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Yeah. "Past." I'm sure.
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Oh, don't get me wrong, I've played through Sonic Mania about six times by now.  And the Archie comic was actually the first comic I ever collected monthly, so I'll always have a soft spot for it.  But I'm fully aware that a good 80% of the games made since the 90s have been a dumpster fire, I find most of the fandom terrifying, and the characters I grew up with as a kid (specifically the American-made ones from the cartoons and the Archie comic) are very likely never to be used again because Sega doesn't like them.  So yeah, with the occasional exceptional game like Mania (and using him as one of my mains in Smash), being an overt Sonic fan is mostly in my rear-view mirror.