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I uploaded the PC-98 TouHou games with clean saves and in English and Japanese to the internet archive https://archive.org/details/touhou-1-5 Some other person uploaded a mediafire link before but touhou 1 was only english patched unlike my collection.

PC 98 maid except not actually a maid Day 18: Mugetsu Mugetsu is definitely one of the PC 98 characters people latched onto. The getsu sisters in general are part of the most wanted PC98 characters, and honestly for good reason. They actually are interesting and have some excellent designs, along with good themes. Mugetsu in particular I don’t like as much, mostly because I’m not huge on the maid aesthetic and I like her sister a lot more. Mugetsu is the more relaxed one, but honestly that just made her a bit less interesting. I wouldn’t mind her returning if it means we get Gengetsu though.

I use Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) as my daily driver.

reganeet ytsgna Day 17: Seija Kijin Seija is a character that I feel is supposed to be hated. She has barely any redeeming qualities, cheats, and Stockholm syndromed shimmy to make herself stronger. She generally doesn’t have a great personality, and I hate the speech tick of saying a ton of opposites, as it just makes her more annoying than anything. She accomplished being a more villainous character, but I feel the fans lost that part of her and tried to make her into something she isn’t. I also don’t really like her design as well, but her theme is excellent. Overall, villain character that got fandom treatment in a bad way, coupled with her not being my favorite type of character.

In this day and age, there are a ton of different devices capable of playing music and a lot of programs to achieve that. The choices you get are likely in the thousands. But what is your preferred Music Player? It's more important than you think, almost everybody listens to music and the program must adapt to your use case and be reliable on a day-to-day basis. The programs I use are: Tauon Music Box: Tauon is a Windows/Linux Music Player that has a lot of great features, it shines in the mix of complexity and simplicity it presents. My favorite features are that it treats any folder as an album and the ability to search without clicking anything. Although I stopped using it due to audio cutting when the system load is high (the peak when you open a program, it skips like 0.10 seconds), it's pretty heavy for a music player. Amberol: Amberol is a Linux only (you can run it on Windows with the WSL) Music Player that focuses on simplicity and a fancy UI. It's pretty fast and the interface couldn't be simpler, you also get a sidebar where all of your tracks appear. The biggest downside is the lack of features, but if you like that, it's Amberol's biggest strength. I'm currently using it to avoid the issue I mentioned above with Tauon. I will be honest, the reason I made this topic is to find a new music player that's a middle point between Tauon and Amberol.

Seija is one of my favorite characters, mostly because she doesn't want to be redeemed. It's nice to have an antagonist who doesn't just get a slap on the wrist at the end of their game, stop the bad thing they were doing forever, and end up casually hanging out with Reimu or something. However, Seija is a rare case of a character, for me at least, that has been done dirty by both the fandom and in canon post-ISC. In fanon, she's just used as a meme for flipping things or opposite speak, which is boring as hell. Fans pair her with Shinmyoumaru, which doesn't sit too well with me as Seija's friendship with her was only really a means to an end in DDC. I get why, because same game and all, but it feels like another one of those ships that are the surface-level "character knows other character exists, so they are together now. Aren't they cute paired up like this?" type that, when viewed through the lens of canon, feel kind of gross. It reminds me of ships like Tenshi/Iku, or Aya/Momiji, where the characters in-universe don't like each other. Then we have her appearance in Grimoire of Usami... I hate it. What happened to all the cheat items from ISC? Why is she back with Shinmy? Why is Shinmy a gremlin now? ISC had Shinmy try to convince Seija to give up, which she promptly refused. She effectively spit on their "friendship" because it didn't matter to her, to which Shinmy then tells her that she'll alert other characters of her antics. GoU kind of just pretends none of ISC even happened, so it shoehorns Seija back into being with Shinmy without any explanation because I guess ZUN thought it'd be cool or something. It also just nerfs Seija by removing the cheat items in general, to which I'd wonder why someone who seeks to start an uprising and is effectively a fugitive would abandon that kind of advantage. I've seen some claim that they were used up, or they are implied to be used up, but I've actually played the game. I completed every scene and got my unsatisfactory "ending.png" reward for it, and I remember nothing of the sort being brought up. Oh hey, another thing I hate that was made into a quirk for her in GoU. It's the stuff like this that makes me wish some characters don't return, because it feels like a gamble whether they appear as a harmless nod to their existence (most characters), get something decently substantial that makes them more interesting (Kogasa with her babysitting job, and her ability to repair Reimu's needles), or an aspect people would write off as fanon nonsense slowly being made canon (Hong Meiling).

I found another music player that can utilize WINAMP's skins. I was trying QMMP out and wow! It's blazing fast, and the skin mode is very compact for all the features it has, and it can look very pretty (look at my Sailor Saturn amp, ohh god it's great). Unfortunately, the Linux version has some problems with Wayland, that's where Audacious comes in to save the day (it also looks more well maintained than QMMP) Audacious: It's available for Windows, MacOS and Linux.

No, she’s kinda boring in my opinion, especially since she’s from a game with some well designed characters like elis, shingyoku, and Sariel. She just doesn’t stand out to me.

I go raw and simple with VLC with custom settings, but recently I have been trying Elisa which is the music player in KDE Plasma's software suite

Oh man, Depends. Usually I use Gmusicbrowser(Linux Only). As you can see, It looks rather, plain. No special effects, no blows and whistles. It might also a bit of a pain to set up at first, but after that, I'd say It's pretty good. Another Music player that I do like is QMMP(Windows/Linux). It's meant to replicate Winamp, and indeed it does replicate it well. A major advantage of it is that it uses Classic Winamp skins with ease. So if you had a kool Goku skin for Winamp back in the day, you can use it on it with no problems whatsoever. The last one is a bit of a wild card, I'd say. and that's MPV(Windows/Linux/Mac/BSDs). MPV runs and recognises everything, it runs fine, it supports .cue files, and a good amount of albums do come with them. On my phone, I use Poweramp. There aren't any really good free music players on Android sadly. You need to pay for Poweramp, and of course you can find modded APKs of it, but at least, it's probably the best out of all the music players for Android.

FLOSS for Life! (though sadly I haven't changed everything to open-source yet) Open-source apps for this situation are extremely important as most video/audio players for phones are these "free audio video player 2025 update best quality movie"

Hard to beat the glorious VLC. Are you looking for a Music Player or one that does Video too? If that's the case, maybe try out MPV Android (i never used it) or search in google for open source Video/Music Players (it's important you search with the "open source" term because phone app stores are full of shady stuff and that guarantees your security) It was very quick, but I found a program that's the middle point between Tauon and Amberol. Strawberry Music Player: It's a Windows/MacOS/Linux Music Player that has a lot of features, but it's pretty fast too. So far it's been working perfectly, and it feels pretty polished, although the interface is a little unintuitive at first. Don't take seriously the "audiophile" label it uses on the website, it's just a music player, lol.

Daily driver is Debian testing. I also use NixOS for daily driving.

Here's my desktop. It's relatively clean, i change the wallpaper about every 3 days. Ubuntu gets a lot of criticism with how wonderful it's been on my laptop. Read below, Ubuntu is not that good, oh my god, computers hate me sometimes. Edit: Ubuntu decided to stop supporting file systems (you can't format disks anymore with it) so i had to forcibly jump ship to Endeavour OS

Usually I only use those two workspaces out of four. I change my wallpapers every two weeks or so.

Windows 11's built-in Media Player until VLC fixes its shit with FLAC decoding. https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/27477