http://boards.4channel.org/v/thread/494938805#p494938805
This was originally posted by Bruh69 (AWESOME name btw! :P). I couldn’t get around to it last week. I had to duck and cover from some turbulent weather.
Anywho, a couple of things here are there are already familiar if you’ve been keeping up with Sega’s nonsense for years. Low wages, having no respect for the fans…. even their biggest asskisser, Tailschannel, gets no love. No idea who Hogfather is. Kinda weird how Sega somehow has no money for anything despite Yakuza games having all this budget. Yeah sure, same city and reused assets, but I doubt those models and music numbers are cheap. Too much about that series says otherwise. Aaron Webber being a control freak is actually funny, with the lack of testosterone he has.
In general, a lot of what the guy says isn’t surprising at all. We could tell just by Sega’s behavior since…. forever, that they have routinely displayed outright disdain for their audiences (the non-japanese ones). You don’t have to look any further than the Shining Force Take downs on Youtube some years back, or the BS involving PSO2. Hell, you can go back to the whole “Did you know about the Chaotix splitting apart?” bullshit they were talking to explain away how retarded the roster setup was in TSR in that they think very little of our intelligence.
But… this 4chan post exposed a lot more than what folks are giving credit for. See, when Webber started going around and flagging people’s tweets, you had quite a few people coming to his defense. “He’s just doing his job” and whatnot. Now, I don’t’ know all the details, and it’s difficult to track down exact posts or tweets on it, all I got is this.
Normally, something like that would be infuriating. But… it puts a smile on my face. Because now it makes all of our (unpaid) jobs a helluva lot easier.
These…. are…. all….. corporate shills.
Gamers are a very pretentious breed. They don’t respect any game company unless their output is of high quality, and that their people are respectful of their consumer base. Gamers will never have anything good to say about a company that routinely mistreats their fans. So when you see people going to bat for Webber who’s going around and flagging people’s tweets for containing a link that exposes Sega as the #3 Japanese asshole factory (behind Namco and Nintendo) that doesn’t even respect their biggest ass lickers, that should come as a giant red flag. Gamers… won’t… simply… do this…. unless there’s a pay out. Otherwise, you won’t find any gamer standing up for this nonsense.
Last year, Jim Sterling had videos talking about a guy, Yernstrom or whatever, and his lecture on whaling. The most important clip of that whole lecture was the part where he talked about social manipulation. How you want to tell your customers that the most respectable behavior is to be paying. That you don’t want to tell people that they can win their games without paying. Never tell them that. And how people who don’t buy don’t get respect in their communities. They’re bullied. There’s no other way for this to work outside of their own company employees infiltrating fan communities and taking control of the discourse. Word of mouth is the best form of marketing as people tend to be drawn to something if other people talk about how great it is. People trust the words of the common folk rather than the words of advertisers. Advertisers can and will lie about their products.
This is why reviewers were often sought after for an honest opinion on a product before people would go and see for themselves if that product is worth money. When industries learned of that, they started paying off reviewers for good ratings. Obviously, the guy who was famous for giving Twilight Princess an 8.8 got fired for giving a low review score to a game his employer was promoting. Then of course, people learned that reviewers were being paid off, and people stopped trusting them… and going to the common folk again. Youtubers who made their way without being bought off by the companies. So the industries started to buy them off too. That’s why you got people like Angry Joe giving the Witcher 3 a perfect score even though he outright admits that it’s not a perfect game. He even has a voice credit in that game iirc. Same for the Honest Trailers voice having a credit in MVCI.
We should not kid ourselves and assume Sega isn’t pulling the same shit. Ken Penders, infamous author of the Archie Comics (and a little too clingy to Julie-Su) recently made a statement that the real fans are not online. And that’s true when you have people complaining that people kept appreciating Sonic Adventure and Unleashed over other games in the series . The “frauds” kept making all of these incredulous arguments about why Sonic content in the last decade has been good when all facts of the matter have been pointing to the exact opposite. Why they’ve been trying to tell Yuji Naka what his intent was with the subject matter of Sonic. Why the Archie Comics have been getting double the heat as of late as opposed to years past. Why the IDW arcs of zombots are getting all of this praise for subject matter that would otherwise have been unacceptable elsewhere. Sega has a vested interest in invalidating their critics. That’s why they’ve been fighting harder and harder with bullshit arguments, like how Sonic Mania being on sale is a good indicator of it’s success. You have so many people going around spouting on about Mania’s massive success, and they have yet to produce some numbers to vindicate that.
Like I said, idk all the details, but I find it hard to believe that ACTUAL fans would be out there caping for the company despite what they’ve been doing. Too much evidence supports that Sega is an asshole factory. It’s a little odd how only Sonic fans would be so…. persistant and stubborn in backing Sega when NO ONE ELSE is that stupid.
http://info.sonicretro.org/Original_Story
So yeah this got put up on reddit and 4chan. It’s an internal text made a long while ago in Sega of Japan. Some choice bits:
>Character Outline: Sonic the Hedgehog
>Approximate age: 18 (but it’s kind of hard to tell).
>Legendary blue hedgehog with an attitude.
>Is the _fastest_ in the land.
>Strong sense of justice but irreverent to authority.
>Impatient (does not like to stand around).
>Not detail-oriented (short attention span).
>Likes anything fast.
>Loyal to his friends but enjoys his independence.
>Street smart, but warm at heart.
>Loves beauty, nature, cool music and adventure!
>Not a hero, but has lots of self confidence and courage.
>But, above all else, he is FAST!
>Sonic
>Sonic is the star. He is a cool blue dude with an attitude. he is _not_ a “do-gooding” hero. He is >loyal to his friends and has a good sense of right and wrong, but he is a very independent guy >who is mostly interested in doing his own thing. He is not book smart, but he is very street smart. >He loves beauty, nature, and adventure, but his primary passion is for speed and indeed he can >run faster than anyone on the planet. Two things he does _not_ do are; swim (he sinks like a >stone), or ride around in cars, motorcycles, etc. (why _should_ he when he can run faster than >them all!). He fancies himself as a bit of a ladies man, but he does not like to be chased by girls. >He is generally impatient and likes to get things done quickly. Sometimes this can work against >him because he is not very detail oriented. But for the most part, Sonic is as quick witted as he is >fast footed and this gives him an extraordinary combination of talents that keep him the idol of >kids around the globe.
>Knuckles
>Long ago, an ancient civilization called the Echidnas lived on Angel Island and had mastered the >secrets of the Chaos Emeralds. so powerful were these emeralds that the entire island floats >high in the sky. The island’s existence has long been a secret because not many people have >ever seen it as it is always obscured by clouds. But the Echidna Tribe mysteriously disappeared >leaving Knuckles as their lone descendant and guardian of these secrets.
>Knuckles is about 15 years old, wears his hair in “dreadlocks” and has a generally cool aura >about him. He is quite athletic and can run almost as fast as Sonic, climb vertical rock walls, and >float down (like flying) from high places. He can also use the spikes on his knuckles to help him >dig which is one of his favorite activities. Knuckles has a strong sense of honor and has a good >heart (he is the equivalent to Doronpa in the Oba-Q story). He is very clever and smart, but had >lived his life in solitude and was not accustomed to dealing with characters from the outer world, >much less such a cunning one as Dr. Robotnik. This is why he was easily deceived by Robotnik >into thinking that Sonic was a bad guy trying to steal the Chaos Emeralds. This deception >allowed Robotnik to pit Knuckles against Sonic as a powerful adversary.
>Knuckles snatched up the Chaos Emeralds from Sonic and then used his vast knowledge of the >Island and his ability to dig to expertly escape from Sonic and Tails and to set up hidden traps >and obstacles to slow their pursuit.
>Fortunately, this deception could not last because both Sonic and Knuckles ultimately discovered >they were fighting on the same side of the same cause.
>They finally vowed to work together to protect Angel Island and ultimately defeat Robotnik.
Knuckles = Cunning and Smart
Knuckles = Cunning and Smart
Knuckles = Cunning and Smart
Knuckles = Cunning and Smart
……I’m gonna go cry now. 😦
It makes me wonder what that people of Japan truly think.
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/my-little-pony-transformers-4issue-miniseries-launches-weekly-in-may-2020/44463/
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-vs-the-terminator-crossover-comic-launching-in-2020/44337/
One of most common things IDW did nowadays is crossover between Transformers and assorted proeprties. They previously did this with Star Trek and Ghostbusters.
Also, many bronies and transfans knew the inevitable crossover will happened. It’s just a matter of when.
Not only the “Bronies and transfans see it coming” stuff i said, Many are voicing their disapproval on the crossover, many are telling them that they should get used to it, all that jazz.
Look at the comment section of the first news. The shizstorm is real.
Just putting this out of the way. You’re getting plenty of mileage out of that Metal Sonic image.
Using it as an identifier… or something, so folks can know it’s about Sonic or what may have you.
Idk why I’m doing that.
Things that should have died in the 90s along with Mario vs Sonic debates.
https://twitter.com/ItsYaPaddyBoy/status/1227047539993726976
Guyver Spawn
“Do people still fight over Pokémon vs. Digimon?”
I was thinking the same thing
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review-sonic-the-hedgehog-doesnt-rock-even-after-a-new-paintjob/
http://archive.is/hO5AR
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3794354/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt
Some reviews. The consensus amount pro reviewers is that the movie’s mediocre and carried by Carrey with Marsden’s acting. Which doesn’t really surprise me at all since I expected the moviemakers to hope Carrey and other humans would carry the plot while Sonic’s a zany mascot (with a dark past too).
Well that figures. That’s how a lot of “CGI Buddy” movies do it.
What boggles my mind is how people didn’t catch on to the casting choices and figure it was gonna be comedy shlock the moment that information was made available.