Okay, but multiplayer indie games, everything from Mecha Chameleon to Pratfall to Yap Yap to many more like them, are hits. Even if just temporarily, these games have had a huge impact on the multiplayer scene. Friends and strangers coming together to play games that are relatively cheap compared to their triple AAA counterpart, while also having a lot of fun over the wacky physics, nonsense, and/or trolling that may occur.

You don't need cross-game features when you have people you hardly know and fun friend games like any of the above mentioned and maybe a discord call if y'all ain't in the same room.

Definitely a tie between xbox360 and PS2.

Definitly not biased because they're the 2 consoles I played the most growing up. No. There's a totally reasonable explanation. And would you look at the time! Gotta blast!

I'm self aware and generally aware enough to be discomforted, but it's luckily balanced out by my autism debuff ( or buff depending on who you ask ).

People have already said a couple of my favorites ( Super Tux Kart and Mindustry ), but I'd like to bring up one almost nobody talks about: Me And My Shadow

It's a 2D puzzle platformer where you control one person normally but then press space to record movement for your shadow character. Last time I tried downloading and playing it on Linux using the appimage on Sourceforge, pretty sure it didn't work because it might need an old glibc that has features that might not exist in newer versions.

This post reminded me of the game, so I'll download and see if I can run it on my desktop. Really feel like playing it now.

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I am too dumb to figure out how to make it work. Best I get is nothing. Not even a pop-up saying I need something else to make it work. So, I guess plating the windows release through WINE is the best I'd be able to do.

It's such a fun game, especially after you beat a campaign level. I love that part purely for the freedom it provides after a hard fought battle.

I am the box fish! Fear me!

1. Always cool to gear his Sonic is seen in other countries and to hear about the history of the franchise from another country outside of EU countries, US, and Japan.
2. Sonic has been one of my longest autistic interests throughout my life, so you can imagine how much I love the franchise.

I literally played my first Sonic game in a child's dentist waiting room. It was Sonic Adventure 2 on gamecube. The next game I played was literally the Sonic Mega Collection for same console because my grandpa thought me and my brothers would love it. Yeah, I was the only one to fall in love with it. So, growing up, I had Sonic Rush on DS, Riders Zero Gravity and Sonic 4 episode 1 on wii, Secret Rings, Sonic The Hedgehog ( Sonic '06 ), Sonic Generations on xbox360, Unleashed on PS2 and xbox360 marketplace, Sonic Adventure DX on xbox marketplace, and Sega Superstar Tennis if you wanna include that game that came with the original family xbox360 we had.

Nowadays I don't have all of those titles anymore, but my collection is more impressive. I got a Sega Genesis with Sonic 1-3 with lock-on Knuckled adaptor and Sonic Spinball. I also have a Dreamcast and a Japanese copy of Sonic Adventure ( which breaks my personal rule of not buying imported games if possible ). Got Sonic Heroes on PS2. I also broke down at one point and bought Sonic Frontiers for my switch. The rest of the games I have that aren't physical copies are Sonic Generations ( before I even knew they were making x Shadow ), Origins, Mania, Sonic 4 episodes 1+2, and Sonic Lost World on Steam. Other than the games listed in this paragraph, I don't legally own any other Sonic titles currently, besides Sonic on GameGear ( no console to play it currently ).

Sonic has been a constant throughout my whole life, so I owe a lot of childhood memories to that franchise. The anime/cartoons, too. Found out about the anime around the early 2010s and really liked it. Then when netflix got the two DIC 90s cartoons, I eventually found out about them and love both of them to this day. I knew of a Sonic cartoon because of old school youtube poop videos, but I was too young and dumb to figure out where to find them online back then because I was still a dumb kid. We don't talk about Sonic Underground. It is fine, but simultaneously a disappointment, IMO.

Currently, I have zero official Sonic merch or any physical merch outside a hang up thing my brother got me for Christmas a year or two ago. Pretty sure it might use some genAI art because one hand that looks atrociously like the graphic designer didn't have a clue what a hand looks like and has a weird, seemingly impossible pose I'd expect to see from a clanker. Would get rid of it, but it's a gift from my brother. Absolutely waiting to see if in the future I can get a specific vintage Tails plushie that I cannot remember the exact one right now.

Speaking of characters, I am an absolute sucker for the DIC brown furred 4 year old Tails, either show and either Tails. The Tails who gets in the way more because he isn't a kid genius Tails. The absolute most innocent Tails. As much as I dislike kids, I would sacrifice myself for that Tails. That specific Tails is by a very wide margin my absolute favorite character. Followed by regular Tails being my favorite, with Blaze ( purely for design and heavy Sonic Rush bias ) as a very close third.

Despite how bad a lot of Sonic games are, I still find myself loving almost all the games I play. The one Sonic Boom game I played on 3DS thanks to hShop and that one infinite runner mobile game from a decade ago not included because they suck. Same thing applies specifically to the Sonic Lost World special stages on 3DS. I also have played the one Sonic car racer on wii, but I don't like the car racer spin-off games when compared to the Riders spin-offs ( Free Riders excluded because I have never played and probably never will because I couldn't justify kinect for a single game ).

So, needless to say, the series has become a symbol of comfort and security for me. Probably to a somewhat unhealthy degree. It's more than just a game franchise made by a company that would absolutely bankrupt itself if given infinite money. It's more than just a blue hedgehog running from adventure to adventure. It's more than just a colourful cast of characters. It's kinda become this very key part of my identity and who I am as a whole.

Get three tweezers and you got a full house!

Even if I had the money, my hype for it has kinda died since I bought a used desktop from a pawn shop. Would be nice, but I'm not sure I could justify the price just for a more portable desktop like console thing. It sounds nice, but my Ste am Deck already kinda fills that niche for now.

False! We got Neil, descendant of Narcissus! Back in the mid 2000s! He worked with Jay, Odie, Harry and a few others I can't name off the top of my head to defeat Cronus while also attending Olympus High!

And I'd say he's a thousand times more likeable, even as a cartoon character, than that ugly cheeto we are forced to call president!

I was referring to a cartoon I recently started watching called Class of the Titans. It's one of those Canadian cartoons I would have loved to watch, had it been on a channel I watched.

It's free on yt, every episode. Definitely a lot different from Percy Jackson.

Based on what I read/saw and got out of it, I am real disappointed it looks like it's gonna be using genAI instead of another form of AI we've been using for transcription. Otherwise, sounds like trying to be a modern genAI version of that speech to text software I'd see ads for on TV. Possibly good for accessibility, but I'll wait and see after it comes out.

At least they claim the whole thing to be done offline after model installation and it's allegedly sandboxed with the audio data being stored in a memory buffer that allegedly will be erased after the session. So I'll have to wait and see how this all plays out before making more judgments on it.

I think out of all the Adult Swim type shows ( Family Guy, Robot Chicken, American Dad, South Park, etcetera ), I cannot stand any of them besides King of the Hill or Futurama. So definitely gonna agree with you.

I have never understood why you wouldn't want to judge the past by modern standards. Sounds like a good way to avoid becoming like them in terms of the wrongs they did, by modern standards.

Otherwise, yeah, I don't know enough about this to add anything meaningful to the conversation around him.

I distinctly remember at least Family Guy, American Dad, and Robot Chicken airing on AD where I lived, so maybe I might be misremembering, but I meant those shows as in the style of show I'd expect to see on there. If I wasn't clear about that, my bad.

Okay, that is an amazing song! One listen and I am hooked!

It's too bad most writers don't know what exactly to do with him. Otherwise, yeah, I'm gonna assume this would be a case of the writers not knowing what to do with a smart villain in general.

Drop down console is one of the things I absolutely love about MX, so much so that I had to install guake on my desktop I switched over to mint. I'm not sure I could go back to not having a drop down console.

That's the reason why I installed guake. I have yakuake on my laptop and tried it on mint when I switched on my old desktop, but there were some text issues I was too lazy to fix. Guake has been just as good for my use case, but either way I love both.

Don't like losing money so easily, so I'mma pass on this one.