#(not sega of america)

[ghostindeedee]

Sega is unionizing

Tumblr refuses to show links, so I'll reblog with a link to their tweet, but Sega is unionizing and they need all the help they can get.

[autisticshadowthehedgehog]

congrats sega of america workers

[thesonicstadium]

The AEGIS-CWA organisation, which has been campaigning for establishing a formal workers' union at SEGA of America, has won its union election! That means SOA is now officially unionized!

[iww-gnv]

Workers at Sega of America, representing multiple departments, have voted to form a union. With 91 employees voting yes out of a total number of 212 eligible employees, the Allied Employees Guild Improving SEGA (also known as AEGIS-CWA) becomes the fifth video game union in the United States and its largest multi-department video game union. The AEGIS union drive was announced in April but was a year in coming for the workers at Sega of America’s Burbank and Irvine, California, offices. AEGIS-CWA is the US’s fifth video game union overall, joining groups at Raven Software, Blizzard Albany, ZeniMax, and VR / AR game developer Tender Claws. In addition to being among the first video game unions in the country, AEGIS-CWA will also represent workers across a multitude of departments including brand marketing, games as a service, localization, marketing services, product development operations, product development, sales, quality assurance teams, and more, making it the largest multi-discipline video game union in the United States.

[tiifalockhart]

[tailschannel]

SEGA of America workers vote to organize, becoming the largest video game union in the United States

In a historic move in the video game industry, a supermajority of workers at SEGA of America announced their intention to unionize.

The Allied Employees Guild Improving SEGA, or AEGIS (a spin on SEGA's promotional tagline, "it takes AGES"), will represent 144 employees across numerous departments at SEGA of America's office in Irvine, California.

In association with the Communications Workers of America, the newly-formed video game union will have the unique distinction to become the largest of its kind in the United States.

In a statement, the union's goals are the following:

Higher base pay for all, following industry standards, with raises tied to the cost of living and inflation.

Improved, stable benefits for all, including healthcare, retirement, remote work opportunities, and more.

Increased, clearly outlined opportunities for advancement.

Balanced workloads and schedules, and defined responsibilities for all positions.

Adequate staffing of departments to end patterns of overwork.

A motion to vote has been filed with the United States Labor Relations Board, as workers await for SEGA of America to voluntarily recognize the labour organization.

[thelvadams]

since i see some people talking about this, nobody is asking you to boycott the new sonic/persona/yakuza games - but you should sign the petition telling SoA to remain neutral during unionisation efforts

[birbiegal]

He's my bby boy and I know he wouldn't have allowed such lack luster organization for such an important event

[tacorerooster]

Long Thread Shadow and Amy Rose. So with Sonic Movie 3 continuing the trend of Sega (or at the very less Sega of America) not giving a shit about Amy Rose, I’m gonna list all the shit she SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN, but was left out of

First off Every 90’s Dic Animated Cartoon (SatAM, AoStH and Underground), Amy around during each one of those productions yet she doesn’t show up, yet Tails and Knuckles both do, even tho A. She came out the same year as Tails and B. Showed up BEFORE Knuckles

Next would-be classic games collections minus Gems & Origins. Amy & her debut game Sonic CD for a long time was excluded from many of the Classic Collections, like Sonic Mega Collection, the DS collection & the Sonic's “Ultimate” Genesis Collection which had Archie & Spinball

Then we get to the modern era and oh boy this is fun. She’s in the 1st Sonic adventure as a playable character, all be it a Slow Character but still relevant, In SA2 she is not playable but has plot relevance, which I will get to later when talking about Movie 3

From there you have Heroes, Shadow, & 06. In Heroes she is a speed type like Sonic & Shadow, but can’t do ring dash or wall jumps & as many fans make clear she has the least popular group. Thank you, Shadow, for being So popular & taking Rouge from being apart of OG team Rose.

In Shadows game she is in 1 level & a cut scene at the end, even tho AMY was who got Shadow to be himself, Shadow Fans forget this. Tails & Knux who he has no history with get many. Heck Maria & Omega get more then Amy, despite being flat characters that exist to prop up Shadow

Next up 06, same before she in 1 level but gets 1 extra mission in the hub world. Whereas Shadow gets himself a whole campaign + vehicles, + his side characters get cooler gameplay than Amy. What does Amy get? Will she’s not long fast & for some reason can turn invisible. Clearly one of them got more attention during development. It also didn’t help Amy’s status as a love interest with Elise being there.

Now for the handheld games and it somehow gets worse for her. Dimps, the developers behind the Sonic Advance Trilogy + the Sonic rush Trilogy DID NOT LIKE AMY AT ALL! She gets to be the slow gimmick character in 1 & is not part of 2 but instead the hidden unlock you get the emeralds for.

In Rush, Dimps, makes Cream the Sidekick/Tails to Blaze even tho in the last game Amy & Cream where the female Sonic & Tails. They even write Amy as being abusive to Cream, A THING AMY WOULD NOT DO. Which is even dumber bc Marine shows up next game as the Tails to Blaze’s Sonic.

Now we have Sonic Battle, which does even less favors. Made by THQ (Not Sonic Team) you a cool Sonic fighting game, you let Amy form a Mother Child bond with a Robot, you give her some GODDAMN COOL ROCK LEE TRAINING WEIGHTS & Cream even says Amy is the strongest Women she knows.

But you have Amy starve herself for Sonic, not treat it seriously or for her friends to show concern. All her Attacks are Sonic driven, she thinks up a physical copy of Sonic to fight Rouge (which Fans use to say she is Crazy or Weaker than Rogue, both of them beat each up)

Finally in Handhelds is Sonic Rivals 1 &2 by Backbone Entertainment & Sega Studio USA. In 1 she is captured at the start ALONG WITH TAILS & saved at the end for Sonic to say he forgot about her & be creeped out by her. She’s not even in 2 so a good thing, can’t mess her up

We than get a period of time where Sonic games only have Sonic & Tails in them. So can’t mess her up like that (Unleashed is great for Her). In Sonic Forces while this point is minor, She along with Knuckles are leading the Resistance but Knux gets to be on the box & Amy doesn't

But I think the most damaging thing would be Sonic Mania. It makes itself out to be a celebration of all the things you loved about Classic Sonic from 1, 2, 3, Sonic & Knuckles, Knuckles Chaotix, Mean Bean Machine, Spinball and CD. But Amy somehow was not in any of it.

Hell I would say that Sonic Mania takes a good chunk from CD but no Amy. You get Amy Doll which explodes when it hugs you. (Get it the joke is that Amy is crazy & explosive and you don’t want her to hug you and should always run away from her ha ha so funny)

Fang Bean and Back get full sprites in Mania not Amy. Oh yeah and Mighty and Ray get to be playable but not Amy. There was even a hashtag for Amy to be added, only for Christin Whitehead or Sega to say - nah. (This is also why Origins and Superstars are better than Mania, Amy)

A pattern with all this is when people who aren’t Sonic Team write for Sonic, Amy usually gets the worst treatment (not to say she is the only 1, just the worst. Sonic X in Japanese is Great for Amy. But the English try & mess it up, but you still you get good stuff for her.

Not getting into Archie because if we are grading quality of how Amy is treated, that is dead last. PS Fleetway Amy Sweep and IDW Amy is Canon which I’m happy about.

This all to say and go back to my main point about Sonic Movie 3. I have like the Sonic movies so far, 2 was fantastic, but with the Knux show, the flaws showed to it & the movies. All of it is just marketing. The movie universe isn’t here to tell stories its here to sell stuff.

Wondering what I mean by this. So far the main Sonic character in the Sonic movie are Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow and Eggman. 4 being mobians & 1 human. When looking at the merchandise for Sonic as a whole you see it plan as day it is always Sonic Tails knuckles & Shadow. (Only recently has Amy been include but she still gets left out from time to time.)

Amy is supposed to be the fourth member of team Sonic, NOT Shadow. He not only has his own team he doesn’t even like Sonic, Knuckles or Tails. Hell straight up has a vendetta against Tails. But marketing keeps pushing them together

That’s what Sonic Movie 3 is MARKETING, not a story, bc if it was Amy would be in it already. Bc we have Sonic, Eggman, Echidna Tribe, Tails, Knux, Chaos Emeralds, Pac, Shadow, Maria, Gerald, GUN & no Amy. & Shadow Fans will say it is perfectly fine he needs all that screen time

I want to like Shadow, but he just sucks up any light from others. Rogue on Team Rose, no Fans want Shadow alive again, Amy Rose game? No Shadow Game. Other playable characters, no only Shadow. More Sonic Characters in a Sonic Movie? No, only characters tied to Shadow. But yeah

[saikyo78]

[shinigami-striker]

23 Years Ago: Sonic Adventure 2 | Wednesday, 06.19.24

This was like 23 years ago, you know?

Despite being the last Sonic game on the Sega Dreamcast (and a last on first party Sega consoles before going third-party), Sonic Adventure 2 remains a fan favorite, not because it's a solid sequel to Sonic Adventure (1998), but because the game introduced Shadow and Rouge into the series, as well as offering two different story paths for players to either save the world as Sonic, Tails and Knuckles, or attempt to conquer it as Shadow, Rouge, and Dr. Eggman.

[fortemelody]

i made this presentation back in july/august about the timeline of the bizzare behind the scenes drama of archie sonic becus my friend group was doing a presentation night. needless to say it was a lot of fun and i think i talked for the longest amount of time. so now i’d like to share it with all of you! there are some mistakes for sure, such as some “blanks” i didn’t fill in and forgetting to add pics to some slides and a couple missing sources, but i legit spent three back to back days on this at one point so i am way too lazy to fix it now sorry 💀 i’m worried as well that some of my points were conveyed better in person becus i got to ramble and uhh it wasn’t recorded at the time so also sorry about that you’re just gonna have to use your imagination. but i hope y’all enjoy anyway! make sure to put it in present mode cus there’s some fire ass transitions too 🙏

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-CNgOLNT2fbCS7vpePCb7llTK7JWyXfecYLukodx5iE/edit

*** potential fictional rape TW for slide 18. i know that sounds so jarring and dumb to put in a presentation about sonic but unfortunately that actually did happen and i just wanna be on the safe side and give a heads up.

also slide 25 was supposed to be about the first archie sonic reboot arc where they all had amnesia but i ran out of time but i thought the title made it really ironic so i left it in for comedic effect (you’ll see trust)

[devileaterjaek]

[pixelsproject]

『Justice League Task Force』 Genesis Version

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SOURCES ↴ Justice League Task Force (Genesis) character sprites uploaded by Apocalypse (The Spriter's Resource) Justice League Task Force (Genesis) stage sprites uploaded by Yawackhary (The Spriter's Resource)

[the-anime-man]

Puyo puyo puzzle pop gets a C- specifically because english sig still uses cobalt

[tailschannel]

"Fast Friends Forever" initiative announced by SEGA of America

Announced by the official Sonic social media accounts, a new initiative under the name, "Fast Friends Forever" celebrates Sonic and his friends alongside their sense of teamwork, inclusiveness, and friendship.

According to a press statement from SEGA of America, the campaign begins in August throughout the end of the year with a "variety of exciting events and activities."

Here's the first line of projects under the "Fast Friends Forever" initiative.

An official website at showcasing campaign activities, as well as character bios, spotlights, digital comics and more.

A 4-panel digital comic series drawn by talented artists from around the world. Out of a total of 15 issues, the first issue releases tomorrow, 9 August. The rest of the issues will be released in the upcoming months.

Season 2 of TailsTube will start soon, featuring new stories that are fun and educational.

(Article contributed by Spectre, MC, Dakiii and Scarlett for the Tails' Channel Newsfeed.)