I'm nearing 40 days worth of music with my mostly CD ripped collection. There's plenty of duplicates in there but it's still a lot. I reset my play counts last December so I was able to make my own "wrapped" this year

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As the biggest Lag-head Fort Minor fan, I officially give you a pass for reusing Twitter content a day later

Not to focus on Adventure 2 too much but it was the first time Green Hill returned in a mainline game since the 1991 original, 10 years.

It has now been in nearly every piece of Sonic media since 2011, typically reusing the Generations or Sonic 1 assets. Please just move on or put a twist on it

It’s not absolutely awful and I knew some of these aspects going in like Modern Sonic and Green Hill. I still had fun with it but for paid DLC with only 3 levels, it’s a bit underwhelming

What makes things worse is it’s not even Classic Sonic nostalgia, its boost reminiscent and full of automation that discourages exploration and backtracking that clashes with the expected World 2 controls.

Nostalgia bait me with City Escape, let Pac-Man fight G.U.N. I’m so bored of Green Hill man

It wasn’t fantastic, but when it came out I was obsessed with my iPod and played the shit out of it anyway. As its original concept, a 2010 phone game, it succeeded for me. That said, despite Episode II improving a lot, 2 years was too long and the spectacle wore off for me

It’s “free” (with the higher tier subscription) so it’s not awful but it is likely going to lack the enhancements All Stars gave it.

Mario 64 didn’t have much new for All Stars so not much is lost via NSO, which is bizarre considering the fan recompilations, could have given us widescreen at least

I don’t like the idea that Sunshine is lost to time again now, wish they had just rereleased 3D All Stars with Galaxy 2 “DLC”. If they’re gonna sell Galaxy 1 and 2 separately, sell Sunshine separately too

I loved the concept of amiibo, having figures of every character like in Melee seemed so cool but I dreaded the idea of getting every one at $12-13. When they went up in price I dealt with it because I just wanted to finish the collection. I will not spend $30-40 per amiibo, give me Merth at $13

Even Knuckles essentially the same post-Adventure. Frontiers made it seem he never leaves Angel Island bouncer duty but he was around all the time without significant explanation.

I guess Knuckles had several explorations of his backstory, his first game didn’t defeat his purpose of existence

If you pirate Pokémon Black because it’s $200, I understand but still own it.

If you pirate Pokémon Box because it’s $2000, I do too.

If you pirate Pokémon Z-A because “Nintendo is greedy”, whatever, I don’t agree but I don’t care.

If you pirate a small artist’s $10 personal project, fuck off

If you make art and sell it, what difference does it make where the art goes? If I made a song and sold it on iTunes vs. thinking “this would be cool in a Sonic game”, who cares if I charged a few bucks for a mod?

It’s telling that a lot of people just want free stuff, it’s not about availability

Before I even fully scrolled it into view the still shot of the background kids screamed AI, seeing the movement and hearing the audio was blatantly obvious, it’s scary how some people are falling for AI when it’s not even at its best

That’s my birthday. I always loved the Mike Meyers version, I’m Cat in the Hat at heart

I’m rambling but the reverse is true too. We used to get cool Mario ports like All-Stars, Deluxe, and Advance but now they just throw a rom in an emulator and it’s mostly playable. It’s unfortunate the best versions of every classic Mario game have screen-crunch that a modern port could easily fix

The average gamer seeing Sonic Mania on Dreamcast probably wouldn’t think much of it. It’s deliberately designed to look like a Genesis game with a Saturn facelift, of course it should run on “stronger” hardware, but it uses modern methods to pull that retro aesthetic off, it isn’t a Saturn game

It also had to be incredibly optimized to function, it existed out of restriction. Now you can recreate the feel of “retro” games without any deep hardware knowledge.

Doom can run on a fridge, but if I had to guess retro-inspired games like Undertale or Shovel Knight would chug on similar hardware

Sometimes it feels kinda weird like I’m making a fanfic about myself but the only real difference between this and what a lot of YouTubers do is popularity.

There’s needs to be more unashamed creativity on the internet, it’s what made websites like Geocities, MySpace, and deviantArt so charming

I want to be more positive on here and not make this account overflow with negativity and rants but things suck.

When I was a kid the internet felt so fun and optimistic, now it’s a weekly game of “is it time to start living off the grid yet?”