A day later, unlike last time, the protests seem to be peaceful, though at two different landmarks down Metro Manila. Around 30,000-50,000 participating, according to the organizers.

Still, the provebial palayok ng katarungan’s still brewing hot yet painfully slow

Orchid and royal for me.

While the Windows-era Touhou mainline games have their own share of calm and energetic menu themes, the one that sticks out the most for me goes to Imperishable Night. It’s iconic for a good reason.

As if she was one bent for total sword dominion before the four seasons calmed her down and made her sell noodles and soups as a pastime job.

@[email protected] wait, smoosh? Something similar to a typical smoothie?

@[email protected] Essentially, it’s now just us, the users’ little raft, from here on out, just calmly sailing over with time.

Angelstar by lexycat, from her 2024 album “Dark Blossom”, which in itself is far more sincere yet experimental enough for most mainstream tastes.

Having that song on the last-ever story update for vivid/stasis last weekend is quite the liberating, this-really-is-the-end-of-all rhythm gaming experience.

@[email protected] Do you like reading, or even marvel at libraries and stuff? The last time I checked literature.cafe, the atmosphere (as well as the instance (I call it “online raft”, for one) mods there) seems to be typical of a small town library. It also has comms for fanfics in general, and genre-specific ones.

I bet there’s also even-smaller fedi-rafts out there that cater to a specific creative interest/hobby, or an entire fandom; time and effort will tell.

If it is indeed a gemstone holding a certain god’s powers and memories… may it be so, unless?

Sa amin rito, mukhang malumay lang, ta’s umiihip rin nang malakas ang hangin kanina. Anong na-almusal ninyo kanina, sa ibang banda?

Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia. Sort of a recent fangame title, by today’s standards, but if you’re looking for some cool mid-to-late-1990s-inspired PC dungeoneering action (Shin Megami Tensei being a heavy inspiration), it’s currently at ninety-two percent off.

Touhou 8: Imperishable Night.

I earned my first-ever 1CC there three days ago, on the Easy difficulty (ignoring the perennial “easy modo” memes within the games’ fandom), and slowly but surely, I’m learning both the fundamentals and the strategies towards passing various stages and spellcard patterns; hopefully, with enough practice, patience, and a bit of foresight, I can move up and do another 1CC on Mormal (both Finales), either with the Border or Netherworld team.

As for everything else, I found myself enthralled with the lore, story, and the music in this game, as if it were timeless, in a way. I’d say I like Eirin’s boss theme the most, befitting for someone who’s lived through time and knows everything diligently.

Always proud to be here, since the momentous mod and API protest days at the orangered site, but we still have work to be done, including fostering discussion and quality fannish content beyond the bounds of the Western part of our globe.

Oh yeah, we are indeed in a sort of calm-before-a-storm moment regarding the Internet itself, as if the proverbial storm, as Emperor pointed out, is now big tech companies and their corporate cohorts, against a cache of genuine humanity at hand.

On first glance, I almost double-mistook her holding pose as something similar to that of Kai’Lea from Welcome to the New Age (the intro animatic, specifically)…

Makes some sense, since both have the innate nature of water, to say the least.

Oh yeah, this was a worthy singin’ bop from those fannish musicians, to say the least.

@[email protected] Dati pa nga, talamak nga ang mga iyan sa amin, lalong-lalo na sa kalapit ritong mga supermarket at sari-sari store; ngayon, mukhang bibihira ngang makatanggap ng ganyan, sa pagtaas ng mga bilihi’t lakas ng piso kontra sa iba pang mga perang-dayo.

Still on Touhou 8 (Imperishable Night), and then, vivid/statis, of which its latest tournament quarterfinals tiebreaker just came out and I was far no less impressed with how I managed to almost teeter on gaining any Fails on the Middle Chart, just a few Goods, due to my laptop sometimes overloading on RAM while the application’s running.

As for the former, I’ve been taking small steps on figuring out routes for Keine’s second spell card attack on Normal Difficulty; on Easy, my new run-ender’s on Reisen’s second spell card attack, where shotgun bullets fade in and out whenever those blood red eyes periodically flash.

She muses about human-made agri food often, doesn’t she? Choices, choices, something that transcends even the simplest of boundaries…

For what it essentially entails, Analog Obsession’s busterSE does quite a bangin’ job at being a analog-style stereo compressor, with the ability to tilt whatever part of the frequency spectrum you wanna have spread out, in spite of its limitations on the surface. Kicks, snares, pads, even the entire mix, you name it.

Of second, yet equal, mention, is ChowDSP’s Chow Tape Model. which I’ve found so far to be both versatile and not that CPU-hungry. not only at those tape-esque warm flavors, but also at aiding modern, multigenre music compositions. I use them both, or either one of them, depending on the situation, and both are forever free high-quality.

Although not traditionally a DAW, OpenMPT’s currently my main (especially when I use VSTs and soundfonts alongside pure samples for audio rendering duties. Caustic 3, though, that was my first proper DAW, and taught me some basic and advanced techniques in music production, in a fairly-accessible, yet deep-rooted audio-visual interface.