Should Mario be banned?

[tholly]

nope...there is nothing wrong with Mario at all.....anyone offended by him is the unintelligent one, not Mario himself.

mario will be around as long as video games are

[Push Upstairs]

One thing that hasn't been brought up is Marios's rampant drug use. He uses magic mushrooms to get bigger (or maybe he just FEELS bigger, having his senses all off the wall). If you ask me, the Mario series is pretty tripped out. There are other examlpes of things like this throughout the Mario games, but I will refrain...

Miyamoto was promoting drug use the whole time...Maybe he tried to make up for it in SMB2j when he added the poisonous mushrooms. Mario was still kicking the shit out of turtles tho. Aren't flying turtles endangered?

-Rob

You hit this one right on the head.

Forget the "ITSA ME!" voices being bad...Mario was all about the 'shrooms.

The guy collected various plants to gain "super powers". Clearly Mario is one serious drug fiend out to attain a permanent fix.

As for "starman"....i'm not even gonna go there.

I heard that the orginal planned ending for SMB was a scene where Mario comes down from his "trip" but it was cut because the NES couldnt accurately portray the impact of the "coming down" in a single screen.



If you believe any of that then, well...i dunno what to tell you.

[soniko_karuto]

i'm half vampire killer and half pocket monster breeder, and i don't give a shit about stereotypes.

anyone here set for some yugi?

[Kepone]

While we're at it, let's ban the following:

-The Sopranos
-The Godfather

And anything else that eschews a supposed Italain stereotype.

Don't be such a crybaby, whoever you are, calling for Mario to be banned. It's just a video game.

[Habeeb Hamusta]

Yay! Another person ranting about racial predjudice. Damn man get a grip. Do you honestly believe Mario was intended to be a negative stereotype?

[Habeeb Hamusta]

I'm 1/8 Italian too, and I really don't care about any Itialian stereotypes either....or English, or Lithuanian, or anything else my bloodline comes from.

Not that you ever hear "How many Lithuanians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? "

I very much agree. I liked the movie a lot, but I was a tad offended in some parts. Black comedians get away with anything because people who stand up to it are called racists.

Example: Chris Rock. I love his comedy, but the man is a flat out racist. I remember him cleary talking about how young white people scare him to death in one of his comedy acts.

-Rob

Chris Rock is just telling jokes. He says those things to make people laugh. It's his job. I swear people take everything so literally.

[rbudrick]

Chris Rock is just telling jokes. He says those things to make people laugh. It's his job. I swear people take everything so literally.

Just telling jokes. Mhmm. And Hitler was just increasing his nation's economy.

I like Chris Rock...I really do, but he's still a racist, jokes or not.

You know, if a white man told that joke about black people, everyone would be shocked, offended, and angry. And then everyone would send that comedian death threats and label him a Racist or a Nazi, or a white supremist, etc.

It is a double standard, plain and simple.

-Rob

[Kroogah]

Just telling jokes. Mhmm. And Hitler was just increasing his nation's economy.

DRINK!!!!!

Stop Chris Rock before he kills again! WE MUST GO TO WAR!!

Oh my God, this thread is Bueno.

[PapaStu]

Mario is racist.

He supported Hitler. I've got proof.

News at 11.

[MegaDrive20XX]

The thing is, Mario was based on Miyamoto's land lord back when he to programming school in the States during the 70's. So that was Miyamoto's image of his landlord and in probably no way was supposed to be taken seriously as a sterotype...it's just what the public thinks and takes it out of proportion.

Actually, you got the story wrong. Mario was created out of hardware limitation (the overalls with contrasting color from the shirt to distinguish the moving arms, the moustache because it was easier to create than a mouth, the hat because it was too hard to animate hair...). The character was originally named Jumpman and was a carpenter. He was renamed Mario by the time DK Jr. was released, in honor of Nintendo of America's New York landlord, Mario Segali, who happened to look like Mario (NoA used to be located on the East Coast, before moving to Washington State). As for Mario's job as a plumber, that was established with the game Mario Bros. (which also introduced Luigi officially). And Luigi was Mario's green-clothed identical twin until SMB 2 was released. In that game, Luigi was modified and became tall and lanky out of necessity (Luigi was chosen to cover the pixels of the taller character of Doki Doki Panic).

Then explain why in the Mario Mania guide book (History of Mario and guide book to Super Mario World) that tells the story of Miyamoto and his land lord?

[Sph1nx]

Damn Hitler.

[atomicthumbs]

Yay! Another person ranting about racial predjudice. Damn man get a grip. Do you honestly believe Mario was intended to be a negative stereotype?

[DigitalSpace]

Once again, Luigi gets shunned.

[Habeeb Hamusta]

Just telling jokes. Mhmm. And Hitler was just increasing his nation's economy.

I like Chris Rock...I really do, but he's still a racist, jokes or not.

You know, if a white man told that joke about black people, everyone would be shocked, offended, and angry. And then everyone would send that comedian death threats and label him a Racist or a Nazi, or a white supremist, etc.

It is a double standard, plain and simple.

-Rob

Argh WE MUST KILL CHRIS ROCK!!!!

There is a big difference between Chris Rock and Hitler. . Chris Rock isn't killing people. And yes, if a white person said something like that he would most surely be labeled as bad; but it's the same weay with Chris Rock. Even though a lot of people might be offended by him, there are still those who think he is funny, and that's who he is making the jokes for. The same way a lot of people would feel about the white guy crackin black jokes. Saying something doesn't dictate who or what you are. Get over it.

[Habeeb Hamusta]

Hilarious!

[atomicthumbs]

Once again, Luigi gets shunned.

[soniko_karuto]

Once again, Luigi gets shunned.

omg!! bwahahahahaha

[Queen Of The Felines]

Ok, that "Sex in the City" pic cracked me up.

Tony_good writes for the DP mag and the post was A JOKE. A spoof, a parody, a tale of sarcastic wit.

Everybody just chill, k?

Kristine

[soniko_karuto]

uhm, i did got it as a joke.

thank god he didn't say anything else.

[rbudrick]

Saying something doesn't dictate who or what you are

It doesn't? Hmmm, that's news to me..I've always believed what people say definitely syas a lot about who they are., but whatever. If you tell millions you are scared to death of white kids, that's not really a joke, and it says a lot about you. This is mainly true because he was serious, not joking.

And I bet Chris Rock did kill peple. They were prolly just black folks though, so no biggie. And I'm white so I can make that joke, and it's ok, because Chris Rock can say mean shiit like that too. But the difference is I'm not funny tho, you say? Neither iis CR's racist shit.

<waits for double standard to kick in and for people to get mad, thus proving my point...>



There's really zero justification for racism, jokes or not. If you believe that it is justified, you are really part of the problem.

And Mario didn't support Hitler..we all know now he's a Commie. Oh, he's racist too and he joined the KKK with Chris Rock

Sorry to threadjack...actually, this thread was jacked from the start, so fuck it.

Seriously folks, I've got nothing but love for everyone here...I mean no ill will.

So let's get back on subject:

KILL MARIO! KILL MARIO! KILL MARIO!


-Rob