These taste almost identical to regular Pepsi. It’s kind of a ripoff.

What type of dog is this?

That’s when you get bofa deez nuts removed.

Rotor is canonically gay. I don’t even have to rank him.

I only included characters from the games because if I hadn’t I’d be here all day.

My original idea was “If Sega decided one of these characters is gay tomorrow, who is it going to be?”. It morphed into the list you see before you. I took into account both actions and how Sega treats them, as well as just general vibes.

I didn’t say that it was a tier list based on how surprised I’d be if they came out as Bisexual, now did I? Strictly gay.

Sega has a bunch of mandates regarding how Sonic is allowed to behave, so there’s meta reason for his placement. They don’t even let him cry, so coming out of the closet would be enormous.

TBH, I didn’t know what to do with Charmy, since Team Chaotix doesn’t really get that much development. I stuck him in the middle just to be safe.

Honestly, why do you need graphics to create that level of detail? In regular gameplay, you aren’t getting closeups of your characters face. It’s just a waste of energy on the part of the animators.

I could have sworn Atari was bankrupt. Where’d they get the money to acquire anything?

Yeah. Oni press published an official licensed Aggretsuko comic way back when.

It’s mostly the bad guys who do that to my recollection, what with them being trolls and whatnot. Unfortunately, trolls happen to be the largest faction, so there is a lot of it.

Can you stomach edgy grimdark shit? Because it gets brutal once it gets going.

If the answer is yes then absolutely. Peak fiction right here.

Whoa, that actually is kinda deep. I didn’t really think about it so hard. I just saw a panel of Sonic choking the shit out of a rabbit and thought “I’m totally taking this out of context and posting it to 196 the next time I have to obey the rule”. Contextually, it’s not really making a statement about veganism one way or the other, which is why I was confused. Now I see that by removing said context, I have created a sort of Rorschach test. Suddenly the panel is open to interpretation, and it can mean whatever we want. If this thread views it as a statement about vegans, then who am I to argue with them?

I have no idea what is going on in this thread.

I wasn’t aware that I was making a profound vegan statement when I posted this. I just thought that the panel was funny.

He’s sterile. He works with science all day.

Pac man disrespects the dead by eating ghosts, which is considered highly disrespectful in cultures that practice ancestor worship. What’s more, Pac man has a wife who is explicitly shown to be as capable as he is, to the point where the only real difference between them is that Mrs Pac man has a bow and lipstick. A bold statement on gender roles if I’ve ever seen one. In summary, this game is a feminist masterpiece that pokes fun at superstitious conservative countries. Truly a thought provoking piece that will be remembered in the same vein as other great provocative works, such as A Modest Proposal or the movie Borat.

Doesn’t it, though?

It used to normal to beat your kids. It was wrong then and it’s wrong now.

This is what the players wanted, and the industry listened.

The reason we are having this conversation in the first place is because people didn’t want it.

This isn’t forced upon anybody.

They added it the game post-launch, after reviews had already come out. Anyone morally opposed to micro transactions (which as I’ll get to in next point, have a very good reason to be opposed to on principle) who had bought the game has been tricked into supporting a business practice they despise. This is incredibly scummy and should rightfully be seen as a dick move.

It only becomes a moral problem if somebody’s choices are circumvented, but that’s not really what’s happening here.

Micro transactions as a concept are strategically designed to exploit people with addictive personalities. This is not a theory on my part, this is legitimately what the intent behind them is. But don’t take my word for it, here’s a video discussing that very thing.

Something being normalized doesn’t automatically make it morally okay.