Coming across this Aegosexuality Bingo on Twitter was a real big "there's a name for it?!" moment.
Thing to bear in mind this Pride Month: pride labels like asexual or pansexual are "descriptive", not "restrictive". It's not like picking a class in World of Warcraft that sets you for life. If you find your sexual/gender identity changing in the future, that's not you being flaky, that's just you discovering more about yourself.
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Sorry for scarin' ya. Three years back I made a Meet the Artist meme for my birthday (be warned, that link takes you back to the forsaken land of DeviantArt), so this year I made a new version that's a little (but not a lot) more honest.
I've not been idle during the radio silence these past three months. I've been honing my art skills and learning new techniques. That's why this Meet the Artist is all so cluttered - I'm not trying to be big-headed, I just wanted to showcase how I'm doing.
I'm well aware my hair looks like Rukia Kuchiki's.
Spanky the Dwarf, my Dungeons and Dragons character... *sucks through teeth*
You know, I probably should give it another try. Itâs really annoying, because thereâs a lot about it that I like. As a kid, I probably wouldâve loved it. As an adult, I certainly like the idea of it.
Iâll tell you where it went wrong, alright? Iâll tell you the moment I realized this wasnât going to work. So we were fighting a harpy or a griffin or a pigeon or whatever⌠and I have a rope in my pocket. So I decide to tie it into a lasso and use it to wrangle the beast to the ground. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I think I spent two turns tug-of-warring it before it broke free.
What I wanted to have happen, of course, was that I wanted to go flying. I wanted it to go spectacularly wrong and I wanted my character to be thoroughly humiliated. You know, like in them cartoons. 'Cause that's how I was playing a game I'd never played beforehand. That's when I realized I was That Guy⢠.
None of us were really playing it serious; we were newbies going through the motions to see what it's all about. And I guess I just found "vanilla" really boring. It got to the point where my fellow party member said (not wrongly) that every time I try and do something flashy or weird it doesn't have any effect, so I might as well just whack the octopus with my sword every time.
I played DM as well, twice, but it was just the same problem - the material was just giving me nothing to work with. It got to the point where I was just describing the story to them and their characters didn't have any agency.
The annoying thing is that DnD is something I really want to like. It's perfect for wannabe storytellers. I've seen other people play it and it looks like a lot of fun. You can literally do anything you want. Maybe that was the problem - there's so much you can do you just sort of freeze up and wait for someone to tell you what to do. Maybe I was looking more for a tabletop Final Fantasy than actual literal roleplaying.
Look, you don't need me to give you the whole "different opinions disclaimer", but I have to put it, so I'll do it in Pig Latin: if you ikelay omethingsay that I don't ikelay, that's erfectlypay inefay. Oremay owerpay to ouyay. Ifferentday okestray for ifferentday olksfay.
But like I said, maybe I should try it again. It's not fair to judge something like this after the first experience. Maybe if we had a session zero where we planned out the whole thing beforehand, I'd know a bit more what my "script" is. Then again, campaigns are long, and I have the attention span of a gnat ("Are we still trying to kill this octopus?!")
Spanky wasn't the character I used, by the way. I just used a pre-built elf character, which if memory serves I drew like this:
STOP THE PRESSES! HOLD THE PHONES! One of my all-time favorite obscure games is finally getting a remake! After 22 years, GHOST MASTER IS BACK!
...IN AI FORM!
Let me explain. Ghost Master is "SimGhost". You have a whole bunch of ghosts and monsters, you put them in a location, and you used their powers to scare all the humans away. It's a little janky, but it's made for the Halloween crowd, and is a jewel in the crown of childhood villain simulators, right up there with Dungeon Keeper and Evil Genius.
It and spooky media like it are inspirations for my own work, which is why it took until today to learn of Ghost Master: Resurrection, a remake of the original with all-new features. On reflex I had to check it out, and... my feelings have never been more mixed.
One look at the key art and you can tell AI's been involved. Now, I've been staunchly anti-generative-AI for some time now - it's why I stopped posting art on Twitter. So it being the first thing I see when I look at the game is really off-putting. The only AI I want to see in a video game is the NPCs' behaviors.
I also don't quite know where the game stands copyright-wise. I don't know whether the original necromancers behind the first game signed off on it (the company went bust, so I'm not sure who owns the IP now). The remake was released in early access last October, and no one's seemed to stop them yet, so I assume it's okay...
It's a shame, because there's some really cool new features in this remake - things like mad carnivals and pirate ghosts - but I really struggle getting past the whole AI thing. It's so much better to hire real artists to put a personal stamp on it. Hell, if I had more skill, I'd do it myself. I'd do ritual blood sacrifices to get a Ghost Master 2.
Anyway, this is Harriet. She's the best ghost in the game - she can't harm humans directly, but she can create new spawn points for other ghosts, so you'll be taking her with you every level after you unlock her. Whether you're a furry or not.
You know, it's like a monkey's paw thing every time an old obscure favorite game of mine gets remade. First Drawn to Life, then Ghost Master... for heaven's sake, PLEASE DON'T TOUCH ZACK & WIKI
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My favorite scene from the Grinch book is when he makes Cindy-Lou a cup of water before sending her to bed. It's a little thing, but it says a lot about the Grinch's character. He could've just thwacked her with the tree or something, but the fact that he took time to reassure her, then went to the trouble of getting her a drink, suggests there might be an altruistic bone in him after all.
I wanted to use the color palette of the original story in here. What color is the Grinch? Green, of course. So what's the only color that appears in the original book? That's right - red.
'Cause I don't want to say "I called it", but... a while back I was drawing up a (very loose) idea for a Sonic fangame, and... this looks exactly like how I imagined Blaze's world.
Well, not exactly, but... the whole town by the sea and the castle being out there in the water... I liked the idea of it being both fairytale-ish and maritime.
The design of Blaze's castle is one of the, like, two things I like about IDW. The rest of the town I imagined looking like the Disney opening logo - you know, the countryside behind the castle looking down the river, with trains and ships and villages.
I'm not posting all this to gush about my fangame idea, I'm posting all this to gush about how I totally called it and how I share a psychic link with Sega.
Five years ago, on Halloween night, I drew my very first picture. I always wanted to draw but was always too scared to try, until that night. I still remember it - laptop in one hand, sketchbook in the other, the original Halloween film playing on the TV, the time drawing near midnight, and me sitting there trembling because the little doodle in pink crayon and pen coming together was actually magical. I still maintain that I was motivated by a religious experience (even though I don't remember what it was).
Five years later... and look how far we've gone backwards...
Alright, obvious joke out of the way, let me get serious. This isn't the best drawing in the world, obviously. At this stage, I still wouldn't even call myself "good" at drawing. But I am DAMN PROUD of it. I'm doing things now I never imagined I could do five years ago. I even bought a guitar. I can't play any more than three chords on it, but I did it anyway, because when you're riding the high of doing something you never thought you could, you feel unstoppable.
If you're anything like me and you want to be creative but you're too scared to try, I implore you to try it. I remember being mystified that drawing a shaded circle only took thirty seconds. Sounds stupid. It is stupid. Please be stupid. That one little victory of doing something that seems trivial now might well prove the biggest victory you've ever had in your life.
Angel Dust kind of holds a special place in my heart, because he was the first character I ever looked at and thought "crap, I'm not straight, am I?"
Of course, we can't forget the other half of the equation:
Two new OCs have emerged from the fog. They're Taylor and Nee, an iniquitous goth couple who are perfectly ordinary by day, but by night have odd habits and peculiar fantasies.
I've been reluctant to upload things in the past, but never before have I actually been afraid to make a piece of art. It's not that this picture is all that scary (it's creepy, yes, but I've done worse). These characters I have in mind for 18+ content, and for some reason making those intentions "official" kind of unsettles me.
Making the jump into doing suggestive art is always daunting. This is the only image of the couple I've made, but I have a few scripts of scenes. I always hear first-timers saying "Omg, I was really blushing while I was writing/drawing this -" THIS THING KILLED MY SOUL.
I've mentioned in the past I'm quite awkward about drawing teh seggsy. I don't want to make women or LGBTQ+ people feel dehumanized or only valued for their looks. I'm not saying that's what all the other kinky artists are guilty of... so I'm not sure why I'm saying it about myself.
Taylor and Nee came to me in one of those states between wakefulness and sleep, while I was thinking "can you make something that's superficially dark, but actually quite wholesome?" If it eases your fears, I'll tell you they really are a wholesome, loving and consenting couple - it's just their roleplays are a little dramatic.
I have mature audiences in mind for these characters, so I marked this as mature, even though there's no nudity or blood or anything. If someone's too young or too uncomfortable with mature content, I don't want them to be forced to see it. I'll say this a lot if I do more of this in the future: please take care of yourself and your wellbeing.
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Usually October is my busiest time of year, but recently I've been in an extremely foul mood. You ever get the feeling you know what to do and how to do it, but when the time comes your mind goes blank? Or you know just what to say, but when you get the opportunity you freeze up? It's as if someone's snapping their fingers and making your thoughts disappear... which gave me the inspiration for this image.
I don't like to get heavy with these things, but I like to hope that if people see me reaching out positively, it'll help others in some way.
The Magician's tricks are only illusions... that's why I made this blog post to explain how I made this image.
I very rarely do vent art, and I promised myself if I did I would want it to be uplifting.
Fact is, I've been at my lowest emotional ebb in ages. A few nights ago I actually ruminated so hard I got a stomach ache.
And in that moment I remembered something I read on Tumblr the day before. Well, I didn't really remember it - I can't for the life of me recall who wrote it or what it was about. I only remember that after reading it, I had this thought in my head:
Instead of thinking of yourself as a mind trapped within a body, try thinking of yourself as a body trapped within a mind.
I always thought that the mind was the "higher" part of us, because it's where all our ambition and creativity lives. Meanwhile, the body just lets itself get jerked around by impulses and distracts you from your true purpose.
But what if it's the other way around?
All the things I like to do start off as impulses. That happy feeling I get while I'm making art or music. That spark of "this seems fun, why don't you try this?" The gall to make this here vent piece.
Meanwhile, my mind's been saying nothing as of late but "you can't do that" or "the world is full of jerks" or "you're a jerk" or âeveryone thinks you're weird, or they would if they knew youâ.
And because of that I haven't made anything new in weeks. I've just been spending that time hating and resenting things. So, really, which one's actually distracting me from my purpose?
Where does your "soul" truly live - in your head, or your heart?
They say that things are all in your head, which a lot of folks hate hearing because they're all in their heads, too. But is that where all of you is? Could a part of you think of itself as being elsewhere? Like in your heart? Your spleen? A different part of your head? Some kind of magical psychic mist?
Maybe not, but I find the idea comforting. It means you can challenge your own brain (or at least the part of it that keeps coming up with garbage). I'm not saying the brain is bad - it's where all your capacity for intelligence and imagination comes from. But it's an organ, just like all the other organs that make you up, only sometimes it starts thinking that it's the only one that matters. That it's the boss of you. It gets big for its britches.
Maybe sometimes you just need to remind it who it works for. I'd like to give my heart a chance to do more of what it wants in the future.
I agree with what people have been saying about Amy's character. She just ain't what she used to be.
The linework on this one is awful because it's an old piece I decided to dredge up in honor of Amy's hazing on Twitter. It was originally for a review I did on Sonic Frontiers.
About a year ago, I watched a couple of episodes of Kamp Koral: SpongeBobâs Under Years. (Thatâs how long it took for me to get my thoughts in order.)
I wasnât purposefully seeking it out â I just flicked on Nickelodeon because it had been a long time since Iâd watched some TV cartoons and I was feeling nostalgic. Iâd never thought SpongeBob was the kind of thing that could work as a spinoff, so I just watched the first two episodes of it that came on and⌠did I just so happen to get the worst ones?
Now look, the whole zeitgeist of grown adults ranting about cartoons for children is long dead by this point, and I donât want to get all "security system takes control of Squidward's house" over this. Iâm only talking about this because my experience of it was just⌠bizarre.
The TV show is about SpongeBob and his friends as children going to summer camp. The theme song isnât really as catchy as the main showâs theme, but itâs unfair to compare it to something so iconic. Thereâs a lot of SpongeBob screaming in it, because the lyrics say heâll have us screaming till âmilk is streaming right out of your noseâ. Which is true, I was, but itâs only because I misheard the lyrics. Turns out itâs âthrough nature I will trampâ, not âfor nature Iâm aâŚâ you know.
The first episode was about this octopus who gets fired from his job as a butler. He lives in this fancy cabin and spends the first minute or so preparing all this fancy food, only for the rich family he works for to tell him they'd rather have some pancakes, leaving him to toss all his cooking in the trash. He comes back in with some pancakes, but the teaâs two degrees too cold, so heâs out on his cephalopod ass.
And my first thought is... who is this guy? And where's Squidward? I can only assume this butler character was introduced in an earlier episode and has been a recurring character since then. But we've already got a snooty octopus character with refined taste who's always getting beat up by life, and he's got more of a personality than just "butler".
Anyway, the butler comes across this weird hillbilly girl with seaweed in her hair, and she invites him over to stay at her place. This girl is absolutely slovenly, so the butler keeps trying to clear up her house even though sheâd rather it was dirty. So she decides to teach him to be happy being dirty - something about letting nature take care of it or something. And all the while Iâm thinking âwho is she and whereâs Patrick?â Because we've already got a slovenly pink layabout character who already spends his time bugging a snooty neat octopus.
Doesn't this plot sound like you could just do it with Squidward and Patrick? Say Squidward's house gets knocked down, so he has to stay with Patrick, and he starts trying to clean Patrick's untidy house against his wishes. Or, if the point is living with nature, it could be about Squidward and Sandy. Maybe Sandy tries to help Squidward de-stress by taking him on a nature walk where he ends up going feral or something.
By the way, I havenât mentioned SpongeBob yet. Heâs in this â he volunteers to be the new butler for the rich family. Honestly, I canât remember very much of his sequences â heâs doing weird things like serving cups of tea on his eyeballs and cleaning a washing machine with another washing machine. I think the reason I didnât really get into it was because it was missing something â it was missing someone to react to what SpongeBob was doing. Most of SpongeBobâs weird butler-ing is done in isolation, and the rich family only react to it by giving him confused stares until they catch him licking the tea (donât ask). If this was Squidward or Mr. Krabs he was butler-ing for, you can bet theyâd be hitting the roof. The rich lady and her kids donât make as funny a âstraight manâ, because things donât go disastrously wrong for them and they donât have such over-the-top reactions to SpongeBobâs antics.
When the rich lady tracks down the butler to get him hired again, they find heâs turned into a slack-jawed yokel. The hillbilly girl challenges her to a foot-wrestling contest for him, which she gladly accepts as she takes off her dainty little shoe to reveal this massive foot⌠I think. I didnât quite catch it at first. It was a big foot, but it looked pretty ordinary â not this muscular monstrosity or something. It didn't look very much different to the hillbilly girl's, who goes barefoot anyway. I suppose this is an inherent limitation of doing things in 3D. If you wanted to show a properly nasty foot, youâd have to make a whole new model with a new texture and new rigging⌠meanwhile, if itâs 2D, you just have to draw it.
The foot-wrestling contest is probably the most memorable part. The hillbilly girlâs little yellow buddy, who until now has been speaking gibberish like that kid off The Wild Thornberrys, suddenly starts talking like a wrestling announcer, and I actually scoffed when one of the feet pulled out a steel chair. The hillbilly girl wins, but the butler is touched that his old employer would go to all that effort over him, so he goes back with the rich family, but he keeps some of his learned hillbilly ways with him. He shouldâve kept all of them I reckon â the rich lady shouldâve come back to see heâs turned her house into a total pigsty. Thatâd show her, wouldnât it?
The second episode is about this Olympic-style sports competition being played at the camp, and everyoneâs split into teams. One of the teams is the rich family with the butler, one is Larry the Lobster and some of his meathead friends, who can only communicate by saying âbroâ â he even snores by going âbrobrobroâŚâ â and itâs tragic, because that joke wouldâve been really funny⌠if I didnât already know who Larry was.
But the heroes of this story, the team weâre rooting for to win, is, of course⌠a coven of witches?
Theyâre a bunch of creepy goth kids with supernatural abilities, and I ainât never seen them before (except the young Nosferatu, which is a joke they keep coming back to even though it only worked the first time). SpongeBob and Patrick and Squidward and other familiar characters are in this, but none of them get more than a couple of lines.
I'm sure these witch characters have been showcased in earlier episodes, but here they seem kind of generic - I couldn't tell you what their deal was personality-wise from this episode. I think they should've leaned in more to their creepiness: the spider girl has to do knitting for one of her challenges, and she ends up accidentally wrapping Mr. Krabs up in a scarf. I think it would've been more befitting of her to knit some kind of horrifying effigy that gives Mr. Krabs a heart attack - or have her deliberately wrap up Mr. Krabs in some crazy attempt to mummify him.
Anyway, the witches lose in every event, so they go back to their cabin and cast a spell that summons some kind of earth elemental to win the last event for them. The big guy kind of has the powers of Clayface, so he assumes the forms of all the other contestants and uses their powers to win the triathlon.
By the way, thereâs a bit in the race where they have to use hang gliders, and Squidwardâs glider immediately goes off-course and drops down to the ground where, true to form, it explodes. Then it shows Squidward standing languidly at the top of the cliff saying heâs not going to bother anymore. And I canât help but feel like⌠they aborted the joke at the very last second? Falling great heights and exploding is usually Squidwardâs thing, and I was about to give them props until they showed he never took the jump at all. Then again, Squidwardâs a child in this setting â and here I am talking about how funnier it would be if we watched a kid get blown up. I'm not sure I'm the target audience here...
So the golem wins the race, then immediately decides to backstab his team and keep the trophy for himself. But no oneâs worried, because the spell binding him is about to expire and he turns back into brown gloop. And the witches knew this was going to happen, so there was no real tension or conflict there.
So the witches pick up the winning trophy and carry it off into the sunset, and I just yelled âWait a minute â they cheated, didnât they?!â They didnât earn that trophy by their own skill, they used magic to conjure a steroid elemental. And itâs not like I watch cartoons to see justice done, itâs just that they didnât really have a meaningful conflict or a satisfying conclusion. They suck at the games, so they cheat, then they win, and the evidence of their cheating very conveniently dies. I mean⌠I was meant to think they were cheating, right?
I hate to be a backseat driver and go âoh, I can do this betterâ, but⌠let me just rewrite this to show you what I mean. So they summon the golem expecting him to dominate the other players, right? And all the contestants line up at the start and take their marks. They go ready-set-go, the starting pistolâs fired⌠and the golem immediately grabs the other contestants and starts beating the ever-loving snot out of them. You know, like in that episode with the live-action gorilla who stuffs Sandy and Patrick in a bag and starts throwing them around.
So the witches have to step in and stop him, so they throw a rock at him or something â he turns around â the witches go âoh crapâ â the golem starts barrelling towards them â and they run like hell. And while running like hell, they incidentally end up completing the obstacle course, since the golem was chasing them all through it. The golem corners them at the finish line, roars at them â then he melts into dust because the witches forgot the spell was temporary. And since they were the first ones to navigate the obstacle course, they get the trophy. See? They had it in âem all along, it just took a crazy golem attack to get it out.
You know, describing all this feels like describing a dream â youâre dreaming about being in a SpongeBob episode, but the characters are different and the tone is different â but you still know itâs a SpongeBob episode because thatâs what the dreamâs telling you. Thatâs kind of why I wanted to write these thoughts down. Not to rag on a TV show Iâm too old for being not as gut-bustingly funny as I would like, but because itâs quite fascinating being an outsider looking into all this. When I talk about what the writers âshouldâ or âshouldnâtâ have done, know that Iâm not seriously complaining about their hard work. For all I know, they might have had similar ideas already, but not all of them made it. Maybe itâs time constraints, or maybe itâs like I said about how you canât really spend all day making a whole new model just for a one-second joke.
But one thing I certainly canât accuse them of is not having passion: the very fact that theyâre focusing on OCs in these episodes â the butler and the witches â demonstrates they do have passion for the world theyâre creating and the characters living in it. Why else would you take the risk focusing on non-original SpongeBob characters? Even if it didn't work for me - even if it came across as a sanded-down version of the original show - I can still respect the vision.
So, yeah â if youâre going to watch this show, watch it from the very start. Otherwise youâre going to be wondering who anyone even is.
I made a worldbuilding guide on my blog here: corpsephageblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/help... It's a lot of text for things you probably shouldn't do as a worldbuilder.
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There's been a recent spate of AI-produced Studio Ghibli mock-ups, so I figured I'd make one of my own. According to my sources (hearsay on Twitter) the studio's head honcho himself thinks of AI as "an insult to life itself". Well, take this, life! How'd you like that? Not so high and mighty now! I've already gotten AI to draw you as the Soyjak and me as the Chad! Now why don't you pick up a pencil and sit on it?!
Alright, I'm gonna get serious here - happy April Fools' Day, by the way - I can't pretend to be fond of this whole AI craze. Now look; I'm not completely innocent when it comes to AI. A few years ago, I was actually working on an AI-based video for YouTube, but I pulled the plug on it when I started hearing how voice actors were worried that AI would put them out of work - and this was back in the early days, when you could easily tell something was AI.
I think it's a real shame websites like DeviantArt seem to be prioritizing this AI stuff over the integrity of artists. It's like "artists" are no longer needed around here, which is definitely the way I've seen a lot of people take this. It's like your creative work is just a "product" to be "consumed", not an "entertainment" to be "enjoyed".
With this in mind, I've built my own AI chatbot (in my head) to try and explain what my problems are with AI drawing. If you have any pro-AI arguments of your own in mind, let me hear them. I sure would like to be wrong about this:
âWhat have you got against AI art?â
Itâs taking peopleâs jobs. Thatâs really it. If it wasnât taking peopleâs jobs, Iâd have no problem with it.
âIt isnât going to take artistsâ jobs! Thereâs always going to be a demand for them.â
Alas, I wish that were so. But given the choice between paying thirty dollars minimum for an artist to take weeks drawing one picture, and a robot that will cook up hundreds of images in the hour, all for free, itâs really a no-brainer. The big corporations are going to be gung-ho for AI because, while itâs bad for the creativeâs business, itâs good for their business.
âWell, then, you should probably just get a real job and just do art as a free hobby.â
People are going to try and get jobs doing what they love - and more importantly, what they're good at. If someone spends all their time creating, what other job are they going to have? If it's a job their heart's just not into, they're going to half-ass it and likely be fired anyway.
âNow wait just a dadgum second. Iâve seen your YouTube account. Youâve got all that computer-made music on there. None of those are real instruments! Couldnât you hire actual musicians?â
All those virtual instruments are made by real musicians who willingly put up those samples on the market. Look, if an artist or voice actor willingly submits their art or voice to an AI generator for others to remix, I wouldnât have so much of a problem. But the big websites don't wait to ask permission.
âYou used a computer to make this art right here! You used things like smoothing tools and the undo button instead of an eraser! Whyâs it OK for you to use tools to make your drawing easier, but others canât?!â
I wouldâve hoped AI tools would be there to help make the drawing process easier, but I didnât want it to replace the drawing process itself. Itâs like, if youâre struggling with walking, you might get yourself a wheelchair to make moving around easier â AI is like building a robot to go out there and do all the moving around for you. Sure, itâs convenient, but⌠wouldnât you rather have some fresh air?
"But AI democratizes creativity! It's no longer just for the chosen, talented few. With AI, everyone can be an artist!"
I think with imagination, everyone can already be an artist. Take it from someone who knows - if there is a "chosen, talented few", I am certainly not part of them. It's not like I'm following some kind of special calling. In fact, I think I'm below-average when compared to most people doing this... so I don't know what anyone else's excuse is.
"Look... you want the truth? I can't draw, alright? And I'm... jealous of all the artists. They're all so cool being able to bring their imagination to life. I wish I was that creative."
Can I let you in on something? Pseudo-artist to pseudo-artist. If I'm anything like the other guys on here... none of us can draw. Let me show you how I made this picture you see here:
Tell me, does that first sketch look like good art to you? And yet this whole picture is nothing more than me tracing over that crappy picture several times, straightening out the lines as I go. The whole thing couldn't have taken any more than three hours. My point is, the "art" that I make doesn't take any talent, and it barely takes skill. It's really nothing more than just knowing how the magic trick is done. The biggest lie I was ever told was that drawing isn't fun.
So, no, I don't need any AI to make my art, thanks. I'm quite capable of being a talentless hack without it.
(By the way, the weird Photoshopped face comes from that all-AI ad Coca-Cola did last year. See, I credit my sources, unlike the AI scrapers.)
I just got back from watching the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie, which gives me a good excuse to upload something I should've done for Sonic X Shadow Generations.
As to the movie, I thought it was quite good. Definitely the best of the three. Gutted they didn't go to Halloween land like they did in the game, though.