Random: Miyamoto Joins Mario Movie Cast For Acapella Cover Of Super Mario Bros. Theme

Did America start using their funny date formatting so the month comes before the day just so stuff like Mario on 10th March and Star Wars on 4th May would be a thing?

Well, it was okay.

Loved it... Well... Except the one second appearance of those dungaree wearing yellow things...

@jump

@Bunkerneath I love this persons comics! They are simply amazing!

This is one of those videos that I'm afraid to watch. It might haunt me forever.

We're getting a month long advertising campaign for this movie and I'm all for it! I wonder if any of it will be incorporated into Nintendo's PAX East booth or if that will all be dedicated to Zelda TOTK

@jump A little known fact about Americans is that the same logic applies to their names. Which is to say, their middle name comes first, followed by their given name, then their surname.

This is why Jack Black is called ’Jack Black’ and not ’Thomas Black’, despite ’Thomas’ being his actual first name and ‘Jacob’ being his middle name. This is also why Mario’s full name is ’Mario Mario Mario’ — to ensure parity between regions.

They also have to read/watch every trilogy in Middle→First→Last order. If you’ve ever partaken in a LotR Marathon in the US, you’ll have noticed they start with the Two Towers, then proceed with the Fellowship, and finish the things off with Return of the King.

I know many people are holding off playing Metroid Prime Remastered because they haven’t played Prime 2 yet.

It might seems strange, but it’s really no stranger than sticking with a temperature system that defines ‘zero’ as the freezing point of a specific cocktail of water, ice, and ammonium chloride corresponding to the lowest temperature recorded in the city of Danzig/Gdańsk during the winter of 1708/09. Or measuring butter in ‘cups’, for that matter.

Hey, it's Charlie from The Nightman Cometh!

Why does this remind me of Mario Twins? I haven't seen that old Newgrounds video in so long, but this video just dragged that memory out from the deepest recesses of my mind, and now I'm probably doing the same for someone else.

@Maxz As a European person (never understood the American date logic), it's really hard for me to believe that is for real lol. Weird stuff.
But hey, now I understand why they released the second Star Wars trilogy first XD

duuude the marketing for this movie is insane! The fact that Seth embraces the memes about his laugh is comedy gold!

This was actually super wholesome and cute. I'm sleeping better tonight.

If I could just take just a smidge of Jack Blacks energy that he puts in to any minute he is on screen it would be enough for me to run a daily marathon for the rest of my life, and I am hilariously out of shape.

Side note, this was stupid, but I loved it.
Extra side note, why does Miyamoto have the same adorable appeal to me that would mimic a brudy mother squeeing over a newborn baby? I replayed his bit more times then I would care to admit... XD

@Buizel Lol! Remembering that musical made me laugh!

@Bunkerneath @jump

Please help me figure out your county's brilliant ways because I'm too stupid. Would you say today's date this way: 10th of March, 2023 or 10 March 2023?

@Maxz Jack Black is his artistic name, not because of that middle name nonsense you just said

@Joe_Savage Thank you for informing me of this now it all makes sense. What you’re saying is that his REAL real name is Blacob “Thomas” Jack, correct?

@Maxz HA HA HA! I see what you're doing here.

BLACOB!!!!! Brilliant, proper joke!

@Bunkerneath We write 3/10/23 because we say "March 10th, 2023".

@dkxcalibur

Would you say today's date this way: 10th of March, 2023 or 10 March 2023?

It would normally be read as the former (“the tenth of March”), but written as the latter for brevity. Which is admittedly a bit confusing, and definitely more of a mouthful than “March tenth”, but does at least preserve the order of ‘smallest to biggest’.

_{Please note: The above statement is not actually false}

@Bret But why is it 4th of July? Which is independence day from the English, but you are saying the date in the English way?

@Maxz That is all incorrect.
And "Jack Black" is his stage/professional name which is common in hollywood, alot of them don't use their actual names.

I've also never met anyone who watches a series like LOTR out of order.

@Axecon
The Mario plumbing van will be in Boston PAX weekend so that’s something. It could be in their booth but I believe it’s confirmed to be a Nintendo Vs booth.

@dkxcalibur in the UK we say it's 10 past March o'clock at 2023 AD.

AD means after dinosaurs.

That was pretty great.

You could tell certain performers were way more into it than others though. lol

Ugh...Jimmy Fallon is so unfunny. This skit was unfunny. What happened to late night?

Mario the Musical... hm. Miyamoto in the sky and Miyamoto doing the song when 'M dies. I wonder how long Miyamoto will be among us before he mimes the last words of this video. I hope he will stay with us for a while.

@Maxz Okay, thank you. I guess I prefer the slightly more efficient way we do it then, despite the order.

@Zulzar Okay sorry I got confused so “”Jack Black””” is actually his ”movie” name and Bowser is actually his real name!? Like, the guy who runs Nintendo!? But the guy who runs Nintendo is bald but this guy has hair!?!?

@Alana I do not think you know what "a capella" means.

@jump Yeah, sometimes we say it like this "March 10, 2023" then since we're low on the word count, we just throw in total nonsense to catch back up. For example, I've started adding proper or not proper, or brilliant to every sentence.

@jump I found a proper brilliant educational video on this matter.

@Maxz As an American, I'm pretty sure I can say your comment is satire. In America, given names are first, followed by middle names and then last names. Furthermore, Americans watch original movies before sequels like normal people--unless the movies are released out of order, of course. So we're only a little crazy. 😉

@the_beaver See my previous comment. I'm an American and so can vouch that even we aren't off-the-rails crazy, even if we get dates out of order (lol).

@Nickinator Yes, well done. You got it. We’re all a little bit crazy, but helps to at least be aware of it.

You did release Star Wars Episode 4 first, though.

@Maxz No contest on Star Wars. 🤣 My only question now is Mother/Earthbound. Should I play the original first, with Ninten, or the second, with Ness? 🤔

@Nickinator Having slogged through half of the original Mother I can say it’s very much ‘of its time’. It’s time being that of limited hardware processing power and memory, which doesn’t exactly make for the most fully-realised RPGs. It’s an interesting historical curiosity in the annuls of gaming, and impressive given its limitations, but… I can’t say it’s an absolute must-play.

I do want to finish it off though. Mainly so I can let myself play the seemingly superior Mother 2!

@Bunkerneath That reminds me of a p̶u̶z̶z̶l̶e nursery rhyme:

𝑂ℎ, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝐷𝑢𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘,
𝐻𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑛;
𝐻𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑙,
𝐴𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛.

𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑝, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑝,
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛,
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑢𝑝,
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑢𝑝 𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛

I see the March 10th versus 10th of March as having two advantages: it rejects the need to cling to the more cumbersome romance language syntax of English's influences. And it buys you time to check your watch or phone for the specific day of the month (as remembering the month is relatively easy).

Also while I don't go fully with Protagoras that "man is the measure of all things", Fahrenheit centers the scale around what kind of temperatures a person generally experiences. 0 is very cold while 100 is very hot. Basing it around water's states of matter is unnecessarily prosaic.

And let's defend imperial units while we're at it! They're more compatible with fractions while metric is more compatible with decimals. Decimals are for abstracted math while fractions are for real-life math. For example, you can't easily slice a pizza in 10--there's no decislice. Don't let the scientists colonize your mind with things that only make sense in mental space. "I know people who can't understand that 4 from 0 leaves 0. First principles are too obvious for us." - Blaise Pascal, Pensee 199, Krailsheimer numbering

@Maxz In that case, I'll probably start with Mother 2 and, through the momentum of wanting more after completing it, begin Mother 1. As a bonus, it will cause me to fulfill your newly crafted American stereotype (lol). 😉

It doesn’t matter who does these Mario medleys (and I’ve heard hundreds), 90% of the time they all end with the Mario Bros. dying and getting a game over! 🤣

Jimmy Fallon is the definition of insufferable.

@Bunkerneath It's "4th of July" so the brits don't get too confused when they remember the day we sent them back to their little island.

@Bunkerneath - It's not based on logic, which is how a machine thinks and is inferior to human reason. Did you ever get a "syntax error" when using a computer and it's unable to progress because it can't figure out what you're trying to do? That's where logic gets you. A rational person could figure it out and move along.

Or as Niels Bohr once famously said to Albert Einstein, "You are not thinking; you are merely being logical."

It makes sense because it's based on how people actually speak and think about it. When talking to someone, do you say, "yeah, the event's happening on July 6th" or do you say "yeah, the event will be happening on the 6th of July?"

Most people in the US say the former, because it flows better and is less cumbersome to say. July 6th is how we speak it and organize it in our thoughts and so that's how we write it down. The month comes first.

Well it made me smile, lol.

@Maxz the number of people missing your point. Your inbox is gonna fill up.

The Movie alone has me cringing and will not even bother with it as it does not represent Mario or the characters at all let alone Pratt alone ruins the whole thing.

This post and it’s comments have broken whatever tenuous hold on sanity I may have

This has always been my favorite acapella of Mario Bros

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFKX9j31ZzQ

@DdG1408

This logic is not true what so ever.

As Niels Bohr once famously said to Albert Einstein, "You are not thinking; you are merely being logical."

I love reading people commenting on date logic! 🤣 It's March 10 who cares how it's written its not that important!

Happy Mar10 day! (Not 10Mar)

@Nanami_Ataraxia But you're Nanana! Nanana never runs low on energy as long as Rei is around! Now let's have fun!

@Ryu_Niiyama Getting big air off all this whoosh .

@JustMonika
I read that in her voice and now I want to replay it so thanks for that XD
Also yay! one other person who knows who she is

@Nanami_Ataraxia Well I'm actually currently playing it. When heard her speak I was hearing Kasumi from Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. Yup, they're both voiced by Kayli Mills, lol. I'm on the 7th chapter in my first playthrough. Heard you gotta playthrough chapter 6-8 two more times to see the true ending. It is what it is, lol

@Nanami_Ataraxia The real time killers for me has been The House in Fata Morgana. I got the true ending for the base game. Then I got through a Requiem of Innocence which is the prequel. Now I'm working on Reincarnation which is the sequel. Been working on this since January and have over 80 hours of reading put into it. I can see why it's the third highest rated Switch game though!

This was alright. Atleast it is better than the whole 'Jack Black's Bowser suit' thing from that other talk show (can't bother to remember the name) awhile back.🤷‍♂️

@JustMonika
It does get a bit repetitive towards the end, but there isn't that much repeated dialogue and it's so worth going for the true ending in my opinion. The other endings are actually great as well, there's a lot of variation there.

Wow is that series really good then? I saw NL do an article about it, but I'm yet to add it to the wishlist. I feel that time just flies when you are reading and the hours just melt away but granted I haven't gotten to one that long yet.

I have more VN's in my backlog than I have actually played, but I'm always looking for new good ones. I veer towards the horror genre/mental health topics in general in my VNs. my partner would be happy if I played more of them because I just 'shut up' when I'm playing them XD.

@Nanami_Ataraxia Well this is definitely up your alley. You'd also like The Grisaia Trilogy and Island. All mind blowing and epic. That's the trifecta of perfection. I own physical copies of all them. Island was about $50, The Grisaia Trilogy was $70 and The House in Fata Morgana ran me $100. Island is my all-time favorite game, even above The Last of Us, Doki Doki Literature Club and BioShock.

@JustMonika
Perfect! I'll get that added now then. Never even heard of Grisaia or Island so that's super helpful, I can't thank you enough ^-^ Its like movies I guess, hard to find what you like on your own unless it gets recommended to you, and these games are always on the pricy side so even if you did come across them naturally, it would be risky to just go for them without knowing if they would be for you or not.

Hmm I can't find Island neither physical or digital is it an import exclusive maybe? which is a bummer because you really sold me on it. Doki Doki is my fave VN so far so for it to be above that it must be good. I see you used USD currency as well, I'm from the UK so maybe that could be it :S

The part from Shigeru Miyamoto. Beautiful.

@Nanami_Ataraxia Look up Island by Frontwing. People have trouble finding it unless they add Frontwing, lol. Frontwing are the Gods of visual novels and gaming in general to me. Legends is what they are. Here's the eShop listing. If you want physical then go to eBay and search for Island Switch.

https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/island-switch/

@JustMonika
Aha found it now XD aaaand... added to wishlist!
it wasn't just me then, it really wasn't showing before and I still can't find a physical but that's fine. I don't mind
Thanks for all your help, I'll leave you alone now XD

@jump We know how to plan for the future like that

It wasn't terrible. Nothing fantastic, but I enjoyed it a little bit.

@Nanami_Ataraxia Actually are you on Facebook and Twitter? Also would like to add you on my Nintendo Switch. I had fun at Animeverse yesterday. Got Brianna Knickerbocker autograph and showed off my Chizuru Mizuhara car wrap.

https://twitter.com/Solidgearmara/status/1634966173128474625?t=wDczUT6fCYLLTWYDRI8B2w&s=19

@Maxz you have seriously poor reading comprehension.

@Zulzar You know, another thing that’s often said about Americans is that they have a propensity to take things at face value and struggle to pick up on the subtleties of satire, irony, or even just playful silliness — even if they aren’t delivered with any subtlety at all.

I’ve yet to see any evidence of that, however.