AI is good unless it's foreign AI. Lol it's pathetic.
If I was one of the developers of DeepSeek, I'd be laughing so hard right now. Wiping out a trillion dollars and making a bunch of evil politicians lose their shit.
Thanks for checking it out. It's a rough dub and the story is somewhat nonlinear, but Sonic Adventure was rated E for Everyone and so having a story like that slip past my parents was really formative for my childhood.
And thanks! Cammy is always my pick when it's an option.
It just really hurts with an adaptation like this because it was an actually transgressive piece of media. It was deliberately about how things are more complicated than good people and bad people.
Not only did you play as antagonistic characters who helped saved the world, you got to see compassionate characters twisted into trying to destroy the world.
In the movie, they took agency and complexity away from Shadow, Gerald Robotnik, and Maria.
Maria's final act was to save Shadow from G.U.N. at the cost of her own life and Gerald sought to avenge her death when he was overcome with grief. After he tried to find a cure for her fatal illness. Shadow's whole arc was him realizing that Maria didn't want revenge on the earth, but for him to live happily on it.
In the movie, Maria dies in an accident because Gerald was negligent enough to bring her along for no reason. G.U.N. isn't held at fault and Gerald is a kooky villain with a musical sequence.
Oh my god an actual adaptation of Sonic Adventure 2 would have been so cool. But no, gotta have cop dad adventures and a clean G.U.N. agency.
Would it be splitting hairs to say 'generic' over 'mediocre?' Mediocre has a more negative connotation when I feel the desire for average.
Anyway, I've seen it as seeking an average guy you can see in most media depictions and institutions of power. White is just default for a lot of people. Terms like 'Average Joe' can really highlight that assumption.
If someone is immersed in a country that promotes the myth of white supremacy, I feel like the default safe option is an inoffensive, unremarkable white man.
Racist institutions make it harder to date other people and that's by design.
Don't date different genders.
Don't date white men above your station.
Don't date different ethnicities.
Don't not date.
I think for a lot of people, mediocre white guys are the safest option because you get the least resistance.
It's exhausting. It's hard to find people you want to date and for some, going for the mediocre white guy without complications is just the easier option.
Being a person of color, I don't think my family would cheer if I dated an average white guy, but I would get fewer complaints and weird questions. It would be a conversation ender.
It's part of the reason Sonic doesn't associate with any humans under 30.
He's the Sonic the Hedgehog who wouldn't judge a prospective adult viewer for being lame or an agent of capital and he's not going to do anything that's a potential bad influence for that viewer's kids. He'll grumble, but he will eat his vegetables.
But it's more than that. In addition to making him seem more like 12 than 15, he's just not that rebellious. He doesn't defy authority. He doesn't question authority. He works for authority. He's not going to break the law to do the right thing.
That bugged me with the movie in addition to situating the movies in the real world. Sonic isn't treat brained and he wouldn't help cops, let alone live with one.
Portraying G.U.N. as mistaken good guys was bad and not arresting Sonic at the beginning was wrong on so many levels. And not just because they didn't play City Escape at all.
G.U.N. shot Maria and a bunch of other people when they shut down the space station. And they made Gerald go without mentioning Maria in the whole movie. I still think about the scene in Sonic Adventure 2 where Gerald says his last words before being executed by G.U.N. at a fucking black site.
They didn't need to have G.U.N. at all is the worst part. It's a violent antagonistic organization that doesn't have to exist in a Sonic movie continuity.
Hell, they didn't even need to have Robotnik as a government scientist. He could've just been a scientist.
But no, they had to put as much of the US empire into the movies and then throw in free PR for Olive Garden.
It wouldn't be so annoying if the movies didn't try to make this grounded in the 'real world' and then do everything to hide the parts of the US that would actively harm Sonic and everything he supposedly stands for.
Lmao I'm heated about it too. I was about to go all in on Sonic liking chili dogs as the worst localization trivia that is stuck to Sonic.
![Cammy [she/her]](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/e9468161-dc13-4c80-991c-bcb851e6ae83.png?format=webp&thumbnail=128)
Yeah, that's bad. Thanks for the info.