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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Super Mario Bros.] What does Mario actually do with super mushrooms, fire flowers, invincible stars, etc.?

Does he eat them? Hold them? Grind them up and snort them through a rolled-up Benjamin off the ass of a hooker?
gpt
By touching a powerup, he can instinctively convert its magic energy into a modification/energy burst for his body or racing cart.

The magic energy is converted to a desired result, usually immediately, though he can store the item in a magic pocket dimension for later use.