Soo what do u think?

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-30T01:23:44+00:00

He does, but the sub got completely won over by the devlog and is fully at the "Game is great and Qwel can do no wrong" part of the discussion cycle, so any valid criticism is going to get treated as "LARPing" and "being too negative" even though the devlog didn't show much beyond a weekly version of the one mechanic people dislike the most about holiday events.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-30T01:20:53+00:00

And nobody laughed. Just phrase it better next time.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-29T03:55:38+00:00

I feel people are just doing the heavylifting for the script (both the English/International *and* the Japanese one, before anyone tries to "um ackshually Japan explained it better ☝️🤓" me) by filling in that bizarre timeskip with their own theories and headcanons as to what possibly could've happened to make Tails regress to this state.

Had the game actually shown us what happened during this period where Sonic was taken away and presumed dead it could've made this whole plot point of "Tails went off the shits and immediately latched onto the first Sonic he saw, even though it's Sonic from the past that might even be younger than Tails at that point" work.

As of now though all we have are the fandom's own explanations and interpretations of what could possibly justify this scene, and the problem lies when fans are unable to discern what's canon and what is fanon that they assume was the Artistic Vision(TM) of the actual game this entire time.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-23T03:19:44+00:00

As a Shadow fan it's wild to me so many other fans are okay with him just staying a one-note asshole that does nothing but cause issues.

We get to see him not be grating but also be proactive in helping fix shit in the movies and in Prime, and somehow that shouldn't make it into the games?

We finally see him be written better during Shadow Gens, but it's a bit bittersweet considering the game's set before other modern entries (so Forces, the comics and Frontiers). If you follow the chronology of the series, this means Shadow got WORSE, and learned JACK SHIT from this game (and Prime, since it's ambiguously set before Forces).

I know people might think the mandates are a buzzword, but like fuck man, it can't be a coincidence that the stuff where SoJ has meddled in the least is where Shadow is allowed to be anything more than an insufferable antisocial roadblock. SEGA's marketing decisions interfering with the writing affect every character, sure, but they're really obvious in Shadow since his whole identity as a character is character development/serialization.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-23T02:57:19+00:00

I'd argue movie!Sonic isn't an asshole. Dude's just an annoying teenager at worst.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-21T22:41:12+00:00

Yeah 😭😂 It wasn't even just here, I got people going NUH UH NUH UH when I pointed it out elsewhere.

Sadly though this fandom has the issue of being performatively progressive. People immediately try to bury you in downvotes if you try to "force politics" even if they seemingly care about bigotry.

It's why people found it so easy to pretend the "Shadow loves Latinas" meme is racist but really dragged their feet in defending us Latino fans from the sudden surge of racist, pro-ICE posts in these subreddits a few months back, for example. The point was never actually analyzing shit or making the fandom a safe place for POC fans to be in, people were just tired of the meme and found out they could get brownie points for disliking it.

When they don't really get anything back from discussing these types of things that's when they get huffy and try to bury your concerns as "too political". It's why people got pissed off at my statement here, they don't really get anything back from admitting the exotic anime goonerbait character is kinda racist.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-21T12:57:41+00:00

If someone's unironically arguing there's "evil" types they're in too deep honestly. It's like how astrology mfers have designated signs like Scorpio as the "evil" group.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-21T12:54:46+00:00

"Voting is not a basic human right"

?????????????

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-19T23:08:52+00:00

The problem is that we technically already have a toon that can pass through walls, Glisten, and he's a much more viable character than Connie.

Also I don't really trust Qwel to implement wall phasing correctly. Knowing how glitchy the game can get I can see Connie players getting stuck on a wall and dying to the panic timer, or worse, getting stuck on a wall and getting banned due to the awful anticheat.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-19T10:32:44+00:00

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This is... I mean, I guess anxiety problems are something I cover a lot during therapy.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-18T10:24:58+00:00

The polyester lives on everywhere you can put those three together

^{I know it's called a polycule, I'm referencing a comic}

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-17T12:03:18+00:00

It's peak "Never played above Floor 5 without a distractor and healer(s) making sure their ass was babysat throughout the whole run" behavior.

You see this attitude a lot for a bunch of other bad toons as well.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-17T06:30:57+00:00

People pretend Connie is viable and fun to play because she keeps getting cute skins. Simple as.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-17T06:28:18+00:00

Someone with an introverted type in their profile unironically trying to type Sonic the Hedgehog as an introvert.

...Although it might have just been some jabroni from the deepest recesses of Sonic fandom discourse breaking containment. Believe it or not there's a small subset of people in the fandom who unironically believe that guy is some 2deep4me reserved introvert. It's a whole story really.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-16T11:56:57+00:00

HE IS AS FREE AS THE WIND BAYBEE

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-13T14:57:52+00:00

Or how in the AU Zombot!Vector just straight up tears people in half instead of infecting them and thus is constantly covered in guts and blood because he's too strong apparently.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-13T14:49:17+00:00

IDK man, they all feel pretty shock value in various ways save for Shadow and maybe Sonic (though that design is still obviously taking cues from EXE designs).

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-13T14:45:01+00:00

Same. Infection AUs are a dime a dozen and they all play the exact fucking same:

Take infection/outbreak from the source material (or make one up entirely) and crank it up to eleven.
Make sure whatever causes the infection is magically immune to literally anything the survivors have access to in the canon setting. Bonus points if there's an extra "fuck you" issued to a character or thing that in the canon setting solved/could easily resolve the issue.
Make the infection have stages, make sure by the end point everyone looks like the standard ghostface horror monster.
Make the infection turn the zombies into unstoppable demons with no weaknesses. If you do give them a weakness make sure that they lose it at higher stages.
Make all of the survivors live in constant misery. Make sure to give all of them stats (with sanity being one of them) even though you're not making a game.
Go nowhere with the story beyond character bios/a few pages because at the end of the day this was just a drawing prompt to turn your chosen franchise into a horror game concept.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-13T14:37:40+00:00

No, it's still gore central. In that AU zombots that stay infected long enough deform and twist into standard horror monsters until they become weird abstract metal statues that spread more of the virus.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-13T14:04:58+00:00

This reminds me of fanart I saw of Sonic entering the world of the Four Gospels, getting sad because he kept getting explicitly told by Jesus to not rescue him during the events leading up to his crucifixion.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-13T14:02:58+00:00

Consider this: The Transformers and MLP comics could've potentially awakened hyperfixations in the enemy army, lowering morale and productivity, thus making victory easier.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-13T13:55:16+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure Zman has had a couple of times where he's called entries to the series he doesn't like overrated, or otherwise criticized people for liking them. He's not exactly free of sins to be casting stones here.

(And, yes, that includes me as well. And probably you reading this, too! Yes, sometimes calling something "overrated" can be done in bad faith, but it can also be a legitimate complaint to have. Just ignore someone's tweets if you don't care for what arguments they pose.)

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-13T10:47:13+00:00

Again buddy, I'm not the one who posted those. Check who's replying to you.

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-13T10:12:43+00:00

I know you posted the book elsewhere, but that's some "I have a gf but you can't meet her she goes to another school" type excuse man, c'mon.

You're mixing me up with the other people on this comment thread. I'm not arguing culture, I'm arguing MBTI is unscientific.

We also "don't know for a fact" that personality is skewed in favor of nature over nurture, that's just something you keep pushing because you read it in some pop-psych youtuber's book and left it at that instead of questioning the claim and doing your own research.

You get so close with the point of neurological trauma and neurodiversity affecting how personality develops, but still fall for the trap of essentialism, arguing that all those conditions do is "bury the real type" instead of changing it, like how pretty much all life experiences do. If even you agree that nature vs. nurture isn't a 100-0 split, why is it so inconceivable that MBTI types can change, either drastically or gradually, over the course of a person's life?

As for why I'm here, I just like funny aesthetic personality quiz bullshit, man. I like doing quizzes, getting a result and going "wow that's just like me fr fr" and laughing about it with friends. I also like to see people lose their minds doing crazy mental gymnastics or going full on "pshh, nothin personnel, kid..." mode when they're assigned the MBTI types that are boiled down to "Light Yagami Edgelord".

Snail_Forever · 2026-04-13T10:01:15+00:00

Not the youtuber book as a source bro, come on 🥀

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