My parents were from Philly; I don’t recognize anything Philly/Delco in Rocket.

No, that’s Mario. Toad’s voice is higher-pitched in the preceding lines, and doesn’t have even a trace of the accent that’s in that line.

All what lines? We heard two very short lines, and nothing about the first line is inconsistent with the second. “What is this place” doesn’t really give any phonetic opportunities for New York-isms.

I don’t think they’ve ever really gone away from that, with the one exception of Yoshi’s Island.

Listen again, especially to the last line, and he’s definitely doing some kind of vaguely New York accent. It reminds me a little of Bradley Cooper doing Rocket Raccoon.

That sounds awful. 90+ minutes of Martinet’s Mario speaking full dialogue would be like nails on a chalkboard.

Listen again, he’s definitely putting some kind of vaguely New York accent in there. It’s more clear in the last line. It’s just that he doesn’t say much in the trailer yet.

Yeah, Kotaku, as per usual lately, gave the laziest possible take here. It might take a couple of listens but Pratt definitely is giving Mario some kind of light Brooklyn-ish accent.

The best comparison I’ve heard is that it sounds a bit like Bradley Cooper doing Rocket Raccoon.

Do you guys just not do any diligence to discover if the data heatmap articles you’re amplifying have any merit? This list is complete nonsense, and all you have to look at for proof is the fact that Vons is listed as a top 5 supermarket in Massachusetts despite the closest location being in Las Vegas.

They don’t even…

I recently watched a video of a 21 year old reacting to Back to the Future, and he could barely tell the difference between the 80s and the 50s visually.

Again: you’re trying to assign his accusation to just “a feeling”. It wasn’t. You’re mischaracterizing the situation, and this is why your opinion on the matter, and indeed those of all the other members of the snarky commentariat, is worth nothing.

Which is on some level understandable. The fact that the number can’t ever have been a prepaid one in the past, or a VoIP one like Skype or Vonage, is not.

This is exactly the point I was making. You dismissively call it just a “feeling”, because you presumably have no experience in high-level chess, but it’s easy to see there’s more to it than that. When you play at that level as often and as seriously as Carlsen and others do, you will inevitably be extremely sensitive…

Battle.net now requires it to be registered on your account for authorization purposes, or else you can’t play OW2.

I couldn’t care less about my own personal emotional reaction to the way he delivered the information. That’s irrelevant. I care about the information he delivered.

Yeah, no. No amount of spin is going to make it reasonable to ask a player to change their phone number of 15+ years to play a video game.

That doesn’t change anything about what I said. If you dig deep enough you can unearth potential ulterior motives for almost anything anybody does. And yeah, it’s information to pay attention to. But it’s not an instant discredit of Carlsen’s arguments.

Yeah, so I know I’m late to this, but apparently because I ported my cell number from Vonage 15 years ago, I can never play OW2? And they can’t override this.

This is so emblematic of the kind of company Blizzard is. I’m sure cases like mine are relatively fringe cases, and were written off by them as acceptable…

Carlsen’s reasoning always made perfect sense to me.

I don’t play chess at anything approaching a high level, but I can well imagine what it would be like to be as immersed in the game as he is, operating on another plane like he does. After playing as many matches as guys like him have, you’d get a feel for the…

I find that LOTR generally has a higher lore-nerd threshold than other properties. A side effect, I suppose, of a property in which maps and appendices are distributed in every book.