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.

Bugger. I’ve never seen this before, but given how seamless the idea is, I’m glad someone else made something of it.

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.

On Voyager, I have gestures for swipe to downvote and swipe farther to save. So, rarely, I downvote accidentally because my stupid ape thumbs don’t work. I’ve downvoted my own comments in solidarity.

Humans are apes.

This is a very simple concept, folks.

The Soup Nazi as the gatekeeper?

I’d fuck with The Wizard of Oz where Elaine is Dorothy, Kramer is the Scarecrow, Jerry is the Tin Man, and George is the Cowardly Lion.

Consider the magnitude of the passion instead of the direction, and it starts to make some sense. Not to this level, but consider that allosexuals often get sex very mixed up in the rest of their feelings; sexuality can see that passion and hijack it.

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.)

#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).

I’m going to tell my kids that this was “Move Along Home”.

Wasn’t this originally a reaction to Grumpy Cat?

Oh, I didn’t even consider that because if you manage to get yourself banned in this comm based on something so unbelievably innocuous, you have actual interpersonal issues you need to work on.

Like if a response to basic interrogation of your premise is enough to get you banned here, that’s 1000% on you; in this hypothetical, you didn’t fall for “bait”, you just have zero composure.

Almost looks like ban baiting.

There’s no rule @[email protected] has broken by making you feel annoyed and the argument in the OP look stupid.

Seattle definitely isn’t the #4 most major city or CSA. It’s a great city and has major businesses, but Seattle probably sits behind Dallas–Fort Worth. All jokes about fairness aside: California gets to have this one.

San Francisco easily takes it imo.

Distant 17th by population but more than makes up for it through business, technological, and cultural influence. (Edit: Especially since the wider San Francisco Bay Area can be credibly lumped together to form such a populous combined statistical area.)

After Argentina’s disgraceful, imperialist sign and knowing the piece of shit they put in office: good, fuck 'em.

“I can excuse seditious disinformation, but I draw the line at author credit in comic strips.”

Your moral compass could use some Adderall.

Take responsibility for directly linking to the unfiltered words of one of the main people who tried to overturn the 2020 US presidential election and who would have literally every reason to publish this right now with Trump loudly trying to blame the CCP for his 2020 election loss?

Quoting The Kansas City Star’s editorial board:

No one other than President Donald Trump himself is more responsible for Wednesday’s coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol than one Joshua David Hawley, the 41-year-old junior senator from Missouri, who put out a fundraising appeal while the siege was underway.

You can quit playing dumb.

“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.