Absolutely breathtaking, Gensokyo in Minecraft

[Supertegwyn]

Weeaboo websites?

Terraria Online is a weeaboo site, apparently. Also, Touhou is pretty big on youtube. With again, dozens of videos with millions of views.

And there are plenty of alternatives to the word weeaboo.

It doesn't matter how big Touhou is in Japan, not many of us live in Japan.

 

[LilithSlave]

It doesn't matter how big Touhou is in Japan, not many of us live in Japan.

Most of the views of those videos are from the West. As Japan mostly uses NicoNicoDouga for its Touhou fix.

Then maybe you should leave? Find better pastures which can truly appreciate your tastes?

I would if I could find them. You know, I haven't found too many people mention other sites around here. Even when I've stated I would like to have selection. In fact, I've never seen too much recommendation on the internet at all. All anyone every says is "why would you want to go anywhere else?".

I did hear about NeoGAF a while back on an article here. I tried signing up, but I don't think they're ever going to approve me. I do admit I like most topics there better, and wish I had the ability to post.

 

[Doom-Slayer]

Terraria Online is a weeaboo site, apparently. Also, Touhou is pretty big on youtube. With again, dozens of videos with millions of views.

And there are plenty of alternatives to the word weeaboo.

It doesn't matter how big Touhou is in Japan, not many of us live in Japan.

Basically this. I dont live in Japan, Ive never seen a physical copy of one of these games, they aren't on Steam and if they are they have never been advertised. And on top of that its a genre I haven't heard a single thing about in like...8 years..

Oh I just checked on of the latests ones, Ten Desires. It was released at Comiket, a bi-annual Comic Market in Tokyo.

Your surprised that a lot of people haven't heard of this? Cause thats totally not a narrow audience at all.

 

[tobi the good boy]

Interesting feat but also as mentioned before I much prefer the replication of Bioshocks rapture.

As for your comments like this

Nope, genuinely no idea what it is. In fact you mentioning it is the first I've ever heard of it.

If this is true, and I still assert that I'm being trolled. Well... I didn't realize it were possible for my opinion of the Escapist to go any lower.

You've just made it on my, "People I Hope Get Smacked Very Hard Upside The Head" list. Right next to Jonah Hills and Jack Black.

 

[Bvenged]

Yeap, I haven't a clue what "Gensokyo" is.

Also, I see these people building things such as: a replica of Middle Earth, a castle the size of a city, and 128bit parallel processors; but where the hell do they get the time to make these things? Haven't they got to place them block-by-block ever in the flying, infinite supplies Minecraft creation mode?

Crazy dedication right there, whatever it is they've recreated.

 

[Supertegwyn]

It doesn't matter how big Touhou is in Japan, not many of us live in Japan.

Most of the views of those videos are from the West. As Japan mostly uses NicoNicoDouga for its Touhou fix.

Then maybe you should leave? Find better pastures which can truly appreciate your tastes?

I would if I could find them. You know, I haven't found too many people mention other sites around here. Even when I've stated I would like to have selection. In fact, I've never seen too much recommendation on the internet at all. All anyone every says is "why would you want to go anywhere else?".

I did hear about NeoGAF a while back on an article here. I tried signing up, but I don't think they're ever going to approve me. I do admit I like most topics there better, and wish I had the ability to post.

I never said that last quote, that was Daystar. Give credit to ye that posted.

I looked "Touhou" up on YouTube, and the largest appeared to be one million. A far cry from "millions and millions".

I have never heard of this series. I know NOBODY who has heard about this but you. Stop insulting those that are ignorant about a niche Japanese game with no English translation.

 

[Reginald]

How have you not heard of this? It's easily better known than Doom, Half-Life, or Halo. This forum is filled with awful, abnormal philistines who probably think Akira Kurasawa is a type of high-powered motorcycle. I have no have respect whatsoever for this site, which I have posted on over two thousand times. Ya'll can go to hell and die, twice! In all seriousness, though, if Touhou was as big as MLP, we'd all know about it. The fact that most of us, on a board focused on video and computer games, don't know about it is a fairly clear indication that it isn't actually well known. It doesn't matter how well known it is, though, as long as it brings you enjoyment. That's the most important thing, I feel. If you're enjoying it, who cares what others think?

Seriously though, Touhou is a pretty big internet meme on the level of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Perhaps I have an internet-y idea of what is famous, and tend to assume most folks on the internet are up on internet trends. Kind of like how Burzum feels mainstream, even though Black Metal itself is underground.

In terms of being well known, Touhou is to MLP as Abruptum is to Darkthrone. I can't believe I just compared MLP to Darkthone, but there you go.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

How have you not heard of this? It's easily better known than Doom, Half-Life, or Halo. This forum is filled with awful, abnormal philistines who probably think Akira Kurasawa is a type of high-powered motorcycle. I have no have respect whatsoever for this site, which I have posted on over two thousand times. Ya'll can go to hell and die, twice! In all seriousness, though, if Touhou was as big as MLP, we'd all know about it. The fact that most of us, on a board focused on video and computer games, don't know about it is a fairly clear indication that it isn't actually well known.

Seriously though, Touhou is a pretty big internet meme on the level of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Perhaps I have an internet-y idea of what is famous, and tend to assume most folks on the internet are up on internet trends. Kind of like how Burzum feels mainstream, even though Black Metal itself is underground.

In terms of being well known, Touhou is to MLP as Abruptum is to Darkthrone. I can't believe I just compared MLP to Darkthone, but there you go.

I was about to report you, but then i noticed you were doing that thing that people do, and it was a funny.

Lillith, we get it, you hate people because you can't buy japanese games, and it is our fault for not wanting them enough to get localized. but even if i know what touhou is doesn't mean i care about it in any fashion.

 

[MetalMagpie]

Never heard of Gensokyo. But "Touhou" is at least a combination of letters that I recognise.

If it really is such a big thing, then I've probably seen stuff from this series around the internet loads of times. But all anime girls look the same to me (and I'm not a big RPG fan), so I couldn't tell you for sure. *shrug*

Minecraft video is quite impressive though.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Lilithslave sure knows how to rub people up the wrong way.

"oh? You haven't heard of the world of an old, obscure, Japan only game from a near dead genre? I have no respect for you"

You need to take a step back. Not everyone has to like and know what you like and know.

Hipster Weeaboo, its like a normal Hipster, but the undergroundness is multiplied. Thing is, I play Visual Novels but I literally didnt 'know' any other words for a western website focusing on japaneese stuff full of people who knows and loves japaneese stuff, and marks all western gaming as 300kg men smashing aliens with their bare fists.

 

[Zhukov]

Genso-what now?

Well... uh... it's very pretty I guess. Although in my eyes it doesn't hold a candle to the WoW one though in terms of scale, detail or general prettiness.

Anyway, while I'm here...

Lilith, you seem to take it rather personally when people don't know about or discuss the games you like. Quite frankly, it makes you come across as arrogant, petty and more than a little obnoxious.

It would be like me getting annoyed at you because I've never seen you talk about, say, Mirror's Edge.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

300kg men smashing aliens with their bare fists.

Funny thing is that sounds more like Dragon Ball Z than anything western.

 

[loc978]

Huh. Learn somethin' every day. I'd read the word "Touhou" mentioned in passing before, but never bothered looking it up. A series of bullet hell shooters and 2-D fighting games that are often fan-developed, is it? Neat.

 

[lapan]

Some JRPG thing we're supposed to recognise, apparently.

Y'all gotta be trolling if you're claiming you don't know what one of the biggest video game memes and subcultures ever is. You know, the one that makes the My Little Pony fandom look small and inactive by comparison.

You making a joke that it is some jRPG definitely pushes it over the top and is hard to believe y'all are being serious. Well played y'all, well played.

Hey y'all, what's an Elder Scrolls? I have no idea what an Elder Scrolls is.

Touhou isn't really that popular outside of it's fanbase, and even in it's fanbase only a small part will recognize the word Gensokyo. Since much of the lore of Touhou is estabished in doujins and fan-spinoffs that narrows it down further.

I doubt it's fandom is bigger than MLP, though they might overlap to some extent.

Maybe you should try explaining what you are talking about to those that don't know it instead of insulting them for not knowing it yet?

 

[Jynthor]

Well, now I finally know what the Touhou tag on Rule 34 is fo- I have said too much.

 

[Retardinator]

It's kinda funny, it is. People who don't know about Touhou will say it's "oh some weaboo bullet hell shooter which went out of style ten years ago", completely ignorant of the big ass community and a shitload of fanworks which lie beneath the surface.
It only changes once you actually start peeling that onion and you'll notice it has infinite layers.
Hundreds upon thousands of different fanworks ranging from Youtube videos, songs, books, comics and games, to name a few. It's all right there in front of you and you just don't see it until it's too late and you're sucked up in the endless vortex of content. (Yes, I play Hisoutensoku, and yes, I'm bitter because it cost me my soul)
It's the thing that still keeps Touhou alive and popular.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Well, now I finally know what the Touhou tag on Rule 34 is fo- I have said too much.

Is it bad that unfortunate Rule 34 google searches are also what brought Touhou into my periphery vision?

 

[Lovely Mixture]

To me it's more surprising that this thread quickly became a thread about Touhou's notability than about what the OP intended. I figured the non-Touhou fans would just ignore it.

It's incredibly popular, there is no doubt about that. But whether it's popular enough to garner the attention of audiences unfamiliar with the doujin scene is up to debate it seems.

On topic: thank you for bringing this to my attention Lilith Slave. From what I saw, I liked the detail. But it brings to mind a question: can you make a separate moon in minecraft? (for the Lunarians and such)

Also were you intending your post to be very polarizing? (not that there's anything wrong with that)