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>>46794624
Enjoy the unknown, anon.

>>46638965
Anon, you are being completely silly.

It's not like there's people who believe that various monsters and spirits from legends are actually kind of extradimensional entities.
It's not like there's people who believe that such entities are somehow dependant on human attention for their survival, feeding off on strong emotions.

It's not like there's people who believe such creatures have intentionally shaped human myths for millenia.

It's not like there's basicaly global myths of nearly identical weird non-human creatures like tiny humanoids or demons and they always seem to somehow be doing the same type of things.

It's not like for example tales of encounters with faeries or demons are remarkably similar to modern day reports of UFO encounters, implying these creatures are somehow able to change their appearance to "keep up with the times". It's funny how there's not a Touhou character that did the exact same thing!

And if such creatures were to exists, they most definitively have not steered human society towards a more information dense one. The ancient egyptians didn't develop a fixation on collecting and preserving information as a way to please certain gods.

It's not like there were things like alchemy and astrology that paved way to modern material science and physics that were considered divinely inspired. It's not like practitioners of these arts also practiced magic and communed with spirits. Newton surely wasn't alchemist who considered his scientific pursuits secondary to his spiritual pursuits.

And even if such things existed, surely it ended by the modern age. It's not like Jack Parsons, father of american rocketry, was deeply involved in occultism. He most definitively DID NOT summon the "ufonauts". Seymour Cray, father of the supercomputer, didn't have a weird hobby of digging a tunnel under his house and getting ideas from "elves" there. Quantum physicist don't babble like mystics and there is no statue of Shiva in the premises of CERN. Psychedelics don't open up people to the influence of these entities and people involved in the IT revolution didn't use and abuse these substances.

So in short, it's absolutely silly to think that "Gensokyo" would exist as some kind of a spirit realm and that it's inhabitats could somehow access our communication infrastructure. People who have an intuition that the internet is full of "demons" are absolutely wrong! The idea that these spirits could somehow evolve to live on for example human adoration or sexual attention is not true! There are no examples of historical spirit creatures doing such. The profuse creativity these games cause in some people is just a coincidence, no human culture ever has attributed creativity to spirit creatures!

It's not like the existence of Nue, Miko or Yukari's and Kogasa's neediness for human attention are subtle hints to the reality of Gensokyo! It's not like there is some "Hifuu Club" metanarrative about outsiders finding out about Gensokyo with ill results! None of it is real! We need to go back to discussing cutesokyo vs grimsokyo and pondering the aromas and drop these speculations now!!

>>46507324
Don't you think the discovery of real spirits using a japanese indie game as their front to reach out to people is a conspiracy most fantastic?