We chat about videogames and videogame accessories.

I don't think that Mario having no personality is a bad thing, as it works in the platforming games, which obviously do not have the plot at the foreground. It just irks me a little bit in the RPG games like Paper Mario or Mario and Luigi, and even then it doesn't take away from the game at all, just a personal quirk I suppose.

Eh, to be fair I think the RPGs - especially in Paper Mario, where you can be a snarky little motherfucker and it's the best thing - do a pretty decent job of characterizing him, even if it's in a broad, slapstick sort of way. Like, he's technically silent, but he manages to get the concept across in a pantomime, intonation-of-Italianesque-gibberish sort of way?