I Guess We Still Play This Kart 8: 16:17 <+BZ> favorite course: Music Park.
 

Hi.

So a bunch of us are smart people who a) have a Wii U and b) having Mario Kart 8 (because that shit is ace and why haven't you bought it yet stop reading these words and go fix that right now, oh you have it already in that case we cool).

Since Mario Kart 8 has an online mode that is actually pretty solid from what I've played of it, I propose arranging times when a bunch of us might happen to be online at a similar time and get some MK8 action going. What say you? (spoiler: the correct answer is "My word good sir that is a spiffing and most excellent plan")

NEXT MK8 ONLINE EVENT

DATE/TIME:
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Wii U NNID thread to go post your ID

OTHER INFO

MK8 can host up to 12 people in online sessions so we shouldn’t have to restrict any group sizes, but first 12 people if somehow we get more.

Voice comms will be done using Skype for anyone interested in some smack talk to accompany their red shells. We will need someone on PC to host (as mobile/console Skype have silly participant restrictions), if anyone is willing to volunteer please let us know.

PROPOSED FOLLOWING MK8 EVENT DATE

Proposed:
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CHALLENGERS APPROACH
(Player / Wii U gamertag)
- Acer Why (AcerBandit) / AcerBandit
- CHz / CHz_16
- Doesn't matter, OP is dead (Mo0) / SuperMo0
- Extra Chromosome (sprout) / TheBloodGrinder
- Grundlefield Earth (BahamutZ) / BahamutZ
- nuttyturnip / nuttyturnip
- OmagnusPrime / Omagnus
- SailorDaravon (and Philia) / MrDaravon
- Scent of a Grundle (Menno) / MennoKnight
- shade / shadebox
- Sousuke / Yggdrasilly
- SuperSonic / True_Blue
- Tails / Roflfox
- Team End Piece AND Team Shave (Diss) / TeamParty
- Team Shave AND Team End Piece (Skills) / Colonel_Skills
- The Plane Is A Tiger (Tritoch) / Manablade
- Turbo / TurboGFF

My word good sir that is a spiffing and most excellent plan.

AW YEAH RUB A DUB KART

Oh yeah, so whilst I think of it, the plan would be to co-ordinate the voice chats via Skype. Assuming that also works for people.

Works for me, although I'm out this weekend because I gotta go watch some schmuck get married.

DST is active in the Eastern time zone too, so that should be 5 PM instead of 4 by the way.

Play Mario Kart while watching Hito get married, he won't mind

I figured yelling out "CLOWNDICK" in the middle of the proceedings after getting lightninged might detract from the event a bit.

Right before they say, "I do", just toss out a blue shell.

Not if he has a music box. Hito, get on that.

I'm out for this weekend but I plan to pick up MK8 come payday (next week) and I'd definitely be down for it then.

I might be able to make this work.

Hopefully I can catch a break between the streams of Games Done Quick and CEO 2014 to get in on this action.

Skype: sonictrueblue

We actually got a Wii U and this yesterday so I'll be completely awful but I'm down. This Saturday is a bit rough for me as well with SDQ2014 and CEO so this one may or may not happen but I'm down in general. I'll also have to see if i have a mic for my laptop, honestly not sure if I do or not. Haven't used skype in years and years, worse case I could hop into chat or something I guess?

I can't do this Saturday but I can do other times. My name on Wii U is TheBloodGrinder.

Worst case, use skype on your phone. That's what I do, and it works fine.

Updated the top post with a new layout which should encapsulate the information posted thus far. Also added some counters which take in local time to give a better sense of the upcoming gaming sessions and when they are (and to avoid me missing things like EDT or PFT or WFT and other silly timezone abbreviations).

Daravon: what's your NNID?

It's MrDaravon. Is your Nintendo Network ID name what your online tag is for the Wii U? I got it all set up last night and online and linked to my NNID which I had already created on 3DS, but I wasn't sure if the Wii U still had friend codes or whatever. Given that it took over an hour to download the required system updated when I first booted the system I'm not making any assumptions about how Nintendo still operates on the internet.

I was able to add MrDaravon on my WiiU friends list, so you should have a pending request next time you fire up. And yes, the NNID is your gamertag for adding friends on the WiiU (though the name you appear as in games is different as you're listed as just Daravon in the friend list).

Okay, when I get home tonight I'll add some folks then.

Okay. Should be available. BahamutZ

Haven't played much lately, so be prepared for sucking. skype: bahamutzee

I would also be down for this. Actually thought it might be tonight but hey if I'm around on Saturday (probably) this should be excellent!

Good point on the Skype name add, I added you to my contact list so you should have a pending request.

For anyone interested my Skype name is: omagnusprime

Anyone going to be on Skype via PC for sure?

EDIT: So not sure if Philia will be joining alongside Daravon, but if she does we have a full 12 right now, and if not a solid 11 which is great. I realise a few people are maybes, but at this point it means that if the room is full I apologise, but this is great news and I'm more than happy to do these on other days (be that Friday nights, though that could end up being too late for me).

Yeah, I'll be up for mario kart shenanigans. Daravon is the one who have ISSUES with his schedule. Supposedly stupid tourneys and whatnot is going on all day or whatever.

I don't plan on "gaming" mario kart like I do with other games but I can pick up a wiimote and have fun with it. :3 If we're skyping, you'll probably see us both. ;D

And I totally respect Nintendo for allowing co-op while getting us both in multiplayer, which is awesome.

EDIT: I just noticed your countdown clock. I'll have you know that I'll be late to the party. I get off at 5 pm EST today from a small 5 hour shift.

That's fine, you should be able to join the game in progress (provided there's room). You should see whoever is hosting (probably me) with a little checkerflag next to them in the friends list and joining from there.

Philia is so mean D:

Today specifically is just awkward since it's CEO 2014 which is the last big tournament before Evo in a few weeks. Fighting game tournaments are the only competitive thing I really watch, so this is equivalent to playoff action today for me. That said I can probably hop on for at least a while, I'd mainly just want to catch the special events happening tonight at CEO which start at like 9 or 10 pm (4-5 hours after the proposed Mario Kart start time). Right at this moment I'm in the last dungeon in Persona 4 so I'm gonna try to wrap this up, then I'll get the Wii U situated and add some folks. Outside of the basic system setup and playing like 4 rounds of Mario Kart we still haven't touched the system, so expect us to be terrible. I'll have to move the laptop into the living room and see if I can get skype setup, I don't even have it installed on this machine. Worse case we can hop into chat I guess.

Related, is buying a Wii U Pro Controller worth it? We have the regular Wii Pro Controller, is it worth the additional expense? $50 for the Wii U one is a big jump in cost over the regular Wii one.

Probably only if you want rumble and a 1 to 1 gamepad to controller experience. If you're comfortable with the Wii Pro Controller and don't care about rumble then just use that. It's Mario Kart.

To be clear it wouldn't be just for Mario Kart specifically, was asking for general purposes. I wasn't sure if there were new buttons that maybe just are completely not on the Wii one. In that case I'll leave it for now, I could see myself maybe picking one up for Bayonetta 2 or something though.

Also setting up all the Wii U stuff, goddamn the interface and finding out where shit is and how to navigate it is a goddamn mess. I'm sure it's a non-issue after a bit, but goddamn. It's also completely ridiculous how you have to launch Wii stuff through a separate Wii mode, which also means you have to deal with all the regular Wii pointer and menu jank. Right now I'm trying to download some Wii VC games I had codes for from old Club Nintendo stuff that I've been sitting on until we got a Wii U since we haven't had a Wii in forever (Mario RPG, etc) and I'd forgotten what a complete fucking wreck the Wii shop was with timeouts, being slow as shit, etc.

Good news is I beat Persona 4 (fucking finally, that game has been backlog white whale for nearly 6 years), and I'm getting the Wii U stuff taken care of right now then I'll see if I can get Skype on this. The audio/physical setup is going to maybe be a challenge though, we'll see.

2 HOURS BEFORE GO TIME

Still need someone who'll be on Skype PC to offer to host, but we'll try and get that going a few minutes ahead of time. I'll be setting up the MK8 session so as long as you have meed added on the WiiU you should be able to join the game.

If anyone needs to add me on Skype: omagnusprime
On WiiU: Omagnus

Okay, I'm all set up and I added you on Skype Omagnus. As full disclosure I've used Skype twice in my entire life and not in probably at least 3-4 years. I also had a ton of problems getting my mic working with it properly, so I expect that side of things to be a potential shitshow and/or not working on our end, but we'll see how it goes. Philia gets off at 5 when this is supposed to start, I'll probably meet her when she gets off and I'm not sure if we're going to eat or anything first, so I'd expect us to be on anywhere from like 5:15-5:45? I honestly don't remember, if I can't get the mic stuff working on our end do group Skype calls have a text chat as well? Absolute worst case we'd be able to hear you guys and I could type if needed, and then over this coming week I'll try to get this set up properly if there is a problem.

I also sent friends request to everyone in the OP that had their NNID listed. This is the first Mario Kart I've played outside of one or two rounds of Wii/DS MK in over 10 years and I don't know if Angel's ever really played, so this ought to be a good time all around for us LOL. This seems like a cool idea for a weekly thing though and Philia seems to be down for playing so unless one of us is working we'll probably be able to make most of these, thanks for setting it up.

Right, so I've managed to get my Astros hooked to my PC from across the room without issues, so I can host the Skype call on PC. Might mean I need to hop up and down to add people if needed, but should be fine. Will propose if you want in on the call, and to make life a little easier, connect in about 5 minutes early (ping me a message on Skype, or in IRC - use Omagnus to signal me there).

See you on soon peeps. :)

We just got home and are eating, should be on in ~10-15 minutes.

Sorry about the timing on us wrapping up Daravon and Philia, but thanks to everyone who showed up.

So the plan will be to get people together the same time next week, unless anyone has a massive objection and wants to move the time a little. But I think that worked out well and was good fun (despite the blue/red shell fuckery XD).

No worries, timing was weird on our part today. Also just as well, gives us a week to actually play the game for more than 10 minutes and maybe not be completely terrible at it.

That's OK, you'd be playing against Tritoch and he's terrible at everything. :p

Just as a heads up:

NEXT MK8 ONLINE EVENT

DATE/TIME:
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It actually didn't hit me until the FINAL RACE that I should've been recording this madness. Oh well, probably would've been better from Team Canada's point of view.

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Hey now, I took second place in the first set of races we did. It was Skills getting SO MAD at the CPU players he asked us to turn on.

My favorite part of this recording is how you guys all leave goodbye messages right as SD and Philia show up in the lobby.

Yeah, I was like oh they're probably having to remake the lobby or something.....oh.

It's fine though, we got on super late and we just played Mario U afterwards so it's all good.

I'm afraid I'll be out this weekend and likely the next several weeks unless we can move it back to around 2pm or so. I just got stuck with a client who works weekend late afternoons/nights.

I'm going to be in Winnipeg this weekend, which means i'll be away from my Wii U for the weekend. Also probably going to miss game night this week for the same reason.

Sounds like you need to head over to Skills's place and go 2P online with him on Saturday. I'm sure that'll be a delightful experience you'll treasure forever.

I have no problem moving it slightly earlier (by 2 hours in this case), but was trying to find a time that would work across the US, east to west coast.

Who else might be down for this weekend?

I'm 50/50 for this weekend. Following weekend definitely not as it's EVO weekend, but then most of my Saturdays should be clear for a good while after that.

Yeah, I'll be home after a long shift on Saturday at 4pm. Just in time to do some mario kart.

I had begun considering this possibility, especially considering we're meeting for lunch already on Saturday. Just head home with Skills and play Mariokart for an afternoon.

The real question is, how likely am i to get back home if i get into a car with Skills?

We'll see what the plan is after lunch. I am looking at a work schedule and I might need a development meeting to take place on Saturday.

Or I might be able to push it to Sunday/Monday.

This depends on the contractor I'll be meeting with. Will fill you in, Hawkeye.

Not sure who might be turning up today, but a few people seemed to suggest they'll be about. So that being the case, I'll be hosting the Skype and MK8 sessions again.

If you need to add me on Skype: omagnusprime

3 HOURS TO GO

Streams available:

Let's Play some viderogams 'n' stuff

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I've been playing a lot of online pub matches, including a whole week while most of you were trapped in a house somewhere or something. Sorry. :(

Gives us a target to aim for. ;)

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.

GET ONLINE, FUCKERS

Great session again. Shame most of you couldn't live up the standard-bearer that was AI Wendy, but there's always next week. :p

The champion of Daisy-Off '014: everyone who wasn't playing as Daisy.

Baby Daisy will haunt your dreams, and that's all that matters.

I did an incredibly long test stream of Mario Kart 8 tonight to test out my Avermedia U3 device again. Finally got it working really really well.

AcerBanditGFF - Mario Kart 8: Testing capture device again - Twitch

It's got CHz!!!


He asked me to make a highlight of his ghost AI racer that stayed after he left for some reason. I also uploaded two other highlight reals to Youtube as well.

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CHz and I do pretty darn well on Royal Raceway, I tell you what.

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CHz and I get thwompy. That finish! ='D

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Ghost CHz tries his best on Mount Wario. Good job Nintendo Network!

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Aw heck, let's make a Twitch highlight of races with CHz.

AcerBanditGFF - A wild CHz appears! - Twitch

After a very successful race CHz suddenly joins my session and crushes the competition from there on out.
I manage to do fairly well earning second place often enough to establish GFF supremecy.
Also briefly joining us are mini Hitler and Hank Hill. What fun!

Man, that bomb throw of yours at 0:15 is so perfectly timed, it looks like I'm driving out of a movie explosion.

This is as close as it gets to being able to ^5 in MK8.

So the story behind this, for everyone:

I left after we finished a race on Tick Tock Clock. Just hit the B button to back out, stayed in the online menu for a bit to check my W/L record against Acer, then backed out to the main menu and turned my console off.

But here's what happened from Acer's perspective: AcerBanditGFF - A wild CHz appears! - Twitch

My Mii, the blue guy with glasses who runs in on the left at 40:41, flies out to indicate I left the room, but then immediately runs back in from the right.

And then a CPU played as me in the next race, coming in last and losing me ranking points.

Get a load of that drunk-ass motherfucker trying to turn at 42:00. :(

I was laughing so hard at that CPU's drunk driving I fell off the mountain twice! ='D

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Hey all. Quick heads up that I might not be involved with Mario Kart time today as there's Destiny beta shenanigans going on (they have a timed event taking place which clashes). We'll have to see, but if I'm not around for MK time then would someone else be willing to host the call and game? (This of course assumes others are up for playing)

I'll be around and host today, since I'm likely going to miss next week.

There's four hour window for Destiny, and all you have to do is log in, right?

EDIT: Oh, you're talking about the moon mission. That's 5-7pm pacific, which is 3 hours after Mario Kart usually starts.

It's 5-7pm Eastern, not Pacific.

Not according to the Bungie website, which says it'll be open for 2 hours under the section about what's on offer at 2pm PDT.

If you missed out today you missed the amazing Music Park Cup.

Also we need to start utilizing the thread tags more.

I recorded up until I had to leave for dinner. Feel free to watch if you missed out and/or played Destiny instead like a shmuck.

AcerBanditGFF - Mario Kart 8: Everyone's playing Destiny for some reason - Twitch

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A lovely highlight that made me laugh:

AcerBanditGFF - I'm sorry, CHz. - Twitch
"No, you're not." "I'm not."

Haha, I felt a bit bad at the time (skip to 55 seconds in to see what I'm talking about here) but sort of didn't too. Either my subconscious did it or I just lost my grip of the L shoulder button while holding the green shell back after a while. I didn't mean to hit CHz and since I didn't mean to do it I'm not sorry that I let go and did. At the same time I may really really have meant to do it too. So...

AcerBanditGFF - Awful banana puns - Twitch
Tails wins Royal Raceway with an incredibly well-timed and well-placed banana toss.

I'm not quite sure what my plans for this evening are right now, but I should be around for Mario Kart tonight. Who else is down?

I'll be around for about two hours and then I gotta dip to go to a BBQ.

I'm down. Tritoch probably won't be joining, as our dad is showing up at his place for a visit this afternoon.

DAISY, QUEEN OF MUSIC PARK

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Also we need more participants so we can get like, a 10 man team battle going. Can you do team mode in battle? Cause that'd be hilarious. Bombs Only. GET SPOOKY

I am not predictably available on Saturday afternoons, but I actually have the game now so I should be able to start showing up fairly soon. I think I've got plans next week, but the one after should be good.

Suddenly very glad that I couldn't make it today.

No idea, but we can certainly find out.

So are people around tonight for Mario Kart?

I am always down for KARTING. Kart is love, Kart is LIFE.

I'll be there with bells on.

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15:47 <@CHz> Trying to find this one moment in the Toad's Turnpike battle when Omagnus and I threw bombs at each other simultaneously.
15:47 <+OmagnusPrime> and they hit in the air
15:47 <+OmagnusPrime> that was neat
15:47 <+OmagnusPrime> caught me though, which was annoying
15:47 <+OmagnusPrime> did it get you too?
15:48 <@CHz> Nope.
15:49 <+OmagnusPrime> of course
15:49 <+OmagnusPrime> damn you CHz
15:50 <+OmagnusPrime> XD

In case anyone wants to relive yesterday's shenanigans, here they are:

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Just a reminder that I'm not around this weekend (family visit), so you'll have to sort yourselves out. Enjoy.

SATURDAY, 5 PM EASTERN, KARTS

BE THERE OR BE A CHUMP

LURKER DON'T BE A CHUMP

DISS DON'T BE A CHUMP

BE KART OR BE DEAD

Diss made it into one race before his router managed to disconnect everyone else from the game, so he is by the letter of the law no longer a chump.

lurker remains Queen High Chump of Chumptopia

Neighbours on one side summarily executed; other side is a work in progress.

Meanwhile, my neighbours wonder about the dick sucking status of those within my apartment.

Endless chumping :(

Karty today literally the funnist shit

GELB FOREVER

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Karty today literally the funnist shit

GELB FOREVER

And here's today's shenanigans:

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I'm so salty I keep missing these because I either forget or we've got work/errands (like today). Someone text me next week before it starts so I can remember and make an effort to get on. We've still only played the game for like 15 goddamn minutes :(

I also need to get my headset figured out on this laptop, have weird inconsistent problems with it. This does seem way better being on the skype call.

Does your phone do reminders and/or alarms? If so set one for the start time next week (or better yet, just beforehand) so you don't forget. Simples.

It does but my phone sucks and I can't make the calendar sound not the same notification sound as everything else on my phone that goes off all the time which I tend to ignore now, texts come in with something different.

If Tails or Skills loved me they would text me~

Skills says he's going to text me and I think I just got my mic setup on this laptop after being lazy about it for months. I should be good to go this Saturday barring anything crazy and unforeseen.

My computer's in the shop getting a new trackpad so I'm not going to be as internetty as usual for a few days, but I'll be in game for our traditional Saturday afternoon Music Park joyrides, and I'm sure I can run Skype on one of the dodgier computers or computer-like objects in my possession.

Good stuff. I am around again this week so will host things as normal. See people for Music Kart time.

KARTVENGERS ASSEMBLE

Gotta run across the street real quick (gotta go fast?), I should be on in 20-30 minutes, may or may not have skype in that room setup in time though.

Ethernet adapter hasn't arrived yet; should be here Monday. Will be in for next week.

I usually have to pay good money to get that kind of ass fucking.

Sandbaggin' all the teams every day there Daravon

To be fair on most races I was usually within a screen of one or more players most of the race and at the end. Once I had done a course once I wasn't really fucking up or falling off ledges or whatever, I just wasn't doing AS good as everyone, and in a full lobby someone's got to come in last.

I really need to do all of the cup stuff to unlock everything, I don't even have like 75% of the courses unlocked. Also have zero idea who I should be playing or with what kart stuff, I just picked Daisy and her default stuff.

Fucking DISGRACE to Team Daisy, Daravon.

Next week I'm gonna sandbag even harder and just blast Sandstorm on the call the whole time.

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I just beat all of the cups on 50CC. Playing on my own and getting a feel for all of the courses as well as getting to mess around with different characters/parts is a huge help. Gonna keep playing it this week. I think I can not get last place next week!

Also I like how there's a ton of amazing stages in the game I never saw because you fuckers kept picking the music stage, what the fuck is wrong with you.

You sound mad.

Impressive mad showing after just one week. We may have to have an angry-off between you and Omagnus next week.

Confirmed mad as hell.

The team stacking today was hilarious as fuck, by the way. Someone needs to tell the game CHz and I can't be on the same team.

Or that Dave and teams aren't a thing

Mad about losing no. Mad about the fucking music stage, kinda? Nothing compared to Omagnus raging at moo for betraying him repeatedly (which was hilarious).

That's what you get for not showing up last week. We played pretty much the full rotation because Omagnus wasn't around to Music Park troll.

So is that the reason you guys keep picking that level, he hates it? I'm not a big fan myself, but it's pretty whatever. It's also fairly short.

Mo0 is the king of teammate murder.

Playlist of everything thus far (I'll try to remember to add these for each upload from now on): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwd...izGFc_oZr4fUuc

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In which of those youtube links, do I get to hear Omagnus being the most mad? Because that will be the youtube I will watch.

The 2nd half of Part 6 and the 2nd half of Part 8.

SuperSonic reminiscing about past victories
Wherein Tails gloats at CHz over last second victories
Hit CHz with green shells no matter what
Is that Daravon or Diss?!?!?!?
A whole race where the shells go on strike
Mad about Dolphins
Blue and Green don't fucking make red, Nutty gets licked by cow, Chumped by Morton
Daravon doesn't understand controls; Mo0 makes terrible jokes
DAVE WHY (Skills Edition)
Omagnus realizes he is doomed

I still gotta do 7-9 but that's going to take a bit.

Skimming through some of those I'm realizing that you guys are right, Omangus is very angry a lot of the time.

DAVE WHY (Tails Edition), Infinity Gauntlet of Bullshit Items, Everyone loses to Baby Rosalina
Dave doesn't know who Hawkeye is, DAVE WHY (Skills Edition Part II)
Mo0 and Teamkilling
Omagnus gets screwed again
DAVE WHY (CHz Edition)
Omagnus on Teamkilling; Daravon with the sickest Mo0 burn ever

Listening through all this has me dying. Win or lose, I love playing with you guys. We are such amazingly hilarious jackasses.

Clearly this week I need to play as Baby Rosalina.

I saved a replay of this, but unfortunately the camera angles on me and you were both totally bogus and didn't capture The Blue Shell With Zero Fucks Remaining.

Aw, bummer. :( That whole affair was so fucking great. Here I was, prepared to be screwed out of a hard earned 1st place position, only to have the blue shell go zooming past me on its merry way. Then the red shells stopped giving a fuck and it was a riot.

Ahahahaha god, that was awesome.

"That Mii isn't smiling smugly enough for Diss."

CHz knows me too well.

Incorrect. 'Mad' sure, 'irked' perhaps, but never angry. If I was angry I would not have continued playing. If it ever made me actually angry I would not bother coming back.

And it's real easy to be irked a lot of the time when you're continually getting hit by your team mates. Because Mo0 and nutty are terrible. ;)

I think my favorite is when Skills gets so mad that everything he says over Skype becomes incomprehensible. Omadnus is a close second though.

Skills isn't comprehensible over Skype about 80% of the time even if he's not mad, though.

The tags in this thread makes it even more gold. :D

I'd LOVE to fucking play with you guys... if I can get a day off on a Saturday :(

Yeah, to be clear I think pretty much everyone (including me) is joking about people being mad. Irritated sure, but I don't think anyone is actually getting legit mad here. This was the most fun I've had playing games in months.

^ Confirmed mad.

Nah, if we want to talk about me being confirmed mad let's talk about me playing Ranked in Ultra tonight. Holy fuck.

Yeah but he's at low levels of mad nearly 100% of the time, so does that even count?

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Awwww yeah, I'm down.

i spot f-zero and excite bike

holy hell i don't even nintendo the smashing of other franchises begins i'm not sure i'm ready but i... i...

This actually sounds amazing. I haven't been this excited about DLC for a long time, this is awesome.

Some decent reveals, but I don't see triple length N64 Rainbow Road in those pictures and that's disappointing.

not sure why everyone's so worked up about more filler tracks in between music parks

That's in pack 3, CHz, which contains Captain Falcon, Samus (Zero Suit when on bikes), and Wiggler - also actual battle mode arenas and of course more neat karts like Samus's gunship and a uniracer.

Man, if they added actual battle mode arenas back in then this would officially become my favorite Mario Kart over N64.

For just a second when I first saw the little screen of that Wario city I thought it was a track for the live action Super Mario Bros. movie. Come on, Nintendo! Break down those barriers and give John Leguizamo some work.

I like how there are already drawings of Isabelle in a bikesuit.

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Bleh, this post doesn't belong here. This entire page wasn't showing up and it was 'news'. Apparently Skills is already screeching about it.

I'm impressed they found 16 different ways to remix Music Park.

Okay, so a little more in-depth:

http://mariokart8.nintendo.com/img/d...hart-zelda.png

http://mariokart8.nintendo.com/img/d...c-chart-ac.png

http://mariokart8.nintendo.com/img/d...-packprice.png http://mariokart8.nintendo.com/img/d...-packbonus.png

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Both packs for $12? I'm down.

The Mercedes-Benz stuff goes live on the same date (tomorrow), apparently.

why can't i hold all this music park

Also kinda a bummer about the May date for the 2nd pack, but I will buy this shit ASAP.

Yeah, they timed this well so that they could include code for the Yoshi and Shy Guy colors for those that buy both packs. I can't believe I'm pre-ordering DLC but I will be doing this as soon as I can tomorrow.

Confirming this deal is for real. You can see it here:
Official Site - Mario Kart 8 for Wii U - Home

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The other thought I'm having is about how they found the 4 cups on the Mario Kart 8 disc recently. The Yoshi egg is the only one of the bunch being used right now according to these two DLC packs. The most likely scenario is that these were simply place holder images for spacing an additional 4 cups on screen which is about all that can fit at the cups current size at the moment.

The crazier idea is that they intend to utilize each of these cups found on disc. That means we could potentially have 2 or more packs perhaps tying into other Nintendo franchises to make use of the unused shine sprite, boo, and blue shell cup icons. That could mean DLC packs for the next two years or more depending on how long they want to keep making content for Mario Kart 8. Who knows what else they might expand on for the game if they want people to keep playing it for that long.

But yeah it's more likely those were place holders for just these 4 cups and nothing more. But what if it's not? That'd be something.

For skills:

http://giant.gfycat.com/BowedGregariousHydra.gif

Also I haven't been following the announced Mercedes dlc coming tomorrow, but isn't there some sort of Mercedes online cup you can play or something starting tomorrow as well? Maybe that's what one of the icons is for?

No, the Mercedes DLC is just a free promotion. You get three cars. That's it. The update also makes it so the game remembers your last Kart combination and changes the default selection from "View Highlight" to "Next Race". It also includes some fixes for online stability and other things. It's free. No Mercedes Cup. Just cars and game fixes. And code enabling extra Yoshi and Shy Guy colors for those that preorder both DLC packs.

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Oh speaking of that update - servers for Mario Kart 8 have a maintenance window for the following tonight/tomorrow morning:

• Europe – 8.50am to 10am
• UK – 7.50am to 9am
• USA (EDT) – 2.50am to 4am
• USA (PDT) – 11.50pm (Tues, August 26) to 1am
• Japan – 3.50pm to 5pm

Mercedes-Benz cars confirmed for US version of Mario Kart 8 | Ars Technica

My bad Daravon. You were sort of on to something. It's not exactly a new cup per say but there is a Mercedes Cup of sorts. It's just an online tournament that uses existing Mario Kart 8 courses in which you can only use the Mercedes cars.

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The other thing to remember is that Mario Kart 8 will also have Amiibo support as an update in the future. Who the fuck knows what that is going to entail.

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Nintendo could be supporting this game for a long time. After DLC pack 2 this game will have 48 tracks total. Another two packs like this and it would be up to 64 tracks. I don't even know what the hell they'd do to top that with Mario Kart 9. Then again with the potential success of these DLC packs and Smash Bros. You never know what the hell they might do with the franchise. It could eventually just turn into Nintendo Kart/Smash Kart. Not sure how that would affect brand recognition or change the game but we've clearly gone past a point of no return. ROB and Miis being in Mario Kart were fairly tame compared to this. Whatever happens here's what I do know - Music Park never ends.

all the amiibos

gonna go so broke

awww yeah

I wish I could take screenshots of MK8 in online mode, because I was pubbing earlier today and NINE of us random schlubs voted for Music Park. It was a beautiful moment.

2WD and 4WD from Stunt Race FX

In SNES Super FX polygon glory pls

Got both DLC packs and decided to show off Black Shy Guy driving something fancy.

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Meanwhile on CHz' miiverse...

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I pre-ordered. I am now even more excited for November. More tracks, oh yes please.

Fixed. More accurate.

Ha ha, you right.

Fun fact: now there is a stats page it lists my favourite track. The game tells me my favourite track is Music Park.

I'm curious about the sudden fascination with Music Park. What happened there?

Sudden?

My favorite course is currently Moo Moo Meadows, which is incredibly disappointing. :( :( :(

We must address this issue on Saturday.

By playing more Moo Moo Meadows.

I had a choice this week between working crazy late on Friday or missing Music Park. Nothing can stop the music (except for nationwide internet outages).

Freakin preordered.

We should all race as Shy Guys and pick Shy Guy Falls for every race.

Favorite Course: 3DS Music Park
Favorite Character: Daisy

Like a fuckin true disciple

Okay, within the past month and a half.

Because I was in THE HOSPITAL.

THANKS FOR RUBBING SALT IN THE WOUND, YOU ASS. <3

There has only ever been Music Park. There will only. ever. be. Music. Park.

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Can't wait for the day the DLC gets released. Whole slew of new tracks. First thing that gets picked is Music Park. Omagnus would be platinum mad.

False. Music Park is my favourite track so I would, in fact, be platinum happy.

If you're so happy, why are you yelling D:<

Who's yelling? I see no caps-lock shenanigans here.

Nintendo is such a dick. The new update adds icons for all the new DLC characters/tracks, but of course if you pick them, all you get is an ad telling you to wait until November/May. That's like if Cody took pictures of all the food he was going to cook at Meet 2015, then somehow uploaded them to our computers as desktop icons which link to a webpage of Cody eating the food whilst flashing a middle finger at us.

you sound mad about it

YOU'RE YELLING

IN MY HEART <3

<3

So for tonight's Mario Kart shenanigans are we doing anything with the new ShyGuy/Yoshi colours or Merc cars? I have had a play and found a setup I like with Roy using one of the new Merc karts. But if we were going to do a "all the ShyGuy colours" session I'd be OK with this.

Man there needs to be a way to manually sort teams. TEAM YOSHI VS TEAM SHY GUY

Oh man, that'd be great. Shame that is not a feature in there yet.

We can still do it, you just sabotage the members of your team if they aren't rockin' the appropriate character.

The game breaks down points individually, so all it requires is some basic math skills.

Are we actually for real doing all shy guys are yoshis? I haven't bought the DLC yet, but I can make a point of doing so if I'm the only one out or anything.

Also Philia, who has still only played this game for like 5 minutes ever and hasn't played Mario Kart in general really, just sat down and is now playing 150cc Grand Prix so she can see this "Music Park" level.

You guys are bad influences.

LOL, I finally got time to play this with you guys. Hope you don't rage at me too much for sucking so much. I'm playing to see how the races look. :D

Probably not, I imagine people will still want to play as their favoured characters (Roy's my boy after all). I wouldn't rush out to buy DLC if I were you.

::furious divorcing noises::

Eating ice cream right now, so it's all good.

Can any of the good people in here post their exact character/kart builds. Mentioned this in the post-game chat, but I'm often baffled at my placing. I will do a race not fucking up or fucking up only once, hit most of the drifts/ramps with boosts but then finish dead last and not see anyone. I'm less annoyed and more just confused, especially since I know I should be better than that. Also seeing people just blow past me pretty often, moreso then I think is accountable for just with slipstreaming or mushrooms, so I'm wondering if I've just build my kart totally wrong, at least for my current skill level or something.

Philia is pretty hooked now, she's playing solo. She had fun but was pretty unhappy with coming in last most of the time because she didn't know the courses, so she seems to be getting down to it now lol. Also the vertical split screen is complete bullshit, for real real. I could mostly compensate when we were doing the regular courses that I knew most of, but mirror mode kept fucking me.

And everyone wasn't kidding, battle mode is garbage in this game. What were they thinking?

We play Frantic mode so you have to remember that you're always a few seconds away from a good old item-fucking. That can play heavily into randomly ended up at the back or losing places right at the last moment.

As for Kart build, if I qualify as one of the good people then here is what I have set up:
- Character: Roy
- Body: W 25 Silver Arrow (from the new Merc set)
- Wheels: Wood
- Glider: Clouds

I did previously use Roy with Landship and White Off-Road wheels, which was a more even balance.

Character: DAISY
Body: Sport Bike
Wheel: Cyber Slick
Glider: Plane

Totes basic but it works.

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Body: Yoshi Bike
Wheel: Cyber Slick
Glider: Cloud Glider

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So my month of doing all my teaching certification is pretty much done so I can play video games again. I just have to proofread my portfolio and hit submit. It's labor day weekend also so I wanted to treat myself and buy myself a Wii U.

My September is pretty busy and most my Saturdays are booked with weddings and concerts so wouldn't be able to join you guys for weekend Mario Kart until October most likely. I presume you guys will still be playing, especially with the announcement of the awesome DLC packs. I learned that Nintendo has a Super Mario 3D World Bundle on September 15 so contemplating holding off until then. Sadly they are out of the Mario Kart 8 Bundle. Although I am also impatient and was considering the Wind Waker Bundle or the New Super Mario Bros U/New Super Luigi U Bundle as well. They are all $299.

Worth the wait? I haven't played Wind Waker or Super Mario/Luigi U. This is my first new console purchase since PS2.

If you've never played Wind Waker then you should definitely go with that bundle. It's not my favorite Zelda, but it's still pretty great and has a ton of side stuff to do. Might as well grab that now so you can buy Mario Kart on its own and start practicing Music Park.

Fuckin nope, ignore Tritoch.

3D World is seriously one of the top tier Mario games (like Galaxy good) and is overall really fucking special.

That said, Walmart is getting a new exclusive Kart 8 bundle at the same time frame, so go with that:

Super Mario 3D World, Walmart Mario Kart 8 Wii U bundles by mid-September | Joystiq

Of course 3D World is amazing, but if he wants to have the Wii U this weekend before he gets super busy throughout September he can always buy that separately later instead of waiting 2 weeks to get anything. Hyde should get both anyway since he never played Wind Waker on Gamecube either.

I think it's a bit presumptuous to assume that my expedition to find the road has (or will be) ill-fated.

Music Park amuses the fuck out of Philia
What are jokes? Does anyone here know what a joke is?
Tails gets a Blue Shell in third, Omagnus suffers
A plethora of unfunny jokes
Tails gets a visitor
Omagnus is still mad about Teamkilling
[INCOMPREHENSIBLE SKILLS NOISES]
"This is not the road"
Phrasing / Philia still amused by Music Park
Red Team collectively forgets how to win; SURPRISE DAISY
[INCOMPREHENSIBLE GELB NOISES] (and the best come from behind victory ever, previous race was 132-114)

Will do 6-9 later. I like how CHz SuperSonic absolutely can't believe that come from behind victory. I want to set that fucking "WHAT?" as my text message alert. So fucking good.

Here's what Skills was reacting to:

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I fired a green shell backward and hit Tails, knocking him out of second and allowing Skills and BZ to pass him.

That man gets kind of loud sometimes.

"Kind of" loud.

So Gamestop doesn't have any Wind Waker bundles (and it was a download copy and not a physical disc) so I am going to wait for the Super Mario 3D World Bundle. Unfortunately, NYC has no Walmarts and the closest is in New Jersey and I would need a car. I'm just going to be patient but I'm sure grabbing and console and a killer app for $300 will be worth the wait.

As someone who has had to chump out the past few weeks that sounds pretty chump, Hyde. (buy a wii u whenever)

Gonna just dump this adorable shit here:

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CHz is a dirty cheater who gets Blue Shells in second place; Omagnus is mad about Team Killing again
[RANDOM SKILLS LAUGHTER]
Mo0 is always eating
[WHATUP INTENSIFIES]
Mo0 is mad about origin stories
[INCOMPREHENSIBLE GELB NOISES PART II]

I don't even know what that noise Skills was making at the end was about but it's great.

That Donk sure has speed. Plus a little love tap.

Not watched many replays, but there was a lagged reaction there from getting hit by the green shell. Seemed to go right through him and then he got hit a second later. :tpg:

Philia and I played a bunch of this last night (and today). Literally 30 fucking seconds into the first race the words "divorce game" were said out loud.

<MUSIC KART 8i

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I find your lack of Music Park on those screens...disturbing.

What? Shut up Daravon.

My God, it's spreading!

CHz and I were pubbing it up for a couple of hours last night and apparently pubbies fucking love Music Park. It's a riot. CHz also learned a valuable lesson in that Mushrooms > Horn.

I'm sad I didn't save any replays, there was some funny ass shit there, like that time we were in 1st/2nd and both got thwomped at the same time trying to take the short route in Thwomp Ruins. Drunk Kart Best Kart.

[23:14] <@Tails> i like how there's two bowsers
[23:15] <@CHz> What a poser
[23:15] <@Tails> DO:PHINS
[23:15] <@Tails> YEAAAHHHHHHHHH
[23:15] <@CHz> ^

[23:22] <@CHz> Still chumping the hell out of this Brian guy with 4000
[23:22] <@Tails> ^
[23:22] <@Tails> vbet you he is mad as thit
[23:23] <@Tails> "who is this fudfe withg like 1100 kickingmt ass"
[23:23] <@Tails> ME BITCH
[23:26] <@Tails> ahahaha
[23:26] <@Tails> did i hit you with that bomb
[23:26] <+Air_Wreck> where's dull with the non sequitur?
[23:26] <@Tails> in the second lap
[23:26] <@CHz> Nope
[23:26] <@CHz> I SAW THAT
[23:26] <@Tails> man i got somebody
[23:26] <@Tails> it was AWESOME
[23:26] <@CHz> Did you take that drift wider on lap 3 just to banana me
[23:26] <@Tails> hahahah yes
[23:26] <@Tails> fucvk you

[23:27] <@CHz> Ahaha Brian quit
[23:27] <@CHz> Confirmed mad.

[23:31] <@CHz> Also the start of that race was the funniest shit.
[23:31] <@CHz> ::me boosting and driving straight::
[23:31] <@CHz> ::right side of the screen, you immediately swerving into the guy in first::

[23:46] <@CHz> whoops comm error
[23:46] <@Tails> lol
[23:47] <@CHz> Okay back spectating
[23:47] <@CHz> Current racers: Roflfox, Connor, 9 people named Player
[23:49] <@Tails> AH
[23:49] <@Tails> FUCK YOU CONNOR
[23:49] <@Tails> took 1st in your memory chz
[23:49] <@CHz> lmao
[23:49] <@Tails> rip[ comm error

[00:07] <@CHz> Ahahahaha we BOTH got Whomped lap 3
[00:07] <@CHz> That was beautiful
[00:07] <@Tails> lmao dounle thwomp
[00:07] <@Tails> ^^^^^^
[00:07] <@Tails> so fucking stupd

[00:19] <@Tails> ahahaha
[00:19] <@Tails> thayt fucking first lap
[00:19] <@Tails> i waited until i got up from 8th to throw that red shell at you
[00:19] <@Tails> fucking lmao
[00:19] <@CHz> AHAHAHAHA
[00:19] <@CHz> You're awful.

[00:35] <@Tails> MSURHOOMS BITCH
[00:35] <@CHz> 8|
[00:35] <@Tails> ahahahah
[00:35] <@Tails> i saw you
[00:35] <@Tails> and your fuckin horn
[00:35] <@Tails> fuck you
[00:35] <@CHz> Ahahahaha
[00:35] <@CHz> "yeah let's see you hit me fucker"
[00:35] <@CHz> ".................oh"
[00:35] <@Tails> ^^^^^^^^ dying

[00:47] <@Tails> ahahahah
[00:47] <@Tails> those red shwells
[00:47] <@Tails> IT WAS ME
[00:47] <@Tails> FUCK YOU
[00:47] <@CHz> 8|

Pubbing it up, the race where CHz and I both lost because we spent the whole time hitting each other with shells:

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The race where I spent the entire time chasing CHz (like always) and burn him on the last turn because fuck your Horn:

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Just had to stop playing. Skills just arrived. Almost full group this week. I think we've had 13 or 14 different people if you count diss attempting to get his Wii U to connect.

Anyway here's the stream recording on hitbox:
http://www.hitbox.tv/video/249758

My ill-fated expedition to find the internet

:tails cracking up intensifies:

I'm sorry you don't find life as amusing as I do.

Unfortunately, no videos this week. I was testing hitbox last night for my PC games, when I switched back to my capture card I didn't set the audio up correctly so all you hear is me talking. :(

I'll try to fix it next time, but acer recorded some of it on his hitbox channel (http://www.hitbox.tv/acerbandit).

Also, I'll be unable to make it the last two Saturdays of September due to beach travel.


Edit: Okay, now I'm really not sure what happened. I just did a test recording without changing any settings and it picked up both my mic and the game sound just fine. Maybe Skype messed up something?

I'm going to miss the next couple of weeks, on account of being out of the state and then out of the country!

Make sure to run the Music Park Cup without me.

Holy shit why did none of you fuckers tell me that Toad IS THE BEST. He sounds hilarious, and is always just so fucking psyched to even be racing. What sealed the deal was when I saw his boost pad trick where he plays peek-a-aboo, I lost my goddamn mind the first time I saw it in slo-mo. It still randomly cracks me up 2 days later, still trying to find a gif of it or something. His speed is obviously kind of shit, so I go for maximum hilarity and use the airship with him which has terrible speed but has insane acceleration and handling. I actually seem to do alright with it, playing online with randoms I usually get top 2 or 3 with it. I don't expect to be pulling out 1st place finishes with it, but it's so funny to me I don't even care.

All that aside, is anyone going to be on this weekend? I'm going to be going in hard on Destiny, but I can make time for this on Saturday if folks are actually going to be around. Me and Philia are playing this on almost a daily basis and getting better. The salt that comes from both of us playing it when it's not with you guys is hilarious. Maximum Divorce Game.

Dude Toad has always owned. His IIIII'M THE BEST from Mario Kart 64 (and everything else about Toad in MK64) is still one of the greatest things to come out of Mario Kart.

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I know I'll be around this weekend for sure.

There's not a road in Destiny, so I'll be in MK.

Okay, I'll make a point of getting on. I'll set an alarm, you may need to remind me as well though Tails since I'm 100% sure I'm going to be in a Destiny group at that point. I'm pretty sure Philia will be home in time for it as well.

Can you beat the diarrhea twins now?

That's sort of the kindergarten "I can press the accelerator button" test.

It's kind of a low bar.

Hey now. Mo0 and Nutty are the low bar. I'm more like low-mid bar.

You have to press the accelerator button and take turns without hitting the wall to beat me.

Not sure, since the weekend is prime co-op time for Destiny I might make this week and exception and go do that. That said if Skills and Mo0 want to spend an hour or so doing MK I'm perfectly fine with that too. So yeah, unsure right now what I'll be doing.

If you play Destiny, I'm just going to narrate your adventures and annoy Mo0 to no end.

And? You appear to have grossly over-estimated the extent to which Mo0's annoyance levels have any bearing on my decision making process.

Or anyone's decision-making process.

*creaks chair slowly*

I'm getting better at drifting. I still hit the wall on occasion when I forget to drift earlier (kart). Its more or less trying to remember the bends in the track. There's a couple of bends that I STILL fail without question no matter what I do. I just need to look up on how to bypass those or make the turns better.

Literally the only thing stopping me from 3-starring everything is Music Park on 150cc, the computer has outright fucked me in ways that were impossible to get out of on the last lap 4 times in a row now. The irony does not escape me.

Just play Bowser on a tiny bike. It's impossible to lose 150/Mirror. Trust me, I did it. It's somehow more bullshit than the AI's bullshit.

STOP GIVING AWAY MY SECRETS TAILS

You can also tap the brake in the middle of a drift to avoid taking it too wide.

Don't let off the gas though, that'll kill the sparks. brakes plus gas though will get the job done.

We'll be on but just maybe 5-10 minutes late.

Well the room's up since I'm not sure if Omagnus and the others plan on breaking. Just a matter of waiting to see who shows today.

ps don't be a chump

Oh boo, you guys are full? How did we go from no one being on because of Destiny to being full :(. We're out then, I bailed on people I was playing Destiny with to get on, our fault for being late.

Yeah, I couldn't get a hold of anyone and thus missed it too; I'm glad there's a large enough crew to maintain interest after this long.

Says the guy who messaged me on Skype at 5:23, well after we had gotten started. Also it's not like I have a cell phone that's on my person 24/7 because of my job or anything.

CHz misses out on karting and Tails takes his place in wrecking fools. OP gets mad at Skills as usual. Taco joins Dave's bald representation. Another good Saturday of racing!

Today's session:
http://www.hitbox.tv/video/257441

I tried calling many different people on skype for over half an hour, but it is fine if you want to bullshit about it too. :shrug:

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That said, Skype's notifications are awful and you're probably better off just calling me.

Or just join the Mario Kart room and you get a Skype invite almost immediately.

Here's what I've got so far. The rest will finish uploading later tonight (may not be posted until morning).

Just a reminder, I'll unfortunately miss the next two weeks due to beach vacation. I'll be traveling up next Saturday and then traveling back the following Saturday. You guys have fun and maybe Acer or someone else can take care of recording duties. ;)

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If the room was full how would that work? I had the same problem. I also messaged fox on skype with no response. I think he hates me :(

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Me and Daravon can be Team Getting Ignored :(

Hahaha, you're forgiven. For reals though y'all have my phone number. Skype sucks at notifications. My Galaxy S5 is insanely loud. Shoot me a text or call me.

e: my irc highlight is also a pretty good way to get my attention

Room wasn't full until a solid 10+ minutes in. So there was ample opportunity for someone to just join the MK lobby and then get added to the call (as a bunch of people did).

If the room is full pinging Tails or me via actual phone message, IRC ding-dong or some other way is the best way forward. As Tails says, Skype notifications suck so not even remotely worth it. And if it happens regularly we're clearly going to have to look at how to cycle people in and out.

Odd that my voice is apparently totally missing from the recordings. Could no one seriously hear me all game?

I heard you.

Taking a break for IRC
Skills fails at MK, Omagnus gives a lecture
Whistling with Dave
Dave is pregnant?
Mo0 still can't count to two
Dickspin.jpg (literally like a minute and a half discussion about Meatspin)
Mount Wario: Bad jokes. Bad jokes everywhere.
Mo0 is mad, we don't love nutty
Taco out of nowhere

But wait Meet isn't until June

Lmao, it wouldn't done anything at that point anyway. I had crossed the finish line and had Dave fire it too early.

It's supposed to go for the guy who is furthest up who hasn't crossed the line yet, though.

I still hadn't crossed the finish line when it passed Sonic. In reality it should have just hit me after I crossed (it passed me a second or two after I finished) but it probably glitched for a second lap. Either way it still wouldn't have changed anything. I don't think Blue Shells turn around that late into their run.

I had Dave fire it early not realizing how far ahead of everyone I was (or how quick it'd get to me before I crossed the line).

Next time, man. Next time. Dynasties don't happen overnight. Unless they do, in which case ignore what I just said.

In Mario Kart 8 it's not really a dynasty unless there's a Dave. He'll judge you based on your color of your not-dynasty.

Tails: "HAHA! Blue shell!" DENIED!!
THAT'S ME!!
2nd freakin blue shell in a row...AGAIN
Victory

This is what happens when I have a Super Horn and don't know that Diss has one too (about 17 seconds in).

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Alternatively: what happens when I have a super horn and don't know that Tails has one too.

Work bribed me to come in on Saturday morning for some testing after a server upgrade, but I'll get a vacation day out of it.

They said it'll take about 3 hours unless we run into something. I should be done by noon in that case, but if it goes WAYYYYYYYY beyond that I might have to chump out again.

That is if there are people still playing considering Smash 3DS drops this Friday.

That sounds like the second-worst reason to chump out of MK8 (the worst being Destiny).

I'm fine with y'all just accepting that you'll never be as good as Daisy and moving on. It's okay.

What happens if we all choose Daisy?

No it's too late for that, there can be only one Daisy.

Baby Daisy would disagree.

Mortal Kombat 8 is out already?

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e: Additionally, the 8th Mortal Kombat game came out in 2008, so Shin is, as usual, way behind the times.

I friended everyone on the first post of this thread. I'll be online at 5 pm EST to join the shenanigans. It will be my first time playing the Wii U online so we'll see how this goes.

Good work to all who turned out today, even if it was a short session. Hopefully Sonic got the part he was around for, there was some good stuff in there.

(Daisy is #1)

Ask and ye shall receive. Unfortunately, I'll have to chump out again this coming Saturday due to an anime convention. You kids have fun!

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So I logged in at around 5 and tried to join but ended up running a million errands. Was busier than I anticipated. Do I just click on the friends list profile and hit "join game" to get in on the sessions? I tried that out to no avail. Also, who typically hosts (does that matter?) First timer so still trying to get the hang of things.

Pick Online from Mario Kart's main menu, and after you choose friends it'll show a flag next to anyone who's hosting a room. It's usually Omagnus or sometimes Tails.

Damn, I would have gotten on. I had been led to believe it wasn't happening this weekend due to people being gone and Smash coming out. Speaking of which, is Smash a thing for you guys or what? I have a rental of it on the way because I had a free slot open at Gamefly and a window here with nothing else coming out, but Smash has never really been my thing. I loved the ridiculous story mode in Brawl (and it's exclusion in this one took the game completely off my radar), but I have played a total of about 8 hours across all Smash games in my life.

Smash is a thing, but we haven't done any set times for it. Same as with Theatrhythm it's just been something to follow up Karting.

I'll make a point of being around next week then, I'm all about getting some Theatrhythm in if nothing else. Just curious if Smash was catching on with you guys, seems like people mostly love it, but seeing hilariously inconsistent reports about the online being either awesome or total shit. I figure I'll just mess around with it for a day and send it back probably.

This is a poor excuse for chumping. It would have taken you all of like, maybe a minute to hit the power button on the wii u gamepad, bring up your friends list and OH HEY EVERYONE IS ON KART

Note that my participation for the next few weeks may or may not happen. I'll be at home and have my Wii U with me this coming weekend and the 25th, but I might be busy with family/friends. The 18th for sure I won't be around, since Kart runs at the same time as the Miku concert.

Yeah I won't be around this coming Saturday as I've got family visiting. If there's a danger Tails might also not be around, anyone want to step up and offer to host so that someone is taking care of that?

I wasn't home at the time. I probably could have gotten on late maybe, but again I'd been led to believe it wasn't happening and neither you or Skills texted me. Chumping so hard over here :(

I can't make this weekend, just found out I'm being dragged to a wedding in Richmond or somewhere around there. If anyone wants to play Theatrhythm during the week or whenever let me know in that thread though, if I'm not at work or asleep I'm generally down for it.

I don't understand how we had the Yoshi cup but failed to put everyone on the Yoshi bike.

ESPECIALLY WHEN 4/5 OF US USE INSIDE BIKES ANYWAY

Because Tails wanted Yoshis WITH KARTS

And I had that combo selected but Tails was busy making a drink loudly

Because watching everyone fail with Karts was funny as shit, that's why

We can always do the "Yoshis on Yoshis taking on Yoshis on Yoshis" cup in a couple of weeks. I'm all for the mixing it up with random set ups. It's just a shame we have to back out to do it, though thankfully it's pretty quick and painless.

Does everyone have the gold kart unlocked? If so we could do a "Princess Bling" cup at some point.

I'll be around for sure on Saturday, but me hosting games is generally not ideal for anyone involved.

Man fuck the gold kart, that's what I was using. ;_;

Since there's a lot of chumping this weekend, could we just do Smash Bros instead?

I have my parents here visiting, fuck you and your "chumping" accusations. Get out.

Only chumps have parents.

Only chumps play Smash Bros.

I got called in to cover a shift this afternoon, so I won't be around for either. I'm definitely down for some Smash once I get home around 7:30 though.

Today's session was pretty short. I forgot to set my mic up properly in Xsplit so I'm muted the entire time. Ah well...

http://www.hitbox.tv/video/284193

Was out of town as previously mentioned, Tails were you able to represent Team Daisy?

I should be clear for next weekend barring anything unforeseen. God help me the weekend after that though.

Team Daisy was hella reppin. Of course there was only four of us so we went and stomped randoms for a bit instead. It was pretty amusing.

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If that's not an inside bike imma be all mad up ins

This happening today?

One would assume so.

Considering we've played Mario Kart every Saturday for several months, no, probably not.

Figures!

(I assumed so, but the thread was deader than usual this week and I know at least Tails is out of town, so figured I would ask to make sure)

ALWAYS KART

A disturbing amount of Karting today revolved around discussing Moo's package.

I'm not adding a tag for that.

It's cool, I got it

Dickspin.jpg still one of the best tags, almost choked on my fucking burger laughing about it just now.

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Race 1: Daravon comes in fifth, earns 8 points
Race 2: Daravon comes in second, collects 12 points
Start of race 3: Daravon apparently feels he should have 30 points(?)

Too busy looking for the road, don't have time for math.

AW SHIT

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Edit: Realized that this will probably hit at like the same time or just after Smash. Well fuck.

It was just BZ, Daravon, Tails (as Philia), and myself yesterday so we invaded a Regional Race this weekend. Tails wasn't on the Skype call, but if you listen closely enough you might be able to hear his commentary over Daravon's mic.

I'll be missing next weekend due to participating in a wedding where a couple of my close friends are getting married.

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Complete with ever changing track: "... beware - the location of ramps and speed boosts change every time you race!" Oh hells yes.

That has the potential to replace Music Park as the favorite track. :D

False.

What CHz said, although I must admit it looks amazing. Excitebike has pretty much been one of my favorite things ever since the day I first played it on the NES when I was a little kid. This is gonna own.

I'm holding out for a Mach Rider level

It had better play the Excite Bike win theme when the race ends.

OK, so is Mario Kart happening this week? If so I'm a little unsure of how timing is going to work. In the UK the clocks went back last weekend and I believe they don't go back in North America until either tomorrow or next weekend. So, 10pm my time is suddenly an hour out.

So, if we're sticking to 10pm GMT then that's in about 12 hour:

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Does that work for people, or does that cause problems?

Daylight savings hits tonight at 2am here, so that does leave you an hour ahead for now. I'm fine with getting it started an hour later than usual.

Right, so in the US east coast that would put today's start time at 6pm instead of the usual 5pm. I have no problem with that either, actually probably works out slightly better for me since Philia will be getting home from work around 5:15. I can do either start time though.

Today's Kart session. OP was the best baby daisy.

http://www.hitbox.tv/video/305074

Congratulations OP! Also by default Dave is the worst Baby Daisy.

Also I just found out that only the coins you have at the end of a race count towards your total. Not that it matters really either way since it's not like you can do anything about it, but I was wondering why I didn't have the gold glider yet. The 10k coin requirement for that seems way out of wack with all of the other rewards, especially for just a glider.

Why the hell would you want a glider of all things to be made of gold? Nintendo...

Yeah, I've got all unlockables outside of the glider and it's hilarious how few coins I have by comparison. I think I'm at 4k or something.

Yeah, I'm also at 100% completion except for the gold glider and I'm at ~7400, but that's also with playing some co-op with Philia where both of our coins count as well as her playing some on her own. Wii U clocks Mario Kart 8 gametime at 55 hours, but god knows how accurate that actually is.

On a lark spent 2-3 hours tonight playing online. Man this game is a clusterfuck online. I think our games work fairly well because there's a pretty wide spread of skill levels. Online there's a much larger pool of folks all in the same ballpark skill-wise, especially since the game attempts to match by your skill ranking which is largely bullshit but is a general time spent indicator. So races are largely determined by which one or two players is able to get away from the pack at the very start, then everyone else is usually fucked for the entire race (Piranha Plants are god tier online). Once I was able to get 1st or 2nd place at the end of a race, by virtue of that starting position in the next race I was almost always able to beat out the initial clusterfuck and most of the time was a lock for 1st or 2nd again. But then if you get hit once in the initial barrage you are almost always 100% fucked and are locked outside of the top 3 at the least. It's leads to hilarious instances of totally fucking people but then you also getting totally fucked, and it can be incredibly frustrating. In one particular race I'm running a flawless race, probably almost half a lap ahead of 2nd place on the last lap. Then within a 15-20 second window I literally got hit with a Blue Shell, a Lightning, a Red Shell, and two SEPARATE Bombs. I finished 12th. Also as an aside I'm not sure how item distribution works online, but I see way way way more Lightnings playing with randoms online then in our games. I counted 6 in one game which is crazy. I still think I have personally only gotten one once.

It's a weird problem, and I'm not sure how they solve it. I'm not advocating no item races or anything, but the game is a super clusterfuck where skill only gets you so far. I miss the days of being able to lap SECOND place AI in 150cc in the original SMK because there was none of the crazy rubber banding/blue shells etc. Playing against other people obviously some of that isn't a factor, but I'm not sure how you really balance that. It's fun, but with every iteration the game feels more and more like Mario Party and not Mario Kart.

I do really hope the DLC comes out before Smash so I can actually play it with people. Also I hope the Master Cycle isn't an inside bike because fuck skills

If it's not an inside bike, I will be sad.

You sound mad about that tho.

I've only fucked around with randoms a few times, but let's just say that it's at least nice that the Wii U hasn't been completely opened up for shitting in, since INFINITE STAR cheaters in MKWii was extremely aggravating.

That said, 9/10s of the point of Mario Kart is yelling at the other guy to get good and other such shit. Lack of voice chat fucking murders it.

Yeah I played MK Wii for like, an hour, so no experience there but I heard about that.

But yeah, this is basically a bullshit party game which is why I like playing with you guys, but wouldn't play on my own very much. I'm just wondering what they could do to try to fix that and not make every race an insane clusterfuck that is impossible to get out of 99% of the time.

I don't think anybody here plays own their own, really. I only get on Saturdays and have pubbed it up with CHz maybe once or twice outside of that.

What I'm saying is that you need to get good.

I...came in first in like ~75% of the 12 player lobbies I was in? That wasn't really my point. Also I'm only really playing for coins at this point, so eh.

What's the story behind the two sets of headphones tag?

Also the story re: Tiny Left Space. We're on Yoshi Valley, it's the final lap, and I'm trailing behind Dave. As we approach the bridge that stupid giant Yoshi egg is just about to cover the bridge entirely. What does Dave do? He does to the left DIRECTLY INTO THE PATH of said giant egg. First place DAISY BLUE YOSHI. Shit was fucking hilarious. Dave you are dumb why would you do that you see the egg going that way man.

You know Daravon for a guy who doesn't care you sure do care a lot. Keep going, you almost have enough vinegar to go with that bucket of salt. ;)

The last time (?) m00 played he was wearing two headsets, one for game audio and one for the skype call.

And he still thought lap 2 was the final lap on one race, even though he could finally hear the BGM speedup for once.

The "heads of setphones" part is because he's bad at saying words out loud.

THE AUDIO IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HEADPHONES

It's been pulled down, but there was something briefly up on the official Mario Kart site that was listing MK Amiibo support being added in a software update on 11/13/14, maybe the same date as the DLC???

Apparently all Amiibo support for MK is just going to be your Mii getting a racing suit based on the Amiibo you're using. Thank you Nintendo for letting me continue to not care about Amiibo functionality.

Yeah, how dare they not include fully featured AI racers you train in a free patch several months after the game releases for a toy that wasn't close to completed when the thing came out.

I think it's kind of ace actually that they're even going back and adding support for that shit in to older software titles, even if it is minor. Can you imagine the anger if it was something more substantial?

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Just going to leave this here.

HNNNNNNNNNNNGH

Also here's a 13 minute Nintendo Minute where they play a bunch of the new stuff:

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Tanooki Mario going into his Mario 3 statue pose when he does a trick is fucking amazing. Also super fucking pumped about SNES Rainbow Road being in.

I agree, and I'm not upset at all by this; I'm actually honestly super pumped about it since it means less shit I have to think about buying. They kinda sorta make sense for Smash, but for all of these other games and especially games that are already out like MK and Hyrule Warriors I don't really see the point. I mean, additional cosmetic content is cool and why not, but that's hardly any sort of compelling reason for someone to get them. And if it WAS something substantial people would flip out like you said, so it's a lose-lose. I don't even know what they'd do really in terms of significant in-game content for games with these things other than maybe if you buy them they come with DLC, making it sort of like buying a physical copy of DLC or something. Fuck, I barely even know what Amiibos can be used for in general other than custom moves and storage in stuff like Smash. Super fascinating from a physical/collectible perspective, but they've given me zero reason to care about them for use in games.

I'm kind of a little worried about how interesting the Excitebike course is going to be in practice, because topologically it's just a doughnut and literally only has two turns, but I predict not caring at all because fuck yeah Excitebike motherfuckers

Well they said the terrain as far as hills and ramps and whatnot is going to be completely random every time, so I imagine that'll go a long way there.

It unfortunately does not - just the normal Mario Kart 8 victory jingle. Definitely a lost opportunity.

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They went through the trouble to make the charging panels in Mute City restore your coins and outright replace coins with rupees and rupee noises in the Zelda track. A simple victory jingle change seems so trivial compared to that. Oh well.

Of course one skin on a Mii isn't a compelling reason to get it.

The reason to get them is because they do a thousand little things. They unlock some small bonus in 4 games you already own, have some legitimate functionality in another, and will be doing different unlocks in future titles to various degrees. They are another tool to tie a person to the Nintendo ecosystem. They aren't "worth it" from any single game function point of view, the whole scheme is to get you tied to the idea of a unified system of little bonuses across your favorite characters and software you were likely to buy anyway. It's a mindshare thing, there's really no lose-lose here. No one is paying 15 dollars for a Mario Kart costume.

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All that crap said, fuck yes that 13 minute video confirms Master Cycle is an inside bike. LIFE IS GOOD.

Also also Excite Bike is literally Baby Park with less laps and more bumps. This is IDEAL.

Just a reminder for today's last pre-DLC "Daravon Searches for the Road" session, we're back to regular time as North America has now also shed its daylight-savings adjustment. So it's in about 11 hours time:

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If anyone has suggestions for some silly configurations we can rock, have a noodle on it. Does everyone have the gold kart by now? If so I think all Pink Gold Peaches in the gold cart might need to be a thing. Also the ATVs don't really get any love from our group, so perhaps an all ATV cup. And maybe in honour of the likelihood of everyone being Link next week we only pick characters who are predominantly green on bikes. Just some thoughts.

I'm down for whatever, but since we have people who don't even have all of the parts unlocked I'm guessing not everyone has the gold kart lol.

Gold kart is just for beating all cups on 150cc + Mirror (with a star), rather than being related to coin collection. I figure us lot have surely done that by now. Possibly not, but I'd have thought so.

Right, but I think someone (I honestly forget who) said they didn't even have all the cups unlocked....so yeah.

I mean we did all Baby Daisies with one Ludwig so whatever, if one or two people don't have them it's not a big deal.

i will come once my food is ready. and i figure out a skype solution for not having to move my Wii U.

I got in a couple of good grunts; Supersonic did you get recordings.

Yes please tell me you captured the final transmissions of Mennobot.

Getting the video loaded for splitting for youtube limits.

Edit: Skills burns m00.

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If anyone wants to know how/why the first major grunt at the end of video 2 happens, it's because the lightning + blue shell combo resulted in me beating CHz across the line by like, I dunno. About a frame or less.

That's some pretty good grunting.

So with the DLC almost upon us, how much practice is everyone going to get on it before Saturday?

I feel like it might be funny if we all abstain and go into it blind, but the amount of trustworthiness and cooperation that would require might be beyond us group of tremendous jackasses.

i could avoid playing the new tracks, but i have to work on Saturday anyway. :(

I was planning on knocking out getting 3 stars on the new tracks on all the new cups and the Time Trials to get that out of the way ASAP, but if we all want to go in blind as a group I'm cool with that.

Not sure I'd call it "practice" but I was certainly planning to play the new content tomorrow when it's out. I was planning to play through the cups and try out the new stuff (give Link and the Mastercycle a look), but not spend hour on it. Not sure waiting will change that much, except mean the first time I play the new content is after we've ended up on Music Park 5 times.

Ahahahaha.

HYPE LEVELS TOO REAL.

DON'T THINK THAT'S GONNA WORK CAPTAIN.

Completely and utterly unsurprising that Skills is the first person to decline.

Yeah man, no way I'm gonna hold off until Saturday. SNES Rainbow Road is calling out to me.

Really the answer is for us to get together briefly Thursday and hash it out.

I hear there's this Thursday night thing called game night, where they play animatronic games on the interwebs.

That crew hasn't played a console game ever, so uhhh.

No.

I was the first one to say it.

Trust me, I ain't the first one to think it.

In fairness to Skills, I didn't explicitly use the term 'no', but that was basically what I was saying. I don't see what different playing the tracks is really going to make, we're hardly going to be experts by the time Saturday rolls around.

I basically go in blind every time I play, so

Yeah, there was no way I was ever going to agree to holding off until Saturday. I can't wait to see the Zelda tracks.

ATTENTION SKILLS: LINK IS CRUISER

I REPEAT: LINK IS CRUISER

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JUST TRIED OUT THE NEW CUPS WITH ACER

WE HAVE CALIBRATED THE HYPETRON 5000 AND SET ITS OUTPUT TO MAXIMUM

Here's the recording! =D

http://www.hitbox.tv/video/316377

Link is a Crusierweight? Sweet.

Also I'm glad I decided to get all of the system update and DLC downloading done before going to work this morning because holy shit that took a while.

EDIT: oh my god as I make this post and the game boots up it NOW is prompting me to download DLC? What the fuck were the separate system update and software updates for? Figure out how to internet Nintendo.

SHIT IS LEGIT

Real talk though, Link being Cruiser is baller as hell.

Rainbow Road is baller as hell

MUTE CITY IS OMEGA CLASS BALLER AS HELL

Also the Master Cycle is potentially game changing. I didn't play with it (only had time for two races), but I noticed it has the inside bike icon but ALSO DIFFERENT STATS. It's heavier, has less accel, but higher top speed and different grip characteristics. Unless I'm mistaken, this is the first inside bike with different stats. Shit could get real.

It took four minutes total.

Get good at internet connections.

Yeah, people on /v/ were complaining about that actually. Since you can still use the DLC vehicles/parts and characters while racing with non-DLC people who don't have access to them this could give people who have the DLC an advantage. The Blue Falcon also has pretty nice stats as well. Other people in the thread said stats were only really relevant in Time Trials but it could give a little extra oomph with the right driver all that he/she needs.

The reason I say it could get real is not because the bike will be broken; bikes in this game are weaker than karts in many ways, especially considering some of the time trial strats, but the reason it could be real is because it'll allow for more change ups while maintaining the inside drift mechanic that several of us enjoy.

Top tier times are not going to be set by Master Cycles any time soon and with the plethora of absolute bullshit going on at any given moment, I don't think half a tick here or there is going to change anything except someone's minor, personal preferences.

Wait, are we seriously going to worry about some minor stat differences unbalancing things? What the what? Unless you're proposing itemless Final Destination only style nonsense then I really don't think it matters, it just gives a small variation to those using inside drift bikes.

On a side note: all the new tracks are great after a first pass, I'm looking forward to taking our nonsense to them on Saturday.

And yet, the ones that regularly finish ahead in our group use bikes :V

I just realized we're only one more Rainbow Road course away from a Rainbow Road Cup.

Also, the new tracks are awesome.

Yeah I have no goddamn idea why all of the updates took me a million years to download this morning, something something porn torrents

Also yeah I think unless you're operating at a godtier level and/or legit fire hopping character stats generally don't make a huge practical difference. Unless what I'm seeing regarding the math is wrong, the difference between a 5.75 speed character and a completely bottomed out speed character at 1.0 is only ~0.1 seconds on a straightaway. Over the course (get it? HAHA) of an entire race that's a couple of seconds that could make a difference, but that's all super theoretical and assumes you're driving 100% flawlessly etc. Honestly the only reason I don't use Toad 100% of the time isn't that and is more the weight issue, since if you're in the middle of a pack of people you just get flung around like a ragdoll which is a super annoying.

The new stuff is pretty fucking awesome, Saturday is going to be great.

The sheer amount of joy I get from hearing Link scream "KEEEYYAHHHH!" while riding in a horse-style motorcycle was more than I expected. I love everything about this.

Those of us who bought the Get Good DLC already just happen to have good taste, that's all.

Reading the math for Mario Kart? Really?

When I first got the game I was mocked in chat for not knowing that the Acceleration stat only applied at every 1 point benchmark, so I spent like 30 seconds looking at a FAQ to see what the stats meant since the game doesn't actually explain that anywhere and the last Mario Kart game I had previously played didn't even have (visible) stats...so yes?

Diss just doesnt uinderstan the finer points of karting fuck that guy

fuck you diss!

CAT PEACH

Had to leave early but I managed to make a really horrible kart build if you're curious feel free to watch today's recording:
http://www.hitbox.tv/video/319115

BILL ME LATER

Tails get mad DLC

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Is it safe to assume this isn't happening today because of Smash? I'm guessing you NA lot will be looking to play that instead.

Oh it's not out in EU yet? What the fuuuuuck, that sucks man :(

I honestly have no idea. I will try to get in on either game if I can, but we're adopting a cat today (barring any last minute nightmare problems) so I may be too preoccupied, unsure yet. I got home late last week and Tails said you guys were already full up as-is, I'd have to imagine you can get at least some folks for Karting.

As far as I know karting is still a go. I want to try out some amiibo costumes.

Yeah, unfortunately I'll be over at a friend's today for a Smash gettogether. I MAY be back near the end of the usual Karting times but we'll see.

ALWAYS KART

OK, looks like Kart will be happening, that's good news. Might not be a long session, but we can get some races in.

You might get some wins in too ;). CHz is on vacation this weekend and probably won't be present.

I for sure won't be on, just got home with the cat a little while ago. It's an older cat so it's acclimated super quickly and is awesome actually, but I definitely want to keep half an eye on her for a while. Is anyone going to be livestreaming it this week? I can watch that and heckle you guys from the sidelines at least.

I'd think the cat would be happier if you just left her alone to find her space, rather than watching her all the time.

That's what I'm doing, hence saying keeping half an eye on her, I'm not like following her around or anything. I've had cats before so I have a pretty good idea on what stuff I needed to catproof, but they're all different. For example, I just heard a noise in the kitchen, go in there's and she's gone...because she apparently knows how to open cabinets, get inside, and close the door behind her -_-.

Edit: As a hilarious sidenote we got this cat because Philia volunteered and is now working at the animal shelter. Has wanted to get the cat for weeks. We get home, cat immediately loves me and is on my lap purring louder than I have ever heard a cat.

Divorce cat?

Lmao, I told you, I don't mind if the cat favors you more than me. I find it quite interesting that a lot of cats like men for their owners. There's a whole slew of gifs out there where cats are rubbing their faces in their owners' 5 o'clock shadows which explains a bit. It must felt like semi sandpaper and appeasing for them to rub their heads onto. It makes them look like they're bunting heads with their owners' faces.

Anyway no worries! <3 The main fucking thing was that she's fucking out of there. The shelter was NOT healthy for her, and the visiting brats would pester the fuck out of her and other cats would agitate her often too. The most agonizing of the whole thing is the wait for her to GTFO of there.

Sorry I couldn't kart and stream today. I've been busy cleaning and going through boxes of stuff today - getting rid of ancient crap is not how I'd have wanted to spend my day but welp.

The "- Mo0" part of AHH EAT tag is hardly necessary.

Sometime in the near future Suddenlink is supposed to boost my internet speed. Unfortunately, they're also introducing a download/upload cap to 500GB per month. If I go any further than that, it's extra charges (and you all know how big those games on Steam and Playstation can get).

These videos are close to a gig each so I may need to drop the quality to 480p or figure out something else.

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Pre-emptive chumping: I won't be on next week, will be at my wife's holiday dinner for her SPCA job. On the plus side will we be at a delicious mexican restaurant.

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Wow, I had totally forgotten about that episode. How was that where your mind immediately went???







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I might have to chump out today, just found out that the room next to my bedroom is getting worked on and there will be a lot of noise. If I can make it, I'll probably be muted so you guys don't hear the racket.

Sonic tell me you caught the death whine.

You're going to have to remind me where that happened, I only recall being told to save THIS one:

You said WHAT to your teammate

Edit: Videos are up now! By the way, thanks for putting up with the sounds of the sawing, the drilling, and the air compressor for the nail gun (aka, the vibrator Tails was referring to).

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As a heads up, I probably won't be around for Kart time tomorrow. I'm seeing friends for the day and so likely won't be about. I'm sure Tails or someone will sort out the room and call.

I'm going to miss vroomtimes tomorrow because I need to handle some surprise errands that just came up, and Skills will be out as well due to reasons pertaining to being a decent, empathetic human being with functioning personal relationships.

At this point I'd be surprised if anybody showed up. We could use a week off anyway.

Ah, yes. This week I actually can show up, and I will be the only one there.

Oh well, I'll just catch up on unlocking all the characters here and in Smash.

You make a good point Tails, and that possibly holds true for the next few weeks. Actually thinking about it I won't be around on a Saturday until the new year now probably, what with Christmas and all that jazz.

So yeah, if people are around then sort yourselves out, otherwise regular karting action will probably resume in January I guess.

Yeah I won't be around tomorrow either, Capcom Cup and all that. I don't have the general holiday obligations that most folks do though, so I'll probably be around the rest of the month if people show up.

I think I'm gonna take the weekend off as well, I really want to see the Capcom Cup. I should be around next Saturday, but the Saturday after that I definitely won't be available.

Well, I was going to make sure I got home from work tomorrow in time for karting, but I guess I'll just sleep in instead. That works.

Happy Chumpmas Eve.

Surprising no one, I will be out on a Saturday afternoon.

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you sound mad

yo we karting tomorrow or what

Yeah, I should be around this time.

My friend's mom died on Tuesday, so I've got a funeral.