I’ve been playing Super Mario games since the first Super Mario Bros. came out on the NES. I think I’m pretty good at them. However, whenever I see masters like GrandPOOBear playing demonically difficult Super Mario Maker courses, I question the richness of my childhood. In the interest of officially kicking off my midlife crisis, I beseeched GrandPOOBear to coach me in the ways of Mario. He agreed. Welcome to my Super Mario Makeover. Were this to become a series, the idea is simple: in each episode, GrandPOOBear presents me a custom-made Super Mario Maker 2 level precision-engineered to drill my skills in one particularly tricky speedrun technique. He will coach me until I beg for mercy. When the video ends, my pain continues: in my spare time, I’ll practice the technique. In the following episode, I’ll show GrandPOOBear my progress, bask in his approval, and then immediately suffer his next challenge. If somehow this process continues for 10 years, I will have become GrandPOOBear. Fo...