Seriously, step out of your mindset for one second and look. Half of the board is bitching about the canon. The other half is bitching about the shitty gameplay.
All fail to realize there is NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. Sega shat it out and sent it out the door.
You know, you're right.
Everybody! Stop complaining. And by everybody, I mean the whole world. Don't like President Bush? Too bad! Don't bitch about him, there's nothing you can do.
Any and all complaints about everything are moot! Stress release is overrated!
Look. I understand where you're coming from. I hate being one of "those guys" who sits around being jaded and cynical, waving his cane and going "IN MY DAY, WE PLAYED SONIC USING ONE BUTTON AND A D-PAD!". Infact, I'm surprised it's not me going "YOU ALL SUCK FOR BITCHING THIS MUCH".So why are we ripping each others throats out over the fact that two characters in a video game make out? Why is everybody trying to be the ultimate authority on Sonic? I'm guilty as everyone else, but you know what!? Fuck it, I'm leaving this topic. It's a goddamn video game people, not the Da Vinci Code! If you think it's a shitty game forget about it and stop bitching to a development company who really doesn't care about you (otherwise it'd be good in the first place), if you think it's a good game play it and stop trying to make a religion around Sonic. We have enough psycho religions as it is.
But the point is that different things hold different levels of importance for certain people. A claim that we have "no life" is a pretty weak one - because everybody has a different defenition of what having a life is. Just because something doesn't fit into your little world, suddenly it means we "don't have a life". We spend too much time arguing or discussing subjects you consider too trivial.
But we don't consider them trivial. The entire reason we are (or were) Sonic fans is because Sonic meant a little more to us than average joe #247. In some cases, he meant a lot more. And while in your world, you're going to go, "You're arguing about a cartoon hedgehog!" - we've invested so much time and so much emotion into this character and this franchise...
To see it continually and repeatedly ruined to the point where you feel embarassed going into a Gamestop or an EB and picking up a new Sonic game... it's frustrating. It's like a part of your soul has died. All that invested emotion... pissed away.
And we have to do something with that frustration. We can't just sit here and keep quiet about it. So we argue. Sonic did this wrong, that part's creepy, the controls should be this way, Shadow shouldn't exist, Sega makes murder porn, blah blah blah blah.
Deal with it.