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Which takes all of five minutes. Well, maybe fifteen, which is the average length of a cup. The actual cups aren't open world either, they're standard Mario Kart fare, with a mix of new and reused track designs. It's pretty fun so far, then again, I pretty much just ignore the free roaming part entirely. As far as Mario Karts go it's a good entry, but I don't see it being as legendary as the N64 or Game Cube / Wii version, but it might be too early to call. If you don't like Mario Kart as a franchise then this certainly isn't the entry that is going to change your mind. There probably will never be such an entry, there's only a limited amount of gameplay you can change in a kart racer with silly power ups, unlike the variation that is possible from other Nintendo franchises. From a techincal point of view the frame rate and smootheness of the game are what stand out the most. It just plays really well, even with double the amount of racers on a track.

Rooting for Ubisoft.

I'll just leave this here. It was posted some years ago, but it fits too well.

The bigliest bigly winning tariff of all time.

My mother recently won a gift basket. She gave me the bottle of craft beer that was in it, because she doesn't drink beer at all. It was a 8.2 vol% Imperial IPA. I don't like IPAs (slight understatement), and I generally dislike stronger beers, but I gave it a shot anyway. It took one sip to realize that calling it bottled sewage would be an insult to sewage, and I ended up pouring it out. The label said the "beer" actually won the best in show award for Imperial IPAs at the Craft Beer Rising London 2016. I don't even want to know how the bad ones are.

So, Lies of P: Overture is not on Game Pass, unlike the base game. That's not a big issue (for me, plenty of people seem to be disappointed online though - I kinda understand that, but since Lies of P became a surprise hit it is simple business sense to sell the DLC to everyone who wants to play) since the base game is well worth buying anyway, but somehow Microsoft can't into math: I'm beginning to understand some of the bugs in Windows.

We have always been at war with Eastasia. It's 41 years late, but it's here.

Switch 2 arrived today (still thinking Nintendo should have called it the Super Nintendo Switch). The old USB-C charger of the Switch is not compatible with the new dock. It'll load the console when docked, but you'll not get an image on the TV. The console will very happily tell you that it needs the new charger when you put it into the dock after it's done setting everything up, but not during the initial dock setup. Nintendo doing Nintendo things, I suppose. Played like ten minutes of Mario Kart World. The gameplay's pretty slow at 50cc and pretty easy, my mother was able to win her first race without knowing the track. I know it's not uncommon to just win 50cc races for regular players, but my mother has Parkinson's and recently had surgery on her left hand to fix some nerve damage that made her not feel much of anything with it. In light of that I think it's fair to say with some confidence that the game's easy mode is really, really easy this time around. Bundled game is just a download code though. I mean that's fine for me, but it might annoy others.

Indeed, this is something the likes of which the world has never seen the likes of which. Honsetly not sure what all the fuzz is about. Pretty tame compared to the Korean brawls.

So, like, quick note for those who don't know since 'tis the season and all that: The Wikimedia Foundation is sitting on assets worth so much that their dividends and interest alone would pay for Wikipedia's independence and operating costs. Indefinitely. Meanwhile, the donations are used to grow these assets, lobbying work and for the way above average salaries of its employees. Don't get suckered into donating to the Wikimedia Foundation by their call to action language. I'm not saying they're completely bad guys, but these calls for donations are highly disingenuous.

Hope it'll be called USNS Covfefe.

My nephew has badgered me into playing Satisfactory. At least he's the one having fun building the factory while I'm mostly off killing stuff, doing research and crafting equipment. The factory's a jumbled mess of conveyor belts and pipelines and storage containers. Pretty much what you'd expect from a 12 year old.

I think it would be better to change the runs to Pindleskin grindnig. Title the film Chasing Zod and could sprinkle interviews with people who actualy found a Zod in between, lots of social media coverage by people who faked finding a Zod until they made it, and interviews with a bunch of grinders who still believe that the game isn't rigged. I'd also suggest a libertarian view from Guard Dog and an interview with Hurlshot just to make sure you get a dose of that utterly unwarranted optimism. And you have a great exploration of the human condition in capitalist America in 2025 via video game allegory. Might even win you a prize or two.

Diablo's story is more developed than that of any Soulsborne game, not counting Sekiro as it isn't truly one.

Jeanine Pirro looks like she's working really hard to not burst out in laughter.

Serves me right for enganging with you in the first place, I guess. Nice goalpost shifting.

There is nothing specific about 2028 in that video. Rewatch it. He is just asked about his successor. Perhaps there's more context in the full interview, but the context is simply not there in the snippet Ben Shapiro posted. One would think if there were something more substantial for this to serve as a clear rebuttal, he would have posted that part too. Ben Shapiro is an obsequious toad, but not a complete idiot. As it stands, this means nothing. A successor is needed for Trump anyway, regardless of how many terms he wants or can run or how long he'll be in office. Sheesh.

Sure, except that Ben Shapiro only imagines that Trump said anything about not wanting to go for a third term in that video. Trump is not asked about a third term and he is not talking about not running for a third term - he's just rambling about who his successor might be after being asked exactly that.

This is going to be good, an 80 hour experimental movie with no plot that consists of the protagonist wantonly killing thousands of creatures because the Gloam-Eyed Queen told them to.

No, he's not. He is saying exactly what he means, i.e. he wants to be dictator perpetuo. Except, well, I don't see the senate taking care of that problem in this day and age.

There's also the problem that people are somewhat unable to deal with more abstract concepts, especially large numbers. We had the case of former FPÖ party leader Strache who was filmed while talking about making deals with the niece of a Russian oligarch. Except, well, there was no niece and no oligarch, and it was just a trap. While that ultimately forced him out of the government at the time (at the behest of the coalition party), the wider public opinion of him only started to shift once reports came in that he was using taxpayer money to pay for Clash of Clans. Offer a random, supposedly Russian, woman with deep pockets billions in public contracts in exchange for her buying his party favorable media coverage? Well, why not, they're all bad, that is just part of the game. Misappropriating party funds to pay for his 3000€ / month Clash of Clans bill? Bring out the pitchforks, he's not one of us, he's spending more on a mobile game than most of us make a month. Saw plenty of something similar during the COVID-19 vaccination campaigns when politicians started to talk about how 50% of all hospitalized patients were vaccinated, claiming that the vaccines don't work. I mean, sure, when half of the patients in the hospital (and close to all of them in intensive care) come from the much smaller part of the population that is unvaccinated... but people gobbled it up nonetheless, after all, with an even split in patients? Edit: Trump being able to scam his cultists (and people with too much money when paying for an invite to a party with bad food and barely any presence by Trump) with his meme coin without backlash but causing some - even if very, very mild- criticism and bewilderment amongst his own base when accepting an obvious bribe in the form of a plane is like that too. A plane as a bribe, that's something tangible, something people can understand more readily. It should not be, but such is the world we live in.

No, Trump's always funny, just not in the ha ha sense.