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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

Yup.

Best kart/racer combination in the game is genuinely one of the Bowser ones, due to having the lowest acceleration and highest top speed in the game.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 54 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (4 children)

I'll add some context, as I actually own a Switch 2 and Mario Kart World.

The game is full of "intermission tracks", where the next race starts at the previous track and you effectively drive to the next track for the first two laps, then complete a single lap of the destination track. For example, in the Mushroom Cup, rather than start the second race at Crown City, you'd instead start at Mario Bros Circuit (the 1st track in the cup), drive to Crown City for two "laps" then complete a single lap of Crown City.

Many people voted Random in online multiplayer instead of picking one of the three interconnecting tracks, because the intermission tracks frankly suck for the most part, and are just straight-line roads. By picking Random, the game would actually pick a completely different course and you'd do a standard 3-lap race, like you would by selecting the course in Time Trial mode.

At least that's what used to happen, before the latest patch.... Now, random actually picks one of the three interconnecting courses, and no longer picks a random course.

To be honest, I think intermission tracks only really work in Free Roam and Knockout Tour. It doesn't feel innovative to effectively drive to the next racetrack when you still have to wait between race results and loading screens.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Depends on what changed. Axis victory would have hinged on three possible outcomes:

  • The United States staying out of the conflict (no Pearl Harbour assault, no German u-boat attacks on American vessels, and Hitler & Mussolini not declaring war on the USA in response to the US declaration of war on Japan.)
  • Operation Barbarossa not happening.
  • British defeat or withdrawal from the war.

In a scenario where the Japanese never attacked Pearl Harbour and never dragged the USA into the conflict, Hitler may have been able to eventually conquer Britain, turn his efforts towards Operation Barbarossa and take control of the entire European continent, along with parts of Asia. The Holocaust would likely have still happened, as the Final Solution was put in place six months prior to the Battle of Stalingrad, which turned the tide of the war in our current timeline.

Lack of US involvement leads to a scenario where nuclear weapons would not have been invented until much later, as Germany had not actually been working on weapons of mass destruction, and the Manhattan Project would never have occurred. World War III would likely have been fought between the Nazis/Japanese and Soviets, while the US would have remained isolationist.

A scenario where Operation Barbarossa never happens (neither Hitler nor Stalin attack each other) may be different. Hitler consolidates his European gains, never attacks the Soviet Union and focuses his efforts purely on the United States and Africa, securing many wins without his armies being stretched so thin. In that scenario, Jews are likely exiled to penal colonies established in Africa or the Middle East, from lands conquered from the British. The Holocaust may happen further down the line, but some historians think it was the unique wartime conditions on the Eastern Front that led to the Final Solution being considered - Nazi Germany actually tried resettling Jews in other lands prior to WW2.

British withdrawal (Hitler negotiating peace with Churchill) or defeat (Nazi Germany winning the Battle for Britain) may have led to Operation Barbarossa happening sooner, and with the Soviet Union not so far along in their industralization efforts, they would have likely lost Stalingrad, Petrograd and possibly Moscow. It either would have been a long and bloody war of attrition or a swift Soviet loss.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I'm not against polyamory, but I find it never works out when somebody decides to open up a previously monogamous relationship.

A (former) close friend of mine got engaged a few years back, and then his fiancé brought a third into the relationship and they became a throuple. That relationship lasted maybe another year or two, until she called off the engagement several days after his mother passed away, and left him for the other guy while he was grieving.

Found out sometime later that the third she brought into their relationship was actually her cousin, so there was definitely some Sweet Home Alabama crap going on.

Another friend of mine tried to commit suicide recently after getting dumped. Her relationship with her boyfriend of ~2 years had been rocky to say the least. They broke up, got back together, etc quite a few times, but the most recent breakup was after he brought a third into the relationship, then allegedly found out she was texting a guy and dumped her on the spot.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

On Reddit, yes. To the point where I've actually had to self-censor a lot of my comments and tip-toe around certain topics to avoid my comments being nuked from orbit by Automoderator.

Lemmy? Not really.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Lemmy is full of tankies and Linux nerds. It's a different kind of toxic to what you'd experience over on Reddit.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent was pretty damn good.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

If you think the midterms are going to be democratic in nature, you've still got another 17 months of Trump's current bullshit to consider.

By the time he's done, those elections are going to be about as "fair and balanced" as a Fox News broadcast.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm more surprised at how heavily everyone in Boise and Dallas showed up.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

India are also still doing business with Russia.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

If Operation Spiders' Web is more than just an isolated attack on Russia's air bases and is continuing to strike deep into Russian soil, then this has serious potential to finally bring Putin to the negotiating table.

Other than that, I think this will be a bloody war of attrition that Zelenskyy has no chance of winning.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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