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[Loud Whispers]

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[AzyWng]

Just ran into Egan_BW's artifact "I just bought this so I'd have an artifact".

Nice.

[Reelya]

I should be ashamed of myself, Tohou is a long running series of bullet-hell games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou_Project

And vocaloid is a voice synthesizer that was developed not all that long ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid

I just wanted to point out the main thing that's amazing about Touhou. It's kind of funny too:

following the release of Perfect Cherry Blossom; seven circles sold Touhou derivative works at Comiket 65 in December 2003. At the Comiket 74 in August 2008, a total of 885 circles had Touhou derivative works on display or for sale, out of a total of 35,000 circles participating at Comiket.[37][38] At Comiket 77 (December 2009), 2,372 circles were dedicated to Touhou, breaking the previous record held by The Prince of Tennis at Comiket 66 (August 2004), which had 2,130 circles.[39] At Comiket 85 (December 2013), Touhou was still in the lead, with 2,272 participating circles selling Touhou derivatives, far outpacing those of other franchises.

So, you have the main series of games, which itself got a Guinness world record for being the most prolific shooter series made by one person. But on top of that he's managed to somehow spawn a media empire that consists of over 2300 separate groups who make commerical fan-art of his stuff. This includes e.g. possibly hundreds of different musical groups of various genres from electronic to metal who cover his game's music. This whole phenomena actually became an issue at Comiket (Japan's huge fan manga expo) since they were taking up so many of the total stalls, and creators based on other series started to get the shits.

So ... basically a lot of people "into" touhou are into all the various related media and most of them don't actually play the games now: it's big enough that it's an actual subculture and the games are just one small part of the avaialable media in that subculture. Seriously, it's pretty goddamn amusing that one guy making games in his bedroom managed to spawn all this.

[scourge728]

Was playing civ 6, was alexander, egypt started directly next to me, so I declared war and stole their settler before they even founded their first city

[Twinwolf]

That's just mean.

[A Thing]

Was playing civ 6, was alexander, egypt started directly next to me, so I declared war and stole their settler before they even founded their first city

"About this time he had the sarcophagus containing Alexander the Great's mummy removed from the Mausoleum at Alexandria and, after a long look at its features, showed his veneration by crowning the head with a golden diadem and strewing flowers on the trunk. When asked 'Would you now like to visit the Mausoleum of the Ptolemies?' he replied: 'I came to see a King, not a row of corpses."

Maybe Augustus was right to do sick burns on Egypt.

[Ultimuh]

So this is what Dr. Breen have been up to of late.

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[Akura]

So this is what Dr. Breen have been up to of late.

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Considering what happened to Dr. Breen*, that could very well have happened.

[Tawa]

I watched Turkish Star Wars again today, with someone else this time. It made just as much sense (i.e. absolutely none) as last time.

[EnigmaticHat]

So this is what Dr. Breen have been up to of late.

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Half-life 3 protagonist confirmed, kung-fu action Quisling

Edit: the ultimate in characters that *almost* get to be badasses.

[Loud Whispers]

Tchaikovsky yes

[Tawa]

Final Fantasy IV: Machine Translated Edition

[redwallzyl]

SMBC

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[Akura]

To be fair, how would that affect his poll numbers?

[scourge728]

To be fair, how would that affect his poll numbers?

Judging by the current state of American politics *cough cough ray moore donald trump cough cough* it would probably raise them