Probably obsessed with some other video game. I mean, I went through Sonic, Final Fantasy, Mega Man, Guilty Gear ... I'll be fixated on something else within another few years, most likely.
This seems rather realistic. I mean after all, off the clock people spend time with what they want to spend time with. For this reason, since everybody here pretty much made the choice to spend that time with a video game series to begin with, I don't see why anybody why anybody would think they'd spend time doing something else more productive instead. Would it really make any difference in the decision which game it was, so long as that game was fun?
Possibly but it's doubtful. The only way I really see one doing otherwise is if Touhou was just such a great game that it's more or less the only one they consider worth playing. I'm not sure if for many who that could be the case for if they'd even try it to begin with though, since they'd probably be predisposed to lump it under the "its a video game so it sucks like all the others" category. To me, the Touhou only ideology really does seem like more of an opinion that'd form in a diehard fan after the fact, as opposed to being their driving cause for picking the series for that reason, in which case Touhou must already be assumed.
As for me, most of the other sites I've joined seem to be Final Fantasy centric, so I'd probably be spending more time with that. I do have quite a taste for Mario though so maybe I'd have shifted more into that direction. The only thing I could say for certain is that there'd probably a much larger void in my hard drive than there is now, since I'd first found out about the series mostly due to the fan community's artistic abilities. The quality fanart ratio seems to be much worse for other series. Perhaps if Touhou didn't exist at all the great artists involved would've spent their time with another series or perhaps even working professionally on something original, which very well could've influenced what I'd be into instead at this very moment. Contrary to the prior paragraph above, I suppose this is a rather realistic way that one could be doing something entirely different. Although in the end for most cases the difference would still probably be quite minimal, as obsession for one series
Now where would I be without video games in general? Now that I find an interesting question, although it's also one that's probably best left to the heavens to decide. You see, they'd entered my life at such a decisive stage in my life, that I could theoretically be an entirely different type of person without their influence. Things would likely be a lot more boring though in any case, as I certainly feel like I require something to keep my mind from atrophying. With that thought, I'd like to say perhaps I'd be a bit more like Sherlock Holmes, although that'd be mighty presumptuous of me to assume. Perhaps I'd be more artistically inclined? As I've mentioned above, I got into Touhou due to the impressive the art the community generated after-all and I'd have had more time to develop that. Nah, I can't really keep a steady enough hand for that. Possibly authoring stuff, since I like to write posts on the internet quite a lot, although that's mostly due to the fact that so few of my live friends don't share so many of my
video game and anime related interests. So, I dunno really.