The things called out on the design that people specifically didn’t like weren’t even necessarily bad, broadly speaking. But doing that while also trying to make their design look like Sonic just melded together in entirely the worst ways.

A harder question comes from when even the video games give us a horror show version of an iconic character.

I think the blowback for the Ugly Sonic was justified. I do also think that the internet has too much power in swaying decisions away from an original creative product. For example - Gritty (Philadelphia Flyers Mascot) got destroyed on the internet when it was revealed. It is now one of the most iconic new mascots in…

part of that was the creatives behind the film went looking for “realistic pokemon renders” online and found the work of aRJ Palmer, an artist and pokemon fan who had been making renders of pokemon for years. they liked his work and hired him to help with the film.

If I were prone to wearing aluminum foil headwear, I might just say that making VFX people work overtime without pay was just a nice little bonus to the “marketing effort.” Seriously though, I don’t know what kind of drugs the character design people were on when they invented Ugly Sonic, but I don’t want any.

Agree with this. It took the original designs and tweaked them just enough that they worked in a live action setting.

I do think that the fact that Transformers and, to a lesser extent, the “live action” TMNT movies of the early 2010s taught the wrong lesson. Both of those franchises succeeded in spite of pretty terrible main character redesigns, but the lesson that was taken was that they succeeded because of them. Sonic was where…

The problem with the Mario movie is that the slaved themselves to hitting the 90 minute mark and refused to go beyond it. You can see quite a few story beats that were cut down do to time.

Any more cheesy then a man in a red devil costume? Or a soldier dressed as the American flag? 

Ah, no. Guys, we kind of need to forget about Punisher right now. Unless he’s going to look into the camera and denounce Trump and Blue Lives Matter goons, we should do our best to forget about him.

“Finally, Jeremy’s brother makes an unexpected visit in the trailer for this week’s episode of Ghosts.”

Trevor’s brother Jeremy. It’s right there in the clip.

I disagree, having two five year olds, Autopia has become a godsend. Before I couldn’t understand the appeal. Now, I see it is a magnet for my kids every time we go. You can rest, push the pedal, and let them ride. They love it.

I don’t know if they’re the same, but I saw the tomorrowland speedway for the first time in-person as an adult and just couldn’t believe that even a child would wait in line for that thing. Those things looked like they topped out at approximately a walking speed, and they’re on sort of a railroad track so the amount…

Amazon’s experiment and the lessons learned from it underscore a critical aspect of the shopping experience that cannot be compromised: the need for customers to be informed about and consent to the total cost of their purchases before leaving the store, while they still have a chance to walk away from the…

Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts.

SO BASICALLY IT IS OUTSOURCING OF THESE JOBS!! LMAO!!! AMAZON NEVER FAILS TO AMAZE ME WITH IT’S BULLSHIT.

I go to a local family owned grocery store. It’s on the high-end side and more expensive so I don’t buy everything there but it has a great selection and is unbelievably well-staffed with cashiers and bagboys/girls/ etc. It’s just glorious and by glorious I mean it’s how every grocery store used to be. And the…

Maybe it’s where you store is at but the Amazon Fresh by my home always had the carts that you scanned items as you shopped.  The smaller 7-11 style quick snack place in the city had the “just walk out” system.  Either way I only ever stopped in a few times(usually when I was returning something) because for all this…

I wish they would sh!t or get off the pot on their Amazon Fresh concept. My town has had one that has been hat has been half-finished and no work done on it for over a year.

I thought every supermarket in the UK had Just Walk Out technology already, with the bonus that you don’t get billed or arrested

In 1994 Tom Selleck promised me I’d would be scanning my groceries a cart at a time thanks to AT&T: