Comments on: Super Hardcore Mario Brothers 2

By: Rhody

Rhody — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:00:12 +0000

We have the weirdest comment sections.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:00:36 +0000

Understood, the video was a big pile of questionable references… My true point was that there isn’t much space inside a thread of blog comments to really go into identity politics.

Toad may drop like a rock, but he’s also quick as… a rock? Quick as a rock hurtling through space, about to blow up your dinosaurs. Quick like that kind of rock.

By: guppy06

guppy06 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:55:49 +0000

Holly: Yes, yes it does. Enjoy your new identity.

Brian: My identity crisis is based on the revelation that “everybody plays Toad” because “he gets all the bitches” (sic). This forced me into an introspective dilemma. Why don’t I play Toad? Do not I, too, want to get all the bitches? Am I subconsciously forsaking bitch-getting? And what of my preference for playing as a pretty pretty princess in a frilly pink dress? Do I avoid Toad because I am intimidated by his bare-chested, item-lifting masculinity?

Christian: But Luigi has his own kind of flying, and I’ve always found Mario (or I suppose Toad) better for stuff that requires quick, accurate timing to jumps where I don’t want to float accidentally.

In conclusion, I need to spend less time over at Nintendorks.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:40:35 +0000

I believe I was 3 or 4 when I first played Super Mario Bros. 2. My thought process? Luigi jumped really high. Mario and Toad dropped like rocks. Peach could pretty much fly. Of course I played as Peach most of the time.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:22:41 +0000

As queer culture has often embraced or otherwise had to deal with (by choice or by necessity) the questioning of gender roles, the disconnect between gender and sex, and the demolition of the dichotomy that is male and female, it’s not necessarily a silly association. But unless the commenter was actually having a gender identity-related crisis, yes, the idea that such will ‘make you gay’ is fairly silly, and the very notion that such is a problem is also really quite silly.

But on a lighter note, Peach got the float. Pretty much everyone I know who isn’t a seasoned gamer just trying to get through the damn thing uses slow, floaty Peach. Doki Doki Panic!!!

By: Holly Green

Holly Green — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:38:49 +0000

How would playing as a girl make anyone gay? Am I a lesbian because I recognize the advantages of playing Matthias over Jennifer Mui in Mercenaries 2? silly

By: guppy06

guppy06 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:14:58 +0000

Then… we’re both gay?

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:30:44 +0000

Peach got the float. Always seemed valuable to me.

By: guppy06

guppy06 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:22:34 +0000

Most of the time I went with Peach. Does that make me gay?

And I think “Super Happy Awesome Music” is the official name of that tune.