I'm not autistic, just regular retarded, but I was definitely a Sonic guy.
Nah, you guys are cool. When I use sperg, I mean like.... Chris Chan. Like "go to Sonic's world forever and ever" Neverland sperg. Otherkin spergs.
I grew up in a household of video gamers, but I can agree, Sonic had the 'tude that 90s mascots wanted and did it right. I suck ass at the games, and still I do, lol, but damn it, those games were an adventure and a half with all of the stages and presentation. I remembered catching a glimpse of the comics and the Sat AM cartoon, and I was like "lol nah, this isn't for me". And you know, the music. The fan community's also pretty great too.
Y'know you may be onto something there. I've noticed that people choose certain abilities they'd have if those sorts of things existed and it really is just the antithesis of their life in general. Weak people want super strength, fatties want super speed, people who want to get out of bad situations want flight etc.
Like how CWC wants to be a "goddess" despite being utterly powerless IRL - even compared to "normies"?
Ironically, if there's one thing about Sonic I got from this series, it's to "be yourself". Robotnik's all decking out excessive industry and polluting places, and incomes blue hedgehog who noticed he has fast legs, and just ups and uses what he's got and recognizes who he is to just save the day.
Like you want to express yourself as an animal metaphorically and artistically, cool, that's fine. But furries, man, they want to be the animal biologically or in an atrocious combination of anthropomorphic degeneracy. Then we get to Chris. He calls himself a Japanese honorific despite not being Japanese or knowing and respecting the culture at all, he combines two obvious mascots of major franchises that are totally not his to be "original" at his command, and makes a comic book out of it to sell as his own, amongst other totally disgusting and reprehensible things.
And as he sits in prison, I just outed Chris... as a poser. Wow.
Honestly people, be yourself. Don't be like Chris. Sonic said so.