I apologize for not writing any theory-oriented blog-posts last month. I did write some lengthy theory-oriented comments, one of which will probably get turned into a controversial blog-post at a later date. But for now, I’m setting my focus on getting my video-making capacity restored, and then laying the groundwork via videos for some future blog-posts I intend to write. If the best-case scenario plays out, I’ll have a video out (on the topic of Martha’s murder) in the next few days.
In the meantime, why don’t you check out an article at Chris’s Survival Horror Quest called “Interestingness Increasing” which not only talks some about Rule of Rose, but was also gracious enough to refer to my humble blog as a “high quality fan site” and link from there to here in that article. Chris’s site is a must for people interested in survival-horror, in my humble opinion. Have you visited there yet?
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Madisson provided this link (http://tinyurl.com/37vuusy)
to a Japanese Rule of Rose fan-art page at pixiv.net. There is some very nice art there! 
Madisson said one must have a pixiv account in order to see the art in full-size. So I decided to see if I could manage to get an account.
I succeeded!
Here are the steps I followed:
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As usual, month-iversary comment threads are places where you’re invited to write your off-topic remarks, or deal with the RoR topics for which you can’t find a more appropriate comment-thread.
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In the up-coming month, I intend to discuss: Jennifer’s first day at Gregory’s house.
And, I intend to advocate for what I now think is the best answer to the question: “Was Wendy the Joshua of Gregory’s Diary?”.
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One thing that somehow really tickles me about Strong Machine 2 (Sutorongu Mashin Ni-gō), and her father, Strong Machine 1, is the fact that they live in, and take care of, a Buddhist Temple in Japan. Her father is a Buddhist priest, and, as an only child, Mao intends to eventually take over the family responsibility of caring for the temple as well. It seems like a situation I’ve encountered in several anime series and so, somehow, in my mind, makes them even cuter as a family than they already seem to be.
Here is a video of Strong Machine 1 and Strong Machine 2 in performance together at Anime Matsura in 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnRTNwNDmo8&playnext_from=TL&videos=s6E8iwAwAbs.
Strong Machine 2 performing solo, IR/AM in 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L-gm1Fgu_U&playnext_from=TL&videos=jHLzKv0lnag
Here is a cute commercial featuring young Strong Machine 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLKnIGD-5RM&playnext_from=TL&videos=G-DMQaGBess.
Here’s a trio of music videos, for a J-pop group named Polysics, featuring Strong Machine 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9wSMuCJCkQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=TKdiLtMjrT0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXTaMxYJtDg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUbqOcMlD7I&NR=1
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As usual, month-iversary comment threads are places where you are invited to write off-topic remarks, or deal with RoR topics for which you can’t find a more appropriate place.
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CrimsonValley discovered a very odd subtitle glitch that occurs during “The Goat Sisters” chapter of Rule of Rose. Originally it was reported to be triggered by dropping the “Love Letter”, that can be found in the Freezing Compartment, before returning to Diana. Lussh, however, reports that the crucial factor in triggering the glitch is NOT whether one drops the letter or not, but rather the path taken in order to return to Diana. See comment #5.
To view the glitch, see the YouTube video Rule of Rose Glitch – Strange text in Goat Sisters.
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I think the in-game maps of the Rule of Rose game are NOT one of the better features of the game’s design.
Lussh, a comment-maker on this blog-site, has put a lot of effort into making some better, large-size, high quality maps of the areas of game-play, including some areas which do not have official in-game maps at all. These maps are well-labeled (unlike the in-game maps) and also mark where the items in the game can be found.
You can acquire the .jpg versions of these large maps at the deviantART page of ~kangeis (Lussh). The maps are (at full size) very much larger than the tiny versions of two of these maps that I have posted above. If you click on any of the maps on that deviantART page, you get some options-buttons on the left side of the page: the “full-view” button didn’t work for me, but clicking on the “download” button, and then clicking on the map itself once again, gave me a full-size view. Then you can right-click and “Save image as…”
You can also download some nicer (in my opinion) .bmp versions of these maps, with different coloring, via Lussh’s MegaUpload folders (two pages of these).
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