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This. So tired of seeing so called "Christians" that are forgetting one of their religion's main pillar: Forgiveness. It ain't just about sin & punishment, only extremist fools will think that way (unfortunately, some churches just LOVE using that to scare people into worship, since many are afraid of the afterlife and facing consequences, which in this case is "hell". Fortunatly, some churches actually help people into finding forgivness). Nobody is perfect 24/7, and nobody can expect anyone else being perfect. It's all a cycle: You live, you make mistakes (sins), you suffer from the consequence of your sin (therefor, it's your punishment), then you seek/ask for forgiveness if the burden is too great to bear alone. Then you continue to live, and strive to not make the same mistakes. Sinning without punishment means you do not realize your are making a mistake, and some punishment will inevitably "strike" you at some point (either you realize your mistake, or someone tells you). Punishment without forgiveness means you're standing still, hurting yourself without learning, growing and moving forward. Honestly, you're the only one to blame for "perverting" your perception of Touhou. How you live with that now is up to you (in other word, how you get forgiveness for that is up to you), but calling out others on doing the same like you did before is just being an hypocrite, and it won't remove the guilt you have, it will just make you feel worse because by judging others you are also judging yourself.

She’s making some Devious Machines Day 60: Rika Rika is a very neat little character. She hasn’t really gotten any fangames(besides one notable exception) and is actually intriguing within the game she is in. Her whole mechanic thing is really uncommon, but there’s something really funny about thinking about a boring brown haired girl driving a tank or a ship shaped like an eye. Her character is pretty undeveloped, but I see most interpretations go for the excitable and curious kind of way, and I think it’s fitting and would be a cool contrast to nitori. Her only notable fan work is Shanghai.EXE, where she is a part of the main group of characters. She is really fun in that game and I wish she’d be used more as a character in other works. I don’t know her theme, her design is pretty boring, and generally the only thing holding her back is her lack of presence. Overall, cool concepts, very little execution.

I’m guessing some of y’all have wondered why it’s not been uploaded daily, and I have some explaining to do there. I’m making the executive decision to let the uploads be more spotty, as this time of year I’m super busy and don’t have much free time. I hope you guys understand.

Wolf girl clause Day 56: Momiji Inubashiri talk about her in canon. Her in canon is an acquaintance to aya that may be feuding with, and is our kinda “average wolf tengu.” Now, this is serviceable for a character, albeit plain and boring, but will work fine. However, let’s talk about fanon Momiji. Fanon Momiji got incredibly weird, as she divided into two distinct interpretations. The first, I can’t talk about due to it encapsulating a risqué topic, but the gist is she got hit with the punishment all wolf girls get. She also got so much yuri stuff with aya, despite their relationship never being stated to be good. The other interpretation is one that I love and hope becomes the canon, which is Momiji being a significant figure for the wolf tengu, maybe as a guard or patrol captain. This could make her a lens into the wolf tengu, which would be great as we don’t know much about wolf tengu. Her relationship with aya could be a rivalry or something, as we can establish the pecking order with Momiji, and generally have her be our deep look into tengu as a whole. Momiji herself has a cool design, though simpler. Her theme is stage 4 at this point, which is an amazing ass theme. Overall, this character can go a lot of ways, and I hope it doesn’t go one of them.

I am Nyoko, someone who likes to write theatrically for reasons unknown to myself. I like the philosophical and the enigmatic and found Touhou to be right up my alley when it revealed itself to me sometime forever ago. I also love cats, the reason for which I'll let you guess. As for things I dislike... aversion to knowledge and thus willing stupidity are a major deal-breaker. I will take any chance I can get at contributing the information I know to any discussion I would like to be a part of, if it hasn't already been said or implied already. So please, enjoy the thought-provoking mysterious spectacle of my theatrically written comments to your knowledgeable hearts content~. And don't be afraid to ask questions. A pursuit of knowledge is what drives humanity in a direction, after all.

Sadly im not gonna show to much because most of my pixelart was lost on my old PC, but maybe i can save some and showcasing them as well. So yeah time to showcase my stuff, don't expect to be all touhou, i have other likes as well and i'm now 100% focused on Original Characters stuff, anyways some screenshots! Oh and a gif is also shown. The mario sprite is ripped from a very old fangame, so that's why is green, i tried to replicate the style on the left of the green sheet And the touhou stuff, well i got a bit on Suwako and Patchouli puzzle game, where you control somewhat tetris blocks and you need to guide a Suwako doll to the key and then the exit. The Suwako is cute, she has the lemming shape and it makes her look hilarious i love it. So much than i did those sprites for fun and they are animated too, you can see them in action now! As i said before, i'm gonna post more stuff i do here(as well some old ones), maybe i can reappear in Twitter again if i have a good mood on doing sprites! You can also help me to improve on pixelart, i'd like to see how you like it, because i really want to improve even more... 3 years doing this... Yippie!

It is that time of year again. I've not shown my face in this forum for a long time now but the strongest day is once again upon us, and I intend to honour the tradition YOU BETTER NOT HAVE FORGOTTEN I thought I'd actually create a new thread for once, so, my fellow bakas, I implore you to share whatever random Cirno content you want in this thread. The stupider, the better

It ranges heavily. Unity used to have the majority of uses, but Godot has been slowly gaining more traction. There's no mandate for an engine, as I've worked with Unity and Godot programmers. Two of the projects I helped with were made in GameMaker. It comes down to what you're most familiar and speedy with during the typical 3-Day time period. Huh, interesting. Most of the programmers I've worked with are in that same boat. Ideally, many prefer to work in pairs (unless their work ethic is absolutely godly), because splitting the workload eases the process, especially when there's not a lot of time to work with. Setting up a GitHub repository during the planning phase is often needed with that. Designer is an important role that often gets absolutely shafted in my opinion, and even if you get to do Design, you are never credited for something so invisible to Players. But like, you aren't really allowed to be solely a Designer unless you have another craft from what I've experienced, same usually applies to the Writer role for some reason (the Artist usually takes the Writer's role, and results vary drastically). The Designer role is often forced onto the Programmer whether they want it or not, because many times the thought process from the rest of the team is typically: "Programmer = Designer". There are some things that carry over, but I've worked with Programmers that don't want to do game design (it's extra work with time they don't have), and those who add everything in their head before asking themselves if it's even a good idea or not. It's the latter that eventually made me fed up with constantly finding a team to join, and why I prefer to organize and plan out things myself nowadays. I'm mainly a Composer, but I have done Design for teams accepting of input, because I'm still attaching my name to something... and, you know, I want that something to be... good? Or, at the very least, be happy on how it turned out. Thanks, I'm usually not very comfortable sharing my experiences in Jams, but I can tend to get over it if I'm feeling passionate enough about the topic. I know I'm probably not allowed to speak my mind where discourse about them are held, because I'd be browbeaten into accepting the status quo. Being critical often burns bridges existing and upcoming, and makes you the local outcast everyone ignores when all you want are for things to get better. Honestly, I think it'd be neat to work with you someday. Also, the current ongoing Jam just ended, so I might end up seeing the rest of you someday for the next. Who knows?

Just finished voting myself. Thanks for linking Suwawako's video by the way, I'd forgotten he did that. And while I had planned to vote, I had forgotten when the start-end dates were. My own vote went something like this: 1) Remilia Scarlet (I relate with Remilia, because I am handsome, charismatic, sophisticated, and keep children in my basement) 2) Flandre Scarlet (Consistently coming in 5th or 6th in a series with 200 characters isn't bad for a literal basement dweller with no social skills. Maybe she'll hit 1st place again.) 3) Mima (Keep the dream alive) 4) Cirno (Canonically, she's a weirdo always picking fights. Fanonically, she is a humble 3rd level boss who through perseverance, made many friends and grew to be one of the most recognizable figures in the series. Its the American dream) 5) Daiyousei (Despite her personality revolving around Cirno, I actually quite like Daiyousei's fan persona, and think it makes a nice contrast to some of the more...flawed girls in the series) 6) Kogasa (Kogasa isn't my favorite character. Far from it. But she is the character I am most protective of. The spooky umbrella lady needs her love) 7) Suwako (Purely as thanks for Suwawako...Yumeko was going to go here anyway...its not like she's going to break 130th place, much less her 50th place record back in 2007...) I'm just sad I couldn't vote more, but its probably for the best. Most of the other options I considered were the popular picks. Reimu's one of my favorite heroines for her flawed personality, but...c'mon, she's in like the top three constantly. She doesn't need the help. And while I wish I could vote for Yukari and Sakuya as well...Eh, they'll do fine.

So Zun breaks into your house at midnight and demands at gunpoint that you make a Touhou fangame. What kind of game would you make, and what would its genre be? What would the premise and story be? Which characters would you focus on, and why? You have ultimate control, and all the time in the world to make your dream game! Or Zun buries you in the back yard next to Mima and Shinki.

This video contains four of my favorite things. The strongest baka. Daiyousei's undying friendship. Old ass memes. And Sunny Milk getting fucking bodied. @Juunimeta Its weird you say that because I haven't seen one Scarlet Ghetto Patrol reference all morning.

Space jam orb granny Day 58: Misumaru Tamatsukuri Misumaru is quite the potential character. She has one bit of her lore that is so substantial that it could carry her into a good spot. She is the creator of the hakurei yin Yang orbs, and apparently is her entire livelihood. She is a god of Magatama, and she basically hangs out in the cave and creates using the stone within the rainbow dragon cave. Her actual role within UM isn’t huge, but it shows that she is very aware and present on the mountain due to her knowing that it was izanagi objects being mined. Using these elements, she could definitely be a character within her own right, and I’d love to see her maybe be a kind of mentor or acquaintance to reimu, as she’d be curious how reimu uses her orbs. Her design is really neat, and I like the large amount of Magatama. Her theme is cool too. Overall, potential is great but hasn’t got used yet.

I’m so jealous that I’m being written about Day 57: Parsee Mizuhashi Parsee is quite the character. She has some quirks that can hold her back or boost her up, depending on how she is written. I think the whole jealousy thing is very hard to make work sometimes, and overdoing it can make her very annoying. However, she can also have it work to her advantage and make her have some very cool dynamics with others. Parsee herself has relations with the other underground crew, and generally is pretty much at her best around them. Her design is simple but nice, and her theme fits her. Overall, this character can easily be messed up, but is awesome when done correctly and not overbearingly.

The youngest and the boring-est Day 55: Lyrica Prismriver Lyrica is definitely a part of the prismrivers. I personally find her general elements to be the least interesting, as her personality is in the middle of the other two. I will say, her ability is quite interesting at least, as without her sisters her music is very good, but lacks a certain something. She also has the most character, but it’s mostly because of PoFV, which expands the other two somewhat as well. Overall, I like Lyrica, but she’s not too exciting, and isn’t the focus for the trio.

Hungry girl? She’s just like me frfr Day 54: Ringo Sorry for the week of absence, I caught pneumonia and it took me out for a while lol. I’m better now though. Anyways, Ringo is interesting for kinda the same reasons as Seiran. She now has less character than Seiran, but their whole duo keeps them kinda linked. So Seiran got a cool closer look into why eagle Ravi stayed in gensokyo, which was pretty neat, and then the rest kinda just put character onto Seiran from there. Ringo really needs to show up now, and she is the more interesting of the two due to her ability in my opinion, and generally could keep expanding the moon as a force. Ringo herself has a cool design, with it basically being comfy clothes lol. Her theme is also sooooooo good. Overall, a character whose counterpart got character, so she needs to catch up with her.

This might be a bit late (or a bit too late) to ask since voting began on 16th-17th of september, the voting is going to end soon on 30th of september. I didn't know there was a voting thing going on until I saw a repost on Twitter, I think it was this one... or a different post, I don't remember. I kinda waited to do it later only to lost sight of the post until Suwawako-touhou tuber-mentioned it again (lucky me). You can read his post too, it generally explains what to do, how does it work, etc...when voting. So yeah, if you didn't know, now you do! And tell me who you're going to vote for.

I never vote in these lol always too lazy to figure out how

1 rika my favorite pc and general character, also is so different from the rest of the cast. 2 mima, 1st for the meme 2nd she's a honest antagonist no tragic backstory , just a villain 3 Rikiako very interesting idea and foil to yumemi with a great sharp outfit 4 eiki and harsh but fair and honest judge will call you out on your flaws with the intention to help 5 byakuren , she's nice nuff said , anyway beside the magnificent Steiner joke, her ideas raise questions like is the status quo right?, how much should we forgive? 6 singoku , cool idea having a two in one boss also I like to think of them as a team rocket style duo 7 keine I find the the duel nature also the fact she genuine desire to help and protect help like mokou is refreshing

I'd like to give game jams a try someday. Its good to learn new skills, and I've legit spent a whole afternoon just playing through old game jam creations. A place like that seems like a good environment to grasp the basics and discover good gameplay loops. That said, I don't know the first thing about programming. Game design I like to think I have a grasp on, but certainly not professionally. My work schedule tends to be very busy lately, and I am not sure when things will slow down. It'll go on my list of 'to do' hobbies. In between 'finishing my Steam library' and 'learning the stock market'. I feel a certain vicarious excitement when Eulogous talks about his experiences, good and bad. So, it makes me glad to hear you want to join in the game jams. Hopefully, I'll be able to join you boys someday. In the meantime, you'll have to listen to me telling you again how I am just too busy to join in.

Before, i respond your reply, i'm gonna just do an update of the stuff i forgot to mention: 1. At first, i was kinda cruel with the first team i worked on, but i decided to apologize with them and they even invited me to a group that i'm not longer anymore. 2. I just remembered that i posted unused sprites for Sanae Dream in the Jam server, maybe i can go back and search those. That was part of my evolution of a pixelartist, because now im on a new pc i lost those pixelart 3. The last gamw i "worked" on was "Eight Ghosts In Old Genso" for Jam 9, and i think the proyect is still in development or it was softly gonna to redone again. Im not sure because i left to the group because i had problems with the TH community after a incident on the Hispanic part of the community. Now... Yeah the first proyect was a shame, but i said to my old team that i can go to a better dream, even Kiroko (Touhou Paper Partners DEV and CO, in PrideJam 4) after the broken charger success, cheer my effort on doing it! And i still remember that day, at least i did the best i could do, and maybe Eight Ghosts In Old Genso can also be considered a success, but idk if that is a thing now. Anyways, im wondering which will be the next jam (i think could be a Station one), anyways, maybe i can go back to the server. Thanks to you, my hiatus on Discord must probably be end soon!

That fundamental question can get warped back into the 'perfect soldier' idea that the Prussians used for its school system, They were training kids to become soldiers from essentially out of the womb which as I explained earlier led us into this modern hellscape. We should rather ask two questions for the lower and upper education. For the lower education, we should focus on what our kids definitely need to survive in the world; stuff like language, math more so for problem-solving than math, economics could theoretically also apply. For the higher education, we should look at what the children do best and what they want to do to prepare them for a job of some kind. The core principle being what job they should get for the money that is necessary to live. These principles can also be applied to homeschooling, which should be a choice left to the parents, in my personal opinion. For the belief of progress, I believe that your view is a little bit skewed. The ones who want to destroy mental health for the sake of bigger numbers are not the same people who want to destroy old values for bigger numbers. While those could be the same, they're often not. Consider Nikola Tesla's actions through a few different lenses, preferably on the opposite sides of a core principle to do with the action you're studying, and witness how the lens warps the truth. I do agree that materialistic gain has become a religion in and of itself, which more often than not goes against the virtues of religions and is mostly linked to greed, gluttony and lust. It's hard to be a corporation that is generous, but it is easy to be one who might as well exist out of the seven deadly sins save sloth. As such, even though they don't put it in their branding for obvious reasons, the most successful companies are typically greedy. For an example, Disney has lobbied to extend the copyright law every time their recognizable mouse came into danger of passing into the open domain, with success. And I heard rumours that Nintendo has copyrighted entire gameplay mechanics recently. Guess what, that is pure greed. Even better, were it not for the generosity of Warner Bros. The Happy Birthday song would be subject to copyright. If the primary goal of life was to sell your soul to a corporation, then I'd gladly burn myself at the stake for being a heretic in the thirteenth century than do that. I don't believe any decently sane person would. Enjoying life is the purpose of it. For most people, at minimum.

I believe we should ask the fundamental question: what are we training children for? Answering that should also give us the answer. Basically, moderns society have this belief of progress: destroy old values, mental health, for the sake of bigger numbers for everyone, also some new TV watch etc(you know, consumerism). I mean, that is a never ending race. Not that it is a recent phenomena(ofc not, its human nature), but this was seem to become a religion of sorts lately(in my opinion). Efficiency at what costs? Driving people crazy? Smoking air full of carbon? Children spending barely any time with parents giving them problems etc? Being treated like machines by employers? I am pretty sure people like Jeff Bozos etc could live a infinite amount of times(in the human sense) and still live each life comfortably. But they still have to reinvest that capital to produce more capital an infinite amount of times. Works must be done for sustenance and other fulfilling of wants only. It simply should not be treated as the primary goal of life. At least, that is what I believe.

Some Reimu reference

I was homeschooled, but I believe I experienced something of the "education system" while in college. I'm a strong believer in parental responsibility in the raising of children, as described in the Bible; from this perspective, I interpret the modern approach to education to be wrongfully skewed, inasmuch as parents today seem to believe public education fulfills their obligation to be involved in their children's upbringing. Among other consequences, this results in a truly monumental burden of responsibility upon the system, which must make up the difference for the children of multiple households without the ability to provide adequate attention to each individual; hence the lowering of standards. As already noted, there is an additional conflict of interests from whoever runs the system to prioritize according to self-serving goals, which can range from producing ideal workers, training ideal soldiers, or (more commonly) vetting cultural trends of philosophy and religion. This is to say nothing of the social consequences, but I digress. In theory, the corporate educational system should support parental upbringing by supplying what may otherwise be lacking therein, e.g. knowledge of the fundamentals (reading, writing, and arithmetic). There's also argument to be made for its place in advanced learning, e.g. universities of specialized education. But in modern practice, lower educational institutions have become increasingly ineffective, and higher educational institutions have become increasingly irrelevant; in both cases, I believe, due to shifting focus toward selfish goals.

I am sorry I have not replied for a long time. I have added info about Gold Rush and trial versions of EoSD, PCB, IN and PoFV. Recently I have found some really interesting semi-lost media. Do you ever wanted to see big Touhou 3D MMO game? (we are not talking about VIVIT-99) A game with quests, fighting, crafting, building and everything is happening in Gensokyo? Well, there was a game like that. Today I would like to tell you about WILDLOTUS荒原幻想 (Trailer: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1N3411k7wM/ ) (Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1793740/WILDLOTUS/ ). The development of this game began in 2019 and it has been in early access since 2021. I suppose that most of Western fans have not heard about this game before (sadly, even a lot of Western Touhou fangames have the same problem) because this is a Chinese fangame. Yes, technically this game is still in early access but de facto most servers are dead (according to old players). Also, I do not know how to get this game from Steam client (but according to Steamdb, this game exists and the size of this game is 15.45 GB). So, this is semi-lost media, because it exists somewhere, but I do not know any way how to get it. Well, if you want to play somewhat like that, where is a similar singleplayer game (that is much smaller). The name of this game is 阿麟和幻想乡 and it was announced a month later than WILDLOTUS荒原幻想 early access announcement and this game is still actively developed. The creator's channel: https://space.bilibili.com/183620905/video Download link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1bigLcqtYKHPt92qXBfs3NQ?pwd=0204 What do you think about these games?

Uh, idk how to start introducing myself. Hello world im a bit timid when i'm on new place. So, im just a Casual Touhou Enjoyer, i just want to talk with people without any problem and this is my second chance in the touhou community(the first time in here i really had a bad moment at the Hispanic part of the community) However, i see this place to be a really good one to give it a second oportunity, maybe i can go back to play a little touhou again! (Who knows?) And lastly some random likes: - Hearing midis(yeah it includes first 2hu music in midi 1-8) - Pixel Artist Veteran (Doing Sprites since 2020) - Other Games outside Touhou are: Mario, Bomberman, Kirby, Megaman, maybe others... - Autistic Person. - I have some OCs, for now i can only show them if i get confidence on the forums. Nice to meet you guys!

The more you think, the more miserable you will be. I am not a Esaih(Christain), but as you know, sins which do not involve other individuals will be forgiven by God. You can not be perfect which is why you ask God everyday that you do not become those who become ignorant; basically think they are immune to sins(that attitude is also the downfall in every field in life). If you have done my wrong, be eager to rectify it by doing a good, simple.

You... stop whining and enjoy whatever you wanna enjoy. Might wanna rethink that religion shit if it's affecting you that badly.

Instructions unclear, terrorized local frogs with cryogenics

You know. I mentioned in another thread I found it interesting that half the accepted lore of Touhou is just assumptions by the fans. Nowhere is this clearer than in Cirno's case. In the lore, she is some stubborn loner who seldom works with others. When she does, its out of her personal interest. In the fan lore though, she is surrounded by friends. Characters she may not even officially interact with. Daiyousei, Wriggle, Rumia, Lorelei, Lily, Letty, even Reimu at times. In official lore, she gets into fights over her ego. In fan lore, she fights for her friends just as much, if not moreso. Hell, despite being a throwaway boss, she continues reappearing in the lore. She's one of the most recognizable characters in Touhou, even beating out mainstays of the series like Yukari and Youmu for artwork. Only Reimu, Marisa, the Scarlet Sisters and Sakuya beat Cirno in sheer number of fanart pieces. Characters like Koishi may be more popular in the series, but no one inspires casual fans and newcomers quite like Cirno. For years, I could maybe name two or three Touhou characters. But I would recognize that smile and dress anywhere. On this Cirno Day, I want us all to take a little courage. This little stupid fairy, who couldn't even shoot straight in her first game, went on to become a mainstay of a series with 200 other girls in it. If you keep your heart open, and throw yourself into life with passion, you too may be the baka of your own adventure. Surrounded by friends, happy and eternally young at heart and not just because you're too stupid to worry. Let's all resolve this 9/9/23 to be a little more like Cirno.

Funky Supremacy

I am here with my musical contribution.

You feel like there is a fairy and a shrine maiden inside you? At last. I shall do the seggs on that day. I'll be sure to tell you all what its like.

I'd want to make a vertical shmup, like mainline Touhou games, but instead of a traditional arcade experience, I'd want to make it a series of score attack challenges, time trials, mini stages, pattern trials, and boss scenes all broken up in a way the scene shooters break up content. I'd contextualize them as things happening around Gensokyo and its connected regions, and you're working towards solving an incident by having multiple smaller problems. There'd be multiple characters to select for the scenes, but Global progress is shared, so you can complete it all with your preferred character and not have to repeat content. With incidents happening all over, I'd make it fairly non-linear, but have character locked to a certain region (set of content) until you finish most of it. Example is have say, Sanae/Aya locked to Youkai Mountain's region completing content until she's done, and then you'd be able to use her in other regions because she's solved what was happening there. You'd be able to swap do different regions anytime to progress on them, so there'd be freedom in how you eventually complete the game. I'd want to make it fairly beginner-friendly (because think how many times you've seen "I like Touhou, but I'm just not good at shmups"). I wanna aim for something that teaches and eases people into the genre and rewards them for their time spent with things like achievements, or extras like characters, or dialogue scenes (Touhou is known mostly for its characters first and foremost, and it's important to keep that in mind when making something). Also, no micro-dodging projectiles with semi-random speeds and trajectories for hours on end. That should be a lesson, but not the only lesson for the entire game. The Story is that someone is working behind the scenes to wear out Reimu with multiple smaller incidents (idea is to reintroduce characters who'd have a grudge against her conspiring together), so other characters from all over can work together or solo to solve it. I wanna avoid the weird situation in mainline where every character seems to complete the incident, but it's obviously intended for Reimu to be the one who does it. Having tons of smaller incidents everywhere lets other characters have a chance at being playable without having to center an entire plot onto them, and can give them interactions too.

…Perhaps Katt should’ve listened to the Underqueen’s advice about taking more weapons with her. If she were to battle those three, she’d likely lose. Yet she can sense a slight desire for vengeance against Sanguine Rose for bringing them to this situation. Perhaps if she can rally these youkai and others with such desire, she won’t have to actually go meet the Scourge of Genbu directly… Then again, they did just talk about cannibalism. Even if they had to meet her directly, making them die a painful death will make Mina’s surrender seem more believable. “You three seem new around these parts. I myself am somewhat of a veteran of the area, so you can ask me anything about these parts,” Mina said to buy more time to think about what to do with them. She recalled her past experiences and a few hidden stashes she made a while back to keep them engaged in conversation. Her hand on her whip if she needed to fight. “Aw, the Youkai is trying to gaslight us. How about we talk about your time here while we eat you?” Enenra rhetorically asked as she ordered the other two to attack. They both tried to get close enough for a jab, but Mina’s whipping kept them a safe distance away... for now. Now that the original plan has failed spectacularly, she decided that it was time for her vengeance. She unleashed a whipping on the Youkai to the right of her and dashed out of the encirclement. Looking behind her to see if they were still following her, she changed the scenery from her camp to open plains. What might have seemed like an incredibly idiotic move, were it not for the pitfalls she knew were here. The leader of the group seemingly forgot that there were pitfalls here, or they were new arrivals of this area, because he fell in one of those deceptive tricks. Alternatively, they just didn’t know where the ground was going to collapse because they avoided this area like the plague. The others, in their hurry to save their leader, also fell into very deep pits. Katt’s final act of vengeance for these youkai driven to pure insanity by hunger was to hunt frogs and gut as well as dissect them, leaving as little nutrients as possible for when they eventually dig their way out of the holes. One for each potential cannibal. Back to the mission at hand, she recalled a hill overlooking this area of the Plains and the Central Valley, nicknamed the Great Hill by the locals, that people were constantly fighting over. So, after packing her things, this time not getting interrupted by people or barbarians, she decided to pay a visit there and see if it was still the absolute warzone it was when she left the Plains. Also, if these Wonderer Humans actually existed, they’d probably take a keen interest in the strategic positioning of the Great Hill.

You say Momiji, I say 'She has an official fumo what the fuck?!" I enjoy Daiyousei and even Ran's fanon personalities. So I do feel legally obliged to try to like her. On the other hand she's one of those characters fans only like because 'monster girl' + 'tomboy' = 'heart's desire' She do look cool with a sword tho. So I'll tentatively add her to my list of characters I want to see more of...albeit lower on the list...

There are two issues with that though. 1. Momiji does show up in one of written works (I think it’s symposium). This gave her a bit of personality and established the odd relationship with aya. 2. There really nothing wrong with making a character like this more than she actually is in my opinion. Momiji has a ton of potential to be interesting because the fans want her to be interesting, so she’ll technically exist as a character due to the fans being more than half of all touhou content produced.

Resisting the urge to say Moriya Shrine: The Game--

"Our foes do not appear to be heavily defended, nor are they on the alert. I, for one, question Sanguine Rose's decision to conduct a forced march in this hostile terrain; which makes me all the more suspicious, Rose can not be this foolish!" said the Wanderer as he surveyed his surroundings. "However, this encampment is too close to our borders..... any raids on the human village may cause the humans(in the Human Village) to doubt our ability to protect them. Moreover, open terrain is great for our force to operate on-I could also use this fog to act as a concealment". he was not wrong, for he could call all his tribesmen through Oghuz, and they would respond without delay to his call. But he had a issue. He had half of his men on a reconnaissance missions to scout out any weapons depots the Eientei's, Lunarians, or the Diggist's may have, for every bit of modern weaponry would be a great asset for the Hakurei Republic, not be mention his tribe as well. Recently he was worried about the nightmares and visions Reimu has been having; his tribe had to well prepared for the oncoming battle between extinction or survival. The End Battle might be nearing; all the more reason to be cautious due to Reimu possessing a degree of divine essence inside her. "Well then comrade, we do not know the designs the enemies possess, but I believe we should ignore them, whilst strengthening the Hakurei Frontiers with our men. Do they do not seem to possess enough men to mount a successful raid", he explained to his hellraven(his hell-raven was the only soul he had to talk to in his times of solitude) ___ Joint Military Council Report by the Frontiers Armies of the Hakurei Republic(FAHR) We have compiled this report to highlight to you some of the exigencies facing our armies at the moment. Youkai Mountain as you know, was a important source of materials for the firearms. However, with the establishment of Moriya-land(the entity currently occupying The Youkai Mountain), and the subsequent banning of free trade by CEO Kanako, we have had to strictly ration our supplies to the point where we have had to retreat for shortage of gunpowder. We can not access our ancient lands situated near the Forever-Green Pastures because of large concentration of Wild Youkai. Although not directly advisable from a military point of view, it will help us recover and mine much needed war material should we eliminate the Wild Youkai concentrated in the area. We recommend a joint expedition with either the Theocracy, or the Fairies, whatever comes out politically achievable. (Hope this suffices for now)

Yes, so provided that this imaginary "I" character doesn't suck at making games, I would make an RPG about... Marijuana. The story revolves around Yuuka- whose main source of income (she runs a flora shop) proves to be insufficient because she spends all of her money on fertilizers for the sunflowers. Using her powers, she starts distributing marijuana grown from her hair to various residents of Gensokyo. Her job is to avoid the Gensokyo FDA and/or convince them to allow for her business of 420 greens to run smoothly via addiction, force or sheer manpower. To play the game, Yuuka will have to resort to the magic of botany, make them illegal Canadian leaves more appetizing and hallucinogenic as she will be using them in battle against the authorities, as well as to attract more people into being part of her drug empire. Imagine minecraft enchantments, but for weed. The money gathered will then be used to bribe people like Reimu and Sanae to promote her premium blunts, buy ingredients and recipe books to make stronger weed, and you best believe it can be used to make a shrine dedicated to ZUN. The game will feature a map of the entirety of Gensokyo, with the various notable destinations being traversable for Yuuka and allowing for her to expand her industry. Running around shops, creating a blackmarket for everyone, from children to fairies to gods. Every once in a while, you will be raided by the local authority, in which case you will be forced to engage in a high octane sequence of shmups, where you will be able to utilize the powers of weed to intoxicate the raiders. Your goal is to compromise the sages and permanently making your products legal in Gensokyo, and you lose when you run out of funds or get caught red-handed in this supposed "incident" which may or may not involve the main cast of character.

Hello, I am Nacho, though my discord and youtube name is EmperorNacho. I've joined the Touhou fandom recently, early 2023 to be exact. My current goal in life is to play and finish all Touhou games, and I know it is hard, but I'll try either way, because I wont back down. I'm in many fandoms, and it varies. Most notably Touhou, but I am also in the Batman, Spider-Man and Breaking Bad fandoms too. My favourite character is Sakuya because of her theme song and because I find her cool. That being said, I am a former animator that has later switched to art, but I also plan to create video games in the future, maybe even start a comic book company, but right now I can only make fanart and/or do. My birth date is January 15, 2010. This is my introduction, thank you for reading.

Name: Mina Katt Age: 16 Sex: Female Species: Youkai (Nekomata) Personal Power: Vengeful understanding (can influence vengeful spirits to a certain extent.) Abilities: Business partners (gets a discount in otherworldly ventures inc. shops) slight understanding of Outsider tech. Occupation: Vengeful spirit warden. Nationality: the Underworld Appearance: A catgirl with twintails and twin tails typically wearing a black warden uniform with the crest of the Underworld on her hat. Personality: Condescending yet compassionate. very battle-hungry and diligent. Background: She was an ordinary cat from an employee in O. V. inc. who saw her owner die at the hands of a Lunarian and drank his blood. Swearing vengeance on them, she searched Gensokyo for the lunarian who killed her owner, eventually ending up in former hell. Satori saw how she could influence vengeful spirits and asked her to become a prison warden for those very same vengeful spirits. Mina accepted the offer in order to find out more about both herself and the Lunarians. Friend: Orin, Chen Rival: The Lunarians, Eientei and anyone who considers dogs better than cats. Equipment: A whip, tools for capturing (vengeful) spirits, A prison warden outfit from the Underworld, the clothes of her former owner and his employee ID card.

For that to happen, humans have to be okay with a lot of things that defy common sense; like being okay with humans getting stolen and eaten on the regular. My personal opinion would be that humans and youkai will forever be at odds with each other unless there is an inversion of sin and virtue. for instance, in the case of the kasha, humans would have to be okay with or even encourage stealing corpses from funerals. However, were the humans to accept that as something that's okay, then that opens the can of worms that is questioning the humanity of those humans. And because youkai need human belief to exist, testing Byakuren's theory of coexistence is a risky move that I'm certain the sages wouldn't allow unless they managed to create a smaller Gensokyo inside Gensokyo. Some youkai can coexist peacefully like Byakuren believes, otherwise there would be no basis for her belief. The satori, for example, can perfectly coexist with humans, save the near-constant headaches they would get. In summary, Byakuren is half-correct in her belief, some youkai can indeed live peacefully with humans. But other youkai are evil incarnate and will inevitably fall into battle with the humans. So... if I were to reduce this to a yes or no question then, considering Gensokyo is a nature preserve for all youkai, the answer would be... no.

I was on vacation last week; normally that wouldn't prevent me from doing features, but reception was unusually poor, making access to these threads impossible. Expectations can significantly impact one's experiences in strangely inverse ways; poor expectations can result in better impressions, and high expectations may lead to disappointment (I refer specifically to situations where expectations are subverted). I believe I started into the soundtrack of VA-11 HALL-A with slightly higher expectations then I should have; I knew the album sold well, although I hadn't heard much reference to it beyond that. What I got was a good selection of synthwave pieces, with a fair variety of moods in a fairly stable energy level. "Fair" is the best word I can think of; I found nothing extraordinary about the collection, but I also accepted that it didn't need to be extraordinary. It is pleasant to listen to, and despite the relatively large number of tracks, stays fresh and doesn't stagnate.

I think the internet as it was, was objectively better. Even with viruses and hackers, and a higher bar to entry. Since people are forced together onto a few large platforms, they don't have any investment in them. Can you think of one person who would willfully give Reddit or Facebook money to keep existing? People did that for sites that look a lot like Moriya today, because it was made by a fan for a fan. Now, most people invested in something find it as a channel or a submenu in some massive network like Youtube or Twitter. Money has also made many things online a lot more cynical. Even hobby channels on Youtube or Instagram use terms like 'engagement' and 'retention' when discussing their channels. Though I can respect a guy who pursues his passion as his career, those are very sterile terms to describe someone. That's actually one reason I decided to get into Touhou. I followed a couple meme pages. The meme pages linked to a couple small lore channels. And none of them had any ads. They were all made because the creator just loved Remilia and Suwako, or Perfect Cherry Blossom and Subterranean Animism. There's also what @KorosKoros mentioned. There is a lot more censorship online these days, especially since the internet went from an American controlled institution to a global one. Corporations and governments have realized with the centralization of the net, its easier to manipulate and influence people. Its not really working anymore, but instead of building their own sites, most people seem to just be checking out. Fortunately, it looks like the current era of the internet is dying off. Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, has been constantly losing money and users, while Reddit appears to be imploding. Twitter is either evolving into its final form or is in its death throes. With their death, that hopefully means more communities will spring up in the wild, not beholden to these massive corporations which are so easily pressured.

The biggest thing that has changed is centralization, and the attitude of the people using the net. During the 90s and 00s, you needed a level of expertise to use the internet safely. Computers were expensive and could be very technical. It was the only way to keep your hardware safe from malware, viruses, hackers. As an example, one forum I adored was hacked by a person pretending to be an edgy version of the administrator. A beloved figure in early Zelda fan fiction. This person terrorized the site with ramblings, images of gore and hardcore pornography. Modern software is so complex and updated so regularly that that is not usually an issue. I can't tell you how much more varied and vibrant websites were back then. Today, there is usually one or two websites you think of for a given service or fandom. A Youtube for videos, a Facebook or Twitter for messaging, Discord or Skype for chat. It was different back then. There wasn't just shrinemaiden.com and moriyashrine.org. If a fandom was large, you could find dozens of moriyas or shrinemaidens. There were forty Zelda forums at one time, each with their own style and appearance. Some would compete with their legacy, how old they were and how many memes, compositions or fanfics they had. Others did so with a novel design, or unique features like a news feed with inside connections. All of these were fan made and maintained. There was no worries about appeasing advertisers or funders, because everything was paid for by the owner or fans. This gave fan sites an authenticity back then. Today, everything is commodified, thanks to Google adsense. Mind you, just because there were so many didn't mean all or even most were good. Some were very inactive. Months without a new post or user. Some were overcrowded. Some just had trash mods or users they'd let bully other people. Some were just old and barely worked. But if you looked, there was a site out there that fit you perfectly. People were also much more guarded over who they interacted with online. As kids, my family and friends were told you should never give your real name, appearance, ethnicity, your birthday, age, the state you lived in. Even on well regulated forums (most members of which were preteens and teens), there was always some older guy there who was from your state and thought you should totally meet up. All that changed when Facebook became a thing. Suddenly, posting your real name, address and age were not only permissible, but encouraged. The old rules of guarding your identity on forums were lost as a wave of new users were encouraged to join the site. This in turn kickstarted the era of data collection, where companies harvested user data in order to sell to advertisers and government entities. Its to the point some people don't bother hiding their identity. 'Why bother, they know all this already'. There isn't really any sense of privacy or ownership of your information, and this is not going into government data-collecting...