Okay, but multiplayer indie games, everything from Mecha Chameleon to Pratfall to Yap Yap to many more like them, are hits. Even if just temporarily, these games have had a huge impact on the multiplayer scene. Friends and strangers coming together to play games that are relatively cheap compared to their triple AAA counterpart, while also having a lot of fun over the wacky physics, nonsense, and/or trolling that may occur.

You don’t need cross-game features when you have people you hardly know and fun friend games like any of the above mentioned and maybe a discord call if y’all ain’t in the same room.

Definitely a tie between xbox360 and PS2.

Definitly not biased because they’re the 2 consoles I played the most growing up. No. There’s a totally reasonable explanation. And would you look at the time! Gotta blast!

1. Always cool to gear his Sonic is seen in other countries and to hear about the history of the franchise from another country outside of EU countries, US, and Japan.
2. Sonic has been one of my longest autistic interests throughout my life, so you can imagine how much I love the franchise.

I literally played my first Sonic game in a child’s dentist waiting room. It was Sonic Adventure 2 on gamecube. The next game I played was literally the Sonic Mega Collection for same console because my grandpa thought me and my brothers would love it. Yeah, I was the only one to fall in love with it. So, growing up, I had Sonic Rush on DS, Riders Zero Gravity and Sonic 4 episode 1 on wii, Secret Rings, Sonic The Hedgehog ( Sonic '06 ), Sonic Generations on xbox360, Unleashed on PS2 and xbox360 marketplace, Sonic Adventure DX on xbox marketplace, and Sega Superstar Tennis if you wanna include that game that came with the original family xbox360 we had.

Nowadays I don’t have all of those titles anymore, but my collection is more impressive. I got a Sega Genesis with Sonic 1-3 with lock-on Knuckled adaptor and Sonic Spinball. I also have a Dreamcast and a Japanese copy of Sonic Adventure ( which breaks my personal rule of not buying imported games if possible ). Got Sonic Heroes on PS2. I also broke down at one point and bought Sonic Frontiers for my switch. The rest of the games I have that aren’t physical copies are Sonic Generations ( before I even knew they were making x Shadow ), Origins, Mania, Sonic 4 episodes 1+2, and Sonic Lost World on Steam. Other than the games listed in this paragraph, I don’t legally own any other Sonic titles currently, besides Sonic on GameGear ( no console to play it currently ).

Sonic has been a constant throughout my whole life, so I owe a lot of childhood memories to that franchise. The anime/cartoons, too. Found out about the anime around the early 2010s and really liked it. Then when netflix got the two DIC 90s cartoons, I eventually found out about them and love both of them to this day. I knew of a Sonic cartoon because of old school youtube poop videos, but I was too young and dumb to figure out where to find them online back then because I was still a dumb kid. We don’t talk about Sonic Underground. It is fine, but simultaneously a disappointment, IMO.

Currently, I have zero official Sonic merch or any physical merch outside a hang up thing my brother got me for Christmas a year or two ago. Pretty sure it might use some genAI art because one hand that looks atrociously like the graphic designer didn’t have a clue what a hand looks like and has a weird, seemingly impossible pose I’d expect to see from a clanker. Would get rid of it, but it’s a gift from my brother. Absolutely waiting to see if in the future I can get a specific vintage Tails plushie that I cannot remember the exact one right now.

Speaking of characters, I am an absolute sucker for the DIC brown furred 4 year old Tails, either show and either Tails. The Tails who gets in the way more because he isn’t a kid genius Tails. The absolute most innocent Tails. As much as I dislike kids, I would sacrifice myself for that Tails. That specific Tails is by a very wide margin my absolute favorite character. Followed by regular Tails being my favorite, with Blaze ( purely for design and heavy Sonic Rush bias ) as a very close third.

Despite how bad a lot of Sonic games are, I still find myself loving almost all the games I play. The one Sonic Boom game I played on 3DS thanks to hShop and that one infinite runner mobile game from a decade ago not included because they suck. Same thing applies specifically to the Sonic Lost World special stages on 3DS. I also have played the one Sonic car racer on wii, but I don’t like the car racer spin-off games when compared to the Riders spin-offs ( Free Riders excluded because I have never played and probably never will because I couldn’t justify kinect for a single game ).

So, needless to say, the series has become a symbol of comfort and security for me. Probably to a somewhat unhealthy degree. It’s more than just a game franchise made by a company that would absolutely bankrupt itself if given infinite money. It’s more than just a blue hedgehog running from adventure to adventure. It’s more than just a colourful cast of characters. It’s kinda become this very key part of my identity and who I am as a whole.

Based on what I read/saw and got out of it, I am real disappointed it looks like it’s gonna be using genAI instead of another form of AI we’ve been using for transcription. Otherwise, sounds like trying to be a modern genAI version of that speech to text software I’d see ads for on TV. Possibly good for accessibility, but I’ll wait and see after it comes out.

At least they claim the whole thing to be done offline after model installation and it’s allegedly sandboxed with the audio data being stored in a memory buffer that allegedly will be erased after the session. So I’ll have to wait and see how this all plays out before making more judgments on it.

That’s the reason why I installed guake. I have yakuake on my laptop and tried it on mint when I switched on my old desktop, but there were some text issues I was too lazy to fix. Guake has been just as good for my use case, but either way I love both.

Drop down console is one of the things I absolutely love about MX, so much so that I had to install guake on my desktop I switched over to mint. I’m not sure I could go back to not having a drop down console.

Forgot how if you follow the main story in the beginning you face a deathclaw early. Forgot how they scale most every enemy down to your level. Yeah, not a big fan of that for deathclaws since they are supposed to be terrifying and strong.

I’d say the modding system is okay and dies it’s job well enough, but the settlement system? Oh boy, is that just an underwhelming thing. It’s a cool concept, but it’s done in a boring manner.

Speaking of FO4, my biggest gripe is just the loss of durability of everything, but power armor. That, and power armor becoming something anyone is able to wear and is all over, removing any speciality to it, IMO.

It’s kinda unfair to compare FO4 to FONV, IMO, but it’s still a decent game on its own.

Okay, as a Sonic fan, I can say with confidence that Sonic the Hedgehog ( Sonic '06 ) was a very rushed game and a lot of fans don’t like it, but I love it. Partially nostalgia and partly loving buggy messes you can sometimes break in your favor.

Same could be said for Sonic Lost Worlds, which has my least favorite special stages on the 3DS version specifically.

Low bar to clear, but it answer the question easily.

Consider yourself lucky you don’t have a clue about it. It’s just as cursed than the fabric sample fursuit, if not more.

The only bots I hope gets exempt are Internet Archive bots. Only bots I support.

Same here. At most I just gotta restart my phone because of an IP block that goes away immediately afterwards.

Okay, the art style kinda reminds me of a Nitrome flash game, so I am probably gonna pick this one up. Looks fun enough, too.

I personally don’t foresee this being that good of an idea. I foresee disinformation bots, porn link bots, and hate comments forcibly flooding the chat to ensure nothing actually happens, with not enough moderators to deal with it all. That, and twitch refusing to help moderate and instead shutting the account down in an attempt to silence him for big daddy Baldo.

I can absolutely confirm the thing about being more likely to buy a game after pirating it, at least for md. It’s why I bought games like Slay the Spire, Balatro, and Brok the InvestiGator. Didn’t have the money at the time, so I got pirated copies and eventually legit copies of all 3 games because I liked them so much.

Hell, for Brok, I even helped pitch in on funding for the 2 DLCs and have some physical merch as well. None of that would have happened without a little piracy.

The one thing I recently learned that sucks is they stopped support for their media codecs installer thing. Not available on their latest latest repo from what I can find.

Otherwise, yeah, the tools are pretty cool for when you need them.

I was wondering what they meant with that comment. Thanks for helping realize I made a typo.

It’d be hypocritical for me to say gently picked up given my track record with bugs, but my brain is wired to hate them because of my primal fear of them taking charge.

I wouldn’t mind changing that but I don’t have the time and money to get over that fear.

Call me a hater, but I consider anyone who kills any bug, arachnid, insect, whatever, a hero. Absolutely HATE them all, no matter how vital they are.

Edit:

Hater, not gated

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~ ChatGPT, probably