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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Link: HEH! HYAAAAH! HAHT!

Translation: It's okay, I know what that's like!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

The "food so bad, it has to be censored" trope is one of the best.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't this originally princess peach?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Yep! Here's the reference for anyone who hasn't played or doesn't remember it from Mario 64.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To add, it was a fully voiced letter. In N64 era. To young me, that blew me away (plus it was my first 3D)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I'll always remember my WTF reaction to hearing Mario for the first time. "THAT'S what he sounds like? What's wrong with him??"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He's Italian. That's what's wrong with him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Nah, he's an old cockney plumber from brooklyn

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

And also a castrato, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Very different than the crappy animated cartoon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Swing your arms from side to side..."

I would have preferred Lou Albano's voice, although I got used to his canon voice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

"Wha-hoo!"

*ten minute coughing fit*

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

That was the last time she was referred to as Princess Toadstool. She was called her Japanese name Peach from then on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

As sad as it is to say I'd recognize those poorly rendered clouds anywhere.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's the reference for people who know the Mario reference but stopped playing games later in life and don't get the Zelda reference?

(also, consider the Eowyn reference, with aragorn+stew)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What? Zelda and Mario have coexisted since 1986... The first game for each was only released a year apart (the first Mario game came out in 1985, first Zelda game in 1986). The Mario reference in this is from Super Mario 64, which was released in 1996. I don't think there's any specific Zelda game being referenced.

Everything you've said barely makes any sense. And there's no LotR reference, you can't just say "uuuh, they eat food in this too!!" and say that's a reference.

Your whole comment is like a fever dream.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Damn, why so hostile?

The root question of my comment is, why is Zelda's saying her cake is bad vs Peach's whose is delicious? I had to assume it's from some newer iteration of the Zelda franchise that I'm not familiar with since the image of her appears newer than Mario 64. So if someone (me) did play Mario 64 and understood that reference, but doesn't know the newer Zelda entries then this doesn't entirely come together for that person (me again).

Then my mind jumped to- assuming that there is some zelda-franchise lore about her making a shitty cake, well, here is another franchise with another female character offering food to a male character with humorous undertones, and that could be used to riff on this meme that OP (or whoever) could make. "Dear Aragorn, Please come to Helm's Deep. I've made a delicious stew for you. Yours truly, Eowyn" etc. Not really a stretch unless you're artificially limiting yourself to nintendo franchises.

I may have been a bit buzzed when I posted my previous comment but I really don't think its incoherent enough to be raked over the coals for.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, this version was shared in April. No source provided, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Should've signed it the way Peach did.

"Princess Hyrule, Zelda"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

She tried her best and failed miserably. The lesson here is never try.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does this have something to do with her tiny pink castle?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The moats been flooding for Gannon

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Princess Zelda writes like an Internet teenager?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

"I think the Lon Lon milk when bad, but I used it anyway."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Lmao this is gold