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"Hilarious" Touhou article
Drake:
Nice grabbing everything off of /jp/ guys
But yeah, I rather like the intro thing. There's pretty much no bias and lets the reader interpret the series themselves.
Drake tangent time, I actually think I would rather Touhou not get too much more popular. It's not the kind of game that would be popular/mainstream or even get many people to play at all. What we would get instead would be even more generalizations and stereotypes than ever before, and terrible people that need to stay away from anything good. We have enough Walfas drones already. I mean, popularity would be nice in some aspects, but just seeing it as it is, it would be mostly a bad thing. Even though more people technically means more art, music, fanworks, projects, and more acknowledgment of the western fanbase, the terrible people come in droves more than people that would actually do stuff. The balance of power is already delicate enough as it is.
RainfallYoshi:
I kinda like how obscure Touhou is right now. I mean, I barely ran into Flandre's theme on Youtube before I got into Touhou, and I don't even remember how I ran into it.
As for the article, I like most of it. It's pretty quirky but it tells it how it is. Yes, we are a crazy bunch.
However, HOW DARE THAT COSPLAYER MAKE REIMU A WHORE.
Moerin:
--- Quote from: PriestYoshi on August 18, 2009, 11:06:40 PM ---However, HOW DARE THAT COSPLAYER MAKE REIMU A WHORE.
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Like she wasn't already. But that's why we love the little red-white~
Y'know, I kinda would like Touhou to become at least a little more mainstream than it is right now. I mean, for one thing it'd increase my chances of finding someone to talk about it with IRL (crazy idea, isn't it?)... But for some reason it just seems like one of those cult things that never gains mainstream success but makes up for this by having an incredibly loyal and devoted (and, um, completely batshit insane, but that's why I love you guys~) fanbase.
...Nice article, by the way.
helvetica:
--- Quote from: CAPTAIN MURASA MINADRAKE on August 18, 2009, 11:04:14 PM ---Drake tangent time, I actually think I would rather Touhou not get too much more popular. It's not the kind of game that would be popular/mainstream or even get many people to play at all. What we would get instead would be even more generalizations and stereotypes than ever before, and terrible people that need to stay away from anything good. We have enough Walfas drones already. I mean, popularity would be nice in some aspects, but just seeing it as it is, it would be mostly a bad thing. Even though more people technically means more art, music, fanworks, projects, and more acknowledgment of the western fanbase, the terrible people come in droves more than people that would actually do stuff. The balance of power is already delicate enough as it is.
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Indy fag syndrome. When you hate the thought of your fandom becoming popular and therefore making your love less indy.
G_gglypuff:
The article is good. I think the author could have chosen different pictures to show fan works, though. For example: IOSYS is just one of the musical groups, but not the easiest to listen too, and while he states that Megamari and SM(arisa)W feature Touhou characters, only Marisa and a fan made enemy appear.
But that was just nitpicking, for I approve the written content.