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FIRST @ TSSZ: Nobody in the Sonic community understands hyperbole, self-deprecation, or sarcastic melodrama as a rhetorical device! MORE AS IT DEVELOPS.

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The cynic in me automatically assumes the latter, obviously. But, realistically . . . I still think that's the case. They weren't taking down notes or anything. Maybe they were recording the session and I just didn't realize it, but, I don't know.

The way they rushed through it is the main indicator, to me, that they didn't actually care.

I was impressed! I personally expected them to do something kind of irritating, like offer shitty greasy pizza and banquet chicken, but they had a variety of delicious sandwiches and some insanely big cookies for dessert. Not the most extravagant meal, of course, but it also wasn't insultingly cheap or bland.

Seriously, though. Those cookies were enormous. Slingerland spent a good five minutes commenting on how ridiculously oversized they were, and all I could really do was nod in agreement.

Seriously. Damned if I do, damned if I don't? If I do play it and buy it, suddenly Green Gibbon's criticism of "WHY DO YOU WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY ON THIS SHIT??" is valid. If I don't play it, I apparently have no way of drawing any conclusions about the game. Having an intimate knowledge of the original games from years of play, watching exhaustive demonstrations on YouTube of the faults with the new physics, looking over other play-through videos and seeing tons of screenshots and reading thorough reviews and hearing first hand testimonials from close friends? All meaningless, and completely unable to give me enough perspective to form an opinion on the title.

Anyway, yeah. Whatever. You can assume whatever you'd like about the meeting. I'm not too bothered by it, and I'm basically satisfied with what I got to say and how I said it. To clarify, I'm not bothered by the fact that they focused so much on other games. I thought that aspect was actually really cool, and I loved how everyone in the room seemed so excited to play these games with total strangers. I'm only upset because the Sonic 4 feedback session was given so little focus, by comparison. If you don't think half an hour is a downright pitiful amount of time to allot to something like this, then I don't really know what to tell you.

Also, totally sorry about that, Moonshadow. Were you the guy hanging out with Slingerland, or were you the guy in the pinstripe shirt and tie? Just to be clear, there were a few other people who spoke up, and the "90%" figure was probably a slight exaggeration. I was just trying to convey the point that there were relatively few people in the room who were riled up and confident enough to get this stuff out in the open.