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New! Re: yikes

 Post date: 2025/6/25 (Wed) 20:26 Poster: spaztron64 Delete

Hahaha thanks for the clarification pang, I didn't think that was the case either way.

Glad to see you drop by.


New! yikes

 Post date: 2025/6/25 (Wed) 07:07 Poster: pang Delete

stumbled upon this because oppositewinner posted my birthbydrip blog/backloggd reviews. good god...
just wanted to confirm that I have no affiliation with OW or any of his inane ramblings. I am a normal person who happens to enjoy writing about games online, and I have no thoughts about touhou, the doujin scene, or plato, although I have been picking away at crs 68k recently and enjoying it.

on the bright side, I got to look through this cool site! so thanks for all of the archival stuff you've put together here spaztron, it was cool seeing some PC-98 demos and history etc.


New! Demo...

 Post date: 2025/6/23 (Mon) 18:55 Poster: RICOTTA_19216 Delete

I had no Demo until last weekend! I didn't strip any content, but for a Demo I kept barebones customization, I made sure to take away distractions before the actual game.
I wouldn't call it a Demo, but that would be comparing an Arcade Coin-Op to an RPG with multiple sequels and DVDs and figurines and Tea cups with said designs...
I want to emphasize this is Pick up and Play, the one real crucial moment is inside the game, and I made it so it throws you all of it within 15 minutes without a single break, take a sip without looking at the screen and you'll find yourself surrounded! - that's the whole game.
I just added Name cheats that you can insert, one of them is "CIRNO", your health will raise 10 times... I could make it so whatever you shoot also freezes... Or set on fire! 8D

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aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZvbGRlci9LRThCbENTQyNKSmxfbkxnMmR3RHpXUEw1VUJ4cTZn

Two Mirrors that point to cloud folders, you want to get DI_GI_DEMO.LZMA.zip - I suggest to read NYO_INTRO.TXT to get a feel of the game before it finished downloading (like a booklet)
If there's lots of words, laughs & tears packed in it, I'm sorry, but if there's a way to point out what the 7 GBs are for, it is by doing it justice.

Decode the strings using Base64Decode.org, I learned that way of sharing thx to some1 who posts a lot of stuff at Yandex


New! Re: Prev 2

 Post date: 2025/6/21 (Sat) 20:53 Poster: spaztron64 Delete

Yeah, I've known about Pepsiman for years by now. Also modern AVGN is mostly ass :/

You got a demo of the things you've been working on by any chance?


New! PEPSIMAAAAAAAAAN

 Post date: 2025/6/21 (Sat) 20:28 Poster: RICOTTA_19216 Delete

Ahhhh d00d, you want to watch this! lol

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VdVP2XxV3QU


New! Checking in

 Post date: 2025/6/21 (Sat) 20:23 Poster: RICOTTA_19216 Delete

Hi spaztron
I hope you're doing oki!

My last post was trying to weigh down the newcomer, but he kept posting :P
I will come back with a bigger weapon! But those are only allowed in Di Gi Charat

I made the railgun in my game yell out mekara beam as death message (:
A friend made it yellow... So I couldn't resist

So to answer you... I may be an otaku! I never got that compliment before, but I'm not towards figurines...
In fact I'm closer to the introduction guy that appears in Pepsiman, he has a whole couch and fridge full of pepsis...
Well for me it would be Dr Pepper - I always dream of that day.

Lol, sometimes It is wrong to pursue your dreams, this is a good example!
I drink water for the most part, If I want sugar I do throw in honey instead and tastes very well & very similar depending of what is being served...
Like good ol oatmeal! Strength for your body there, superior to those cheap sugary cereals ;)


New! Re: Nah

 Post date: 2025/6/21 (Sat) 01:57 Poster: spaztron64 Delete

My house, my rules. End of story.


New! Re: Nah

 Post date: 2025/6/20 (Fri) 15:49 Poster: Waiado Delete

What's the point of a BBS if you're just going to tell people "this isn't your blog" when they try to post?


Have you guys written Creepypastas?

 Post date: 2025/6/18 (Wed) 22:05 Poster: SirtheBastard Delete

Well, I just made this thread just because I want to. :P

Does any of you guys ever made a creepypasta just for the fun of it? It could be based on an existing franchise, or you made it by yourself.

Just for fun, of course!


Re: Various

 Post date: 2025/6/16 (Mon) 13:27 Poster: spaztron64 Delete

Well, things sure do happen when you're away from your machines for a while. Let's do this one by one.

OppositeWinner: I'll have to be the one to burst your bubble. Whatever the hell you're talking about simply isn't gonna happen. People don't care, and that's that, and neither do I to this extreme degree.
All this is to say that you can stop now, we get your point :P

SirtheBastard: Greetings, glad to have you here. I'm not too familiar with Flame's previous work, but it is what it is. Maybe this is his way of saying that he's moving on.

KelpieEderlinda: Sounds par for the course, I've been there since 2016 and have gone through incredibly awkward situations myself in my teenage years. It's best that I do not disclose them here, so as to not disgust the passerbys, just know that there's a reason why I only talk in the technology channel now..


"Do you know that Reimu is bad" times infinity

 Post date: 2025/6/15 (Sun) 01:35 Poster: OppositeWinner Delete

It'll be funny if the touhou cucks migrating to Len'en over the GenAI/Ruw fiascos makes the angloid nuArcade-cucks start going full joker mode crisis of faith and correctly swear off the doujin and/or STG scene entirely when they end up forced to look at Len'en 4 and its logical conclusion of doujin/EuroSTG-pilled ass and shop upgrade metaprogression system of doom which at max upgrades makes you unable to game over for up to at least 8 fucking minutes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmFEGBOjd0w) that makes shit like Hades and Vampire Survivors look tame.


Re:Re:Rants at the edge of history

 Post date: 2025/6/15 (Sun) 00:15 Poster: OppositeWinner Delete

I rest my case on how soy 3+ diffiuclty levels on the same set of levels end up being, especially if you're cucked Andrew Dobs- I mean ZUN and only spend like a month or two on each obligated game* for his touhou kitchen employers and the rest of each year on working with other cucks on shitty manga.

*IIRC I read that Impossible Spell Card took only like three weeks to make and I doubt ZUN spends that much more time even on more 'substantial' entries, especially now.

If you wanted more than two difficulty levels (ideally a normal mode and either a second loop or an equivalent that expects you to have mastered the game) you'd might as well create more levels and segregate difficulty levels to their own set of levels ala Super Monkey Ball or IIRC a bunch of SEGA/arcade racing games** because good luck trying to squish 3+ levels worth of content into a single level layout properly without cheating somewhere like ZUN does or like everyone else does.

**and technically Nintendo racers like Mario Kart but Nintendo is soy and added in more traditional difficulty settings alongside the courses because of course :/


Re: Discord server

 Post date: 2025/6/12 (Thu) 21:45 Poster: KelpieEderlinda Delete

I swear discord is full of weirdos, some of which should be on fbi watchlists!
During the few months I had joined the Touhou discord server I got several toxic DMs from other members thinking I was a girl, including two staffers who threatened to ban me if I told others!


Re:Rants at the edge of history

 Post date: 2025/6/12 (Thu) 21:03 Poster: Reaper Delete

You know these games don't *really* have 4 difficulties?
They're designed as normal/lunatic then easy/hard are just slop variants with a reduced bullet density multiplier and rarely some pattern layers turned off!


Hello.

 Post date: 2025/6/12 (Thu) 21:01 Poster: SirtheBastard Delete

Hello, nice to meet you, Spaztron64. I've known you since the termination of the PC-98 Ultimate Collection around May 2022
(due to being sent a DMCA), the same time where Moriya Shrine also got DMCA'd. The blogpost you made about going in-depth of how criminal ZUN did with stealing codes from other people without credit, upon when I checked the images that you showed on the blogpost, I was baffled.
He copied it one-to-one!! Not only that, but add that with selling games that are the same in quality when they were released, with a stupid price of $15, where in some countries, it's even more expensive! Even Higurashi is at least $7 on Steam.

Also, I was kind of shocked that FlameSniper removed himself from the internet. It was sad to know, especially since he made Awesome Touhou (it really sucks... ;_;)

So, anyhow... hope you have a blessed day.


Re:what

 Post date: 2025/6/8 (Sun) 19:55 Poster: spaztron64 Delete

Nah it's not an LLM, he's been known to put out long rants of this sort before those even hit the mainstream.
Also hi typeAcid, thanks for the greeting.


what

 Post date: 2025/6/8 (Sun) 08:25 Poster: typeAcid Delete

so like, I'm deeply confused over the last few posts and I wonder if they're AI posts
or is it schizophrenia

seriously, what even happened here, I just came to say hi to spaztron and was met with this wall of abject madness


Nah

 Post date: 2025/6/8 (Sun) 08:23 Poster: spaztron64 Delete

Ok that's enough OppositeWinner, this isn't your blog. Go put up your own site if you want to ramble ad nauseum.


Bossslop

 Post date: 2025/6/8 (Sun) 01:02 Poster: OppositeWinner Delete

As far as I'm concerned the only (non-caravan?) STG that is not garbage is Capcom's Gun.Smoke (the arcade version specifically ofc) if at the very least because Gun.Smoke has better general boss fight design philosophy than pretty much every other STG.


Re: Flame sniper

 Post date: 2025/6/6 (Fri) 08:12 Poster: spaztron64 Delete

His posts didn't hit the virality he was hoping for, and got harsh criticism on MoTK, after which he bailed and totally abandoned that identity.
I know what he goes under now, but I won't disclose it so as to not attract unwanted attention.


Manchildren

 Post date: 2025/5/27 (Tue) 20:27 Poster: OppositeWinner Delete

Doujin cucks are really just shitty dreamless manchildren Nintendo fanboys at the end of the day, as evidenced by the gigantic wave of touhou clones of Nintendo or Nintendo-adjacent games, and shit like Rosenkreuzstilette and Touhou Mother being outright Nintendo memberberry advertisements from tits to taint.

And you know what they say about Nintendo adults: https://bsky.app/profile/xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social/post/3lpxccrdkp22x

Granted, Sega "adults" are really just former Nintendo "adults" performing insincere performative penance over their former crimes over and over, as raped plato nerds usually always do.

"Nintendo" is the new n-slur of the current year for a good fucking reason.

Videogames were destined to die the moment Nintendo exploited the hole in America's console gaming market with the Famicom/NES.


Crutchslop

 Post date: 2025/5/27 (Tue) 07:02 Poster: OppositeWinner Delete

The other reason touhou has been a disaster for the human race is that deathbombs are technically parries and thus touhou is not only duelslop and exploitslop alongside modern action games, but also somehow parryslop decades before parries took over modern action games, and on a genre that's not supposed to even have room for parries in the first place.

Oh boy, when the universe saviors lamenting about parries and other crutch systems (https://bsky.app/profile/wokeblader.bsky.social/post/3lowtcubknc2f) ruining action games learn about how fucked touhou is in those departments and start thinking about unpersoning all the raped touhou fucks latching onto them like lovesick puppies.


The Original Sin

 Post date: 2025/5/27 (Tue) 02:56 Poster: OppositeWinner Delete

The infection and corruption of the global internet by 2ch (whether intentionally or because of moot's hubris) and its consequences has been a disaster for the human race.


Original Sins

 Post date: 2025/5/26 (Mon) 23:47 Poster: OppositeWinner Delete

Funny enough, genAI is very doujin-coded, as the doujin scene has proven to be a pathetic group of uncreative raped nerds wanting to make 'art' without actual creativity beyond mere memberberry amalgams of existing IPs.

That's probably why the doujin scene sold its soul to the touhou machine so that it can make and sell shitty clones of other games and remix derivative touhou songs over and over again with a more cucked source like some sort of cucked version of OCRemix. Like an endless series of derivative (Project) Zeroes from some shitty fanboys of British Leyland (https://youtu.be/CS-OnStcqu0?t=237) except more self-aware and thus more defeatist, insincere, and pathetic instead of merely pitiful, repeatedly foreverilly tiedup in rancid baloney and crying for help from the fire they caused for this privilege.

I wonder if "death of the audience" universe saviors finally got the hint that touhou is the epitome of the disease called "death of the author" which they prided themselves on opposing and nuked half their audience for accepting their initial lies that touhou and its ilk are somehow better than the insincere angloid indieshit they so liked to bitch about.


Original Sins

 Post date: 2025/5/25 (Sun) 23:06 Poster: OppositeWinner Delete

One of the biggest signs of the doujin gaming scene's failure is that they never had their own Inbachi/Okuplok, something that took at least a decade from release to conquer. The fact that doujin STGs are far and away easier than proper arcade STGs as a whole disprove the idea that they're not pandering to the least common denominator for clout.

It's funny that Crimzon Clover had the gall to tout "Shooting Game Never Die" when it was changed entirely for the much harder arcade NESiCAxLive release that became the basis for the global Steam release while the original much easier Comiket release with cringe shop system was forgotten about entirely. Which version is the definitive/intended version, then? Is it the original Comiket release meant for those who are trapped in the plato simulacrum network and thus cannot experience/appreciate proper arcade games? Or is it the modern steam/arcade release that's the intended product and the original comiket release was sanitized for the buckbroken plato nerd internet audience?

The best the doujin gaming scene can recover from this failure is to pretend that OG Doom(2) modding and/or the arcade scene are doujin somehow so they can take Inbachi and/or Okuplok for themselves, but that is a extremely cucked solution. Since the angloid arcade scene right now sees only 90s/early OOs era Sega and Capcom's arcade divisions specifically as the failed chosen saviors of videogaming from the slot machine dopamine remake culture menance, and I really don't see either fucking big budget ass Sega or Capcom as doujin-coded in the slightest, especially the former since Sega was big enough to be working with fucking Northrop Grumman of all companies for their 90s era arcade hardware GPUs.

When's those cucks despairing about modern remake/remaster culture changing/ruining/sanitizing old games instead of making new ones going to talk about Crimzon Clover, eh? Or does that one not count since they made Crimzon Clover harder instead of easier like the average remake/remaster?

In the end, 'fairness' is a sacrificial groomer tool devised by buckbroken raped plato nerds in order to groom the more 'Normal' people to their cult in an attempt to seem more "Normal" themselves, but it doesn't teach the Normans the hidden rules and ideals of the cult and leads to globalized Marcie Peanuts Easter Beagle Egg Soup situations instead.

Those desperate to attract the normals/normans like this end up creating stuff like the fucking rancid Ma"G"MML series who are made by people who took too much of the "fairness" drug from other buckbroken nerds and now are addicted to it by this point, desperate to attract much of the normans themselves in an attempt to become 'normal' while still perpetually bound to fantasy by their plato parents.


Re: Re: rants

 Post date: 2025/5/21 (Wed) 17:24 Poster: OppositeWinner Delete

Well that doesn't disprove the fact that MUGEN found a big enough niche in Japan to the point that their side of the tracks outright hacked the early WinMUGEN (the version before the more angloid-pilled MUGEN 1.0/1.1) demo executable to be hard-locked at glorious 640x480 instead of cringe 320x240 and also allow more than two characters on the select screen. hacked That executable is how most angloids are going to be experiencing early WinMUGEN nowadays btw. They were making characters left and right for MUGEN, especially back in the day. A bunch of their efforts, like at least thousands of them, can be seen on fucking Saltybet and Spriteclub nowadays, as they were mostly AI vs AI crazed cucks before Saltybet made AI vs AI MUGEN hip and cool to raped-ass Angloids as well.

The groomer cucks at Spriteclub can probably tell you more though.


Re: rants

 Post date: 2025/5/21 (Wed) 15:21 Poster: spaztron64 Delete

You're not quite correct with the MUGEN stuff. They already had SFXVI on X68000, which is literally MUGEN before MUGEN. Some fanatics still write characters and stages for it to this day.


Rants at the edge of history

 Post date: 2025/5/21 (Wed) 09:46 Poster: OppositeWinner Delete

You know that ZUN isn't a doujinist because he has four difficulty levels for each of his slop when someone with balls to make a game for themselves would only have two, max, ideally one. Same goes for playable characters.

You know what they say, the concept of fairness is not only a failure, but it's actually just a mind killer.

More seriously, as ZUN and the whole decades-long Touhou fiasco has proven, japanese doujinists really just see themselves as temporary embarassed big business companies, and I don't have any sympathy for the doujin scene being taken over by touhou and being filled with cries for help disguised as fangames of more reputable fangames disguised as touhou fangames that usually end up going "touhou bad and godblematic :(, other IP good and I so wish I wasn't working with touhou props right now" especially with shit like Touhou Mother and that SRW ripoff series.

The existence of Rosenkreuzstilette alone, being an unholy fusion of a Famisloppified Ready Player One (before Ready Player One was even a thing) and the milked to death Rockman, proves the outright failure of the doujin videogame scene even if we discount Touhou.

You can take the 2ch rape victim out of 2ch, but you can never take the 2ch out of the 2ch rape victim, after all. ZUN may think he broke free according to that one comment in the Ikeda/IKD CAVE interview, but recent events proved otherwise.

STGs are so last decade, anyways. Real gamers nowadays play only Sega's Spikeout and Crazy Taxi, Ghosts n' Goblins Resurrection, and Capcom's CPS1-era unsullied beat-em-ups/bmups/beamups/beeups/BeaTingGames/BTGs (MAYBE God Hand and the XBOX 360 Ninja Gaiden 2 if we're being generous) and think about the potential if we somehow groomed enough indieslop people properly somehow without them doing a Peanuts Marcie Easter Egg Soup situation and copy cringe Konamislop/Kunioslop/DMCSlop/Consoleslop instead like they usually do.

Long Live the glorious X68k for giving us the CPS1 as its prodigal son, I guess. The PC-98 is merely ADVslop at the end of the day because you can't really do much action-wise with 16-colors even in glorious 640x480 (which is probably why the Japanese went gaga for MUGEN in the first place when they discovered that the early WinMUGEN version had a hidden-ish proper 640x480 mode).

Devil May Cry and its consoleslop ilk are mere pied pipers luring us away from proper arcade goodness, after all. My 'employee' Pangburn/Birthbydrip knows more about that though: https://birthbydrip.neocities.org/articles/post_cag_manifesto/

In the end, as far as modern game crit is concerned, Japan in general (and more specifically Nintendo) ended up ruining videogames, by acting as a malicious pied piper that lured games from arcadey sensibilities (especially after America's videogame industry was left vulnerable after the Atari 2600 imploded in 1983) into worse anime (which is useless now that real anime is semi-accessible globally), which eventually devolved into pointless dopamine slot machines that steal your time and sometimes your money ala Balatro, Nubby, FGO and gachashit in general, Hades, Vampire Survivors, video level-based RPGs in general, et al.

Sega and Capcom, being the prime Westaboo game companies unlike their lame pretenders Namco and Konami respectively, had defectors that tried to reverse course, but ultimately failed in the end.

People like Pangburn would like to joke that Nintendo killed videogames via the analog stick in his April Fools review of SM64DS (https://backloggd.com/u/Pangburn/review/1501555), but now it's going to look more like a convenient half-truth fitting for the modern Plato internet caverns.


stumbled upon here and wanted to say hi!

 Post date: 2025/5/21 (Wed) 00:36 Poster: brampies Delete

HI! :D nice site!
tha is all :P


The great ZUN fallout and greater STG falling out

 Post date: 2025/5/15 (Thu) 07:07 Poster: OppositeWinner Delete

It'll be funny if part of the "unforeseen consequences" of the Great ZUN GenAI Fallout involves the current westoid hardcore arcade crowd finally rejecting STGs entirely as a now-worthless solved genre that died with the defeat of the Shadow Bee Inbachi SDOJ last year (the DOOM Okuplok of STG bosses or the Dark Donald MUGEN of STG bosses if you want to be cringe) and should only nowadays be seen as worse physics-less driving games for cucks who haven't touched a proper arcade driving game with a wheel controller like how Dark Souls and its ilk are now seen as shit boneless rhythm games due to their parasitic hyperdemonic parry mechanics and duelslop combat.


Re: letting you know

 Post date: 2025/5/14 (Wed) 15:25 Poster: spaztron64 Delete

Yeah, I'm aware, but thanks for the heads up either way.
Seems I've become public enemy number 1 to some of these people. Oh well.


letting you know

 Post date: 2025/5/14 (Wed) 14:06 Poster: 4sucks Delete

Someone posted this on 4chan so if this start getting flooded with shitposts you know why
https://boards.4chan.org/jp/thread/49412276#p49413678


Re: Various

 Post date: 2025/5/14 (Wed) 08:05 Poster: spaztron64 Delete

Okay okay there's a loot to go through here all of a sudden.

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OppositeWinner, your observations would potentially hold water had the series started with Th06, but that's not what happened.
Between 1996 and 2001 he's had more than enough opportunities, that he most certainly took, to expand his sphere of connections within the dojin and commercial distribution spheres. Taito employment gave his an upper hand from the pros, I'm sure of it.

Did he have shills on various boards on the internet at the time? No doubt about it, anyone who wants to hit it big there employs so-called "stealth marketing" tactics. Large companies do the exact same thing. This is just basic advertising.
It is heavily looked down on by their netizens, but it's arguably a necessary evil to break out of obscurity.

How close he was to Nishimura and the rest of 2ch staff in the early 2000s is anybody's guess, although in the current day it certainly can't be denied, seeing how close of a relationship the two of them have.
ZUN's online presence records in the PC communication (direct dial BBS) era are pretty much non-existent, and everything in the late 90s has been taken care of by Aotaka from Amusement Makers. As such, we can't say for sure how engaged in the post-Ayashii World he truly was in the years prior to Th06's release.

I seriously doubt anyone truly believes the series just magically sprung up into popularity from booth sales and buyers' derivative works alone. Had that been the case, Th02 would've been a smash hit instead of a game that only sold a few hundred disks.

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Ricotta, you've got a boat load to share, I see.

That game like film seems interesting, I'll check it out at some point.

I'm fully aware of that Di Gi Charat is, lord knows how many otaku I came across wouldn't shut up about it :P


Looked thru your CG Archive

 Post date: 2025/5/14 (Wed) 03:51 Poster: RICOTTA_19216 Delete

Hey spaztron I found in one of your sites you saved (they are missing equivalents in IQDB!), conveniently a flood of Di Gi Charat pics... If you don't know what that is...
This pic I found the other day in IQDB.org, it is more canon than anyone would believe me lol

https://e-shuushuu.net/images/2005-07-16-2611.jpeg

Forget the mekara beam, and the two huge hand guns, I want the helicopter mimi!

I have this game I've been sharing lately... It's done and it plays but I'm juggling its presentation, I plan to completely rip the menu off, that will shave off 1 GB because I had a FlyBy to go with it. lol (blame a friend for upscaling PS2-like textures to 4096x4096)
Instead you can access the levels from the file explorer itself, presented with icons, double click to enter :D And they'll all get their splash screen, will require a micro batch script and it will go!
What this relate to the beginning of my post??? It plays like Di Gi Charat slapstick, but with Quake 3 guns... And... Oh dear, 2000 bugs and dinosaurs, backed up with 90s music like Braindead 3 and MSX 00.1, both albums, I shared 1 of them here before
Unreal (version UE1 to UE3) is so customizable you can set it up like a coin-op, no fiddling, a click & to the game. It's what I dream to see, an example of a game that is a game and doesn't sacrifice any components in exchange of graphics, online-connectivity, platform-exclusivity, all of the padding that doesn't have to belong...
When you look at the oldest, pong, space invaders, galaga, new rally x, they are perfect and my dad agrees, in fact he loves that I'm into the same games as he :D I someday want to try an arcade stick and once again prove that one controller is not the master of everything, I know driving games where mouse is the best controller, or others were the gamepad is best, or others where keyboard is best!


RE: RE: Tears of Time

 Post date: 2025/5/14 (Wed) 02:09 Poster: OppositeWinner Delete

There's this particular page from a now-deleted/hacked wiki (hence the wayback machine archive link):

https://web.archive.org/web/20150622000155/http://www9.atwiki.jp/tohoantiwiki/pages/35.html

It shows that there was a bunch of shilling over 2ch and other parts of JP 'nerd' internet to make touhou a thing everywhere over the early Windows years.

Granted the wiki page insinuates that ZUN himself was the one who encouraged this shilling in the first place. The question is how the hell did he get many enough followers to shill his shit over time in the first place.

It mentions randomly that there were Touhou shills pretending to be STG people shilling even right after Touhou 6 released, which even the wiki admitted it was seen as a mere unnotable cheap timewaster STG at that point prior to I would like to say boneless EFZ uh I mean Touhou 7.5 opening the floodgates making everything before it retroactively popular.

Though the shilling really got going after ZUN started his Touhou fanwork/copyright guidelines at around 2004 and the touhou stans started doing shit like breaking the unwritten rule that "Doujin works should be on the Doujin boards" and spammed some STG board (not sure if it's a 2ch board or otherwise).

IIRC the same wiki also mentioned somewhere that he is/was a 2ch regular if not a moderator/admin, and a recent interview ZUN did implied with IKD/Ikeda of CAVE fame that he's very familiar with 2ch, so he likely had 'kindred' spirits back then that are willing to prop him up for their own ends.

I feel like some shit corner of 2ch used ZUN if not outright groomed him "Oz the Great and Powerful"-style in order to create a mainstream-ish brand in 2hu to leech off for money and clout without having to be creative or worry about copyright woes, and as a trojan horse to lure in unsuspecting fools to 2ch culture.

It would explain why touhou 'fan'games are all shitty knockoffs of other existing games less ambitious and intellectually honest than fucking 2000s era romhacks: https://web.archive.org/web/20170719140452/https://www9.atwiki.jp/tohoantiwiki/pages/38.html

"I have no creativity and yet I must create" ass fandom output there. People using Touhou as a disguise for making fangames and all it led to is derivative (hyper derogatory) shit like this.


Adding to my post

 Post date: 2025/5/14 (Wed) 00:27 Poster: RICOTTA_19216 Delete

Aaaah, the video card

I remember re-buying my GTX 750 as a GTX 1030 because it was single-slot! lol

Where's that 750 you ask? I have no idea, even my dad couldn't find it, It was there at first when we moved house (moved for the 5th time!)


Unreality: The Movie

 Post date: 2025/5/14 (Wed) 00:16 Poster: RICOTTA_19216 Delete

here is a micro movie worth watching
http://www.moddb.com/mods/unreality-episode-one/downloads/unreality-the-movie-se
and & its source
http://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://www.planetunreal.com/tygra/Movie.htm


Re: Tears of Time

 Post date: 2025/5/13 (Tue) 21:11 Poster: spaztron64 Delete

Well, if this doesn't dispell the narrative that I am OppositeWinner, nothing will :P

In all seriousness, this is a bit of a reach.
I've had the pleasure (or displeasure depending on who you ask) to meet quite a few 2ch regulars from NanJ, they wouldn't be able to organize anything even remotely close to what you're describing in terms of any grand conspiracy.


Tears of Time

 Post date: 2025/5/13 (Tue) 20:28 Poster: OppositeWinner Delete

The internet's soul was destroyed when 2ch and its black-hearted ilk became the template zeitgeist for the rest of the global internet. The game was rigged from the very beginning.

So I don't have any remorse for that metaphorical Prometheus being eaten over and over by Big Tech eagles as punishment for its hubris.

Touhou is/was merely 2ch and the buckbroken JP BBS culture's baby and trojan horse meant to groom Japanese nerds.
Raped-ass ZUN was merely the pathetic amalgam of the farcical "Wizard of Oz" and "Winston Smith 1984" meant to be the fallguy meant to deflect blame from what is essentially a 2ch psyop.

ZUN got groomed into this cult and became their fallguy wizard when he became weak thanks to Taito and ZUNTATA rejecting his shitty derivative musical resume. He is merely there to be used and discarded.

Also, I'm of the belief that the average doujinist, JP or otherwise, is a shitty plagiarist thief much like ZUN is. Saying that ZUN isn't a doujinist for being a shitty plagiarist himself is merely copium from his example challenging their deluded ideal aspirational views of doujinwork.

The raped HBomb Plagarism zeitgeist is unwilling and unready to tackle plagiarism seriously. They instead would rather use examples of plagiarism as a way of virtue signalling to cope over their dead souls.


As a man of authority once said:

 Post date: 2025/5/13 (Tue) 19:43 Poster: OppositeWinner Delete

Prepare for unforeseen consequences.


Re: Ricotta

 Post date: 2025/5/2 (Fri) 09:33 Poster: spaztron64 Delete

Nathan's site is pretty well known, yeah.
The whole thing about partial video loads exists to save on RAM and disk space in the modern day, because videos are pretty huge now.
Ironically though, the YouTube UI itself is so massively bloated on the memory and CPU sides that the advantages become nullified.


Proof I have photographic memory

 Post date: 2025/5/1 (Thu) 12:32 Poster: RICOTTA_19216 Delete

Oh dear, a triple post---

I remember waaaaayyyyy but waaay back then that I used to keep youtube videos on hold (pause) so they would load up completely.

I remember vividly, the, day, that stopped working.
Man, why do we forget things?
And why I do not sometimes? Is that because I find all boring in life but old software that I was too monkey brain to understand back then? I love tinkering it, with all of it, so much meaningful to all the statements and words embodied on what sits in my screen. Have you tried CFF Explorer for instance, there's a toggle in that program to enable 4GB address memory, you do not need a lousy patcher for that when this reveals pretty much a panorama.


Ant-sized clarification

 Post date: 2025/5/1 (Thu) 12:21 Poster: RICOTTA_19216 Delete

IE seeks to the past of the video instantly, which usually should always remain loaded...
This does not appear to apply for chrome browser or any browser based from it (if there's one that does please tell me!)


Life is a variable, not a const like 42

 Post date: 2025/5/1 (Thu) 12:06 Poster: RICOTTA_19216 Delete

I found a fun read! :-) http://toastytech.com/index.html
He defines ' modern ' as well X-P
That website has balls to say it is perfect

spaztron64: The issue I find with it is that it is slower because it tries to use less memory than IE... How do I put this... when you seek at any part of video; in IE it skips instantly to that part, in Chrome, it waits for 2 seconds and resumes... At least Invidious (which loads the browser's video player so it is the browser's fault...) Interesting, it makes it look slow so you use youtube and its own player instead, which is faster... ahhh!! nuts!! we are being tricked. so you can see I try to avoid chrome for those reasons. no big deal when I must use it either. But my opinion to establish my preference towards IE. I love to say IE now... Now that I shared the site above that completely rains hell on it! I burst myself off :) technology is... weirdly interesting. It can be what keeps us going here)


Re: recent posts

 Post date: 2025/4/24 (Thu) 07:32 Poster: spaztron64 Delete

Ricotta: Very strange about the IE stuff, especially if it's not ActiveX or Flash related.

Khaludy: I've been doing fine, thanks for asking. About that //signal thing, a friend and I tried it out recently, and to put it lightly... it's total rubbish.
Genuinely looks like something that's straight out of a 2014 Steam Greenlight asset flip (which it actually kind of is, the generic unlit field has tons of wasted space and is poorly scaled, and the Lain model is from a seller on BOOTH).
Would not recommend it to anyone whatsoever.


Answering ahead

 Post date: 2025/4/24 (Thu) 04:35 Poster: RICOTTA_19216 Delete

Do not worry about the invidious link, ill answer ahead to a future question. I wish I could open that page in IE explorer, video playback is a lot smoother in IE than using Krome (real name if you look up ungoogled chromium)
Why? A complete mystery man. It's like modern stuff is all broken! And undocumented at that!
But It's youtube man, it's nuts, and the zerg swarm of bots! As long as you do not touch proprietary API, you are as clean as newborn baby. But someone's got to get a knife and get food for the locals (invidious, breezewiki,nitter, even web archive lol for real it lets me open sites in IE where it wouldn't usually)


Like 4 Liquid!

 Post date: 2025/4/24 (Thu) 04:16 Poster: RICOTTA_19216 Delete

All fine, my usual hobbies involve enlarging my ego, and crushing my ego afterwards! lol
Like the GTA stars, it peaks at 6 stars but after typing the leave the cops cheat it's now at 2 stars
Then after tuning up the hardcore is back to 6 stars!!! Damn need a Hammer!!
Dopamine overload 101 and how to undo it 101.
Interesting days, no matter if the flowers are as quiet as frozen in the mis-titled greenland, what can I add XD
I have this really knocking game, it makes make want to fight a polar bear afterwards. lol
It's like DOOM (but plays closer to galaga, in 3D) but you are anime jackie chan and you are souped up with so many UT 2004 (that name should be a brand for drugs) boosters you'll be leaking out by the end of it

any way, favorite tracks are 01,10 & 11 from CD1 and track 03 from CD2
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=eM2YykFJtw4


Hello :)

 Post date: 2025/4/23 (Wed) 23:08 Poster: Khaludy_503 Delete

Also its been some time since i have posted, how have you all been doing :>


Lain inspired game.

 Post date: 2025/4/23 (Wed) 23:07 Poster: Khaludy_503 Delete

I found this weird game demo on steam, from what it seems its a Lain inspired game of sorts, i have yet to try it but i will update you guys once i get some free time to play it ^^
does not seem too high quality though.
its called "//signal."
here is the link for the steam pagehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3632190/signal_Demo/#app_reviews_hash


my booty.....

 Post date: 2025/4/14 (Mon) 13:21 Poster: pirate Delete

find my treasure.....


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