AROO, always remember your brothers are battlin’ their own mf’in demons; treat 'em like you’d treat that hog and give 'em a CRANK when they need it!!

so it was REALLY unfortunate timing to do a fan remake

That’s true, but I don’t think it moves the needle in their favor at all; if anything, to me, it makes it worse.

It’s still just as much of a dick move (part of a broader pattern of dick moves around the time) that shows utter contempt for fans. A smart company would’ve leveraged AM2R to create hype, because it was pulling a Game Boy game from 1991 out of obscurity. Personally, it got me excited even as someone who wasn’t even a Metroid fan at the time, and I refused to buy Samus Returns solely because of what Nintendo did. It could’ve ridden AM2R’s coattails and gotten a purchase from me.

AM2R is hardly a market substitute for Samus Returns in a way that hurts Samus Returns more than it helps (given most fans dedicated and knowledgeable enough to play AM2R were probably also big enough fans to want Samus Returns regardless), and I’d bet anything that if they reached out to the AM2R team, Nintendo could’ve done something cool with them to amplify the hype while stepping on Samus Returns’ toes as little as possible.

Sega’s is oversimplified to the point someone who doesn’t already know the story would be misinformed. Christian Whitehead was employed at Sega before this for porting classic Sonic games (1, 2, and CD) using his Retro Engine, and they later let him and his team make Sonic Mania after he presented a prototype to Takashi Iizuka.

That is, Whitehead intended from the start to bring it to Sonic Team, whom he’d already worked for, as a prototype to have it officially produced and released. Sega had a lot of influence over the broader development, mainly the inclusion of classic levels. They didn’t just take a random fan game and slap a “SEGA” logo over it.

If anything, the image for Sega should be Sonic CD for iPhone, as he was just a fan at that time making a fan port. Sonic Mania is kind of a quasi-fan game, in the sense that Whitehead was a huge fan and did work at Sega in the first place because of his fan port proof of concept.

Edit: Also, here’s what Sega thinks of its fans in 2026.

Consider the magnitude of the passion instead of the direction, and it starts to make some sense. Not to this level, but consider that allosexuals often get sex very mixed up in the rest of their feelings; sexuality can see that passion and hijack it.

God bless Adam. He blew me away after he finally escaped from BuzzFeed. Not pure 10/10, but I thought for sure he was a hack; turns out he was really good and just pumping out empty garbage for a soulless job, which is understandable. (Edit: Exception is the Donut Day Loss parody; made while at BuzzFeed, and truly splendid.)

#2 is definitely a nod to PizzaCake. The “NSFW somehow”, the expression on red guy’s face, the way neither of them talk like humans having a heated argument through any forum, the tired pandering accusation, the utter calm smugness from one side and utter derangement from the other, and the character design (no hair or glasses, but lanky, green t-shirt, grey-blue jeans, and similar skin tone; could heavily use gradients for better effect).

Wildberries finally innovates instead of following Amazon’s lead.

I’m going to tell my kids that this was “Move Along Home”.

Wasn’t this originally a reaction to Grumpy Cat?

“France, Germany vow to compete in torment nexus market”

“I can excuse seditious disinformation, but I draw the line at author credit in comic strips.”

Your moral compass could use some Adderall.

Take responsibility for directly linking to the unfiltered words of one of the main people who tried to overturn the 2020 US presidential election and who would have literally every reason to publish this right now with Trump loudly trying to blame the CCP for his 2020 election loss?

Quoting The Kansas City Star’s editorial board:

No one other than President Donald Trump himself is more responsible for Wednesday’s coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol than one Joshua David Hawley, the 41-year-old junior senator from Missouri, who put out a fundraising appeal while the siege was underway.

You can quit playing dumb.

“US senator” is not an honorary title, it’s a job.

What an odd response to calling out the fact that Josh Hawley cannot be trusted for even the most insignificant claim.

You’re the one who decided to directly link to a press release from Hawley right as Trump and his gaggle of election deniers are trying to claim that the CCP rigged the 2020 election for Joe Biden; the least you can do is take some responsibility.

You could’ve linked to The Guardian even to soften the blow, but you decided “Nah, Josh Hawley unfiltered is fine” and then got defensive about it.

Save you some time: “US senator” is disinformation peddler and election denier Josh Hawley, and his word for literally anything is as good as dirt; he’s actively nefarious. We should be looking at other sources (ones, of course, that aren’t reliant on him), and if other sources don’t exist, then it isn’t worth spreading here to begin with.

Beep, you should know better.

Headline kinda missed the scale of this whole thing.

It’s LLM-generated from some mill called UpWorthy; the fact it’s on Yahoo! News just lends it some credibility because most people aren’t going to understand that, while Yahoo! News has some original articles of its own, it’s primarily a news aggregator with minimal quality standards.

Restoring the balance of these elements is not only critical to marine life, but human life as well. And we’re not just talking about food supply here. A lack of fish means a lack of income for fishermen, and higher prices at seafood restaurants. Dirty waters lead to a decline in tourism. Reefs even provide natural protection during coastal storms. It’s almost like every aspect of our lives is directly affected by the state of our environment. What a concept!

OP genuinely doesn’t seem to give a shit about the quality of what they post; I administered the other day what I think has been the first temp ban of a poster from !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world because they refused to learn when their posts got removed for clear lack of relevance.

Edit: This article never once sources this information. The FDEP talks about using oysters but never says 500,000 tons, and all I can immediately find about that specific claim are some shitty AI videos from late 2025.

Edit 2: But here’s a neat report! Again, though, the 500k number seems to have been pulled out of an AI hat.

While we lack a rule against reposts and thus this isn’t a moderative action, I still have to say I’m a bit befuddled at the crosspost of a crosspost that leads back to a popular post from… this community three months ago.

And that you’ve done this exact thing two times in the last two hours.

Sigh, 'is girlfriend just broke up with 'im; 'e is 'art-broken.

My first thought when reading your previous reply is that you’re someone who likes to argue for the sake of arguing.

Bbbbbbbbbbb wrote: “I like plate customization, its a form of self expression.”

GreenBeard responded to this totally innocuous, non-argumentative statement with: “That’s like embellishing a prison camp number with a fun design. That’s not self-expression that’s morbid.” Then went on to call the practice “gross” and “tacky” and the people who get custom plates under a “sad illusion” and “letting themselves be tricked”.

Again, in response to just an extremely benign and normal statement: “I like plate customization, its a form of self expression.”

Truly I’m the one who likes arguing for the sake of an argument here – not the person who started and perpetuated this abject, comically combative nonsense.

You resent other people having values you don’t share.

As you sit here saying those who have values you don’t share are participating in something “gross”, under a “sad illusion”, and “letting themselves be tricked” into doing something that’s “morbid”, “tacky at best”, and akin to “embellishing their prison camp number”. lmao okay

So are you a Mercator or a Robinson kind of guy?

If you think the magnitude of information gained is even worth considering for either (or frankly any) party, you’re grossly misunderstanding the scale of the surveillance state or just have really terrible ideas for custom plates. Your plate is inherently already a 100% unique identifier; if you’re worried enough that like six characters of custom text or a chosen design will in any way further government or corporate surveillance, then – and I say this as someone who frequents privacy communities, hates defeatism, and thinks people (myself included) need better privacy hygiene – have fun pissing on a forest fire.