I've held my tongue on this for a while, but after seeing a tweet about it, I may as well ask something about it:
I'm genuinely wondering if there's other ways they could do this. Since on one hand, yeah it can be odd or immersion breaking when you find out this is how they make the characters talk, but on the other hand, I don't think most guests will notice when they're in the middle of a meet and greet? I certainly didn't until one of my repeat visits in the first few months. Also I feel like GE's isn't much different aside from being less obvious and how there's probably less buttons to press, since the Mario characters have spoken lines for certain things, unlike regular Droid noises. I know that Kylo Ren and the Stormtroopers also say phrases and don't need what controls the Mario characters but the tradeoff is how you can tell they're setting off certain responses with hand signals. Maybe it's just hard to fully conceal this type of thing for walk-around characters.
I digress though, maybe I'm also just starting to get sick of the constant SNW badgering/nitpicking from the account (and how it's accompanied by the pfp of this weird photo of SNW Mario with his eyes nearly shut). I get that there's things they could do better on but anyone feeling that the rate at which they make these kinds of posts is a bit much?
I'm probably gonna mute the account since any actual updates from them are probably just gonna find their way here.
