That was a great session everybody! I saved the whole thing on my twitch channel.

Over 3 hours of footage!
AcerBanditGFF - Mario Kart 8: Time to Kart it Up! - Twitch
Karting it up with OmagnusPrime, BZ, SuperSonic, and CHz and then a plethora of characters join us on Skype. We're later joined by nuttyturnip, Colonel Skills, and Sousuke in the race for burger supremacy!


Also here's a fun little highlight on Grumble Volcano for OP:
"Does anyone know where shortcut is that opens up on the third lap?"

AcerBanditGFF - Found that shortcut you were looking for, OP. - Twitch
Still got 5th but yes toward the end of this video you'll see how in the third lap you can take a jump with a mushroom over where once stood a tall rocky area. Accidentally got it while spazzing out with a golden mushroom.

Oh nice accidental find there Acer.

Also thanks for streaming, to you and Sonic, glad a few people were able to tune in and watch our Mario Kart shenanigans. Was really good fun.

Fantastic that these are being saved/streamed! As I mentioned before I will definitely be a no-show this coming Saturday (Evo weekend, Angel may or may not play though depending on what her schedule is), but after that I should be free for all these afterwards for the foreseeable future.

Good news! My weekend client already got himself fired today, so I'll be back in for karting on Saturday. That was even faster than I'd expected.

I guess you won't be karting that guy around anymore.

I'm glad that I won't have to shell out so much gas money to get over there anymore.

It's a shame the guy bob-ombed so badly. Maybe Banana Republic would be crazy enough to hire someone who's lost like eight jobs?

http://www.saxypunch.com/boo/boo.png this man.

OK, so given EVO is going on this weekend what are the odds we'll actually get some people in for MK-time?

I don't really care about watching EVO, so I'll be around.

I'm not much for fighting tournaments, so I'd definitely be down.

I probably won't be watching much either, so count me in.

Excellent, looks like we'll have a good few people on Saturday then. :D

And I'm going to attempt to stream at 60FPS. Just got a new Avermedia ExtremeCap U3 that allows me to not only record at that speed but it has such low latency I don't even have to hook it up to a TV. I have a HDMI splitter in the event that I need to do that but I probably won't need it unless I'm playing a PS3 game.

AcerBanditGFF - Mario Kart 8: Testing new device - Twitch

Ignore the Nintendo Network error in that. I'm still messing around with my new router and haven't configured it with the correct ports yet.

Looks great Acer, nice work.

Yeah, that test looked like it did really well. I'd love to see how it handles 2+ hours on Saturday. I saw that capture device on Amazon, but stayed away since it only had 3 stars. What's your max upload speed?

I upload to Twitch at about 2.5MB/s. I should be able to do a lot more than that however I try to keep it reasonable for viewers. It really depends on if Twitch and Verizon FiOS decide not to be assholes to each other that particular evening or not. Usually they play nice but I've had some bad nights where I just stop streaming because of too many dropped frames. However, I just added a nice ASUS router to handle most of the house's Internet. The Verizon router is only there for a VLAN to the ASUS router and for the TV set top boxes. I spent all of last night trying to pass all traffic to the ASUS router and have the Verizon router bridge back to use the Internet. No dice. Verizon somehow fused some shit that you used to be able to have separate for such a bridge. Oh well. A VLAN should hopefully work.

Just a quick reminder that Mario Kart 8 time is on again today, in just about 6 hours time. As ever I'll put up the MK8 player session and also host the Skype call so if you want to be on either make sure you have me added on Wii U and on Skype. If you add on Skype (omagnusprime) let me know in the request message who you are.

JUST UNDER 2 HOURS TO GO

I'll be firing up the MK8 lobby and Skype call in the 5-10 minutes ahead of time. If you want in on the Skype call ping me and IM and I'll add you.

GET ON FUCKERS

Had a lot of fun, OP. Just about an hour of footage this time. The first 15 minutes were without audio from Skype and the game for some reason so I deleted that. Thankfully people in chat told me about it.

Anyway big thing for this week was Team racing. Pretty fun actually. Gives a new dynamic to the game having to be careful about hitting people on your team or sending out a blue shell if your teammate is in the lead.

AcerBanditGFF - Mario Kart 8: Aw yeah racing time! - Twitch
Running Mario Kart 8 at 60FPS on my new Avermedia ExtremeCap U3. When it runs it runs very well. I have it updated to the latest firmware so I have no idea why exactly it's screwing up every now and then. When it does that I have to unplug the USB3.0 cable to fix it. This isn't acceptable. I'll have to investigate why this is happening.

So who's around for a bit of Mario Kart today?

It's me, I am Mario Kart today.

I look forward to more of Mo0 hitting his own teammates.

I'll be around but probably like a half an hour to an hour after the start.