Which religion is the best? This poll is closed. |
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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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ElMaligno posted:It was apparently announced here or at least that was the vast majority of people link to, as I don't understand a lick of japanese. Also Touhou on Hachima's blog is always interesting because though he seems to like it, most of his readers (who are 2ch Games Industry and Hardware "GeHa" board people, not doujin game people) either know nothing about it or hate it. In summary, Yamame is everyone's idol. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Mar 25, 2013 |
# ¿ Mar 25, 2013 22:29 |
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 02:15 |
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I wonder what he's going to say? Up until now, hasn't he regarded the entire outside world as merely an amusing novelty?
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# ¿ Mar 26, 2013 05:48 |
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Namtab posted:"Please pay for my games", guessing by how most touhou fans operate. edit: whether he wants it to or not, the question is gonna come up many, many times in Atlanta I think.
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# ¿ Mar 26, 2013 10:06 |
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It seems to be Marisa day on Pixiv or something. This picture by Neko is pretty sweet. Also I want to find more pictures of touhous with their silly hats converted into normal hats while still maintaining that color scheme and such.
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# ¿ Mar 26, 2013 20:15 |
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I only play easy. I haven't yet beaten stage 4 on a Touhou game on normal, even with all the continues in the world. Easy is my normal. edit: wait I take that back, just once I beat Aya on normal and got immediately clobbered on stage 5. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Mar 28, 2013 |
# ¿ Mar 28, 2013 02:51 |
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Aliginge posted:I forget whether this was staged but
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2013 02:35 |
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Cernunnos posted:Edit: Marisa appears to be speaking in a dialect that Google Translate doesn't quite understand though. edit: Sami, rather. I guess Lappish is not the preferred nomenclature anymore. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Mar 30, 2013 |
# ¿ Mar 30, 2013 02:20 |
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It's already April Fool's Day in Japan so expect to see a lot of fake game announcements and stuff. The first one I saw is a remake of Phantasmagoria of Dim Dream. edit: also that new "Zwatch" player is an April Fool's joke too...I hope. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Mar 31, 2013 |
# ¿ Mar 31, 2013 20:11 |
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HGH posted:I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about. The video player seems exactly the same as it used to be, unless you're talking about an actual game player.
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2013 22:41 |
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Raenir Salazar posted:Anyone else have video's where the song also juxtaposes a narrative in the background? I have Laugh Maker, Locked Girl, Chiisana koi no Uta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZENcO7tyy0 I couldn't find a translated version but rest assured that the song is not about a giant robot battle between Sanae and Alice. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Apr 2, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 2, 2013 00:22 |
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TOO SCSI FOR MY CAT posted:touhou music video challenge: find ones without crying, abandonment, or unrequited love As for the challenge, I'd say it's too easy, my entire music bookmark list on Nico is full of those. But I have gathered over time that those are not the Touhou music videos people in this thread like. You guys seem to like serious ones, so of course they are all weepy and sad. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Apr 2, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 2, 2013 03:34 |
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I guess I'll post this one for the new thread then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pliipmyHZQ edit: most of the videos on my list aren't Touhou music so I guess they don't count. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Apr 2, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 2, 2013 06:34 |
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On April 1st D-2 put up this video I assume as a joke, but it is less a joke and more awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1GFLsWPjjQ
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2013 03:22 |
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What does the enemy AI do on PoFV Lunatic? Just stop being hit by bullets entirely?
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2013 19:39 |
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For Reitaisai, Pixiv is having a picture contest, based on # of views broken down by game. The only remaining three are (from left to right) the main characters, EOSD, and PCB. My favorites have all already been eliminated... edit: well, Koakuma is still good. She's by far the best touhou without a name. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Apr 5, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 5, 2013 06:28 |
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JosephWongKS posted:Koakuma is pretty cool, but "best touhou without a name" isn't too much of an accomplishment given that there's only one other competitor for the title. Seriously though I always liked Koa's design, very understated compared to most of the others. Though, other than the color scheme I guess it's mostly the work of fan artists and not Zun. Also there's the thing of her being a little devil and yet usually portrayed as one of the most reasonable and hardworking touhous (leaving aside the Koidoki interpretation I posted above). edit: according to Carbon-shi (the Tohome Alone guy who is now doing all kinds of awesome stuff) she really likes action movies, especially Commando. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBp0dU3nsAk&t=403s edit: it's Japanese heavy like whoa but I just love the art style on this video starring Koa, by Osakabe. She has a master plan to use her new stupid joke on Patchouli. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Apr 5, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 5, 2013 10:01 |
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KataraniSword posted:It's the first Touhou game that matters. Speaking of which, Maku hasn't put out anything new recently, his latest picture is from last year. It's too bad, he draws the silliest things.
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2013 09:55 |
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They could be screwing with us all and any of those characters could be in the game as player characters too. It wouldn't be too hard to just take that sprite out of the background when someone is using one of those characters, I think. I'm still hoping for Yuugi, what the hell good is she if she's not gonna be a fg character? And she has to carry that booze bowl in her hand at all times, of course. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Apr 13, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 13, 2013 03:13 |
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As a soldier of fortune (or of looting), a religious war seems like a really good thing to get involved in to me. Both sides aren't going to let up, and you can make a killing, literally and figuratively.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2013 04:17 |
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a cartoon duck posted:There's pretty good odds Byakuren is gonna be a playable character, and she already covers the strong, physical slot that Yuugi would, being a muscle mage and all. Her bio in UFO says she uses her magic to give her super strength, plus apparently Bhuddism buffs your melee power, so Yuugi's niche is basically covered already. HIJIRIN BUSTER!! edit: that artist (Nekobatake) really REALLY likes Byakuren and Miko. Also he always draws Byakuren with her eyes narrowed or closed, it even has its own tag and encyclopeda entry. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Apr 13, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 13, 2013 18:34 |
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Her crouching heavy punch has to be extending that mist arm of hers like Dhalsim. edit: by the way, does anyone watch Chen Chen Mini Touhou? It's always happy but the latest one especially so, it has almost no language so I think anyone can enjoy it. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Apr 14, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 14, 2013 00:28 |
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Ammat The Ankh posted:I think the more important question is which Touhou would be the annoying atheist who goes around and snidely remarks on all of the religions? edit: speaking of Reimu, this came up today, it's pretty nice. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Apr 14, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 14, 2013 19:40 |
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BlitzBlast posted:She's a Shintoist. Not a very devout one, especially compared to Sanae, but that doesn't mean she isn't one. See: her clothes, her position, and her powers. Once I asked a Japanese friend who they pray to when they pray at shrines at New Year's and such. She said "I dunno...anyone is okay, I guess?" edit: Shinto wasn't very unified at the time Gensokyo was closed away, either. It was codified and centralized and made into the state religion starting in the Meiji period. Before then it was not only all over the place but also mixed with Buddhism and stuff. It took late Edo period researchers a loooong time to sift through it all and figure out what of ancient animistic practices should be called Shinto and what shouldn't. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Apr 14, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 14, 2013 21:17 |
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I guess no one has translated the 7th Touhou M-1 Grand Prix yet, but Kanako and Sanae's role in the game sounds like it's going to be like this sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUY3pUuKbEU "Is it okay to believe in that (Toyosatomimi) Miko, who is bathed in power, money and violence!?" a cartoon duck posted:There's also the fact that most of Wild and Horned Hermit is Reimu coming up with hare-brained schemes to get more followers. edit: or is that part of Zun's take on modern religion too? Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Apr 14, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 14, 2013 21:54 |
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a cartoon duck posted:Reimu ain't give a gently caress about people having faith in her. When Sanae talks about shrine maidens being able to ascend into godhood from faith and how Reimu should be prepared for that, Reimu basically just retorts that she doesn't care about becoming a god. Namtab posted:She wants them to Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Apr 14, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 14, 2013 22:12 |
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Namtab posted:Gensokyo has modern things come over all the time, why can't it have modern shinto? Up until today and reading your posts, I assumed that Reimu simply didn't know what her shrine was about, due to a break in oral transmission from her predecessors or something (which as a linguist I can tell you has happened countless times), and was just going through the motions of being a miko. I assumed her conflict with Moriya was purely a personal/money conflict.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2013 22:23 |
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ElMaligno posted:According to wikipedia... At least, that's how my (rather counter-nationalist) Japanese history prof explained it to me. edit: Anyway this is getting all serious and dumb so here's a picture by Bion of Reimu riding a moped in the air. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Apr 15, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 15, 2013 00:01 |
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ElMaligno posted:With that said let me tell you about all about touhou and motorcycles: edit: While we're at it, Probably not a real motorcycle so I guess I'm a philistine though. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Apr 15, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 15, 2013 01:20 |
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I had to look up the artist using iqdb.org but drat, the artist of those first two (Masuta) loves touhous being all happy on motorcycles and other motor vehicles. Aww....wait, why is there a car in the loving library? How did it get in? Also one of the tags says find the Marisa! I already found her. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Apr 15, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 15, 2013 02:34 |
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TOO SCSI FOR MY CAT posted:All those posts, and not one with that ZUN-art guy who does nothing but touhou characters with motorcycles?
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2013 04:38 |
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Just so everyone knows, every picture I post is linked to Pixiv through the picture itself, but to get there you probably need to right click on it and follow the link that way, since as of the latest forum code, left clicking causes it to bring the picture up to full size. Oh, yesterday while I was looking for pictures that might suggest how Hijiri will play with her super strength in the new fg, I found this. "Higher mom, higher! Higher!! Okay, maybe that's too high..." Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Apr 15, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 15, 2013 07:04 |
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The latest askundonge is pretty cool, on a theme that comes up in this thread often. http://askudonge.tumblr.com/post/47830226919 Yamame the southern belle...
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2013 17:54 |
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Aliginge posted:Yamame does seem to have a bit of a southern drawl in other works too... I thought it was just about her dress, but then I have never read Ganbare Kogasa in translation.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2013 22:57 |
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I don't think Osaka Japanese even comes close to matching with anything in America, sociologically or historically. America overall is just too different from Japan in that area. Now, if you investigated BRITISH accents, you could find one that kinda sorta matched I bet. But no one ever does that in anime translations... Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Apr 16, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 16, 2013 03:37 |
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There's a new Bomber Grape comic here, has it been translated yet? Frankly I'm really confused, something about Tenshi really getting after Iku about whether she is looking for a husband, does it link into some previous conversation they had in his comics?
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2013 05:14 |
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Well in this one, Tenshi is like "Are you looking to get married?" and Iku is like "No!...well, I mean, a little bit" and then Tenshi is like "What, has your pride gotten in the way? You can't admit that you want to meet someone? You can't admit that you don't want to be alone?" and after a while she starts crying and Tenshi says she was just joking and apologizes. It almost seems like something that might be coming from Bomber Grape's personal life. It wouldn't be the first time his comics had kinda seemed like that, but only a tiny bit at the end starring Kaguya.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2013 05:35 |
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Aliginge posted:British Touhous edit: Speaking of weird characterizations by non-Americans... Setz: Charismatic as always. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Apr 16, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 16, 2013 17:50 |
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Namtab posted:But like most of those things he says are primarily based on characterisation as opposed to voice. Having Reimu be a white lightning chugging chav is changing Reimu entirely to make her into a Brit so you can do your own thing with her, whereas giving a western translation of a Touhou speaking an Osakan accent a US Southern accent is just emphasising the fact that she's speaking the same language as everyone else, albeit with a different accent. It's exactly the same as if you gave Reimilia an upper class accent, or had Cirno played by a literal 5 year old. Besides, by "speaking the same language as everyone else", you really mean American English, right?
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2013 18:29 |
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Namtab posted:No, I mean Japanese in the case of the original, or English in the case of a translation. Someone speaking in an Osakan dialect in a Japanese thing is still speaking the same language (Japanese) as everyone else, but in a different way It's not like the equivalent of me speaking British English and my mate speaking French. Same in a US setting with Northern/Southen dialect. Same in British English with a Scottish/English dialect. Just because Osakan mannerism don't actually parse well with Southern US mannerisms what with the two groups being from different countries and all doesn't make it a valid translation technique. It's a tool to get the point across that these people are from different parts of the same country.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2013 18:44 |
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 02:15 |
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Namtab posted:Then what the hell did you mean by And yeah, IN rules, but the thing is that I want to use Reimu, but I also want to fight AGAINST Reimu in stage 4, I find that fight so much more fun than against Marisa.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2013 19:05 |