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Which religion is the best?
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Shintoism 59 9.58%
Buddhism 77 12.50%
Taoism 66 10.71%
FEAR CLOWNPIECE 414 67.21%
Total: 616 votes
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Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty


Nuclear Fusion, you scrubs

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Chalupa Picada
Jan 13, 2009

nuclear fusion is noisy and all of the remixes are headache inducing with the loving klaxons

AdorableStar
Jul 13, 2013

:patriot:


Captain Invictus posted:



Nuclear Fusion, you scrubs


How does it feel to be wrong?

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Could it be that touhou music opinions are subjective???

AdorableStar
Jul 13, 2013

:patriot:


Namtab posted:

Could it be that touhou music opinions are subjective???

Here's a question though: What's the worst Touhou song? My vote is for Rumia. If there's a themesong less memorable than that, I can't even remember it well enough to post it here.

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

Namtab posted:

Could it be that touhou music opinions are subjective???

:nignog:

KataraniSword
Apr 22, 2008

but at least I don't have
a MLP or MSPA avatar.
I am my own man.

AdorableStar posted:

Here's a question though: What's the worst Touhou song? My vote is for Rumia. If there's a themesong less memorable than that, I can't even remember it well enough to post it here.

Actually, I'd go for UN Owen. Not only is it overplayed as sin, but it's also intentionally dissonant and kind of forgets what it's doing halfway through the melody.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

AdorableStar posted:

Here's a question though: What's the worst Touhou song? My vote is for Rumia. If there's a themesong less memorable than that, I can't even remember it well enough to post it here.

The worst touhou song is Necrofantasia, if only because its popularity makes it overshadow Evening Star which is a far superior track.

NiceAaron
Oct 19, 2003

Devote your hearts to the cause~

AdorableStar posted:

Here's a question though: What's the worst Touhou song? My vote is for Rumia. If there's a themesong less memorable than that, I can't even remember it well enough to post it here.

I was going to yell at you that "A Soul as Red as a Ground Cherry" is awesome, but then I remembered that that's her stage theme and that I can't recall her actual theme at all. So I guess you're on to something...

GeeCee
Dec 16, 2004

:scotland::glomp:

"You're going to be...amazing."

AdorableStar posted:

Here's a question though: What's the worst Touhou song? My vote is for Rumia. If there's a themesong less memorable than that, I can't even remember it well enough to post it here.

Worst? Marisa Kirisame: Love Coloured Master Spark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lj0diK-v3E

Best? Marisa Kirsame: Anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzhWfgZYXb8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChyDsb-oTJE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_tHBBPVmY4

:dukedog:-ze~


ACtually if I was being really honest my favourite is Heartfelt Fancy, Satori's stage theme from SA, while the one I hate the most is the ear-rape that is Native Faith, gently caress that song goddam

GeeCee fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Jun 29, 2014

TOO SCSI FOR MY CAT
Oct 12, 2008

this is what happens when you take UI design away from engineers and give it to a bunch of hipster art student "designers"

AdorableStar posted:

Here's a question though: What's the worst Touhou song? My vote is for Rumia. If there's a themesong less memorable than that, I can't even remember it well enough to post it here.
Huh? Apparitions Stalk the Night is quite memorable, and has many excellent arrangements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpT6_JMaxQ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxTEeYScKbw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOuKZMA7ve0

If you want an unmemorable boss theme, it's hard to beat Crystallized Silver.

AdorableStar
Jul 13, 2013

:patriot:


TOO SCSI FOR MY CAT posted:

Huh? Apparitions Stalk the Night is quite memorable, and has many excellent arrangements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpT6_JMaxQ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxTEeYScKbw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOuKZMA7ve0

If you want an unmemorable boss theme, it's hard to beat Crystallized Silver.

Funny, because the Zun trumpets in Letty's theme make it memorable to me while Rumia's I can't hardly remember half the time.

SirPhoebos
Dec 10, 2007

WELL THAT JUST HAPPENED!

AdorableStar posted:

How does it feel to be wrong?

No clue, but why don't you tell us?

AdorableStar
Jul 13, 2013

:patriot:


SirPhoebos posted:

No clue, but why don't you tell us?

I'm waiting on you. :smug:

SirSlarty
Dec 23, 2003

that's wicked
Never liked any of the photography games' tracks.

Ryza
Mar 15, 2012

Disco Thunder
Best touhou music right here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmdWTY4rRgs

Aliginge posted:

Worst? Marisa Kirisame: Love Coloured Master Spark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lj0diK-v3E
I think you got the wrong link here, this is too amazing to be called the worst.

Hedera Helix
Sep 2, 2011

The laws of the fiesta mean nothing!

SirSlarty posted:

Never liked any of the photography games' tracks.

Not even Wind God Girl?

v :eng99:

Hedera Helix fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Jun 29, 2014

Hashtag Yoloswag
Mar 24, 2013

...I'm sorry. I can't seem to remember any of the rest.

Hedera Helix posted:

Not even Wind God Girl?

That's from PoFV :ssh:

And yeah, the only photography track that doesn't get really repetitive really fast is Infinite Nightmare.

I'm also kind of not terribly fond of Eternal Transient Reign; it's way too soft and seems really out of place in the rest of ISC's soundtrack.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty

AdorableStar posted:

How does it feel to be wrong?
This coming from the person with a Satori avatar :ironicat:

Namtab posted:

Could it be that touhou music opinions are subjective???
I was pretty sure we were all just funnin' around, hope nobody is taking this all seriously

KataraniSword posted:

Actually, I'd go for UN Owen. Not only is it overplayed as sin, but it's also intentionally dissonant and kind of forgets what it's doing halfway through the melody.
UN Owen is outstanding because of the dissonance, though? Being overplayed doesn't affect the inherent quality of a particular thing, just your personal enjoyment of it. UN Owen fits Flandre far better than most other Touhou themes fit theirs. It forgetting what it's doing halfway through works too, if you think of it as Flandre getting tired of whatever her current plaything is and moving onto a new one.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61FHqywA_XU

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Hashtag Yoloswag posted:

And yeah, the only photography track that doesn't get really repetitive really fast is Infinite Nightmare.

Well, repetitive is one thing, especially in-game, but I'm rather partial to The Mystery in Your Town myself. Overall I think Double spoiler has a pretty good soundtrack, which is impressive because in normal circumstances the player would come to hate every single song in it.

In unrelated news, leather fedora has helped me finish Forbidden Scrollery chapters 14 and 15, which are now on the wiki. In which, uh, there's some kind of mystery but it's immediately dealt with in a two-parter. You know the drill. Features menacing kappa shadows.

dranxis
Jul 12, 2013

Delicious tears of disappointment
A Sacred Lot is the worst Touhou song I can think of off the top of my head. I also really like A Mystery in Your Town, much more than Infinite Nightmare in fact, but I've never found an arrangement of it that I liked. :(

Clarste posted:

In unrelated news, leather fedora has helped me finish Forbidden Scrollery chapters 14 and 15, which are now on the wiki. In which, uh, there's some kind of mystery but it's immediately dealt with in a two-parter. You know the drill. Features menacing kappa shadows.

Thank you for translating these, looking forward to reading them~

SirSlarty
Dec 23, 2003

that's wicked
I do enjoy playing the photography games but the tracks grate on my nerves for all the reasons you'd suspect.

CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER
For me, the worst song is Lonesome Werewolf- it just sounds too derivative of previous bosses' themes to me. Every other track has something to like about it, even if I have to listen a few times to properly get its hook. Even, the worst among them is just forgettable- but goddamn, Lonesome Werewolf just seems like ZUN decided to mashup a bunch of his previous work and call it a day. Seriously, was he extra sober or something when he wrote it? Worse still, it's in the same game with spectacular tracks like Little Princess and Pristine Beat, so I don't know what the hell went wrong with poor Imaizumi's music :psyduck:

EDIT: Holy wow this Nuclear Fusion orchestral arrange:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_8jJBnZzvk

EDIT 2: Yeah, I think I've found a new great orchestral circle, 流派未階堂 (a.k.a. Ryuuha Mikado/Mikakutei, can't tell which). What can I say, I'm a sucker for overblown orchestra :allears: They're the dudes/dudettes behind this Hellfire Mantle arrange, if their style sounds familiar.

History of the Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHuAyo_Oy5Y
Necrofantasia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrJBDJDVytA
Necro-fantasy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvKEoQ2t-O4
Border of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WORxYFhVHC0
Immortal Smoke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b_aY7vcuSc
Septette for the Dead Princess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2rgEj3IldY


And my favourite of the lot, a slow Beloved Tomboyish Girl to close everything off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofloJDoXKFk

CommissarMega fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Jun 29, 2014

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
This is still one of my favorite Nuclear Fusion remixes even after hearing dozens of others, and it doesn't even have sirens!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoEKbGbKHq8

but we all know what the real best Nuclear Fusion remix is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJNOK0PVbT0

Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Jun 29, 2014

HMS Boromir
Jul 16, 2011

by Lowtax
Yo Captain Invictus, is your culled music collection up anywhere now that alluvion's dead?

a cartoon duck
Sep 5, 2011

I like how the chapter's basically about Reimu's internal conflict between being and completely apathetic about the villagers being scared of their own shadows and just wanting to beat up some youkai for the slightest hint of a reason. What a deep and compelling character.

Also, Moe Harukawa draws some tiny-rear end kappas, which I guess makes sense what with them being Japan's imps. All in all her design takes on the characters and youkai in general are probably my favorite part of the manga.

Troglyfe
Jan 2, 2014

quote:

worst songs
A Flower-Studded Sake Dish on Mt. Ooe, the one Touhou song that has yet to really grow on me. Something about it just doesn't rub me right. Some arrangements of it are pretty alright, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISpMTHhhEwo

tupac holocron
Apr 23, 2008
The son of Maryam is about to descend amongst you as a correct ruler, he will break the cross and kill the pig!

Clarste posted:

Features menacing kappa shadows.

shirikodama warehouse

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
They gotta stash their anal beads somewhere.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty

HMS Boromir posted:

Yo Captain Invictus, is your culled music collection up anywhere now that alluvion's dead?

Is there a place I can reupload it?

Semquais
Dec 5, 2013

Captain Invictus posted:

Is there a place I can reupload it?

nyaa.eu probably

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

So what's the deal with Koishi's Heart Throbbing Adventure? I watched it all for the first time this morning, and thought it was pretty solid until like, part 9. The art style changed at that point, and everything started to become really slow and mediocre. The story started to go into complete nonsense, the episodes started being shortened to 1-4 minutes when before they were pretty consistent at hitting 10-12 minutes, the action seemed to die down...

Did the author just get sick of it? I was wondering at the start why the last two episodes weren't translated and why a lot of the later parts took forever to get translated, and I fully understand why now.

It's a shame, I thought he had a pretty amazing thing going there at first.

gnome7
Oct 21, 2010

Who's this Little
Spaghetti?? ??
Basically, the artist ran out of ideas, but kept going anyway instead of wrapping it all up. Sometimes when you make a cool thing you don't know when to let it go.

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax


(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

tupac holocron
Apr 23, 2008
The son of Maryam is about to descend amongst you as a correct ruler, he will break the cross and kill the pig!

天罰「スターオブダビデ」 Heaven's Punishment "Star of David"
使用者 レミリア・スカーレット User: Remilia Scarlet
備考 悪魔召喚魔法 Notes: Devil-summoning magic
参考度 ★★ Reference Level: ★★
ダビデの星。魔法使いにとって基本中の基本だ。 The Star of David. The most basic of the basics for magicians.
しかし、こいつの使う魔方陣は普通じゃない。見ての通り悪魔の紋章となっている。 However, her magic circle isn't normal. As you can see, it's become a devil's mark.

Manyorcas
Jun 16, 2007

The person who arrives last is fined, regardless of whether that person's late or not.
Zun just recently tweeted a screenshot of the launch configuration options for TH 14

https://twitter.com/korindo/status/486607214153453568

Major detail being: it's in English. So I guess he'll start localizing the most recent games.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Huh. He wrote 'Touhou' instead of 'Toho' like you would expect.

Chalupa Picada
Jan 13, 2009

Manyorcas posted:

Zun just recently tweeted a screenshot of the launch configuration options for TH 14

https://twitter.com/korindo/status/486607214153453568

Major detail being: it's in English. So I guess he'll start localizing the most recent games.

Steam on the horizon?!

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Not Dave
Aug 9, 2009

ATAI SUPER DRY IS
BREWED FROM QUALITY
ENGREDIENTS BY USING
OUR PURE CULTURE
YEAST AND ADVANCED
BREWING TECHNIQUES.

Yasser Arafatwa posted:

Steam on the horizon?!

Google Translate does say "Download Version".

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