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Which religion is the best? This poll is closed. |
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| Shintoism |
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59 | 9.58% |
| Buddhism |
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77 | 12.50% |
| Taoism |
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66 | 10.71% |
| FEAR CLOWNPIECE |
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414 | 67.21% |
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Green eyed jealousy, Okuu's theme and that mouse girl's theme are the only post-IN tracks I like.
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Jul 4, 2013 00:06
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You're crazy. Lullaby of Deserted Hell is the best piece in the series.
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Jul 4, 2013 00:23
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Followed closely by Gensokyo the Gods Loved. I'm pretty sure Desire Drive and UFO Romance in the Night Sky rank pretty high on my personal top ten list, too.
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Jul 4, 2013 00:52
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Can anyone hit me up with some more up to date metal/rock recommendations? I generally like Demetori, Sonic Hybrid Orchestra and Crow's Claw but they're a bit done to death with me right now. In return I can offer orchestral recommendations for WAVE, Oriens and Kitsune's Workshop/Foxfactory.
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Jul 4, 2013 02:14
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I suppose I'll start by recommending the album Rhapsody of Okazaki Fragment, which is a collection of rock remixes of various PC-98 tracks. ...that's about all I've got.
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Jul 4, 2013 02:40
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I'm still hoping someone eventually does a rock or rock ballad version of Eternal Steam Engine. I've asked a couple people that listen to way more Touhou remixes than I do and they told me it doesn't exist.
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Jul 4, 2013 03:17
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Eternal Steam Engine seems to be in a pile with things like most of Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream's soundtrack in the "doesn't even get remembered, much less remixed" category. Not helping matters is the thought of tying together bagpipes and rock. It takes a very, very skilled hand to do that well. Aliginge posted:Can anyone hit me up with some more up to date metal/rock recommendations? I generally like Demetori, Sonic Hybrid Orchestra and Crow's Claw but they're a bit done to death with me right now. I dunno if Magnum Opus is 'up to date' or not, since their last (full) album was in 2011, but they've been making stuff a lot more recently than the Wiki suggests. Hellion Sounds also came out with a new Touhou album last year, though after Magnum Opus and Demetori I'm less than impressed with them.
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Jul 4, 2013 03:26
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Namtab posted:Green eyed jealousy, Okuu's theme and that mouse girl's theme are the only post-IN tracks I like. Insurrectionist posted:You're crazy. Lullaby of Deserted Hell is the best piece in the series. KataraniSword posted:Followed closely by Gensokyo the Gods Loved. I'm pretty sure Desire Drive and UFO Romance in the Night Sky rank pretty high on my personal top ten list, too. No mention of Cosmic Mind? What is wrong with you people?!
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Jul 4, 2013 06:00
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CommissarMega posted:No mention of Cosmic Mind? What is wrong with you people?! ...For some reason, Emotional Skyscraper doesn't even ping my conscious thoughts as "Touhou music" any more. This might be because the Trinity Orchestra version of it is pretty much my favorite piece of music period, so it's transcended from the mortal realm.
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Jul 4, 2013 06:49
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Personally, I prefer the sheer power of Tutti Sound's arrangement, with this variant of Xi-on's arrangement coming a close second.
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Jul 4, 2013 07:59
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While arrangements are being slung about, could everyone post the saddest, most tear-jerking arrange of Parsee's theme they have? There seems to be a really melancholy core to the song that nobody really seems to express.
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Jul 4, 2013 20:01
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Decoy Badger posted:While arrangements are being slung about, could everyone post the saddest, most tear-jerking arrange of Parsee's theme they have? There seems to be a really melancholy core to the song that nobody really seems to express. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63LyAUAomA
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Jul 4, 2013 20:39
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TOO SCSI FOR MY CAT posted:Isn't every single arrange of her theme trying to sound melancholy? You can just search youtube for [green eyed jealousy] and get hundreds of background-music-to-sad-movie songs. That arrange reminds me of this wonderful version of Alice in Wonderland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSpxN1v81l0
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Jul 4, 2013 21:30
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KataraniSword posted:...For some reason, Emotional Skyscraper doesn't even ping my conscious thoughts as "Touhou music" any more.
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Jul 4, 2013 22:26
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Decoy Badger posted:While arrangements are being slung about, could everyone post the saddest, most tear-jerking arrange of Parsee's theme they have? There seems to be a really melancholy core to the song that nobody really seems to express. Doesn't involve her theme in any way, but KaMs' video on Parsee, as usual, cuts straight to the heart of the matter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs9fwWIe2hI
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Jul 4, 2013 23:51
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Captain Invictus posted:The thing about Emotional Skyscraper and Nuclear Fusion is that they are incredibly hard to gently caress up. It takes genuine skill to screw those two up into a form that's not really listenable, and it tends to involve squirrel DJ voice or shrill japanese girl voices if they manage it. THIS IS A CHALLENGE I CANNOT IGNORE INVICTUS! I am a musician with GENUINE SKILL, and I promise you, I CAN gently caress THAT MUSIC UP! BEHOLD!  So listen! And prepare your ear drums for MERCILESS SQUARE WAVES BOMBARDMENT
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Jul 5, 2013 00:53
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You are ACTIVELY TRYING to destroy it and it retains the beat still, it's still at least semi-catchy! You have failed! Make one out of vuvuzelas now, please.
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Jul 5, 2013 03:32
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Captain Invictus posted:The thing about Emotional Skyscraper and Nuclear Fusion is that they are incredibly hard to gently caress up. It takes genuine skill to screw those two up into a form that's not really listenable, and it tends to involve squirrel DJ voice or shrill japanese girl voices if they manage it. Hell, even Okuu's Nuclear Fusion Dojo manages to be listenable despite being full of shrill Japanese girl voice and yukkuri-talker, and I pretty universally despise IOSYS's later stuff. Their take on Emotional Skyscraper is hardly recognizable as the original song, so I'm not sure it counts though.
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Jul 5, 2013 06:06
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Let's forget about that garbage and enjoy this version of ES. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IbihJ-3lvo
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Jul 5, 2013 06:36
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Decoy Badger posted:While arrangements are being slung about, could everyone post the saddest, most tear-jerking arrange of Parsee's theme they have? There seems to be a really melancholy core to the song that nobody really seems to express. I like C-Clay's take on it, but odds are everyone and their uncle's listened to this already. Rectus posted:That arrange reminds me of this wonderful version of Alice in Wonderland. Tutti Sound's Shall We Dance? is another good arrange, methinks.
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Jul 5, 2013 07:40
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KataraniSword posted:Hell, even Okuu's Nuclear Fusion Dojo manages to be listenable despite being full of shrill Japanese girl voice and yukkuri-talker, and I pretty universally despise IOSYS's later stuff. IOSYS's stuff right now isn't really all that bad, I suppose if you just don't like any vocal or pop stuff then sure. They do more than those denpa/cutesy high pitched vocal arranges that got super popular! Also I kinda love Shibayan. Like here's his Necrofantasia arrange. Fun attempting to figure out what parts of the song he's using in some of his arranges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUqCIpUsEu4
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Jul 5, 2013 19:57
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Zandracon posted:IOSYS's stuff right now isn't really all that bad, I suppose if you just don't like any vocal or pop stuff then sure. They do more than those denpa/cutesy high pitched vocal arranges that got super popular! Yeah, I generalize a bit too much about IOSYS, since Minami's stuff is still top-notch and I've liked the few more recent arranges/collabs that branch into other genres. It just seems like their main albums have gone mostly into denpa pop and non-melodic drum loops and shameless oontz (see: anything ARM arranges) so it's gotten harder to pick out the songs they make that I enjoy as opposed to the stuff that annoys me but goes memetic! It doesn't help that I've got a pretty decent amount of nostalgia for Border of Death and These Two Wings, both of which are far more melodically-driven than their later stuff.
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Jul 6, 2013 00:17
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So the FMW3 trial is now free to download. You should try it, the new engine is pretty slick! I'm hoping the full game comes out next Comiket. Supposedly there's talk of a new PV.
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Jul 6, 2013 06:39
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As a recently new resident, I am culturally obliged to post Setz's new comic. http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1456681?pool_id=1754 In not at all related news: 
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Jul 8, 2013 00:25
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Aliginge posted:As a recently new resident, I am culturally obliged to post Setz's new comic. The joke, in case some of you didn't get it (like me): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrrBEXbhRLQ
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Jul 8, 2013 01:24
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I still can't wait for FMW2 to be translated so I can actually play it. (Yes, I am a big babby who can't play in moonspeak.) Also, Blitz, what in the hell happened for you to get that title? 
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Jul 8, 2013 01:40
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Well somebody ain't a fan of Sanae.
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Jul 8, 2013 01:42
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legoman727 posted:I still can't wait for FMW2 to be translated so I can actually play it. (Yes, I am a big babby who can't play in moonspeak.) Sorry man, the translation's pretty much dead. If you want I could write up a big old post on how to play the game anyways! Also volt's a petty person, news at 11.
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Jul 8, 2013 01:49
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Ugh, playing HM is kind of keeping me down. It feels awfully clunky and imprecise, to be honest. I much prefer Soku over it. I just can't get excited over it. It looks nice, though, but thats just about it.
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Jul 8, 2013 19:04
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BlitzBlast posted:Sorry man, the translation's pretty much dead. If you want I could write up a big old post on how to play the game anyways! I could figure out almost everything except what the WP points were, what effects were the spellcards doing, and most WP skills. The rest were figurable, as it's mostly from SWR games, even the normal skills.
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Jul 9, 2013 08:25
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Here you go. That has everything but the spellcards, you're going to have to name specific names for those.
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Jul 9, 2013 09:34
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Forbidden Scrollery chapter 8 is now translated and on the wiki. Summary: Uh... I guess there's this magic hood thing that was stolen except it wasn't, maybe? And there's a snake. It's another two part chapter so nothing really gets explained.
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Jul 10, 2013 06:27
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 Plants are really whiny if you think about it. Kind of a really boring chapter, really. At least it looks the next one will be full-on Marisa hijinks from beginning to end, so hopefully that'll make up for it. There really is nothing else to say about this chapter, unfortunately.
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Jul 10, 2013 19:02
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A thought came through my mind a long time ago when I was thinking about Satori's power to read the concious mind. Let's assume that there was someone whose native language was not Japanese, and as such, they thought in whatever foreign language they happened to be born under. And let's also say that they happen to visit Chireiden. If Satori were to read that person's concious, active mind, what would she "hear"? Would she hear exactly was it being thought - to her, the gibberish of a foreign language. Or would she hear a somewhat translated version of what they're thinking to Japanese - barring the fact that some things cannot be translated succintly or at all. I remember reading that Yukari manipulated the borders of language around Gensoukyou (I spell it like this to preserve the mora, even if it does look kind of weird.), but I never thought of that as an accurate explanation. Just the phrase, "The ability to manipulate borders" or something seems vague enough to permit this. I've always considered it to be actual, physical borders like where she teleports trains from distant lands or closes off Gensoukyou from the outside world. I suppose Zun leaves it vague like this to basically allow a myriad of things to be possible, at any rate. It's just something I've thought of. Also, Sanae's two themes and Satori's are obviously the best in the series.  C-clays made 70's porn of Satori's theme, and I'm in love with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44wmOJzFkN4
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Jul 16, 2013 08:24
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She can read the minds of animals so it's pretty obvious to me that she doesn't rely on language. Her profile in SoPM also makes a big deal of her "wordlessness" and she likes reading books that contain a lot of internal narration. The implication being that because she can read minds she doesn't actually know how other people think. So the interpretation I would go with is that she doesn't hear thoughts in words at all. It's more basic than that.
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Jul 16, 2013 08:36
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So you would say that it's essentially feelings and images that she's reading rather than active words? I haven't actually read any of the profiles, I don't believe. In addition to that, I can't remember seeing where she has the ability to read an animal's mind. The only two I can think of would be Okuu and Orin, but even they're partly humanoid, so I just considered them human minds with animal shapeshifting abilities. I also can't see how the ability to read minds gives her the inability to know how other people think. Sure, she lives in mostly isolation for the most part, but I think that the experience she's had actually doing it will give her a better understanding of how those exact people think, which isn't actually a good thing. My Touhou knowledge is slowly fading from me; Besides that, I don't think I've even bothered to read any of the official books and whatnot - your SoPM example included.
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Jul 16, 2013 08:44
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Kheldragar posted:So you would say that it's essentially feelings and images that she's reading rather than active words? I haven't actually read any of the profiles, I don't believe. In addition to that, I can't remember seeing where she has the ability to read an animal's mind. The only two I can think of would be Okuu and Orin, but even they're partly humanoid, so I just considered them human minds with animal shapeshifting abilities. I also can't see how the ability to read minds gives her the inability to know how other people think. Sure, she lives in mostly isolation for the most part, but I think that the experience she's had actually doing it will give her a better understanding of how those exact people think, which isn't actually a good thing. There's a few mentions of Okuu and Orin being only the tip of the iceberg, that Satori's practically got a menagerie of various animals in Chireiden. And you've actually summed up half of why Satori has sealed herself underground! It's a mutual hatred; while she's feared for her powers, she's also come to dislike creatures that try to hide their feelings and thoughts behind lies and half-truths. She's much more comfortable around creatures that don't really act on ulterior motives, such as animals.
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Jul 16, 2013 13:10
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Kheldragar posted:A thought came through my mind a long time ago when I was thinking about Satori's power to read the concious mind. Let's assume that there was someone whose native language was not Japanese, and as such, they thought in whatever foreign language they happened to be born under. And let's also say that they happen to visit Chireiden. If Satori were to read that person's concious, active mind, what would she "hear"? Would she hear exactly was it being thought - to her, the gibberish of a foreign language. Or would she hear a somewhat translated version of what they're thinking to Japanese - barring the fact that some things cannot be translated succintly or at all. Nitori invented the Universal Translator. 
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Jul 16, 2013 14:58
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jesus poo poo! Nitori made the babel fish.  This calls for a Hitchhiker's Guide to Gensokyo. GeeCee fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Jul 16, 2013 |
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Jul 16, 2013 15:28
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Scarlet Devil Mansion's Basement: Stay away. No, really. Stay away.
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Jul 17, 2013 01:06
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