The whole drip thing is stupid. I understand my parents pain of “young people these days" now. 

Yep, out of all the current issues with the industry, game execs and designers not wearing enough couture is definitely pressing.

Mario is one of the top brands in the world, Nintendo is not about to allow Chris Pratt or anyone else to tank this movie. If Shigeru Miyamoto is okay with this, maybe we oughta actually, you know, watch the movie.

100% agreeing with you there. A full feature-length movie with Martinet’s voice as Mario would probably have me ready to punch some kids.

... and we don’t want that.

Seriously we need to stop this idea that Charles Martinet would be a good mario for 90 minutes. He does a fantastic job with the short quips and reaction lines but god if you hear him trying to do long form mario it is just grating and awful.

Obviously keeping the racist undertones would be bad. But not having them is also bad? Should everything ever that references something old have a disclaimer that says ‘in this era people were racist/sexist/etc’? Hell, considering how shitty people still are, even that could be considered whitewashing by suggesting…