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Live and learn!

More Sonic pointless trivia. Since I finally managed to get all 180 Emblems on Sonic Adventure 2, I'll be focussing on that specifically this time. SEGA of America is localised in San Francisco, which is where the game was developed. Because of this, many levels in the game are based on or named after places in San Francisco. City Escape is based on the city of San Francisco itself, while Radical Highway is based on the Golden Gate Bridge. Mission Street is named after a street in downtown San Francisco, and Prison Island brings to mind Alcatraz. Route 101 and Route 280 are named after real-life highways that run through San Francisco. In Shadow's White Jungle stage, there's a little Easter egg to be found. At the final island where the Goal Ring is, you can find Omochao. Touching him just makes him say "Be careful not to fall!", but if you pick him up and carry him through the Goal Ring, he'll say "This weather reminds me of San Francisco" (note...

I need to, I want to

It's time for more pointless trivia. This time, I'll be covering the Game Grumps. At the end of every video after a certain point, a "SUBSCRIBE" button appears at the top of the video. Sometimes, it says something other than "SUBSCRIBE" - for example, at the end of a video featuring an underwater level, it read "SUBMARINE". Some have accused Arin and Jon of deliberately playing badly in order to be more funny. The Grumps themselves have denied this, stating that people have way too much faith in their abilities, but there is some evidence to support this theory. In the Wind Waker playthrough, Arin is playing really badly, despite all evidence saying he should be playing fine - not only is he deliberately ignoring on-screen button prompts (and then complaining that the game isn't telling him how to do things), the playthrough was filmed while he was working on a Zelda-themed episode of his show Sequelitis, in which he analysed and broke down...