“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldHippity Hoppity
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    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.


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    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.



  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonereddit comics
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    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.)


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    #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).








  • “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.