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She named her daughter after a road sign

Salter Tryge (pronounced Trig) Loots Pocket Aughyst (pronounced August) Taileigh Lotiss Leviathin (yes spelled like that) Bacchus Daniyal (a girl, pronounced like Daniel)

I took latin in middle school. I don’t actually remember much now, but i’m telling you, it was IMPOSSIBLE to look this girl I knew in passing in the eye because her name was Latrina. 

Latrina.

…..This has me feeling a bit suspicious.

-puts on tinfoil hat-

Hear me out. What if the whole trailer (and Sonic’s design) was deliberately manufactured to be as strange and off-putting as possible? All the fan outrage, the discussion on social media, the redesigns by various artists, the memes…it’s all been free publicity. What if Paramount stirred it all up on purpose, with a deliberately bad design?

And now, for the next bold, calculated move…..the director is pretending to be very concerned with fan backlash. He’s pretending that they’ll work on the movie, cost be damned, because they really care about giving the fans what they want. So kind. So thoughtful.

Horseapples, I say! There will be no new changes to the movie! Because the real movie, with the real Sonic design, has already been made. And we already got a peek at it in the promotional art.

(that’s the real Sonic design, folks. It’s been all along! >:O)

Now am I saying this has all been a very elaborate and convoluted scheme by Paramount to get more butts in theaters to see a movie about a fast blue rat? Especially in the wake of fellow video game movie Detective Pikachu, a film that will inevitably make absurd amounts of money, and potentially raise the bar for expected quality/accuracy in video game movies? Yes. Yes I am.

Gillette did this, Pepsi did this, BK’s trying to do it right now by commodifying mental illness into their weird un-happy meals, it’s very much a thing.

If this movie drops and there’s not an expose on the shit working conditions of the artists who had to crunch like hell to basically re-animate an entire movie in a handful of months, then this is in fact almost definitely what is happening now.

Sonic has definitely been running on meme energy for the past few years,and I'm willing to bet most sonic fans were not expecting this movie to be in any form good,considering Hollywood's previous attempts at video game movies. Combine that with Sonic's hit or miss games the past few years.

They probably saw this and thought they could cause some kind of outrage that'll not only cause people to talk about the movie, but also lessen criticism on the actual design,cause at least it wont be as bad as before.

Sonic's not like Mario who plays it safe and always comes out on top, he's more like that character who always gets into trouble,but somehow always makes it out okay with fun stories to tell.

Thought I’d share this since there are apparently people in my midst who think it’s ok to support a greedy company who’s deliberately destroyed hundreds of careers just because you think their shiny new FPS looks cool. 

If you aren’t able to read the article, EA killed single-handedly some of the greatest studios from the 90s all the way to the new tens.

And often how they killed a studio? Force them to make a game in a genre that they have no experience working with.

Origin Systems? Killed by the one-two punch of Ultima 8 (a platformer isometric hack ‘n’ slash) and Ultima IX (a buggy unfinished mess EA meddled with constantly).  Their usual games? Flight simulators and complex RPGs with extensive worldbuilding and mechanics.

Dreamworks Interactive? Forced to develop Call of Duty knockoffs in the rebooted Medal of Honor series. Their usual work? WWII shooters with a cinematic focus, James Bond games, stuff that felt like movies. Killed by Warfighter’s terrible launch.

Westwood? Invented the RTS as we know it with Dune II and Command & Conquer. Killed by EA forcing them to make the FPS Command & Conquer: Renegade. Their usual games? RTS.

Maxis: The Sims. SimCity. EA forced online-only and microtransactions into the last SimCity and the Sims 4, respectively. Both tanked (moreso SimCity) and rather than take the blame for their greed, EA closed Maxis.

Visceral Entertainment: The Dead Space guys. EA once more forced microtransactions and multiplayer into Dead Space 3, and removed much of the horror. EA then declared for Dead Space to survive it would have to sell 5 million copies–an absurd sales figure by almost anyone’s standards. They were forced to make a Battlefield game, Hardline, a cops and robbers reskin of 4 that didn’t really catch on or make waves, and thus were shut down–but not before half the team was forced to working on DLCs and a select few on a Star Wars game that was ultimately cancelled.

Bottom line, EA is AWFUL. Just…do not buy from them. Do not encourage them.

Does that give the employee the right to post a photo of the girl’s full name online in order to mock it ok? Absolutely not.

Apparently the employee had a habit of taking photos of people at work and making fun of them, and the mom only contacted the airline when she found that out. That is perfectly reasonable. The employee should absolutely be fired.