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Bone Zone | Fortnite

2026-04-04T05:14:10Z

Do you have interest in playing the new game of Edmund Mcmillen, Mewgenics? I really like it, and I think you would do it too

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

Ehhh... I haven't seen anything of Mewgenics gameplay, but I've heard enough about the game's style of humor. I tried Binding of Isaac a few times and the whole "toilet humor but dark and scary" aesthetic was a big turn off. I've heard Mewgenics is, for better or worse, more of that. That sort of grossout humor is sort of Edmund's signature thing.

Also, I dunno. I know it's ultimately kind of a small thing and unless you were outright told you'd never know, but the whole voice actor thing leaves a weird taste in my mouth. Especially Edmund's own handling of why he hired the people he got, which last I heard was some terrible centrist "I wanted to give both sides an opportunity" drivel.

I'm also now sitting here wondering if there's been an Edmund McMillen game I've truly loved.

Gish was neat, but I don't know that I ever played it for more than 30 minutes. Meat Boy was cool, but ultimately the difficulty turned me off and it became something I admired more from afar. Binding of Isaac being a Zelda roguelike sounds cool on paper but there's too much poop, blood, and religious content for me.

Ultimately I hear about Mewgenics and it sounds like a game I am entirely safe to skip.

Why was Sega so quick to bury Billy Hatcher and why does it seem like they are so ashamed of the game they refuse to acknowledge it’s existence in recent years?

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

I mean Sega's "ashamed" of a lot of their games from that era.

Sonic Heroes, Billy Hatcher, Shining Force Neo, pretty much everything they put out on the Gameboy Advance, Skies of Arcadia, Jet Set Radio Future, Gun Valkyrie, Crazy Taxi 2 and 3, Spikeout, Sakura Wars...

GOG recently shined a light on something Capcom was doing. GOG wanted to put up the PC ports of RE1, RE2, RE3, Dino Crisis and Breath of Fire 4. Capcom's response was that they thought nobody cared about old games anymore. GOG had to convince them at length that it was okay to still keep releasing the old games, because Capcom was willing to let them stay buried.

Sega has done retro game collections before, but I think the problem there has to do with what games they choose. It's always the same batch of 25-50 Sega Genesis games, right? Or they half-ass a few Dreamcast games.

And then you had M2, who were handling the Sega Ages games on the Switch, right. And for a time those were really cool! M2 was giving a lot of love, care, and attention to games like Shinobi... but as time went on, they started turning that attention towards things like G-LOC Air Battle, a game I can't imagine anyone has much nostalgia or passion about these days. We also probably didn't need separate Sega Ages remasters of Puyo Puyo 1 and 2. Let alone Thunder Force AC, when we already had multiple other Thunder Force games.

M2's Sega Ages line went out with a whimper and its because they picked obscure or otherwise pointless games. Why not Virtua Fighter 1? Daytona USA? Why not bring over more of the Sega Ages 3DS games to the Switch, like Galaxy Force 2?

It wouldn't surprise me if the slow death of Sega Ages gave Sega the impression that old games weren't sellers anymore. And with the general lukewarm response to Sonic Origins, that's probably only further sealed that deal. Sega was always really bad about preserving their legacy, but now they are going to be arguably the worst they possibly can be.

But this was never a problem exclusive to Billy Hatcher. Call me when we get an HD remaster of Burning Rangers.

Put It On My Bill | Fortnite

2026-04-04T05:14:10Z

Do you think Nintendo could potentially put Mario multimedia on ice again if the Galaxy movie doesn’t do as financially well as they hope? Already the reception has been a lot less positive from critics, even with how contentious the first Mario Illuminat

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

I don't think so, no. The issue with the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie wasn't just that it had negative critical reception. Nintendo didn't really express a desire to control the 1993 movie very much and the two directors, a husband and wife duo, basically took that opportunity to make basically whatever they wanted. Mario in name only. And that backfired on them really really hard.

The modern Mario movies deeply involve Nintendo. Miyamoto has a producer credit. If a Mario movie fails, it's not going to be Illumination's fault, not entirely.

I could see Nintendo possibly bringing in someone else to assist Miyamoto and provide more guidance for future movies. I could see Nintendo quietly backing out of the movie business entirely after Zelda comes out. But I think Nintendo is being very careful not to let this damage the Mario brand.

And we don't know how this is going to shake out. Keep in mind that Illumination has made movies before that critics have found repulsive and yet they still made buckets of money. Despicable Me 4 has a 55 on Rotten Tomatoes, cost $100 million to make, and made back close to a billion dollars internationally.

Will that satisfy Nintendo? Who can say. But don't expect the sky to fall this time.

Why do you think Nintendo won’t just make an expanded Star Fox 64 with no gimmicks? Is it because 64 wasn’t what Nintendo ultimately wanted, but gamers fell in love with? Is it because games need a minimum length before credits? You seem in touch with ind

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

Rail shooters seem like expensive games to make. It's sort of the Sonic the Hedgehog problem, right. You're making all these assets that players aren't going to stop and look at. And in the case of a rail shooter, it's actually impossible to stop and look at them.

I think they are also viewed as extremely simple games. They are basically 3D shmups, right. And the shmup transitioned a very long time ago from a premiere genre to something offered by the smallest niches. Gradius used to be one of Konami's flagship games next to Castlevania and while Castlevania got big budget 3D action games with celebrity actors and HD visuals, Gradius sort of got left behind.

It's a game you play to completion one time, sometimes with a difficulty so high it scares a lot of players away. It's a lot of pattern recognition and extremely narrow margin for failure. There's barely anything to explore, little to no variance in experience (almost by design), it's just incredibly outmoded and difficult to "sell." It looks old fashioned.

It is, at its heart, a very arcade game. And arcades don't exist anymore. People moved on to bigger, more complex experiences with greater "staying power."

Even Star Fox, which as far back as the first one had a branching path system, is limited and finite in how the experience is. Once you finish the three or so routes, there's little reason to go back. It's still the sort of thing you can finish in under a weekend.

Miyamoto has also just said he considers Star Fox his "test bed" franchise to try out weird, wacky new ideas. So it just ends up this weird mess of experiments as he tries out new hardware and tries to "fix" the inherent problems with rail shooters.

My idea was to always wrap more stuff around the rail shooter segments, and sort of lean on how Star Fox Command auto-generated rail shooter levels. I always thought about setting the game when Fox is younger, in the Cornerian Academy. Sort of like a Persona game, right, where you have school drama and you're building social links with classmates. Except here, you're selecting for who you want to be on your squad. Leveling up social links means your wingmen support you better during missions.

So you'd have like, general training exercises, team building exercises, and then actual missions you'd go on, all blended with getting to know these characters in a very story-rich environment. And then somewhere in the back half of the game, maybe towards the end, Fox gets news that his father was betrayed and killed by Andross, so he quits the academy and swears his revenge. Fox tries to take on Andross alone, almost dies, but is saved by his strongest social link buddies. The game ends with everyone forming Team Star Fox.

The RPG/Visual Novel elements of attending the academy, learning to fly, and selecting your crew would give the game a lot of replayability and having some kind of mission generator would make it easier to handle the rail shooter segments. Obviously very important story missions would get their own unique "levels" like a real Star Fox game.

I think it'd be neat.

Playing "The Lost World Arcade" in VR

2026-04-04T05:14:10Z

Recently I was playing blue sphere in Sonic 3 and I had a thought: huh, lost World isn’t the first time Sonic’s navigated planet shaped stages. This led me to wonder if some of Sonic Lost World’s mechanics and ideas would’ve worked in a remixed/expanded v

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

Sure, kind of. Once upon a time my plan for a special stage in one of my Sonic fangames was to run down the inside of a tube. Sort of like Knuckles Chaotix, but, uh, smoother I guess. Lost World has that kind of stuff.

Running around inside a planetoid could also be fun. Mario Galaxy does that a few times.

And even just on the outside of a sphere, you think about elevation changes and things like that... I don't entirely see why not. Though that starts to make me think of Frogger for the PS1.

I own this game on disc and it's fine. It's Frogger. But later levels start incorporating elevation changes and larger levels and I didn't really like it. It was easy to get lost and the high level of difficulty made it feel like exploration was discouraged. There was a very specific autumn level where bees would chase you that felt impossible to me as a teenager.

It felt like too big of a scale for what the game actually was and I could never get my head around it. And now I haven't touched that version of Frogger in like 20 years.

There can be something special to simplicity.

I was gifted a Quest 3 last year, are there any games you can recommend? The storefront is full of meme-y shovelware type games

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

You can sort by best sellers which tends to help a little bit. A friend gave me a bunch of store credit, so here's what

Resident Evil 4
Turns out this makes a stellar VR game. It's the Gamecube/PS2 version, but in first person with hand and head tracking. So you organize your inventory with your hands, you rack the shotgun with your hands, you throw grenades with your hands. A good game only made better by putting you deeper into the action.
Pinball FX VR
I don't really like Zen Studios pinball. Their pinball physics are usually bad and they add a bunch of ugly extra junk. But Pinball FX VR actually feels pretty good and you can toggle all of their extra junk off. An expensive habit though, I think it was $5 for the base tables and another $10 for the Addams Family table. But I think VR turns out to be a great way to experience video pinball, because there's no problems with the camera tracking the ball. You just look at it like a real pinball table.
Ghost Town
This is an adventure game that I think is supposed to be a horror game, but to be honest I never really found it to be very scary. But I do like the mood. You play as sort of a witch over in Europe and something happens to your brother during a ghost investigation. Pretty high budget.
SUPER HOT VR
This is a VR-specific mini-campaign but it's really great while it lasts. But it's one of those VR games that expects you to be standing in a large room with nothing around you. Not very conducive to sitting in a small space like I do. But again, motion controls and hand stuff make this incredible. Nothing like physically dodging a bullet!
Dreadhalls
This is a suuuuper early VR game. Sort of a dungeon crawler horror experience. No combat, just walking and exploring while avoiding creatures. Very simple, very basic, sometimes feels like a borderline asset flip. But I actually really enjoyed it. Kinda short though, but there's a randomizer mode after you finish the campaign.
Arcade Paradise VR
This is just a PC game with hand and head tracking, but I find that helps, because this is a game about working with your hands a bit. The goal of this game is to open your own arcade but you have to run a laundromat for a lot of it, which means doing other people's laundry for them. Carrying baskets, loading machines, cleaning up trash, all stuff you do with your hands. It works! And you can play whatever arcade cabinets you buy.
Steam Link
Do you have a moderately good PC capable of playing VR games? This will let you play PC games on your Quest headset wirelessly. I guess there's some latency but I never really noticed it. There are probably other ways to do this (I know there's an official Quest linking app for Windows), but I often find that Steam Link is good enough. This would let you play games like Alyx or The Lab (the latter of which is free). If you're going to do VR Chat, it's also a good idea to do it on the PC through something like this.

It's not a game but I'd also look into something like Skybox. If you know how to setup media sharing through Windows, Skybox will let you stream video files from your desktop PC to your headset over wifi. It's how I watched James Cameron's Avatar, since the 3D Blu-Ray was 30gb and would have used up most of my Quest 2's onboard storage.

Wishlisted

Powerwash Simulator VR
Like RE4 and Arcade Paradise, this is just a regular video game with hand and head tracking. But being able to aim and reach around objects to get them clean feels better than just regular mouse aim. There's a free demo. Never seems to go on discount, though.
Moss, Moss 2, and Champions of Moss
The first Moss was a PSVR game originally. I think with Moss 2 they started supporting everything they could. Never played them, don't know if they're good, but they have a budget under them so they aren't asset flips at least. 1 and 2 are some of the highest rated games on the store currently, however.
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
There have been so many bad Walking Dead shooters that I thought this had to be one of them, but I've heard people cite it as one of the best VR shooters. Consistently in the best sellers list, too.
Maestro
This is a rhythm game, but instead of playing an instrument, you're a conductor. I watched Wayneradiotv play some of this and it looked nuts. Instead of a traditional note highway you're doing hand gestures, and often two different kinds of gestures per hand.
Waltz of the Wizard
I don't know what this is, but it's top rated and a top seller. Something about it doesn't smell right, though, so I kind of keep my distance from it. Seems like you craft spells and talk to a skull? I dunno.
Bonelab
The sequel to Boneworks. These are physics-driven first person shooters. Boneworks was a PC game, but Bonelab runs on Quest headsets. I dunno, there was a time where these games seemed like a big deal.

I would stay away from

Jurassic World Aftermath
This promises to be "Alien Isolation, but with dinosaurs" but the cel shaded visuals, static world, and extremely scripted dinosaur behaviors make this a boring slog. Not scary and the dinosaurs are not threatening. It's just annoying when you get caught. Maybe the upcoming Jurassic Park Survival game will do this concept justice.
Zombieland: Headshot Fever
This isn't a bad game, per-say, but it's just so plain. The celebrity likenesses are barely passable, the sound-alikes are barely passable, and the visuals are simple and bland. It's playable, sure, but it's not very exciting. The sort of game you play for five minutes every couple weeks and you just go "ok."

What do you think of the design Klonka had for the Wiiboot? I always liked the look in the first and second game. The wiiboot look hasn’t sat well with me and I LOATHE how they had english voice acting.

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

I dunno. I've kind of complained before about how, after the first Klonoa, they tried to make him "cooler." They made something cute and cuddly and now want him to appeal to older boys. I'm glad they gave you an option to go back to his classic costume, at least.

(though I'll be honest -- I don't remember the original costume being an option. Maybe it was unlockable)

But the red jacket, it just feels too flashy. Too fashionable. He's just supposed to be this little kid. A big popped collar like that feels like too much for me for what's probably supposed to be a 10 year old at most.

But hey, at least it's not the proposed redesign with the different ears:

I wish Klonoa could exist without having to change so drastically to appeal to different markets. I don't mind the Klonoa 2 look, and I think it's even interesting if you buy into the theory about The King of Sorrow being born due to the events of how Klonoa 1 ended.

Klonoa 2 is a more mature game not just because of market demographics, but because that's the tone the game itself is shooting for on purpose. It's kind of a vague reckoning with what happened in the first game, warped through the haze of dream logic.

But also Namco very clearly wanted to push Klonoa as being more cool than cute and that will always bother me. Especially in the Wii game, where they REALLY wanted to change up his design and even have him speak full dubbed English.

It's just a bummer. I like Klonoa the way he is.

Completing the Mega Man Pass in Crossworlds [Stream Archive]

2026-04-04T05:14:10Z

Shotgun stream! It's Sonic Racing Crossworlds, Mega Man Style

2025-03-04T18:05:42Z

sonichedgeblog:Roboticized Masters! A panel from Archie’s ‘Mega...

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

sonichedgeblog:

Roboticized Masters! A panel from Archie’s ‘Mega Man’ issue #24.

From the story “When Worlds Collide - Part One: Kindred Spirits”, drawn by Jamal Peppers.

Why do you think projects like Sonic 4 and Mania have Sky Chase references? My understanding is it’s not well-remembered but then I personally think it’s the worst stage in the Genesis games so I’m biased.

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

I don't think it's a great level either, but it's variety. It's something different. A palette cleanser. Something to clear your head with. That makes it memorable, I think, but I think modern interpretations misunderstand its role as a palette cleanser. Especially the Sonic 4 games, where they try to "improve" its gameplay.

I think it's meant to be a moment to encourage reflection, to make you realize how far you've come, and make you wonder what other tricks the game still has up its sleeve if it's changing things this much 16 or 17 levels into the game. You are far from where you've started, far from home, and there's no turning back now.

Those games simply reference it because it's a notable thing from one of the best games.

Sonic Frontiers: “Definitive” can only be called that if it has the Soap shoes. As far as I’m concerned the game is unplayable without them and it’s fucking bullshit that Sega made them a limited time offer

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

I am hoping the soap shoes are a given. I had those on PS4 and basically never took them off. When that PS4 died and I had to raise money for the PS5, I was stunned to learn they never carried over.

With Sonic Superstars, Sega eventually made all that limited time promo costume DLC free. But they never did that with the Sonic Frontiers soap shoes. This would be a good chance to right that wrong.

Do you think Sonic Frontiers: Definitive Edition will be anything?

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

People keep saying it might just collect all of the DLC, and that could be true, but all of the DLC was free, too. I think this being the Switch 2 version of Sonic Frontiers is a given, but I feel like you maybe don't call it "Definitive Edition" without doing something to it.

Doing what, exactly? I don't know. Probably not much. I could see maybe some minimal visual enhancements. Maybe they officially push out the draw distance on some things. Maybe some increased foliage density.

I also think costume DLC could be included. I dunno what specifically, but I could see then giving Sonic extra shoe types. Maybe a Dreamcast Sonic skin, I dunno. It's the 35th Anniversary, so little nostalgic things like that could be on the table.

But people expecting, like, a playable Shadow the Hedgehog? I really doubt that. It's going to be little tweaks, if it's anything at all.

How do you feel about classic Sonic’s controls?

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

I've personally never had a problem with them, but back in the 1up.com days Jeremy Parish once admitted the reason he never liked the Genesis Sonics was because he could never get his head around how heavy the controls felt. I've thought about that ever since. I think there are small ways you can tweak that so that slower speeds feel better that don't spoil the feeling of momentum and weight.

I've mentioned my "Better Bubsy" project a few times, and its initial creation as a fork of "Simple Sonic Worlds."

And one of the things I did here was actually boost up Bubsy's acceleration by just, like, 5% when he's going his slowest. This gets you up to middle gear slightly faster. I also applied something I think Mario games do, where you don't start accelerating from zero speed. If you push left or right from zero, the game gives you a tiny "push" in that direction so you start moving faster.

They're subtle changes, and meant to be subtle on purpose, but I think it helps make the traditional Sonic physics feel a little more nimble at lower speeds while still keeping the long tail of acceleration that makes high speeds feel rewarding.

I think small little changes like that could be applied to Classic Sonic and hopefully make the game feel more accessible to people who thought it felt too sluggish.

March 2026 Update

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

Another month has come and gone. And you know, I’ve realized I’ve been too much of a bummer in these posts. Or just in general, I guess. Yes, absolutely things are hard. But I think I’ve been letting it drag me down more than it probably needs to. It still is what it is, but I’m going to stop letting myself wallow in it quite as much.

Unfortunately, the reality is it’s been another month with absolutely zero job interviews. I’ve applied to golf courses, retail stores, food service, everything. The job fair I attended last month turned out to be a total bust; the “leads” I’d gotten never materialized. Places that told me they’d have openings “soon” never posted any – or they posted and filled those positions so quickly I never even saw the listings materialize at all. I’m about $450-ish short on rent this month as a result, which is better than last month, but it still means I need to raise the money in order to keep a roof over my head.

Buy BlazeHedgehog a Coffee

In better news, I’ll be pet sitting for a family member for ten days at the end of April, and that will cover almost the entire rent bill for May. Regardless of what happens, I won’t be here begging for money this time next month! I’m also trying to get setup on a gig worker app strictly for pet sitting, since that seems like a desirable talent of mine. There’s a $50 screener fee before I can start taking pet sitting jobs though, and I can’t afford it right this second.

I’m also moving towards possibly setting up sort of a portfolio site to offer some of my services for people willing to pay me. Voice over, maybe some pixel art, things like that. Some of that will also probably have to wait, however, as I’ve spent the last week dealing with back to back toothaches, seeing a dentist about it, and prepping for dental surgery. If that sounds bad, it kind of is, but it’s not as bad as I was expecting, so that’s a silver lining. However, there will probably be a recovery time of 2-3 weeks all told, during which time my capacity for voice over will be diminished.

But bad teeth sort of run in the family, and this is a problem I’m overdue taking care of. As such, I’m a little scared, but a little excited, too. I had an extremely bad dentist experience in 2008, but I want my mouth to feel normal again. And luckily, my freebie poor person insurance will cover all of it! I consider that my first real win in a long time and I want to bounce back stronger than ever from this.

Upcoming Videos

The final Strange Encounters podcast came out! And it flopped! The algorithm really liked the first one but I think a lot of people don’t like my long intros. That’s understandable. I still feel like I deserved to give them long intros, and I put chapter select into the Youtube versions so you can skip around if you really wanted to. It’s also just not Halloween anymore, so people might just not be in the mood for that kind of stuff right now. I’m the kind of weirdo where usually by the end of February or early March, I start getting back in the mood for Halloween stuff again.

When I wasn’t blinded by pain or having a panic attack about dentist stuff, I’ve been plugging away at the audio for the Shadow Generations video. There are SEVEN TOTAL recording sessions that make up the voice over audio for that video, spread out across three hours, and I’m done with processing the first of those.

Similarly, when it comes to the NiGHTS documentary, I’ve recorded the little bits of pick-up audio I needed for that. So in addition to seven recording sessions for Shadow, I have another six recording sessions for NiGHTS that also need to be processed.

And to explain what I mean by “processing” the audio, that generally means doing some basic equalizer work, a denoising pass, removing flubbed lines, and cleaning out breath sounds. That last step is particularly tedious, because you have to remove breaths in a specific way or it can mess with the pacing of the whole voice over session, and I HAVE to remove the breaths, because people complained about it the last time I did not. I’ve done what I can to streamline the order of those operations as much as possible, but it’s still a lot of long, mind-numbing work. It’s a good thing I’ll be unable to speak properly for a considerable amount of the next month.

Throwback Articles

I actually need to queue a few more of these up, because April is where the current queue runs out. But here’s what went up in March, in case you missed it:

Text Review: Fortnite Save the World (2021) https://www.patreon.com/posts/148181216?collection=1952317
Returning to Donkey Kong Country Returns (2023) https://www.patreon.com/posts/148508979?collection=1952317

That’s it for this month! I still haven’t filed my taxes yet so hopefully nothing drastically bad comes from that. See you soon!

I’m not sure how I feel about the suggestion that if there are no free ways to make a Sonic fangame, to just pirate the game-making software. As a kid I definitely had a huge fear of pirating things because how was I supposed to explain how I obtained the

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

(addendum to the previous) It's kind of bad to suggest that fangaming communities "should" move to FOSS software (eg. Godot) now that those exist, right? I've contacted two Mario engine authors and one Sonic who all used Game Maker and had no interest in migrating. It seems like there's a lot of inertia/head start/vendor lock-in with the pre-existing paid software, and I'm not really sure how that can be "solved" aside from just waiting around and hoping someone makes the leap.

(This is a very old ask I meant to answer a long time ago and it got buried)

I mean, it's all really just up to whatever your standards are. But I also know the reality of what it's like to be under the age of, say, 22, and have absolutely no money for anything ever (I still don't have money for anything!) I grew up in an era where if you wanted Photoshop, you pirated it. Otherwise it was $400+

In high school, when they tried to get me to take vocational classes, the teacher there even encouraged soft piracy. They had a school license for all their important software (Maya, Photoshop, Premiere, etc.) and she actively suggested that if students wanted to "work on their projects at home" then they were free to burn a copy of the software, write down the registration keys, and install it there. She had a machine hooked up where all it did was burn CDs. Like a disc printer. Could burn up to eight CDs simultaneously. You could grab that class's entire software library the first day you walked in the door if you wanted.

Was that outside of, say, Adobe's Terms of Service? Almost definitely. But if you want to learn professional tools and you can't pay professional prices, you gotta do what you gotta do.

And that even extends to modern times, where a subscription to something like Adobe Cloud might seem like a better deal than paying $300-$600 for Photoshop CS2, but there's still all kinds of weird caveats and fine print where Adobe will get its hooks into you and bleed you as dry as humanly possible with some of the most hostile rules and regulations they can legally get away with.

If you're serious about this stuff, it's what you do. There's no "right way" because the right way is for people much bigger and richer than you or I. Make do, or don't do it.

Free creation tools like Davinci Resolve, Toon Boom, Unity, Godot, etc. are all recent developments, too. Blender's been around for ages but only recently did Blender become usable by actual humans (they've been making major strides to improve the UI, as I understand it).

It's not bad to expect fangame developers to move over to free tools, but you have to understand the sunk cost. If someone like Gatete has been working on a Mario framework in Game Maker for the last six years, asking them to start over from scratch in Godot is a lot of work. It's a lot of learning and porting and refactoring. I don't blame fangame developers who dig in their heels. They aren't being paid to do this.

They seized life and learned what they wanted to learn, either by piracy or some other way, and now they're comfortable, they're happy, and they know what they're doing. And that's okay, too.

This is all just the realities of these communities. Nobody is going to hand you anything. If you want to make a game, or a video, or whatever, just make it work. Don't wait for the stars to align, because they never will. Just do it by any means necessary.

I can guarantee you will never regret it and you can always do it "the right way" once you've established yourself. That's what most pros have done nowadays anyway!

I Hate the Rivalry System, I Love the Rivalry System | Fortnite

2026-04-04T05:14:10Z

Didn’t Sega of America once make some weird “hype” announcement that Sonic CD officially takes place after S3&K, with regards to Sonic 4 ep 2?

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

This sounds like it could be true, but a cursory glance revealed nothing I could find. I know they were definitely messing with Sonic CD, because the Retro Engine version came out between Sonic 4 Ep 1 and Sonic 4 Ep 2. So Sega was big on playing to people's love of Sonic CD.

So Episode 2 was "the rebirth of Metal Sonic." Even though we'd seen him in various places in Sonic Adventure 1, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes and Sonic Generations.

It doesn't matter anymore, though. Say what you will about Sonic Origins, but it solidified the idea that Sonic CD happens between Sonic 1 and Sonic 2, which is where it belongs. As the story goes, Sonic CD was fully completed, but Sega didn't want it stealing Sonic 2's thunder, so it got bumped to fill the gap between Sonic 2 and Sonic 3. But it was very obviously developed before Sonic 2.

Sonic Origins says that's true, and that is the way it will hopefully be forever.

Since you have watched a lot of films from various eras, are there any qualities with films from before 2010 you think contemporary movies won’t be able to match?

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

I mean, it's like I said about Kung-Fu Hustle: so many movies nowadays rely so much on CGI. This isn't a new or interesting observation. But it's a simple truth that modern movies are boring now because nobody has to do stunts anymore, heck, nobody even has to wear costumes anymore. When you watch an MCU movie and you see someone in their costume, almost that entire person is CGI.

And you might look at that, and think, that's weird, but understandable, but even in Avengers Endgame...

Every single costume in this shot is CGI.

The closer we get to the first Avatar movie, the more and more and more CGI gets used to replace things that don't need to be replaced. Then Avatar comes along and 85% of that movie is CGI. CGI plants, animals, water, and people.

But for a movie in 2005, CGI is more of a treat. It has to be used more sparingly. It's not good enough to outright replace clothing or accurately render new planets. A lot more of older movies still have to rely on the skill of a good stuntman, a good location scout, a good fight coordinator, a good cinematographer, and use CGI more to try and enhance what people are actually doing.

Now there's definitely more of a push back nowadays to do things more practically, but that's more for stylistic reasons than financial or technical ones.

And in the case of a guy like Tom Cruise it feels more like bougie bragging rights to say he does all his own stunts with limited CGI. We've gone from the days where only the big studios could afford CGI and the little guys had to make do with miniatures and puppets, and now CGI is so cheap and accessible, only the big studios can brag about not needing CGI anymore because they can afford more stuntmen and sets and etc. while everybody else just leans on making Unreal Engine do everything.

But yeah, movies these days, they don't feel scrappy like that anymore. Even when a movie has more practical effects these days, it's still about flexing financial budget. There's not as many people doing things by hand for the right reasons anymore.

I hate being reminded that the real world is a horrible place where horrible people do horrible things and get away with it.

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

You are not powerless.

You can control who you socialize with, you can establish boundaries with them, you can choose to stay off of social media, you can block keywords you don't want to see.

If the world is stressing you out and you don't want to deal with it, you don't have to. You should at least try to keep up with some of what's going on in the world, but if you don't have the heart for it... I mean, I wouldn't blame you. With the way things are these days? We, as a people, don't deserve it.

If it helps you any, remember that nobody gets away with it forever. Even if they are doing damage today, they are not going to live forever and the world will heal from their damage eventually.

It's like. Think about the eruption of Mount Saint Helens in 1980. Maybe I've brought this up before, I dunno, it's just something interesting I think about from time to time.

The entire mountain and surrounding area was decimated. Everything was buried under multiple feet of ash. It created a dead wasteland where nothing could survive. No animals, no plants, nothing.

Fast forward 40+ years.

What was once a wasteland is growing back stronger than ever. Damage does not last forever. Everything heals.

Today's pain will be covered up by tomorrow's growth. As a country, as a society, as a world, we will make it through this one way or another. The bad guys can never win as long as people like us do not give up and continue to sow these seeds.

Time is always on our side. People as a whole are good and want to do the right thing. The bad eggs will eventually rot out and stop spreading their stink.

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2026-04-04T05:14:10Z

im curious since nintendo has been silent on this, what are your hopes for the (currently still hypothetical) next big 3D mario? is there stuff you specifically would and wouldnt want to see them do?

2026-04-03T19:41:21Z

It always feels incredibly difficult to predict where Mario is going to go next. I don't think anybody could have predicted Nintendo's pivot towards Super Mario Galaxy, or their pivot away and towards Super Mario 3D Land. And then to Odyssey and then Wonder. And Wonder feels like a mainline Mario in a way that NSMB did not.

In my heart I would have said I hope they keep the games open. I like exploring a space non-linearly. But Super Mario 3D Land was great, too. And 3D World.

Hence why it's so hard to predict them. They're always doing left field turns but then polishing it to a mirror sheen.

The next Mario game could be a sequel to both Bananza and DK94 by having it be Mario fighting Donkey Kong and you can play as them both and I'd believe that just as soon as anything else.

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