Terribly Unfunny

All the processing power, all of the energy used, all of the specialty minerals/elements/etc, all of the heat, everything damaging to the earth used to generate AI and AI related things. Most of which, artistically speaking, can be replaced with graphite and tree pulp.

For every AI generated image or story, I could create one better or just as good with a #2 Pencil and a composition book that was on sale.

I could write a romantic comedy between a space elf and a space dwarf during an awkward family reunion.

I could sketch out the moment when a squirrel decided attacking a deer was a good idea (it wasn't. I saw it happen across the road where I had dumped some old nuts/granola I got last Christmas and forgot about).

At most I would use AI for organizing and quick data retrieval, but not for any artistic or important endeavors.

I cannot even begin to put into words how much I hate AI. Especially from an artistic standpoint. The only reason I am breathing and walking around today, is because of my passion for writing and art. At some points of my life, that was the only thing keeping me grounded and from taking myself out of the world entirely. I want to see my stories finished and enjoyed by others, to see my ideas form and become something tangible and worth reading.

AI is the antithesis of everything I love about any art. Whether it be writings, drawings, animation, or music.

There wasn't much I really love about the human race. But one of them was our need to create interesting and beautiful things. Monet's San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk 1912 or Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory 1931 are two of my favorite paintings. Alice and Chain's Heaven Beside you 1995 or Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor 1704 or 1740 are two of my favorite songs. William Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of being Earnest are two of my favorite plays.

I could go on and on about humanity's artistic endeavors, but the fact remains. We, as physical human beings, create art. To see what has kept me going, what has given me the motivation to keep surviving, be turned into a joke? It fills me with such seething hatred that I never felt before.

It is lazy, it is disingenuous, it is dishonest and disrespectful.

In the past, people have even died to learn to read. Now? What is there worth reading?

Even when the world falls apart, when life seems to be ending as we know it, when we feel the worst is upon us, there will be a person somewhere with a pencil and paper documenting the event. But our future now? That person is sitting, unable to string a sentence because ChatGPT is down.

When people give me the excuse that AI helps the disabled, I feel that is insulting. Other than the fact I feel using AI writing is dumbing down the human brain, which had been proven to be the most complex computer ever made. I am not mentally disabled nor completely physically disabled, so perhaps I'm not the right person to say this. But I feel that statement is ablest somehow. Are they suggesting disabled people cannot learn grammar or sentence structure? Are they suggesting that disabled people cannot learn to animate or learn their own style to draw a human hand? I cannot truly speak for them, but disabled people have always been incredible for their ability to adapt and overcome. I mean, a man learned archery with his feet. That's amazing for anyone.

I wrote this while sleep deprived, so perhaps it's not legible. But I'm certain it's more real and tangible than anything Meta could ever create.

I somehow didn't know there was an "Anti-snapcube" tag. I thought perhaps it was used to critique the group or something, but no, it's just to be cruel to a creator and all those who like her/their creations. I love their fandubs, I think they're hilarious. I like to watch them with my siblings. Going from the famous 06 dub with Memphis Tennessee to Spider-man with "can i ask you a personal question". Sure it sometimes gets irritating when all you see are the same quotes constantly in response to everything or when fans pressure voice actors to quote said fandubs, but that's just going to happen.

You aren't a "fake fan" for liking them. Even if you don't play/watch Sonic aside from the fandubs, you aren't necessarily fans of "Sonic as a whole" but of "fandubs", and that's alright. You enjoy whatever you want.

However, when I see the "anti-snapcube" tag, all I see are people who claim that the group/Penny are "ruining" the fandom. Which is ridiculous. It is a fun, harmless thing they're doing. In fact, they are introducing new fans into Sonic and other fandoms. It's nice to have fresh audiences every once in a while. New people to introduce what you like to.

Long post below, sorry

I am so damn tired of some people on this site. Their hate boners are constantly poking me in the eye every time I open tumblr. The Ian Flynn hate, the comics hate, the constant “if you like this, you’re a fake fan”, horrible name calling and generalization, etc. it’s ridiculous and unbelievably stupid.

Ian Flynn isn’t a perfect writer. I have said this before. He has good points and bad points and points that he is working on. No writer is perfect and they go through ups and downs of their writing career.

The comics (IDW, Archie, STC) are not canon. I don’t know who is saying this, but its obvious they’re not. Canon divergence at best. That doesn’t mean that they are automatically bad. Just different.

I like all the comics, I like all the games (except Sonic Free Riders. I don’t know why, I just hate it), I like all the shows (Boom, Prime, SATAM, AOSTH, Underground, etc.), Movies (OVA and “sonic cinematic universe”) and even promotional material like the shorts for Mania and Team Sonic Racing. Sure I have my preferences, and sometimes I feel characters are “out of character” in some, but I don’t believe I am a fake fan. I’ve played these games and watched these shows since I was a toddler watching my mom play SA2 Battle and watching my Uncle play Shadow’s game. I remember watching an episode or two of AOSTH on tape and thinking it was a weird dream years later. I remember watching Sonic vs Emerl in Sonic X when I was 6 and thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I remember reading Bunnie getting possessed and trying to kill her friends in an Archie’s sonic digest from a convenience store when I was 10. I like all these and I don’t believe I’m a “fake fan” for doing so.

Not to mention all this name calling. Calling people who like different mediums “sonic haters”, “dumb”, and other horrible things. I look at these posts and all I see is negativity whilst claiming that their opinions and what they like are superior and thus makes them superior. Occasionally I think they have a valid criticism, but then they start going off being rude and sometimes downright cruel. I see nothing positive from these people that isn’t “thus I am better” in the end.

That isn’t to say that there aren’t people just as bad who practically worships Ian Flynn and attack all criticisms of him. I just find it weird I rarely find these people but find his haters everywhere.

I do want to know where my favorite girl Rouge is. I'm not going to say the movie is going to suck without her. However, unlike Amy, SA2 was Rouge's debut game and I don't know many other games to use to introduce her into the movies, let alone have her and Shadow's friendship at all developed.

Her bracelets are way too large and the gameplay shows her creating energy blades from it similar to Sally from Archie Sonic Reboot, but I cannot see her cannon bracelets doing that. Her boots are awkward in design and not very streamlined, especially compared to her fellow characters. Her game says something about her having a "Warp Belt" but there is no belt on her character. Her body actually makes me think more of a lizard than an armor, let alone armor on an Echidna.

What does make me think of her is the Phantom Rider outfit in Sonic IDW

Armor (including shoulder padding that I weirdly like a lot), clunky but still streamlined boots, gloves that look more like gauntlets, a Belt, etc. Just make it black and red/pink themed and it would fit her quite well.

I feel that if there is a fourth movie, Metal Sonic (via Sonic's quill he gave Robotnik) and Amy would be a very good pick. Especially if they do a Sonic CD based story. Which, if I remember correctly, is their debut game and thus give Amy the attention and development she deserves. And Metal Sonic would be so cool on the big screen, I love him so much.

As soon as the trailer popped up, I saw people immediately attack it for being Copaganda due to the fact Sonic and his friends have been asked by G.U.N to deal with Shadow.

Guys

Calm down.

This is the first trailer, of course they wouldn't be showing if G.U.N betrays Sonic and co or if its revealed that this version of G.U.N killed Maria. When we see our heroes interacting with Robotnik, we don't see any of G.U.N's influence at all. Possibly after a betrayal or after they learn the truth.

G.U.N are not above deceit, or has everyone forgotten the entire wedding situation that was caused entirely by G.U.N having an undercover agent to monitor the family.

Tom in a G.U.N outfit could be one of several things; he was given a "position" by G.U.N as part of sweetening the deal so he takes it as to get more info. He could be just wearing the uniform as to sneak around. Or perhaps something else I haven't thought of (if he really is a genuine G.U.N agent though, I am going to be upset).

I often have strange dreams but they mostly consist of morbid visuals, terrifying ideations, reality warping weirdness, all covered with a layer of either blurred or highly saturated camera lens. Very nightmarish. Hardly any funny or even neutral dreams and certainly no child-like magical ones either.

This one was neither, it was a weirdly well animated crossover between TMNT and Sonic. In particular the TMNT that came out in 2012. There was no Sonic however, as it was called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Knuckles. Knuckles animated in the 2012 style combined with 06 model actually looked rather nice. I have no idea what the story was, what was actually going on, but all I know is that they were traversing a sewer somewhere with giant mutated eels that try to eat them and were as big as the sewer pipes they were in.