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| Shintoism |
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59 | 9.58% |
| Buddhism |
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77 | 12.50% |
| Taoism |
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66 | 10.71% |
| FEAR CLOWNPIECE |
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414 | 67.21% |
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Hey, maybe they accidentally fixed it again only to patch it out in a future update, you can never know with TasoFro.
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Oct 12, 2013 02:05
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Just ran the game with the new update. The new moves are not that game changing, but they're pretty nice. I still wonder how much of the game isn't actually done or if they have more plans. At the very least, we get to have surfing chickens and Buddhist Speedy Gonzales.  And a really stoned looking Unzan.
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Oct 12, 2013 16:57
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Helicopter Nitori looks quite doofy. They're all quite cute.
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Oct 12, 2013 21:34
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Grumpy white fox Reimu is the best.
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Oct 13, 2013 13:29
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So what's the actual context for those?
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Oct 13, 2013 14:25
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Pureauthor posted:Grumpy white fox Reimu is the best. She actually looks kind of like a kuda-gitsune, and I'm wondering if that was an intentional nodback to WaHH or just an artistic coincidence.
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Oct 13, 2013 14:27
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Pureauthor posted:Grumpy white fox Reimu is the best. I'm split between cat Koishi and turtle Nitori.
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Oct 13, 2013 14:43
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KataraniSword posted:She actually looks kind of like a kuda-gitsune, and I'm wondering if that was an intentional nodback to WaHH or just an artistic coincidence. A fox used by magicians to acquire wealth. However, the mounting costs of keeping the animal inevitably drive the magician to poverty. Is it a reference? Possibly. 
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Oct 13, 2013 15:01
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ProfessorProf posted:So what's the actual context for those? Mamizou's new spellcard transforms her opponent into a helpless animal. That's why there's a picture of her laughing at her opponent included in the bunch.
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Oct 13, 2013 15:24
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Miko as a horned owl is the coolest. Owls are the coolest.
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Oct 13, 2013 18:12
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My mind's being moderately blown right now, and I'd like some internet help to work through it. This is Nitori's sigil from The Grimoire of Marisa, published July 2009:  And this an article about Darfur in the June 2007 newsletter of the San Francisco Psychological Association:  closeup of the SFPA design:  So is this some pre-existing design that ZUN re-used? I thought he'd come up with it, since I'd never seen any similar design before. What is it? Where does it come from? Why can't Google or TinEye find any non-Touhou references?
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Oct 14, 2013 01:59
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Most of the symbols in that book seem like stock images. I'm sure he got it from somewhere. Touhou just happens to be way more popular than "somewhere".
Clarste fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Oct 14, 2013 |
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Oct 14, 2013 04:46
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Clarste posted:Most of the symbols in that book seem like stock images. I'm sure he got it from somewhere. Touhou just happens to be way more popular than than "somewhere". Really? I thought they all looked like they had a unified art style. At the very least they seemed to have been drawn by the same person.
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Oct 14, 2013 05:35
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Clarste posted:Most of the symbols in that book seem like stock images. I'll say. Sanae's is a Star of David.
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Oct 14, 2013 05:37
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Wait, did people really think ZUN drew any of those? You've seen his art before guys, come on.HellCopter posted:Really? I thought they all looked like they had a unified art style. At the very least they seemed to have been drawn by the same person. Kisume's is literally a black and white picture of a jar.
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Oct 14, 2013 05:56
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BlitzBlast posted:Kisume's is literally a black and white picture of a jar. And Chen's is a childish drawing of a cat. Other notables are Tenshi's picture of an angel and Eiki's scales. FractalSandwich posted:I'll say. Sanae's is a Star of David. Which is especially weird because in-game she uses pentagrams.
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Oct 14, 2013 06:50
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That's a funny joke to make, but in this case it's not actually a Star of David. It's an unrelated Shinto symbol which happens to look the same. And which I can't find much English literature on. Wikipedia calls it a "kagome crest", but googling that I mostly get poo poo about Inu Yaksha or whatever. 
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Oct 14, 2013 08:33
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Welp, I finally was about to hit 100 files in my latest collection but forgot that one of the files is actually a folder of albums that I didn't delete anything from. So the latest collection is extra large with 116 files. In making this latest collection, I deleted 700 other files, well over 4 gigs worth. Did you know that MIDIs badly converted into MP3s are ABSOLUTELY HUGE?(!?!??!??!) A bunch of 2-3 minute files were 10-12 megs each, and just terrible MIDIs in disguise. Glad I was able to just mow through those albums and clear out the space, at least. For whatever reason about ten artists in a row were nothing but MIDI artists. There's one issue though, Alluvion blew up at some point, so where can I host the collection torrents now?
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Oct 14, 2013 08:58
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FractalSandwich posted:That's a funny joke to make, but in this case it's not actually a Star of David. It's an unrelated Shinto symbol which happens to look the same. And which I can't find much English literature on. Wikipedia calls it a "kagome crest", but googling that I mostly get poo poo about Inu Yaksha or whatever. Sort of glad then that Zun hasn't yet hit upon using the Manji symbol, it probably means a great many things to ancient japan but flip it over and suddenly swastika.  fanart community would go nuts over that mind you. 
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Oct 14, 2013 12:06
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Aliginge posted:Sort of glad then that Zun hasn't yet hit upon using the Manji symbol, it probably means a great many things to ancient japan but flip it over and suddenly swastika. Um... Ran/Yukari's Manji spellcard would like a word with you. In fact, it even reverses itself as part of the pattern so there is literally a swastika spellcard in PCB. Or rather, two of them.
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Oct 14, 2013 12:44
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Aliginge posted:Sort of glad then that Zun hasn't yet hit upon using the Manji symbol, it probably means a great many things to ancient japan but flip it over and suddenly swastika. Eastern religion, actually; it's not just Japan it has meaning to. In fact, Buddhism and Hinduism use both the swastika and the sauwastika/reversed swastika as symbolic for different things, and amazingly, none of them have negative connotations. The idea of it representing solely the Nazi party and/or antisemitism is entirely a creation of the Western world. Schwarzwald posted:A fox used by magicians to acquire wealth. However, the mounting costs of keeping the animal inevitably drive the magician to poverty. There's a chapter of Wild and Horned Hermit where Reimu gets one from a non-named kitsune (read: not Ran) and exactly that happens, which is why I was wondering if it was a direct reference to that or more a general reference to the youkai in general. KataraniSword fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Oct 14, 2013 |
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Oct 14, 2013 12:45
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KataraniSword posted:There's a chapter of Wild and Horned Hermit where Reimu gets one from a non-named kitsune (read: not Ran) and exactly that happens, which is why I was wondering if it was a direct reference to that or more a general reference to the youkai in general. Foxes are considered messengers of the gods and associated with Shinto shrines in general. Of course there are also special fox shrines scattered about (one showed up in Forbidden Scrollery recently with the Listening Cap). I'd say it's a general reference.
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Oct 14, 2013 12:49
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Clarste posted:Um... Ran/Yukari's Manji spellcard would like a word with you. In fact, it even reverses itself as part of the pattern so there is literally a swastika spellcard in PCB. Or rather, two of them. Like I ever got that far in PCB. 
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Oct 14, 2013 12:49
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FractalSandwich posted:That's a funny joke to make, but in this case it's not actually a Star of David. It's an unrelated Shinto symbol which happens to look the same. And which I can't find much English literature on. Wikipedia calls it a "kagome crest", but googling that I mostly get poo poo about Inu Yaksha or whatever. Meanwhile Remilia has a spellcard literally called Star of David proving she's a Jewish vampire. She'd probably fit right in Tanz der Vampire. Hell, she'd probably love the musical, the vampires win in that one. Also the swastika sign is funnily enough the easiest spellcard in both Extra and Phantasm in PCB. That card still makes me kinda uncomfortable whenever I fire up PBC though.
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Oct 14, 2013 14:15
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Really? No one's brought up Suwako's clip art-ish symbol yet? 
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Oct 14, 2013 14:44
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BlitzBlast posted:Wait, did people really think ZUN drew any of those? You've seen his art before guys, come on.
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Oct 14, 2013 16:39
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We knew Marisa was a thief, we just never expected her to steal clip art.
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Oct 14, 2013 16:56
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KataraniSword posted:Eastern religion, actually; it's not just Japan it has meaning to. In fact, Buddhism and Hinduism use both the swastika and the sauwastika/reversed swastika as symbolic for different things, and amazingly, none of them have negative connotations. The idea of it representing solely the Nazi party and/or antisemitism is entirely a creation of the Western world. Isn't there a doujin where one of the touhous (Reimu?) puts up a reverse swastika, and her shrine is visited by skinheads?
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Oct 15, 2013 14:13
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FractalSandwich posted:I'll say. Sanae's is a Star of David. Mazel Tov! I knew she was Jewish!
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Oct 15, 2013 14:32
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WaHH chapter 18 finally finished and on the wiki. In which we see what Kasen was up to during Hopeless Masquerade.
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Oct 17, 2013 17:51
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  At least we got some half-assed reason why the Moriya Shrine didn't actively participate in Hopeless Masquerade, but I still think Kanako should've been playable. Leaving faith-gathering for the Shinto side entirely to Reimu seems like a spectacularly bad idea. Oh and Clarste, not to nag, but do you have any plans for the latest couple Forbidden Scrollery chapters? according to the wiki they've apparently been out for a while now.
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Oct 17, 2013 20:59
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a cartoon duck posted:Oh and Clarste, not to nag, but do you have any plans for the latest couple Forbidden Scrollery chapters? according to the wiki they've apparently been out for a while now. I plan to release them of course. One of them was mostly translated a long time ago but was delayed for the same reasons as this chapter of WaHH. The other, newer, one will hopefully get done faster. Honestly releasing them both at the same time seems like a good idea anyway since they cover a single two-part story, as always. Technically there's also another chapter of WaHH out now too. That's kind of what being 2 months behind will do.
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Oct 17, 2013 21:08
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Well, keep fighting the good fight, I do need my touhou fix every so often. Also,  Kappa are known to be friendly with humans. Is that supposed to come across as a bit of a double-intendre in Japanese too?
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Oct 17, 2013 21:24
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a cartoon duck posted:Kappa are known to be friendly with humans. Is that supposed to come across as a bit of a double-intendre in Japanese too? I never thought about it that way, but I don't see why it wouldn't. I would like to think that propositioning people for sex is a universal language. Incidentally, Bookie Kappa is my favorite minor character.
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Oct 17, 2013 23:44
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a cartoon duck posted:Well, keep fighting the good fight, I do need my touhou fix every so often. They violate people for mythical rear end-jewels. It's probably a double-entendre
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Oct 18, 2013 00:56
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So, anyone have a good tracker I can upload the latest music collection to since Alluvion's apparently dead? It's getting rather large.
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Oct 18, 2013 09:29
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Machikado-Mapoze has another classical album out  
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Oct 19, 2013 22:49
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TOO SCSI FOR MY CAT posted:http://mapoze.com/pub/soundpostman/ I'm a sucker for violin, and I'm loving the second track. Wait, did you say 'another'?
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Oct 19, 2013 22:51
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Kheldragar posted:I'm a sucker for violin, and I'm loving the second track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkeOhBoW2Ww TOO SCSI FOR MY CAT fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Oct 19, 2013 |
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Oct 19, 2013 22:54
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TOO SCSI FOR MY CAT posted:I posted about this album a You're getting your Central European dances mixed up I think. Polka is the one with a steady rhythm and the "oom-pah"s. This sounds more like a Czardas. </classical violin nerd>
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