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even if you weren't going to just pirate knuckles anyways it is absolutely impossible to sit through it on paramount plus. the ads are so fucking insufferable good god

#knuckles series #paramount+ #even if i cared about this shit before the ad presentation is so obnoxious and embarassing it is not worth the amount of psychic damage #it's not even just that it's for kids. as a kid i would feel equally as annoyed. maybe even moreso #''we're gonna interrupt this thing you're watching to tell you to go watch this other thing!'' fuck. OFF

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we all owe chris thorndyke an apology

#long overdue but glad the people are finally coming to their senses #too bad it had to happen this way #@ chris haters in the notes #im sorry this child got to hang out and have cool adventures with sonic the hedgehog and that made your inner child angry and jealous #he's not real though. so maybe the vitrol was always unnecessary #time to heal and move on

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"you're good at art you should go to college you should start animation you should get a job in the industry you have so much potential" I SHOULD BE IN THE WOODS. EATING POISONOUS BERRIES

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sorry i haven't been able to pay attention during the last few tailstube shorts im too busy staring at cosmo on the shelf and having dramatic sepia-toned flashbacks where evanescence is playing in the bg. when is she coming home bring her to life and wake me up inside etc.

#sonic #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #tailstube #cosmo the seedrian #tails the fox #miles tails prower #tailsmo #sonadow #🫠🥺 #im very happy for the sonadow enjoyers eating well after the last short. very cool #tailsmo enjoyer skeleton laying in a dusty corner covered in cobwebs is giving you a thumbs up

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Happy Year of Shadow the Hedgehog 🖤❤️

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Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) / Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)

#Once again I'm

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Keep Honking! Goose Espionage Bumper Sticker by MPLWDNoveltyCistern

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Shadow the hedgehog confirmed starring role in next John Wick movie [x]

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saw a teenager in a TikTok comment section asking what it was like “being alt in 2012” and I was like what the hell and I left like 8 comments talking about how it was the same as it always is. You find your niche & friends & carve out a space for yourselves & some people will love what you do & other people will hate it and it is what it is.

but what is super funny is how what is considered alt continuously changes, like what is considered “the karen cut” today—staple of middle aged women—was edgy when I was in high school. A lot of emo and scene kids had asymmetrical stacked bobs.

When I got an undercut, nobody in my town had one. Only me. People reacted like I got a face tattoo and my principle actually tried to figure out whether I could be suspended for it, but there was nothing explicitly against it in the school handbook (and in fact tapers and fades were protected to allow Black students to have certain hairstyles so my haircut ended up being covered by rules fought for by Black parents. Thank you).

So it’s so funny to see elementary schoolers just walking around with half their heads shaved now.

Idk I remember when I was a teenager and adults who were teenagers in the 90s would tell me I didn’t know what “real emo” is and my trends were stupid, I promised myself I would never lose my sense of wonder & whimsy at evolving & emerging subcultures.

And I haven’t. I love seeing what the kids cook up and how the trends I loved at their age are discarded and rediscovered and recycled again and again.

Anyway the kid in the comments said “thank you for educating me about 2012” and I felt like the laziest funniest anthropologist ever but the truth is that historians are always starving for primary sources & it’s funny to think we are all a primary source for a little pocket of time.

People today are deeply obsessed with the 2000s emo scene, mosh “culture,” etc. etc. & I just think of it as the life I lived so it’s cute to think I have important insight on something that simply happened while I was there.

And y’all do too. I like humanity idk.

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unrestrained summer fun

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this appeared on my fyp and i was delighted

#LOUDEEERRR 🙌🙌 #yugiposting lmfao

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Psycho Super Lover

When you will destroy another?

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john wick holding shadow the hedgehog like mary holding baby jesus

#i still cant believe it #what is even going on

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inkopolis news, live for the last time

#i never even played og splatoon and this is so fucking sad #the relentless and uncaring passage of time or whatever

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It's always really difficult to choose between An Opera of Fear and A Cold Alliance for my favourite Sly 3 episode, but it's safe to say that Flight of Fancy is easily the most nostalgic. Not because it's rooted in my childhood memories (it is) but in the sense that it shares elements with episodes from Sly 2 during a game which presents the gang at the peak of their career. Let's discuss

I think we can all agree that the series very effectively presents the gang's development, not only as individual characters, but also as a team of thieves. Sly 1 shows the gang as teens during their first set of adventures which sprout from Sly's desire for vengeance. They make many mistakes, they don't really have planned heists or jobs - Sly just casually goes into every level breaking shit and then faces off the big baddie - and they surpass their own expectations of themselves to defeat Clockwerk in the end. Then, Sly 2 covers a crucial point in the gang's career. It felt as if up until this point they hadn't truly fucked up so they went into it being very cocky, especially Sly. And when they got their asses handed to them by Neyla, getting separated tested their individual and collective limits.

In Sly 3, the gang has evolved to master thieves, capable enough to feel comfortable recruiting and as such mentoring strangers and also worthy enough to inherit an entire lineage's stolen loot. This is also shown in the missions, which up in scale and spectacle. It's no longer just "follow this villain" or "pickpocket this person". It's a combination of missions we grew accustomed to during Sly 2 like "follow Octavio and do recon under time pressure", or something completely new. Right off the bat, for example, we send a ferris wheel rolling across Venice squashing guards in its way, like this is just a mission not Thunderbeak or something. Every Sly 3 mission evolves explosions, high-tech and the eventual mini boss-fight.

So it's then a bit surprising to see the gang reverting to their sneakier, more subtle ways during Flight of Fancy. That's not to say we don't have explosions and thrill in the episode (the dogfights, Muggshot vs Carmelita, wolf-riding, shooting literal fucking windmills into blimps), but the way they choose to sabotage the competition due to how delicate its internal politics are creates some nostalgia. Paddling around the sewers in a blow-up rowboat and breaking into the pilots' rooms is very Sly 2. It felt like something 18 year old Sly would do. Also, scaling the Baron's castle harks back to Sly 1's platforming and is reminiscent of how small Sly would seem when approaching a villain's daunting lair.

The design choices for the Netherlands seem primitive too, enhanced by the fact that we're in the countryside. I feel like there's that Sly 1 and 2 rule of thumb at play here, where Sucker Punch chose the aesthetic or genre first and then chose the location. For example, they wanted a spooky level in Sly 2 so they chose Prague which would accommodate the genre through its architecture and gothic character. That allowed them to exaggerate a lot in terms of level design. And it's the same for Flight of Fancy, where we have a spooky castle on top of a very cartoony hill and you can hide under haystacks. Oppositely, the rest of the game's levels seem to have departed from the previous entries' design principle (except Kaine Island, which is fully fictional). It feels as if SP chose Venice and wanted to play up how European it is, or the wilderness of the Australian outback but without any radical stylistic choices. The genres are explored through the narrative, not through design.

Lastly, let's close off with some Thieves in Time slander because it wouldn't be a signature me tumblr essay without it. If we really use the entirety of our brain power and manage to look past all of the game's bullshit, one additional flaw would be how it doesn't consider the gang's development when telling its story. I'm not saying that in the series' fourth game the gang should have been infallible or indestructible due to achieving master thief status in Sly 3, but here the mistakes they make feel so unnecessarily stupid and like shit they wouldn't have done even in Sly 1. Falling for Penelope's schtick twice; Sly letting his guard down during the Le Paradox boss fight after the Contessa; whatever the fuck went down in Arabia... yea.

#the tit slander is true and you should 👏 say 👏 it 👏