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2023 in Review
Well, I haven't made a journal here in a year's time, but 2023 has been a year full of ups and downs. I remember it did not get off to a good start for me with January being less than memorable, but there was one thing that kept it from being a complete dump - Wheel of Fortune returning in Germany. In February, I came across an eBay listing of 3D-printed Wheel of Fortune spinners, and I was the first customer for these spinners. Within months, the lady who made these was able to grow her business with my help, advice, and feedback. She now sells these spinners on Etsy. I also bought a rare Wheel of Fortune travel game from TootsieToy with everything in English and French. I hope to make some Wheel illustrations based off of this soon. March was more of a regular month. For my birthday, however, I submitted a ton of German and Italian Wheel illustrations along with this Argentine Wheel illustration. I also got to play ICE's Wheel of Fortune Mega Win for the first time at long last at
2022 in Review
2022 had some amazing highlights for me. So let's take a look at the highlights for each month. I will also designate a submission of the month as well. January: January was scarred with a lot of tough moments, but that was also the month that I bought my ticket to see Bon Jovi. February: Again, quite a bit of downpoints. Even so, the only highlight of that month that I can think of, that is if you could call it a highlight, is buying a bottle of Good 2 Grow fruit juice that had a Sonic The Hedgehog top. It was something I had been trying to get for a while, but once my workplace got it, I was very happy, and I remember it was Valentine's Day, exactly two years to the day I saw the first Sonic film. March: Without question, it was seeing The Price is Right Live up in Rosemont Theatre on March 5th. April: Two highlights back to back: Seeing Bon Jovi at Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum on the evening of April 5th and seeing the second Sonic film in 4DX at Chicago's Regal City North with
Why I'm Now at Peace with Genshin Impact's Win
Being the big Sonic fan that I am, it was difficult to see all the hate geared toward the Sonic fan community in the aftermath of what happened at the Game Awards Thursday night, but after doing some research (and believe me, it wasn't easy on my emotions), I realized the full scope of what happened and learned that Genshin Impact may have actually deserved to win the Players' Choice Award after all. I'm saying "may" because there's really no way to know for sure how different things could have been. Before I go into that, however, I thought I'd tell you that Sonic Frontiers did win some awards back in September at the Japan Game Awards, being one of ten games to win the Future Division Award, being the first Sonic game to win an award at that event. Another winner of this award was Final Fantasy XVI (16). Although I have never played any Final Fantasy games, I know how popular and successful that series has been. So for a game in the Sonic series to be in the same league as a Final
A Cheer-Up Idea for Sonic Frontiers and Sonic Fans
A follow-up to my previous journal When I mentioned that there were anti-Sonic people out there, I later found out how true it was. I'm telling you I'm not happy with all this hate talk. It's not cool, it's not fair, and it's not right. Again, if we start focusing on what we enjoy rather than what we despise, I'll bet you right now this world is going to be a much nicer place. I recently read that someone in the Sonic fan community brought up accusations of Genshin Impact offering bribes to its fans to win. While it is true that miHoYo offered free content if Genshin Impact won, I don't see much wrong with that, although having it for winning another award instead of the Players' Voice Award would have been a better idea as it very likely would've meant less bias. The big problem here is, from what I read, that a big fuss was made about it by someone in the Sonic fan community. Had that not happened, there's a good chance all this drama would've been avoided and there's just as good
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