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[TheMightyP]

So I see Sonic fans are arguing over the movie potrayal of Gerald over on the bird app. So my personal thoughgs

Spoiler: Movie 3

Ngl, at first watch, I was mixed. I was far too used to the Gerald from SA2 and Shadow, but I didn't hate his potrayal (in fact, I told Noi that he was great). Then on rewatch... I think he grew on me.

The whole movie was him just manipulating Shadow by bringing up Maria, and then manipulating Eggman by stooping to his goofiness (even though his true intentions cracked little by little), and when the mask was fully dropped, he truly shined. He was made insane by Maria's death and then imprisoned for 50 years for something that wasn't even his fault, and yeah he wanted to destroy the world for that. I think it truly works and at the end he's a really solid villian.

Now there are some things I would've done differently. I think therr should've been a scene of Gerald with Maria and Shadow that wasn't the death scene. There was a line where it's implied how much Gerald loved Maria, but it wasn't really shown.

Secondly, I would've removed the spanking scene at the climax. I enjoyed the Eggmen fight (kinda creative with the Badniks being repped with nano tech) but the spanking scene was a slight tonal whiplash compared to everything else.

His death scene would've stayed the same, that was hilarious.

What do y'all think?

 

[osby]

Why are people saying this is the last day of 2024 and that it's New Year's Eve when it's the 30th and New Year's Eve is tomorrow. Am I going crazy or something

In this world, there are people who experience time slightly different than us.

Since ancient times, they've been called... those who live in different time zones.

 

[PLATINUM7]

Why are people saying this is the last day of 2024 and that it's New Year's Eve when it's the 30th and New Year's Eve is tomorrow. Am I going crazy or something

Have you discovered timezones?

 

[Noipoi]

So I see Sonic fans are arguing over the movie potrayal of Gerald over on the bird app. So my personal thoughgs

Spoiler: Movie 3

Ngl, at first watch, I was mixed. I was far too used to the Gerald from SA2 and Shadow, but I didn't hate his potrayal (in fact, I told Noi that he was great). Then on rewatch... I think he grew on me.

The whole movie was him just manipulating Shadow by bringing up Maria, and then manipulating Eggman by stooping to his goofiness (even though his true intentions cracked little by little), and when the mask was fully dropped, he truly shined. He was made insane by Maria's death and then imprisoned for 50 years for something that wasn't even his fault, and yeah he wanted to destroy the world for that. I think it truly works and at the end he's a really solid villian.

Now there are some things I would've done differently. I think therr should've been a scene of Gerald with Maria and Shadow that wasn't the death scene. There was a line where it's implied how much Gerald loved Maria, but it wasn't really shown.

Secondly, I would've removed the spanking scene at the climax. I enjoyed the Eggmen fight (kinda creative with the Badniks being repped with nano tech) but the spanking scene was a slight tonal whiplash compared to everything else.

His death scene would've stayed the same, that was hilarious.

What do y'all think?

The spanking scene was funny enough that I think it should stay. I agree that there should've been a scene with him, Shadow, and Maria.

 

[TMNTSSB4]

When's the Sonic movie where Vector goes on a mini rant about atheists?

save that for the Chaotix series

If anyones uncle works at Nintendo, can you tell them to put the monday songs on Nintendo music because they are late

inb4 they’re holding off until New Years officially starts for the entire world before dropping…not Kid Icarus Uprising

 

[Noipoi]

Spoiler: Sonic 3 after credits

Sonic The Hedgehog 3's Pat Casey & Josh Miller Talk Jim Carrey's Return, New Game Characters & Major Spoilers

They also offer a Violent Night 2 update.

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Sounds like we’re in for some cheesy romance ****

Considering movies did Knuckles and Shadow justice after years of the game’s handling them awkwardly, I’m trusting them with Amy and her relationship with Sonic.

 

[Hex D. Jess]

Spoiler: Sonic 3 after credits

Sonic The Hedgehog 3's Pat Casey & Josh Miller Talk Jim Carrey's Return, New Game Characters & Major Spoilers

They also offer a Violent Night 2 update.

screenrant.com

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Sounds like we’re in for some cheesy romance ****

Considering movies did Knuckles and Shadow justice after years of the game’s handling them awkwardly, I’m trusting them with Amy and her relationship with Sonic.

Spoiler

I do have some concerns

Amy's probably not gonna be obsessed with Sonic like the old days, but I'm also worried that they'll make her too much of a stoic badass girlboss because that's just not who she is.

I hope they find a healthy balance between the two

 

[Noipoi]

Spoiler

I do have some concerns

Amy's probably not gonna be obsessed with Sonic like the old days, but I'm also worried that they'll make her too much of a stoic badass girlboss because that's just not who she is.

I hope they find a healthy balance between the two

They have a good track record so far with the game characters and their characterizations. I trust they’ll do her right.

 

[Hex D. Jess]

Continuing the thought I had about a Sonic game based on Sonic X season 3. Like I said, I haven't watched it in a while but I do remember a lot of key elements and I don't think a game adaptation could be 1:1 anyway, but one thing I struggle with when conceptualizing it is the presentation of the story. I am going to yap about it for a bit.

Spoiler: big autistic sonic yap

I yearn for the days of the Adventure games that gave you multiple perspectives of different characters and I feel like considering the era Sonic X was made in, it is fitting for it to follow that structure. What I struggle with is the playable character roster and the exact approach to the story.

I feel like Sonic and Shadow would have to be playable in separate campaigns, that much is obvious. The problem is the other characters, season 3 is very much a "Sonic and his friends travel as a unit" type of story and considering it takes place in space it would not make sense to separate them. But I also don't want to sideline the others, especially Tails considering his and Cosmo's story is basically the emotional center of that arc (and my personal favorite thing about it), but I have no idea how I would incorporate Knuckles, Amy, or Cream. Rouge would probably accompany Shadow as usual (I would change it so that Shadow is not revealed to be alive in this game for chronology's sake), probably joined by Omega as well.

That's still 9 whole characters, with Team Sonic having 6 characters and Team Dark having 3, so it's out of balance. Of course you can split Team Sonic into two, but the character selection would not be the usual Sonic/Tails/Knuckles because like I said, Tails and Cosmo's story takes priority which means it wouldn't make sense to separate them. (I'm not even taking the Chaotix into consideration assuming I choose to incorporate them)

The setup I had in mind was this:
Sonic's story - Sonic, Knuckles, Cream
Shadow's story - Shadow, Rouge, Omega
Cosmo's story - Cosmo, Tails, Amy

It's not traditional at all, but I feel like Sonic and Knuckles babysitting Cream would be a funny dynamic and I like the idea of Amy playing wingman to Tails and Cosmo, it's cute. But then there's the question of why would Sonic and Cosmo's groups split up (it would make no sense to give them two separate stories if they're together).

There's also how everything ties up thematically - Sonic and Shadow are pretty obvious to me, as Shadow would end up acting more heroic while Sonic shows a taste of his inner darkness as Dark Super Sonic, but Cosmo doesn't exactly serve as a great middle ground between the two as far as I can remember. Of course I have to rewatch the show before I actually write the story (and the game itself will not be ready for a couple years) but I felt the need to scream into the void.

 

[Z25]

Saw Sonic 3 again with my siblings.

On rewatch, Gerald's a lot more serious than I remember. He still has his moments of comedy but overall, he's a vengance filled man, which really makes the dance scene even more out of place.

My oldee sister had this reaction to the post credits scene: When are they gonna add Blaze?

I too wonder that.

I would actually argue that scene deserved to be in the film more than ever.

Spoiler

Gerald slips up at the start of the heist, he calls eggman an idiot or something similar. Something eggman is caught off guard by and then redirect when Gerald goes back to hyping up eggman instead.

its clear from the start he was always manipulating him. He knows eggman extremely well. He wouldn’t be able to track down his drones to reprogram them if he didn’t. I don’t know if it’s established how long Gerald was in the abandoned base, but my guess is it was enough time that he could watch and monitor eggman from afar. Because how else would he know of his existence and where he was?

So he knows eggman was deprived of any form of connection growing up and is a bit of a weirdo because of it. It’s very possible he knew eggman liked to dance.

So when he realized he slipped up and didn’t think sonic and co we’re going to stop them, he abused eggman’s psyche to get back in his good graces as he needed to make sure he was there for the plan to work. This dance works and eggman seeing how much of the same person they are, immediately abandons stone because he thinks he found true family and kinship after that scene. Only for Gerald to be in the background smirking, because he knows

 

[Cutie Gwen]

I'm losing my goddamn mind, a nintendo youtuber made his first video in forever where he admits he never played a bunch of the games he reviewed and is now a devout monk, I never watched his videos but he did try to start **** on twitter with me because he namesearched so aggresively, dude's called Haedox

 

[Hex D. Jess]

I'm losing my goddamn mind, a nintendo youtuber made his first video in forever where he admits he never played a bunch of the games he reviewed and is now a devout monk, I never watched his videos but he did try to start **** on twitter with me because he namesearched so aggresively, dude's called Haedox

I have a faint recollection of watching a review from him years ago. I don't even remember what the video was about but I definitely have watched him once or twice.

I don't think I liked his reviews very much

 

[Shroob]

I'm losing my goddamn mind, a nintendo youtuber made his first video in forever where he admits he never played a bunch of the games he reviewed and is now a devout monk, I never watched his videos but he did try to start **** on twitter with me because he namesearched so aggresively, dude's called Haedox

Oh I vaguely remember seeing him.


....according to Reddit he was SA'd within the last few years so uhhh.... well then.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Oh I vaguely remember seeing him.


....according to Reddit he was SA'd within the last few years so uhhh.... well then.

Oh I did not know that and considering the bat**** insanity about this situation I'd hardly be surprised if it was a weird way of handling it. Damn, I feel like an asshole now

 

[Wario Bros.]

This was my most replayed song in 2024

Something about this song makes me happy

 

[Xyro77]

What do you all do for New Years Eve? Educate me!

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

inb4 they’re holding off until New Years officially starts for the entire world before dropping…not Kid Icarus Uprising

Tbh, they probably are busy with friends and fam for nye so it makes sense

What do you all do for New Years Eve? Educate me!

My mom has a tradition of making black eye peas and rice for good luck on New Years.

In this world, there are people who experience time slightly different than us.



Since ancient times, they've been called... those who live in different time zones.

Have you discovered timezones?

Look, look i can explain. In my defence. Even streamers from the US were saying, "the final day of 2024" so i was being gaslit harder

 

[ZephyrZ]

What do you all do for New Years Eve? Educate me!

Welp I usually work on New Years and treat it as a normal day, but this year it happens to conveniently fall on my day off.

...I'll still probably treat this morning like a normal day and do some chores, then I think I'll spend a few hours photographing birds at the nature center if it's open today.

But in the afternoon I'll probably see what my sister and my roommate are up to and hang out with them. I suspect their plans will involve candy and alcohol. I don't drink but I do like to eat candy.

 

[Hydreigonfan01]

Padoru season is over so I changed my profile picture to best girl

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Of course my mom wants us to stay over at her house for New Year's Eve even though we just got back from a 3 day visit from Christmas. We JUST GOT BACK FROM CHRISRMAS

 

[Mamboo07]

What do you all do for New Years Eve? Educate me!

Just had Domino pizza recently and went to bed

2025 is here

 

[Wario Bros.]

What do you all do for New Years Eve? Educate me!

Watch the New Year shows then the ball drop while enjoying sparkling grape soda for me.

 

[Aurane]

What do you all do for New Years Eve? Educate me!

I'm waiting to get paid. Once I am, I'll probably order a pizza.

 

[Michael the Spikester]

At the show now to see Sonic 3 one last time. Perfect way to end the year!

Dad is also coming tonight to my place. He's gonna bring pizza and drinks and we're gonna watch the first two films.

 

[SneakyLink]

Surprise, we have one more potential Fortnite Jam Track for next year:

Spoiler

Magical Cure! Love Shot! (Sawtowne, Hatsune Miku)

 

[Lamperouge]

Padoru season is over so I changed my profile picture to best girl

That's not Kneesocks tho.

 

[Michael the Spikester]

Just had Domino pizza recently and went to bed

2025 is here

Happy new year my Aussie brother.

 

[TheMightyP]

Happy last day of 2024.

I actually completely forgot it was today

 

[Hydreigonfan01]

That's not Kneesocks tho.

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[Z25]

Spoiler: Sonic 3 after credits

Sonic The Hedgehog 3's Pat Casey & Josh Miller Talk Jim Carrey's Return, New Game Characters & Major Spoilers

They also offer a Violent Night 2 update.

screenrant.com

View attachment 397297

Sounds like we’re in for some cheesy romance ****

Considering movies did Knuckles and Shadow justice after years of the game’s handling them awkwardly, I’m trusting them with Amy and her relationship with Sonic.

Spoiler

I do have some concerns

Amy's probably not gonna be obsessed with Sonic like the old days, but I'm also worried that they'll make her too much of a stoic badass girlboss because that's just not who she is.

I hope they find a healthy balance between the two

Spoiler

I think based on that quote and obvious kids movie tropes, that they are going to reverse the roles here.

Sonic will be in love with Amy, but not like an obsessive amount. Just parts where it’s noticed but Amy could brush it aside or not really notice.

I think personality wise though they write Amy like in the sonic boom show, smart, capable, but not independent I can do anything girl boss, and someone who can just fit right in with the main group.

If she is indeed from the future, then I could see her have feelings for Sonic throughout the movie but keep it more subtle because they are from different times.

Something that will probably be resolved or altered by silvers presence either in the next movie or the post credits of that one.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

I really hope Amy isn't from the future. Doing terminator with Metal Sonic just seems uninteresting.

 

[Hex D. Jess]

I think I'm gonna start selling some of my One Piece figures. Unfortunately collecting every single figure in that series is probably not sustainable in terms of shelf space and there's been a lot of repeat characters as of late, as well as frankly plenty of characters I don't care about. So I'm just gonna pick and choose which ones I want from now on.

Unfortunately I might still get all of the ones in the next batch but that's not coming til April so future me is gonna be the one to worry about it

 

[SnakeFighter64]

I wonder if the entire Pokédex will eventually make it into Pokemon Sleep.

 

[Hydreigonfan01]

They should have Silver and Blaze debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 6.

Get it, because of Sonic 06?

 

[TMNTSSB4]

They should have Silver and Blaze debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 6.

Get it, because of Sonic 06?

and then Mephiles is still forgotten due to the events of 06 and Generations

 

[Hex D. Jess]

It's been a few months, but I think I'll be starting the epilogue of Persona 3 Reload now.

 

[Aurane]

Guys, I'm no expert but I think there won't be a new Smash title this year.

 

[Lamperouge]

Guys, I'm no expert but I think there won't be a new Smash title this year.

I'll develop one out of spite.

 

[TMNTSSB4]

It's been a few months, but I think I'll be starting the epilogue of Persona 3 Reload now.

prepare to witness pain

 

[cashregister9]

Beat Astro Bot, All I have left to do is complete the final challenge and I will have 100%'d the game

Such a fantastic game, It deserves every accolade it got. Outside of the references which I find to be very fun and gave me a lot of the same excitement that World Of Light did in Smash Ultimate. The real sauce of Astro Bot is all the original stuff, all the original stuff has so much charm. The soundtrack does not get enough credit, and it gets a lot of credit, so many tracks that are still stuck in my head.

It's probably my game of the year, and I beat it on the literal last day of the year.