>Do we know what the term "tsundere" means?
>Yes. Marisa explained that fairly clearly to make sure that her teasing got through. Apparently it's a twisted form of romance popular among the fanboys, where one of the lovers acts cold, distant, or hostilely 'tsun' most of the time, to conceal the submissively affectionate 'dere' they don't want to admit to.
>Unfortunately, this also means that repeated denials of it have accomplished nothing, as they can be interpreted as fitting right into the model.
>To be honest, I'd rather chance going to Mystia's without the coupon, rather than spend all of our money on it. I vehemently disagree with what Kilgamayan's trying to do, but I am on the same page as far as not spending too much money.
>Unless lamprey is somehow nearly impossible to find now, you doubt that Mystia would have any reason to increase her prices substantially - it'd probably be much cheaper to just go and pay for the amount you eat, unless you somehow grow two extra stomachs. But that doesn't explain why an all-you-can-eat coupon would be so expensive... and why does it specify 'fourthmeal?'
> Read along with her. The last thing we need is another embarrassment we don't know is coming.
>Read the Meme article. It might help us find out what a Meme is.
"Get Down" or "Geddan" is a popular music-dance meme that started from a glitch in Goldeneye for the Nintendo 64, where people in the game spun around spasmodically in midair. (sm602860) The video was soon put to a short part of Hirose Kohmi's "Promise," a Japanese song from the outer world (sm689476), and the two were later combined into a hand-drawn dance video of futaba's beloved Mona dancing in much the same style (sm4946055), titled "☆GEDDAN☆" after the first two English words used.
This hand-animated version took off as a true meme, spawning dozens of imitations, both collections of live-action still shots and image animations. Naturally, works based on the Touhou crew were a significant part of this move, and a simplistically-drawn but well-made video of the kappa engineer Nitori Kawashiro (pictured, nm5374848) was among the most popular of the videos. Now everybody, Get Down!
>The article is accompanied by a
photo, that looks more like some sort of well-made painting than an actual person. Is that what Nitori looks like?
>You really don't understand much of this one. Video? Glitch? Nintendo? Goldeneye? Futaba? Mona? Live-action? And what are those meaningless numbers for?
>You've taken to defining 'meme' as 'stupid fanboy shit.' The article does little to dispel this perception, but at least it seems more benign than some of the stuff Marisa's sprung on you.
>"Cool!" Koishi says, after finishing the article herself, "Did they make one of me?"
>"I... don't remember seeing one..." Shomaru says, hesitantly.
>Koishi's face falls. "Aww..."
>"Wait." Reidman cuts in, "Wasn't there that one made by the guy who did Smooochireiden?"
>"Oh, yeah! That one! With Satori, right?"
>"Yeah."
>"Yaha! I'll have to see that one!" Koishi cries, grinning happily.
>Have a look at those academy and overpopulation articles, too.
>You rethink the wisdom of disregarding a few of the articles you passed over earlier, and flip over to the Village News segment to start reading there.
>"Whatcha reading now?" Koishi asks, peering down at the paper as you read.
The Scientific Studies Academy constructed along the route to the kappa domain has always been controversial, but advertisement fliers put up in town square Wednesday sparked new anger from many locals. The fliers were taken down shortly after their discovery around 5 PM, but emotions ran high both during and after the process.
"It's obscene." one of the villagers removing them fumed, when asked by our reporter, "To come back here and mock us after fleeing to the kappa to practice their heresies is inexcusable!"
Several of the village elders agreed, when asked later that evening. "It is bad enough that we allowed these heretics of science to spread their madness in the first place." Elder Yuzuki said, speaking for a number of the others, "If the kappa are mad enough to let those fanboys turn their backs on the gods and the truth, then they are free to destroy themselves. But to come here to lure our children into their insanity is completely unacceptable."
Others did not oppose the action as strongly. Elder Chouko had a much quieter position on the matter. "I still believe that the outworlders are right about it being better to allow even violently offensive and heretical ideas, to see what good can be made of them or to allow their believers to destroy themselves. We only demanded that the academy be built outside of the village - this is an insensitive action by them, but I do not believe it is necessary to give them much punishment beyond ensuring they never do it again."
Representatives of the Scientific Studies Academy were unavailable for comment when our reporter visited.
The recent influx of humans from outside of Gensokyo has led to many changes - some good, some bad. More importantly, a lot of those changes have had mixed effects: The popularity of people starring in the 'Touhou' series has led both to increased appreciation and comfort for many figures that do deserve it, but also many counts of slander or hostility to others, as well as mixed appreciation for that popularity and attention itself. Science, too, has had its share of problems, leading both to legitimate conflicts and useful inventions. But one issue only seems to receive positive attention: The rapidly increasing number of fanboy outworlders has often been touted as a great boon to Gensokyo, since regardless of their strength or sanity, the sheer number of them allows for enough people to hire them for menial tasks and lighten up the workloads of everyone in Gensokyo - the days of 14-hour farming shifts has, by all accounts, ended. However, the outer world itself shows some of the dangers of such high population: When there are so many people in the same place, especially with many having few skills, a new problem arises in the difficulty of being able to have appropriate work for all of them. While the help with menial tasks is generally appreciated, and there are great benefits to advancing new technologies to improve life for people, after a certain point it becomes difficult to create or find meaningful jobs for some of the population. These cast-offs, unable to find meaningful work out of laziness, lack of skills, or despair, often end up turning to either welfare or theft to survive, which can cause many problems for the working people that they survive off of. While the Myouren Temple's charity to all newcomers is appropriate and appreciated, its generosity is unlikely to be sustainable, and the actual formation of Kotohime's police department is a worrying sign. There is no easy solution to this problem, due to the moral quandaries involved and Yukari's insistence on not letting fanboys leave Gensokyo due to being a security risk, but it is important to openly take it into account before this counter-intuitive subtlety begins contributing to the same problems that the outer world is facing now.
- Midori Natsumi
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