環境キーワード

It seemed that my first gremz environment keyword, "recycle," had successfully put a snail crawling back and forth on top of the name sign by my gremz tree.

Let's try another one! XD

環境キーワード: 砂漠化

血塗れ

One thing I like about non-tropical countries is that there's fewer pests and bugs due to the lower temperature. Unfortunately, this summer has been very very hot.

Tonight I saw my first mosquito indoor since I moved, and when I squished it with tissue paper, the little white square was instantly dyed bright red with a sizable stain.

The detestable insect had a full meal not long before it met its death, and the victim was possibly me or the cat! The blood smears were easily wiped off the wall with water soaked tissue, but it was still rather grotesque to see fresh blood smears on sterile white wall...

Just as I tossed the tissue paper with the broken body of the mosquito into the toilet, something flashed through my mind. What were the colour and the strip patterns on the pest? I hope it didn't carry any disease?! It better had not sucked those blood from the cat!

Here's hoping it was just a regular and clean mosquito that had stumbled into my apartment before I had a chance to close the windows when the thunderstorm hit. *crosses fingers*

3DS

The hottest gaming news today is probably the price drop for the Nintendo 3DS system effective starting August 11th, for a whopping ￥10,000 less!

Since the price drop is happening barely 6 months after the launch, Nintendo is offering early adopters free downloads of 10 Famicom and 10 GBA games from the virtual library, which amount to ￥10,000 worth of game downloads.

I was also able to verify somewhat that while 3DS is region-locked, North American DS games seem to play just fine on Japanese 3DS systems.

Now I just need to wait for a nice colour to come along and snatch one! XD

環境キーワード

I've been wanting to try it for a long while now but, being my usual lazy self, have been putting off the task of looking up the method and the actual keywords. These keywords often require some researching on my part, so I've been keeping the e-newsletters but never got around to find out what the keywords are.

Then I saw an easy one. I know this word for sure. Now it's just a matter of implementing the gremz keyword to make the special decoration springs up alongside my gremz tree!

This is my first time trying this. Hope this works.

環境キーワード: リサイクル! XD

Google+

After a short initial trial last week with Google's latest social network service, I deleted the G+ profile. Judging from the posts in the help forum, privacy issues with Picasa web albums sharing in Google+ seems to be the main reason for those who leave the trial, including me.

Then, I got another invite from a friend today, and I remembered that I have another account with no Picasa contents... I'm still trying to get the hang of it, but I'm slowly getting used to getting bombarded with update notifications. XD

Of course, it's still in the trial period so there's a lot of kinks that need to be worked out, but I have high hopes for it. If only the feedback function works properly...

8bit

The first thing that usually comes to mind when one says "8bit" is probably the Famicom/NES system. But we're talking about PC here. A PC game to be released at the end of October 2011, to be exact.

The game in question is STEINS;GATE 8bit, and it looks really interesting! The fact that you input command manually is nostalgic and reminds me of MUD. No mouse clicking! XD

Of course, I'll try to acquire the Windows version of the original game as well, though that might be a bit tricky... It's probably easier to get the PSP version. :Q