@wallhackio @aescling I think dumbass is a bit harsh, but frequently impetuous, yes.

@wallhackio @aescling oh also the one game Sonic was most a dumbass in was '06 so

@The_T @aescling oh how so

@wallhackio @aescling he literally dies in an easily avoidable situation if he had any situational awareness

@The_T @wallhackio one of the few honest attempts at meaningfully critically analyzing sonic 06 out there talks a lot of shit about how sonic is characterized in the game. his story is him failing over and over and over again and never learning, instead going back in time to fix everything

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@aescling @wallhackio not quite related, but I love the breakdown on Sonic Retro of the Chaos Emeralds. https://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(2006_game)#Emerald_Accounting

The short version: The Blue Emerald exists in a timeloop during the entirety of the game, so how does it exist outside of the game:

The long version:

This is the Emerald which finds itself locked in an ontological loop over the course of the game. The blue gem is implied to have been Princess Elise's lucky charm for many years, and Dr. Eggman attacks the Festival of the Sun to steal it from her. Elise throws the jewel to Sonic as she is being kidnapped, and Sonic takes it to White Acropolis as a ransom, where it goes in Eggman's time machine. Silver later takes the blue Emerald from White Acropolis after beating the Egg Genesis, and uses it (with Shadow's assistance) to open a portal to the past and the Solaris Project. Silver then gives it to a 7-year-old-Elise, who presumably keeps it with her for the intervening 10 years until the Festival of the Sun is attacked. The problem here is that the blue Emerald never enters or leaves the loop; it didn't exist chronologically before Silver brings it to the Solaris Project, and it doesn't exist after Silver and Shadow warp out of the Radical Train fight arena. And, since it's been with Elise for the 10 years before the game, how did Sonic and Shadow use it to turn super and defeat Perfect Chaos, Finalhazard, Metal Overlord, and Devil Doom?

@The_T @wallhackio i think the more purressing issue is that sonic 06 ends by making itself never having happened, so how does the blue emerald even exist? the ontological loop is gone

@aescling @wallhackio clearly this was the Blue Emerald erasing the time loop from existence to ensure it's own existence

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@The_T @wallhackio or purrhaps the ontological loop’s apparent resolution in purrevious titles logically necessitated that the temporal reset at the end of 06. it was inevitable that sonic & friends would win in the end?

@aescling @wallhackio well that's always true.