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Sorry to pop in unannounced... over 20 posts and I had completely forgotten about introductions! As you can see my username, I go by Kymoh. How is it pronounced? Dunno. I've had this account for several months now, but it's only been recently that I've started to become more active. Hopefully I don't lose interest :) Anyways, a few basic points about me: -Discovered touhou 1-2 years ago. Still a casual fan. I know the most popular characters (like those in Bad Apple MV) but not much else. -Bad at video games in general. I've played Touhou 4, 6, 12.3, but haven't beat any of them at 1CC easy ugh -Adding to that, I like video games involving building fighting vehicles (Space Engineers, Terratech, Sprocket, Robocraft) -Favorite character: ?? I like Orange from Touhou 4, but she's not well-known so I often say Reimu. -Favorite color: Orange lol -Hobbies: Making games, dancing, playing games Now you know a bit about me :) Feel free to ask any questions!

happy sanae day!!!!

“SANEE” - a friend of mine 2024(?)

Recently I decided to read Touhou discussions on Twitter (worst mistake of my life) and I can only say that Twitter Touhou fans don't understand each other. I have found so many discussions about who are tRUE fans and who are not. Someone made meme video about "I am a Touhou fan, look, I have a lot of Fumos" (I think the joke is obvious) . And discussions begin about that marketable plushies are bad and that the author of the video is not a tRUE fan. A newcomer began his dive into Touhou from LostWord? What should tRUE fans do? Yes, make fan of the newcomer. And after that Twits appear "why are there so many "secondaries" who doesn't want to understand the beauty of danmaku?" (I really recommend to read all replies from attached link (aggressive2hu found some reasons but not the roots of them)). Such tRUE fans are one of the reasons. How do you think which attitude would appeal more: "Ha-ha, a secondary plays a bad game" or "I see you are interested in Touhou. I you want to see the whole beauty you should play original games. I recommend to begin with PCB or IN or MoF on easy" (if OP doesn't have PC, recommend installing ExaGear or Winulator. Touhou games aren't very laggy even on potato phones). (After all of these I even begin to think that /ja/ is much better and more pure place than Twitter (still /ja/ is not a good place)) (Yes, I understand that such argues are meaningless and unimportant if you compare to most things we have discussed here. But the problem is that a lot of fans from there don't understand that, what is important here is the roots of the problem (most of them we have discussed before)) One of the reasons why this happens is because nearly nobody helps the newcomers. You can say "a lot of years ago I came into Touhou myself without any help", but situation is very different from when it was (for example) 10 years ago. Newcomers don't know from where to begin and what is important in the series. A lot of people don't understand how PC or basic file system work. I have so many example of that: a lot of newcomers don't know why thcrap don't work with games from here (they tried to apply it to .torrent files or they had other difficulties) (thcrap translators help the newcomers with such problems), there are detailed videos how to install Touhou games from here and even after that a lot of people had problems (and the creators of the videos tries to help to solve them). What have you done to help them? Why nearly nobody tries to introduce Touhou shmups not as games for Japanese weirdos, but as good games which are possible to beat and they are fun (just try a little harder) (and yes, losing is fun), and if you understand how to play them you see a beautiful world of danmaku. There are so many scripts which are just waiting for you to try them. (And yes, I will repeat this again and again: have you thought why there are so many Geometry Dash fans (this game is really hard)?) You can just say "don't visit Twitter". And it is obvious for many people who don't live in Western countries because in most cases they have better alternatives (and Touhou communities are better there for example Chinese Touhou fandom. I have examples from Touhou fandom in my country, where after questions like "what anime is this?" what the fans reply? No, they don't say something like "ha-ha, stupid anime fans", they reply "it is a game series. If you are interested I recommend to begin with [a game the poster think is best for beginning, mostly 6, 7, 10, 15, 12.3 or manga]"). But what alternatives for Twitter and Reddit are there in the West and how many people do know about them? I don't think most of newcomers know about them. Also, a lot of Touhou fancontent creators mostly use Twitter, so it is difficult not to use it. And for me it is quite sad that a lot of fans cannot make a step further in Touhou and avoid Twitter and Reddit. And I don't know how we can help them from here. And it is sad that most newcomers won't see this list, which could help them: I wonder do you have ideas how we can help the newcomers?

what's the deal with nintendo and their passion for mc? look. i get it, it's a cool twist but come on! that's way too much! there's puyo puyo (7 and 8 afaik), the later mario titles (the crossover thingy + theater kid the game) why??? /gen

have i seriously lost the motivation to be here? what is motivation? what’s the point of getting grand master anymore? (on break)