Oh, well, in that case I'm not sure how people risking having seizures isn't a problem just because of the situation in Afghanistan. Speaking more to some of the responses here agreeing with the comic/artist than the thing itself.
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Tracy Yardly ( Archie/IDW sonic comic artist) tweets out odd comic about sonic colors criticism and Afghanistan
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I think some folks are trying to be charitable given the frustration alot of people feel given the perpetually on fire state of the planet
This is the dumbest shit. If all you hear people talking about is how bad Sonic Colors is, get out of your own bubble. I guarantee 100% of the people complaining about that game have other issues they care about more. Assuming otherwise based on your Twitter feed just makes you look like a simpleton.
I don't think anyone here out and out agrees with the comic, I can kinda see why he posted it but it's just so fucking tone-deaf when the game is actually dangerous in its current form
Maybe, not sure minimising the risk of epileptic seizures is the way to go about it though. As others have said, if all you're seeing around you is talk on Sonic Colors it's more an indictment of how limited your scope of news or community intake is than anything else.
It goes deeper. According to my sources, Biden himself told Sega to put glitches in Sonic Colors to distract Sonic fans from Afghanistan.
Follow the clues. Two more weeks all will be revealed
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Oh I'm with you.
Litterally did a whole alex Jones over the course of a weekend
100%
I personally have had a shit year. I've had COVID. Family drama. Work stress. I try to keep a broad world view. The world is pretty dark right now. Environmental crisis. Rolling back years of social progress in many aspects of society. Afghanistan. A feeling of powerlessness over many of these topics that are basically drip fed into our brains 24/7 via mobile news feeds
Amongst all that, video games are still a pasttime I come back to. A relic from my youth that I play when I have the odd free hour of my week that I dedicate otherwise to work, family and a few assorted charity volunteer hours before I drop dead on my perpetually tired ass. Games. To love them. To hate them. To escape amidst an online community of like-minded folks and chat about the news of the week
Only to see this absolute fucking asshat say 'haha look at the limited perspective of these guys bitching about Sonic Colors that I have to listen to because I've made worklife around the Sonic community'
There are no words and usually these provactive tweet stories I brush off, but this one really makes me irrationally angry at the gall of him
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Corn Pop and Egg Man are about to expose it all, I'm sure.
Ever since Obama got the Chaos emeralds, there's been some bad blood leading to this unlikely team up.
This is just the fallacy of relative privation. Expand this logic beyond Sonic Colors and we wouldn't be able to discuss any game because there's some kind of atrocity occuring virtually everywhere on earth at all times. Ironically he made himself look insensitive by bringing the subject of vulnerable Afghan peoples to post some weird take regarding the discourse of a video game.
What kind of tryhard crybaby bitch shit is this?
I don't even get what the fuck their point was here--unless it was being a tactless scumbag, because if so then message received.
I don't even get what the fuck their point was here--unless it was being a tactless scumbag, because if so then message received.
Don't get how you draw this and somehow think "i know this will be a good idea"In case people enter the thread and wonder what the comic was (need to zoom in, tiny text)
My god, if criticism of a botched port of a decade old game is enough for some people to go that far off the deep end.... Sonic Ranger's review embargo lifting is going to be quite the event.
How tasteless
How tasteless
So I do agree in a broad sense that a lot of video game "controversies" are overblown (although the epilepsy thing is a legitimate complaint) but the problem is the author is showing they care more about Sonics reputation than Afghanistan with the whataboutisms in the comic.
I doubt it. People are kind of numb to the Sonic Cycle at this point, and yet another 3D Sonic game turning out to be a turd will only sting a little bit. People are just super salty about this release because Colors is suppose to be "one of the good ones" (it's not, but that's besides the point) and Sega managing to fuck up such an obvious slam dunk as an HD port of it really put folks on tilt.
*reads the comic a bit*
Yeah, it's just everything wrong. I didn't expect my mind to jump from "just fine" to "so fucking tired".
Considering how social media (and especially Twitter) works now, it could have been better and easier if he could just have shut up instead of drawing(?) and saying this BS. That shows how narrowminded you can be with the current state of the world.
Yeah, it's just everything wrong. I didn't expect my mind to jump from "just fine" to "so fucking tired".
Considering how social media (and especially Twitter) works now, it could have been better and easier if he could just have shut up instead of drawing(?) and saying this BS. That shows how narrowminded you can be with the current state of the world.
A thing they like and have a professional involvement with, at that. Just to make this a bit sleazier.
To those of you complaining that the festival for the gods last night sucked and several of you were robbed, why don't you take a minute to remember that Hannibal's army is slaughtering our young Romans by the thousands
I don't know the Sonic colours outrage or if the Afghanistan comparison is called for (wtf are gamers supposed to do??), but there is something to be said about how the level of passion neolib gamers perpetually put into complaining about 0.1% of software far exceeds the passion put into anything else. Definitely not a "care about two things at once" thing.
this was a good take
also i like tracys art and hope they're doing alright today. twitter is not good for stuff like this.
also this
He thought it up, drew it, wrote it and posted it on Twitter. Then he doubled down to defend it. He could've realized this was a bad idea and stopped so many times lol
I do think this is an issue of stupidity rather than malice. Like, they might have thought the pushback was that people don't want to talk about Afghanistan, and if that's the case pushing back against that is a good thing. But they also failed to consider other aspects, like how there's the seizure concern so Sonic Colours might not just be nerd complaining about inconsequential things.
People earlier in the thread talked about the artist revealing themselves being in Sonic bubble, but in a broader sense, we're all constantly in that bubble. You're aware of an issue when it's blowing up in the news, but a lot of things are still there when they aren't blowing up in the news. You're emotional now, but you didn't feel anything when it wasn't news.
Oh I agree it was made out of stupidity. I'm just highlighting that there were so many points along the process he could've realized it was stupid and wasn't gonna go over well because of it's bad taste regardless of misguided intention.