I've reached a very strange part in my life where Shadow the Hedgehog resonates with me more than it should.
Not the hilarious over the top edginess (though I must admit Obliterating Everything That's Not Your Friend sounds more appealing every day), but the actual themes of accepting all the different parts of yourself as being important to who you are. I worry sometimes that as I grow older and more cynical I lose touch with the dumb kid inside me that thought Shadow The Hedgehog saying Damn was the sickest shit imaginable, and it makes me sad that that part of myself might be gone forever and I might be worse for it; but then I listen to a good dose of Crush 40 and that part of me lights up again, and I realize that dumb kid forms the foundation of who I am today, and I continue to strive every day to be the person I want to be. Just like Shadow is Good and Evil in equal measure, there's no reason to be ashamed of who we once were, and no reason to be worried about who we might become. We Are All, We Are All, We Are.

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This game fucking sucks, don't play it.