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Looks to be less evidence than Vic.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO PLEASE NOT JIM.

NOT PETE NOT TIGGER

Oh god fucking damn. 

Don't you fucking dare.

Well shit.

Here's to hoping that people remember that due process is a thing.

Yes please please please SEGA. I would fucking love a Mega CD classic.

Would it be it a standalone, or something you could hook up to the MD Mini?

I mean, I'd buy it

But I'm not sure if the general appeal is there, to be honest.

Eh... Yeah. I'd buy it without a second thought, but it wouldn't have the appeal to most. They'd be better off including a handful of MCD games on like a Special Edition MD Mini honestly.

Now a Dreamcast Mini on the other hand...

...what draw appeal?

it's an add-on to a more prolific console that didn't sell a lot of units and had very few games that took advantage of the hardware, as opposed to most games for it being a dumping ground of FMV shovelware. the only "draw appeal" for this is a very small niche of enthusiasts.

it would just make more sense to fold the notable mega CD games that do exist (sonic CD, popful mail, wild woody and some other titles) into the existing mega drive mini (or alternatively, maybe a sega saturn mini). either thar or give the mega CD games their own compilation re-release for modern consoles. an entire microconsole for those games doesn't make any sense at all to me.

I admit to kind of liking the idea of turning the Mega Drive Mini into some expandable proper console like it's inspiration and actually trying to vindicate its old failed add ons, especially if they got really ambitious with it and did something like added unreleased or new games like the SNES Classic did for Starfox 2. It'd be like giving the whole package a second chance and for SEGA to be console runners again.

At the very least maintaining the Mega CD Mini's add on function and other details like letting it play music CDs would be a cool way to enhance the Mega Drive Mini into a fun little super gizmo. It felt like the Mega Drive was supposed to be doing that, but its pricing and bombing add ons made it a poor investment.

A 32X Mini with its entire library on there because you might as well

@Thigolf Well people likely would buy for Knuckles Chaotix and a decent port of Virtua Fighter. Plus a few dumbed down Saturn ports and tons of unreleased games.

It's actually kinda tragic thinking how awesome the 32X could have been if it lasted really.

Tiger.com mini when 

Screwy comic reliefs are more blatant with their flaws for one. It seems most "straight" characters you've described run a high risk of becoming Mary Sues.

I do think it's entirely possible to write a straight man that can occasionally end up being not so above it all and suffer the consequences as result.

It can admittedly sometimes 180 however. Pinkie Pie and Sticks for example are cases that were meant to be reversals, the crazy screw up that actually had a point for once. But then they used that twist ALL THE TIME till it wasn't even a twist anymore, their craziness overruled everything else and they actually rarely had proper flawed moments (though Pinkie Pie was a little better in that regard). Basically I find myself siding against the character the plot always enables and never lets be vulnerable. A character has to fall flat on their ass at least once for me to be invested in them.

It's ironic that Twilight Sparkle is basically the Sally-type straight man of her show, and yet the times she gets to shoot down Pinkie are again savoured rare exceptions. She is actually better balanced than the crazy guy.

It doesn't help when it's a show will often have the female character always be the sane one and the male character always being the screw up and vice versa.

@RedFox99 I like to think it's just down to formula and if it was a male character always get to getting to talk down to the female character I'd find it just as monotonous, just that almost never occurs for me to know. Female vs female and male vs male examples do happen however.

Maybe why I love the dynamic of the two characters in my avatar so much is this avoidance. Coco is clearly smarter than Crash but she has a clear 'not so above it all' side, but at the same time Crash isn't one of those aforementioned crazy/dumb characters that always gets enabled and made to be right. Nah, he can actually just be a crazy/dumb character many times. Just things are three dimensional and both characters have good and bad points. This if anything makes the dynamic more heartwarming since you can buy that these two can stand each other. A dynamic where both sides even the other out feels more healthy.

Oh actually while it's on my mind, one other element I find VERY divisive about some straight man roles is sometimes manufacturing comeuppances for the screw up characters. Both MLP and Boom did this occasionally for example and I was unsure about it (though MLP in fairness got WIDESPREAD backlash over it), we get that Rainbow Dash and Sonic are sometimes egomaniacal, but they never really resorted to vindictively trying to set up their friends humiliating or endangering themselves to teach them a lesson about humility like the just as self righteous Amy or Twilight Sparkle sometimes did. Again this was something MLP was a little better moderated about since the 'straight men' did sometimes have moments they were treated as dicks for doing this.