I'm not autistic, just regular retarded, but I was definitely a Sonic guy. Sonic CD was the first video game I had ever played, and for years, the only time I would see anything related to him, was on TV, because I never had anything but the family computer. Sonic's design always caught my eye, the designer of him is probably sitting on a huge pile of money, because the marketing of Sonic is genius. Always present in popular culture, always on a poster somewhere in the mall. I think I finally got a Genesis when I was 11 or 12, and played the shit out of the first three Sonics & Knuckles. I think what I liked the most was how fluid Sonic felt to control, like he was a real, physical, object, interacting with an environment. The kind of kick you get out of ragdoll simulations and rolling a Hot Wheels down a slope. I dunno, I guess that's the thing I really liked, but I ended up in the Sonic web forum scene of the late 90s-mid-2000s, and made some rom hacks and shit. Those were fun times, and the people on sites like Sonic Stuff Research Group and Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta Page were waaaaay less retarded than people who end up on Kiwifarms, although one of them ended up being a Pre-CWC Forums Lolcow by the name of WetFlame, who definitely has an ED article. Check it out if you want a laugh. That era of weird and wild times is long gone, and I haven't been around to them in ages, but I doubt they're the same.
I'm probably rambling, but I'm drunk as a skunk so I don't give a shit lmao
