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Ok, that scene is great. They took the piss with ugly Sonic. They straight up turned him into Virgil

There he is
 

Bruh....I don't put this at Lindholm's feet.  They asked him what he thought and the reporters went with it as fact and now it's potentially negatively impacting him.  You don't think that's being just a bit unfair to him given the situation?
 
 

More info about the Fei Long article, once again, game journalists showing why they are a fucking joke.

It’s working 
 
 

No QBs until pick 20. About time they stop over drafting that position.

Mario Movie delayed into next year
 

Not sure if I posted this here or not before but my buddy wanted to see the "vagina" on Orchid on my KI2 cab so I slid it out and snapped some pics.  This is how I purchased it back in 2002 or so.  It was from a Timeout arcade in VA so it wasn't privately owned or anything prior to this lol.  Talk about "one of a kind" though...
 
Thought some of you may find this amusing lol.
 

 

From what I hear, Tsunderia wasn't able to pay out salaries.

Truth is stranger than fiction.
 
 

Tails caught a serious case of American Kirby is hardcore syndrome

Ok so first first I'm gonna try to get thoughts out as unspoilery as possible before I get into the spoiler thoughts.  So those 2 things I got spoiled on were 100% true.  1 thing was in the script leak  (which was atleast 75% wrong so no telling if the script was old or not but I'm glad most of it was fake) and the other thing I wasn't expecting them to do but the moment that something is explained my mind immediately went "Aaaahh...so that's how you guys are gonna do this eh?".
 
So despite this movie having flaws, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.  I had a smile on my face through the majority of the movie.  I wasn't sure if it was just because I was a Sonic fan but my wife who isn't one seemed to enjoy it...probably not as much as I did but she thought it was cute.  The main issue this movie has is pacing and it's mostly contributed to the humans  (not Robotnik).  This movie could probably at least cut 10-15 minutes by trimming some inconsequential stuff.  Tom, Maddie, Agent Stone, and at times Rachael I didn't even have a problem with.  I actually chuckled at some of Rachael's antics in the movie but there times where the movie was trying to be funny with the humans and it wasn't quite landing or a scene had just overstayed its welcome.  Anytime Sonic, Tails, Knux, or Robotnik were on screen the movie seemed to be firing on all cylinders so it's even more strange to me when I hear reviewers saying "WE WANT MORE HUMANS" ...really?  You want more non action and sub plot that isn't relevant until its forcibly becomes relevant out of nowhere?  Ok...
 
I also had a hard time finding Wade entertaining at all in this film.  He was a bumbling idiot in Sonic 1 but there were some moments that did make me laugh with him in Sonic 1 and I didn't get that at all in this movie.  When he shows up, none of his antics made me laugh this go round.
 
 
Ben, Idris, Colleen, Jim...all did their thing and were the standouts of the movie. Ben is doing an amazing job filling the shoes of this universe's Sonic in terms and I'm sure as the franchise continues and Sonic gets closer and closer to his game's counterpart in terms of confidence that he's just going to to get better.  Colleen's Tails for this movie was also great and hearing angle from her as a Sonic fanboy who's just been watching him from afar before meeting and befriending him was great.  What can be said about Idris as Knux?  When people said he had Drax from GotG energy they weren't kidding.  He's probably my favorite out of the 4, I'm talking about.  He's not exactly a meathead like Boom knux is and it's more so just him being ignorant about things and being super straight forward and to the point.  Jim seems to be having the time of his life on screen playing a more unhinged character.  He brings even more amounts of ham than when he first played Robotnik in the first film. 
 
Action sequences were great!  Sonic and Knux going at it through out the film, Sonic running across the water to stop Robotnik and Knux,  and THE FUCKING CLIMAX WITH THE DEATH EGG ROBOT.  So much to love with the last sequence that I can't talk about here. 
 
One major gripe that I have with this movie is...again they seem to be completely allergic to using music from the games in this film aside from making a GHZ ringtone.  THAT'S IT.   That's all you get.  It's sooooooo disappointing.  They had several major opportunities to use music from the games that could have worked or even bothered to use Leitmotifs at least but no...absolutely nothing.  Sonic's snowboarding down a mountain...we can't get even a TINY BIT of a music reference to Ice Cap from 3 or from Sonic Adventure?  There's a god damn dance off that occurs in this movie...NOBODY CAN MAKE A REMIX OF A SONIC SONG FOR THESE CHARACTERS TO DANCE TOO?  FUCK...I CAN GIVE YOU EASILY PROBABLY OVER 20 TRACKS SITTING IN MY LIBRARY...IT'S NOT THAT FUCKING HARD.  THE FINAL SEQUENCE!?  Nothing at all?   You can't give me an orchestral sweep of the Final Boss theme from Sonic 2?  You can't even be bothered to try to use any of Robotnik's boss themes from any of the games and just orchestral it up to make it work for the scenes?  I bet if you asked Alex Moukala to score this and you gave him the boss themes from the games he'd be able to do it.  This is beyond disappointing at this and I'm actually pretty frustrated that we have this massive library of music that his franchise is known for...a plethora of genres that this music has touched over the years and we can't even be fucking bothered to try to use or reference any of it aside from GHZ...TWICE.  I'm just gonna move away from this topic...
 
I think they went too far on the marketing in the trailers.  A lot of the good scenes in this movie were already shown in the trailers which is what I was afraid of when they were releasing so many.  It's why I had to try to stop myself looking at anymore of them cause I'm sure a lot of the scenes would been even better if I didn't know they were going to happen beforehand.
 
Overall again really enjoyed the film and there were parts that I couldn't mark out cause, the movie theater I was in contained majority families with kids so I wasn't able to feed off audience excitement as the film was going on.  I'm sure if I had chosen a later time it probably would have been filled with more fans and it would have been better but I had to keep myself from popping off.   If you're a Sonic fan at all I easily recommend it cause you'll probably get a kick out of it as much as I did.  If you're not as big a Sonic fan you'll probably enjoy some of the antics here and there but this movie definitely feels like it was made more so towards the fans of the franchise and I love that about it.  Now...onwards to more spoilery thoughts!
 
Spoiler thoughts and Impressions
 
 

Sonic 2 did $71 million on it's opening weekend. Our boy doing low end Marvel numbers. The marketing push paid off
 
https://deadline.com/2022/04/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-ambulance-weekend-box-office-2-1234997180/
 
 

...this dude is going singlehandedly kill the knux mini series isn't he?
 
I'm all for "artists" (quotes can not be big enough for Penders) getting their credit for their work but this man is somehow being a bigger troll than I thought possible about this.  If the character doesn't have the same name and doesn't look the same then they aren't the same.  Trying to have control of a concept like 'Knux's dad' is so fucking vague that its dumb AF.  I hope Sega and Paramount grind his ass to dust if he tries it.

The one who should not be named is trying to take legal action because he thinks he owns the concept of Knuckles having parents.
 
 

Sad news man. Dude was only 24.....
 
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/04/09/dwayne-haskins-struck-by-car-and-killed/

YouTube Streamer With 6.9M Followers Banned After Valorant Tirade Clip Surfaces
In maybe the swiftest escalation of 2022, gaming YouTuber and experimental rapper IShowSpeed was banned from Valorant (and other Riot Games titles) and potentially YouTube for demeaning a female player in Riot’s tactical hero shooter. IShowSpeed has since apologized for his behavior, saying he was “not having a good day” in the clip that went viral and appears to have sparked the ban. While moderation was speedy, the entire debacle has sparked discussion around trash talk in games, and who gets a second chance when they’re young and reckless.
 
IShowSpeed is best known as a variety streamer that primarily plays Fortnite and NBA 2K games, though he streams other things like Five Nights At Freddy’s and Super Meat Boy, too. He’s been on YouTube since at least 2016, uploading gameplay videos here and there, but rose to prominence in 2021 after memes of his explosive behavior—often filled with physical or verbal violence toward the game, his teammates, the camera, or all of the above—proliferated online. This is what IShowSpeed’s become known for: an eccentric personality with a tendency to blow up in stereotypical gamer rage. And, it’s worth noting, IShowSpeed is one of the biggest and fastest-rising streamers on the platform.
Unfortunately, it’s that gamer rage that got IShowSpeed in trouble this week. Esports commentator Jake Lucky spotted an old clip of IShowSpeed screaming at a female Valorant player. In the video, IShowSpeed told the player to “get off the fucking game and do your husband’s dishes” at the top of his lungs. It’s a tense exchange, occurring moments after an enemy player killed him.
 


 
I get it. Discrimination of any kind boils the blood. That rising tension in the body, the burning anger festering in the gut, can result in some damning actions or speech. I’ve thrown controllers before, told teammates they suck when they ignore the objective, but it’s always out of competitive frustrations, never outright animosity. IShowSpeed may or may not be a minor—there are two 2021 songs in which he claims to be 16, but there’s a March 2021 YouTube stream where he says he is 19 years old—but even if he’s young, this level of verbal assault is unacceptable and doesn’t even come close to what could be defended as ‘harmless’ trash talking.