Indigo Rush

Not Betty the Butterfly?? God, Indy, it’s like you aren’t even a real fan of this franchise.

Voiced by Jason Griffith too. If at least he was in a single advert that I saw many years ago.

This is Sonic's very special surprise for his 30th anniversary and if you don't appreciate Bongo the Monkey then I don't think I can call you a true Sonic fan 

What do you mean I got the wrong guy?

 @Cuz now imagine that thing grinding on a rail and rolling.

Oh, you got married? Sorry I haven't been around to see such an occasion talk of. Congrats. Hope for many happy years to come.

Congratulations once again friend!

The best man isn’t on SSMB. I call BS.

Just kidding. Congratulations!

Congrats! 

.......This isn't the return of the Fake Wedding Arc is it?

This time it's legit. Congrats man!

Congrats!

Congratulations!

Unless both your fiancé and best man join SSMB to congratulate you, I don't believe a word you say.

GG Indy! Good luck out there!

Well, if this is true, then congratulations are certainly in order!

Congratulations

Congratulations man, here's to a blessed future for you two!

Congratulations on the marriage! Here's to a long and fulfilling life together!

At least here's a Sonic Stadium marriage that's actually real lmao

@Polkadi~☆ Well, to be fair, there's also the one between @JezMM and that female member who's name I can't recall at the moment. They're a couple IRL.

Congrats, man!

Yooo, congrats! You'll be a great husband!

Grats Indigo!

Congrats dude, hope its a nice day for you! 

Good luck tomorrow and congratulations!

Congrats Indigo! Have a wonderful day! 🎩

Love you guys!!! I'm excited. There'll probably be pics on Twitter in the next few days after tomorrow's ceremony. 

And yes, this one is real 😛

@Jovahexeon The Undyne Haha I don't think we count anymore, Mollfie hasn't posted (or possibly even logged in) here in years now XD

But anyway, congrats Indigo and enjoy your day!  I'll give you the same advice my Mum gave me, it's sure to be a wonderful experience but it'll be over before you know it, so whenever you think of it or get a minute to breathe, stop, look around, really take stock of the celebration and little details around you and drink in the moment while, well, it's still "the moment" and not a fond memory yet!  Best of luck to you both with the day and all that follows!

(and add new DLC thenks)

Sonic generations & Eggman's fury

but forces basically was gens dlc

If Forces is Gens DLC then Sonic 4 is a prequel to Sonic Mania 

Gens was dlc for Colours

SLW was dlc for Sonic 4

Forces was dlc for Rise of Lyric

-> Ports that are anything else but Mega Drive games

Hah, funny, that.

One port of the Steam version of SADX coming up!

There's a Live and Learn and Seaside Hill in this style too. Overall a really good album, came out about 2018/2019 I believe.

I feel like there was a crowd singing along to this.

Random stage/act order, maybe.

Randomise which zone you go to next for maximum carnage.

This is kinda sorta randomizing-

random level order plus random character per level would make the most sense, i think. you could do monitors but in most cases i don't think it'd make much difference, randomized badniks might be hard to make work due to some needing certain environments to work properly.

I've said before that I'd have really liked to have seen a randomiser element in Mania's Encore Mode. Ideally it would have randomised all of the level order (but still start in AIZ and end in TMZ), and that could be accomplished by having the Ruby warp the characters at the end of each act (like it does between PGZ2 and SSZ1). Within the levels, certain Badniks could have been added to a limited randomiser pool with enough forethought put into which ones are interchangeable and what terrain limits were in place. The overall level layouts couldn't be changed, obviously.

Random palette swaps.

OH NO DUDE I'M SORRY THAT SUCKS I really hope it's not serious...

How's your part of the world coming along with vaccines? Think you can fight to give your appointment a higher priority so you can schedule it sooner if it isn't coming up soon already?

I hope you get well soon, man :/

Hope you get well soon!! 

Please take care, man. I hope it's not serious and you'll feel better soon.

Take it easy dude, sure you'll be ok.

Please take care. I hope you get well soon.

Get well soon dude.

Sorry to hear man, here's for a quick recovery.

Been there, you can win this! I'm sure you'll come out of it without a scratch, pal 👊 Take it easy and drink lots of water.

Sorry to hear, man. Hoping this ends well for you.

Sorry to hear that, hopefully you can recover/get a vaccine quickly.

Update: this is day 3 of feeling sick, and it's all been a low-grade fever, chills, aches and a sore throat with a cough. Not fun. I'm hoping it doesn't get much worse than this.

Can you still smell or taste?

I hope its not too much trouble distancing yourself from your family if you enjoy hanging out with them often. Think you can keep yourself busy (as busy as your health'll let you at least) and stay in touch with your folks till you get your vaccine?

I'm already living apart from my fiancee right now so I've got that covered. My family lives in a different state so they're safe from me by default. Doctors say to not take the vaccine while infected. By the time I get over it, I'll already be getting ready for the Wedding. 

The worst right now is the sore throat, it's like... worse than strep. I can hardly swallow water without being in pain 

Dang, that sucks. Are you taking any kind of medicine for the fever or throat? I only took one for fever (because my doctor said it'd be OK) eventhough I didn't had any. I did took Vitamins C and D capsules because I'm low on them anyways, and since they're known for pumping up your imune system, it was a good precaution. 

Hopefully just the latter...

Well, my sister caught the flu, but we all freaked out and thought she got COVID...

Update: low grade fever

... Crap

Debatable. Have you ever looked at it from someone else's perspective?

Are you sure? I thought he was a needlemouse

We should have a scathing 5-page debate about this.

A over 3 foot tall anthro hedgehog sure. I feel SonicTeam should really come up with a broad term for the Sonicy alien humanoid animal species they create as they are clearly different from the normal animals or the tiny animals too. I know fans like to use the term mobian, but i don't think SonicTeam uses it.

That may be true, but he's also a guy that loves adventure:

... Isn't a Sonic and Eggman game just like 99.9% of most Sonic games? 

Or is this some buddy cop handcuffed together situation?

Like, where both are the main playable characters

Depends on the type of game it is; we're talking a platformer or another genre?

I'd take these two awesome characters with tons of history put them in a banal spin-off with only mini games and there's no need for a plot either. I'm thinking something like a cross between Mario & Sonic Olympics and Crash Purple/Spyro Orange. It would be amazing.

A solo Eggman dungeon builder/tower defense is kind of a neat idea tbh.

@Blue Blood Its cheap and affordable and people will buy it anyway. Sounds like a Sega move. 

My idea Eggman game would basically be the Mis-Adventures of Tron Bonne 

I'd take a similar approach to sa2 with choosing good or evil and tell each characters story from their own perspective. You'd probably need some outside force like the black arms or gun to have a common enemy for both of them to take on but still have a handful of sonic vs eggman fights when they inevitably clash.

Sonic would play how you'd expect him to and eggman would be in his egg walker I'd just make it more mobile. Immediately I imagine the chicken legs on his mech could give him kazooie moves like a high jump, faster run speed, and straightening so he could go over obstacles like spikes, quicksand, shallow water, etc etc unharmed. I love the idea of eggman gunning down huge hordes of enemies and he could have a close range move where he grabs the enemy himself and punches them  since eggman himself is a pretty strong guy. That'd be POWERFUL.

Honestly I've been thirsting for another playable eggman appearance again real bad. 

Just make Mean bean machine 2.

Final boss against a kaiju as Death Egg Robot firing out Super Sonic like a cannon is sort of what I'm leading up to here 

i think the most obvious angle would be to give eggman some gadgets that put him on a similar level to sonic, though i'm not sure where exactly to go from there. maybe do something like the ring tether from chaotix, have them be forced to work together, give them some team-up moves that are  not exactly "friendly" cooperation.

@Diogenes you just put this in my head: Sonic pushing Eggman around like Billy Hatcher and the giant egg

....So Sonic Twinsanity?

I hadn't noticed the lack of his trademark greetings, but yeah I don't think I've seen them in a while? He's been logged in and reacting to stuff, but hasn't posted anything in a month.

https://board.sonicstadium.org/profile/6770-failinhearts/ 

He’s active on Twitter and discord 

As someone who keeps in contact with him through the PM RP I can say he's still around. Just very busy with RL stuff.

Pretty much, if you bother to check his content it's one of the first things that pop up.

I can echo what Emperor said. It's mostly school work keeping him busy.

I'm still here every day! Just... yeah busy, busy, busy.

And two, the status system has been very unreliable on my tablet. Made posting the morning greetings really tedious.

I appreciate everyone's responses here, though! Glad I'm not forgotten, lol.

It's okay, bud, I like them too

Man, you a Sonic fan. You should be used to this.

Haha! I get it!

420 Blaze it!

Haha funi!

can someone who was there give the summary of what happened

I wanna know what happened lol

I think every compromise that could be made would lead to somewhat severe backlash tbh. It's better for them to just pick the solution that they're the most confident in and go from there. They just dug themselves in too deep of a hole with this one.

I'm honestly fine with continuing to make "classic style" games whether that's "modern art" with the more true to the Genesis physics and gameplay or with the "classic art." Either I think are valid aesthetic choices and it's always rubbed me the wrong way when it felt like Sega was trying to make a branding division for the sake of catering to several different audiences. I think there's a lot of fun possibilities to cross-pollinate both of them since they were mostly understood to be extensions of the other compared to something like Boom or the movie which were designed as their own universes already.

Kind of feels like the door's been shut on that though which is a shame.

If Nintendo can incorporate 2D, 3D and everything in between, sure as hell Sega can do the same with Sonic. Just call it Universe 2D and Universe 3D so ne'er the twain shall meet, except in special anniversary games or whatever like Doctor Who.

I'd like to see more 2d games and 3d games, even if it's modern Sonic in 2d and classic in 3d, just make the gameplay fun.

I think the only real solution is just for Sega to finally start making good games. Not "ok" not "it's a step in the right the direction" but plain and simply good.

Like if Sonic Forces turned out to be an amazing game, would this "Classic Sonic is dividing the fan base" even be a discussion? I feel if Classic Sonic's levels and physics were as good as Sonic Mania's and he majorly contributed to a fun well thought out story that was emotionally impactful to the player, this wouldn't be a problem. You might get a few fans saying they would have preferred playing as Tails or Shadow or whoever but the vast majority of fans wouldn't care because they had an amazing time. I feel the only reason this has gotten as big as it has is because Classic Sonic was used to make a great game and subsequently used to make a mediocre Modern Sonic game even worse.

Even if Sega did get rid of Classic Sonic or Modern Sonic you're not going to have complete unity with the fanbase. When the teaser trailer for Super Mario Odyssey was released on Youtube I screamed for joy because it was the first non linear 3D Mario game in fifteen years, yet many of the Youtube comments were filled with people disappointed it wasn't another New Super Mario Bros game. But the fighting between 2D and 3D Mario fans is practically non-existent because both sides still get good games. That's how you solve the Classic Sonic vs Modern Sonic debate: you make good games for both.

I don't know why you think what's going on around here revolves around you.

Something went on?

@PaddyFancy I handled things poorly and some people are taking the piss, that's all lol

Though I dunno if that's what Indigo's referring to, possibly

Did I miss something again? 😕 I'm starting to feel like Ferno.

I like how none of you guys are even entertaining the thought that Indigo was assassinated before he could finish his post. Sheesh, common sense, people.

My God that's terrible.

Anyway...

Now why would we go and think something like that? *reloads shell*

Nah, he's gonna put a stop the evil plans of eggatron.

Sonic the delivery boy

That's me!

...I can dream

👀

"We've been smeckledorfed!"

THATS NOT EVEN A WORD AND I AGREE WITH YE

This is a full on attempted coup.

Bro that's like, deep man.

If you go fast, time slows down.

Going slow or no motion, time speeds up. 

That is why weekends go by so fast. That is why they say slow down, cherish every moment with your loved ones, because the moment won't last long. That is why time seems to go slow at work, because you are active and moving fast. Depends on the job.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Fast is relative, man. If everyone goes fast, then nobody is fast.

If we interpret Sonic's theme song, It Doesn't Matter, literally then we know at least why Sonic's gotta go fast: he feels life is too short and wants to live life to the fullest with the time he has. But the song also says that Sonic doesn't know where to stop, forever chasing the next big thrill instead of taking the time to enjoy the moment now.

        Time won't wait and I got so much to do       
        Where do I stop, it's all a blur and so unclear
        Well, I don't know but I can't be wrong

It is both inspiring and tragic. 😔

I blame Sonic X