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This Week in Games - "I'm The Mario!"

So, why am I putting so much into this? Because frankly, Fandom sucks. Currently serving as the hosts for countless Wikia pages covering all manner of, er, fandom topics: from widespread stuff like The Office to Ultra-kaiju repositories. and every last one of those pages is utterly, hopelessly illegible: intrusive ads, auto-playing videos, massive banners covering half the damn page... it is an absolute miserable chore to read what is basically a wiki-entry and glean any kind of information on anything. And it's even worse on mobile, where at best you can only really get a quarter of the page visible at any time with the rest occupied by worthless cruft.

Ad block(Ublock Origin) rules. I have NONE of that stuff. Not even on mobile(android) where instead of chrome I use Firefox ...with ad block. (don't worry, I have a sub on ANN)

It's got extensive forums where people could gather and share info or FAQs on games,

And it's even worse on mobile, where at best you can only really get a quarter of the page visible at any time with the rest occupied by worthless cruft.

It offered one new character, who was a bit of a dud upon arrival (read: nobody made porn of her, when Tracer had naughty fanart being made practically within the day—a serious canary in the coalmine)

Five years from now, kids won't remember that the guy from the Parks and Recreations reruns was the guy in the Mario movie.

Five years from now, kids won't remember that the guy from the Parks and Recreations reruns was the guy in the Mario movie.

But Charles Martinet is still gonna be yahoo-ing his way as the Mario Bros, and Wario, and Waluigi. And if Nintendo sees fit to keep him around, the question is going to remain: why wasn't he good enough for Mario's big break?

Not sure how Tails kept his VA, maybe since they didn't plan on a sequel and having her cameo at the end of the first movie locked her into the role, but SEGA didn't seem to care about replacing Roger Craig Smith who was actually upset over his exclusion compared to Charles Martinet and Shigeru Miyamoto giving Pratt their blessings

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It offered one new character, who was a bit of a dud upon arrival (read: nobody made porn of her, when Tracer had naughty fanart being made practically within the day—a serious canary in the coalmine)

Hope this not how we’re measuring how popular a character is.

I fully understand the complaints about recastings in Hollywood productions based on iconic franchises with long-standing voice actors in roles, but I'd argue that Mario is an exception to that, because Charles Martinet's Mario isn't meant for anything more than quick yelps & single lines voiced in isolation. At least he will still be a part of the movie by doing various voice cameos, so I wouldn't be surprised if he get a gag where Mario thinks about his father & we get a flashback where Martinet gets to use his Mario voice for the father. In a moment like that, the voice would work perfectly.

With Colleen O'Shaughnessy still getting top billing for voicing Tails in the Sonic movies, the words "Sega Does What Nintendon't" still ring true. Don't cash the checks all in one place, Chris.

Worthelss factoid: The Japanese name of "MegaMan Legends" is "Rockman Dash." Red Ash. Redash. Re:Dash. That's also how the title pronounced in Japanese. Inafune doesn't do subtle.

Five years from now, kids won't remember that the guy from the Parks and Recreations reruns was the guy in the Mario movie.