me: what is it with nintendo and casting just the most 4kids-ass anime voice actors for the new zelda games?

polygon: can you believe matt mercer is playing ganondorf in tears of the kingdom??

me: i can!

losing my goddamn mind that i woke up today in a world where somehow by some wild goddamn twist of fate's dagger, the edgy escapist-funded early-2000s smash bros parody series There Will Be Relevant is relevant again. i waited with baited breath for every single episode of this god damned show and now zoomers are gonna discourse about how many times the r-slur gets dropped

(i have no idea how many times the r-slur gets dropped, i just assume it's A Lot because 2009)
https://youtu.be/c3gkWAJWWN4

just scrubbing through the video and hooooooooo boy this series has not aged well at all. it's early 2000s male nerd psychosis crystallized at the barest dawn of its cultural dominance. it's a showcase of bad tropes and mean caricatures that read today like a fever dream premonition of zack snyder's justice league and the rise of the marvel movie.

so much early 2000s nerd media is like this, desperately clawing for recognition just a few years before its ilk would take over the fucking world

[marlon brando voice] look what they've done to my boy

still not worse than what nintendo's done to em sadly