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>>1781
Try 178.44.103.240:10800 please. If it doesn't work either, you'll have to host yourself.

>>1779
GGs, thanks for the games. Aya's 2A being +0 on rightblock is a crime.

>>1783
GGs, thanks for hostan. Don't be afraid to spam Headwind more, just check your opponent's deck for nukes first. The other Aya uses it as an oki spell and that's also good.

>>1779
I prefer saving it for the next round if I have health advantage or can level up important cards.

June
>>1788

>>1601
Alright, are you there? Adonis2, right?

>>1604
Sorry, only got back home. If you're still up then yeah, open up adonis2(e if you want in in english) and connect to 37.113.226.212 on port 10800

Thank you very much, it was very fun, despite me being rather trashed.

>>1612
Ggs!
> despite me being rather trashed
You didn't do that bad actually, especially for first-timer. If you're feeling up for more later, check picrel, that's pretty much anything you need to know about PoFV mechanics, so you can dodge not only hard but smart too, since scoring is your main offensive tool in this game.

>>1613
>You didn't do that bad actually, especially for first-timer.
Thank you, but just to make clear I've played PoFV before, normal on all characters, hard on Marisa-Cirno-Mystia-Aya, lunatic Aya, extra on Komachi-Eiki-Aya. Also some matches against computer. The first time referred to playing against human.
>If you're feeling up for more later
I usually can find some 20-30 minutes on weekends.

I've grown accustomed to her face
She almost makes the day begin
I've grown accustomed to the tune
That she whistles night and noon
Her smiles, her frowns
Her ups, her downs
Are second nature to me now
Like breathing out and breathing in
I was serenely independent and content before we met
Surely I could always be that way again
And yet
I've grown accustomed to her looks
Accustomed to her voice
Accustomed to her face

>>1292
She loses in the physical sense, but she doesn't let it get to her, much. Despite the low blows, crushing reality, and abject bullying and abuse sent her way, she's still Aya at the end of the day, ready to try again tomorrow.
Gotta respect her keeping up the grind for a thousand some years.

It could be nice if this Aya thread became an actual news thread about doujin stuff going on in other boards from other imageboards, so people were up to date with them. But I am not OP, and I don't know if people would be interested in something like this.

What kind of habits do you think she would have? I don't know much about the vast myths of Tengu, but I think on the crowish side of her, she would like to solve puzzles, maybe sudoku, or keep a Rubik's cube on her desk. Also, I've heard crows prefer being given unshelled nuts, that way they can figure out how to open them, so I like to imagine her cracking open and snacking on nuts while she works doing proofreading or something like that.

>>1494
We know Tengu like games, going so far as to make expanded rulesets for Shogi to make it more complex, so cerebral activities are up their alley when they're not drowning themselves in bathtubs of sake. General puzzles like you mentioned also sound right, like sudoku and crossword puzzles in newspapers. Maybe games by mail? Given the time they spend outside and their assumed infrastructure, I can imagine some sort of game they play over time and distance and make their moves (replies) when they have a chance. If you remember the original Bladerunner movie, the genetic designer/toymaker makes chess moves with the Tyrell founder through phone calls by declaring move terminology. Something like that but done over mail in some esoteric and arcane Tengu game.

Okay yeah, but lazy Reimu could NEVER beat Sanae's natural charisma.

>>1295
Sanae is a hard worker with a heart of 24 karat gold. Meanwhile Reimu is a mean, stuck-up bitch who only gets things done when one of the sages yells at her to do so. There's really no competition between the two.

I see, so it is the Moriya Shrine gods I have to thank for for this beautiful board.
Thank you, based Kanako, based Suwako, based Sanae. Best of luck with your faith stuff going on.

Moriya can be great, sometimes.

Moriya is great all the time!

>>1269
I like that one too. It works well with Aya's speed so you hook around the rim of danmaku while waiting for your camera to charge. It's simple but effective.
My personal favorite is Kokkuri-san's contract in how both it looks, plays, and how fitting its theme is for Ran's character. It starts slow to get you used to the gimmick, but slowly ramps up as Ran plays the part of Kokkuri-san moving the coin planchette you're forced to sit inside of. Fitting the nature of the game it's a timeout spellcard that gets harder and dangerous, the danmaku increases and the space to dodge it shrinks, until suddenly the game's over and Kokkuri-san leaves.

I like Necro-fantasy a bit more than Necrofantasia even if I also like the latter a lot. Necro-fantasy feels "noble" if I were to describe it whereas Necrofantasia feels like you're fighting a horrifying being which fits given that Yukari could potentially be practically unbeatable in concept.

>>1272
I don't attribute Necro Fantasy to Ran much anymore. It's a remix of Necrofantasia which sits firmly in the Yukari park, but as you said it's "noble" which still fits her. In that regard you could apply Necro Fantasy as something like a prelude. The last boss before the secret boss that messes with your expectations.
Charming Domination on the otherhand fits her to a tee, and it's her theme in UDoALG which cements it. That I think is the quintessential Ran theme.

violence has escalated

>>786
imagine being the only male under the age of 20 in a small isolated mountain town in rural nippon during the 1980s.

>>847
It sounds like you'd get your dick experimented on without consent.

What would Hanyuu do for a cream puff? That delicious delicacy she craves is something she would probably do ANYTHING for. What an amazingly powerful sweet, to be so effective on an alien-god. And yet, it would be so easy to tamper with that cream puff, to make Hanyuu move to your whims. Put in something spicy, and she'll cry. Put in an aphrodisiac, and she'll pounce you before long. But perhaps, if you fill it with something else…
Collecting a large amount of semen can be hard, but it's worthwhile as to your aims. Preparing it all in a large jar, hidden away in your room, is easy, if time consuming. Once you've got what you need, all you need is a syringe, and a cream puff. Hell, if you felt like going faster, you could probably go to Angel Mort and talk to all the otaku customers; they'll be sure to contribute to the nefarious scheme. However, you have later plans that would interfere with this, so you decide not to do that.
You start simple. Every day, you give Hanyuu a completely normal, completely innocent cream puff. This becomes a habit, a thing between the two of you. At lunch time at school, you open up your bento box and pass a cream puff to Hanyuu. She starts looking at you with sad, teary eyes if you take too long after a while, and that's when you know when to move to step two.
Now you start giving her the cum puffs. And miraculously, amazingly, she doesn't notice. What degeneracy must she have gotten up to in her youth? The idea boggles your mind, but furthers your boner. A step three and four are sure to follow after that showing. Each cum puff you serve her makes the next easier, your hands less sweaty, but your mind continues to race. You do this for a few months, in preparation for the next step.
Step three is finding out just how accustomed to the taste she is. You prepare a handmade cum puff, without any cream within it. You pass it to her, sweating bullets, screaming in your mind that this was a bad idea. She takes it with a smile and a hau~, puts it in her mouth, takes a bite, and swallows. The sound of her throat moving, the sign that this dirty goddess is eating YOUR semen, is both hot and scary as fuck.
…She takes another bite. She doesn't notice. You have successfully accustomed Hanyuu to the taste of cum instead of cream in her cream puffs. Excellent.
And now for step four. You get her a drink of milk to start the club day off right. Needless to say, it isn't milk. As she guzzles it down, youPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>901
that's cool man i just think shes cute and all

>>444
I can recommend reading the manga if VN aren't your thing.
The anime leaves out a lot of scenes included in the manga.

It is humbling to see how much the opinion on Touhou has changed in just a few weeks. No matter the longevity of the series, the consistent lenient behavior towards fanworks (provided they follow the few existing rules), or the public image ZUN tries to sell, a few fuck-ups can really make anyone fall from grace.
And NO, I am not an AI "shill". In fact, I believe nothing the AI creates will ever be art. I don't like how all of a sudden uploading music seems to be against the rules either, with no prior heads up, after so many fucking years where that was the norm and nobody bat an eye.
So I am not deflecting. And yes, right now I believe ZUN has fucked up. I want him to explain himself, and not act all lofty when his actions are causing such a shit show. Then whoever wanted could form an actual opinion with the actual reality of the situation. I just find it ridiculous how a few mistakes after, and a few posts into the thread, ZUN's entire existence seems to be called into question, with somebody saying he "may be friends with the guy from 2ch" without even knowing who that guy is (Hiroyuki, jfc), and that everyone who has known Touhou for more than 5 minutes and isn't a secondary (i.e., can speak Japanese) wouldn't even call into question that because it is braindead obvious they are in good terms. Or someone else saying now Touhou actually isn't a one-man game, when ZUN has actually put into the credits the few times he has used help from other people (e.g. th19), and doesn't make fucking sense because there's no way in hell anybody who had participated in such a phenomenon as Touhou wouldn't have done everything posible on this Earth to demand compensation.
Obviously, actual discussion is going to be poluted by people who will just shout their opinion without any knowledge on the matter, simply because they think their fringe, retarded opinion, has now an opportunity to foster.

>>1389
I think you're strongly underestimating the severity of AI incorporation. ZUN could have been convicted of sexual assault or child pornography and the backlash would not be as bad (knowing the average Touhou fan). It represents the cessation of human efforts to tyranny. The cessation of a medium to a handful of corporations that have been antagonistic to all demographics. The cessation of creatives having any ownership of their creations. The cessation of visibility and communication to a deluge of irrelevant drivel after years of already being punished by biased algorithms.

It very strongly affects many people and ZUN sold himself as a cottage little guy, so it represents this entire doujin scene being closed off into an AI only shithole like so many other mediums. What good could come from this? Will conventions have to let in AI spammers? Will Touhou forums have to let in AI spammers? Will contests have to let in AI spammers? Of course! It'd be hypocritical when the king is naked. You take one look at the turdstorm AI spammers have left the areas they're free to reign, and you basically see what ZUN has rewarded the creatives that supported him with.

Frankly there's very little that can invalidate 30 years of work, but destroying every Touhou outlet and a significant portion of the doujin scene for the people who supported you for years would do it.

>>1390
Anon, I dislike AI as strongly as you do, and my previous post accounts for it, but I do think you are overreacting in a climate ripe for overreaction.
I am glad I am not the only one who thinks AI is a disgrace for art. I have already argued in that other site why I believe that to be the case. But that left aside, I don't think you are actually evaluating the situation.
Touhou 20 is not the product of AI. It still is a creation of ZUN, at least until confirmed otherwise. He did not ask Adobe AI to "make th20 for me lol". He probably has used it in moderation, so maybe 5%, 10%, or 20% tops (I seriously hope not more than that) is the result of AI. ZUN most probably has thought out the story, designed the characters, composed the music and made most if not all of the programming himself, and then cut corners for some of the smaller parts he probably found tedious.
Not that I like it. But getting some help from an AI is not the same as AI generators (I refuse to ever call them artists)'s spawns of the devil that little by little plague the web. He is not welcoming purely AI generated fanart, at least not until he says so himself.
ZUN's opinion on this should also be taken in account. From what I know (and this one I haven't actually heard from him myself, but only read from other anons), ZUN seems to have a rather lenient stance on AI. His boomer glasses reflect to him a similar situation that what must have happened when he was experimenting with computers. Yet he was able to create his oeuvre with them, so for him creators should take advantage of that shiny, new tool to create something original and exciting, like he did in his time. It is clear he didn't choose the AI he used lightly either, since Adobe AI at least advertises itself as "respectful of artists" and only "enhancing their imagination" (you can look up their website).
Now, I think there are more abstract reasons why AI cannot make art, but ZUN probably isn't taking them into account. What I want to say, I guess, is that you can think ZUN has fucked up, but the Internet drama around this, as it tends to happen in imageboards, has sometimes been bombastic, painting ZUN in the bleakest of lights possible, instead of arguing about the reality of the "incident" (if I may say so).

>>1338
Is this really a big deal? I could see if this affected gameplay videos, but people don't use youtube as their primary way of listening to music, do they?

>>1338
Next time you make an outrage bait "touhou is over" thread for the sixth? seventh? time, please bother to spell check your subject…
Hard to not see this as anything more than concern trolling.

>>1403
I can see why it's so contentious. Youtube has been the primary gateway for westerners to get into Touhou for as long as it existed on the platform. How many times have you seen it said where one's first exposure was a video of Night of Nights, UN Owen Was Her, and Bad Apple? It's ingrained in fandom culture, such that Ruw doing his thing to make way for the official OST to be published to youtube music feels like a stab in the back to the fans who paved the way here.
The main issue comes from the complacency of both sides. The western fandom has been allowed to by and large do as it pleased for twenty years since the guidelines on fancontent have been left greatly unenforced. Touhou has always been this mystical thing in the west as ZUN never had any presence there to claim it, but at a glacial pace he's moving onto large platforms such as Steam and now Youtube. If I hazard a guess I'd say music rips will be taken down in waves as more and more of the music makes its way there officially.
>I could see if this affected gameplay videos
The danger to that is from Youtube's end with their hit and miss detection programs. Since the OST for 19-20 is on Youtube by the actual owners of the music, Youtube's system can trigger copyright automatically, such as the case with mtb's enoko video. We'll have to see how it all shakes out in the long run.
>but people don't use youtube as their primary way of listening to music, do they?
You'd be surprised at the amount of norms who do this. I used to do this before I realized I could just download ZUN's entire collection to my phone and let a local music player app handle it. Music discovery is another factor which Youtube is good for overall, which feeds back into the earlier point as a gateway into Touhou.

>>1271
You made the thread yet?

>>1325
Ggs, finally a character I have previous experience against. Sorry for short set, but it's danmaku o'clock.

>>1328
ggs
no worries, thanks for hosting
>spoiler
i thought that was already dead yet again
might drop by later

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>>1330

>>1331
Thank you

ZUN has gone full grifter-jew mode. Now copyright striking people posting the OST on youtube.

Context. Context. Context.
Instead of jumping on a retarded flamewar starting with a twatter screencap and buzzwords, I think I'll give this a month for actual information to come in. Fortunately, you have several threads on 4chan to choose from if you're looking for a shouting match based on speculation.

In case you didn't know, ZUN had to deal with a nasty copyright issue because the bank of stock images he bought actually contained copyrighted material. It's likely why just decided to say "fuck it, I'm not using stock images anymore, I'll just AI generate them"

>>1179
Pretty much done with Touhou, was basically crazy about it up until the news dropped last week. I don't see much of a point continuing to discuss it, the fanworks empower the games while the games fuel the fanwork, continuing to participate in this subculture will just fund and legitimize another AI dev. They never stop at backgrounds, there's no future for this series. I guess that goes for all "big" series, should they be given an out for being bigger than the average AI vagrant? I'd say no, because what's put on display here isn't what made the series good nor beloved, it's just something generated by a third party. Maybe many of you would forgive him if he backpedals, but for me I feel like even getting into these controversies is a failure of character, and it doesn't look like he's being remorseful sending his lawyer dog out to silence critics.

>>1229
>>1229
They should be called out, they should be forced into the mature realization that it's time to abandon Touhou, there's no use in continuing to waste your life on a person who hates you

>>1238
It is ironic but also is a shame it is stained so much.

Can someone recommend me strategies for beating one of the clean ones like EoSD? I get to the Patchouli stage and I die immediately each time I get to the boss. On normal.
https://youtu.be/mBEc028gGpI?si=TjIN7ycVjUKFJQLv&t=917 this one kills me too much

>>1239
I consider it at around the same difficulty as EoSD which is the game most have played, just less RNG on boss spellcards but on wonder stones.

>>1241
I don't know if you've played IN yet but Mystia teaches you where to focus your gaze for dense patterns like this.
https://youtu.be/V747Azfw_pI?&t=87
Putting your face physically closer to the screen can also help.
Otherwise, there's no shame in bombing through it.

>>1241
Tip: Patchouli's lasers don't hit you if you stand perfectly in center, the laser hitbox vanishes before it visually does. The fire projectiles also have a smaller hitbox on the sides and the way patchy shoots them always leaves big gaps between them, pay more attention to the smaller yellow projectiles there. Lastly, as I always recommend for EoSD, don't be afraid of bombing. The spellcards are RNG when it comes to density and speed due to the leftover PC-98 hidden rank system and some projectiles (especially Sakuya's knives) have a wonky hitbox that can hit you from a longer distance than you think.