no personality?! bullshit! lets start with mario, he does have personality you gotta look past the main games though, lets look at mario's game gallery he enjoys playing games with people and is shown to be polite if a bit impatient even when loosing not much changes. he is depected as a bit goofy in the mario superstar series but not an oaf and the times he does clown a bit it sometimes proves usefull like the times he drinks too much water and thats actually needed to pass some obsticals, thoughout the main games hes proven to be quite the determinator burns, stabs, even freaking magic only slows him down as long as hes got 1-ups he will keep trying stoping only when he physicaly can't anymore even then he;s not invincable hes been captured a few times like mario is missing or even the luigi's mansion series. so tell me again no personality, just because mario doesnt talk usually doesnt mean he has no personality,
now then lets look at bowser, a boastful somewhat arrogent king of the koopa's who for some reason wants peach. he's been shown to be very physicaly minded and short tempered. if an obstical is in his way he's likely to dislodge it by force, often times he misjudges situations and is shown to not be the brightest leading to times where he gets in trouble as a result, look at bowsers inside story where he gets fattened up or even the earlier mario series where you gotta jump over him to get the axe to send im down or even get him to break the floor to fall to his doom.. yet there are times bowser has had strokes of genius or just plain luck, like the time he kidnapped mario. annother thing hes not a complete bruiser, though not often shown the koopa king is capable of magic. despite his status as antaganist he is shown to not be pure evil (usually), as even he doesnt want to destroy the world normaly as there would be nothing left rule, and if we put bowser jr in the picture it shows a softer side of him at times, perhaps hinting some of his prior persona is a bit played up for some reason psych himself up maybe?
now then lets look at peach, miss toadstool isnt just a blitzed out of their mind cake despenser even though she does enjoy cooking and is shown to be quite capable when not used as a kiddnaping plot device shes not completly stupid/airheaded but rather the vibe i get from her is far too trusting instead and even when she is kidnapped she still manages to be helpful to mario in his quest at times and is shown to be cunning and make the best of a situation like the time she humored bowser jr in sunshine or in super princess peach shown to exploit the effects of the vibe sceptor and her own emotions and is shown in that game to be able to beat bowser with them once again showing her rescourcefullness as she took a powerset that rightfully could be veiwed as one big joke and again beat bowser and his goons
sorry about the rant,
not related but spiffs distopian nightmare here really makes you think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlp1cebFxEM
everything fades, even if we hit the singularity when it comes to tech eventually we will come back to square one due to some asshole either hitting the red buttion or due to socital collapse and the techonlogical regression that will follow as people slowly die taking their knowlede of how the big shiny toy works with them and others taking the opertunity to go fuck this shit im out.
think its by design... you know kookifiers? the paid (or sometimes not..) shills that inject temselves into a community to make the rest look batshit insane by compariosn... that the media convenintly points to to strawman, rather suspicous on that bit i think...
oi, i dont think i can really settle on one but i will do my best. i think the biggest mistake in general was the corpratization for lack of a better word of game studios as they grew and hired staff they gradually listen to their internal staff more then their fans as a result they gradually loose touch with them, on top of that you have foul things like marketing and other executive meddling that alter the game and a corperations goal is to make profit so of course they are going to go public bringing in the vultures to take yet more control from the company and those that made it. eventually the people that make it split and your left with a bugman in a skinsuit that cant create their way out of a papper bag hiring based on chckboxes and quotas with their design process being similar resulting in a product that has little soul if any inside it but thats fine your buddys at game site 9000 will spin up hype and promoted results anyway for early acesses and other favors,
as contraversial as it is imps got a point, by creating a black spot of this nature it effectively makes a great seal that wont be broken anytimes soon letting us lock a lot of the current madness behind it, with more luck we might drag things down with them as they kick and scream like DEI or esg. one treatment of this bunk is warp honk or in plain speak accelerationism. too much, too fast and hard, before they can get joe normies programing adjusted with gradual installments on patch tuesday.