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[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 month ago

They're actors. In Mario Brothers 3 you can see the background bolted to the set and you go back stage at the end of every level. It's a production. Then they do celebrity sporting events.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month ago

Also the intro cut scene is a curtain being lifted.

[-] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

They've said as such at Nintendo. All the characters are actors, coworkers. If it's Tennis Day, they're playing tennis against each other. If it's Smash Brothers day, they're launching each other off floating platforms. Etc.

[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Everyone in Hollywood (Mario Bros edition) is banging anyways. Surprised they dont have "Super Mario Orgy 3: Step-Daughters are Peachy!"

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago
[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

Mario is a false narrator. She wasn't kidnapped, she left him because he would spend his meager paychecks on drugs.

[-] arrow74@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

He must be a shit plumber if his wages are "meager"

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

Every time he gets more than $99 it disappears and turns into an extra life.

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

They turn into special mushrooms.

[-] Baguette 2 points 1 month ago

Mario probably has a bunch of life insurance policies in his name, I know I would

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Is not every plumber technically a shit plumber?

[-] arrow74@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

I would say theoretically not. If you only do new construction nothing you touch has had shit on it yet. But then again it is intended for shit so it depends on where you draw the line

[-] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

There are gas and steam plumbers

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

i'm sure there's at least one plumber that has never touched toilet or sewage pipes in their long career

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe he just wasn't good at cleaner her pipes specifically, if you get what I'm sayin'.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Mario is a false narrator. She wasn't kidnapped, she left him because he would spend his meager paychecks on drugs.

Are we saying that Mario - Gorilla Kidnapper is not to be trusted?

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Okay Jonathan Blow

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

But he always seems to have coins AND mushrooms?

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Bowser has multiple castles to be fair, he is also buff and close to 6ft7. No contest.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Mario did this only once. The game is the memory of his trauma, playing on a loop.

Your playing is his therapy. Unless you lose. In which case, he wakes up from the bad dream in a cold sweat, and has to start all over.

[-] match@pawb.social 16 points 1 month ago

this is why Super Mario Brothers 2 is a dream and 3 is a play and Wonder is a ketamine therapy session

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My head canon is that the games where Bowser is the bad guy are just them playing roles and the sports games are their real selves. Rivals, not really enemies. Mario Kart World having all the mooks join in on the karting supports this idea.

[-] LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

I didn't know this. That's so wholesome and adorable!

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

not sure that's hugely better frankly, because now it's implied that the mooks are just there to let the important people act out decadent fantasies in absurd detail

like being an extra in a mr beast episode whose sole job is to get punched into cold water

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If I was a police officer, and after surviving an accidental catastrophic zombie outbreak in Raccoon City, my government said "Hey you're really good at that, want to do it 5 more times?" I'd simply pivot to being a construction worker or something.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

So you're saying you're not a bad enough dude to rescue the president's daughter...

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

Isn't Bowser more of a turtle?

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago
[-] Heathcliff@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Everyone who doesn't know that is out of the loopa.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

He's a turtle dragon.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Accidents happen in high speed races and no one is prosecuted. It would be a shame for an accident to happen to the lizard during the race.

[-] epicstove@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I like to imagine Mario and Bowser have a sorta Doof and Parry kinda relationship.

[-] mikezeman@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago
[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Bowser makes no sense. He's larger than Mario, why doesn't he simply eat him?

[-] Pnut@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

"Mario. You can't a do this! He's a the one who keeps kidnapping peach!" Said Luigi. "No" Mario responded. "That's a why we do do this". Mario then narrowed his gaze and gripped the steering wheel of his cart, his gloved hands making the sound of a tightening rope. "Today, brother. We humiliate him. Tomorrow, we take a him down for good".

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Open world Mario Cart?

Meaning, normal Mario but with cart?

[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

You can't let your personal life affect your career, sometimes you have to work with people you dislike.

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

well, maybe now you realise why he kept trying to get that interfering girlfriend away from you.

[-] don@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

You also wouldn’t be in a video game either, but that’s quite besides the point.

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