From ancient Buddhism, to iconic manga hair, to Keanu Reeves: a PC Gamer Causality Chain™ Would Xuanzang have liked John Wick? The origins of Chinese Buddhism 🔗 Keanu Reeves big dogging Sonic the Hedgehog The foundational text 🧵Unspool🧵 620s AD: Around the year 627, Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang begins a 17 year journey from China to India in search of Buddhist texts... No.5 Sonic needs a shadow 🧵Unspool🧵 2001: To give Sonic a more powerful rival, Sonic Team creates Shadow the Hedgehog, the "ultimate lifeform." He canonically approves of stealing candy from babies6, and is also maybe Vegeta.7 Keanu is the ultimate life form? 🧵Unspool🧵 2024: After being cast as the voice of Shadow, Keanu Reeves looks an interviewer dead in the eyes and declares that he, either as a human man or the voice of a CGI hedgehog, can beat up Sonic the Hedgehog.8 Sources and further reading Read more on PC Gamer Wes has been covering games and hardware for more than 10 years, first at tech sites like The Wirecutter and Tested before joining the PC Gamer team in 2014.
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