Soniman

See? Protesting does cause positive change.

Tristan really is a big baby huh

Tho' on top of that I wonder if the other writers were leaving too, lol. I know Donnie did but hadn't looked into the others.

Yeah, he won't be missed.

Just saw a caption of the tweet comparing the protests to Sonic, and WHAT?

A certain someone is clearly not thinking with a clear conscience right now.

calm the fuck down, tristan

Wow 
 

Look, Tristan had been a scumbag before with a shitty track even prior to today's shitty incident. I hope he's okay, and that people will stop hounding now that he's admitted his major faults and actually closed down his site. That's a pretty huge thing for him to do, and not one I think he needed to take. Don't respect the guy at all, but his intentions were (supposedly) good regardless of how dumb they were. Here's hoping he's given the chance to reflect and improve upon himself without being bullied. 

I'd like to see a line drawn under this now.

Man, some people just don't want to see it. That's fine enough to me. The channel isn't obliged to listen if it believe strongly in what it has to say. A news channel just for a specific other thing, it kinda feels weird man and you are making dumb correlations.

He was free to share it all the same, and could be proud at the dropped numbers. But he took it too far when he started relating Sonic to it and just kind of turned his message into a joke.

what exactly did he post that brought this all on?

@Chili Dawg

Found it here: https://www.resetera.com/threads/sonic-news-site-compares-blm-riots-to-sa2-and-forces.216699/

He made a post comparing the events of Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Forces to the police brutality incidents that led to the current protests to justify why he was talking about it on the TSSZ News account when people bitched at him for mentioning the protesting.

well that sure is a take...

Was that last line supposed to be ironic? XD

His heart was in the right place probably, but the correct response to people demanding that he KEEP YOUR POLITICS OUT OF MY SONIC would have been to invite those people to wrap their mouths around Trump's toilet pipes and eat all of the shit in the world.

Not casually make a comparison to a person being murdered by a policeman and the heavy handed riot response by the various city municipal police forces to Sonic jumping out of an attack helicopter and snowboarding down the hills of San Francisco.

TBH I kind of feel this is why fandom sites shouldn't be covering real-life news.

Someone ends up claiming "Sonic is about fighting opression" then it goes to shit.

Ha.

Well THAT happened.

Now that I think about it, it's quite the overstep. What about the others who still work there?  Several people in the replies are asking them to reconsider.

They just lost Donnie, so I think at this point "virtually everything" is the answer to that question.

Some people need to get some damn PERSPECTIVE and read the damn room

There's a time and a place. This was just so fucking not the time nor the place. 

“Thanks for the words, but we stand by our method” 

Ohohoho...I hope that follow count drops significantly 

You know ya dun goofed when you compare incidents to games with a cartoon hedgehog.

Reminds me of a couple arguments I’ve seen in Sonic threads. Only somehow, the ones in those have more tact and respect for the historical events being brought up

To answer your question:

no fuckin' clue, but i'm a little scared to find out what the actual answer is

What happened?

TSSZ on Twitter tried to make a comparison to the current riots in America with Sonic, and say that it's important that they make that connection and heavily report on the riots. Something along those lines.

And I think they still missed the point on why people are mad at them in the first place.

*facepalm*

I know they are very into journalism, real life journalism, but I don't think that's their audience, people on their page want to know about Sonic. Politics, real life and the pandemic have nothing to do with it. Fans want to escape from real life problems, maybe?

Game companies were talking about the pandemic since the start and no one had a problem there. Also the problem isn’t that they’re talking about the protests, it’s that they made an asinine comparison that insults the thing. If Nike, Nordstrom, sports teams, etc. can talk about the protest, game companies and sites can too

Yeah, the response to their earlier tweets where they defended posting the BLM content at all was generally fine from what I saw; it was when they made the asinine comparisons that the tide turned to "oh christ Tristan what the hell are you doing" 

Oh ho, I've seen these types of people. They're a lost cause.

I wish the dislike button still existed so I could use that, but it doesn't so you'll have to settle for a regular like instead. 

No Sonic remixes? But you're forgetting about that one Angel Island that we first heard in 2007!

I don't follow Smash at all, but from an outside perspective it's always looked kind like Sonic joined Brawl with a somewhat unimaginative moveset and has gotten the short end of the stick ever since.

The logic should've revived you by now.

Even more depressing when you see Jun Senoue brought on to do a Mega Man remix, but no one around to do any Sonic remixes.

Don't forget that Tomoya Ohtani also did a Splatoon remix.

Ugh. Don’t remind me.

Earlier than expected. Damage control, maybe 🤔

What was even the point of the delay??

Sony after the leaks is like "FUCKFUCKFUCK JUST GET IT OUT"

Oh boy, my last status got ninja'd

That's some straight up damage control if I've ever seen it.

....goddamn it, I saw the first comment 

^

First rule of avoiding spoilers: NEVER read the coments.

You got spoiled I assume?

Oh, this I've got to hear.

Not spoiled but none of the impressions I've read for people who have been are good lol 

Sounds like the crunch time didn't do this game any favors.

I'll be damned, TLoU 2 isn't amazing? Even with crunch, this wasn't expected. But still. Well... We shall see... Someday. 

I mean, we kinda got hints that game wasn't gonna be amazing as early as 2018, but yeah, this might worse than even the skeptics imagined in the first place.

We got?

Yeah, at E3 2018.

lol, all I remember is a pretty amazing trailer and gameplay. I don't know which "hints" you're referring to. Don't tell it's because of the gay kiss? '-'

I have a feeling is the opposite

Joseph has the better idea here. It just really was not a good showing for the game. Why would a gay kiss determine the quality of a game anyway @Jango?

I mean if you are a homophobe it decides a lot lol

Well, the gay kiss is definitely not being cited as a reason the game sucks, nor were the majority citing it as such back then either. 

I saw bits and what I saw was really bad. 

Ok I saw them what the fuck why

Well, you didn't pointed which hints, so I assumed something completely off, because I really don't know in which world the cutscene and gameplay we got at E3 2018 had "hints" of the game "not being good", quite frankly. All I remember is some folks saying the gameplay was fake, with zero evidences.

@The Master & @JosepHenry Gameplay-wise and/or story-wise?

.......... story........

Well... That's subjective, so I don't see the problem right now. Unless you're talking Rise of Skywalker levels of bad writen. Then we have a problem. Also, the guy spoiled only the last cutscene, didn't he? Perhaps out of context it sounds bad... I really trust ND, the worst scenario I expect is Uncharted 3 levels of "not as good, but still great". Anyways... I wonder what ND will do about it... 

Also, I'm 99% sure Joel dies, and if that's the reason people are saying the story is shit, that's really shallow.

Really hoping it's not even worse and is Last Jedi levels of bad.

Though for so many people to agree on something being wrong, is concerning.

Does it seem legit @JosepHenry? The backlash?

If it's TLJ levels of writing, it would still be bad. But let's not go as down as RoS, which is objectively worse 😛

Heck, I just hope it's at least as good as TLoU Part 1. People are likely complaning about one weird decision near the end or an inconclusive ending. Might I add that the SAME thing happened with the first game? 

Oh, Last Jedi is far worse than Rise of Skywalker. 

Besides, one little bad thing doesn't get backlash on this scale Jango. Just one of the facts of life. 

We shall find out June 19th. I rather see it by myself. I'm not interested in continuing to discuss content I know nothing about. If people are only complaning about the story, I rather take my own conclusions when the game is out, just like I always do. If the gameplay is broken, that's a bigger issue IMO.

Also, good joke about SW.

the cinnamon swirls in every bite

Pontaff Baldy mcnosehair cringe give like 

Sonic 06 remember when bad give like 

The second one is true tho

Did you just out yourself as an 06 fan 🤔

I haven't played '06 but I'm also tired of people beating that particular dead horse to claim why we can't have anything interesting in this franchise anymore.

Besides, I'm a ShTH fan.

I mean, yea.

I’m both interested and worried. But I respect how...bold Square was in going this direction.

characters people like so old timey sonic fans might be distracted from the fursonas when they see the box

Because whoever designed the cover art for Forces knew what would make a good Sonic game, and that being honest about Forces would mean making the game look bad.

Why was Chaos-0 in the game & advertisements whatsoever when it added up to nothing?

A boss in the game. Old favorite character? 

Because "ZOMG, METAL SONIC U GUIZE LIEK HIM RITE?" 

He’s facing away from the camera. He realized he’s in a boring game, and now all he can do is look away from everyone who laughs at him.

None of that stuff comes even close to the real bafflement here: Why is the Rookie sea form cyan on the cover, when he's red in literally every otHER FRICKIN' PROMO ART HOW DID THEY APPROVE OF THIS

@Supah Berry This one actually makes sense, artistically. It allows for a bit of cohesion between the three payable characters, by making them all shades of blue (even though the avatar is too much on the green side). It separates them from Knuckles and Tails, who are there only because whoever designed the cover knew that Knuckles, Tails and Metal would help to get peoples' attention. 

The boxart should have really consisted of both Sonics and a bunch of avatar characters, with Infinite looming somewhere. The actual product doesn't sell the idea of the avatar and Wispons at all, and wastes space with characters that shouldn't be there.

The box legit makes me sad cuz the thought of a game about Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles leading the revolution against a world spanning Eggman Empire sounds cool as hell, shame it's Sonic and Sonic's Great Adventure With You

He was a boss you actually fought in the game, along with Zavok. Think we'd rather he be on it rather than Zavok.

SPEAK FOR YOURSELF 

He's speaking for everyone with taste.

Think I remember genuinely agree with this a couple of months back but I needed some background noise so I put it on again.

And yeah, still agree with most of it.

Especially felt 19:50-20:10

4 minutes in, couldn't do it

You posted it, so what are yours.

I think the general idea is sound and agree with the broad strokes but it's about when he went after Mania Adventures and Overdrive where he lost me because he really gets wrapped up in nitpicky biases there. Overall it's a tad melodramatic  just to get to the point of them hating current Sonic and leaving the franchise 

I feel the same in regards to his opinion on the web shorts, but I understand where it's coming from since they're representative of the era that he hates about the series.

I agree with the general idea of the video, just that it comes off as a bit whiny for my tastes l.