダクソに戻ります♥
全3作のサントラはみんな聴いてた、でも一番気にいるのは本編をやった「1」です、もちろん。
ダクソのサントラは基本的に大規模のオーケストラと混声合唱の曲が多いです。この点だけで素晴らしい。だって、まあ、きっと私の普段聴いてる曲のスタイルとも関係あるけど、こんなゴージャスな編曲はあまり聞いてられない。雰囲気も超ぴったり（残念ながら、本番ボス戦にはゆっくり聴けない、すぐに死んだり緊張しすぎて集中できなったりので）→電車や町中歩きながらこれら聞いたらなんか「変な」感覚が…(；´∀｀)

混声だけでなく、以前にはもう言ったと思ったが、私はとっくにバスが好き。あの「信頼感のある重厚な発声」（wikipediaより）にたまらない。それ以外、私の心を捕まえたのは、多く使われたティンパニです。今改めて考えて、ほかの作曲家さんたち、例えば川井憲次さん、もこれらをよく編曲しているので‥
だから大好きだよ！！ヽ(ﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉ ﾊﾟｯ☆

そうそう、ほとんど言い忘れた！みんなすごいけど、しいて言えば一番気にいるのは「Knight Artorias」です。ええそうよ、長い苦戦中だんだん味わいだしたので～（オンスモもより偉く苦戦したがBGMの素晴らしさを間もなく気づいたので除外。＾＾；）

これで、最後の話題はちょうど今日起きたこと。
今メインに使っているノートパソコンだけど、長時間使われるので冷却ファンはよくうるさくなっている。流石に熱暴走にはないけど、うんざりしすぎてもう我慢の限界です。
前にもこんな調子になったら本体を「簡単な」お掃除をした。けどね、ハードの組み立てには分からなくて「危険そうな」試しは抑えていて、なかなか中に隠れてる冷却ファンに届けない。
本当にだめだったら新しいやつに変えるしかない。が、このノートちゃんはよほど性能高い、バッテリー以外はなんでもできる！とずっと信じているから割愛できません。せめてもう5年使わせて！！

だから、奇想でもないが、この動画を見つけた。

なるほどなるほど。ここから本体を開けられるなんて知らなかった！
たまたま大胆で行こうかなぁ。万が一、私にはまだSurface 3があるし…

そして、私はやったｗｗ

目的は冷却ファンの露出だけ。パーツを外すにはそれほど難しくない。
しかしっ！
ちょうどいいサイズのドライバーがない！
仕方ない、この手で強引に回すしかない！|||дﾟ)#

死角まで開けて、およそ6年半の塵をようやく追い払った私は、指が痛い。
強引すぎたのかな。でもノートちゃんがすっごく静かになった！
結果としては悪くない。
めでたしめでたし～

終わり～( ˘ω˘)