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I think the perpetually quantum state of the tech level of Gensokyo is really funny because it really feels like it's just 'whatever is most entertaining at the time'. On a surface level, it's obviously old-world, but the kappa and the non-zero amount of one-sided, very occasional, very slight permeability of the barrier put a chaos factor on everything.

Like. If you ask a Touhou fan to explain it to you, anyone would default to saying 'yeah, it's like an old Japan, they're stuck in that late-1800s style situation', but then Hatate has a cell phone, like, the kind that only does anything when it has internet. Kanako and Suwako put their heads together for an afternoon and literally made a nuclear power plant for fun. Reimu has a robot maid we just don't talk about anymore, if you bring PC98 into the mix.

And then once you start talking specifics for long enough and deviate a single degree from canon text, people will in full confidence start saying shit like 'yeah Mokou plays 'gief in Street Fighter and Kaguya fucking hates it because she doesn't think grapplers take any skill. Eirin is so deeply sick of buying replacement controllers.' 'Marisa posts DIY Estrogen recipes on her instagram.' 'Futo runs a Twitch stream and she's the Gensokyo equivalent of Jerma985.'


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