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On 7/19/2021 at 11:51 PM, Wulfsbane said:
Seems like every update removes more and more customization options
I will look into it a bit deeper. If anything else disappears, let me know.
This feature thing also does not reflect other people’s actual work on the site. :/
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Programming appeaes boring in its abstract everyday form, yet when you have a forest for trees approach, things change in amazing ways. Here we will show you examples and end products to help you see the forest for the trees, and get through the grind, better yet, help you know where exactly refining this vital skill can lead.
Let’s start with a real mind-bender of an example. Non-Euclidean programming for level design. Thoughts?
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2 hours ago, MoKat said:
It won't be me 😄
It will probably be Mike, except with ADHD fighting games. 🤣
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Should we broaden this to include the RPC Authority and possible other groups like the SCP Foundation? RPC is actually pretty interesting in their canonical differences.
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On 8/8/2020 at 4:56 PM, Mike Arcade said:
I love that picture, the dude worked on that for months, if not over a year. I can't give him enough props for it.
Been practicing my graphics design work. Here is my first take on the SCP logo. A gift for my baby cousins and @KlayaThePitbull.
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On 6/13/2021 at 12:58 PM, MoKat said:
If yu think it's Mark Hamill, then u r correct
T'is a Glorious choice.
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On 6/10/2021 at 5:39 PM, MoKat said:
I saw the official teaser for Masters of the Universe: Revelation over at Poo Tube:
While I am dismayed that it will be a Netflix exclusive, the animation gives me hope that it won't be a complete steaming pile; one of the commenters said it was animated by "Powerhouse Animation". Hopefully the writing will be as good as the animation.
Is Skeletor voiced by who I think he is voiced by?
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Guys…I bought the Tower of Power… Plan to set up all my retro consoles soon on my new media center. Should be glorious. I will list my collection down here soon. I actually have a lot of games Mike’s reviewed actually.
When I was little @SGT Rock Vox took me aside and told me he had almost all the 1970’s Star Wars action figures, yet he sold them in the 80’s for a guitar when he became a teen. “My collection would be with thousand of dollars today, so don’t do what I did. Keep your popular toys somewhere safe.” To me, my toy collection was actually video games and I kept almost all of them. My collection is worth a lot now. Just my Resident Evil 2 on the GameCube is worth over 100$ dollars and I have RE, RE2, RE3, RE4 all on it. My collection is worth thousands.
I give that same advise to you all, look into the scarcity and popularity of your toys, games, and collectible cards and keep at least some of them if you got them, if people out there want them in a yard sale for a five today, there might be a chance they want them for 1000$ tomorrow. You remember this especially, the littler half of @KlayaThePitbull. XP
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On 5/30/2021 at 5:07 AM, Alphamon_Ouryuken said:
The newest chapter of Sonic: Genesis Nexus has been updated:
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13723800/3/Sonic-Genesis-Nexus
https://archiveofourown.org/works/27100471/chapters/78241886
I will spread the word for you. It’s good to get an update.
@Mike Arcadewill give it a read too, and perhaps a review so far, yes?
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On 9/27/2020 at 5:52 PM, Senior Bobbert said:
I just played through the first grand prix on Sonic All Stars Racing: Transformed. It was fun. I like the changes between vehicle types. I like the car to boat parts the most. It's pretty neat weave around in the waves, then jump and drift on all four of your wheels back into a car. Still trying to get a hold of the plane parts, because up is dowards and the down is upwards. Red says that how it is to fly an actual plane. There is a way to fix that, and if you have trouble you can use fly assist. But that won't help me get better, so I am learning how to do it normally. Really love the music. It's got a good, upbeat synth sound. My favorite character to play is Wreck It Ralph, because he reminds me of myself. I am constantly bumping into things in "my blind side" too. 😝
That reminds me that we need to get the newest game on Steam . I have not really looked into it yet, hope it’s good.
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I love it how Capcom treated the fan-creators, giving them credits even on RemakeRE2’s credit screen. There seems to be some interesting RE fan games.
@NagolYou going to do a review here of RE8?
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On 5/6/2021 at 5:13 PM, WarTraveller said:
Or, many posts. It even has fan-made tribute albums like Nowhere at The Millennium of Space and Everywhere In The Beginning Of Nowhere. And Everywhere at the End of Time (Schizophrenia Edition). That one is just...nightmarish.
It’s actually been very useful for horror tabletops for me. This stuff is not easy listening for sure, but it does challenge use to connect to dark circumstances on a deeper level. Maybe, that can help drive people to shine a brighter light.
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On 4/25/2021 at 12:35 AM, Mike Arcade said:
Box art revealed and the set of playable characters are revealed! Team Sonic, Amy, Shadow, and Blaze!
I will get it and do a review.
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After the popularization of the Schneider cut of Justice League, the re-edit phenomenon has finally ebbed from hardcore fans correcting crappy contributions to their favorite franchises, to a legitimate cinematic movement and art form. This has been so noteworthy culturally that many studios and IP holders are strongly considering capitalizing on this phenomena with refreshing experimental rehashing of classic movies, or as a fiscal stop-gap for undercooked blockbuster duds like The Last Jedi.
What are your thoughts of re-edits? Should they be the new normal on streaming and even the big screen? Or should they just be a fan-base fancy? Where do you think this is all heading artistically and why?
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On 3/19/2021 at 11:22 AM, MoKat said:
Sounds promising; let's see if they can deliver
You could really do a lot with Sonic themed card games based of speed and dexterity. Something mixing the slapping of Egyptian Rat Screw, or picking up of an object in like Spoons, and the quick shedding of cards in melds like James Bond and Speed would probably work well.
Reaction cards could require special dexterity based challenges like grabbing an object like a plastic ring or chaos emerald. Rapid sorting of cards with each hand dealt being an Act that is then simultaneously play on multiple decks of challenge cards would be interesting. The object of the game would be grabbing as much stuff as possible with the reaction cards, while playing the right action cards on top of challenge cards, allowing you to take that challenge card in question aside for future points. Challange cards are basic obstacles that use certain action cards to nullify. Playing an invalid action card on a challenge can cause opponents to race to slap the deck and take your played card, which will cost you points.
That sound fun? @Mike Arcade
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Got a lot of good back from this idea, so I will be making one for adaptations of the ideas here for the Art, Music, and Writing sections.
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On 3/20/2021 at 3:53 PM, IronCheeze said:
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1. Egg Powder Zone - The whole level is inside the giant pantry of Eggman's secret survivalist bunker, it is filled with powdered dry foods. Be careful if you accidentally rip open the bags! Each can have weird effects on your character! If you dive in too much of the egg powder, for example, Sonic and friends will get major gas and fly randomly around in different directions. You can use this to your advantage to get to different places, and secret areas, like the Special Zone (which is a bathroom with a green chaos emerald...inside of a toilet).
2. Plastic Pest Zone - Beware the plastic clones of yourself and your friends! You have to navigate through an obnoxious fan's souless-eyed Funko Pop collection! Wobble atop bobble heads, ride through micromachines, and dodge the crazy Omega-Collector's modified Robotocizor, or you will be turned into one of those plastic bubble-gum colored zombies too!
3. Sky Plate Zone - Rotate and spin about until you are dizzy in this 2.5 D mad house in the sky! The Sky Plate is a series of portly Black Arm UFO's revived by Eggman from the deep dark depths of Uranus! Skip passed their hungry tentacles and elaborate techo-utensiles to make to the Death Egg!
4. Blade Skirt Zone - Remember the Sonic Three Balls ring tube mini-game? This special zone is that, except saw blades are shooting at you from all directions, slicing through the map, and trying to cut your adventure in half!
5. Smile Edge Zone - They want Sonic's soul! Oh boy, those crazy grinning ghosts are at again! You have to sidle as fast as you can, and crawl and climb passed deadly wall edges on a cliff-side haunted castle! Be careful though, some of your fuzzy friends is possessed by the ghosts! Find the secret relic to exorcise the ghost from you buddies, or become a ghost yourself!
6. Book Head Zone - An ancient tomb filled with books from a old emperor, who was obsessed with tomes about dark magic! As Knuckles you must snatch this old enemy's of your people's hidden and trap-protected secret spell-books. Before his floating Olmec head golem can bring him back from the grace to destroy Angel Island! Beware the floating heads will try to eat ring scattered rings and swallow up any books you have to protect them!
7. Spy Industry Zone - This one is pretty easy! You play Rouge the Bat collecting parts for new gadgets to be a better jewel-thief, by going through a G.U.N factory and knicking vital supplies while no one is watching. Sneak passed cameras, guards, and locked and blocked off areas to get what your after!
8. Bridge Hand Zone - Crazy Hand from Smashbros is back! And he wants revenge, Sonic! Save your friends from the grip of the Crazy hand and his mindless shadow-clones. Time is limited before the Crazy hand squeezes the life out of Sonic's friends! Be careful, because the very platforms you jump on are the enemy's themselves! Use their moves against them and against their boss themselves!
9. Range Sea Zone - Time to ride the bullet, literally! Sonic is not a big fan of water! And the sea is as deep and watery as water gets! Avoid sinking into the deadly depths by hopping across salvos of various battle ships, torpedoing submarines, and bombing jets all in a giant conflict. Be careful though! Sometimes those guns are already loaded!
10. Birthday Basket Zone - Ah-oh! Knuckles forgot it's Rouge's birthday, and its rush hour in Station Square, and it's a busy shopping day. If you come empty handed, Rouge will be so upset! Time is ticking, the hourglass is running out! And to make things worse, he does not know what she wants! Glide through the chaos of Station Square with your space-limited basket of birthday gifts, while trying to get clues on just what Rouge would want the most, from NPC's that know her best. Be careful! If you get hit by crazy Karen shoppers or get flattened by a speeding bus, the gifts will scatter and you will have to scramble or fight to get them back before time runs out!
Love how yours imply game mechanics and story as key factor, even in the goofy ones that would never be green lit by stuffy SoJ like Egg Powder Zone. XD
The one with your friends being possessed is great because it turns the mechanics of Sonic in their head. Rushing through enemies here could mean you hit a good friend (or Amy XP) and lot of jumping over, sliding under, or using a doge mechanic like Super Smash bros aerial doge would be awesome to see. That you could employ stealth mechanics and twitch reflexes that make homing attack sequences actually challenging.
@Wulfsbane Take a shot.
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On 4/1/2021 at 1:43 PM, Sargent Beeler. said:
Little did he know, his horrible helicopter accident would give him the power of shootie hands!
I can already imagine creepy Joe Biden having a heart attack at this hilarious loophole. Shootie hands, the ultimate spoopy ghost gun. 🤣
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1 hour ago, Wulfsbane said:
The Original Freedom Fighters in Archie were mentors to the group pre-Archie and were basically the ones before Sonic, Sally, & co. They were the ones who evacuated Mobotropolis and help found and build Knothole. The Original aren't the ones we know in SatAM
Oh! I know what you are talking about now. I thought they went by a different moniker than “original” though. *Checks link*
To answer that, yes - they can easily fit. In fact, I believe any delving into the between area of Blast to The Past and Season One requires some form of series of mentors. Children just don’t learn how to hack, fight, and infiltrate, let alone sustain themselves and a hidden society all by their own. There are ten years worth of character and story here that Satam could have explored with more past-focused lore-heavy episodes. Here is the rub though, you basically have two timelines to work with. Sonic saved a key adult figure in Rosie, and that one life will eventually change everything via a butterfly effect. Other adults besides Rosie could have been saved by her information of Mobotropolis for example, or because she could manage resources, or provide a needed service like medical care. These mentors may be gone in Time Line A, but somehow be back somewhere in Timeline B somehow. Heck, even vice versa. With Satam’s forked time line, they have the opportunity to create a fifth dimensional story arc for characters, like in the movie Frequency or Back to The Future, ect. This adds a really fun wrinkle to Sonic and Sally’s character, given they could possibly remember both timelines, though they seemed shocked Rosie was back. I leave the fourth dimensional epistemology up to you all creatively. There is too much fun stuff to ignore this possibility, way too much.
As for their individual characters, they would need a more Satam coat of paint in affect. This means less on the nose arcs and subtext. Satam respected its audience enough to treat them as young emerging adults rather than mere children, most of the time. Any betrayal by Trey will be expected and comes off as boring. Everyone expects the “I'm a snake; it's totally in my nature” species trope from a Snake Mobian. It’s okay to have those tropes with orcs and corrupted monster races in a story, sure. But, seeing mobians “species” is more an ethnicity than an ancestral ontology, let’s flip the script sometimes to show their bad cultural flaws are not ubiquitously baked inside them all.
Trey seems to not have the military background that the others seem to have, especially Colonel Stripes. In real life, much unlike a lot of writing by left leaning artists like Penders, who subconsciously (and more consciously nowadays) bend their stories to a slight pro-federalism, government and bureaucracy types frankly do more objective and empirical evil, for example look at the anti-private-sector fascist and communist governments of the 20th century in our world. Stalin’s five year plans killed a lot more innocent people than a Ford Pinto or a Chipotle burrito afterall. I personally hate when “private agents” get crapped on and it’s a bad subtext all around implication wise to generalize villian tropes on the basis of career background. With all that said, I would recommend making Trey a more complex character, perhaps motivated by his own prosperity to some extent, but becomes a victim of Robotnik’s authoritarianism.
Simple surprise fix to do is reverse his arc. Maybe he starts out a nasty selfish hearted Objectivist, that learns his boss cornering the market through the coupe is bad for business. He hates dealing with the meddling current regime in his line of work, maybe demilitarization means legislation that will destroy his livelihood even after he did contract work for what he sees as the hypocritical and ungrateful royal family, much like a real PMC do with governments that disavow them during the coming next election cycle. He has debts, Han Solo style debts from Jabba the Hutt style debtors. Now all he earned for himself is in the chopping block because of a narrow vote or monarchial dictate. To him, Acorn his already a dictator, better to have one that lets you eat and keeps you out of a very painful default in some heavy debts. And so, he is an early enactor of the coupe.
I like the idea that Trey then could not be roboticized even after the coupe, due to the Roboticizor not being tested on many reptiles. He tried to trick him in one, and it failed. So Buttnik casually lied about the incident, and had to use him in a different way until he figured it all out, and used the anomaly as a way to tweak his methods. You could even have Trey as having medical needs that Robotnik promised to help with (and Acorn’s policies made unaffordable). He experiments on him in a way that helps give us legionization or badniks.
Long story short, having him start a bounty Hunter to Robotnik and betraying him for better prospects in a world without his centralized control. Ironically you can turn over his betrayal in a dramatic way. And gives you a socio-philosophical spring board to talk about a lot political ideas in a what that is much more nuanced than a lot of those writers that follow into that Hollywood tradition of making the corporate guy (you know the people who made the phone or PC you are probably reading this on) the absolutely evil monopoly guy, while still critiquing and cross-paring more morally debatable right-wing perspectives like pure, hard objectivism. Don’t expect that from extreme partisan self-caricatures like Penders though.
I will share my thoughts on the others, but I want to tennis ball Trey around because he needs the most sculpting into something fresh, and perhaps ironically has the most potential.
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On 3/28/2021 at 10:48 PM, SonicSatamX93 said:
Might as well ask this to revive this thread.
What is your opinion of the Original Freedom Fighters from the Archie Sonic comic? Do you think they could have fit in the Satam universe as part of the series? And if they would need to be tweaked to fit, how would you do it?
For those who don't know who I'm referring to, here's a link to them:
https://archiesonic.fandom.com/wiki/Original_Freedom_Fighters
I am a bit of a soft Satam purist and not incredibly invested into Archie. But I do have one strong opinion, X. Bunnie and Antoine do not have any chemistry. In fact in season two we see she has some deep deep frustration with him. In the episode with the nasty hyenas, he comes off outright mean and condescending to Bunnie, betraying contempt, perhaps due to her station. His creepo kissy fascination with “My Princess” Sally and disdain of Bunnie reveals some possible snobby prejudice.
To keep to point, to fit in any relevant Satam context plots pertaining to their relationship would have to be given to someone else, or a major arc would be needed to transition him into something less well...classist?
What do you think?
You have a lot of Archie under your belt, what about you? And @SonicSatamX93 question in general?
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On 3/21/2021 at 2:55 PM, MoKat said:
I agree.
Sega just cannot really capitalize on their products can they?
I might be biased, but Cheeze would probably be better product design designer and marketing guy than whoever they have. XD
And yes...he was a village burner when he had those sticky hands. I remember him slapping people in car rides after we left the local Mexican restaurant, where he bought let them from a bubble gum machine. 🤣
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Well @Wulfsbane? XD