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[drawbauchery]

[the-hydroxian-artblog]

So how well do humans and Mobians coexist in your AU?

Well enough. Why, so well that they've been polite enough to not pop up in Hangin Out yet, saving me the trouble of fully committing to how short or tall these mobians actually are relative to them (but I'll likely go with "a foot shorter on average" if I don't wanna get too extreme)

In all seriousness, I imagine mobians and humans actually get along decently? Answering this question demands a bit of lore though, and I'm very indecisive about it. Get ready for a ramble if you're into that sort of thing.

I'm split about whether or not Sticks was right about the world actually being many, just stitched together into a single planet. I feel that's more interesting and true to sonic than just "two" worlds, and it'd explain a lot.

I think mobians come from self-contained pocket zones, while humans live in the "ordinary" world all of the pocket zones are connected to. Think of earth as a big hub world, and "mobius" referring to a collective of weird, surreal levels like Green Hill. Star Posts allow for easy travel between mobius zones, but all paths usually lead to and from the base human world. Eventually more mobians gradually moved in to human settlements and vice-versa.

In my canon, mobians are like fae/fair-folk, and have an implied shared ancestry with chao. Humans on the other hand came into being the same way they did in real life, with no chaos energy or "magic" involved. In the games, mobians and humans are extremely similar culturally, so I assume either they had a kinda convergent evolution, or mobians adopted some convenient aspects of human culture like cities and Capitalism, while humans gathered advanced technology from them and learned to maybe chill the fuck out a bit.

See, mobians generally have it a little bit easier than humans overall. They have abilities that make travel easier, and roads being everywhere allows them to not rely on dense, packed colonies. Some mobian babies also sometimes just pop into existence, to explain why there seems to be a very high and seemingly random variety of diverse species all in one place. Mobians have a strong culture of just adopting a baby they come across, regardless of species, and it's why they seem to have a little less of a... Racism problem... Than humans. However, mobians aren't known to be as absurdly doting to other mobians, and are more like the animals they resemble in the sense that it's considered normal to just set your kid free at a young age to go off into the world. This isn't always a good thing, but it's generally why sonic characters often seem weirdly more independent than humans at their assumed age.

All of this together means mobians are slightly less inclined to completely conslidate into an entire clan or nation. I should mention though that folk like the echidna aren't an oddity, but they tend to arise when a particular enviornment is more difficult for other types of mobians to exist in, and through natural selection, one species makes it their home.

Humans meanwhile are... human. Their limitations encouraged them to make more dense clans and not travel out as much. Not having powers to rely on, they developed the same way we did, with all the extra suffering it entails.

So to finally answer your question, you can imagine there are some cultural differences, but they coexist decently. Humans have a certain air and stereotype to them of being crueler, biased, and pragmatic, while mobians have a stereotype of being silly whimsical hippie cartoon people. Neither of which is an objective truth, more just surface-level culture observations.

Humans are assumed to more likely be racist and organizing. Mobians are assumed to more likely be careless and in some ways ableist. It's a silly fucked up situation, but privileges, misconceptions, and stereotypes do that to people.

[takashi0]

Do you think it's alright for folks to still use Netflix after they released Cuties?

No but it’s certainly not gonna stop anybody 

[cookingwithroxy]

Why is that a lot of leftists accuse centrists of not wanting change, yet turn around and chant "VoteBlueNoMatter"?

That’s an easy one.

As partisans, they don’t consider anything that sides with their opposition as valid. Any compromise is a bad thing.

Which of course is also why they’ll preach absolute abandonment of a disliked element of society, but not about reform.

The irony is of course that they don’t ever actually change anything, because that would require changing themselves as well.

[theliterarywolf]

Any chance companies will want to associate with Evo after this year?

I have no idea at this point. There are so few companies that see community-run tournaments as a profitable means in the first place, so something like current happenings just gives more credence to the ‘just make the games and keep distance from the players as much as possible’ mode of thought.

Maybe in two or so year’s time we’ll get a new major fighting game tourney to take the place of EVO. But the chances of anyone going back to EVO after this are pretty slim

[keybladeoverlord]

Rodan?

Rodan is just purely awesome from a lot of different standpoints (I for one really like pterodactyls because who doesn't love a flying dinosaur?). I love his dynamic with Godzilla being the ally who constantly butts heads with him, but ultimately will side with him if the Earth needs protection. He has one of the most iconic roars in the series, so much so that it sometimes is used by King Ghidorah and was just copy/pasted to be Battra's roar. If there is one thing I hope is that future movies with Rodan give him more of his abilities from his time as Fire Rodan in the Heisei series and the Pipeworks Trilogy of video games.

[starrtoon]

Vibe check

[the-hydroxian-artblog]

Since the Advance and Rush games are technically canon in your comic, did Vanilla wear her canon clothes or her vampire clothes during your version of those games?

Canon. She also doesn’t open her mouth too wide so as to not spook people. When she’s got normal clothes on, her blood red eyes and slightly more curled/“done-up” hair are the only things that really set her apart from canon at first glance.

Showing her fangs puts some people slightly on-edge. I think overall she’s slowly gotten more willing to just... not hide the whole vampire thing.

[takashi0]

Do you ever wonder about how Ghostbusters 2016 may have really damaged how movie makers take criticisms?

“If I call them bigots for not liking my movie, idiots will flock to my defense!” Yes it has. And what’s even more baffling is that not only does it NEVER FUCKING WORK, it drives people away because it makes you look like an even bigger egotistical douchebag for appropriating serious issues for stupid internet clapbacks from a very vocal minority of dipshits. 

[takashi0]

Would you say that saying, "only trash men would have issue with others saying ''All men are trash'" is a form of gaslighting?

I dunno, but it’s definitely kafkatrapping. And shitty. And 100% abuser rhetoric. 

[takashi0]

Here's a video done by Just Stop that talks about Funi with a section on KickVic:

https://youtu.be/70z_xshvKDg

Will watch later. Thanks mate. 

[takashi0]

Do you think there's a way to make a good Modern boost Sonic game?

Yeah it’s called Sonic unleashed/colors. Just make the levels longer and give them branching paths, 4head. 

[takashi0]

What's worse: an r/NiceGuy or a simp?

Simps typically only damage themselves, NiceGuys are far less predictable. 

[cookingwithroxy]

I can't remember where I heard it from, but I heard this interesting idea that the current obsession with being "diverse" and "woke" may have started as early as the Occupy Wall Street protests. Granted, even as far back as the 90s writers have tried doing this stick with the "black friend" and "female friend".

Might be!

[theliterarywolf]

So something interested me about Hazbin Hotel is Molly. IIRC Vivziepop stated in a stream (MAMBO no 5) that unlike her family, she isn't a demon so I wonder what that means.

There are quite a few elements in HH that I’m dying to see explored more. I know some aspects have been touched upon in the comic that was made but I haven’t gotten around to being able to read it yet.

And, yes, characters like Molly, Vox, the... pimp character.. whose name escapes me definitely leave me curious...

[takashi0]

And Ofide blocked me. Why am I not surprised that social media has sunk so low that agreeing with the statement that "shoplifting is wrong" offends someone and makes them block you?

Because the internet exposes how evil we all inherently are by way of making us immune to consequences (mostly because the people in charge of dealing said consequences out are either too incompetent/lazy to do their jobs or biased in who they deal it to).