#God's weakest nerf tbh

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Has anyone told the people that are allergic to peanuts that they really aren't missing that much?

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My Favorite Touhou Characters circa 2019

aka Here’s who I voted for this year’s popularity poll would have voted for if the Touhou Popularity Poll actually happened at the beginning of this year when I thought it was going to

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Here are my 7 character picks:

Seiga Kaku

Miko Toyosatomimino

Yoshika Miyako *new*

Okina Matara

Saki Kurokoma *new*

Mamizou Futatsuiwa

Yatsuhashi Tsukumo *new*

Explanations for Each Pick:

Seiga: Surprise surprise, the person with a Seiga avatar is a Seiga stan (is that how you use that word?). Seriously though, I don’t have time to get into it now, but I genuinely love Blue Chinese Necromancer. 

Miko: Still the best Stage 6 boss in the series tbh. The only bad thing you can say about her is that her TD theme is kinda boring, but HM fixes that with its rendition of True Administrator. Otherwise, she’s leader of the best faction (Taoists), has the best extended family (Kokoro, Okina, Saki), has the coolest spellcards and design etc.

Yoshika: It's shocking but yeah, I've never voted for Yoshika until now. Too many characters, not enough voting slots tbh. There's always been one revolving spot in my picks, it just so happens that Yoshika gets her turn this year (just as Futo got hers last year). Jiang-shi are cool yo

Okina: Last time, I voted Okina out of hype for her lore (being a Sage of Gensokyo on par with Kasen and Yukari) but this year, I’m voting for her because I now legit enjoy her character. ZUN revealing that Okina’s intended as a powerful god of the disabled and other discriminated is super cool (so is having her manhandle dumb Hell Gremlin in VFiS)

Saki: Wily Beast and Weakest Creature ended up having the most fun cast in a while, so choosing any character to rep them was hard. I couldn't decide between her, Kutaka and Yachie. Ended up deciding on Saki because a vote for Saki is a tertiary vote for the Taoists / Ten Desires (yeah, I like the Taoists / Ten Desires, sue me)

Mamizou: This is my second consecutive vote for the Tanuki (or it will be, once voting goes up). It’s amazing how much Forbidden Scrollery changed my opinion of Mamizou. She went from being one of my least favorite modern Touhou characters to “favorite Youkai character in the series”. She’s easily one of ZUN’s most well-realized characters, after Reimu, Marisa and Yukari.

Yatsuhashi: Last spot was pretty hard to pick. I ended up going with Yatsy because, dammit, the Tsukumo’s, especially Yatsy, don’t get enough appreciation! I feel like there’s so much missed potential with the Tsukumo’s. I mean, they’re were born because of / for a failed revolution. They’re literal Tools of Revolution. How can you not think up anything interesting with a starting point like that? smh, I really need to get into writing fanfic one of these days. But yeah, they’re getting a vote because the sisters have so much untapped potential.

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 Runner Ups:

Kaguya: Labyrinth of Touhou has slowly been changing my mind on Kaguya. She's too useful, like an easier to use version of Patchouli with more support capabilities. (NOTE: After playing LOT2, where she’s horribly nerfed, I will not be voting for her)

Any other Wily Beast Character: I really think the entire cast of WBaWC is perfect and while I could easily pick Saki for the Miko Connection, you cannot force me to pick between any of the others. I love the entire case.

Benben or Raiko: Already explained my reasoning for voting the Tsukumo’s but I specifically went with Yatsuhashi since she really gets the rough of it. I’ve actually voted Raiko before, so I didn’t feel a pressing need to include her, though I also think her “Horismriver” arc gives her more than the two Tsukumo’s. Benben doesn’t have it as good as Raiko, but Benben isn’t called “not-Yatsuhashi” like Yatsy is called “not-Benben” so yeah, easy vote there.

Marisa: Who the hell doesn't love Marisa? One of these days, we really gotta push for Marisa to reach first place. It is a disgrace that Koishi's managed to overthrow Reimu at least once yet our Ordinary Human Magician has never gotten to do so.

Kasen: This one's shocking to me since, for as long as I've been voting, I've been dedicating one of those votes to the Wild and Horned Hermit herself. I’m still kind of in shock at the idea that Kasen might never appear in a canon work again (as a latecomer to this series, I’ve literally never not known a time before WaHH). The combo of WaHH’s meh ending with Okina becoming more active lead to me not voting Kasen.

And that’s that. I’m not sure I’ll have the same list if / when we actually have a Popularity Poll this year. Labyrinth of Touhou 2 really changed my view of a bunch of characters. 

Here’s a list of other characters I’ve voted / considered voting (more for my own reference than anything else)

List of Previously Voted Characters (By Number of Times I’ve Voted Them)

Kasen Ibaraki

Yuuka Kazami

Aya Shameimaru

Yumemi Okazaki

Tewi Inaba

Ringo

Nemuno Sakata

Futo Mononobeno

Reimu Hakurei

Shorlist of Characters I’ve Always Liked, But Never Got Around to Voting (Because 7 Characters Of A 150 Character Cast Is A Stupidly Small Amount)

Kaguya Houraisan *new*

Yachie Kicchou *new*

Kutaka Niwatari *new*

Hong Meiling

Youmu Konpaku

Kanako Yasaka

Parsee Mizuhashi

Tojiko Sogano

Raiko Horikawa

Benben Tsukumo

Yatsuhashi Tsukumo

Akyuu Hiedano

Kosuzu Motoori

Marisa Kirisame

Elly

[nycto-draggo]

So, Valve's finally asking community opinions on the TF2 update they're working on, thought I'd give some reactions:

Panic Attack- Uncle Dane's gonna lose his shit, that's almost exactly what he was asking for- AGAIN.

Ambassador- Okay, so Sir Stanger and the like are defending the current ambassador, but like.... What do you do against a perfectly accurate revolver headshot from someone that can aim??? That's literally why some people main Demoman, engineer, pyro or heavy- is 'cause aiming is NOT our strong suit, so we use positioning and other tactics to our advantage. In a 1v1 fight, if the other guy can aim well and is using an aim weapon, you're most likely dead if you can't dodge like a Geometry Dash youtuber or our president being asked questions; personally, I say we NEED the nerf Valve is proposing.

Dead Ringer- I don't even need to explain here, you know this thing needs to be nerfed into the ground, even if you've never played TF2.

Y.E.R.- I like the proposal of sacrificing your cloak meter to disguise manually- and especially the faster cloak drain. Means you'll have to be smarter with managing your use of the invisiwatch or cloak-n-dagger. Yes. You will only have 3.5 seconds of invisibility with the DR with the YER if this update goes through. No longer worth it.

Sandman- Personally, I feel this update comes from really inexperienced people complaining about getting hit by the sandman. I almost never use it myself, but I also rarely ever get hit by it either. A god with the sandman still can't really do much to you once you're hit if they're far enough away for it to be a long time. Still, I feel the change is fair. It IS a very Scout annoying weapon.

Bonk! Atomic Punch- I dunno, the bonk is underused enough as is without dropping Scout's key attribute after he's used it. This'd pretty unnecessarily kill the poor thing, especially since nobody uses it for what Valve cites as its intended purpose.

Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol- Okay, I like this change, mostly. Would've loved to see the return of 140-HP bonk boy, but hey, they removed that stat in the first place for a reason. Now where's the fix for the Baby Face's Blaster [spoiler alert: there isn't one].

Crit-a-cola- Hey holy shit, now the scout needs the BFB to run faster than normal. Thank god, because this 'weapon' was cancer with that effect.

Atomizer- Okay, I was a bit scared at first, but hey, now this could actually be fun to fuck around with. If seven of the classes in the game weren't constantly low to the ground. What exactly are you trying to do here, Valve???

Flying Guillotine- Forget what I said about the Sandman above, I'll be dancing on that god-awful combo's grave if and when this goes through.

Base Jumper- I'm a bit sad about this one if it does go through- I used to really like going on sprees with the air strike but never really got much out of it because of people that can actually AIM pecking me out of the sky regardless of the complaints Valve's apparently gotten. Whatever though, that would be good to see, having trolldiers get indirectly bitten in the ass.

Mantreads- Nevermind what I said about trolldiers getting bitten in the ass.

Darwin's Danger Shield- Why. Really, why. Pyro's already about the weakest class in the game, and a lot of people use the danger shield to HAVE A CHANCE against better snipers. Let the fuckers complain about the thing, DON'T shoot the class you're making a whole damn update for in the foot.

Razorback-  Sounds fun. Moving on.

Vita-saw- Eugh, didn't need that textual gore. Why not just make it ADAM and stick with the Bioshock reference? Anyways, the stats? Good. Throw off all the stuck-up pricks in competitive bent on uber tracking.

Crusader's Crossbow- Okay..... But it's still the only medic primary that carries over his main trait and HEALS TEAMMATES. Take a paragraph from Zenomite's videos, damnit.

Heavy's miniguns- wait what the fuck, there was an accuracy penalty?! a DAMAGE PENALTY when you start firing???? Valve what the fuck, remove that entirely! Half the times I rev up my minigun is because someone's jumped on me [USUALLY AS SCOUT, PYRO OR SPY]!

GRU- Well, it's a good thing I've already been using the Fists of Steel. Please don't pull that change through.

Eviction Notice- Jesus Christ guys, he's the heavy weapons guy, not a masochist. Don't do that.

Fists of Steel- None of the previous stats removed? So like, reduced healing AND keeping the melee vulnerability? //sigh// Alright.... I GUESS that's fair.

Rescue Ranger- Welp, now Uncle Dane's gonna be losing his shit in the other way. RIP him if that change goes through [and me, tbh].

Think I'll just casually tag @fortyeahteamfortress2- would be nice to have different people's opinions floating around on a more well-known-in-this-community blog, eh?