Welcome to the Touhou Addict Recovery Center! Here, you can discuss fan speculations and theories, share your favorites videos, music and images, show off your merch, or talk about pretty much anything related to Gensokyo or being a Touhou fan.
Just to make sure all good fairies play nice in Gensokyo, we do have a few rules, though, which are designed to make your experience here fun and engaging.
1. Is the thread you want to start basically a single question? Post your question in the Miscellaneous Questions thread instead. About half of what I do on TARC as a Shrine Janitor is merge threads with OPs like "How come Cirno is 9 and Okuu is 6?" or "Why did Touhous go from slippers to shoes after IaMP?" with the Miscellaneous Questions thread. So please, if you just want to ask a question, ask it in that thread. It'll save us all a lot of time.
2. No power level discussions. Period. This means talking about how X could totally beat Y in a fight, or that Z's powers are totally more powerful than A's, and similar pointless bickering that basically equates a peen measuring contest between different Touhou characters. Such discussions will be deleted, and offenders might be probated or banned.
3. Don't ask for nor post download links to games, nor talk about downloading games. This is not a negotiable policy. Your post will be deleted and your account subject to probation or ban depending on the severity of the instance. The same goes for any copyrighted material, actually. Talking about downloading or having downloaded the games is also strongly discouraged. Feel free to talk about playing, enjoying, hating, procuring, acquiring, ordering, buying or obtaining them instead. Piracy is frowned upon here; don't go there.
UPDATE, 24 February: Complete rules on piracy can be found
here.
4. Game discussion doesn't go here. If you're looking to discuss the games themselves there's three other boards your attention should be brought to.
Help Me, Eirin! - All Touhou game discussion, official or unofficial
Rika's Garage - Danmakufu discussion (cards and games based on DMF like CtC)
Akyu's Arcade - Games that are not Touhou-related
If you post in the wrong forum don't be surprised if your thread is moved or locked. This is to keep things nice and orderly and to avoid repeat threads.
5. Regarding Images: OK, apparently there's been some confusion with regards to posting images on this site, and as we have a rockin' image thread, let me just lay down a couple easy-to-follow rules for images:
~ No hotlinking/direct image linking. This is for two reasons. Number one, because it steals bandwidth from sites. Number two, because often all you'll end up giving people is a 403 error (as they'll need to visit the site, thereby getting the site's cookies, before being able to see direct images).
~ No images bigger than 640x480 (that's Touhou windowed modo size) nor heavier than 150 KB. This is a site-wide rule. "But I want to share this awesome Remilia wallpaper" you say? Then thumbnail it, and link to the full-size image. Imageshack, for example, provides thumbnailing in a very self-explanatory way, but Tinypic, Photobucket, and other sites can also be used.
~ If you are linking to something NSFW, label it as such. What's NSFW? Err on the side of caution - if you think it
might be NSFW, go ahead and call it that. No one will get mad at you for labelling a tame image as NSFW. Failing to label a NSFW pic as such, however, makes baby tengus cry.
~ Regarding Danbooru - due to the ads, the site is NSFW. Warn when you are linking to Danbooru. Furthermore,
Danbooru will not allow you to link directly to an image (e.g., sdkjds84t4kjfls849sjdk489f.jpg) - you can see it, of course, because you've been to the page where the image is. No one else will be able to see your image.
Link to the Danbooru page itself.We all love sharing illustrations of our favorite Gensokyans, but please stick to these rules when posting images.
PS: Helpful Danbooru tip: You don't need to copy the entire URL - only up to and including the numbers after /show/. For example:
http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/670619/2girls-animal_ears-black_hair-camera-geta-hakurei_ can be posted as
http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/670619 and the link will still work.
That's pretty much it as far as rules go. Respect other posters, don't be shy about participating, and remember - the staff is here to accept your ideas, criticisms and suggestions. PM them any time. Thanks!Other Important Information/Links About Touhou That You May Find Useful:General InformationDedicated FansitesImageboardsBuy StuffIRC- #shrinemaiden @ irc.ppirc.net
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Nobody ever, ever talks in here. Only bother with idling in here if you're already on Rizon. 
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Topic: Welcome to TARC! Newbs and Old-Timers, Please Read This - UPDATED March 6, 2012 (Read 3645 times)