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I graduated from college this year. College has good and bad things, and your experience varies a lot depending on your course, institution and country. High school was way worse, honestly. High school was a hellscape to me. You can't get anything in high school to matter because in my country it's all a race to milk the grades as much as possible so you can have a remote opportunity to enter the college course you want. The evaluation methods are based on memory and repetition rather than understanding and creating, and I always stressed with the little time we have for tests. The memory-based evaluation approach does not accurately evaluate your competence in a certain field, but it seems that it helps "normal" people get higher grades (so much that now the grades of all HS in my country are inflated, making entering college even harder and more inaccurate). All of this is done while you are a teenager full of hormones in a class of many other teenagers full of hormones. Due to the memory-based evaluation approach, high school can crush some of your interests completely. I like maths, I like algorithms and functions and developing logical solutions, and yet my maths grades dropped to negative in 12th grade!!! Math is all about logic, understanding, solving problems, but in the end of 11th grade and the whole 12th grade, all that mattered was memorizing formulas, memorizing exercises, memorizing specific things we did in class and I despise it. As for college entry, while applying for a postgrad or masters is mostly curriculum-based (which is great), applying for the bachelor is not, instead it's based on all of your HS grades + national exams (you can imagine why physical education's grades influencing your entry on, let's say, an engineering degree is really stupid). College itself was a much better experience, but I still felt that I was underwhelming and wasting my time. While you do many more theoretical works, research works and practical projects/exams rather than traditional written tests, you still feel like none of this matters, as you waste 3 hours (normal length of a single class) for something that could be done in maybe 1 hour. If you are self-taught in your special interest area or you like the idea of learning by yourself at home, you will find college very unnecessary, because you are wasting time, money and social energy on what could be done at home. So why do you go to college? Some fields require a more formal and organized education plan so you can be truly skilled at your craft (medicine for example), but not all fields require formal institutions to obtain competence and mastery (computer science, IT, software development, etc, my special interest), so you mostly attend college because you have to, because you need that diploma for opportunities or you need that networking for the internship after you finish your degree (which is not guaranteed, not all courses and institutions provide you an internship opportunity). My parents told me that college was going to be where I find my true friends, my best friends for life, but as a shy/anxious introvert who is most likely autistic I'll tell you that I only talked to 1 classmate regularly, and our relationship wasn't that close given that we stopped interacting when we graduated. Other people formed friend circles either because they already knew each other or they somehow telepathically communicated with each other and automatically became good friends. Most of my classmates didn't really develop any chemistry with me or an interest in being my friends, because we were too different I guess. Not only that but I developed a handful of enemies. Most of these people were overly political arrogant, condescending people that didn't like my presence or despised me for not having the same political beliefs as them (college is known for its very political environment in fields of art, media, literature, philosophy, etc etc). I suggest you pursue what you truly like in college, because otherwise you won't have the patience or energy to invest effort into your work and study. It's not worth it to risk studying at a field you don't like and then be sad that this is your job, or not even be able to find a job. Despite my hardcore interest being computer science and IT, I actually graduated in audiovisual, because I had in mind that for a professional context this field would be more fun, since I also like doing digital art. Not only that but a 16/20 HS average grade wouldn't be enough for me to enter computer engineering due to the HS grade inflation problem, and none of my software projects and skills/knowledge matter for getting into the course because applying for a bachelor isn't curriculum-based!!!!!!!!!! Despite my graduation, I want to work in software development, cybersecurity or system administration, nothing related to audiovisual, but I find it hard to get a job from just sending CVs. In today's world it's very hard to get employed unless you have connections. Networking is all that matters, but a shut-in introvert like me has no networking. I did apply for a cybersecurity postgrad and I believe I have very good odds of entering it, but until then I'll stay a NEET, and if I don't get a job opportunity while studying then I'll take the internship opportunity you get at the end of the postgrad.

We need more evil/hostile characters. Not enough characters in the universe are evil, and those that lean more towards the evil side usually have a more reasonable cause for what they are doing (Junko wants revenge, etc) or are just assholes. Seiga is an evil character but that is thrown casually, not much is done about that. Seija is rebellious and evil-ish but after th14 she becomes neutral. Characters like Rumia are the extreme opposite: It doesn't fit a Touhou character to do things like what Rumia does. It's also not as common for death to happen in Touhou, and we wouldn't really want to see most characters die. We already have enough characters that become friendly after being defeated, we could instead see more characters that stay neutral or hostile even after their first appearance. The manga books follow a more slice of life approach. I read and finished Forbidden Scrollery and it mostly feels like a slice of life to me. It has action, plot, enemies, but they are mostly divided between chapters, it's sort of a routine. Zanmu is a character that can be seen as an active enemy, and the idea that she took control over hell against Hecatia would be an interesting story, then we could have a plot for Touhou 20 where you can have a dual character style similar to Touhou 8, where it's a playable character and Hecatia together taking control of hell back from Zanmu, after she attempted to [insert taking control over something else]. The only problem is that Hecatia is too OP to need a partner to take care of this business, but it could work. The final boss could be a dual boss of Zanmu + Hisami to compensate the power difference. And maybe for different playable characters, your partner is not Hecatia but Shikieiki or someone else that has a relation to hell.

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Very nice guide. I would just add some more troubleshooting points. On all machines I played Touhou on, using vanilla wine and proton will make the game's SFX muffled due to bad resampling. Using Lutris's builds of wine and proton-ge fixes this. Maybe bottles's builds also have it patched. I would also mention what a compositor is and how to disable it, because ideally we don't want vsync or any additional input delay on the game. I never played a game on Wayland, I don't know how well you can take care of this, but on Xorg I know you can disable the compositor in most desktops.

This happens only with th19 on fullscreen very specifically, and I don't have old or quirky obscure hardware/drivers, so it surely is something that is different in the engine that doesn't go along well with wine

I used Lutris's builds of wine and proton-ge and both had this issue Not so sure about vanilla proton because i didnt buy the game on steam I didn't try bottles or vanilla wine

Touhou 19 had so much potential to be one of the greatest games, but it got too rushed. It's a very fun game and has many characters to play with and I'm enjoying it. It's sad because if only the game wasn't rushed it would have been amazing, because there are many positive things to talk about the game, but the negative aspects turn me off completely from considering buying it. The OST's original tracks are very cool and I like them, but the rest is just rearrangements of old themes and most barely differ from the originals. The pixel art is very cool, and the portraits are too. The new character's designs range from really cool to meh. I like Hisami and Son Biten more than the rest. Input delay is really good as always Finally my controller's analog triggers work. So many games don't support these analog triggers I can't talk about the story yet, because you progress through it as you play with each character, instead of each character being an isolated variant of the story. Then we have the strong downsides of the game: No score at all No replays (wtf!!!!!) No extra stage Online is fucked Some character portraits are worse than others, and generally all have the same energy to them, which doesn't help distinguishing character personalities Unbalanced portions of the game depending on the context (for example fighting certain enemies in lunatic) Some playable characters are very weak Main game is the shortest ever, with every run lasting around 15 minutes Versus mode takes forever for the enemy to get hit, feels very unfair In story mode, the enemy doesn't get hit, you just have to clear the spellcards. This is fine, but it's weird considering it's supposed to be a versus game. Also in the same mode, the enemy live indication doesn't lower when you clear a spellcard and doesn't represent the amount of spellcards you need to clear either, so you don't know how many are left to clear unless you know from memory This is the first Touhou game to crash on Linux when you alt-tab (if it's in fullscreen mode). I'm not sure if this happens on native Windows as well The card mechanic is not necessary and doesn't need to be in this game. You won't care about the cards and you can't even pick the ones you want. It just feels forced I assume the price increase to 14€ or whatever is due to zun hiring a pixel artist, but the game in its current state should not be this expensive. I hope zun patches it and improves it a little bit at least

Ah shit, then I guess I'll keep plundering I don't want to spend 14-15€ in a game in such state, I don't want to give zun the idea that he should keep rushing his games.

It would be very cool if he polished the game further and added replays and other missing features.

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I follow the ways of the Doremy

I go raw and simple with VLC with custom settings, but recently I have been trying Elisa which is the music player in KDE Plasma's software suite

I love Touhou 15 and 7 OSTs the most I'm not a big fan of Touhou 17 and Touhou 1 OSTs

The current state of the community seems to be an indirect consequence of something bigger, which is mostly how the western society and internet culture have changed between early 2000s and today. If you go to the japanese Touhou communities you will see a tremendous difference, they are on a whole separate world. I found out and about Touhou and started playing the games in 2019, so the community hasn't changed much for me, just became a bit worse, but I noticed the change in western society over all these years. I remember the innocence and simplicity of the 2000s, and the whole essence of Touhou fits the 2000s and 2010s perfectly in a way. Over the years, the mainstream western culture has changed drastically to become lower quality, more generic and less creative or funny/quirky. Real diversity gets killed by the peer pressure for us to all fit in and become exact copies of each other, while the masses promote fake diversity through the idea that superficial traits define our entire being. I blame the most common social media for this, like Twitter, Instagram Reddit and Tiktok. These 4 platforms alone destroyed the integrity and sanity of western society. In the western fandom of japanese culture, Touhou became mainstream, and when that happens, all the downsides of the mainstream come to the community. It doesn't mean that the good portion of the fanbase is dead, but it's relatively much smaller than the mainstream. The mainstream part of the Touhou fandom starts relying more on the fanmade media aspects that originally brought them in, and then they introduce overused memes and ideas, etc etc. I love plushies and I wouldn't mind having a fumo, but fumos are extremely overrated. It's ok to make memes and joke about things and like to watch or mention and joke about very popular fanmade media, but when this is used as a way to spread information about what Touhou is, it brings an even worse part of the mainstream: the one that doesn't know Touhou and doesnt care. People get introduced to Touhou with these fumos and memes and Scarlet Police funky this fucky that and gachas, and they become fans of this content, but then the newcomers don't know, care or like the official Touhou content but are now a part of the fandom. When it comes to the creative part of the fandom, it got severely affected by the downsides of social media peer pressure. The addiction of likes, fame, upvotes, etc. This is why I don't follow the most popular western Touhou youtubers, and why I strongly avoid the biggest Touhou places and don't really show up in social media places. There isn't much you can do other than to try to filter out the bad side. I play/follow Touhou and interact with some Touhou fandom places, but I avoid talking about Touhou in unrelated places or in the mainstream, with the fear of somebody recognising it for something that it isn't and then bringing an awkward conversation or something. The problem with the modern Touhou fandom is just a consequence of what's happening in the west, eventually it gets sorted out. Like Pepi said, there are still many creative and cool parts of the Touhou fandom, and there always will be, just not as much in the most mainstream places. The Sanae Kochiya from The Touhou Project

I love and would definitely wear any of these hats: Doremy's hat: A pajama hat that looks like a Santa hat, it fits Doremy perfectly Suwako's hat: You can't go wrong with this hat, it fits many outfit choices. The eyes give it a lot of personality and it's cute and goofy Yuyuko's hat: A nice hat that fits a lot of clothing styles with similar colour palettes. Has a cool ghostly spiral logo that coincidentally looks like Debian's logo Koishi's hat: A cool hat for similar reasons to Suwako's hat, but without the funny frog personality eyes. Will most likely need a clothing setup with a fitting colour palette Mai and Satono: SHOE Mamizou: LEAF

For these kinds of situations, I don't recommend overthinking because it could give the opposite effect of what you want. I found out about Touhou in 2019, which is when I created an account in Moriya Shrine (despite only started talking here recently). I became very obsessed with the games and played them a lot, but then years later, in 2022, I started not caring as much about Touhou, so I just took a break until I truly felt like I wanted to play again, and so I returned to the games. You can take a break and focus on something else, and come back later and realise that now you are much more interested in the series after the break, or you could give the official games another chance, since you said you only played th7.

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From reading the replies, wow I didn't expect the D-pad to be this popular for bullet hell My controller's dpad is alright but not good enough for bullet hell, but I really like using the joystick so it's not a big problem for me. I think I would only need a good dpad for much higher precision, for example Junko in hard or lunatic. That's a precision I can get with my linear switch keyboard, but I'm not quite there yet on joystick