“Barely” feels a little unfair. But the games that do require tweaking do tend to require doing a fair bit of research. Often rather daunting research.

I didn’t know about it either, but when I heard about it before nitro fueled released I knew what they were talking about.

It was more of something I felt but didn’t fully grasp at the time. Like a “boost as much as possible and the boost gets way better” thing.

They absolutely were. There are even videos describing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od-OQGOXtfY

I know right? “The Karters 2” on steam feels very similar though!

CTR did have that. I don’t remember how it compared to Mario kart though.

CTR had much more depth.

CTR also rewarded you for understanding the mechanics more. Some boost pads gave you a boost with a higher top speed (blue flame). If you knew how to maintain a boost, you could maintain that blue-flame boost indefinitely.

It’s just that to do that you had to hit nearly every boost pad, triple boost at nearly every corner, and avoid all the obstacles (including touching walls). It’s hard to maintain it, but even maintaining it for a little bit can really launch you towards the front.

CTR had two methods of play:

1. Casually playing a kart game and using fun items.

2. Learning the mechanics of nitro reserves to maintain a high top speed for as long as possible.

You start at 1 until you realize 2 exists.

Met this Amish person once, didn’t even known what Linux was. The heathen.

Yeah I really don’t think they would do that. At least right now, in the middle of the year 2025, valve still seems to be making very consumer-friendly choices.

Thank you!

A lot of (if not all) of those “real” images have postprocessing that makes them look fake. AI uses fake postprocessing to make things look real. Its like taking a real thing and a fake thing and applying a filter to both so that they meet in the middle.

I get the point, but also, if they want a better comparison they should exclude “real” images with filters, faked depth of field, bloom, etc. applied.

Edit: all right, so it’s not as exaggerated as I thought. On the ones that look really conniving I wonder how much was “generated.” Was it just a face swap or eyes or whatnot?

(You’re good, steam deck 2 soon is very unlikely)

Forget that, it’ll have TF3.

Did PlayStation ever make a public statement about why there is an outage? Like what caused it?

Bigger market share! Bigger market share!

What?

Web results only? As compared to what? AI results? What’s in the first tab? You’re… searching the web for results. What else would be in the first tab??

Edit: I haven’t used Google in a while. I just searched “who is Dr dre” on mobile. That’s a lot of boxes. Wikipedia box, albums box, songs box, people also search for box, videos box, you really gotta scroll down before you get to the results. Google doesn’t really link you to the answer anymore, it just answers you. Wow.

After super monkey ball 2, the aesthetic of the game started to… not appeal to me. It got all pastelly and rainbowy.

This is a little bit of a step back, and I dig it a little more.

All characters have that. Hit tab to open team view, and on the upper right of each characters window there’s a little checkbox to toggle it on and off. Camp armor and regular armor.

Blur, the racing game from 2010. It’s like Mario kart but with realism. It’s abandonware now, you’ll have to pick it up from an abandonware website…

But it’s REALLY FUN.