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Vemmon BT21-056 Alternative Art by Takase from BT-21 Booster World Convergence

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The left image as a rug and the right image as a ceiling poster

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Mechanical Foxeh that transforms all the little friends he (Safely and gently) noms into little tamagotchis that are stored in little pockets on the inside of his cute, and round tummy panel. His teeth are made of a soft rubber so no ouchies occur during the noms process. Even when he might accidentally catch one of his little pals with his jaws if they slip out of his hands on accident. Whoopsies!

His throat, and stomach are made with soft rubber, and waterproof cloth so his tummy is extra comfy to sleep in. He also gets a form of passive energy recharge when there is a weight in his tummy, so tummy cuddles are Very encouraged. And it also means that any prey that is too skittish to be pudged, can still help out via snuggles!

(He gets energy by transforming bunnies, and his other friends into tiny little tamagotchis that he uses to take care of them. It's probably like a pulley system where the energy generator spins when a prey get plopped into his stomach, and then the counterweight spins it the other way when the prey is transformed into pudge and moved along to the pudge storage chamber.)

His friends can be summoned from the tamagotchis by removing them from their pudge pocket, and then holding them out into the air. The little bot will float into the air, spin, and in a beam of brilliant light, allows Foxeh's pal to take their independent form again. Of course, they're probably just gonna ask for tummy cuddles again so they hop down Foxeh's throat again!

That's a cute visual. I like the idea of a robot pred having a CRT esk curved screen on their tummy that can display a representation of the prey they ate. Swallowing someone up and then they get like a little 8bit depiction of themselves making little vpet animations on the belly screen. Showing off the collection externally.

Landing in belly and being gurgled into a little vpet device and then lined up and embedded along the inside of the belly walls like a collectors shelf.

And can just belch out the little vpet thing and show it off to new prey being like "this'll be you soon ;3 " or by way of letting them beam out and back into their proper self.

That's actually very cute and fun and kind of a fun angle to think of for my foxehmon digimon ideas ngl. Has a very monzemon + toyagumon kind of mental image to it, but just foxehized.

I like it, this resonates with me quite well.

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Nintendo didn’t release the launch numbers?

then what dis

https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/nintendo-switch-2-sets-record-selling-over-3-5-million-units-globally-in-first-four-days/?srsltid=AfmBOoqvxw890eECHlJId2fW5WIcix06VSzsH5pVwbYLkjUxBKERCCCA

Fucking NintendoLife, who are Nintendo's biggest dick suckers, are headlining articles about the sales in France and the UK Not European sales France, specifically

They learned the term "attach rate" And they think it's a brag When really you're just saying there's only one game available for the fucking thing Of course most people bought Mario Kart with it - that's the only fucking game They did not brag about the "attach rate" with the Switch 1 or Wii U

"selling three times as many copies of the switch version of tropical freeze" bruh? what kind of comparison point is that? xD

"It debuted at the top of the UK physical sales charts, selling three times as many copies as the Switch version of Tropical Freeze."

The UK

Physical release

Switch version of Tropical Freeze

So many addendums xD It's so bizarre

Like the reality of this console release being a massive pathetic failure is inescapable and yet you people are cobbling together whatever delusions you possibly can to convince yourselves it isn't so, and getting PERSONALLY OFFENDED at anyone who isn't enabling your psychosis.

You fucking boot lickers have invested so much of your personal sense of identity into fucking Nintendo of all companies that you take anything said against them as a personal insult and feel compelled to crusade on its behalf

Its almost as pathetic as doing that for Sonic

Nintendo is the shittiest company, and yet they have an army of simps That company is not only transparently evil AND fucking stupid

They are also held in the highest esteem by adult children like you, ready to jihad yourself to protect their image

It's fucking pathetic, dude.

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Yeah Gmerl is hard to pin down for me. My initial instinct was Gammamon because he's a very new mascot character and Emerl was Sonic's son and all that, and also he has the multiple branching evolutions thing going for him like you said. But I dunno, it also feels really gauche to me to repurpose headlining mascot Digimon like that. Maybe that's just a personal hangup for me.

All the picks for the zeti are spot on though, giving them oni-styled Digimon is definitely a given. 100% for all those choices.

Who's a good Digimon pick for Emerl/Gemerl, you think? 🤔

Him and the zeti are the only ones we haven't covered yet.

Hard to honestly say - at best, Emerl would have to have a Digimon that would be able to change between forms, have multiple stances and designs where it would essentially morph into a new type of Digimon.

The best that would fit that description would be Maquinamon, who currently has not had one line complete yet, but is showcased to have at least two lines ready to come to fruition. It seems Bandai wants to go with the idea of 'constantly adapting' with Maquinamon, if Mulemon and Mockingbirdmon are any indication. Which fits Emerl/Gemerl's copying opponents to his advantage.

As for the Zeti, that's easy.

Zavok gets Titamon, as that's essentially an Ogremon to lead all Ogremon.

It would work so much better if Titamon was red, but hey.

The next one is Zazz, whom would get Rebellimon. Rebellimon fits Zazz's own punkish asthetics, and in the Reboot Adventure anime, Ogremon Digivolves into Rebellimon without his memory of past events.

I have to start stretching this, mainly because these would fit the oni origins that the Zeti themselves are based off of, but a good chunk of these are more based around the character designs than how Bandai or the animes portrayed these Digimon.

Zomnom would get Ginkakumon, if only because Ginkakumon has a big belly hatch that his brother-sister Kinkakumon can hop on and ride in, making the guy look fat.

Zeena would get Kinkakumon, because Kinkakumon is portrayed as a girl despite still being called a brother to Ginkakumon.

Zik would probably get Snow Goburimon, or Hyougamon. Mainly because they're both blue oni, though for some reason Hyougamon isn't listed as an Oni Digimon.

Really, it depends on how you want to portray Zik. I would think Hyougamon works better for Zik's character in general, while Snow Goburimon works for being a deception.

Lastly, Zor. Zor gets Goburimon. Why? Because Zor acts like a teen who hasn't yet grown out of his emo phase, and Goburimon would fit that asthetic in general.

That's all my thoughts and suggestions for the Zeti and Emerl/Gemerl's Digimon. I picked through asthetics this time around, so of course you can change them up to better fit the characters.

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this is the best part of the game lol lots of fun NPC dialog like this

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It's a bit of a slow burn, but man. When this game pops off it becomes a Digimon game with a capital D! And after this it only gets even more kickass with the integration of Digimon into the regular slice of life element of the story! Suddenly Digimon are just running around in normal every day Tokyo and there's CONFLICTS brewing because of it!

I know I'm such an asshole cuz I keep going back to this: but I just cannot get over that video Jaiden Animations did where she was like "I wanna get INTO Digimon via the medium of video games. But I don't wanna play Cyber Sleuth." And then one of her primary complaints about the game she DID pick was "they never even explained what a Digimon was."

that fucking video lives rent free in my head lol. Like, if you aren't into Digimon and you want in, but you don't wanna watch an anime you wanna play a video game you want video games to be the medium of choice for your entry into the Digimon franchise. Then Cyber Sleuth is OBJECTIVELY THE ONLY CORRECT CHOICE. It actually EXPLAINS WHAT A DIGIMON IS. It has an incredible slowburn story where it initially feels like just a conventional cyberpunk conspiracy narrative with Digimon sprinkled in, only for it to go FUCKING CRAZY with the Royal Knights causing a Digimon apocalypse across Tokyo. If you don't know what Digimon is or what it's all about, by the end of Cyber Sleuth you'll GET IT.

The Digimon World (as in World 1, Recoded, and Next Order) games are predicated on you already knowing what Digimon are. The protagonists of every one of those games literally owns a Vpet and plays Digimon on a competitive level. They are FOR people who already know what Digimon are.

Digimon Survive is a game that you can play without knowing what Digimon are.... in the same way you can play Deltarune without having played Undertale =P as in, sure, you'll enjoy and appreciate the well written characters interesting story and engaging themes. But a LOT of what that game is DOING is going to fly straight over your head. Digimon Survive is a game you should play AFTER you have watched the Digimon Adventure anime, at minimum.

All the other Digimon games are kinda inaccessible and gameplay mechanics driven and again all of them assume you already know what a Digimon is.

Cyber Sleuth is THE gateway Digimon game. There really is no other option on the table, in terms of video game Digimon media. START with this game, then branch out from there.

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It's the suggestion that they're presenting the concept of 100%ing a bunch of video games as some sort of hellish torment. A strenuous challenge that makes you have a thousand yard stare.

Reminds me of something I said on Discord a while ago:

it's insane to me that folks don't like the core experience of playing the games but will insist they're such huge fans of what the series could be instead of what it actually is and it's not like I adore every single Sonic game in existence either but I generally enjoy the experience of playing them

Also, nobody held a gun to their head. They forced themselves to play these games.

It's been 20 years since I first started playing SA2 and I will probably never 100% it because I simply cannot beat Radical Highway's timed mission. Not for a lack of studying the layout, consulting guides, and trying out different tactics; I just cannot do it. But the game handing me my own ass for the past two decades on this one mission doesn't make it a chore, necessarily. Especially when it's an extra challenge that I decided I wanted to tackle.

These days the main reasons I may not finish a video game, let alone a Sonic one, usually boil down to lack of time, lack of access, lack of skill, or lack of interest in the genre. There are only two mainline Sonic games I've actively decided never to play just out of general principle, and you could probably guess which ones they are.

That being said: dude, I would love to have the time and energy to do nothing but play Sonic games. Like??? I gotta pencil time and emotional bandwidth into my schedule to prepare for the rawdogging Eggmanland's about to give me, but these guys are going through the whole catalogue when they don't even like it? Why do that to yourself?

Even in cases like Sonic Shuffle, where I became increasingly convinced the game was programmed by somebody who infused the disc with some kind of black magic where it derives pleasure from your pain, I actually learned to enjoy the experience because it's so weird and harsh and out-there and unique. I learned to love the batshittery, so that when I finally cleared the first board, I got to be like

Obviously you (general you) are not going to 100% love all aspects of any given Sonic game unless it's SA2 ohohoho, but folks make it sound like every Sonic game is a chore no matter what, and it makes you wonder what they're even here for.

And that's not getting into the fact that sometimes people think the game is tedious not due to any flaw on its part, but because they're not actively engaging with it. (see: stop spamming X and Werehog's gameplay becomes a lot more fun)

It's this bizarre trend lately where people want to be part of the discussion or community around a piece of media, while skipping the part where they have to actually engage with the media.

They make videos like this because to them video games are just content fuel. Lumps of coal to throw into the furnace to generate heat.

It's the mentality that's given rise to the generative AI pictures thing. People want to make pictures, but don't want to actually produce art. They don't want the experience of actually DOING something, they just want to skip right to the end result.

The experience of playing a game, learning the mechanics, interacting with it and becoming better at it and experiencing new things about it in the process, does not interest them. They don't want to play a video game, they want to have played one. If even that. Lifelong Earthbound Fan Excited To Finally Play It For The First Time meme, and all that.

That being said: dude, I would love to have the time and energy to do nothing but play Sonic games. Like??? I gotta pencil time and emotional bandwidth into my schedule to prepare for the rawdogging Eggmanland's about to give me, but these guys are going through the whole catalogue when they don't even like it? Why do that to yourself?

I FUCKING KNOW RIGHT!? Their job is to make youtube videos. And like, sure, that's a job just like any other job. You gotta write a script and edit it and all that crap. But the core experience of your productive work day is PLAYING SONIC GAMES AND THEN TALKING ABOUT THAT EXPERIENCE. Broooo. Talk about "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life." I would be pulling 16 hour shifts if that was how I made my income. Hell, I do that shit FOR FREE. I play Sonic games and then just come on this website and talk about having done so for hours and hours just for fun.

Imagine being able to do whatever you want, you can make a video about fucking ANYTHING. And you force yourself to play games you don't even fucking like? Why????

I don't get this shit man. Why do people hate video games so much?

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Basically it's the resonance cascade from Half Life, but Digimon?

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"We've haven't been to make contact"

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This is a huge fact!

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"Gooner game!" "Gooner show!" "Gooner behaviour!"

There's literally nothing wrong with media containing sexual content, appealing to sexual fantasies, or ppl finding aspects sexually appealing.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying sexual fantasies, getting off to media, speaking about finding characters attractive, etc.

And whilst theres nothing wrong with it, a piece of media covering sexual topics or having attractive characters doesn't necessarily mean it's just a "gooner" media either. Things can have emotional depth and be beautifully written, and still have sexual content. You sound like a Puritan.

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Me whenever people tell me that Peter Parker is Christian like no. Peter Parker is Jewish. His writers in the 90s were christian.

much love to ‘i love my blorbo but they did all that’ but there should be a new category of ‘i love my blorbo but they were written by someone with transparent but unspoken biases and you gotta understand that context’

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The little-known 10th circle of hell, known as "Favorite character is extremely popular but you are also extremely particular and everyone is wrong".

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Very random river of thought from that "I 100 percent every spinoff Sonic game" thumbnail, but honestly it's difficult for me to see the Boom games as any relevant to Sonic as a whole at all.

Mostly as being packed in the same vein as Shadow, Storybook Series or Riders I mean lol

I guess it's just technicalities and Boom is a spinoff but I feel like Boom brand should be reviewed separately from those more relevant games for simplicity's sake? From the story to the gameplay feels basically nothing at all like Sonic unlike the other spinoffs.

If you're gonna include the Boom games then you might as well also include the Olympics games. And fucking. Waku waku patrol car. Like, by what standard do they even qualify?

Even if you wanted to include Boom under "spin offs" only Rise of Lyric is really a boring slog. The 3DS games are apparently quite fun. But he obviously didn't make those videos to follow any kind of sensible logic, they were "lol Sonic is so bad look at how bad all these Sonic games are I tortured myself by playing Sonic games look at me lol" videos and nothing more.

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"degenerate" "gooner" "perv" shut up. shut the fuck up. listen to yourself. you sound ridiculous. human sexuality is HEALTHY and NORMAL. don't get caught up in this wave of puritanistic ideals that try to convince you your sexuality is immoral and unhealthy.

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IT'S SO CUTE