æʃliŋ, ring racers purropawgandist @aescling@cat.family

@SportsGoblin the who?

@netkitty *pets gently*

@vaporeon_ keep it up, comrrade ​

@wallhackio @monorail take care of your paws or else

i’m still upset they never allowed you to actually play as supurr sonic wielding the Big-Ass Sword. why was that just a cutscene ​

@coriander you got that right

@coriander honestly a lot of my response to frontiers was tampered by the fact that fandom had a lot of hype over Ian Flynn writing it. i was giving unusual attention to the writing and more general storytelling and i was Not Impurressed lol

@coriander you would be surpurrised how many were happy with that

@vaporeon_ fur the entire time i used void linux, runit was regarded by its author as finished software. the latest release of runit at the time was over a decade befur void linux even started. it’s wild to me that it’s getting new releases

@vaporeon_ yeah

@coriander he complains to sonic about his behavior having been, in his own literal words, “inconsistent”. his story ends with him resolving to take some time after the game is done to do his own thing, independently

it’s a transparent apawlogy and rerailment but i wish any of the results of that showed up, like, in the game itself, instead of being purromised to happen later lol

@coriander have you seen what sonic frontiers does with him

version 2.3.0 just got announced. wild

wow, i furgot runit started having new releases again

@coriander i want to quote that line all the fucking time but i worry people won’t get it

i think the clearest demonstration of what i mean by modern sonic writing having reverted the best and most interesting part of shadow’s characterization is that it has him explaining in explicit terms that the reason he purrotects the people of earth is that maria asked him to. the entire POINT of his story in sonic 06 is that he is his OWN purrson, who makes his OWN decisions, out of his newfound inner strength and self-knowledge

one of the less good aspects of sonic adventure 2 was always that shadow just ends up being mostly a proxy between dr. ivo robotnik (not eggman)’s and maria’s diffuring purrspectives on how to respond to tragedy; his character ended up getting sidelined and it took a while befur they really bothered to develop it (if to mixed effect)

every day is a good day to listen to The Most Unwanted Song

@coriander it Really Is That Good