cohost froze, made me reblog a post a dozen times, and then went down for like 20 whole minutes

i was gonna ask why you rechosted YO like 10 times lmaooo

yeah my b i was practicing for my jesse pinkman kin blog

is this a hot or lukewarm take, i can't keep track

i think Sonic's regular shoes with the stripe and the buckle are fine, but if you're gonna have him be in the same setting as Shadow, i think you almost have to give him the Soaps. i understand that they were very much part of a last minute sponsorship deal in SA2, but perhaps completely by accident, the design works so well as a compare and contrast with Shadow's original shoes. i would argue that when you give Sonic back his classic shoes and place him right next to Shadow, you do end up losing some of the design parallels that make them work as immediately recognizable rivals

The soaps also just rip honestly and if you're gonna keep his ability to grind as a core feature, going back to his flat shoes doesn't make much sense... You know, since Sonic as a franchise is known for being reasonable

very good point!

also from what i can gather the actual Soap brand seems, for all intents and purposes... dead now? like the brand was bought by Heely's in 2002 (which honestly sounds like it should've been another no brainer brand deal–i see dozens of people imagining Shadow with heelys all the time) but then... they apparently went bankrupt in 2021?? so i don't see what's stoping Sonic team from... just incorporating the SA2 shoes into his design at least semi-permanently

needle swinging back and forth like a pendulum between "does cohost as a platform fundamentally suck" and "do the People of cohost and the """culture""" that they have festered fundamentally suck"

i sort of offhandedly joked in the tags that its both but like. it really is literally both

cohost is a website built as the hobby horse of a couple friends that mashes together the worst mechanical aspects of tumblr and blogspot into a fine slurry that treats every post as an island and actively scoffs at the idea of giving you access to information as basic as "what is happening in your notes right now"

combine that with the heavily-conflict-avoidant-but-exceptionally-passive-aggressive userbase and what you get is a social media platform where talking about any pertinent real-world issue is an unspoken taboo, and anything that Does become a topic of debate is routed through the most asinine game of telephone you could ever imagine as every other user vagueposts their way into the conversation, resulting in an endless back-and-forth of "wow, get a load of This guy" until everyone either blocks each other or they get bored. but y'know it's better than twitter so i guess there's nothing to learn from this

lmaoo you're all good, i really like your insights and constrictive criticisms about cohost :3

coldest sonic the hedgehog take

nahh they're totally all the same, it's not like it's infamously one of the most contentious talking points of the entire fanbase or anything 😭