One additional issue with a Tumblr algorithm is that for many of us this website is a place for comfort and relaxation, and to chat with like minded peers, and it is no secret than many users of this website exist in a somewhat precarious mental state, and,
Even the algorithms we already have are bad enough to group the pro and anti sides of issues together, so that the religious bloggers fight the antireligious bloggers, the proshippers are seeing content from the antishippers, the TRA's are seeing content from the TERFS, the pro lifers are getting hit with content from the pro choicers, the feminists and the antifeminists are fighting one another, the body positive blogs are getting badly triggered by the eating disorder blogs, and on and on and on.
That's why we have refused every algorithm offered to us.
How could mandatory algorithms ever be a good idea on this website???
(This post is not for debate of any issue and anyone can reblog)
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I know this is beating a dead horse at this point, but I just started thinking about this the other day and...
How many people that were previously enemies has Sonic ACTUALLY befriended?
Like my knowledge of some old games and the handhelds ain't great, but...
There was Knuckles, who I think is the only one in the classic era.
He never really befriended Gamma in SA1, just left him to Amy.
Also he didn't befriend Chaos, just beat the anger out of him.
The next one was Shadow in SA2, although they're still kinda rivals?
I don't think Rouge counts in SA2 since she wasn't really an enemy of Sonic specifically, even in Heroes it's really Sonic and Shadow that start the fight.
Gemerl is a robot who was reprogrammed to be friendly, I wouldn't count that as "befriending someone".
Him and Jet are rivals in every Riders game, this never changes.
Blaze in Rush is someone that fought him and they became friends, so it's clear cut, she counts.
Silver in '06 does as well.
Do we count Shade from Chronicles? I think she had a boss fight. I know very little about that game but it's not canon, right?
Merlina is kinda a grey area? Like they were friends, he stopped her evil plans and was still nice to her. I don't know if in context that meets the criteria.
On top of that I don't think the Knights of the Round Table count. Sonic is there to take the swords and they work together at the end. I don't think there's any hard feelings, but don't know if this counts as "friends".
Sage could be the next example, but she's still loyal to Eggman. I don't think what they briefly shared was friendship as much as Sage wanting to save Eggman.
I haven't played Superstars but Trip doesn't even have a bossfight, does she? I don't think she counts.
Not looking at the method, just purely if they became friends down the line. Out of all of those, there's 4 total (if you count Shadow, which I do) with 1 it's complicated and 1 non-canon. That's very few when you consider how large the game cast is.
An overwhelming majority of his friends weren't ever hostile with him to begin with, like the Chaotix, Amy, Tails, Cream, Emerl, Big, ect. There's plenty of other cast members that are still have him on their shit list, like Eggman, Infinite (if he's alive), Fang, Metal, Eggman Nega, the Deadly Six...
Now I'm starting to wonder where this idea of it being a frequent even came from.
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hey sonaze fans come here and be crazy with me for 5 minutes: i made a sonaze phone lockscreen, all pictures from the IDW comics(issues 4, 30, 31, 32, 63) and one sonic rush screenshot
2 other variations under the cut with different color gradient filterings, trying to bring some harmony to it. edit: of course the colors look different on my phone than PC -u-
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I have my final tattoo session today, so once again I will be Blazing pictures of my cat and hoping the notes on the post are entertaining while I sit motionless for a few hours.
Here's the little lad on an adventure yesterday:
(He was promptly brought inside after that last picture because while Calvin is normally good on a leash, I didn't want to test that with potential prey swooping just feet overhead)
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fuck it I've had enough. I had an intro to cultural anthropology class a semester ago, but looking at recent bullshit in Florida, I have a few things to say:
I'm sick of people treating culture like it's some chunk of earth.
It's neither something you can wage war on nor fight for. It is not a finite amount of substances that is adulterated with new introductions. It isn't something precious in the same way a piece of jewelry or what have you; not preserved safe by being put in a locked box. Cultures are not the current models of bludgeon that groups of people impose upon others. One's culture, in total, is not an "immovable cornerstone" of anything made by humans. It is not in any way like stone.
It did not exist before there were people to possess it. A culture is something we've created amongst each other. In short, it is a conversation. one of beliefs, institutions, and knowledge; spoken by the beliefs and actions of it's participants. It is a conversation that you have a voice in too.
If you forget anything I say before or since, please do not forget that.
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getting into old media and feeling like youre going crazy seeing the homoerotic undertones that literally no one has mentioned in over 30 years
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