/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Alfred the flamboyant.

It would have to be Yukari. I mean making a gap? Fucking useless. So you can change the TV station without getting up. Big deal. We've been able to do that for years now thanks to remote controls.

The fairies.

>spinning
More like removing curses from you.

>carting away dead bodies
And using them to attack. Zombie master?

>making flowers grow
Out of fucking nowhere, an Xbox sized Venus Flytrap eats you.

>>6450524
She could also make you fuck yourself, or put you in a fire, or well, you get the point.

>>6450526
Oh hai yoh.

Lilly's.
>the power to announce it's spring
Because my calendar simply doesn't cut it.

>>6450524
???

>>6450526
On guard!
Prepare to take cold steel!

>spinning
Hina takes away your curses... and can also give them back to you threefold.

>carting away dead bodies
Along with necromancy. And hey, someone has to do the dirtier jobs in Gensokyo.

>making flowers grow
Yuka can grow poison ivy to wrap you in, or force large fruits or plants to grow inside your stomach, or turn your body into a habitat for mosses and other such things...

face it. growing flowers is useless

yes she's one of the strongest touhous, but that's no thanks to her special ability

Keep in mind a lot of them also have abilities innate to their species, whether they display and use them or not.
For example, as a yousei Cirno should have the ability to raise the dead to do her bidding in addition to her command over cold.

Dead serious.

>>6450577

>Dead serious

You called?

>>6450577
Or being able to control the philosophical concept of 'cold'. Or bewing able freeze concepts and abstracts.

>>6450593
>>6450609

Always serious to variable degrees.

Come to think of it Cirno has an awfully complex power since you can't really control *cold*, just the transmission and absence of heat. Recall it was theorised in the past that Cirno's ability works akin to a black hole, or even more fantastically enabling her to control heat on the level of individual elemental particles.

All very simplified and not particularly scientifically correct, of course.

>>6450609
Or being able to drop temperatures to absolute zero, or suck out heat from an area (since that's what cold is).

While this may be possible, their competence also helps in how their powers are used. As Cirno is -usually a stage 2 boss- all she can do is manipulate cold. If she were a final or EX boss, then she'd have much more control over this ability, and perhaps be able to control the dead as well.

>>6450632

Isn't it easier to say she has the ability to make caloric particles disappear?

>>6450567
but what is if she´s letting the flowers grow inside someone else? I saw a movie a while ago where the main character drunk the sap from a holy tree which was rumored to make you immortal, but the sapstuff only enabled the growth of flowers (means his body was absorbed in 30 secs and nothing was left of him exept lot´s of flowers. If she´s doing it like this, she could kill off any enemy..

>>6450640
If Cirno can freeze things down to absolute zero, that would be impressive. If something reaches absolute zero it pretty much ceases being matter.

>>6450659
If she can do that without freezing the whole universe, she must also be able to stop the transmission of heat...

So she would be immune to fire. And I think Faily Wars shows otherwise. So she probably can't!

>>6450659
you need a freaking amount of energy to cool down somthing up to this point (exept you´re in space), do you think a failfairy like cirno has even a small percent of the nessesary power to pull something like this? from all i know the iceblock thing is more of a pun and she´s actual barely able to create a cold breeze and a bit snow

>>6450653

It's much easier, and I would've said it if I wasn't self-taught in adulthood after failing high school physics.
I thank you and will remember this for a possible next time.

>>6450640

True, you don't go from whiny paladin to undead king of the damned overnight.
A whiny undead king of the damned, but anyway...

>>6450671
>she must also be able to stop the transmission of heat...

CAN CIRNO FREEZE THE ARROW OF TIME AND PREVENT THE HEAT-DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE!?!?!

I thought Yuka's special ability was to be a snappy dresser.

>>6450689
damn right! she can freeze everything, even your AIM/MSN!

>>6450689

No, but she can speed it up slightly faster than other people.

>>6450632
Oh, you. Cirno's power is limited to what is intuitively related to cold. The actual mechanism behind it she has no control over. You'd think a being that could refrigerate could also transfer heat, but then you're letting yourself be bound by the laws of thermodynamics.

controlling supernatural phenomena.

>>6450746

Is that a useless power, or just a very poorly defined power?

There have been plenty of times I've wanted to bump back when something goes bump in the night.

Rinnosuke.
The power to tell what an object is and what it does?
Not gonna get you very far in Gensokyo.

>>6450802
It does when you make a profit.

>>6450802

Apparently in Touhou, the Kusanagi no Tsurugi does nothing, has no meaningful use, and actually is lost.

Nice with some variation.

>>6450802
If he knows the true value of any iteam, he can easily buy awesome stuff for low-price and sell it very expensive. He could make fucking millions or speculate at the stock market

also
>find complicated alien weapon
>be able to use it to enslave gensokyo

>power to wreck ships

Oh no! all the boats in gensokyo are at risk!

>>6450814
>Stock market
Whats he going to buy stock in Moriya Shrines, Nitori productions? Wait, does Gensokyo even have a stock market?

>>6450802
I thought he knew what an object was, but not what it did.

>>6450818
>sink Komachi's boat
>I see dead people. Everywhere.
Also, you aren't going to take that lightly if in a spaceship in orbit over Gensokyo, or in a sufficiently large tank.

>>6450814
>be able to use it
nope. His power lets him know what it is and what it does. It does not let him know how to get it to do what it does.

He knows a gun is for shooting, but not how to load or fire it.

>>6450827

A damn shame, when you consider how "Belief" works in Gensokyo.

Imagine what would happen if 'ol Rinnouske came into possession of a 1911.

There are millions of people, (i.e. any halfwit who's ever seen a Hollywood war movie, and even some intelligent people,) who believe that this gun won WWII. They believe it can mow down sixty japs with one pull of the trigger, blow people eighty feet backwards in six pieces, that it fires a giant, hideously powerful FORTAY-FOIVE that tears buffaloes in half, that it never jams, never fails, always kills with one hit, and none of them know it has a 7-round magazine, because Americans only need to reload when they need a dramatic 'lock'n'load' scene.

A 1911 in Gensokyo would be an item of terrible, fell power.

>>6450865
>.45
>1911
ABOMINATION

>>6450544
I have to agree with you on that.

>>6450865
That made me laugh.

>>6450824
I don't think it does. But he could develop a Mercantile exchange. Sell danmaku futures, I guess.

>>6450865
So what you're saying is that if you brought a glock to gensokyo it might actually fire a bullet instead of exploding?

>>6450865
Imagine that sort of STOPPIN POWAH against a flimsy little spirit

>>6450865
A damn shame, when you consider how "Belief" works in Gensokyo.

Imagine what would happen if 'ol Rinnouske came into possession of a Deagle.

There are millions of people, (i.e. any halfwit who's ever played an FPS, and even some intelligent people,) who believe that this gun won the war on terror. They believe it can mow down sixty tangos with one pull of the trigger, blow people eighty feet backwards in six pieces, that it fires a giant, hideously powerful FITTY that tears tanks in half, that it never jams, never fails, always kills with one hit, and none of them know it has a 7-round magazine, because Americans only need to reload when they need a dramatic 'lock'n'load' scene.

A Deagle in Gensokyo would be an item of terrible, fell power.

>>6450894
In Gensokyo you can fire a sideways Glock without jamming and with perfect accuracy

>>6450894
If it explodes so much, how come cops use them all the time?

>>6450898
>>6450865
he should use a luger or a tokarev if you ask me..

>>6450898
But Deagles can do all that. That's the reason it's silly to have one just to show off or self defense.

there's some kind of weird relationship between /jp/ and /k/

what's up with that

does liking bullet curtain games and real guns go hand in hand or what

>>6450905
Because you can use it to destroy helicopters.

>>6450905
They don't explode often. At all. It was an isolated problem with .40 overpressure rounds. It's just standard /k/ brand trolling, like /g/ and ATI vs. Nvidia.

>>6450917
One of /k/s most infamous tripfags is a Touhou fanatic with an unhealthy obsession with 5.7. Also theres something inexplicably hilarious about their memes you don't get with other boards, maybe that all of them are the result of uninformed gun newbies and the trolls who imitate them.

>>6450934
yup

Marisa

BOOF also posts a lot on /k/ too

>>6450898

And if a Sherman was in Gensokyo, it'd burst into flames the instant somebody stepped inside, roasting them to death as they screamed pitifully...

... and then extinguish the flames, and sit placidly, waiting for the next hapless, curious passer-by to explore the interior.

>>6450934

OPERATOR, with the power of OPERATING.

Perhaps not useless, but nowhere near as useful an ability as it sounds.

>>6450928

At this point I think it's gone beyond trolling and attained in-joke status.

Anyway, do we even know for sure that that's how belief works in Gensokyo? Maybe if you're fighting youkai, the belief you attach to a weapon can charge it with spiritual energy, but it shouldn't change physical facts.

>>6450552

Too bad there are few a beings out there that could take her out with decent ease.

OPERATOR touhous confirmed for Touhou 13.

>>6450969
pffffft like who

>>6450961
let this now ease into a discussion on whether you can use the power of Gensokyo to make conceptual weapons.

>>6450640

So this scene in Day After Tomorrow was just Cirno dicking around?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E87raPj9m0A

Fuck.

Yukari can't do anything to Saber with Avalon.

>>6450975

This cheeky fellow here.

>>6450969
>>6450975
>>6450552

I really wonder how Yukari got from being a lazy, lying, scatterbrained youkai of questionable abilities to being some sort of elder god in popular thought.

>>6451009

That cheeky fellow who's... about comparable to Yukari's maid.

In Japan, you never know with foxes.

>>6450975
The tree Yuyuko is sealing is stronger than Yukari.

>>6450975

Shinki, Shikieiki, hell even unchecked Flandre could take Yukari out.

>>6451042
With Flan it's a matter of whoever strikes first.

>>6451021
You're really dead set on that whole fox spirit cthulhu comparison.

>>6451018
She's not scatterbrained, she just has alien thought processes that are difficult for humans to comprehend.

>>6452290
>After waking up from her nap, she finally noticed that spring had graced her place of residence. The truth is that spring had been around for the past 10 days, but she forgot it whenever she went to bed and woke up just as surprised the next time.