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Well Manicured Man posted:"I was scared because i didn't know if he was a person, or a good one" is one of Lazerbot's best mangled sentences to date in a webcomic full of amazing mangled sentences. There's just something almost poetic about it. Truly a deep existential question about human nature.
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That loving Sned posted:That's some drat good MSPaint artwork. I've been looking for some other examples, such as this one: He uses Gimp though.
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Nov 16, 2013 09:45
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So she is sky, and he is blue. Romance was inevitable.
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Nov 16, 2013 10:06
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"Then he laid down, and fell asleep. I could tell he was pretty tired." This page is full of subtle gems.
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Nov 16, 2013 12:55
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Stupid idiot doesn't even take his shoes off before putting his feet in the water.
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Nov 16, 2013 13:37
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For someone so pent up on homosexuals, this page is pretty gay.
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Nov 16, 2013 13:47
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Sonic how you ganna go fast with wet shoes
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Nov 16, 2013 14:40
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Rather Dashing posted:For someone so pent up on homosexuals, this page is pretty gay. The first time I saw the page before this one, which shares the same art style, I thought LazyB was doing another Tails gets Gay page.
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Nov 16, 2013 16:31
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Man my leg is hurt pretty bad and bleeding all over the place...time for a nap!
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Nov 16, 2013 17:01
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Sindai posted:Man my leg is hurt pretty bad and bleeding all over the place...time for a nap! It works for Fallout 3 and New Vegas, it works for TGT, dammit
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Nov 16, 2013 18:02
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Panel 7, god drat
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Nov 16, 2013 20:04
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Data Graham posted:Panel 7, god drat There seem to be about 1000 individually drawn blades of grass in it, imagine the focus required for that. Ritalin maybe?
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Nov 16, 2013 20:32
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Rather Dashing posted:For someone so pent up on homosexuals, this page is pretty gay. It's romance, you philistines. This is like saying Balzac's Le lys dans la vallée is gay.
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Nov 16, 2013 20:32
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Tortuga posted:Stupid idiot doesn't even take his shoes off before putting his feet in the water. The joke is sonic characters don't actually have feet. 
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Nov 16, 2013 21:02
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Tortuga posted:There seem to be about 1000 individually drawn blades of grass in it, imagine the focus required for that. I was actually more impressed by the crazy perspective on those striding legs. It's not good art certainly, as a whole, but there are these wacky spikes of crazy quality poking up here and there.
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Nov 16, 2013 21:08
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cmykjester posted:The joke is sonic characters don't actually have feet. Holy poo poo, that looks official, how could something that hideous be canon?! I've got to resea- ARGH GOD NO What did I think would happen if I googled "Sonic's feet??
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Nov 17, 2013 21:57
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Why would you Google Sonic anything? It's like a one way ticket to the bowels of the Internet.
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Nov 17, 2013 22:09
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caleramaen posted:Why would you Google Sonic anything? It's like a one way ticket to the bowels of the Internet. A fun game to play is to google your first name with "The Hedgehog" after it. e: "fun"
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Nov 17, 2013 22:11
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What is it with autistic people and Sonic the Hedgehog, anyway?
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Nov 17, 2013 22:19
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Defiance Industries posted:What is it with autistic people and Sonic the Hedgehog, anyway? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21984201
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Nov 17, 2013 22:20
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Defiance Industries posted:What is it with autistic people and Sonic the Hedgehog, anyway? It's a video game. One that probably a lot of them played extensively when they were younger with a mix of as little social interaction as possible. You see kids get really obsessed over things from time to time but they usually grow out of it - this is pretty much that same obsession, only now with puberty, adult themes, and marfan's syndrome.
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Nov 17, 2013 22:24
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One theory I've seen is that since Sonic characters have exaggerated hands and eyes, it makes reading emotions and reactions so much more easier for autistic people, who traditionally have problems reading those. Autistic people understand these characters much better, so they relate to them and ultimately draw and write art and fiction about them, which then turns out as disjointed and horrible in so many interesting ways. Because of autism. It is quite interesting how Sonic in particular is the center of autistic attention, while other classic video game characters, such as Mario, Pac-man, or Donkey Kong are not, at least not with nearly same levels of popularity.
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Nov 17, 2013 22:34
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Laputanmachine posted:One theory I've seen is that since Sonic characters have exaggerated hands and eyes, it makes reading emotions and reactions so much more easier for autistic people, who traditionally have problems reading those. Autistic people understand these characters much better, so they relate to them and ultimately draw and write art and fiction about them, which then turns out as disjointed and horrible in so many interesting ways. Because of autism. That's more what I was wondering. I get the point that Scarycave raises but if that was the case, it stands to reason Mario or Zelda or the Ghostbusters would have similar followings and they don't really seem to.
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Nov 17, 2013 22:39
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Defiance Industries posted:That's more what I was wondering. I get the point that Scarycave raises but if that was the case, it stands to reason Mario or Zelda or the Ghostbusters would have similar followings and they don't really seem to. Sonic gets marketed as a cool alternative to the Marios and Zeldas. It worked on an eight year old me - I guess for people who haven't (or can't) grow out of their obsession he still seems that way.
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Nov 17, 2013 22:42
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I would imagine that in the beginning, Sonic just had a clique of weird followers, which in turn attracted more weird followers regardless of whether the latter ones were originally into Sonic or not, and so forth. Social acceptance is powerful. That, and what Laputanmachine said.
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Nov 17, 2013 22:46
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There's a lot of freaky Peach art out there. Like that one horrid comic where she gets turned into a rubber ball, the one that gets posted on this site all the drat time for some reason. I'm pretty sure autists make themselves into Badass Sonic Original Characters because what are you going to do to make a fan character in the Mario world? Give yourself a moustache and overalls? E: Well then again, Kario, but we can't all be Lazerbots
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Nov 17, 2013 22:53
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Sonic also had the comics and SatAM cartoon pushing it as darker and more serious to fans, whereas Mario was always whimsical and wacky. And as has been pointed out, it's a lot easier to create a fan self insert for Sonic, than it is Mario.
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Aristobulus posted:And as has been pointed out, it's a lot easier to create a fan self insert for Sonic, than it is Mario. "Can you draw some kind of lovely anime raccoon? You can? Excellent!"
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There was an overweight, badly autistic kid in my middle school gym class who insisted he was Sonic the Hedgehog. Everyone else just liked to laugh at him, but I'd tell him I'm Tails, and that "We gotta go super fast, Sonic!". He'd run his loving heart out, as I tagged along like player 2 on a Genesis. He'd get winded, and then happily exclaim "We did it!" or "Gonna need some chilli dogs after that!" Haven't thought about that in fifteen years. I hope he's doing well.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21984201 Sonic the Hedgehog and autism go hand in hand.
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Nov 18, 2013 01:58
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Aristobulus posted:Sonic also had the comics and SatAM cartoon pushing it as darker and more serious to fans, whereas Mario was always whimsical and wacky. Sonic is a blank slate*- he has no family, and no defined personality other than 'fast' and 'has tude'. Everything else about Sonic is customizable. Mario comes with a lot of baggage if you're a kid fantasizing about being a video game character- he has a brother, and his quest is almost always to save Peach, not merely to stop the villain. Mario's already half-full of video game canon by the time 1990 rolls around; Sonic is an empty vessel, ready to contain whatever you want him to, even if that thing is being turned on by smelly feet *This might be different in comics or that one cartoon, I have no idea- but I imagine once you're far enough down the rabbit hole to buy comics and DVDs, it doesn't matter anymore.
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Die Laughing posted:There was an overweight, badly autistic kid in my middle school gym class who insisted he was Sonic the Hedgehog. Everyone else just liked to laugh at him, but I'd tell him I'm Tails, and that "We gotta go super fast, Sonic!". He'd run his loving heart out, as I tagged along like player 2 on a Genesis. He'd get winded, and then happily exclaim "We did it!" or "Gonna need some chilli dogs after that!" I hope he's a marathon runner or something. It'd be like, the one good thing about Sonic fandom.
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Gaseous Snake posted:I hope he's a marathon runner or something. It'd be like, the one good thing about Sonic fandom. He tried to spin dash and broke his neck and now he's paralyzed.
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Nov 18, 2013 03:29
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Sega does what Nintendon't, including accidentally developing a super-creepy fanbase for their mascot.
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Gaseous Snake posted:I hope he's a marathon runner or something. It'd be like, the one good thing about Sonic fandom. He made a special surprise guest cameo in Sonic 06. 
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Nov 18, 2013 04:34
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TwoPair posted:Sega does what Nintendon't, including accidentally developing a super-creepy fanbase for their mascot.  Yeah, there's definitely no super-creepy mario fanbase.
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Wrist Watch posted:
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IronicDongz posted:Certainly not on the same level. This is getting a bit off topic, but lets just say, a few of us here have seen some things. It totally does get to that level of creepiness. Sonic's just a lot more common. Did Hindo die?
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Nov 18, 2013 05:33
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GorfZaplen posted:A fun game to play is to google your first name with "The Hedgehog" after it.  It's everything I thought it would be and more. 
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FrenchToasty posted:
For the record, this is mine. I did not draw this in MSPaint, it is literally the first result for my name. 
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