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~Hakurei Shrine~ => Touhou Addict Recovery Center => Topic started by: gammaraptor on September 06, 2011, 02:16:11 PM

Title: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: gammaraptor on September 06, 2011, 02:16:11 PM
So the other day, I was playing Kaguya Table on Walfas, and then my friend who didn't know what touhou was saw me. He was like O.O what is she doing to the table...

So the point of this thread is basically to post some of your non-touhou fan friend's reactions to Touhou...
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Infy♫ on September 06, 2011, 02:38:56 PM
They reacted in unison when seeing: "lol space invaders"
children these days...
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: DX7.EP on September 06, 2011, 02:42:45 PM
Showed a little IN Lunatic to a few mainstream movie aficionado friends.
Them: 'WTF THIS IS JUST LIKE GALAGA. This shit sucks, back to Black Ops.'
Me: 'What are you even saying? Galaga lacks spellcards. :V'
Them: 'You said it was made by one guy?'
Me: 'Yep.'
Them: 'No wonder why it's shit then.'

Showed another closer friend of mine some SWR and MOF.
Him: Nice.
*switches to Touhou GTA + San Andreas Carmageddon (see my YT for a vid)*:
Him: ...:getdown: I'm seriously getting this! This is just TOO good! :V

Hasn't quite gotten into the series yet though.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: gammaraptor on September 06, 2011, 02:48:13 PM
Showed a little IN Lunatic to a few mainstream movie aficionado friends.
Them: 'WTF THIS IS JUST LIKE GALAGA. This shit sucks, back to Black Ops.'
Me: 'What are you even saying? Galaga lacks spellcards. :V'
Them: 'You said it was made by one guy?'
Me: 'Yep.'
Them: 'No wonder why it's shit then.'

Showed another closer friend of mine some SWR and MOF.
Him: Nice.
*switches to Touhou GTA + San Andreas Carmageddon (see my YT for a vid)*:
Him: ...:getdown: I'm seriously getting this! This is just TOO good! :V

Hasn't quite gotten into the series yet though.

GTA Win
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: ふとくていなねこじょおう on September 06, 2011, 02:52:21 PM
Usually this:

"ASDFGHJKL ARE YOU INSANE?! HOW CAN YOU PLAY THAT?!"

"It's easy mode. Just wait 'till I show you Lunatic. :V"

"...."
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Nem on September 06, 2011, 04:23:10 PM
Friend sees me playing DS.
Him: "What's this game?
Me: "Fuck Lasers: The Game"
*Goes through a wall of bullets*
Him: "You have no life... How the hell did you dodge that??"
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Bias Bus on September 06, 2011, 06:09:03 PM
Friends? What're those? :V

I showed my dad and sister Touhou once, but outside of that? No one else. I hardly play the games myself anymore, to be honest :V
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: XephyrEnigma on September 06, 2011, 06:38:57 PM
My older brother sees me playing them every now and again. He usually starts up an argument along the lines of "omg why are you playing these, its the same thing over-and-over..."(Nevermind he always seems to be coming along while i'm playing a particular character, nor does he realize that each game has its differences.) His friends though, do seem generally interested, in some minor way.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Drake on September 06, 2011, 07:26:32 PM
>complain about repetitiveness of shmups
>go play some more black ops
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: XephyrEnigma on September 06, 2011, 07:28:40 PM
>complain about repetitiveness of shmups
>go play some more black ops

He doesnt play those for the same reason. (and i agree with him on that :/)
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on September 06, 2011, 07:43:59 PM
My mom now tries to play Remilia's theme on the piano. Improving, but slowly.

As for my friends...
"OH ARE YOU PLAYING THAT DODONPACHI THING AGAIN BAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

And I'm like despairkyuu.png
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Skyler on September 06, 2011, 08:53:32 PM
My friends who introduced me to Touhou warned me that I was talking about it too much, so I don't show them that much stuff. When I do, one of them (who is interested in getting the games herself) always gets envious because she loses her first continue to stage 3 easy.

I showed someone else the game and he said it looked like a cross between space invaders and a program that you create patterns on. Can't say I blame him.

I remember one time when my and a few of my other friends were having a sleepover and I was playing PCB, I got to Resurrection Butterfly and because I couldn't concentrate I went "SHHH!" The rest of it was something like this:

Friends: *silence*
*complete silence in whole room*
*sound of spellcard starting*
*epic music plays*
They were all silent until about halfway through.
Me: I'm nervous with all this silence...
Friend: We're doing what you told us too, aren't we?
Me: Yeah, but..ah crap I died, on my last life...
*beats game* Yesss! I completed normal with Reimu A!
Friend: Well done! I'm jealous.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Jes_Isaive on September 06, 2011, 09:02:27 PM
(It's not seeing me play the game but I never really go to play it in public and people rarely come over anyways.)

I have a friend who states that "He's the best at every game ever." We both (hopefully) know that isn't true, but one day I made him play Subterranean Animism.

You can turn down the volume on my computer by hitting the FN key right beside the arrow keys, and either left or right.

The game was muted on multiple occasions.

I haven't heard him say that since.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Paper Conan on September 06, 2011, 10:10:11 PM
*Shows 31 IOSYS/Innocent Key/Walfas flashes to best friend in a row*
*Shows hims Hisoutensoku*
"omfgbbq what is this?" :*

He is currently a bigger Touhou fan than me.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Mimachiro on September 06, 2011, 10:50:51 PM
My one friend: don't care/that's nice/not interested
My brother: You playing your stupid anime games again/When I'm playing through a 5th/6th stage spell card, he yells, "OMG OMG, DON'T DIE, DON'T DIE!!!"
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Widermelonz on September 06, 2011, 11:01:55 PM
Asks my friend to play Hisoutensoku with me. He tries it out. He likes it.
Him: "Hey, where are these characters from? I think I've seen them before."
Me: "They're from a series of vertical shooters."
Him: "Oh, I've seen you play those on a few occasions. You sure do like shmups."
Me: "Oh yea, shmups are great."
Him: "Hey, wanna play some co-op Ikaruga?"
Me: "Sure."

Another friend:
Him: "Hey, what game is that?"
Me: "Imperishable Night."
Him: "Looks cool."
Me: "Wanna try it?"
Him: "Nah, I'm not into vertical shooters."
Me: "Alrighty."

My friends are really chill people.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: n i c o l e on September 07, 2011, 12:28:08 AM
majority of my friends haven't heard of it and probably never will and the ones who have heard of it don't care anyway ):

although one girl listens to some arrange music but that is it.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Aya Squawkermaru on September 07, 2011, 12:29:34 AM
I showed my friends Touhou once. This was after I had already convinced them to play the games at some point, so I guess it was just so they'd see what it was. They basically just said "Yeah it looks like fun" which is a good thing I guess.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Aquila on September 07, 2011, 03:39:20 AM
I've been openply failing at playing Touhou (From EoSD to Dynamarisa) at school for almost a year now. I'm known as the "Kid who plays hard Japanese games." And the moment I say 'spellcard' people jump to the assumption of Yu-Gi-Oh... It irritates the heck out of me ><'

Among my 'friends' they always just swarm around behind me and just stare in awe of the colourful displays I weave through. Some random strangers call me a hacker when they watch me clear Honest Man's Death, I really don't know how to explain it to them :V

My closer 'friend' knows about it and is taking it in pretty well, he's starting to remember the names of characters/spellcards.

My closest friend mostly dislikes it, but not to the point where he hates everything about it (I pointed out that our school song sounds JUST LIKE Kaguya's theme and after listening to it I got a "Sounds good" out of him). So it's kind of a "Do what you want, just keep it away from me." thing.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: haydude on September 07, 2011, 03:48:20 AM
At School I am the president of our Anime Club and guess who just converted like 20 people to touhou? Also i converted my best friend's Girlfriend to touhou and now we just talk abou it non-stop and it annoys him soooo badly! He says he doesnt like touhou and i ask him why and he says he just doesnt like it. (It might have something to do with when hes losing in any game he ragequits.)
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Tengukami on September 07, 2011, 03:51:15 AM
To quote another thread:

I have tried to recruit others, but everyone I show Touhou to sort of makes this face like I'm showing them Hitler's baby pictures and says something like "Doesn't this hurt your eyes?" or "Ugh turn down the volume on that."
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on September 07, 2011, 04:13:35 AM
Most of my friends I've never mentioned or showed Touhou to.

One moment that sticks out was during my last week of college when one of my classmates asked me about it. I told her a little about it, but we never talked about it again and I haven't seen her since.

A few people in my anime club know about it, the former president's a Lunatic player and quite a few other people have played the games. We had an IaMP tournament one day, I was halfway in the rankings.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on September 07, 2011, 05:16:37 AM
Should I join the Anime club solely to see how many people actually know about Touhou?

(No.)
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: GuppyForce on September 07, 2011, 06:41:43 AM
Well, I sometimes play Touhou in free periods or recess during class. Most people seem to think I have epic skills or something, even though I'm kinda an average Touhou player. A few don't seem to understand how I can find Touhou fun though, and it hurts some peoples eyes to look at it apparently.

But who cares, I've made 3 people start playing Touhou :)
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: J.O.B on September 07, 2011, 06:53:12 AM
One of my sisters:
"Why are you playing you asian games again?"
*Proceeds into her room and starts playing loud beat music so loud you can hear it from the street outside our house*

She calls my music "shit" (touhou music) yet "shit" is pretty much the only word people say in her songs.
And yes, she is racist towards Asians in some ways.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Phlegeth on September 07, 2011, 07:39:12 AM
My friends reactions usually range from "You see, I don't think you're suppose to get hit by that bullet." to "You suck" to "You think she can lick people with that?"  Incidentally, one of my friends favorite character is Kogasa or her umbrella.  Either way, close enough conversation.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Yukarin on September 07, 2011, 10:13:18 AM
I played Touhou on my friend's laptop and they were actually quite amazed at my play, since I was playing Hard/Lunatic that time.

"HOW DO YOU FUCKING DODGE THAT", is what they say a lot.

Then they try playing and end up shitting the bed on stage 2 normal mode Parsee.

But from that event, I made 2 people covert to Touhou, just quite a bit.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Iryan on September 07, 2011, 11:05:46 AM
The real life friends I've showed it to pretty much took notice of it but didn't really care one way or another.

My brother knows a good deal of the characters, is into the arranges and plays soku with me occasionally when we see each other, but that may have to do with me showing him Touhou at a point where I was merely thinking about checking it out due to having stumbled upon a phantasm replay on youtube.  :derp:
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Mr. Sacchi on September 07, 2011, 02:35:02 PM
I show a NEET Gamer friend like me Touhou, he goes like "what the shit is this?  ???"

And then I keep showing him some more stuff, like IOSYS videos and gameplay videos, he gets more and more interested.

Then we open up skype and I start to show him my fight against Mokou, in real time, during her third nonspell I tell him "This is her easiest attack, at least for me."

His answer is pretty much "THAT'S what you call easy?"

He's into Touhou since then, I believe he's already 1cc'ed MoF, IN and EoSD. All on easy, of course, and he's slowly going into Normal.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on September 07, 2011, 03:42:42 PM
Should I join the Anime club solely to see how many people actually know about Touhou?

(No.)
Honestly, that's part of the reason I did it :P

Given that the club's responsible for some of the best times I had in college, I don't really regret it.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: AJS on September 07, 2011, 06:33:01 PM
I showed Touhou to everyone in my close circle of friends.  One of them is lightly interested in the actual games, and plays from time to time.  Another plays occasionally now, but is mostly interested in the fandom.  And one is now almost just as obsessed with Touhou as I am. :V  She's totally into the fanbase, the games (she's getting close to 1CC-ing PCB on Normal), and is planning on cosplaying as Flandre at her next anime convention.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Valantus on September 07, 2011, 11:57:50 PM
>Friends see me play Touhou
>"OHMYGOD HOW CAN YOU DODGE ALL OF THAT."
>"It's not all that hard.."
>"You're playing on the hardest diffuclty right?"
>"Nope, easy mode"
>Everyone jawdrops

When they see Touhou art on my binder or my computer, they usually ask me what anime the art is from...

The friends that I've showed gameplay to are quite interested in it, I think I'll let them play using my computer the next time I see them...
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Wisp on September 08, 2011, 12:19:00 AM
"Why are you killing the fairies!?"
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: CS on September 08, 2011, 08:30:06 AM
Only person who had seen me play Touhou was my cousin. He saw me playing PCB once and was like "Dude, how old are you? Stop playing these stupid childish games..."
(fyi, I still suck at the games. Truth is, I can't even 1cc it on Normal yet but that was one of my attempts to :derp:)
Me: O really? If this is childish, why don't YOU give it a try?
Him: Yea, sure whatever... *sits down, starts game on IJI MODO*
Me: *watch*
Him: *Pichuu~n'd by Letty* This game sucks! *Pichuu~n'd a few more times* This sucks, I don't see the fun in this *leaves*
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Aquila on September 08, 2011, 12:32:15 PM
I just introduced touhou to a friend of a friend online... Only to hear half an hour later that they 1cc EoSD on Lunatic... I've been obsessed with Touhou for over a year and I can't get to Remilia on hard. I'm now questioning its humanity and my reason to keep living   :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: HakureiSM on September 08, 2011, 02:49:02 PM
They reacted in unison when seeing: "lol space invaders"
children these days...
>complain about repetitiveness of shmups
>go play some more black ops
makes this face like I'm showing them Hitler's baby pictures and says something like "Doesn't this hurt your eyes?" or "Ugh turn down the volume on that."
>Friends see me play Touhou
>"OHMYGOD HOW CAN YOU DODGE ALL OF THAT."
>"It's not all that hard.."
>"You're playing on the hardest diffuclty right?"
>"Nope, easy mode"
>Everyone jawdrops
All of these, exactly the same, +
"Dude you gotta let go of that japanese lolicon pedophile crap, it's creepy"

... yeah >_>
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Reisen-tanith on September 08, 2011, 03:27:55 PM
I participate in alot of loose Rps with my friends. one of which was a jappenese monster Rp... The Dm did not knw what a nue, tengu, karakasa, moon rabbit, living object, or yageratsu was. Then after showing him examples ..."Holy **** thats over powered, are those all bullets? How can you dodge all that?" 
Also people usually ask about whats going on, why are you shooting little girls, why are you a girl, are there no guys?
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on September 08, 2011, 04:14:39 PM
Best friend A: "shit graphics brb moar wargaemz"

Best friend B: "FUCK YEAH JAPAN oh crap too hard"

Best friend C: "Lolicon hurr"

Friends A and B: =sees FTGs= "Whoa, coolbeans, teach plox."

Some others: =sees PC98 games= "lol shit's old" (no shit Sherlock this is game 5 of 13)

Most others: "lol hacker"

Cousin A: "Looks cool, but... no guys? :<"

Cousin B: "I'm a little worried about you... Your Facebook name is, what, Takukasamashit?" (it was Takuya Izayoi) "If you want people to stop calling you gay, you'd bette(ry cuz eye'm studyan psychology an shit an moar lulz"

Cousin C: "Fireworks! :V"
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: CrimsonDX on September 08, 2011, 06:33:48 PM
Best friend number 1 doesn't really care for the games (he isn't into shmups) but he will watch some of my better replays (like me perfecting Hijiri on easy). He is learning the piano though and after playing touhou songs (mainly piano versions) for an entire night while at his house he got interested enough to agree to learn some of them to play on piano :D


Best friend number 2 who is easily as big a anime geek (Hell we became friends after the realization that we where both lolicons)  as I am has almost been completely converted to Touhou :D. It was a slow but sure process, starting with flash videos and arranges, then followed by me getting him to read some of my favorite doujin. Finally I got him to play some of the actual games. Now he wants to eventual do his own touhou doujin and we are both contemplating a touhou visual novel game and such :3


Other than that, I was already a year or so out of High School before I actually got into Touhou so I could never had the chance to show it to some of my classmates.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: joelcll on September 12, 2011, 08:46:32 PM
I did let a friend play it once... He never told me anything about it...
One, day he saw me entering a touhou website, and he was all " How can you remember those super long names?!" :V

sigh...


Later, i told one of my closest friends about touhou, she usually likes this kind of things, so i expected to have more luck...
She had heard about bad apple, and likes cirno... but nothing else...

And recently she mentioned, the "they are all lolis" fact ??
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Katierou on September 13, 2011, 03:20:57 AM
Friends? We'll call passers-by that.   ;)

Anyway, I play Touhou at lunch or breaks during class, so it gets noticed fairly often. Reactions are primarily awe at the shiny, colorful bullet patterns.  A few people have wondered how on earth Touhou games are playable without pulling your hair out. When it's not that, it's usually a comment on the character if it's fanart browsing or if they just so happen to pass by when a character declares a spell card. "She must be mean, using knives in an attack!" was one I remember in particular, because it wasn't about Sakuya... it was about Byakuren in Double Spoiler, hahah.

I'm also called insane/lolicon/obsessed/etc. :V
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Metaflare on September 13, 2011, 03:46:56 AM
Friend 1: "Yes yes I know you really like it BUT I DONT STOP TELLING ME ABOUT THIS SHI- oh wow thats a lot of bullets can i try"

Friend 2: "STOP HAVING LITTLE GIRLS SHOOT AT EACH OTHER ITS WEIRD"

Friend 3: "Aww this is adorable :3"
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: AJC on September 13, 2011, 06:06:23 PM
i don't have friends but my sister's kids find the danmaku pretty.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: DarkslimeZ on September 13, 2011, 07:47:54 PM
Friend 1: That reminds me I need to play more Dodonpachi. Btw, which do you think is harder?
Me: Not getting into that right now unless you want a verbal essay
Friend 1: lol k

Friend 2: STOP PLAYING LUNATIC MODE YOU MAKE ME FEEL BAD
Me: Maybe you should try playing again
Friend 2: no i gave up on it a long time ago, besides i don't like this kind of game anyway, but yukari is awesome

Little sister: I almost beat hard mode without continuing(in th06)!
Me: \o/ わーい
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on September 13, 2011, 09:55:38 PM
Little sister: I almost beat hard mode without continuing(in th06)!
Me: o/ わーい

I need your little sister.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: gammaraptor on September 13, 2011, 11:28:30 PM
I need your little sister.
My little sister can get to stage 3 normal IN with scarlet team. xD
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Merielle on September 14, 2011, 02:27:06 AM
I'm pretty in the closet with Touhou irl, but once in a while I'd show certain close friends for shits and giggles.

Their reactions range from: "HOW THE FUCK DID YOU DODGE THAT" to "wow, the music's pretty nice" to "dude why are they all little girls..."

Only person I 100% openly fangirl with is my boyfriend. Showed the games to him a couple months ago and he's loved it (and Sakuya >.>) ever since.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Sality on September 14, 2011, 11:29:46 PM
When I am still in the main menu screen :
"lol you are lolicon"

When I play it :
"......."
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Drake on September 15, 2011, 12:59:45 AM
i'm actually doubting a lot of these entries just based on the fact that supposedly everyone knows what lolicon means
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: XephyrEnigma on September 15, 2011, 01:09:39 AM
i'm actually doubting a lot of these entries just based on the fact that supposedly everyone knows what lolicon means

On the contrary. In fact I'd say the fact that many of the accusers know what lolicon means, could mean that they're too scared to admit it themselves :V
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Grimarg on September 15, 2011, 02:09:22 AM
i'm actually doubting a lot of these entries just based on the fact that supposedly everyone knows what lolicon means

well, my schoolmates don't know what lolicon means, so they just simply call me a pedophile.  :V
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Metaflare on September 15, 2011, 02:51:05 AM
so they just simply call me a pedophile.  :V

this, pretty much :B
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Katierou on September 15, 2011, 03:16:57 AM
i'm actually doubting a lot of these entries just based on the fact that supposedly everyone knows what lolicon means

I made the mistake of explaining lolicon to my anime club, and it ended up spreading beyond it a bit. :V

I also got a new reaction that was simply amazing. Someone walked by as I was "talking" to Shou Toramaru before the battle... She totally fangasmed and said he was "SO CUTE." ...Yeah. Explaining that was weird.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: psyfaqs111 on September 15, 2011, 03:42:50 AM
I just play touhou whenever and wherever, so lots of friends see me play

most reactions range from "that's hardcore, you're good" to "STOP PLAYING THIS GAME AND OPEN COD" (btw i was doing extra IN)

however I DID manage to get 2 friends interested.
one of them plays when he has free time
another became a big fan of touhou and we laugh at other friend's reaction while we talk about touhou in front of them

Me & Friend: commoners, can't understand them
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Formless God on September 15, 2011, 03:47:18 AM
Quote
Play MoF, UFO and Ketsui in some Internet cafe
"Wow ... that's a lot of bullets"
"Is it raining ?"
Quote
Show TD!Yuyuko to Korean friends, who are also avid gamers
"dood how the fuck did you see through everything"
"Your eyes must've hurt"
yes they actually do
Quote
Show SA and Guwange to group of friends
"ew weird ass nippon bullshit"
following day,
"uhhhhhh can I borrow your danmaku games"

Also,
>shmups
>zomg so easy repetitive memorison so easyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Typical reaction of any fighting games fan and 1990s nostalgia fan.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: _cf on September 15, 2011, 01:28:44 PM
I showed a replay of somebody beating Yukari to a group of friends:

At the fight's start: *explosive laughter at the ammount of bullets*

As the fight progresses: *no way... / how can you dodge THAT / these people have no lives / etc*

As the replay reaches border of life and death and I notice the guy playing it is going for the timeout: "See now, this attack isn't even hard to avoid."
friends: yeah, it's pretty sparse...
*30 sec mark*
friends: *explosive laughter*

Also heard during some point of the replay: "So, do you get to see the blonde chick nude after you beat her?"

Short version: I couldn't get them interested. :P
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Gpop on September 15, 2011, 01:34:36 PM
*plays touhou and sees loli girls and colourful patterns and addicting music*

"Cool where do I download it? - friend A

*sees difficulty of game*

"Cool where do I download it? - friend B

*sees game*

"No wonder it was made by a drunk guy" - friend everyone else.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: gammaraptor on September 15, 2011, 09:36:44 PM

*sees game*

"No wonder it was made by a drunk guy" - friend everyone else.

Oh ZUN =D
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Vhaltz on September 17, 2011, 02:21:50 PM
At a friend's house to have lunch and watch a basketball match afterwards, another friend an I bring Touhou along because we're not really interested in the match and start playing in the other room:

"Well at least it's more colorful and interesting than the basketball match"

"Wait so did you just stand there at the bottom of the screen and none of that hit you?" (that was Rainbow wind chime)

"This looks like those Space Invaders games I played when I was a kid"
"Wanna try?"
"Sure"
*Dies on easy mode Cirno
"Damn this is hard"
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Hanzo K. on September 17, 2011, 03:47:38 PM
Well, here's a story from a while back.
I was just chillin' at the library, playing some 12.3, when a friend of mine shows up. We'll call 'im Specs, because that's his nickname.

Specs: *Sees me playing as Sanae* Who's the green haired girl?
Me: Sanae Kotiya/Kochiya, Shrine Maiden of the Moriya Shrine.
Specs: Uhh...
Me: It's japanese, don't worry about understanding it right off. *finishes the fight with Sea Opening - The Day the Sea Split*
Specs: ....THATWASAWESOME. @.@
Me: Oh, that? just one of her regular spellcards, I use it a lot. *goes to play as another character*
Specs: Play the green one again.

Of course, this eventually got me to talking to him about Touhou, and I told him how to get the games.
Haven't seen him much since then though, so I wonder if he managed to get any of them for himself?
He never found the shooters very interesting, but he seemed to like the fighters a fair bit.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Derpface on September 17, 2011, 04:56:29 PM
Well derp. Kinda friend/cousin's reaction (not sure about the relationship LOL)

Me: Wanna play some games for a while?
Him: OK
*opens up 12.3 and hands over a gamepad, explains the buttons*
After a while of playing, he goes raging since I never let him win
>Accuses me of playing girly games because all characters are girls
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: pineyappled on September 18, 2011, 12:04:58 AM
To a friend:
"So I finally cleared UFO on normal the other day..."
"UFO?"
"Touhou 12."
"Oh, Touhou's that game for pedophiles and old guys, isn't it."
"..."



To my sister:
"Are you playing that game again?"
"..."
"Only the fighting games are good."
"..."
"Who's that girl you're drawing? Oh, it's another one of the obscure tohoes nobody cares about. Only the ones in the fighting games are good, other than Flandre and Chen. You don't like the fighting games because you're bad at them. See, let me try that for a second."
I scoot over and open IN on easy modo border team for her. She gets a continue on stage 2.
"I don't like this game. It gives me headaches."
 :persona:



To that weird girl who I swear was playing UN Owen on the flute:
"What are you playing?"
"OMG MY BROTHER PLAYS THAT GAME WITH YOUR SISTER" (They play SWR together.)
"I don't have a sister."
"But you two have the same last name..."
"I HAVE NO SISTER."
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Drake on September 18, 2011, 12:17:49 AM
Well derp. Kinda friend/cousin's reaction (not sure about the relationship LOL)

Me: Wanna play some games for a while?
Him: OK
*opens up 12.3 and hands over a gamepad, explains the buttons*
After a while of playing, he goes raging since I never let him win
>Accuses me of playing girly games because all characters are girls
that is probably the most terrible way to introduce someone to touhou, ever
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: XephyrEnigma on September 18, 2011, 12:23:33 AM
that is probably the most terrible way to introduce someone to touhou, ever

Most terrible way to introduce someone to any game, ever, you mean. At least give your opponent a sporting chance.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on September 18, 2011, 02:48:01 AM
I think I had a thread for this last year :V

Anyway,

Gateway-to-Touhou Friend Who I Am Now Better Than By Several Orders of Magnitude
DON'T DIEEEEEEEEEE
>is on Stage 1

Friend Who Also Plays Touhou
What stage is that you are on Normal how did you do that without continuing
or
YOU'RE ON THE EXTRA STAGE?
or
THE PHANTASM STAGE?

Girlfriend
More Touhou! Why am I not surprised!
>Do you want to play?
No!
(She has... incredibly unfond memories of MoF Stage 1)

Several Other Friends
Whoah, you are dodging that?
Are you sure that's Easy Mode? (>SA Stage 5)
Who's that douchebag? (>Is fighting Parsee)
What game is that? Wait, you have to do that?

Passersby
Whoa.
Hey, look at that!
Huh, he died. Not surprised...

So like pretty much the same as last time :V
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: onions on September 19, 2011, 01:54:02 AM
Friends:
"Are you playing that Tou-whatever loli game again?"
"I don't know how you can read that."
"You suck play Lunatic."

Acquaintances:
"MASTER SPAAAARK!"

Others:
"Holy shit :o"

My favorite response came while I was playing Touhoumon; a friend across the room asked what I was playing and another one answered, "his Slave Trader Deluxe 3 game." Needless to say, the nickname stuck until I quit it altogether but it was a great in-joke for a while since we knew people who were playing it around the same time.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Helix ⑨ on September 19, 2011, 02:14:57 PM
'Where's that girl in your background from?'
>Touhou
'Don't know it'

....
'Are those manga'
'Yeah my parents bought it from me in Japan'
'Do you even know where it's from?'
'Yeah, touhou'
'Don't know it'

it was the same guy!
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: zephyredx on September 19, 2011, 03:34:59 PM
A girl in my physics class last year asked me about this "really interesting game" I was obsessed about. I showed her Touhou, and a few days later, her friends complained to me that she was playing Touhou all the time in her dorm =p

She was a gamer though. Most people aren't so receptive, usually because it's too hard.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: WrathSpino on September 19, 2011, 09:26:45 PM
Usually its just one word '"Sad"
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Zirene on September 20, 2011, 11:46:10 AM
First post.

Most of my friends consider themselves "gamers" but they are COD fanboys so they don't understand touhou or the Cave shooters I play.

How I can play the same stage for hours just to be able to make small progress doesn't make sense to them, they want the instant gratification that is so ingrained in our culture.

Whenever someone see me playing in class (shouldn't do that but can't help it) they are usually impressed, but I believe peoples preconceived notion is that anything anime/Japanese is for kids/nerds or whatever so they write it off.

Also, the Reimu posters on the wall can't help.

Where I live (Fayetteville, AR) games like that are just not popular/enjoyed for some reason, were just a bunch of dumb rednecks apparently. I feel like the only shmup player in the state, so this community will be nice.

By the way, love this website/community. We touhou fans may be a little bit crazy but are defiantly the best and most loyal fan base I've run into.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: かけふみ on September 20, 2011, 05:02:40 PM
'You touch a single bullet, you die'

'What? That's damn hardcore'

'It actually isn't that bad when you play it. Also, it is a puzzle game'

 :D
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on September 20, 2011, 05:20:06 PM
"Oooh, nice music."

That's it, really. My friends don't have much interest in games. SA's music is a consistent favourite (particularly stage 4).
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: poglogo on September 22, 2011, 03:54:43 PM
Well i got gammaraptor here addicted to Touhou (true story) and i usually get pissed off since people keep going OMFG Y U SOOOOO GOOOOOD!!!!!! on level one normal mode.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: gammaraptor on September 22, 2011, 03:57:07 PM
Well i got gammaraptor here addicted to Touhou (true story) and i usually get pissed off since people keep going OMFG Y U SOOOOO GOOOOOD!!!!!! on level one normal mode.
Hence, posted in "Touhou Addict Recovery Center." Lol.... stage 1. I think they've seen me play enough for them to say that on stage 6 normal xD. Every time someone gets me addicted to something, I get someone else addicted. Eg. Minecraft, I find out how to setup servers, 7ish people start playing. Still are.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: poglogo on September 23, 2011, 02:28:40 PM
You want to give the ip for the server?
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Reisen-tanith on September 23, 2011, 04:40:11 PM
One of my most...hated memories of strangers seeing touhou was, 12.3
"Is that one of those hentia's?"
"..."
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: jaxter0987 on September 23, 2011, 11:00:41 PM
The same thing most people have said already...
"OMFG HOW DO YOU DODGE THAT?!?!?!"
"It's so colorful it hurts!!!"
"What difficulty is this?!!?!?!?!" me: "Normal" "WTF!??!?!?!?!?"
"You must have no life" <-------- IT HURTS it hurst so much... :ohdear:
"You suck" (Friend asked me to play the hardest difficulty and I pichuuuunned~ all over the place T.T)

I'm almost certain no one in my school knows what a lolicon is. They just all call me perverted and a pedophile when I tell them that all the characters are girls...
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Nyyl on September 25, 2011, 03:56:32 AM
my friend from high school knew about touhou due to my unhealthy obsession, but he was indifferent toward it. he did like some arranges, though. my other, more internet-savvy friend knew about touhou without me needing to show it to him, but he's uninterested. whenever i show him something like the reimu vs. okuu 3d dogfight, he just remarks that touhou is really weird, but we get along really well.

when i would play touhou during computer classes, it would basically go like
person: are those things even hurting you
me: no i haven't been hit yet
person: geez

tl;dr neutral reactions basically

oh yeah, my 7-year-old brother loves to play the games even though he doesn't understand anything that's happening. we play pofv and soku now and then, he likes "the ghost sword girl"
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Drake on September 25, 2011, 04:48:05 AM
isn't it interesting that when people are affected by someone saying "you must have no life" it generally encompasses you having no comeback, and kind of sounds like "stop pointing it out" rather than anything else lol
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: jaxter0987 on September 25, 2011, 07:00:56 AM
my friend from high school knew about touhou due to my unhealthy obsession, but he was indifferent toward it. he did like some arranges, though. my other, more internet-savvy friend knew about touhou without me needing to show it to him, but he's uninterested. whenever i show him something like the reimu vs. okuu 3d dogfight, he just remarks that touhou is really weird, but we get along really well.

when i would play touhou during computer classes, it would basically go like
person: are those things even hurting you
me: no i haven't been hit yet
person: geez

tl;dr neutral reactions basically

oh yeah, my 7-year-old brother loves to play the games even though he doesn't understand anything that's happening. we play pofv and soku now and then, he likes "the ghost sword girl"

Your brother just got a lot cooler! =P I <3 Youmu too!!

isn't it interesting that when people are affected by someone saying "you must have no life" it generally encompasses you having no comeback, and kind of sounds like "stop pointing it out" rather than anything else lol

I'm sure the true addicts out there would favor the "stop pointing it out" bit but I hate it when people say it to me. Makes me think that I won't be able to find a partner later in life. :ohdear:
So I always try to say something back but really, there's no comeback to that other than a personal attack on their character. Which is just going to make things worse.

EDIT: I'm not bipolar by the way, if anyone was thinking that. I just read Nyyl's comment first before "Warning - while you were typing a new reply has been posted" popped up.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: I have no name on September 25, 2011, 11:56:41 AM
I take a break from homework in a computer lab, start playing Mountain of Faith which I conveniently put on my flash drive, and a couple of people ask me how I'm not dying, then someone says "oh, that's Touhou, I didn't know you played that, you're doing kind of badly though".  All I had to say to that was "I'm not focusing." (I was playing extra).  Let's just say people were impressed when I captured Snake Eats the Croaking Frog at 0 power  :V

In general people have no idea what I'm doing and think dying twice to Stage 3 easy mode is good-great play.  Although I only play easy at 120 FPS now.

oh yeah, my 7-year-old brother loves to play the games even though he doesn't understand anything that's happening. we play pofv and soku now and then, he likes "the ghost sword girl"
YAY YOUMU!

My brother plays Touhou a little bit, his favorite character is Suwako.  For the hat.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: lunarrabbitReisen on September 25, 2011, 08:33:14 PM
One of my guy friends likes Mario, so I thought I would tell him about Touhou, and show him it

He didn't like the Idea of a only female character game.... we have yet to talk about it since
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: shurcle on September 26, 2011, 01:16:28 AM
Was playing MoF in the school library and they asked why wasn't I dying just because the bullet hit my sprite.
They kept telling me that until they got bored and left.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Gpop on September 26, 2011, 03:02:19 PM
One of my guy friends likes Mario, so I thought I would tell him about Touhou, and show him it

Shoulda showed him Super Marisa World :V
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Angelfire on September 26, 2011, 03:09:15 PM
I showed my entire Health class last week, but was too lazy to post about it here. And I quote how it (basically) went:

Me: ...and this is [REDACTED IMAGE DESCRIPTION IS REDACTED], because I looove the Touhou series.
Classmate 1: What's Touhou?
Me: ... It's kinda like Galaga on steroids. Except with more anime-ness.
Classmate 2: What's Galaga?
Me: *sigh*

Of course, there's another kid in my school who I found out liked Touhou last year (He's in my comp programming class this year), but I don't really remeber about that.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: DX7.EP on September 26, 2011, 05:52:29 PM
Classmate 2: What's Galaga?
Oh dear. And I thought the 'Touhou = Galaga' comparison my friends made was bad, but that they even don't know what Galaga is...they must not be even casual gamers.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on September 26, 2011, 06:25:45 PM
Oh dear. And I thought the 'Touhou = Galaga' comparison my friends made was bad, but that they even don't know what Galaga is...they must not be even casual gamers.
What's Galaga? ;>_>

I'm joking! For once. I've seen my father play it in arcades, though I've never played it myself.
[/sub]

Also, I'm a little surprised that so few of your friends seem to notice the music and focus entirely on gameplay.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Suppasleeper on September 26, 2011, 08:01:50 PM
I get loads of mixed reactions when I play these games D: Majority being "HOW THE HELL DO YOU PLAY THAT!?" or "THATS INSANEEEEE" from most friends with a few exceptions...

Friend1: Eh, you only need to move a little bit... ok, maybe a lotta bit O.O (EOSD, Remilia Normal)
Friend2: Harder than Iwbtg? (PCB, Yukari stage, failing over and over...)
Friend3: Get a life, seriously, play on the PS3 or something .-. (Back then, not much of a friend now ^^" Can't remember what I was playing)
Boyfriend: LOOOOOOL You suck at this (IN, Failing Keine on Normal D:)
Brother: Let meee have a try D: -plays against Letty on Normal, gets owned- K I don't wanna play this anymore... (PCB, Letty, Normal)
Mum: I don't like you playing these games -.- (SA, Utsuho on Easy modo, furious temper roaring after about 30 continues)
6 year old nephew (I'm so proud liek, best nephew  could evr have 'w'): Beat the bus driver! Dodge hotdog power! YAY! (POFV, playin as Aya vs Shikieiki on normal)
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: ふとくていなねこじょおう on September 26, 2011, 09:56:44 PM
6 year old nephew (I'm so proud liek, best nephew  could evr have 'w'): Beat the bus driver! Dodge hotdog power! YAY! (POFV, playin as Aya vs Shikieiki on normal)

BEST NEPHEW
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Skyler on September 26, 2011, 10:56:24 PM
So I was showing my friend some of the Touhou characters and their themes.

Me: This is Kaguya's theme, she's a princess from the moon.
Friend: Doesn't look like a princess from the moon..
Me: *shows official art*
Friend: Nope.
Me: This is a shrine maiden. *shows Sanae*
Friend: Doesn't look like a shrine maiden...
Me: This is an immortal phoenix. *shows Mokou*
Friend: Doesn't look like an immortal phoenix...(by now he's obviously just doing this to annoy me)
Me: This is a hell raven! *shows Utsuho*
Friend: Looks more like a nuclear reactor.
*cue insane laughter*
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Excelsus on September 27, 2011, 12:54:20 AM
6 year old nephew (I'm so proud liek, best nephew  could evr have 'w'): Beat the bus driver! Dodge hotdog power! YAY! (POFV, playin as Aya vs Shikieiki on normal)
She calls Yama the bus driver? XD
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: gammaraptor on September 27, 2011, 01:04:24 AM
I get loads of mixed reactions when I play these games D: Majority being "HOW THE HELL DO YOU PLAY THAT!?" or "THATS INSANEEEEE" from most friends with a few exceptions...

Friend1: Eh, you only need to move a little bit... ok, maybe a lotta bit O.O (EOSD, Remilia Normal)
Friend2: Harder than Iwbtg? (PCB, Yukari stage, failing over and over...)
Friend3: Get a life, seriously, play on the PS3 or something .-. (Back then, not much of a friend now ^^" Can't remember what I was playing)
Boyfriend: LOOOOOOL You suck at this (IN, Failing Keine on Normal D:)
Brother: Let meee have a try D: -plays against Letty on Normal, gets owned- K I don't wanna play this anymore... (PCB, Letty, Normal)
Mum: I don't like you playing these games -.- (SA, Utsuho on Easy modo, furious temper roaring after about 30 continues)
6 year old nephew (I'm so proud liek, best nephew  could evr have 'w'): Beat the bus driver! Dodge hotdog power! YAY! (POFV, playin as Aya vs Shikieiki on normal)

Friend - Lololol remi gg.
Friend 2 - Without cheating, iwbtg is still insanely difficult.
Friend 3 - 75% of people who i meet are like that
Bf - not so hard now is it? [insert troll face here]
Brother - Ahahaha getting siblings into it
Mum - Some people were not meant to play touhou. xD.
Nephew - He'll grow up to be an awesome touhou fan.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Angelfire on September 27, 2011, 10:51:37 AM
6 year old nephew (I'm so proud liek, best nephew  could evr have 'w'): Beat the bus driver! Dodge hotdog power! YAY! (POFV, playin as Aya vs Shikieiki on normal)

Good human, best nephew! You must introduce him to us once he's old enough! Don't worry, we'll play nice... >:D
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Mr_Bob on September 28, 2011, 08:53:39 AM
Brother: Stop playing that faggot ass shit *pushes power button*

He pretty much admits he wouldn't mind the games if the characters were spaceships, but the synth music is not to his liking.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: DX7.EP on September 28, 2011, 12:45:42 PM
but the synth music is not to his liking.
ALL HAIL THE GLORIOUS ZUNPET / SD-90 ROMANTIC TP.
ZUN's works would not be complete without it and a couple other (not very good-sounding, really) patches on that synth.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on September 28, 2011, 01:17:09 PM
Brother: Stop playing that faggot ass shit *pushes power button*

I find it odd that I am so quick to call the denouncers of a Japanese all-girl cast bullet hell shooter full of magic and whatnot closeted homosexuals.
Sorry for that.

My brothers actually take a liking to it.
Disbelieve me if you will, but on his first try, my brother managed to no-focus perfect his way to Letty on Lunatic Mode :<
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Desu_Cake on September 28, 2011, 06:11:56 PM
I've managed to get my sister playing EoSD a few times. She seems to like it. PROGRESS!!!

My parents just view touhou as more of "That crazy Japanese stuff".
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: shurcle on October 05, 2011, 01:58:28 AM
I find it odd that I am so quick to call the denouncers of a Japanese all-girl cast bullet hell shooter full of magic and whatnot closeted homosexuals.
Sorry for that.

My brothers actually take a liking to it.
Disbelieve me if you will, but on his first try, my brother managed to no-focus perfect his way to Letty on Lunatic Mode :<
Did he beat letty?
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 05, 2011, 02:03:22 AM
Got to Chen when I pulled the plug because he was better than me :V

I've since gotten better enough to 1-credit my way to Alice on Lunatic.


I was playing against Koishi today when some passerby behind me said really really low
"Ha, Touhou."
I don't know what to make of it
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Vyrien on October 05, 2011, 09:54:01 PM
I don't know what to make of it

Find them and kiss them.

Most of my college-mates reactions are usually, "Get a life, seriously, all you do is draw and play stupid Japanese things."

My Japanese teacher is much cooler though, I brought it to show her and we ended up having an epic match to the death on Hisoutensoku and trying to 1CC SA. My brother is likewise cool and one friend used to be as completely obsessed as I am. :3
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 05, 2011, 10:12:18 PM
Find them and kiss them.

I may have not been with my girlfriend at the time, but I'm sure she wouldn't enjoy that idea :V

She, might I add, is actually getting less hatred out of Touhou.
She likes the characters, music, and the endless fan material. (Marisa Stole the Precious Thing x Death Note, for one)

She just hates playing them :D
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: HakureiSM on October 06, 2011, 04:13:56 AM
My Japanese teacher is much cooler though, I brought it to show her and we ended up having an epic match to the death on Hisoutensoku and trying to 1CC SA. My brother is likewise cool and one friend used to be as completely obsessed as I am. :3
Wish I ever had a teacher like that :|
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: jaxter0987 on October 06, 2011, 04:43:46 AM
My Japanese teacher is much cooler though, I brought it to show her and we ended up having an epic match to the death on Hisoutensoku and trying to 1CC SA. My brother is likewise cool and one friend used to be as completely obsessed as I am. :3
one friend used to be as completely obsessed as I am.
one friend USED to be as completely obsessed as I am.

Find that friend and make him/ her obsessed again!!! >= P

Wish I ever had a teacher like that :|

Same here.  :V
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Skyler on October 07, 2011, 05:59:13 PM
Not completely related, but it's still to do with friends and Touhou:

Me: So I want to get another Touhou game, but I can't decide between Imperishable Night and-
Friend: Imperishable Night.
Me: ...or Subterranean Animism.
Friend: GOD DARN IT why did you have to say that one now I can't decide.

We decided on SA in the end.   
Also I really want to show Touhou to my brother but I doubt he'll like it. He seems to like the themes I play on the piano though.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Ex-Nue on October 07, 2011, 10:39:22 PM
My friends get pissed when I play Touhou.... and they call me crazy for playing it.  :/

Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: draganuv15 on October 08, 2011, 09:20:21 PM
Unless you play Black Ops at my school no one is remotley interested in what you do in your freetime...
that and go out and get drunk -.-

Someone once saw play it at break once and he kept annoying me about (although he does have ADHD so I can't really blame him but he annoys the hell out of everyone ??)
and then he said, and I quote

''This shit's easy'' Perfect Cherry Blossom, Hard Mode.
Me: Fine then you try it.
Him: Nah, looks boring as hell.

Everyone else is usually like ''dhur not black ops you suck herp derp''
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Vyrien on October 09, 2011, 01:04:39 AM
Find that friend and make him/ her obsessed again!!! >= P

You have no idea how hard I'm trying. I want to nerd about it with someone other than you guys :V
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 09, 2011, 01:07:36 AM
My girlfriend has agreed to make a Reimu outfit for my little sister who is eight for Halloween :V

best people
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: CS on October 09, 2011, 09:37:37 AM
Quote
My girlfriend has agreed to make a Reimu outfit for my little sister who is eight for Halloween :V

best people
Aww, I bet she'll be adorable
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: shurcle on October 09, 2011, 05:18:37 PM
''This shit's easy'' Perfect Cherry Blossom, Hard Mode.
Me: Fine then you try it.
Him: Nah, looks boring as hell.
It's funny, that's the excuse people use for black ops.
Just replace PCB with black ops.

Maybe your school's black ops population is just a lot bigger.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: VIVItheFujoshi on October 09, 2011, 08:39:44 PM
My little brother (18) :
-*stare* *stare* ...what game is this? "Mystical Chain" i said. moments after, he began to search it in you tube. he liked the game.
-*stare* can help you? -began to play with each one of the characters of  IaMP- he is a gamer and very good in that, im bad in games except rpg?s. but is very bad in danmaku games (except Darius) , he even can?t do the things who i do, and im suck in Touhou...
mom
-ah, you play again that japanese game? that is better...to see you bored (mom, meanwhile i was playing Subterranean Animism)
-oh...how pretty!(Reimu) and this one too(Yukari)...but this not, have horns(EX Keine)...she is a bat?(Remilia) oh she looks like a spider!(Flandre)...all are cute...you will do more?(some comments about my chibi mini touhou papercrafts)
and mom helped me to do my Marisa costume and my Kourin doll. She teach me to do pattern clothes.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: I have no name on October 10, 2011, 03:38:07 AM
I'm playing Guitar Hero with a friend, and they show me a custom they have of the McRoll.  They had no idea what it originated from, so I told them.  We went back to playing.

A couple weeks later, I show him the back half of EoSD extra (to show him exactly what it originated from), and he thought the worst one was Flandre's final nonspell because it was "active dodging, not just you move when you need to".  I showed him Remilia on lunatic (because he asked who the final boss was, if not Flandre), then a few of the more visually impressive spells, before showing him something more managable (PCB stage 1 normal).  He seems interested in it, as he clicked on an IN extra video (and thought Fujiyama Volcano was impossible  :V).
Then his roommate walks in and says "Oh, is that Touhou?  Isn't that an anime?"
Naturally I said it wasn't. (and was surprisingly annoyed be it...)

Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: ふとくていなねこじょおう on October 11, 2011, 04:43:09 AM
So I'm getting my gaming friends into Touhou. Amongst the reactions to UFO are:

"You're probably good at threading needles."
"Actually, I am.  :3"

"Too many sparkles!"

"HAHA! BROFISTS!"

"Wtf, no wonder you say she's like May! (Guilty Guear. I was playing against Murasa)"

"Oh shit, those lazers." (Shou laz0rs)

They prefer the fighters, though, because it's a bit less froreign to them.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Gandalph on October 11, 2011, 12:10:29 PM
In my case, the first reaction to something Touhou-related is usually when people see me in a costume, since I play the games themselves rarely to never, and I'm much more likely to play DotA or its derivatives with my friends than Tohuou-based games.

Reactions have included:

"Holy $&!#, you look good!"
"So that's what you were working on for the last two weeks."
"Are you supposed to be some 18th-century douchebag?" (This one is my favorite).
"You look like such a fag."

The next round of reactions will be when I go to the halloween party at my new job. We'll see what the people have to say there.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: DX7.EP on October 11, 2011, 12:59:56 PM
"Wtf, no wonder you say she's like May! (Guilty Guear. I was playing against Murasa)"
:getdown: :getdown: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZDlNh4aMSM)

Quote
They prefer the fighters, though, because it's a bit less froreign to them.
Not surprised about that much, considering what seems to be a GG/BB circle of friends you've got there. :V
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Ex-Nue on October 13, 2011, 08:40:52 AM
Me: *Playing UFO Lunatic

Mom: *Stop and stares at me.

Me: *Pause game and stares back. "what?"

Mom: ..........I think I dropped you twice as a child.

Me: .... :(
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Yukarin on October 13, 2011, 10:04:38 AM
I encountered this one guy who was using his netbook on uni. He had his hands on the arrow keys and the usual ZXC+ shift. Curious, I went in.

Would you look at that, he was playing IN and was trying to capture Wriggle's last word. I gave him a few tips (MOVE VERTICALLY ASSHAT) and he captured it in like 10 tries.

Forgot his name though.

Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: jaxter0987 on October 14, 2011, 07:53:46 AM
Me: *Playing UFO Lunatic

Mom: *Stop and stares at me.

Me: *Pause game and stares back. "what?"

Mom: ..........I think I dropped you twice as a child.

Me: .... :(

Thats..... :ohdear:

In other news, I've been forcing my friend to listen to some Touhou music and he seems to be liking it. I'm getting around to actually making him play the games. Though he thought the music came from Final Fantasy when he first heard it... :V
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Angelfire on October 14, 2011, 11:10:41 AM
Me: *Playing UFO Lunatic

Mom: *Stop and stares at me.

Me: *Pause game and stares back. "what?"

Mom: ..........I think I dropped you twice as a child.

Me: .... :(

 :colonveeplusalpha:

Unless 'dropped as a child' is a good thing now for some reason.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Marin The Magus on October 15, 2011, 04:58:37 AM
*drawing touhou stuff* 
Lol r u a lesbo?
>_> G'dammit people....
Though, when I showed my friends touhou music, a lot of different reactions came out. Some people said stuff like "This is actually pretty good music...But all of this is too flashy" , and some, on the other hand, said things like "OMG WHAT'S THAT IS THAT CHINEEEEEESE?!"
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: jaxter0987 on October 15, 2011, 07:03:42 AM
"OMG WHAT'S THAT IS THAT CHINEEEEEESE?!"

It happens all too often.  :derp:
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: ChocolateLily on October 15, 2011, 12:18:11 PM
Friend watching ASDF: "I like trains. -WOOM-"
Me: Haha so does Yukari Yakumo.
Friend: WTF is that?
Me: Here, let me show you... -shows Yukari video-
Friend: What's happening!?
Me: Look at that person over there (points to Reimu)
Friend: Is she dodging all those bullets!?!?!?
Me: Yup.
Friend: FOR REAL!???
Me: Yup.

(Friend plays Ten Desires)
Me: Do you like the music?
Friend: Too Asian...
...
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: ふとくていなねこじょおう on October 15, 2011, 01:06:51 PM
Me: *Playing UFO Lunatic

Mom: *Stop and stares at me.

Me: *Pause game and stares back. "what?"

Mom: ..........I think I dropped you twice as a child.

Me: .... :(

Well shit.  :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: SuperParadox on October 17, 2011, 03:45:50 AM
Sometimes when friends ask what games i play I'd show them touhou.
Their Reactions:
-How do you play this?
-What the hell?
-Why do you play this?
-Oh...
-How do you dodge that stuff?
-THATS SO COOL!!!!11!1

I even got one crazy shall a say "Weeaboo type" friend to over react about the game. Now long story short, shes someone who doesn't like when someone can do something better than her such as play harder video games ... All though Touhou isn't that hard at times. She proceeded to say that the game looked stupid and easy and such. I told her to give it a try then and she made excuses not to.
She was an avid vocaloid fan so i told her that the popular song "BadApple!!" Originated from the older Touhou games and was infact not a original vocaloid song. She denyed it. So i showed her the original. She then proceeded to say that vocaloid came before touhou. Yep. So i just kinda gave up at that point. Haha yet I think she does have plans to cosplay Reimu, I don't know why though. It would seem she hated the touhou series.

Ah well, i don't know why I wasted time typing that up.  :wikipedia: Just thought it was a nice story to tell. Not that I'm one of those people who act all ' ARG YOU HATE A GAME I LIKE?! YOU MUST BURN IN HELL' I constantly make fun of touhou. Shes just.... one of those people. I do hope she dosen't come to this site anytime soon haha.

I did convert a friend though. Although, she isint any good at Touhou shes more into the music and fanart ...
You usually have better chances converting a guy into touhou. Most of the times they are the ones saying it looks pretty cool.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: SleepingTerror on October 17, 2011, 03:51:18 AM
My friends said Touhou is stupid and dumb. It made me pissed, considering all they talk about is bands and Andy Sixx and stuff.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Drake on October 17, 2011, 03:52:51 AM
She was an avid vocaloid fan so i told her that the popular song "BadApple!!" Originated from the older Touhou games and was infact not a original vocaloid song.
bad apple isn't even sung by a vocaloid what the shit


My friends said Touhou is stupid and dumb. It made me pissed, considering all they talk about is bands and Andy Sixx and stuff.
hook line and sinker you dummy
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: SuperParadox on October 17, 2011, 03:57:11 AM
bad apple isn't even sung by a vocaloid what the shit

Thats what i'm trying to tell her.

It seems some vocaloid fans think that BadApple was sung by vocaloids frist. I don't even know why they like that song so much.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Marin The Magus on October 17, 2011, 03:57:24 AM
Sometimes when friends ask what games i play I'd show them touhou.
Their Reactions:
-How do you play this?
-What the hell?
-Why do you play this?
-Oh...
-How do you dodge that stuff?
-THATS SO COOL!!!!11!1

I even got one crazy shall a say "Weeaboo type" friend to over react about the game. Now long story short, shes someone who doesn't like when someone can do something better than her such as play harder video games ... All though Touhou isn't that hard at times. She proceeded to say that the game looked stupid and easy and such. I told her to give it a try then and she made excuses not to.
She was an avid vocaloid fan so i told her that the popular song "BadApple!!" Originated from the older Touhou games and was infact not a original vocaloid song. She denyed it. So i showed her the original. She then proceeded to say that vocaloid came before touhou. Yep. So i just kinda gave up at that point. Haha yet I think she does have plans to cosplay Reimu, I don't know why though. It would seem she hated the touhou series.

Ah well, i don't know why I wasted time typing that up.  :wikipedia: Just thought it was a nice story to tell. Not that I'm one of those people who act all ' ARG YOU HATE A GAME I LIKE?! YOU MUST BURN IN HELL' I constantly make fun of touhou. Shes just.... one of those people. I do hope she dosen't come to this site anytime soon haha.

I did convert a friend though. Although, she isint any good at Touhou shes more into the music and fanart ...
You usually have better chances converting a guy into touhou. Most of the times they are the ones saying it looks pretty cool.

Well, if you had actually hit that girl, I wouldn't even be surprised >_> Those people, they think they know about anime and such just because they've seen or heard half a conversation >_> i'm okay if she doesn't like touhou, but I seriously hate it when people don't aknowledge that touhou, despite being a doujin game, is a great game that has made a huge impact in the animeverse (despite not being even anime) and gameverse >_>
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Drake on October 17, 2011, 04:17:37 AM
it should really be pretty easy to prove her wrong though
Lotus Land Story: 1998
First Vocaloids: 2004
Bad Apple feat. nomico: Lovelight by Alstroemeria Records; May 20, 2007
Hatsune Miku: August 31, 2007
PV Storyboard: nm3601701; June 2008
Shadow Art PV: sm8628149; October 2009
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: SuperParadox on October 17, 2011, 04:27:32 AM
Well, if you had actually hit that girl, I wouldn't even be surprised >_> Those people, they think they know about anime and such just because they've seen or heard half a conversation >_> i'm okay if she doesn't like touhou, but I seriously hate it when people don't aknowledge that touhou, despite being a doujin game, is a great game that has made a huge impact in the animeverse (despite not being even anime) and gameverse >_>

She's one of those people who think thier always right...Also she can't take it when someone dosen't like what she likes, I told her that I wasin't a big fan of Tales of Symhonya and she freaked and then attempted to punch me...(For some reason all weebs think they can kill a person)

Ahh back to Touhou reactions, I just never show people Touhou anymore. In fear of them being a weeaboo, a idiot, or something like... a touhou weeb... y'know those type of touhou fans...

it should really be pretty easy to prove her wrong though
Lotus Land Story: 1998
First Vocaloids: 2004
Bad Apple feat. nomico: Lovelight by Alstroemeria Records; May 20, 2007
Hatsune Miku: August 31, 2007
PV Storyboard: nm3601701; June 2008
Shadow Art PV: sm8628149; October 2009

I did, went on wiki, showed her the dates. She still dosen't beleive me. She denys that touhou came frist. I shit you not, shes serious too.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: pineyappled on October 17, 2011, 04:51:25 AM
Give up. If she brings it up again, drop the topic. Some people are just not willing to admit that they're wrong.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: SuperParadox on October 17, 2011, 05:09:26 AM
She is really annoying at times. I do try to keep her out of Touhou now, (I still don't understand why she'd want to cosplay someone from a game she dosen't like but okay.)  It is hard to keep her from shutting up though. I'd sometimes be listening to touhou music on my headphones in our computer class and she would say "OH LISTENING TO TOUHOU AGAIN?! YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THIS!" and then proceed to take over my computer and change it to say... one of her songs.

(Also sorry for going a bit off topic with this...)  :ohdear:
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: psyfaqs111 on October 17, 2011, 05:24:43 AM
vocaloid fans will be vocaloid fans. let her be, you'd never win. (talking from experience)

anyways since im at a boarding school, my room mate keeps telling me i should stop playing that "stupid game"and get out of my room.
Its a sunday, what's up with him? im not bothering anyone with it, i even wear earphones to hear the music which he calls "lame".
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Angelfire on October 17, 2011, 11:17:05 AM
She is really annoying at times. I do try to keep her out of Touhou now, (I still don't understand why she'd want to cosplay someone from a game she dosen't like but okay.)  It is hard to keep her from shutting up though. I'd sometimes be listening to touhou music on my headphones in our computer class and she would say "OH LISTENING TO TOUHOU AGAIN?! YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THIS!" and then proceed to take over my computer and change it to say... one of her songs.

Burn the heretic. Now.

Nobody should have the power to change you out of Demetori.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Marin The Magus on October 17, 2011, 05:48:07 PM
vocaloid fans will be vocaloid fans. let her be, you'd never win. (talking from experience)
Well, not all vocaloid fans are weabos. Most of 'em are, though.
Anyway, when I converted my friend, I had asked her if she liked yuri. She was an otaku, but it's *Extremely rare* for a latin otaku to know anything more than what naruto is. (The other day I heard "when it's uke x uke it's called yuri" >_> Damn you narutards...) 
So, well, convo was like this
"So, eh, do you like yuri?"
"...Kinda"
"Em, em *trying not to look like a lesbian xD*, I do too, but when it's cute and all the shit"
"So do I!"
"Then you'll be tear-stained after this *shows her touhou doujinshi*"
She loved it a lot, actually. And then it was quite easy to convert her.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Infy♫ on October 17, 2011, 06:59:12 PM
Though, when I showed my friends touhou music, a lot of different reactions came out. Some people said stuff like "This is actually pretty good music...But all of this is too flashy" , and some, on the other hand, said things like "OMG WHAT'S THAT IS THAT CHINEEEEEESE?!"
this. so much.

I remember someone once laughingly told me about a guy who listened to "chinese metal". Since then, I hide my touhou obsession from anyone but those whom I trust. The rest isn't ready for it... yet.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: nintendonut888 on October 17, 2011, 07:02:39 PM
The other day when I was making my final effort to perfect Miko on lunatic, a guy in the campus library saw the screen and commented "that is awesome man."

Usually though people do nothing more than gaze at what I'm playing occasionally.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Marin The Magus on October 17, 2011, 07:41:55 PM
this. so much.

I remember someone once laughingly told me about a guy who listened to "chinese metal". Since then, I hide my touhou obsession from anyone but those whom I trust. The rest isn't ready for it... yet.
Well, once I *tried* showing some rock touhou music to my friends, and it ended up like this:
"...mary, what's this?"
"You just listen~ *places cellphone with music in the seat*"
"NO WAIT THIS IS CHINESE! *proceeds to snap the fuck out and throw my cellphone in the air*"
My cellphone wouldn't turn on after that. Yeah, some people tend to have a narrow view of the world =/  (don't ask me how they knew it was oriental music, it sounds just the fucking same)
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: shurcle on October 17, 2011, 09:36:27 PM
vocaloid fans will be vocaloid fans. let her be, you'd never win. (talking from experience)

anyways since im at a boarding school, my room mate keeps telling me i should stop playing that "stupid game"and get out of my room.
Its a sunday, what's up with him? im not bothering anyone with it, i even wear earphones to hear the music which he calls "lame".
A lot of the vocaloid fans I've seen recently can't tell it's vocaloid unless there are characters in their field of vision while the song is playing.

Another incident similar to this...
My friend got a free iphone so they put a bad apple video on it.
I took it over to my sister's friend and she asked "Is this vocaloid?"
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 18, 2011, 03:27:37 AM
"Shit dude that game is trippy"

>_>
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Angelfire on October 18, 2011, 11:32:34 AM
Well, once I *tried* showing some rock touhou music to my friends, and it ended up like this:
"...mary, what's this?"
"You just listen~ *places cellphone with music in the seat*"
"NO WAIT THIS IS CHINESE! *proceeds to snap the fuck out and throw my cellphone in the air*"
My cellphone wouldn't turn on after that. Yeah, some people tend to have a narrow view of the world =/  (don't ask me how they knew it was oriental music, it sounds just the fucking same)

>Chinese text
>Japanese text

Man, I can't even READ either and I still know the difference. Also, overreaction much?
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: DX7.EP on October 22, 2011, 04:10:38 AM
Random stranger while on the bus notices my Touhou wallpaper.
"My sister likes anim?. Is it from an anim??"
'No, not quite. It's from a game series.'

Then I try to play a bit of UFO but give up on it later since it's hard to concentrate on bus and I didn't know when to get off.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on October 22, 2011, 08:49:09 AM
Playing UFO Extra at a friend's house:
Friend 1: "Damn, that's hella hardcore man!
Friend 2: *distracts Beats by slapping his elbows*
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: linkhyrule5 on October 23, 2011, 03:23:36 AM
Depends on the friend. Some of them are "Holy *beep*, you can dodge that?"

The rest... well, the first card they saw was "Deathless "Xu Fu's Dimension"". Which, of course, looks like a swastika if you've never heard of a manji. So now they call Touhou characters "Nazi lolis."  ::)
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: shurcle on October 23, 2011, 04:42:40 AM
>Chinese text
>Japanese text

Man, I can't even READ either and I still know the difference. Also, overreaction much?
Most of the time you can't tell the difference unless you look for very specific differences like the abnormal amount of "の" I tend to see in song titles.

I haven't tried showing my friends east music yet, I don't want to end up looking like I know shit about music.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Marin The Magus on October 23, 2011, 04:46:23 AM
Most of the time you can't tell the difference unless you look for very specific differences like the abnormal amount of "の" I tend to see in song titles.

I haven't tried showing my friends east music yet, I don't want to end up looking like I know shit about music.
japanese sentences have hiragana/katakana, two japanese alphabets, so to speak,  which consist of really simple characters. Chinese sentences don't. It's unlikely that somebody confuses them unless it's a really short sentence.
Then again, how would they know  :V
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: shurcle on October 23, 2011, 04:54:32 AM
japanese sentences have hiragana/katakana, two japanese alphabets, so to speak,  which consist of really simple characters. Chinese sentences don't. It's unlikely that somebody confuses them unless it's a really short sentence.
Then again, how would they know  :V
I'm sorry, I assumed these song names were mostly kanji with little to no hiragana/katakana.
Even then, hiragana is basically chinese characters extremely simplified. Unlikely they'd tell the difference unless you're decently literate or at least somewhat familiar with either languages from various google searches.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: steamcat on October 24, 2011, 02:50:58 AM
Being one of three people at my school who even grasp Anime at all when ppl see it they don't even know what is happening. My friends think it is stupid and for pervs. 0///0 maybe a little. But anyway I'm not that public with my love for it. My friends always ask the stupidest questions like Why does that red girl wanna stop that pink person(yuyuko) because of a stupid tree. Rabbits from the moon? WTFudge. Also ppl think I'm into yu-gi-oh or what ever. I like anime and manga but yu gi oh is just pure potty.(lol) Trying not to curse here
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on October 24, 2011, 03:13:16 AM
don't worry it's totally alright to curse here

Also, people who ask the stupidest questions over and over are obviously plain stupid. Take Yuyuko and the Saigyou Ayakashi. You've told them it's because the Saigyou Ayakashi did blah blah blah how many times?
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Aya Squawkermaru on October 24, 2011, 03:19:58 AM
Though you've got to admit, "just pure potty" is one of the best insults in the history of everything. It combines creativity and alliteration in a humorous way that still conveys the gravity of the insult. Well played, sir. Well played. :justasplanned:

Most of my friends don't really pay attention to my playing Touhou. They watch for a bit, then go back to their regular conversations. Not that I play Touhou in public often (don't like bringing my laptop everywhere) but still.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: shurcle on October 24, 2011, 03:34:15 AM
Though you've got to admit, "just pure potty" is one of the best insults in the history of everything. It combines creativity and alliteration in a humorous way that still conveys the gravity of the insult. Well played, sir. Well played. :justasplanned:

Most of my friends don't really pay attention to my playing Touhou. They watch for a bit, then go back to their regular conversations. Not that I play Touhou in public often (don't like bringing my laptop everywhere) but still.

Back when I went to school roughly 1-2 hours before class starts, I used to play touhou on my friend's laptop a lot. Usually 12.5 or the ten desires demo. People would come watch for a bit and some would ask how that's possible. It's just mesmerizing sometimes. (when I'm not dying a lot on stage 1)
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: jaxter0987 on October 24, 2011, 07:17:52 AM
Depends on the friend. Some of them are "Holy *beep*, you can dodge that?"

The rest... well, the first card they saw was "Deathless "Xu Fu's Dimension"". Which, of course, looks like a swastika if you've never heard of a manji. So now they call Touhou characters "Nazi lolis."  ::)

 :( That just ain't right...
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Drake on October 24, 2011, 07:24:34 AM
if people you meet seriously think touhou is for perverts then either they've done their research or you talk too much

your move, internet
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: gammaraptor on October 24, 2011, 05:27:08 PM
Back when I went to school roughly 1-2 hours before class starts, I used to play touhou on my friend's laptop a lot. Usually 12.5 or the ten desires demo. People would come watch for a bit and some would ask how that's possible. It's just mesmerizing sometimes. (when I'm not dying a lot on stage 1)

Why that early to school? o.o"
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: shurcle on October 24, 2011, 05:29:06 PM
Why that early to school? o.o"
Crazy college professor fails anyone who is late eight times.
Can't risk it.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Adria on October 24, 2011, 06:29:59 PM
I ended up showing it to my boyfriend at the time, who always watched me play, I made him play it and he ended up being better than me at it and after that we spawned some horrible war between the two of us. We spent most of the time trying to knock each other off the high score list in the games and he kept picking on me when watching my replays in SWR.
Though I ended up showing him up when I beat the whole game.
*playing EoSD*
Him: *watches me zoom through Daiyousei's homing bullets* That's bullshit....
Me: Haaaa

My nephew and nieces watch me play it as well, I actually sat down with one of my nieces and taught her about the characters showing her pictures and telling her what they do.
After that every time she would see Chen she would yell at her to go away and would tell me to beat her up. She really liked Orin though...

Other than that I haven't really told anyone about Touhou because they don't care to much.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Skyler on October 24, 2011, 11:27:05 PM
I showed one of my friends PCB the other day. She said it looked cool but when I asked her if she wanted to try it out, she said "Nah, I'll die really badly."


I then went to her house a couple of days later and she turned on her computer. Her desktop background was of Youmu. I got really really excited for a moment until she told me she just put it there because she thought it looked cool, but she knew what I was talking about when I mentioned Touhou so that means it stuck in her mind. There may be hope for her yet...
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Ex-Nue on October 26, 2011, 02:48:11 AM
I just corrupted my 5 year old cousin.  :3

He wants me to bring me laptop over his house everyday so we can play UNL on the big screen.

Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: ふとくていなねこじょおう on October 26, 2011, 02:50:31 AM
I just corrupted my 5 year old cousin.  :3

He wants me to bring me laptop over his house everyday so we can play UNL on the big screen.

HNNNNNGGGGHHHH~

TOO ADORABLE~!
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Nekomata-chan on October 26, 2011, 11:33:28 AM
Me and my little cousin play Hisoutensoku on my laptop at the same time, crammed in on separate keys and usually ending up playing a Touhou version of Twister.
My little cousin always plays as Suwako "'cos she's cute and little and goes boiyoyoyoyoyoing~!" and I play as Utsuho, as she is the closest character to Orin in the game.
She tends to scream when I unleash Mega Flare or Giga Flare or even the C attack in which Utsuho fires some sort of triangle-y shaped ball of death with a black centre.
I have yet to teach her the basics of top-down shooters. Basic scenario of the first time.
Me: So, which difficulty do you think you're suited for? (Easy modo! Easy modo!)
Her: Hm... LUNATIC! I'mma lunatic, right? So it ought'a be easy for me, yeah?
Me: Mm.. sure. Totally, wouldn't doubt it. (You're so screwed.)
~In game~
Her: NO! NO!! DO SOMETHING, UWAA! I CAN'T DODGE THESE, AAAAH, WHAT DO I PRESS? HOLY MOTHER OF MUSHROOMS (haha~) THIS IS TOO HARD! I'LL GO ON EASY, NOOOOOO!
Me: Chill.
~Easy modo~
Her: Th-this is still too hard!! How do I shoot? What are those green things, how do I use them? AAH! Boss fight, no!! No, oh wait, here's the bomby. Wooooo! Bomb again!! Haha, die!! W-what?! I can't use anymore bombs?! HELP ME!!
Bear in mind... this was Imperishable Night. The easiest game IMO.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Angelfire on October 26, 2011, 11:40:29 AM
Me: So, which difficulty do you think you're suited for? (Easy modo! Easy modo!)
Her: Hm... LUNATIC! I'mma lunatic, right? So it ought'a be easy for me, yeah?
Me: Mm.. sure. Totally, wouldn't doubt it. (You're so screwed.)
~In game~
Her: NO! NO!! DO SOMETHING, UWAA! I CAN'T DODGE THESE, AAAAH, WHAT DO I PRESS? HOLY MOTHER OF MUSHROOMS (haha~) THIS IS TOO HARD! I'LL GO ON EASY, NOOOOOO!
Me: Chill.
~Easy modo~
Her: Th-this is still too hard!! How do I shoot? What are those green things, how do I use them? AAH! Boss fight, no!! No, oh wait, here's the bomby. Wooooo! Bomb again!! Haha, die!! W-what?! I can't use anymore bombs?! HELP ME!!

Oh God my sides.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: ふとくていなねこじょおう on October 27, 2011, 02:34:35 AM
Me and my little cousin play Hisoutensoku on my laptop at the same time, crammed in on separate keys and usually ending up playing a Touhou version of Twister.
My little cousin always plays as Suwako "'cos she's cute and little and goes boiyoyoyoyoyoing~!" and I play as Utsuho, as she is the closest character to Orin in the game.
She tends to scream when I unleash Mega Flare or Giga Flare or even the C attack in which Utsuho fires some sort of triangle-y shaped ball of death with a black centre.
I have yet to teach her the basics of top-down shooters. Basic scenario of the first time.
Me: So, which difficulty do you think you're suited for? (Easy modo! Easy modo!)
Her: Hm... LUNATIC! I'mma lunatic, right? So it ought'a be easy for me, yeah?
Me: Mm.. sure. Totally, wouldn't doubt it. (You're so screwed.)
~In game~
Her: NO! NO!! DO SOMETHING, UWAA! I CAN'T DODGE THESE, AAAAH, WHAT DO I PRESS? HOLY MOTHER OF MUSHROOMS (haha~) THIS IS TOO HARD! I'LL GO ON EASY, NOOOOOO!
Me: Chill.
~Easy modo~
Her: Th-this is still too hard!! How do I shoot? What are those green things, how do I use them? AAH! Boss fight, no!! No, oh wait, here's the bomby. Wooooo! Bomb again!! Haha, die!! W-what?! I can't use anymore bombs?! HELP ME!!
Bear in mind... this was Imperishable Night. The easiest game IMO.

This...is too fucking adorable.  :3
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Ritsuioko23 on October 27, 2011, 02:24:49 PM
"This ain't a shooting game this a game for weirdos"
"then go play your call of duty shithead... Those games suck."
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Drake on October 27, 2011, 04:39:32 PM
"This ain't a shooting game this a game for weirdos"
"then go play your call of duty shithead... Those games suck."
you're just as bad as him, you fool
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Jett on October 27, 2011, 05:26:36 PM
ME: *looking up Touhou fan pics*
Teacher: *sneaks up behind me*
ME: *scrolls down only to find a picture of Reimu, Yukari, Marisa, and Remilia in bikinis*
Teacher: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?
ME: *freaks out*
Friend who was sitting next to me: Pervert.
ME: *Dies inside*

All of this only this morning... -_-
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Drake on October 27, 2011, 10:21:42 PM
>at what is presumably high school library, looking up touhou pictures

why would you do this
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: shurcle on October 27, 2011, 10:39:22 PM
>at what is presumably high school library, looking up touhou pictures

why would you do this
I leave yukkuri pictures on the school library computers.

Mainly because I'm getting sick of people constantly changing the damn background and installing all this garbage.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Angelfire on October 28, 2011, 11:13:52 AM
ME: *looking up Touhou fan pics*
Teacher: *sneaks up behind me*
ME: *scrolls down only to find a picture of Reimu, Yukari, Marisa, and Remilia in bikinis*
Teacher: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?
ME: *freaks out*
Friend who was sitting next to me: Pervert.
ME: *Dies inside*

I accidentally an NSFW image on Danbooru yesterday (I had clicked a link to it after finding the recursion jar (http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/577901/3d-bad_id-cork-jar-recursion-zero_-artist-) on Danbooru for teh lulz).

Now I have a pass to the counselor's office.  :ohdear:
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: shurcle on October 30, 2011, 11:52:28 PM
My friend has been humming flandre's theme again.
Is this a good or bad sign.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Jett on November 01, 2011, 01:34:19 AM
My friend has been humming flandre's theme again.
Is this a good or bad sign.

Good.
Congratz in converting another Touhou fan.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Angelfire on November 02, 2011, 11:25:51 AM
My friend has been humming flandre's theme again.
Is this a good or bad sign.

Ask him where he heard it. Only way to be sure.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: shurcle on November 02, 2011, 05:30:41 PM
Ask him where he heard it. Only way to be sure.
I've played several arranges of it on piano/guitar when he visits my house.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Angelfire on November 03, 2011, 11:19:55 AM
I've played several arranges of it on piano/guitar when he visits my house.

You can PLAY U.N. Owen Was Her on the piano? I'm jealous.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Jett on November 03, 2011, 12:23:57 PM
I've played several arranges of it on piano/guitar when he visits my house.

0_0 You can play this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW2Czu58UbQ&feature=related)?

Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Yukarin on November 03, 2011, 01:38:55 PM
0_0 You can play this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW2Czu58UbQ&feature=related)?

I'm ashamed that people on youtube title this as "Death Waltz" when it clearly isn't.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on November 03, 2011, 03:44:48 PM
I'm ashamed that people on youtube title this as "Death Waltz" when it clearly isn't.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: ふとくていなねこじょおう on November 03, 2011, 08:25:20 PM
I'm ashamed that people on youtube title this as "Death Waltz" when it clearly isn't.

Thirded.
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Post by: I have no name on November 03, 2011, 10:11:10 PM
Thirded.

Fourthed, to the point where the related video titled "Death Waltz" I posted a comment mentioning that (actually, correcting someone who said that "Death Waltz" stole from the McRoll)
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: shurcle on November 03, 2011, 10:50:22 PM
0_0 You can play this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW2Czu58UbQ&feature=related)?


How did I expect this to come up again...
I found it a while ago and did some research.
Found the "original"(???) midi/pdf/whatever you wanna call em, but I haven't tried it yet.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Dorakyura on November 04, 2011, 04:02:41 PM
it's a few months old but well ^^

I just came to my friends house and he was playing Lost Viking in Starcraft 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzKss8G1Cz0&feature=related)... well he didn't do pretty well and was like "how the hell can I get the Gold Achievement in this".
I just asked him "need some help?" and finished that achievement in one try :V
He was like "wtf" and asked me why I can do this so easily. I showed him a video of PCB on youtube... He never asked again  :derp:
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: LeviLamprey on November 07, 2011, 01:53:52 PM
I live in Australia

That should tell you how much of a reaction I get

A country with about five Touhou fans

My mum, who despises games usually, likes the soundtracks and me playing the easier ones on flute, at least.
My Japan-loving friend Zofia refuses to play it.
WHYYYY
Also, the person with the cute cousin, SUWA IS THE BEST AND DON'T DENY IT
If she had a Soku Story Mode...
Oh my,,,,
*why are Cirno, China and Slutnae so bad?*
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Skyler on November 14, 2011, 12:53:00 AM
I showed it to one of my friends on YouTube. She said she thought it looked cool but sounded a bit bored.
Earlier I showed her a picture of Flandre with a creme caramel because we learnt that creme caramel is el flan in Spanish, I explained that to her and she burst out laughing.
Her exact words: "Flan is holding a flan today!"
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Post by: Aba Matindesu! on November 14, 2011, 12:07:35 PM
I'm ashamed that people on youtube title this as "Death Waltz" when it clearly isn't.
Fifth'd.

I was trying to get my Lit teacher to use any of the Touhou fanimes as presentations for the Japanese culture part of his lesson plan. He later used "I play Touhou" as a lie in a lie game.

I'm going to make sure it becomes truth. Stay tuned for his reaction!
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Frog on November 14, 2011, 05:42:14 PM
I live in Australia

That should tell you how much of a reaction I get

A country with about five Touhou fans

My mum, who despises games usually, likes the soundtracks and me playing the easier ones on flute, at least.
My Japan-loving friend Zofia refuses to play it.
WHYYYY
Also, the person with the cute cousin, SUWA IS THE BEST AND DON'T DENY IT
If she had a Soku Story Mode...
Oh my,,,,
*why are Cirno, China and Slutnae so bad?*

We Australian Touhou fans are out there, look harder!
And yeah, anyone outside my siblings just sees it as "more cartoon girls again".
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: ChocolateLily on November 15, 2011, 05:18:52 AM
I live in Australia

That should tell you how much of a reaction I get

A country with about five Touhou fans

My mum, who despises games usually, likes the soundtracks and me playing the easier ones on flute, at least.
My Japan-loving friend Zofia refuses to play it.
WHYYYY
Also, the person with the cute cousin, SUWA IS THE BEST AND DON'T DENY IT
If she had a Soku Story Mode...
Oh my,,,,
*why are Cirno, China and Slutnae so bad?*

I am also from Australia.

I only have one best friend who loves Touhou...

(Shows a friend a picture of Miko and Youmu)
Friend: Omg, is this ANOTHER anime you watch? -_-
Me: ... no, it's a game.
Friend: It's probably not popular anyway...
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: shurcle on November 15, 2011, 06:05:29 PM
I'm ashamed that people on youtube title this as "Death Waltz" when it clearly isn't.
I'm more ashamed that people actually think it's "Death Waltz".
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Piranha on November 16, 2011, 12:25:00 AM
Recently got my sister into Touhou.

Her reactions went from: "Oh, you're playing that again" or "Don't tell me about it, it's boring"
to
"Can I try, too?", "Who is that character?" and so on.

Now were watching flash videos and playing IaMP and SWR together. :3
She is also starting with IN.
>Achievement unlocked: New Touhou Fan Converted<
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: jaxter0987 on November 16, 2011, 02:29:31 AM
Now were watching flash videos and playing IaMP and SWR together. :3
She is also starting with IN.
>Achievement unlocked: New Touhou Fan Converted<

Achievements to be unlocked:
Perfect Math Class - Math is such a bothersome subject. There's got to be something to spice things up right?
Keine's eSport - If the whole school played Touhou, then...
Fantasy Game Night - Families getting tired of board games? Perhaps something more... electronic would suit them...
 
 :derp:

In other news, I've been trying to get my friend whose into League of Legends to play some Touhou. I haven't been successful, but perhaps if I showed him DotS, he might get hooked.
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Post by: Trickysticks on November 16, 2011, 05:50:34 AM
(random girl) :V: Do you watch anime?
(me) :3: Yes, and do you know what Touhou is?
:V: No, what is it?
:3: Well, blah blah blahblahblah. /show video(not of lunatic, since that tends to scare people.)
:V: Let me come play it dangit.


>Achievement unlocked: New Touhou Fan Converted<

Relatedly, in Geometry, the teacher gave us a word problem. Something like

Susie and Sally are trying to get out of the forest. They both point in the wrong direction. Susie's finger is off by 70 degrees, while Sally's is off by 110. Draw this.

Me: omgomgomgomgomgomg Reimu+Yukari IN eeeee.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: vctrz on November 16, 2011, 04:36:23 PM
They laugh at me because I'm so bad despite years of playing. ;_;

I convinced one friend to play IN on Hard. He managed to get a game over at stage 6 after a few hours of playing, then he got bored of the game and hasn't played Touhou ever since. He said the videos online make the game seem a lot harder than it really is.  None of my friends really care about Touhou.
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Luna Scarlet on November 16, 2011, 07:47:32 PM
I was searching for touhou pics when suddenly my friends came...
One said: "who, she (chibi patchy) looks really cute~"
The other said: "is that another anime?"

There you have it...
after that, they all liked touhou too, not really like-like....
just an average like...
Title: Re: When your friends sees you and your touhou....
Post by: Nitrosol on November 20, 2011, 11:34:11 AM
I've only ever managed to truly convert one person.
The rest think I'm weird when they realize that I'm a fan of something with only female characters.
Then they think I'm really weird when they see IN normal in english class.

One time I was playing Soku in class (My school gets NOTHING done with these laptops they gave us) and a friend said to play as "the hottest character".
I proceeded to choose Suwako.

In hindsight, that little joke probably didn't bolster my reputation.

Also, Jeez, there are more Australians here than I thought. We may be few, and we sure do suffer on the postage, but we're just as enthusiastic about touhou as any fan.
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Post by: Wisp on November 20, 2011, 03:35:34 PM
Few days ago, one friend of mine saw me playing TH13.
"Oh, look, it's that game! Can I try?"
>Sure.
"Yeah, I want hardcore!" *picks lunatic*
>Oh, dear.
"AHAHAHHAH I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!"
>You're supposed to kill those things!
"The fairies!?"
>Uh... Yeah... The fairies. Whatever.
*dead*