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what tHE FUCK

Sonic saw his Shadow, looks like six more weeks till Spring again 

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Time for some Hedgehog Stew in the afternoon!!!!

Do I really wanted to be reminded of that?

Though I could well swear it was quite older, perhaps 1 to 3 years older.

Ten years later and I've still completely avoided knowing anything about this meme.

Oh God! I remember this! One of my Uni lecturers had us do one of these before a seminar!

Also, Has it really been 10 years? Blimey time flies!

Great tip. Just made it to the Jurassic Kelp Forest level and the jelly thugs were getting old.

I can't begin to imagine this being even halfway decent.

...and I still haven't played it lol.

E3 was great event back in the day, but it really failed to keep up with the changing times. And with the allegations of misconduct and everything, it had to go. 

I swear i did not planned this, lol.

Finally. A PS5 small enough to fit comfortably within my neighbourhood. 

*staring disrespectfully*

Looks like it fell out of the sky lol.

The PS5 was actually a species of mole gaming console that comes out every 50 years to use the bathroom

Back in my day, this was what "Slim" consoles were:

"MGR Revengeance Don't Fuck With This Senator Edition".

Raiden-stered

It's wild how popular sonic frontiers music is.

I agree. The game peaks on Ares. I know where people might be coming from if they say that Ouranos is best, but after the double team of Chaos and Rhea I'm just so exhausted and want the whole thing to be finished. Ouranos may as well be renamed Big's Big Fishing Frontiers. 

Chaos is a pain to navigate with all of its hidden objects, confusing layout, 2D sections and surprise lava. And then Rhea, whilst not nearly as bad, is another hyper restrictive section. The two of them go on for entirely too long.

Frontiers actually has a really solid concept for a gameplay loop and pacing on the first two islands. The open zones give you a lot of freedom and have miniature platforming and combat challenges that you can dot in and out of, as well more significant platforming challenges in cyberspace. It's very well balanced. Yes, cyberspace sucks balls but that's besides the point. Chaos and Rhea muddy those waters by taking way the freedom that the open zones offer. 

3 trailers in i still don't feel like i've been hooked but i'm sure it's coming and am pretty curious about what's cooking

Yeah admittedly it's what we haven't seen that is interesting

Underground and sky are good ideas but they haven't hit like the biome opening in the big E3 trailer just yet tbh, at least not for me

Oh you’re in for a shock in a few years then. Lol

This ElevenLabs stuff is crazy. I know that the tech was trending closer to making this stuff work but I didn't think it would be this close wtf

Pretty based if you ask me

Forget Sephiroth!

It makes me happy too. I just hope we see more of her in later games.

Really? For Sticks?

To be honest yeah, she is a unique character who fits well into the canon, design wise too she's perfect, she is definitely more than just conspiracy jokes.

Oh yeah, this is the good stuff.

The Sonic Boom is simple enough. Sonic is kicking his legs so fast that he's creating literal sonic booms. That's no harder to explain than anything else related to Sonic's running abilities. 

But the Cross Slash and Homing Shot are just plain weird. Sonic is creating and firing projectiles there from God knows where. Best comparison is SA2's Sonic Wind, which is similarly weird. No explanations for those.

I would say it is some kind of life-force, but I don't think it is that now. This isn't exactly Dragon Ball, after all. (Yeah, there may be similarities between Sonic and Dragon Ball, but still...)

I also wonder what kind of energy that happens to be?

Don't think about it. It's just rule of cool designed for the game. 

I hope it's something that's never explained or given more thought. 

I see. Thanks for the advice.

Explanations would be nice as you said, though.

I said the opposite. I don't want any more surrounding our explanations surrounding this. It complicates things and brings up more questions. 

Oops! Must have misread somehow. Sorry about that.

Well, come to think of it, I still would at least like to know the name of the energy that is.

Then you're saddled with the questions about what the energy does, where it comes from, who can utilise it, why its only available sometimes etc etc. They limit possibilities if they always have to be considered going forward, and create potential for a lot of plot holes. It's best these things are left vague. 

We already have the explanation. All the moves are an extension of the cyber powers The End bestowed on Sonic to fight against the guardians. It's all digital/dimensional energy crossing into the real world. Cyloop, homing shot, cross slash - all predicated on the digital energy being unlocked for Sonic to use.

He shoots beams out of his hands because he or The End felt like it, essentially. Like when Silver can manifest energy beams with his mind, but centered on the Starfall Islands and their cyberspace alone.

Its the Cyber Energy he spends all game absorbing.

poof.

done.

@The DeleterThanks so much!

@Blue BloodOh, come on, Blue Blood. I was just wondering about the name. I was not wondering about everything else. Not that I was dwelling or obsessing over either to begin with, I just wanted to ask a question.

I hardly even noticed the pace killing some. Still, I do understand what you mean, and though I liked Chaos Island, I don't blame you and your thoughts.

What's this about? 

What policies? I don't use Netflix...

https://screenrant.com/netflix-password-sharing-policy-customers-reactions/

Found it. It's about password sharing. Basically means that you'll have to log in to Netflix using the home WiFi network once a month, meaning that people in different households won't be able to share an account.

I hope that this backfires enormously. 

Blue Blood, this does not seem to affect Sonic Prime, does it?

I mean, seriously, this IS rather a dick move if anything still.

Yeah that combined with their other plan to paywall customers from an add free Netflix by jumping up the price. Anti consumer all around, I’m not supporting that lol
 

@ShinyGemsNothing about Sonic Prime had changed. But if you password share to access Netflix, you won't be able to watch anything (including Sonic Prime) without logging into the home WiFi once a month. 

@Blue BloodWell, at least I don't password share. Still, this sucks, and is so not cool.

Should be clarified this is only being rolled out in a select few countries:

Not that it makes it any less shittier, it's beyond scummy, and it's an incredibly imbecilic decision that will almost definitely result in cancelling more subscriptions than garnering them, but at the present moment, it wouldn't be Present Day Netflix if they weren't making just the worst decisions imaginable.

Either way, if you're in it only for Prime, you might be able to get the rest of the series watched before it comes to your country.

did someone say high seas

@AdamabbaI just hope that series makes it to its end in One Piece. Get it? One Piece? Oh, forget it.

Its funny. Netflix is only trying to keep people from blatantly abusing their service, and they are the monsters here.

Its kinda funny.

@Sega DogTagzI guess you are right on what you said. I mean, I do think this sucks, but I would not go as far as to call them monsters for it.

The thing is, the way that their system has been abused is kind of integral to their system even working in the first place. There needs to be some way for people to share the cost with joint accounts. Even if it was unintentional to begin with, that's exactly what Netflix (and similar platforms) have built up their entire existence on.

By getting rid of the option for joint accounts, they're going to be forcing people to choose one platform over another. In my family, my mother pays for Netflix, my sister pays for Disney Plus and I pay for Spotify. We live in different parts of the country. None of us are going to double or triple our outgoings to get these services. My brother can't actually afford any of these services, so without joint account possibilities then he wouldn't have access at all. 

Netflix need a different solution. 

I mean, it sounds harsh on paper, but none of that is NetFlix's problem. They provide a premium entertainment platform not an essential service.

They provide a service, and people have to pay for it. They are closing loopholes that have existed for years, but its still their right as a business to close them. God knows my family abuses Amazon Prime, and when the day comes when they crack down on that, I'll feel a little sad, but we had a good run. Either you find a way to pay for it, or you don't use it.

I'm not contesting that. And I'm certainly not saying that Netflix is something that people should be entitled to. They are a business and people should pay for it because it is a non essential luxury.

But it actually is Netflix's problem. They've fostered an ecosystem that they don't like. They allowed people to abuse the system (and they arguably encouraged it by making it so easy) and devalued their service as a result. I don't think it'll work out well for them. They need a different solution. 

Really?!

Because even if they take a bath in the court of public opinion, they stand to gain a ton more in market-shares and customer base.

I know families where 3, 4 and 5 households run the same passwords. If you nix the sharing and even 1 of those knocked off decided to buy in, you've doubled your profits. 2 and its tripled. Your multiplying the amount of potential customers who can buy your service. Not adding, mult-i-plying.

The math says by this time next year, NetFlix will be laughing all the way to the bank. I don't think they'll care what people are screaming about today when they look at the piles of additional revenue this will bring in.

Look man I’m not arguing that Netflix isn’t gonna excercise their right to do business, it’s basic logic that, yes Netflix will in fact make the descions that make the most money, but what’s good for them isn’t good for the consumer and it’s a choice I don’t think needed to be made

I just don’t see the need to defend the million dollar company here. It remains to be seen if it’ll be a positive or negative for their profit margins but as a consumer that’s not what I care about really 

I sincerely doubt that.

For most people that's sharing passwords, it's almost definitely because of those who cannot afford to have multiple Netflix accounts running at the one time. 

Netflix is already in a massive subscriber drop due to the end of the pandemic, on top of some terrible moves on their parts in getting rid of series people were genuinely interested in.

The sheer amount of good will this is going to destroy for Netflix - when the past year of shitcanned shows, and a animation studio they keep dicking over already lost them a lot of goodwill, on top of the amount of subscribers who are going to drop because of this nonsense is going to be nuts, and that's before accounting for those who are going to end up turning to more dubious means and cut Netflix out altogether.

Netflix picked the absolute worst, greediest way to try to do this, and they're only doing it now solely because they're desperate to grab any subscribers they can, solely because their sub numbers are now dropping due to their own shitty decision making. 

If Netflix had any degree of sense, they would have tried a family plan approach - in which users pay a few pound/dollars a month, and get access to a account that can have five or so separate accounts linked up to it.

Not only would it deal with the account sharing stuff, but it would also not be nearly the absolute slap in the face this is. For the sake of reference, this is what other services, such as Spotify offer, bumping the price up an extra £5 a month, but allowing 5 separate accounts to co-exist and use the same sub.

Its more a matter of disowning our collective preference to literally steal from them, rather then defending the million dollar company, but whatev's.