I’M BACK ON MY BULLSHIT.
No but really here’s my real and earnest take on learning to love Sonic the Hedgehog again and the value of sincerity:
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Yo I really enjoyed this! your answers got into the nitty gritty of the fan community that I wish I had space for when I wrote my Sonic Mania story! these spaces are always so ethereal that it’s hard to get a history unless you were there yourself.
@friendshipguy yo whatup homie. I see you there.
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So I wrote a thing about how Fortnite communicates it’s mechanics through it’s visuals
Been a hot minute since I hopped on these here forums but I figured the Waypoint crowd would be the sort receptive to a thing I wrote about how the gameplay loop of Bloodborne/save scumming in immersive sims is comparable to the coping strategies I use for dealing with my anxiety!
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Hey ya’ll. I wrote this thing about Mirror’s Edge and how it it vastly different than other first person games, in subject matter, but also in how it presents the body the player inhabits.
I’m pretty proud of it and I’d love to hear what you think.
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Hey there, I started up a blog for video game writing finally. The first post is about the word “interactive” , passive and active consumption, and I also talk a bit about Bertolt Brecht and theatre.
https://lillyaensland.wordpress.com/2017/11/29/the-word-interaction-and-video-games/
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I wrote/recorded a thing about Sonic Forces. it’s about as long as one of the stages:
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SONIC TEAM MADE ONE OF THE BEST FIGHTING GAMES OF THE YEAR:
i figured i might as well make a playlist since i intend to do a video a day for all my games of the year:
not all of these came out this year, or are necessarily the “best of the year” just stuff i liked and had thoughts on
Might as well share this podcast I did with a friend on SUDA 51’s The Silver Case. We go into a lot of detail, but no worries on spoilers. I used musical breaks to divide the cast into sections, and we give warning when we start into spoilers.
if you wondered what the creator of Sonic worked on after he left Sonic Team I’ve got a treat for you
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This article was something that sat in a Firefox tab literally for weeks because I was busy moving and all this other stuff was going wrong
I finally just now set aside time to read this and it’s wonderful. I’ve had more than one friend tell me over the years that I’m one of the most earnest people they’ve ever met, and I’ve never really known whether that’s actually a good thing or a bad thing
But what your article does is draw some connective tissue as to why I’ve remained drawn to Sonic games basically throughout my entire life. Thanks for helping me realize something about myself.
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people get animated and angry about Sonic, but most of the people I’ve interacted with who love the series and characters are really earnest people. it’s really encouraging.
this one kind of blew up in an unexpected way. I mostly wanted to get across what I loved about it and cut a lot of bad drafts full of “console wars” salt to focus on what I loved.
I got a lot of responses like yours and I’m glad I could make you and others feel something so strongly.
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While I haven’t played any Sonic games reading your piece certainly sounds a lot like how I view and relate to my Kingdom Hearts fandom. A franchise that’s similarly gets derided from afar for its genuinely earnest or sincere tone. It seems like both franchises have reputations that are more important to the common conception of game players than what they actually are. I doin’t know if you have any experiences with it but if so, is that a comparison you think is apt or am I misreading you?
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it’s funny you said that because after writing that I immediately started to sense I might have something in common with kingdom hearts fans
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I write about games and films and such on my tumblr, tankpot.tumblr.com. Search #crit to find the writing and avoid the plethora of selfies… got a couple things I’m really proud of on there like my review of Ghost in the Shell 2017 and a analysis of transgender bodies in Warhammer 40k.
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I write about games and other stuff on my website saturdaydawns.com, I haven’t written in a while (school had me too busy), but I will publish a personal piece in the next few days, alongside some cool a graphic someone did for the website. I will try to get more in the habit in writing more for the my little website, but I’m really proud of it’s design and layout.
Also, feel free to give me feedback on anything. Thank you!
i finally got enough subscribers to get a custom youtube URL!
I’ve uploaded a lot more daily crit videos, but i also finished up this chill tour through Sonic Heroes’ very good Ocean Palace Zone:
come for the A E S T H E T I C S and stay for the lounge cover of the Sonic Heroes theme.
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