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That was quite the splitting headache she gave to that former fortune teller.

So "needless" means "for reasons I don't personally agree with"?

As Clarste pointed out, he was kind of already dead.

Really, if a person doesn't agree with the reasons for a killing, it's pretty fair for them to call it "needless."

edited 13th Oct '15 7:14:50 PM by Durazno

I'm getting the impression that you're looking for reasons to get angry. Stop that

Kanako, Suwako, Mamizou, Sumireko, Hecatia, probably Junko

edited 13th Oct '15 7:16:23 PM by Hylarn

I wasn't calling it needless myself. I was quoting Reimu.

No. There's no shame in setting the life/bomb counter higher if you can. Well outside of score that is, but that's it. My first 1cc on EOSD Normal was set to maximum lives. Hell come to think of it, I think I did my first 1cc's on several games with the lives and bombs turned up.

So here is a thought what came to mind: if a Hourai cannot be killed even if you went in time and tried to kill them before they drank the Elixir, what would happen if you tried to make it that they were never born in the first place?

Then you'd just create an alternate timeline.

Or they come into existence when they would be born, regardless.

Really, the only two ways I could see dealing with an Hourai is:

1) Eliminating their soul. The body would continue to exist and regenerate, but it would never be able to move or function without a soul to keep it going.

2) Wipe out every trace of time where the person who took the elixir ever existed. Granted, this would probably create a gigantic paradox, but hey.

It depends on what you define as dealing with them. If you mean killing them forever, then yeah, some highly dangerous Time Crash would have to be what you do, and even then it's iffy.

But if you just want them out of your way for the rest of your life, there's always stuff like imprisonment in such a way that they can't escape unaided.

First, I'd like to note that I have no idea where this talk about time travel came from. Second, if the hourai elixir is fantastic in nature, I'd expect it to have the usual weaknesses

I think all indications are that Gensokyo is taking place in the present (like, literally right now), and everyone who's moved there is from our reality. Any differences in descriptions are just distorted and biased statements by the characters. However, Renko and Merryberry are from the future, whenever that is (I would estimate late 21st century or early 22nd).

edited 13th Oct '15 9:41:07 PM by Clarste

What are the usual weaknesses?

There's that thing where metaphysics are ultimately based on human belief...

Art:

A nonspell
Break the moon
Immortals
Aya
Kagerou
Tossing

So, what, the elixir will work until the outside world develops immortality and people stop disbelieving in it?

Only barely relevant but.

@Feel Deeds Awake:

Hey there! Thanks for the questions! Always appreciated.

No, I should be thanking you guys for taking the time to answer them. For the record, the questions are partly for a specific story idea in which Shinji Ikari gets pulled into Gensokyo by Yukari on a whim while he's running away from Tokyo-3.

OK, so, if we're counting all chars who lived in the Modern Outside World before coming to Gensokyo, we have Sanae, Sumi (as Enlong said), Mamizou (as Bocaj said), and also Kanako and Suwako. But! If you are more interested in the "Fish out of water" element of Sanae, then only Sumi shares that with her, the other three are pros.

I see. How familiar are this youkai trio with the modern world?

No, that is only very popular fanon (sadly). There is at least one Game Boy around, but no one knows how to use it, that's pretty much it in terms of video games. It is possible that many chars have probably heard of them thanks to the aforementioned Outsiders, though.

Oh. So I should scrap the idea of, say, Yukari/Remilia/Flandre occassionally killing time playing classic Nintendo-hard video games?

Well, even without video games, that part is certainly canon. The Kappa can build modern-style machinery no problem, such as cameras, or a GRENADE LAUNCHER (!?), and at least they and the Tengu know how to use it.

... How the hell is there no at least one video game console around if they can make all that?

@Dragon Geyser:

@Enlong:

@Hylarn:

edited 14th Oct '15 1:32:44 PM by MarqFJA

Those characters hadn't been introduced yet when Rinnosuke's first serialization ended.

@Marq FJA:

No no, we literally have nothing better to do ^^ And I, for my part, really enjoy doing it, especially because you seem genuinely interested (Also, your folder technique there was pretty cool, hadn't seen that before)

I'd say as familiar as anyone from our world, really. (Well, keep in mind that they left the Modern World a couple years ago, so they'd be a little bit behind.) Also, Kanako and Suwako are Gods, not Youkai.

Well, listen Why should you? The only reason why you should scrap it immediately is if you're as big of a canon-freak as me. So, you shouldn't. That's what Fanon is for. And there are literally thousands of fanworks where that kind of stuff is common (for example, I'd say 80% or so of all Fanon portayals of Kaguya have her as a gamer girl; not supported by canon, but literally only like three people care).

There actually is no reason, really With what we know of the technological capabilities of the Kappa, they should be able to make game consoles. If any fanwork (or a canon work, whatever) justified the sudden existence of video games in Gensokyo with "the Kappa made them!", then I don't think anyone could argue against it.

Well, that happened in the PC-98 days, which are very different from today's standards, and the canonicity of which is heavily disputed. Short story: Yumemi pretty much is a Touhou version of Doctor Who with a TARDIS. She just travelled over time and space to Gensokyo, simple as that. Chiyuri is her companion.

Here. Don't worry, I had never heard about it either.

Ohhh! I love that idea! That thing could certainly land in Gensokyo. Didn't he also claim to have made an Earthquake Machine?

Well, that is almost a complete mystery (I think there were very small, interesting infos strewn all about the official books, but I can't remember anything concrete right now ) But we can say this: it's Ultra-Highly advanced without a doubt. Could maybe be Protoss-level or something like that.

@Bocaj:

Very cute! However! I unconciously added an extra "t" to the end of your sentence there I dunno what it says about me that that happened. Or what is says about the thread that it didn't surprise me at all "Here's a link to an unrelated butt, everyone!"

Btw: unrelated photo of a butt◊

edited 14th Oct '15 4:30:22 PM by FellDeedsAwake

FM Synthesis music exists

It's not out of the question that Remilia could have got her hands on a game console somehow, but it's doubtful that she'd have much knowledge of games.

wabi-sabi

edited 14th Oct '15 5:48:35 PM by Prime32

Re: Wabi-sabi:

Somehow I don't think they're fans of that.

Well, maybe not quite the same thing. Rustic but clinically clean? The Netherworld is where they go to the trouble of fake-aging everything.

So the guy who has been translating ZUN's tweets over on Facebook recently finished translating the first page of ZUN's interview from Strange Creators of Outer World.

Gesundheit.