音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

While being much less productive recently, It's already the end of March!! °A° -- Wish I can restore the "normal" status soon.

I almost wasted $10 per month out of all the impulse to subscribe PS CC. Although it's still acceptable, I don't feel like I really want it -- after 10 years of use, I still don't even know how to do pen-pressure-supported outlining with the pen tool -- and it can't be helped as I'm no pro so an easy to use program is the best than an over-powerful one. I'm always having problem with outlining in PS and wished there's a way to improve. Fortunately, after browsing casually I noticed someone's comparison between many drawing programs, and Clip Studio Paint drew my attention.

- The very first, it recognises my Surface stylus (by SONY) without driver installation, and there was no hassle at all with my Ugee tablet driver (2011 version). I couldn't get any of them working in SAI paint tool at all.
- It has a big enough set of pens/brushes/etc, not like PS, even pencil supports pressure from the tablet (of course in PS it's alternatively achieved by playing with brush settings, but doing such settings is tiresome), and I simply love the pen tool!!
- Paint bucket has a gap close function, which means I don't need to spend time on connecting non crossing-over lines while worrying about taking a balance between different line qualities after applying such "line-patches".
- If lines are drawn in vector mode, it's only one click to remove extra lines after the cross-over point -- no more trouble to lasso+eraser/del+balancing (like what just mentioned above).
- The line has a more nature feeling (in terms of pen pressure and strokes) than those from default PS brushes.
- Compatible with PSD and supports big PSD files (SAI doesn't support over 10k px, although I don't really need it it's still not neat).
- Has all my mostly used filters/balancing settings/blur effects/etc.
- Tools/Panels/Short-cuts are fully customisable.
- It's cheap(er than 1-year office personal subscription)!

Drawbacks (although none is really serious):
- RGB code only, no HEX mode. Not very convenient as it's harder to remember 3 numbers at a time comparing with the 6-character HEX code.
- I can't buy the Japanese version as I don't have a Japanese credic card (I merely just love the JP interface).

I can live well without Office, but I for sure need a good painting program.

Moreover, this is exactly what I've been dreaming for!! Yet I'm not getting it. I'd rather spend less money to buy a few mirrors. ^^;

If possible, I turn off the light (or do things to make the room dark) and close my eyes each time when I listen to Dvořák's "Dumky" (and each time I exclaims how "eroi" it is!).
When the whole piece ends and returns to silence, I feel like waking up from a sleep, refreshed and pleasant. However, I absolutely assure I never fall asleep as I know every single note is entering into my inner mind.

So what is such unfamiliar feeling? Recently the word "meditation" began to linger around.
I never do Yoga. Even on my first try, I couldn't stop laughing because of some funny motions. I don't care how good people say it is, seems both my mind and body refuse it. But I do know meditation. A girl told me she ever fell asleep even though you're not supposed to really sleep during meditation (I guess!).

In my case, as I don't fall asleep, can I therefore assume my experience is, or somehow similar, to meditation?

-- I've read the definition of meditation on wikipedia in 3 languages but I still don't get what the text means... orz

As an INTJ, I shall believe my intuition.
I shall have been aware of this so that I could save some money and time on "limbo".
-- Right, I don't want to write the title all in Caps like how it's designed as I don't want to make it standing out from all text in this post too much.

After my first time clear, I had COMPLETELY ZERO feeling. Nothing. Like reading an ad board in the train.
For the overall ambience and settings, I do admit this is a well-done game, but like the yoga case, I myself have problem to accept it under my standards. It's hard to explain, but it doesn't change the result, that I don't like it. The end, no more words.
Well, maybe the only good point for me is that, to see a boy dying endlessly makes me feel better than a girl.

Thus following my intuition, I shall not do "Gochi-Usa". No matter how Moe it is, the genre doesn't suit me. Anime will be enough.

More about my recent games to end 2016's March:
↓↓↓ what an unfair characteristic!!! (｡>﹏<｡)

Not only that I can't tag my posts properly, I even have problem to name them as one single article can be so many various topics!

Five days have passed after Mar. 15, but I can still access Picasa Web Album normally. Didn't Google state they're going to stop that service and switch completely to Google Photos? As a regular user, I myself prefer Picasa as it does have a public gallery, and can browse all image thumbnails on one page, making searching for specific images much easier.
Let's see what will happen the next. I've accustomed myself to the less convenient google photos, somehow (there's no limit on certain pictures so I shall not worry too much on the duplication between "shared" and "in-album" images).

In the morning of this Thursday, I (for some reason that I can't recall) opened YesAsia website, and...
"I think I've seen this guy before."

At that moment I haven't looked at the left portion of the top image. Although I've 90% got the idea who he is, I couldn't bring the name up. "That must be of a soundtrack by Kenji Kawai, the movie that I once thought to be a Sci-Fi."
Then finally my eyes moved a bit left, "Ip-Man", so that's it!

There is a "3" attached after, while wondering whether the music will still be composed by Kenji Kawai, I went to his official website, and thus was aware of "Hana Moyu" has got OST 3. While on top, BIOHAZAD CG movie in 2017. I knew it in last year, but still wanted to highlight it to indicate it's of my favourite~

(It's perhaps already very obvious, that I'm not interested in the movie itself at all. I tried to watch the first one, but gave up after 20 minutes.)

Besides, Opera has got integrated Ad blocker again! Nice, so now I don't have to install a 3rd party plug-in each time when I install Opera!

I hesitated first whether to buy it, until seeing the (used) Japanese version available on ebay by 60% off. Fine, under this price I won't complain even if it's not good. And I'm hoping from bottom of my heart this is a miss-rated game, like BIOHAZARD 6 (which I've spent over 78 hours on -- longer than time I spend on most RPG's!).
↓↓ PSYCHO BREAK なのです～

Meanwhile, seems it's close to Biohazard's 20th birthday, and CAPCOM is releasing many interesting goods.
I was attracted by this item immediately.

A first aid spray!! -- designed water bottle... xD;;

I saw it on Biohazard official twitter. This waked me up just like how effectively the real spray restores your HP from danger red to fine green. I want it and sorry, I won't be able to spend more on Akiko's new release >_<.
But soon I noticed e-capcom doesn't support credit cards from other countries other than Japan. Alright, let me dig out the "lost" middle-man service email address... (seriously, after I registered on tenso.com, I haven't used their service for a few years.)
At the end, everything was settled. I can look forward this lovely first aid spray going work with me everyday (probably) in April (and I bet I'll take more shots when it arrives)!

Cats are adorable~

and they can rock with EXEC_EP=NOVA/.

Last night, I converted my current colour palette in png format into html format, which normally involved using of HEX colour codes. When I finalised the html this morning, out of curious, I attempted to convert HEX colour codes to RGB this morning, and surprisingly found it's definitely not as hard as I first thought.

Plus, Windows Journal is a better choice for local scrap paper, as OneNote, sometimes freezes when you "draw" too much.

Since I'm talking about colours... In face, after 2 blank months, I now have been back to touch my tablet (NOT the surface, I mean the one for drawing). This time, I tried a few more techniques, like to give an iris colour, actually depict the pupil in black (but, my goddess, blank and unfilled eyes with only filled blacked pupils DO LOOK SCARY!! ^^;), and using multiple types of blurring effects. I was happy with the current outcome and was even consider "remake" my previous works (if I'm out of new ideas). Although the first quick thing I did was to give a new colour scheme to my css files.

I'm kind of tired of pink, also I had some trouble to give more pink tones to the currently selected top image. So I gave up and ended up dying everything into 50 shades of violet (no, of course I only heard of this title from Notepad++'s creator, never watched and never plan to watch).

Instead, I indeed just watched the first episode of "gochi-usa", and almost moe-d to death. But I've decided I'm not going to play the game, the genre doesn't suit me.
Moe is justice~~~ >///<

Many people are complaining that they lose an hour since spring, and later feel happy to gain an extra hour in the winter. But why they didn't just realise that the universe moves on its own pace, and at such a moment Einstein doesn't really matter.
Although it may be of some influence to those who are ultra time sensitive, it's never an issue to me as my own clock is always "soft" like a piece of melting cheese you'd see often in Dali's paints. Actually, I didn't even notice the change as I've stopped using an analogue watch years ago. (it doesn't mean I'm not strict on a confirmed time schedule.)

Yesterday morning I saw her sleeping on the coach as usual, but still I couldn't stop myself to not to take a shot. Thinking she might change her pose or move after I get my camera, I decided to first take one on my phone.
And then it was the time for some flash magic. Not only she got two differently coloured eyes, one eye was sparkling like a sapphire!

which made me excited for a whole day~ (*´∀｀*)
Then I quickly grabbed my camera, and took more in higher resolution. I'm happy with Google's free less-than-18(?)-MP unlimited storage. I noticed Google got this new rule in late Feb., which is much more useful than previous 2048px-limitation. I wish I still have the original photos before being resized, but maybe I don't really care as I'm no pro.

I don't want to confess but I have to, that I was totally deep in KanColle Kai over the past weeks. Of course I never know much about how to gear up my fleet, and thus I'm planning to wait with super patience until veterans post detailed guides on how to deal with the top 2 difficulties. Just like I said last time, I mainly played it because the characters look so nice. Not definitely, but fairly close to the state being moe-d.
In terms of game play, I do believe I'm better with survival horror as I don't have to pay too much attention on the gears. Besides, horror can be moe as well, e.g. ZERO Series.
But in last day, the REAL MOE came.

Seen its posters since last November, and the first impression was was naturally "it's so moe!". I hesitated whether I should go playing it, as apparently it's not my favourite genre. Fortunately there are 2 Anime seasons. Finally, after almost half year of no-anime, time to bring some sweet stuff to balance my days blended with BIOHAZARD Revelations, Silent Hill 2, LIMBO and PSYCHO BREAK~!

Next step, I shall hold myself back from my fleet and spend more time with my girls. >> chromatique magicians