#what even is a 503 error i don't remember

[aquillis-main]

I remember a sonic fangames with playable sally. It was called Sonic Epoch . It was a DOS game I vaguely remember from my childhood. Played it on the family PC (and may or may not introduced a virus on it LMFAO).

It was really dark and edgy AF, even moreso than the . There was an Expy of metal Sonic with a really dumb name. Sally was playable , she walked and shot enemies with a blaster pistol. I don't recall the other FFs being playable .tho

Sonic... Epoch? I have never heard of this fangame...

*insert one Google search later*

... Huh. It exists -

Ah, yes. Because nothing says 'we're so relevant, guize!' like equating the Sonic Fandom's success to this obscure as fuck fangame with a Back to the Future style plot and edginess upon edginess.

... Wouldn't have it been more... thematic to have the GBA game version of it be a Gameboy game? I mean, if one wanted to go for the sweet, sweet nostalgia points, I'm sure a dedicated group of fangamers would have been able to fit the 'epicness' of Sonic Epoch into a Gameboy game. /sarcasm

But then again, apparently the GBA version wasn't made by the original creators, from what I'm getting with this blurb, so it might not have been their intent to make Epoch an unlicensed GBA game.

This bit's apparently from the original FUS version of the page itself:

LOLs, they actually admitted this game sucks, and telling people not to actually play this hot mess! That's so funny!

This little bit comes from an update from the SFGHQ, and it practically sums up what this is supposed to be:

There's not really much of a game in this, apparently. Last I checked, a Fangame needs to be more than a bunch of still images and some interactivity for it to be a, well, game. I won't be counting this 'game' as an actual game.

Link to the Sonic Epoch website, for everyone else to laugh at it's ameturishness along with me. (Warning you now, I kept on trying to look through the other bits of the website, only to find it giving me a 503 error. I think only the landing page is avaliable)

[yuzukimist]

Just wanted to let you guys know: the next installment in my Nyx time travel series is going to be slightly delayed! I should have it posted by the end of the day, but the current 503 error on ffnet is causing me some issues.

(Which might sound nonsensical, but I use ffnet as a midway point when I post to ao3 since it makes copying and pasting formatted text into the ao3 medium super easy/timesaving, which helps with posting when I don't have a lot of time in the mornings).

In any case, I'm heading to work now (and I won't have my laptop with me today) so you can expect the next drabble to be posted in, uh, 8 to 10 hours. 😅