Maidens of the Kaleidoscope
~Hakurei Shrine~ => Touhou Addict Recovery Center => Topic started by: チソウ タイゼン on October 21, 2010, 04:48:39 AM
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Relatives/friends that you have latched Touhou onto, unwittingly or not!
My sister is playing PCB as we speak. Being seven, she plays on Easy and openly voices her discontent regarding Alice :D
My other sister stares at the bullet patterns.
My dad has played. In short, it isn't his cup of tea.
My mother HAS NO TIME FOR YOUR JAPANESE GAME BULLSHIT CLEAN YOUR ROOM
And my girlfriend-
She says that she can get into the music ("It isn't bad!"), and the characters, but the gameplay itself gives her headaches :P
So, how about you?
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I've shown my brother some Youtube videos that depict gameplay.
That's it, really. My brother doesn't play, and I can rarely ever play. My brother hardly cares about the characters, too.
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Brother's played a few times. Refuses to play on Easy because Overdrive. One friend's played more often, I've gotten him to play some other STG too. Other friends know what it is but probably haven't played, I'm just the crazy asian kid.
Mom gets dizzy watching but she's a wimp.
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Brother's played a few times. Refuses to play on Easy because Overdrive.
Glad I'm not alone.
Also, my not-quite-sis and not-quite-bro are both fans. My old man loves the music, but hasn't played (and probably never will). Mom has been intrigued the handful of times she's seen it.
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I think my dad can recognize Lovestruck Tomboy from all the time I had to restart extra in PoFV. That's about it.
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Well, my parents don't actually like Touhou or stuff related to it, but my mom has once hummed part of Cirno's theme (today, even!).
My brother has been into Touhou since the days I spent watching replays of EoSD and PCB. Now he has TH10.5 and TH11. He does plan on getting himself TH06-TH08 and the TH12.x's. (EDIT: Just to note that he doesn't ever listen to the music. He says it's sorta distracting. I agree, actually. Many of my gameovers are due to me humming to the music :V)
Then there's me.
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Surprisingly, my mom loves it. She loves the music and the characters, and she thinks the spellcards are beautiful.
The rest of my family is pretty apathetic. I showed EoSD to my brother once, but he didn't really have much interest in it. He likes the arranges I've shown him, though.
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My parents have heard a few songs, though they didn't recognize it specifically as Touhou stuff. They thought it sounded good, though neither of them are really the types to give the series any more attention than they already do. And my brother has resisted all attempts at conversion so far.
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My lil bro played EoSD, he hates Rumia because he always game over at her midboss. Other times he listen (rarely) to Kaguya's theme arranges. My mom likes the music but hates Necrofantasia and etc. as it was "noise" to her. She isn't fond of trumpets anyways... Dad is meh about it. My friend got to play the fighting games (10.5) and 12.5. Anyone else "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU PLAYING THIS GAME?! ITS A BUNCH OF GIRLS!"
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Brother's played a few times. Refuses to play on Easy because Overdrive.
Glad I'm not alone.
This isn't a good thing. I can rant for ages on why I hate that flash (hell, just the one clip) and what it's done to fan mentality.
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My nephew used to play IN together with me, but he only was interested in beating the Last Words. Further, nobody in my family is a gamer that enjoys shmups. But that is ok. I will be the lonely one :V
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My little sister is playing UFO and left Cirno Shimeji on for a day just to see how many clones she had.
My dad said "I used to play Space Invaders for 3 days straight when I was at your age. I'm tired of those stuffs".
My mom said the IOSYS songs are annoying.
My roommate plays SWR, mostly arcade mode, and we had several matches. He plays Sakuya, I play Remilia, I always win.
My aunt said that my eyes won't last long.
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My brother, maybe 4 friends, and a few people online, but none of them are really obsessed like I am.
My parents are stickily out of the picture when it comes to touhou or anything Japanese.
They take every chance to bust my chops for liking politics, cartoons, anime, scifi, and video games.
Being into this all girl game would likely be having them confirming me for homosexual. Since they are always
asking me because I've never had a relationship and have a few gay friends.
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My mom said the IOSYS songs are annoying.
Really? I would have never guessed. Wow.
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I sat my dad down to play it once. The only words I remember are...
"I don't wanna be fucking cute."
Other than that, I pretty much keep Touhou to myself.
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My dad said "I used to play Space Invaders for 3 days straight when I was at your age. I'm tired of those stuffs".
Oldschool dad I see.
My mom said the IOSYS songs are annoying.
WHAT ?! HOW dares she !
She is completely right.
My aunt said that my eyes won't last long.
Eat lots of carrots!
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I've tried having friends play. Some come back after a round of easy mode and say that is a pretty entertaining game and others complain about the game being difficult even on Easy.
I've had my brother play and he have actually managed IN Normal and some of the other games on Easy + almost cleared IN Extra - made it to the Volcano.
Most people kinda gets discouraged from watching me play though. They think its 'cause i don't have a life that i'm so "freakishly good". No really, 30 minutes a day, some more when you feel like it, spread over 2 years will do that to you.
In general though, i find that most people in this country are quite hesitant to ever try something they don't know what is. Especially something that's not mainstream.
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im the only one who even knows about touhou in my family. i think.
when i visited my nephew i downloaded SA there and showed it to him, and the next time i see him he tells me about how awesome it was. but i think he forgot about it already
my parents only know touhou music. which i play for hours on my piano. daily. it's like getting brainwashed. only you dont notice it.
subliminal brainwashing...
[matsuri]Please keep in mind that any mentions of piracy are against the rules.[/matsuri]
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Hi.
(http://i54.tinypic.com/ic06k1.jpg)
This is my couin-in-law, who is 10, playing her favorite Touhou game, Shoot the Bullet. Her second favorite is UFO.
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My older sister was listening to Tsurupettan once, but that was a long time ago.
My mom knows of it, but when I showed her some of the places that SA can be bought from, she said they were all shady.
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I was once playing EoSD in lunatic, and my brother came and tried to win it. (of course, he lost in the first stage xD)
Then he saw me playing DS. He won a spellcard for me.
And he also tried to play GFW. Though, the gameplay ...>.<...
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I think the furthest I've gotten to introducing my family is telling one of my sisters about the similarities between Sakuya and Dio Brando, and naming my brother's Pokemon HeartGold rival "Cirno" when he asked for a name. (I don't know why I picked Cirno either. :V )
Other than that, I keep it to myself. Mainly because of what my dad would say.
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My mother HAS NO TIME FOR YOUR JAPANESE GAME BULLSHIT CLEAN YOUR ROOM
Pretty much the same here. She saw me playing PCB once and was like "WHY ARE YOU PLAYING THAT STUPID JAPANESE STUFF?!?!"
I won't even try introducing my dad. He's video-game impaired. ::)
I showed my cousin Imperishable Night and he got through all six stages.....on Easy......with several continues. I can tell he really liked the music (While fighting Eirin, he commented on the difficulty of the spell cards, stating that the "FRICKIN EPIC MUSIC doesn't help either" in dodging them :V), but now he refuses to play any Touhou game whatsoever every time I see him. I think I scarred him...... :3
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I've tried to get a few of my siblings to play PoFV with me, but that didn't really work out. My brother hates anything that has anything to do with the Japanese, and the majority of my siblings groan whenever we plug in a Touhou music CD in car rides (the loudest groaners have since got an ipod and listen to hip-hop instead of complaining). My teenage sister loves the music, and my older sister (urm, younger than me) will handle the music but only for a certain stretch of time. My mother likes the music and her favorite songs are Bad Apple!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtutLA63Cp8) and Double Scarlet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMPQWjb0rZo). I post remixes on Facebook almost every day, and she's usually the only one to comment on them.
Oh, and "baka baka" is a rather normal insult in my family. Half of them just say it because it sounds cool.
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Only my Cousin plays Touhou, she's better than me, but has lesser stamina because she's kinda sickly and because she's Patchy, so she become tired after the 4th stage and she gets a lot worse, and with the fighting games, she murders me in the first matches but she becomes worse and worse as time passes. Also, she can't play Fairy Wars properly because her hands are too small to use 4 buttons. (And mainly because on the Hungarian keyboards, there's an extra button between shift and Y(Z); it's only easy for me because I have large hands).
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I tried for a long while to get one of my sisters to play Touhou. Several problems quickly emerged.
One, she refused to play any character other than Sakuya, even when I told her that Sakuya was the hardest and most technical character in PCB.
Two, despite me telling her a bomb is better than a death, she never got the hang of panicbombing and died several times with 4 bombs in stock.
Three, and this is the really heartbreaking one - she could no-miss clear the first 3 stages, but Merlin absolutely demolished her every single time. Eventually she just got too annoyed with it and ragequit.
I have not tried with either of my other, less weeaboo sisters. :S
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My sister watches me play and likes some characters. I've showed it to random family members, they usually go "hmm okay" or "that's pretty".
Got a friend in school playing for a short time, he wasn't very determined though and gave up after two days :(
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My mom has heard me play but has never commented xD
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A friend of mine can't beat Aya in MOF- on Easy
He likes the music though
And to be fairly honest I'm surprised he managed that, considering most people think SA-Easy-St6 is the hardest furking thing ever
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considering most people think SA-Easy-St6 is the hardest furking thing ever
:blush: *raises her hand*
Well, I'm not ashamed of it! I have won EoSD in lunatic and that's enough for me to be proud of myself !
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I've shown a couple of friends touhou but thats as close as they've gotten to be 'involved'
My Brother has seen it but does'nt care about it
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This isn't a good thing. I can rant for ages on why I hate that flash (hell, just the one clip) and what it's done to fan mentality.
Not saying the flash is good (or the song, too... too 'busy' and 'random' for me, but that's another rant), only saying that because of a combination of stupid pride/suicidal overconfidence and that, I can't play on Easy.
Mainly the stupid pride/overconfidence bit.
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And that's what I'm commenting on. I couldn't care less whether or not someone liked the PV as a whole.
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I don't play on Easy because of it.
Well, I do, a bit, but I don't treasure wins or losses in it. For the most part, I'm doing it in PCB for spell card captures.
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Glad I'm not alone.
This isn't a good thing. I can rant for ages on why I hate that flash (hell, just the one clip) and what it's done to fan mentality.
You are definitely not alone on this. (http://pooshlmer.com/wakaba/res/480125.html#480158)
As for me, I should get my parents to try out Touhou. I've had some success with my schoolmates in high school and university, but while my parents have seen me play, I haven't gotten them to actually try it themselves. Hm.
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I'm 131, 138, 157 and 160. My original post was definitely wa[...]ay too heated though.
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I have a question about the easy mode mockery: without shame, how is it you're supposed to improve oneself?
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I have a question about the easy mode mockery: without shame, how is it you're supposed to improve oneself?
uhhh since when the fuck do you need shame for self improvement
that sounds majorly unhealthy to me
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Without shame, I simply don't feel any need to go back and improve on what I've done. I don't see why that would be unhealthy.
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It's psychologically unhealthy because you should have the drive to improve instilled upon you naturally. You should desire to do better because you want to do better, not because you failed. Over time, the kind of mindset you're taking can be very damaging.
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Okay, Flamenco, I can assume you play Easy because you probably wouldn't be saying that otherwise.
So you 1cc Easy on a game.
Then you 1cc it on a few more games.
Eventually you 1cc all the games you planned on 1ccing. You're awesome enough for Normal now.
Wait, now there's nobody making fun of you for playing Normal. Are you going to stop?
Wait, now there's nobody making fun of you for playing Hard. Are you going to stop?
Wait, there's nobody making fun of you for playing Lunatic. Are you going to stop?
Wait, now you're getting praised for playing Lunatic well. Are you going to stop?
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Uh, no. I'm not a complete pessimist. I know when I've done something I can personally be proud of, I know my limits.
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So where exactly is your border of "I improve by shame" and "I improve by accomplishments"? As far as I can see it's just Easy. In which case, why shouldn't you be proud of accomplishing anything on Easy, and/or why should you need shame in order to improve?
I mean even if you have a reason you did say "without shame, how is it you're supposed to improve oneself?"; it seems like you meant it as a general question instead of a personal one.
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For low level players such as myself, clearing the extra stage is the best you could hope for, right? so I guess that's when I should be satisfied with myself. I've already got access to a few of them. Just gotta 1cc the remaining games.
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I get the feeling this topic is derailing bad. :ohdear:
I sometimes try to lead my relatives into showing them the games after telling them about my cosplay (black feathered wings hanging in your room is a pretty decent conversation starter :V)
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I've been working on a "reset topic" animation for when topics derail.
More on this later.
I made my brother watch Lunatic mode Vs. Kaguya on YouTube, and he was in shock and awe.
And fear :ohdear:
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I made my brother watch Lunatic mode Vs. Kaguya on YouTube, and he was in shock and awe.
And fear :ohdear:
If I ever show anyone anything on lunatic, youtube or just me failing, I can almost hear their eyes glazing over the moment the first real pattern shows up ::)
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My 12-year-old sister got into EoSD at some point. I'm not sure when. Possibly after I showed her create.swf
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I've tried so hard to get my friends and family hooked on Touhou, but they refuse... sighh.. *WAILS*.
I thought for sure my brother at least would get into it because he's a total "Weeaboo" (Not really a Japanophile so much as anything Asian though). I mean he watches Naruto ffs, and he's over 30! He's a homophobic or something (he isn't really but.. seems to be for the case of Touhou), seems to think a game with so much femininity is lame. I told him it's not important and not really applicable, just like the fact that everyone in Call of Duty is a man. But he says "that's different".
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I introduced a friend into IaMP. He liked it, later i introduced him to some of the shooters. He liked them so much he asked me where to buy them :3 While playing SWR, a dude walking by asked about it, and i said it was this fighting game with only girls. After me pulling some cool aerials, he said "thats like dragonball z with chicks!" I had to stop myself from laughing. ^^;
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My cousin played IN for some weeks. Apparently, he was trying to capture Saiyouji Flawless Nirvana. I laughed at him.
But other than that, I'm the only one that plays Touhou in the family.
If this were friends though, I have 3 people that played Touhou.
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I showed my dad "Bad Apple!!"'s instrumental. He says "TRY THE VIOLIN PART."
My brother. "...A 9 year old made Touhou, so STFU and GTFO..." DD; Not a good thing!
Mom : "Cute~"
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Any friends I showed it too seem to have the "fuck it, too hard" mentality, unfortunately, except for one who only showed a passing interest...
My brothers both think it's kinda cool, and one occasionally screws around on Lunatic and EX on EoSD, but doesn't care about the characters/story/music or anything else really.
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I had my mom listen to some of the music. She likes Kaguya's theme xD
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As far as showing my friends...
80% of them have started calling me a pedophile. One of them already knew what it was. The last few couldn't care less about it.
Yeah, MotK is almost the only place I have for non-family Touhou discussion. It's depressing.
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My mom:
Loves the arrnages
Loves the characters
Is upset that Marisa is a lesbian
Thinks Sanae is cute <3
Is indifferent towards Touhou dakimakuras
Does not mind having figures
Appreciates the effort of Touhou artists including H artists.
But above all, she loves the music.
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My mom:
Loves the arrnages
Loves the characters
Is upset that Marisa is a lesbian
Thinks Sanae is cute <3
Is indifferent towards Touhou dakimakuras
Does not mind having figures
Appreciates the effort of Touhou artists including H artists.
But above all, she loves the music.
Coolest mom ever. Can we share? :V
I pretty much don't share Touhou with my family because I know none of them would be interested other than my cousin from out of state that has actually made a few Touhou songs on Little Big Planet.
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I liked to play a lot in high school, which naturally drew looks. Nothing more than that though. My sister likes to make fun of me for playing a "loli shooter," though she admits it's mostly so she has something to counter her yaoi fangirlism. :P My mom just knows it as "the game where I die a lot." :fail:
Also, this guy. (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2583[/url)
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I got my brother to play not one, but four rounds.
He tried Normal Stage 1, Normal Stage 6, and Easy Stage 5.
He likes it, and he thinks it's hard :D
And then he tried Lunatic Stage 1.
He got to Cold Sign Lingering Cold L and then died.
He watched me play Extra before all this though.
Where are you supposed to be watching?
-The area around that dot on your character, there.
Oh. I was looking at the whole screen and it was giving me a headache.
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What's up Baity? Aren't you glad I introduced you to Touhou?
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He watched me play Extra before all this though.
"Where are you supposed to be watching?
-The area around that dot on your character, there.
Oh. I was looking at the whole screen and it was giving me a headache."
(Newb non double-quoting)
Same heree. My mom knew I loved a game/stuff called Touhou, but after a while I found out she'd never really seen the gameplay. So just for fun I went to PCB/Extra Mode, expecting to die decently fast considering I don't usually focus well with others watching. I ended up getting past Ran's spellcard at the start where you move about a millimeter every second, then continued on doing spellcards I'd never even seen, doubling my highscore. (Did I mention it was exactly my 200th try?) Lucky me? o_O
Afterwords, she told me all the moving patterns were giving her a headache. :o Then there's that one video "Why Touhou should have a super-easy mode" or something... He died watching two giant fireballs on Easy and didn't notice a smaller bullet hit him.
So, I guess it's official then? The number one cause of failure in new players is them trying to watch the whole screen and not their character. =P
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What's up Baity? Aren't you glad I introduced you to Touhou?
:shhhh:
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The most I've ever told my mom about Touhou was this year's Cirno Day, when I tried to explain who she is and where the ⑨ thing came from. The only part she liked was when I showed her this thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAKVp_g9Go0).
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Uhhh. Watching your hitox instead of the screen is bad, not good. Granted watching the patterns aesthetically is bad, bur you want to view as much as you can handle while reading all the trajectories... Some microfiche cards make me focus on the dot though, sanae is a good example. Watching your dot on vowg or something is very bad though.
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Hmm... i wonder if i should upload that video of one of my friends facing off against Maniac Mode Larsa on Mushi Futari. Its not Touhou but the dude does know about Touhou. I have explained "the rules of the game to him". We decided that he needed to play a shmup.
Let's just say that he died. A lot. Maybe i should have him play Fairy Wars, remap the C button to A and refrain from telling him about freezing. :V
Where are you supposed to be watching?
Yeah. That's where you're supposed to say "I take in the enitre screen at a time!".
My mom just knows it as "the game where I die a lot." :fail:
I can totally relate to that. I have had times where my parents would tell me to calm down. :)
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I told him that so he wouldn't hurt his head.
I'm much smarter than he is and can handle looking at the barrage of pretty death tenfold what he can :smug:
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So in other words I'm much much smarter than he is and can handle looking at the barrage of pretty death hundredfold what he can.
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Copypaste from YKYAtTW:
At my friend's house, there's this wall-hanging thing that says "SPRING!"
When I'm over there, every time I see it I want to put a picture of Lily White above it.
One time I did tell him I knew something that would go perfectly above it, but I didn't elaborate further.
Also, this thread gave me an idea: How do you think ZUN's family feels about Touhou?
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So in other words I'm much much smarter than he is and can handle looking at the barrage of pretty death hundredfold what he can.
Yes.
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I once showed some of my replays to my mother and she was like: Ewww what is with those little balls floating around the screen? (the danmaku) And why don't you play something easier like Mario?
Haha, She didn't like the game, but she says the girls are cute. Specially Youmu and Reimu.
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That reminds me.
I drew Koishi's Rosharch in Danmaku and showed it to a friend and she's all
:/ What's with the balls?
:fail: Those are bullets. She shoots them at you.
:O I don't want to draw those balls.
>:( (Loudly) YOU DON'T HAVE TO DRAW HER BALLS
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My mom and sister =/= gamers
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Father: YOU'RE TOO OLD TO BE PLAYING GAMES (He's been telling me this since I was like 16)
Mother: Listen to what your father says
So basically even trying to show them Touhou means game over
As for the music, which I play on piano for hours everyday...
Mother: Sounds Japanese. (Me: yeah, it is)
Only theme she ever commented on that was nice was Greenwich in the Sky. (and it's technically not a theme as well)
Father: STOP PLAYING THAT PLAY ME MY 70'S POP NAO
Well I haven't told anything to my sister but I doubt she'd be into it. She isn't the gamer type after all..
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Father: Doesn't really know it exists, perhaps for the better.
Mother: "Auuuugh, I don't understand how you can play that, it makes my eyes hurt."
Brother a): *shrugs, continues playing WoW*
Brother b): Lurves the music, knows more than half of the cast by name, regularly plays 'soku with me when he is at home for once.
So yeah...
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Man how I'd wish I had a brother
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Man how I'd wish I had a brother
Ehhh... My brother refuses to try anything I suggest, but is always eager to try anything anybody else suggests, it's annoying.
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"Man I wish I had a brother, it would be awesome because they would listen to me and we would get along and he would share all my interests"
"Man I wish I had a younger loli sister for obvious reasons"
"Man I wish I had no other siblings because my siblings suck ass and I would be much better alone"
yeah way to skewed views on siblings guys
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"Man I wish I had a younger loli sister for obvious reasons"
Lol! I don't think anybody actually thought that, you're a bad bad man Drake.
"Man I wish I had no other siblings because my siblings suck ass and I would be much better alone"
Hey now, my bro has annoying habits but I don't wish I didn't have him >=P
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I'm exaggerating, but you get the picture.
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I'm exaggerating, but you get the picture.
Yes, the picture is you're a bad bad man!
Am I the only guy who can't get his sibling into Touhou simply because of the "they are all girls" factor? At least I think that's why he's stubborn about not trying it.
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My mother has said some character was cute when she saw me watching random pics, can't remember who though :/
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Lol! I don't think anybody actually thought that, you're a bad bad man Drake.
Uhmm... kinda guilty here. ::)
Yes.
Have you tried showing your friends videos from some of us cool bro's? I did that long time ago when i was playing Normal. I told my friend, "you think i'm good? Watch this guy!" and then link to one of Kefit's videos. Great fun. He was like "OMG, there is totally way too many bullets for the human brain to keep track of!"
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Have you tried showing your friends videos from some of us cool bro's? I did that long time ago when i was playing Normal. I told my friend, "you think i'm good? Watch this guy!" and then link to one of Kefit's videos. Great fun. He was like "OMG, there is totally way too many bullets for the human brain to keep track of!"
Yuuuuup.
I was playing Phantasm Stage (and sucking at it) today, so I pulled up a vid of a clear of it.
D:
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Doing that stuff is hard for me currently. I can only link to a few people better than me and because things are going on at such a high level they don't really see the difference of me doing a moderate job and Krim doing it flawlessly.
I can only show them videos of arcade games and they say it looks more managable because of less bullets. I keep trying to tell them that less bullets can be far more lethal if they are much faster but they won't listen. :)
But what i was talking about was that you should try showing your friends Jaimers' timeout of Scarlet Gensokyo. That spell is the embodiment of reading the entire screen at once. You will get slaugthered if you focus purely on your hitbox.
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My friend has PCB on his laptop, but only half the soundtrack(For MIDI/WAV, he has only one of them) to save space. I was playing Extra. I saw my way to Kokurri-sans Contract or w/e. I normally can't make it past a few seconds into Charming Seige. The entire room was watching, casue they liked the music(I was still on the stage portion), then came in Ran who got stomped. Capped everything but Contract, which wrecked me.
A case of "Came for the music, stayed for the win." I am now being dogged to get the PCB soundtrack so that I can copy it on Memory keys and CDs for them. Yay?
Moreso on topic: I got my Eldest brother to try out PCB. He can make it to St5 Mid-Boss Youmu, on Normal, without continues. And no, his name does not contain any part of Tenshi's name :V
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I'm the only Touhou player in my family. I've lured some friends
into it, but they're basically the only ones. Oh well.
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Lured. You make it sound like you were giving them drugs or something.
"Hey kids, wanna play a Japanese game?"
"Yeah!"
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Uhhh. Watching your hitox instead of the screen is bad, not good. Granted watching the patterns aesthetically is bad, bur you want to view as much as you can handle while reading all the trajectories... Some microfiche cards make me focus on the dot though, sanae is a good example. Watching your dot on vowg or something is very bad though.
I guess I was a little bit unclear. What I meant was.. Getting distracted by the pretty colors and patterns and not watching your hitbox at all. Yeah, that works better. >_>
I introduced another friend today. He actually -got- the game after calling Sanae's star patterns in a gameplay video satanic, told me he'd played it, then quit because it gave him a headache.
"You couldn't PAY me to play that game again!
Unless it was like 2 bucks."
Anyone have... :V
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As for luring
victims friends of my own into Touhou, I have so far introduced three good friends of mine to it. One plays EOSD (the only Touhou game she has at the moment) very sporadically. One absolutely loves the music and doujin stuff, but refuses to even attempt the game, as gameplay videos give her headaches, and (in her own words) "sucks at 'real-time' games" (she's into turn-based games a lot). One is into the music and seems fascinated by the expansive Touhou fanbase, but has decided not to start playing Touhou until summer, since she doesn't want to get "addicted" right now.
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He actually -got- the game after calling Sanae's star patterns in a gameplay video satanic, told me he'd played it, then quit because it gave him a headache.
wow what a pro he must be to have imported the game all the way from japan and quit it immediately after
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I let my younger brother play EoSD, but he quit playing when got lost all his lives to Cirno. He hasn't played since that moment.
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People saying they get headaches from playing Touhou seems to be a common theme.
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lost all his lives to Cirno.
:srsly:
What modo
My little sister could get all the way to the Voile Library on easy before ending
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I haven't done it with anyone. Nearly my entire family hates video games.;_;
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:srsly:
What modo
My little sister could get all the way to the Voile Library on easy before ending
When I got started I died to Wriggle. On easy.
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Lured. You make it sound like you were giving them drugs or something.
"Hey kids, wanna play a Japanese game?"
"Yeah!"
But that's exactly what it is! A virtual, all-encompassing drug. :ohdear:
When I got started I died to Wriggle. On easy.
I have died to being Wriggle Kicked before. This makes me sad.
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:srsly:
What modo
My little sister could get all the way to the Voile Library on easy before ending
When first I started, I died before midboss Rumia. On easy. Yes, really. This is what happens when you've never played a vertical-scrolling danmaku game in your life. (Having played all of two video games before didn't help, either.)
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I've died to a rumia kick before too, and sakuya kicks... I learned by the time I started playing IN though.
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:srsly:
What modo
My little sister could get all the way to the Voile Library on easy before ending
He was playing on easy.
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My bro tried EoSD once and that's pretty much it. I forgot how far he got, I think it was just after midboss china before he ran out of continues. I was watching and telling him "use your bombs" every time there was more than 0 bullets on the screen but he only used 1 bomb the whole time. He used to pride himself for playing games on hard mode before I ever did too, wtf happened. Super scrub nowdays >=P
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I've died to a rumia kick before too, and sakuya kicks... I learned by the time I started playing IN though.
Everyone has kicked me. Everyone.
Nobody I have introduced this series to has been kicked. Ever.
And that's terrible.
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My dad doesn't play games but he had me playing IN everyday so he can listen to History of the Moon.
The he spends the evening with my mom arguing about how better History of the Moon than Gensokyo the Gods loved.
I'm neutral most of the time but I agreed with mom that Gensokyo the Gods loved is slightly better.
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wow what a pro he must be to have imported the game all the way from japan and quit it immediately after
(About 20 minutes later)
"I tried the game, it owned me on the first level."
"You got the game? ??? How and when? XD"
"I have my ways.. o_O"
":/"
Whatever. =O
And since the topic is apparently how badly you failed your first time...
Really, I'd heard IN was the most noob-friendly, so I started with that. I used MAlice(Seriously, I started using the MAlice cannon before I even knew it had a name. O_O) and caught on somewhat fast, since I'd seen maybe 4 6-9-minute videos. I really sucked so I bombed a lot. 90% of the time I wouldn't have died, but at least I didn't. Failed somewhere on the second level after getting caught up staring at the patterns. :V
In other news, my brother keeps using Touhou as a type of blackmail/leverage on me. "I'll read the 'Flandre story' if you play the wii with me", "If you so-and-so I'll watch [Insert some Touhou music/video]", etc. None of it works of course. I did manage to make him get a Cirno background and a lot of songs stuck in his head, though, so we'll see how that works out.
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I've died to a rumia kick before too, and sakuya kicks... I learned by the time I started playing IN though.
I've been kicked by Kogasa before. Her midboss hitbox is MASSIVE.
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My brother became completely absorbed into Touhou by the time I showed it to him, he played PCB first and ran out of continues at Alice (normal mode), he played StB (or was it Double Spoiler...) And accused China of using melee instead of danmaku.
My mother has seen little snippets of gameplay and a heck of a lot of my Touhou pictures folder and doesn't seem to care.
My father watched me fight Eirin's last spellcard and he described it as, and I quote "Trying to dodge rice"
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Everyone has kicked me. Everyone.
Nobody I have introduced this series to has been kicked. Ever.
You can't get kicked if you hug the bottom. Most noobs hug the bottom to my knowledge. They are scared of the bullets. They have no confidence in their reflexes because they know that no matter how slow they are they will kill them if they get hit.
I keep telling people that you won't get anywhere if you stand around the center of the screen hugging the bottom and that they need to move around aggresively. Kill enemies as fast as possible and PoC whenever possible to get points which leads to lives.
In other words, getting kicked on your first times through means you might've got a knack for shmupping. ;)
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You can't get kicked if you hug the bottom. Most noobs hug the bottom to my knowledge. They are scared of the bullets. They have no confidence in their reflexes because they know that no matter how slow they are they will kill them if they get hit.
I keep telling people that you won't get anywhere if you stand around the center of the screen hugging the bottom and that they need to move around aggresively. Kill enemies as fast as possible and PoC whenever possible to get points which leads to lives.
In other words, getting kicked on your first times through means you might've got a knack for shmupping. ;)
Who gets kicked on their first try? :P
I didn't hug the bottom when I started, I just didn't recognize a lot of the conventions like streaming and herding (I think that's what it's called? PCB S.4 for reference) and frequently screwed them up.
I was okay at micrododging and have gotten better since then, but that doesn't keep me from panicking as often as I did then now :fail:
Other times I made silly dodging mistakes like unfocus to dash away and hit something I wasn't looking at, or to forget about what isn't moving and run into IMMOBILE DANMAKU.
There doesn't seem to be a "Your first experiences with Touhou" thread so this off-topic spiel is fine :shrug:
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I let a couple friends play the PCB Extra today.
HEAVEN OR HELL
ROUND 1
-Hmm, I might as well give it a try. I've never played Touhou, but I love it.
-Don't move at first. Wait.
-What? Aa.. aarg!
-Streaming.
-What is that? Oh, that's over- aaah!
-They're not aiming at you. Don't m-
*pshwiiing
-Ah, I died. Ah- what?
-Bomb. Bomb, damn you, b-
*spoon
-Dang it. Um, what- hey!
-Move slowly so you don't fill the screen with bullets.
-But how do I-
*death
ROUND 2
-Okay, I haven't played Touhou like a month. Let's see...
-Str- If you move like that they fill the screen with bullets!
-Yeah, sure, I know that NOW.
-The second wave isn't aimed at- wwatftwlook! Stop zipping around the screen!
-I can't help it! (Sits at bottom of screen.)
-Stream.
-What?
-Streaming.
-I can't-
-You have to stream. That way you can graze for score.
-I prefer survival over score.
-You're not going to survive if you don't stream.
-No.
-Just do it!
-Shut up!
*game over
/Friend 2 tries Phantasm and is raped in exactly twenty four seconds
/I run a demonstration and get to Princess Tenko before the bell rings with 2/3
Friend one
needs to lrn2focus
Friend two
Needs to lrn2deathbomb lrn2stream lrn2panicbomb lrn2collect lrn2micrododge...
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Who gets kicked on their first try? :P
Oho, I did, with Wriggle. PoC then BAM
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Man, forget Touhou. No one in my family is a fan of anime, video games, or science in general, let alone privvy to them on any level. A couple of my folks know some anatomy and programming, but that's it.
I hate being the black sheep.
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My brother and I. He better than me. He's (I think) EoSD, PCB, IN, MoF, still working on SA, UFO, and The Great Fairy Wars.
I've only beaten IN, and just barely.