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Thank you Justin for playing with the peach mii suit and peach herself it made my day

1:14:56 There are bad mushrooms, and then there's this. Not only do you hit a lamppost, *YOU ALSO HIT KOSEKI BIJOU!* You monster! 🗿 Since this wasn't addressed during the stream, I thought I should repeat myself in the comments for the VOD. Enjoy. 😆

Time for Part 3 of commentary. 40:50 *BOING!* Shy Guy stilt hop! 41:39 Another possible reenactment, similar to the second-to-last timestamp from Part 2. Only this time you're far enough back for your part of the reenactment, but this still isn't Koopa Cape and you still didn't ask for a Bullet Bill, making this one also incomplete. 42:54 Just because the Yoshi-themed courses from before the Booster Pass are better doesn't make this one cursed. Now that ? cloud might make this one cursed. 👀 45:24 Bowser would have hit at least one of those item boxes. Just putting that out there, since this was filmed before last night's tournament. 45:49 Yay for Yoshi Valley! ❤ 45:55 I wonder how Matthew feels about... MILK. 🤔 46:10 Just timestamping this for... let's just say "reasons". 👀 46:49 To be fair, nothing particularly matters until getting an item on the final lap anyway, which is similar to Dry Dry Desert, but unlike Dry Dry Desert, there's lots of fun to be had with Yoshi Valley all throughout the course (and the "alternate alternate route" is just the latest example of such fun), which is why Yoshi Valley is #1 and Dry Dry Desert is #91 on my ranking of the 96 courses. 47:02 It seems that some of my previous insight into Yoshi Valley (on a video or stream a while back) is inaccurate. There are actually 2 coins here, when I had incorrectly stated there were none on this path as my reasoning for saying this path was one of the 2 worst routes to take through the maze. I still stand by the claim that this is one of the 2 worst routes of the maze (if I didn't actually say it in the comment being referenced by this update/correction, I'm saying it here), but it's the better of the 2 worst routes because it has the coins that I overlooked when making the comment that had inaccurate information. The other route, the one that's even worse, is turn right first, then a hard left to still end up only getting 2 coins while taking a slower route when compared to this one. That said, I don't recall saying either of these routes is actually "bad". Depending on the traffic and item spam, either of these routes could prove to situationally be the best on a given lap. Even during a "final lap" That's a reason I already addressed throughout my comments over the years, primarily here and on Games with Alex, for why Yoshi Valley is the best course in the game. 47:35 To address something you say 3 seconds later, that shock also gave Funky Kong a massive advantage. 47:56 It's actually not as bad a sign as Matthew might think. The first item set is allegedly "broken", as first place only needs to be *on* the bridge for players at the item set to be able to get a ⭐ while first place having just finished crossing the bridge is enough for players in 9th place (in a 12-player room) at the item set to be able to get Lightning. 49:20 Voodoo. Wonderful, my magic. Pay attention to Funky Kong to see why I chose an Insane Clown Posse song lyric for commentary here. 49:36 The sounds of life! I know you have your differences with Funky Kong, but this and the "tranquilo" trick animation are why I just can't bring myself to dislike him. He's the only Kong in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe I can honestly say that about, and that's only because my favorite Kong of all, Cranky, isn't in the game. 50:03 Watah in the fiyah... *WHY?!?* Did you throw those fireballs specifically for me to offer tribute to Inugami Korone in my commentary? 👀 Less than 5 seconds later, we have cause for more singing. 🎼 Fire fire, light the fire. Brighter, higher, as you desire. Chasing all that we aspire. Spreading out like wildfire. 🎶 51:04 Nice top 3 again. 👏 51:49 Looks like a silly jellybean got hungry for a 🍌. 53:14 *M O R T I S* for Donkey. 💣👀💥🪦 After what Seth Rogen did to his voice, part of me wants to say "hasn't Donkey suffered enough?" but the other part of me is holding Nintendo responsible for that vocal disaster because, for all of his flaws (and there are *many* of those), Seth did say he was going to just use his regular voice for Donkey and Nintendo hired him for the voice role anyway. Which is one of the reasons why the entire English voice cast (aside from Chris Pratt and perhaps Anya Taylor Joy) has me refusing to watch the movie unless I can get the Japanese voices. Welp. Looks like that's the end of commentary. Enjoy.

Here's Part 2 of commentary. 18:20 Okay, Goomba. 18:31 and 18:47 See brainrot from the fifth timestamp in Part 1. 🗿 18:40 I take it that Matthew was unaware of the fact that you recorded this and it's now uploaded for my ears to hear. 19:43 and 22:52 Apparently Shigeru is a fan of the gyatt. 20:57 I'm guessing a wild Snow King appeared in between the previous race and this one. 22:30 Perhaps I need to introduce Matthew to an Indonesian blacksmith. 🤔 24:06 I'm normally against slander of London Loop, but Snow King and his countrymen (which includes Huey, of course, but I don't know what Huey's opinion of the course is) get a pass. 😆 24:51 *M O R T I S* , and an unexpected one at that. 💣💥🪦 I was caught by surprise a bit myself. I expected a slightly smaller blast radius that would have given you just enough space to avoid being timestamped here. 25:31 Looked like Snow King tried driving off to avoid the Spiny Shell, but the shell was patient enough to hit when Jugem dropped him back on the track. Truly, a worst-case scenario for both him and you, as if things had gone as he planned, neither of you would have been hit. Of course, that's based on the video footage here showing what actually happened from his perspective. Only Snow King himself knows for sure if that was what happened or not. 25:42 It's easy to say in hindsight, but the global cycle had you in line with that rising fire because you chose the rightmost path (leftmost on any other cc, but this is Mirror). I believe this is an alternate take on "fired fired, let's get fired". 27:17 I need to practice the left side of this section, but since it may only ever actually matter for me in a time trial and I'm not all that interested in messing with my current ghosts (either 150cc or 200cc), I find myself lacking the motivation to actually practice here. 27:26 Nearly a self *M O R T I S* moment. 💣👀 27:55 and 39:12 Matthew's not beating the Sam allegations, is he... See fourth timestamp from Part 1, then see these timestamps. 29:20 Never mind Peachette. What about Daisy? 34:48 The one thing I don't like about Sydney Sprint is how a quick glance at the starting line without taking in the full picture makes it look too much like The Atrocity. 35:16 Seeing as Snow King is in these races, the philosophy my older brother taught me doesn't apply to what Matthew's doing here. Now when we blame Matthew for all the Shy Guy incidents, that's putting the philosophy to full effect, as Matthew isn't actually around when being blamed. That philosophy? "Blame the person who isn't here." 😆 37:24 and 39:28 Please do not cancel Justin for the words spoken by Matthew. Justin is not responsible for anything that comes out of Matthew's mouth. 37:53 As I said in commentary for yesterday's tournament, I need to practice bagging here. As stated in that commentary, I have unfinished business with Nekomata Okayu as it relates to this course. But with my luck, I may end up opening a new chapter with Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame, Gigi Murin, Cecilia Immergreen, and/or Raora Panthera before a rematch with Okayu happens. 😆 Which is fine if that ends up happening. ❤ 38:08 Foreshadowing. 38:16 Train hop! Timestamp is a second early because I want to get your full commentary for the train hop, and it's entirely possible that a syllable gets lost by making the timestamp a second later. 😆 39:18 Apparently Matthew isn't the only one who's not beating the Sam allegations. 👀 39:47 (almost mixed up the 9 and 7 on this timestamp, which would have been bad) If this had been Koopa Cape, if you had been asking for a Bullet Bill, and if you and Snow King were both further back from first place, this would have been a pure reenactment of the most infamous Bullet Bill I ever saw, with you playing the part of Hakos Baelz and Snow King playing the part of FUWAMOCO. 40:00 Nice top 3. 👏 Even more so with that Bullet Bill incident in the previous timestamp. *BAU BAU!* 🐾 As this is the end of another race, it's probably best to break off commentary here and hopefully wrap things up in Part 3. Which is the plan, but there may be a Part 4 if there's a lot left to say and not enough room in only 3 comments. 😆

Matthew's good at making friends and enemies. Depending on the topic, he's made both out of me at one time or another. 😆 Case in point, the chat during the livestream yesterday. I won't rehash the conversation, as that's one where he made an enemy out of me, resulting in my refusal to pick Shy Guy Falls when it showed up in the tournament. A little teaser for my full tournament commentary when you get around to those 3 lengthy messages (and a short fourth one, which you might not want to actually address, considering that was a horrible race for you). Anyway... on to commentary for *this* video. 0:08 As am I, Matthew. As am I. 0:39 I hear some happy Koopa Troopa sounds. Even though the meta change technically made Koopa Troopa more viable, I've found that I'm only using Huge Island in single-player mode these days. It may be for the best, since a large part of what makes my builds silly is how rarely I actually use any one particular build, and preserving the silly and the cute of my favorite build will only serve to make it all the more special when I decide to take it out for a friend room or tournament spin. 0:46 That "talent" is *the* biggest reason why I don't go into Worldwide or Regional races as well as why I get so frustrated when I find myself in friend rooms in most other Mario Kart communities. It's also what makes the Hololive Mario Kart sessions my favorites to join, as most of the players there are only interested in having fun, which fits in nicely with my driving style whereas the "talent" Matthew mentions is the bane of my driving style's existence. No community is "perfect", but our community here and the Hololive communities come pretty darn close. ❤ 0:53 I thought this was a collab with Matthew, not Sam. 👀 1:06 I heard "gyatt" from Matthew. As such, I must invoke... the brainrot. *LET'S GO!* 🎼 Stickin' out your gyatt for Nerizzler. You're so BAU BAU. You're so Biboo tax. I just wanna be your Shiori. 🎶 Disclaimer: I don't want to be a bookmark. 🖤🤍 2:38 *BONK!* 2:55 If only Holst Sigiswald Goneril had *these* mushrooms, maybe he would have been able to better contribute to an important meeting for the Leicester Alliance. Instead, he had some bad mushrooms, prompting his sister Hilda Valentine Goneril to say "leave it to my brother to eat some bad mushrooms right before an important meeting". 3:04 There's no Blooper, but I had one heck of a Bob-Omb during last night's tournament. Just ask Lexus and Tyler, as they were on the receiving end of that *M O R T I S* moment. 💥🪦🪦 As for Matthew, James Storm might have something to say about this sequence. " *SORRY!* About your damn luck." 4:03 Your question about bagging has the same energy as when Claude von Riegen said "Is it Claude time? I think it's Claude time". 😆 4:57 and 15:24 Fired fired, let's get fired. 5:42 Now singin' bling bang bang bling bang bang bling bang bang born. Bling bang bang bling bang bang bling bang bang born. Bling bang bang bling bang bang bling bang bang born. To the next. To the ichiban ue. Sorry. Ever since that song was released, that's where my mind goes upon seeing Tick-Tock Clock. Might have something to do with the arm motions for the dance resembling a fast-moving pendulum. 👀 It's also funny how FUWAMOCO singing Bling Bang Bang Born is among my recommendations while watching this video. *BAU BAU!* 💙🐾❤ 6:13 *CLANG!* 7:47 F I wonder if referring to Yoshi as "the demon Yoshi" earlier had anything to do with this. Perhaps the "favoritism" applies to whether the player has kind thoughts or ill will toward Yoshi. As someone who's been known to frequently use "Time Warden Yoshi" and may need to use Pink Yoshi (in "Sorry I'm So Cute In Pink") and White Yoshi (in a yet-to-be-named build, as I need to spend more time with Ninomae Ina'nis to come up with a proper name for the build in which this color Yoshi is being used) more as well, perhaps my kind thoughts toward Yoshi have had something to do with Justice being on my side last night. 😆 8:39 I'm also appalled. The only part of the old meta that hasn't stuck around for the current meta is the one part of the old meta that I actually liked seeing. 😠 11:05 It's kinda cute how the Waluigi player's name is "Dad". It does tie in to the idea of the Walu Biddy player not updating his game. 13:10 That was Donkey you chomped. That had to feel good once you realized what happened. 14:32 Maple Treeway! Yay for Wigglers! After Tour Guide commentary, I'm probably going to break off commentary into at least 2 parts, possibly even 3 if there's a lot to say after this race ends. 15:08 and 16:07 (in Tour Guide voice) If you look straight ahead, you can see two happy Wigglers in their natural habitat. 15:21 (back to normal voice) Hey now, Matthew. Commentary on Wiggler butt started in 2023, maybe even late 2022, depending on when we first saw Maple Treeway added to 8 Deluxe. 17:04 (in Tour Guide voice again) If you look straight ahead, you can see a happy Wiggler in its natural habitat, but if you look over to your right, you can see Wiggler butt. (back to normal voice) Okay. Matthew has a point about "Remy, 2024". 17:43 Oh look. Dad won. Now whenever I make a dad joke, which happens a lot, I can take comfort in knowing I also won this Maple Treeway race. 😆 As stated when Maple Treeway started, the end of the race is the end of Part 1 of commentary. As there are still about 40 minutes left of video, there will likely be 3 parts to commentary this time, but Part 2 might be the end or there might be a Part 4.

Oh! There will be a Part 4 after all, but feel free to skip it, since I doubt you want to relive this race. 1:59:03 If that was *my* Bob-Omb, I may end up getting rid of the Madrid Drive Bob-Omb replay and replacing it with this one. *M O R T I S* for what may have been 1/4, or maybe even 1/3, the room. 🪦 1:59:38 Welp... here's another *M O R T I S* moment. I sure hope that wasn't my Bob-Omb, but I can't shake the feeling that it was. Thus commentary has officially reached its conclusion, as there are no races left after this one.

Time for Part 3 of commentary, which I hope will be the final part, as there's only 25 minutes left in the VOD. 1:39:08 I'm playing as FFW. Sam's nowhere to be seen. Yoshi Valley and the Wiggler courses aren't available. Why *wouldn't* I pick Mount Wario under these conditions? 😆 Also, Shigeru has been picking my courses more often than he should be in this tournament. I wonder if this has anything to do with Justice being on my side. 👀🤔 1:40:31 I'm pretty sure the worst one is actually the cow suit. I never liked that one. As for Mega Man, that's in my *top* 3 Mii suits and is the only one of the 3 that I don't actually have for myself. The others are Captain Falcon and the Varia Suit, with Varia at #1, Captain Falcon at #2, and Mega Man at #3. If you've seen my Mute City and Big Blue 150cc time trials, you know I have the Captain Falcon suit. As for the Varia Suit, I might need to use it with my primary Mii sometime, but since I have so many other Miis (54 in total after adding the one with my 150cc Sunshine Airport PB), I prefer not using my primary one when I'm using a Mii to actually race. 1:41:03 That was my Lightning. Based on where everybody is, I may have been a bit early, but at least nobody ahead of me was able to use a speed item to take the cut. 1:41:19 I end up having more than a few George of the Jungle moments in this segment. When FFW actually gets here, that is. 1:43:06 Alternate alternate route time for wind! Let's *BEEP* ing go! Also, yay for Yoshi Valley! ❤ And it came from a Random, which means it couldn't have possibly come from me. 😆 -Unless it landed on me the times I misclicked on Random a few months back, once because I didn't get my build set in time to actually pick a course and again the very next race because the cursor wasn't where I expected it to be when I was trying to pick Madrid Drive as quickly as possible.- 1:43:38 You see FFW going right. This gives me the option of going my usual "first lap coins" route, which would get me 3 coins if I hit all of them and make my way through the maze faster, or the "bagging" route, which would get me 4 coins if I hit all of them and an extra item box that isn't available on any other route of the maze. By watching the minimap, you can see which route I take. 1:43:59 I was aware enough of your Ankle-Biter to stay wide this lap. My preferred line is the coin line if the coins are available or a tight line if the coins are already taken. Lexus took 2 of the coins, so I probably would have gone tight if it was safe to do so. 1:44:10 I can't tell if I have Father Boo or not, which means I don't know if I was the thief or if it was somebody else. 1:44:29 If only Snow King had waited another second, maybe 2 more seconds, I could have been on the bridge with my ⭐ active. Yes that Lightning was his. I already confirmed by watching the video replay on my Switch. 1:45:34 It's difficult to tell from the minimap, but NEON was going to take the double item set and I couldn't afford to slow down for it to regenerate, so I had to settle for a single item. Shigeru decided to bless me with a Bullet Bill. And I didn't even have to ask for one like Hakos Baelz did at Koopa Cape. Good thing, too, since if I had asked for one, Lexus probably would have FUWAMOCO'd me into last place with a Bullet. A few seconds later, you see somebody use Lightning, and I'm almost frame-perfect with the Bullet dodge. Yet another example of Justice being on my side on the day this was streamed. 1:45:52 Now you know how wind felt when I was Bugenhagen last year. At least I was *INNONCENT* ("typo" intentional, as it's a Shiori Novella inside joke) this time. You saw me with a single 🍄 of my own right beside you. As for your use of Fire Flower, I guess our bump messed up your aim, and that's how you ended up not incinerating me and ruining my race on my favorite course. In all honesty, I'm not sure if there was a bump on my screen while the race was live, nor did I see any fire heading my way. I only saw the fire on the left side of the final straightaway, so remembering that and seeing you were the one throwing the fire, I thought you were either aiming for that part of the straightaway or intentionally avoiding me with the fire, but watching this footage debunks both of those possibilities. Whatever the case, I now have this race and my win at Animal Crossing as 2 new starred races, one replacing Rosalina's Ice World from the last time I raced during one of your streams and the other replacing the 4-player Yoshi Valley race (because this one had a larger player size and filled out the 12 racer spots with COMs while that one was just 4 players and no COMs). 1:46:48 I picked Tokyo Blur because somebody needed to, and I think wind got shuffled out of the room. After learning how you feel about Vancouver Velocity (by reading the chat near the end of the stream), this could be yet another case of Justice being on my side, as I likely would have been among those who picked Vancouver if I was confident somebody else was going to pick Tokyo. The Streetle, and perhaps the Retro Off-Road tires as well, aren't suited for the Anti-Gravity track of Mute City. 1:48:25 Are you a magnet for when I throw a 🍌 forward? I think I was trying to get a midair snipe on Lexus for taking the double items, but there's no denying that you end up driving into the 🍌 on the track after landing, and there's no denying that 🍌 was the one I threw here. 1:48:46 Somebody was backing fire from beyond the bridge, and it's a minor miracle that FFW didn't need the Lethal Company parody. However, a few seconds later, that very parody certainly applies to you. Fired fired, let's get fired. 1:49:24 Why does your Bullet decide to expire here, right as you're about to make contact with Morton the Moron? 👀 1:50:59 I still need to get better at bagging here. Especially if I end up getting into another room with Nekomata Okayu when she decides to practice for the 2025 New Year Cup. I have some... unfinished business... with her in regard to this course, seeing as I'm 0-1 against her, this is the location of that race, and she's the only one among my Hololive cameos where I have 0 wins in a head-to-head comparison with the talents themselves. Of course, Okayu *is* part of the "Gamers" generation of the JP branch, so her finishing ahead of me back in January isn't too surprising in that context. 1:53:18 At this point, I said "at least tell me I finished ahead of Quick", because I knew I was getting a bad finish. Sure enough, I did. Barely. But that's yet another example of Justice being on my side on the day this was streamed. 1:53:37 I think this is the third time Hyrule Circuit showed up during the tournament options. Maybe it was only the second time. In any case, I picked something I liked better the other time, but when I saw the other options were Mario Kart Stadium and Rock Rock Mountain, I couldn't help but say "fine, I'll pick Hyrule Circuit this time". Strangely enough, Mario Kart Stadium works out for me quite well this time. If I had the room for the additional starred race, it would have been the third new one added as a result of this stream. But I couldn't bring myself to delete the replay of my 200cc Singapore Speedway race where I led from start to finish or the Madrid Drive Bob-Omb that got Stickman and Jacob, and I certainly can't get rid of my Merry Mountain or Peach Gardens replays, as the Merry Mountain replay was the one referred to near the beginning of Part 2 while the Peach Gardens replay was me using Maximum Gyatt to defeat the Ravencroft sisters (Nerissa and Aradia) and the Jailbirds in our lobby to be my first win in a race in which a Hololive talent had participated (which is different than having a win against the talent herself, as it's possible to beat the talent without also winning the race if somebody else in the room takes first place). 1:56:26 Lexus probably isn't happy with you for that Spiny Shell. That's why he didn't win here. I had a front row seat to the Spiny Shell hitting him, but far enough back to avoid being caught in the blast myself, then needing to miraculously avoid a Super Horn from wind to barely cross the finish line ahead of him. As I said in the previous timestamp, this would have been added to my starred races if I had the room to do so, but I already had to make room for Animal Crossing and Yoshi Valley and there was no way I could make room for another special race after adding those two. One race left, and it's a Vancouver repick. With how lengthy commentary has gotten here, I'm not going to say anything about the race unless I see something from your perspective that I completely missed while it was live. Whether this concludes commentary or if the Vancouver repick gets its own entry as Part 4 will depend on what I see in your video footage.

Here's Part 2 of commentary on the VOD. 1:23:52 It's also pretty easy for my build, too. If I recall correctly, the water slides provide a boost to Underwater Speed while the rest of the course benefits your max Anti-Gravity Speed. I could be mistaken about the water slides, but I struggled on Dolphin Shoals when that was supposed to benefit max Underwater Speed. Maybe Big Blue would have worked out for me despite the Streetle not being all that great on anti-gravity. 1:24:31 I have a much more fond memory of this course on New Year's Day than we're about to see here, but my finish here isn't really all that bad compared to the ones I had in the earlier races. 1:26:02 Why am I thinking of a NSFW meme? Is it because Baby Peach and the lone girl in said meme are both blonde? 👀 Hey. Sam didn't show up tonight, so somebody's gotta make the dirty jokes. At least I'm more subtle about them than he is. 😆 1:26:48 ggfortyt is the guilty party. And I was hoping it would have been FFW, since Quick is the one who got hit. 1:27:20 I was 6th, Quick was 7th, and ggfortyt was 11th. In the grand scheme of things, this is better "revenge" than what I had been hoping for in the previous timestamp. 😆 1:28:25 Darn you, Justin. Even getting Toad's Turnpike from a Random would have been better than this. Even if I'm just splitting hairs by saying this, I'm still right. 1:29:14 🎼 Fire fire, light the fire. Brighter, higher, as you desire. Chasing all that we aspire. Spreading out like wildfire. 🎶 Yeah. That Fire Flower was mine. Had it not been, I'd have gone with the Lethal Company parody commentary instead of actually singing Rebellion. 1:30:16 That red shell may have also been mine, but I'm less sure of that. The circumstantial evidence seems to point in my direction, as I'm the first player to pass you after the hit. 1:31:43 *OHH...* 🍌 1:32:04 I think you can figure out why I picked Rosalina's Ice World. My last race there was a full clinic on how *not* to play the course, and I still managed to get second place. 🤣 1:32:30 I asked for winter once I saw it land here. Justice was on my side, as not only did we get winter, I ended up winning the race. Oh, and that's a pun that ties into the opening of Part 1 of commentary. 😎 1:33:29 See 5 timestamps ago for the follow-up lyrics. 😉 1:33:35 If you look on the minimap, you can see Lexus spinning. That was because I was jettisoning my triple reds to get to my triple 🍄. In hindsight, that may not have been the smartest play on my part, but I don't often get to take the cut, and even less often without Resetti interfering, so I wanted to take the opportunity while I knew I could. While Royal Raceway may or may not have been more intentional, as I don't know for sure what was going through my mind during that ⭐, this one is 100% a case of Lexus being in the wrong place at the wrong time. 1:33:51 As that Spiny Shell was going for Quick, it turns out that James Storm has some words for Stickman. *SORRY!* About your damn luck. 1:34:14 From this point forward, the lead was mine and I didn't give it up, though Stickman would come close to stealing victory right at the finish line by using double reds when I only had one item for protection after the final items of the race. 1:34:56 Looks like a "bad 🍄 saved you from Stickman's second red shell. If you had been my meat shield, there would have been less drama for my victory, but I think it's better this way. I still won. Stickman still finished second. If you were my meat shield, you probably would not have finished third. I think this win mellowed me out a bit, as I was malding for much of the tournament up to this point (see end of Royal Raceway and the middle of the first lap of Jank Jank Summit, among other incidents that point to said malding). 1:35:27 I thought about picking Bangkok Rush here solely because Sam wasn't around, but I decided to go with "LA but actually good" instead. I wouldn't have minded Yoshi Circuit, but I probably would have had a bad finish there. Not that I was confident in having a good finish on any of these, but I was more sure of a bad finish at Yoshi Circuit than I was at the other options, which is why I never considered picking it this time. 1:37:20 I had a similar issue on this exact spot on the final lap, which is one of the reasons why Stickman would go on to finish ahead of me here. The other reason is pretty obvious. He's a much better player than I am. 1:38:07 While you're preoccupied with Lexus allegedly going out of his way to hit you with the ⭐ (based on his line, I'm pretty sure he wasn't going out of his way, which is why I added "allegedly" on commentary), a Wiggler COM decides to hit you with a squishality. 1:38:44 You can see me struggling to stay on the side before falling off. Had I not fallen, there's a chance (albeit not a very good one) that I would have been able to pass Stickman at the end. 1:38:53 Apparently I passed Tyler right at the finish line, as I was expecting to finish 6th but ended up with 5th. This bit of happenstance will be where Part 2 ends. Got a Part 3 coming, so stay tuned for that.

Sorry for the late VOD commentary. Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame and Gigi Murin demanded my attention, and I wasn't going to deny them when I'm actually aware of debuts this time around. 😆 Since you thanked me for introducing you to Koseki Bijou and FUWAMOCO (I recently learned they want the name in all caps to show that they are together, hence the full capitalization and not how I had previously been typing their name), I think you're going to love Gigi every bit as much. She's kind of a gremlin. Wait. "Kind of"? That might be an understatement. 🤣 Anyway... on to the commentary. 1:02:19 Starting off with a Random that sends us to my fourth-favorite course. Yay for the adorable sleepyhead Wiggler! ❤ If only it was also my fourth-best course... 💔 1:02:44 FFW's burnout was intentional, as this is a known Bagger. At least the plan started out going well. 1:03:13 There's the sleepyhead! Over to the right! ❤ 1:03:40 That 🍌 was not intended specifically for you. It was meant for *somebody* taking a tight Goomba line. I think it did get somebody a few seconds after this timestamp, but I don't know for sure and can't check my recent races because this was the first of the 16-race tournament and only the 12 most recent races are stored. 1:03:52 Don't ask about FFW's driving or item use. I couldn't tell you what was going on in my brain. All I know for sure is this is a "bad 🍄". 1:04:32 Wiggler hop! Also, good morning, happy Wiggler. Did you sleep well? 1:05:46 To the Mall, boys! 🥥 1:06:10 Well this is unfortunate. Now I've got *another* reason why I doubt my newest Mii should be used in any of these tournaments. Even though 2009's Modern Warfare 2 inspired the Mii and the "second rule of Sunshine Airport", the Mii actually looks like the one German it shouldn't. At least tonight's tournament theme meant I had to go with FFW (or Dry Bowser or Funky Kong, as they share stats), as the Mii would be Medium in size and thus not be eligible for maximizing any stat. Of course, if I had decided to use Captain Bikke in the Landship, the aesthetics would have been different but it would still be a "max Underwater Speed" build because Bikke is a Mii of Heavy size. But if I was going to use a Mii at all, I had hoped for it to be the newest one before coming to the realization that it looked like a certain someone. You'll notice I haven't dropped any names about this actual Mii, neither who he actually is nor the German to whom he apparently bears a strong resemblance. Well... the German is pretty obvious, but if you get around to responding to these timestamps, I might reply to your reply to name drop the new Mii. Who already has my PB at Sunshine Airport, by the way. 👀 1:06:20 FFW is max Underwater Speed. Streetle, Retro Off-Road tires, and Flower Glider are the other parts. 1:06:27 Inkling Girl is not max Traction. She adds 3 to the stat while the max a driver adds is 5. Since Koopa Troopa is one of those drivers who adds 5 to Traction, I know max Traction... but I did have to look up Inkling Girl's stat to see if she matched or not. She didn't. 1:08:51 I picked Dolphin Shoals for kind of the same reason, but also the opposite reason. In other words, I did have Matthew in mind, but that's why I decided to not pick Shy Guy Falls. In hindsight, maybe Thwomp Ruins would have been better for me, considering how the Dolphin Shoals race actually went, and as Shigeru would end up picking my selection, it would have been Thwomp Ruins if I had picked that instead. 1:10:22 Oh geez... This conversation might explain why I felt targeted in a later timestamp. 👀 1:12:01 There's more to Dolphin Shoals than just "Underwater Speed good". That's all I have to say about that. 1:15:17 I have no idea who threw that. I just know it wasn't me because I was trying to burn through my Ankle-Biter from the final turn to the end of the race. I'm just glad I wasn't caught in that *M O R T I S* moment. 1:16:44 18 points through 4 races. To call this a "slow start" would be a bit of an understatement. This is actually worse than most Alex tournaments as far as the start goes. 1:18:41 And of course it's Quick throwing the shell, too. 1:20:18 If a bottom-10 course is "good", that must mean this is a fantastic game. 1:20:34 My issue is with the shortcut at the beginning of the final "lap". Those short posts don't yield to a ⭐, making that cut without a doubt the worst one to take in the entire game. If they did yield to a ⭐, it would have been one of the *best* cuts in the game and the course would be much better than it actually is as a result, as it's in the "tough-but-fair" category for 🍄 use. Because they don't yield to a ⭐, that makes the cut "unfair, in a bad way" when it comes to ⭐ cuts. 1:20:45 Another case where I should have picked Thwomp Ruins, but at least this time around Shigeru didn't punish me for my course selection. Remember what I said 7 timestamps ago? The final timestamp for this race is the one that was alluded to there. 1:21:34 Well... the doubles were just sitting there. And so were you. Meanwhile, I was driving at a natural pace (after probably getting destroyed by items during the first few turns, as I'm not sure how else I would be that far back this early in the race). 1:21:42 Stickman, the better question is... "if the roles were reversed, would *you* ⭐ *me* here?" Regardless of how Stickman would answer that question, I'm pretty sure I ended up not actually starring him here. Even if I did, it's the first lap and this is a Drafter/Bagger, so getting hit early would allow for power items to make the comeback on the various cuts. 1:22:25 I'm not sure if I was trying to hit Lexus or just going for coins. If I was trying to hit Lexus, it's because of all the times people have taken the time to go out of their way to hit me with a ⭐ (the first and perhaps most egregious was at SNES Rainbow Road during a 2021 Alex tournament, and it's happened far too many times for me to count in between then and today). If I was going for coins, Lexus was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Either way, I wasn't targeting Lexus because he's Lexus. Now if that had been NEON or Quick, on the other hand... Maybe there was some targeting going on with them tonight, but I'm not sure if there was with NEON at all (if there was, I didn't quite get everything out of my system from the time I only played 3 races, the second was at The Atrocity, and the third would have been a repick of The Atrocity if Shigeru had landed on him while he was AFK getting water) and my targeting of Quick didn't start until after this race ended. 1:23:28 If you look at the minimap, Quick backspammed red shells, and one of them took 5th away from FFW, dropping him to 9th. It might be "Mario Kart Etiquette", according to Alex, but there shouldn't be any place for backspam in a tournament that's meant to be just for fun like this one was. I'm not calling Quick a dirty player, but that was without a doubt a dirty play. Factor in the tournament I was having up to this point, and you can see why the targeting would start after this. Commentary's getting pretty long, so this might be a good place to make a break. Part 2 will be posted in a bit.

One of the most chaotic series of races I’ve ever experienced in my whole Mario Kart career, and ggs in the tournament everyone played very well

I said I was going to give some VOD commentary despite watching live, so here I am. 52:26 I've been waiting for this one for a long time, and I expected it to be the result of Father Boo taking away your Fire Flower, but this works too. Father Boo *has* to be Pero, as when he gave you the Fire Flower here, he had some choice words from Fuwawa Abyssgard for the player who originally had it. "Fire is banned. Bau bau." 1:00:57 If I had felt up for playing this time, my Koopaling of choice would have probably been Larry, and I probably would have put him in the Blue Falcon with the Hylian Kite glider. Tires would have been either Blue Standard or Azure Roller. Tires wouldn't affect the name of the build. It's "I'm Blue" either way, and it stays within the tournament rules because Larry has blue hair. If not Larry, then I don't know who I would have used or what build to make to stay within tournament rules, which is why I probably would have gone with Larry. Morton? I'd have to go Circuit Special with GLA tires and Super Glider, but I wouldn't have very good Handling with Morton in Circuit Special. Wendy? No pink tires, so there's a color violation no matter which ones I would use. Iggy? Not a fan of the color green, and I'm also not sure if the Flower Glider would be a color violation despite fitting with Iggy so much better than the Paper Glider. Roy? Same issue as Wendy. Lemmy? I could go Inkstriker or Splat Buggy with Cushion tires and either the Parachute or Parafoil glider. Ludwig? The Larry build works, but if I'm using Ludwig, I want The Duke for my vehicle body (because of John Wayne's Fifth Symphony), and that would be a color violation. 1:01:43 Fun fact. I saw a clip yesterday (before my bad 24-hour stretch started) of IRyS being introduced to the Modern Warfare 2 mission responsible for the "second rule of Sunshine Airport". Also, Merry Mountain's on the board, and that's where I made my first-ever Hololive Mario Kart cameo. On New Year's Day. With Hakos Baelz hosting. That race is also one of my 6 starred races, with the others as follows: a 4-player Yoshi Valley race featuring you and Jacob (and I don't recall off the top of my head who the 4th player was), a Peach Gardens race where I got to race against Nerissa Ravencroft and her sister Aradia (which was also my first and only victory in my Hololive cameos), the Madrid Bob-Omb that got Jacob and Stickman at the end of the first lap, last week's Rosalina's Ice World race, and using "Time Warden Yoshi" at Singapore Speedway for my most fun 200cc race ever. Needless to say, it's going to take something special in the future to get me to remove any of those stars, and there's no chance of me removing the star from Merry Mountain or Peach Gardens. 1:05:24 Why, oh why couldn't we get the "alternate alternate path" instead of Kalimari Desert? Getting Kalimari here creates a repeat situation later in the tournament, and since I'm not playing, there's no chance I mess with wind's race result at Yoshi Valley, so I have one question for Shigeru. What was the upside for going with Kalimari instead of Yoshi Valley here? 1:23:56 Most months, Dragon Driftway would be the only bad selection. This month, PPC is the only good selection. Obviously, Random is exempt from these designations because that's not actually a course. 1:24:35 Why am I hearing Oozora Subaru in the background? 1:40:33 This, as well as the next 2 timestamps (if all goes according to plan) are why I had the Tour Guide on standby. (in Tour Guide voice) If you look straight ahead, you can see two happy Wigglers in their natural habitat. (back to normal voice) Watch out for Wiggler feet, Justin! 1:41:29 (in Tour Guide voice) Once again, you can see two happy Wigglers in their natural habitat if you look straight ahead, but if you wait too long, they'll be behind us because of a Bullet Bill. 1:42:18 (still in Tour Guide voice) If you look straight ahead, you can see a happy Wiggler in its natural habitat, but if you look over to your left, you can see Wiggler butt. If you wait too long this time, your vision will be obstructed by Blooper ink. Sorry about this interruption to our Wiggler tour. 1:44:56 Awww... Mira al adorable dormilón Wiggler. ❤ 1:45:47 (technically seen 2 seconds sooner, but this timestamp works better because we can act like the upcoming Spanish phrase is being spoken *to* the Wiggler) Buenos días, feliz Wiggler. ¿Dormiste bien? That will do for VOD commentary this time. Enjoy. 😄

I doubt I have it in me to provide commentary on every race in which I was featured, but there should be a few highlights I can pluck out here or there. 1:05:42 Behold, the king of the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus. Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd has arrived. 1:07:24 There's a *M O R T I S* in front of us, and Dimitri barely avoided getting caught in the blast by making a *wide* left drift. 1:07:31 Sounds like Sam, Stickman, and wind are getting a kick out of the king of Faerghus crashing the party. That's one of the reasons I love bringing Miis to these things. 😆 1:09:05 Trying to re-enact Toad Circuit, I see. 👀 1:10:10 I don't know if Ookami Mio knows who Stickman is, but the next time I catch one of her streams (which may be a while because she's battling some health issues when I last heard about her, so hopefully she makes a full recovery as soon as possible 🙏), I may take some time to let her know that he has praised her choice of Birdo color. 1:13:43 Looks like I'm the only one who wasn't afraid of Slide. Considering how you made me think of Toad Circuit the way Vancouver was coming to a close, it's only fair that I gloat about having a faster time there. Unless you've updated your time trial to beat the one I got with the build I borrowed from Ninomae Ina'nis. Which, if you have, I'd love to see it, so upload it if you've beaten my time and haven't already uploaded the ghost. 1:15:33 *M O R T I S* 🪦 Also, the big jumble on the map makes it difficult to tell if this was the lap on which Dimitri failed the cut. It may have been,, or it may have been the final lap. 1:16:33 And just like that, the Toad Circuit receipt has been delivered. Accidentally, too, if I may say so. I was just trying to take the turn like "normal" instead of getting fancy with the cut, and you happened to be trying for the cut at this exact moment. This likely means I failed on the previous lap, as the previous timestamp was unsure if I failed there or on the final lap. 1:16:51 I may need to ask Stickman what happened here, as this race is probably no longer on my 12 most recent. Not even if the Rosalina's Ice World race later that I ended up starring got removed from that list of 12 because it became one of my 6 starred. 1:17:47 Finishing ahead of Ren and Stickman is something I don't do very often, but as this was a "mid" finish for all 3 of us, it wasn't deserving of the star that I ended up giving to RIW. 1:21:58 I think we're all treating this like a FFA, which when combined with my lack of microphone (and thus being unable to coordinate with wind) led to me picking Merry Mountain to try to take advantage of my good Traction instead of picking either of the cities that would benefit wind for using inward. This isn't the first time a brain fart led to me failing to take wind into account for a course selection. Of course, we get Tokyo Blur anyway, so what I picked didn't matter. 😆 1:24:17 What... the *BEEP* ...happened? 👀 Also, your Fire Flower to try to hit wind at the finish line is why I chose to glide high instead of trying to drop down. I may have been able to steal 4th from Lexus with perfect gliding, but I may have also been stuck in 5th no matter what I did. Also also, I have no idea how I managed to beat both Ren and Stickman for the second time in this tournament, but I'll gladly take it because they're both great players. Also also also, this was basically the same as DK Mountain in that this being a "mid" finish for the 3 of us preventing me from giving it the star that eventually went to RIW. 1:25:41 Well... when something comes out of Sam's mouth, it's only natural to assume the most sus phrasing imaginable. 1:26:16 If you watch the mini map, you can see Dimitri is taking some time to briefly admire the Wiggler. And collect a coin or two with more deliberate turning, as opposed to the speedy drift turn that most players would perform. 1:27:22 That Lightning killed my plan to take the usual cut, but at least it caught me before I committed to it. Maybe at the last possible second at which I could adjust, but I'll take the ability to adjust over being caught in the sand any day. 1:28:15 Here's my other brain fart regarding course selection. I got so excited to see Yoshi Valley that I forgot wind was still in the room. I probably would have picked Cove if I had taken his presence into account, considering the history of me always seeming to unintentionally screw him over at the end of the race whenever we're at Yoshi Valley together. But considering he picked it as well, as did you, maybe this brain fart erred in favor of all of us. Or it would have if Shigeru picked my selection. Or any of the Yoshi Valley selections. But alas, it was not to be, and we ended up getting 3DS Rainbow Road. 1:29:26 I threw my 🍌 forward, and I can't help but think that's what you hit 3 seconds later. 👀 1:31:36 You and Ren both. I wonder if that's why he left (so he could finish the tournament with the funny number), or if something came up on his end. Also, this is as far as I got on commentary before the late stream I was hoping to catch went live. But I still haven't gotten to the RIW race, so I've got that stream live while I'm continuing with commentary. 1:32:58 There were about 4 or 5 players I could say trailed Dimitri here, and I'm not sure if any of my claims would be correct without reviewing the replay on my Switch, but whoever it was, that player made a mistake, as you'll see when the race results come in. 1:33:52 That was an accidental shock, because I was trying to use the final burst from the Gold 🍄 that was in front of it. 1:34:25 I took the anti-gravity boost cut pretty well, but as I was about to land, I saw a Bullet Bill indicator behind me. Not wanting to have a "Hakos Baelz at Koopa Cape" incident of my own (with the Bullet Bill user being FuwaMoco if I had been hit), I popped my own Bill as soon as I landed from the cut. I wonder if that's some kind of extension spot, since my Bill lasted pretty long when you consider the circumstances in which I popped it. 🤔 1:35:37 People still don't know who the king of Faerghus is? This must've been how you felt when you snuck George into one of Alex's tournaments before somebody spilled the beans and turned George into a cult hero. 🤣 1:36:19 Given *this* selection, it's pretty obvious why I would pick RIW and why players whose builds aren't so heavily focused on Traction would opt for Random instead. 1:38:16 A preview of how Dimitri failed on this very cut on this very lap? 👀 1:38:25 I could ask you and Messi10 that question myself, and it would still be 100% accurate to ask. 1:38:50 Well... that explains why I couldn't chain my ⭐ at the double item set. You probably rushed that because of my ⭐ too, didn't you? 1:39:11 Now I know for sure that this is a Bullet extension. I may not know *why* it's an extension, but I know it is one. At the time I used my Bullet, I didn't know it was an extension, but given how long it lasted, an extension is the only plausible explanation. 1:40:00 If you still have this race as one of your most recent races, make sure to watch the replay from my perspective. I promise that you will be entertained. Considering it took me about 35 minutes to type up commentary for the final 9 minutes after the timestamp where I said I was going to watch another livestream, it's best for me to end commentary here. Even if later races have points worthy of my commentary, nothing was going to beat that Rosalina's Ice World race from my perspective. 🤣

The stream had a huge lag spike. It turns out it was caused by the Adobe Creation Suite which picked a genius time to update. My apologies.

Hi Justin! im on wìnds discord server and i was part of your livestream you had a long time ago.

8:37 Hi!

I just finished with commentary on Adam's latest video when I noticed this upload, so it's only fair that I provide commentary here as well. 2:23 The power of MILK is with you. Yes I'm taking partial credit for this outcome. After all, you wouldn't have known about "Mushroom Is Love Korone" without me, and not only did a 🍄 get you the win here (well... it was technically 4 mushrooms, but you get the point), this was the course on which Korone said the phrase in quotation marks (she also used the build on Moo Moo Meadows, but there wasn't anything anywhere near as interesting on that course in the compilation video that showed her using the build), which is why I used her build on this course in my time trial the other day (and I know you already saw it, which just serves as *yet another reason* for me to take partial credit for this win). 😆 2:34 Oh wow. The player you stole the win from at the end was actually named "Milk". Too many pieces are too perfectly aligned for this to be a coincidence. 🤣 2:41 Welp... looks like I'm skipping a race. 5:11 I'm back, and I see this is Gorge. Good thing you've gone with the Inkstriker instead of the Comet or Yoshi Bike. 6:51 Did NEON say he was struggling on gap because he only has 3 coins? If so, I'm surprised my ears picked up on it. If not, well... my ears suck as usual. 7:25 What is up, guys? Today we're in Rome. 😎 8:37 Hi wind. 8:42 *M O R T I S* 🪦 12:08 All we need now is Toad's Turnpike, and the 3 worst courses in the game will all be featured in this video. Of course, I didn't watch the race at the other course in that bottom 3 due to my "no atrocities" rule. When the Booster Pass was announced, I didn't imagine we'd have anything other than The Atrocity being worse than Baby Park, but competitive players take this course way too seriously (to the point of sucking the fun out of the course, especially since the one part that's actually fun to drive on is the part the "double cut" skips). Meanwhile, Shroom Ridge took away what made Toad's Turnpike unique, and that uniqueness was the only thing keeping it afloat as a decent course. Of course, if Shroom Ridge didn't, Berlin Byways and/or Moonview Highway would have, and while Moonview is the most fun of these courses, even it doesn't measure up to Mushroom City (not to be confused with Bridge, as both City and Bridge are featured in Double Dash). 13:49 I see fireballs being thrown and a Yoshi recovering from being hit, but since the video quality is stuck at 360p (when I'm most comfortable watching at 480p but occasionally crank it up to 720p if I need to see something more clearly than 480 shows), I can't tell if you hit the Yoshi or not. As such, no singing for this timestamp. 💔 I *did* get to sing during the timestamps on Adam's latest upload, though, so I got my singing quota in for the day. 😆 14:39 FFW. 👀 "Frickin' Fat Wario", in case the timestamp didn't make the acronym clear. 14:59 Will we have a "move, you stupid !" moment this race? 15:41 Missed opportunity to say you've got 2 stars and 3 shrooms. 😆 17:15 Fun fact about Super Bell Subway. This ended up being the first course (besides Yoshi Valley, which was long before the Booster Pass was a thing and I ended up not beating the staff ghost at that time anyway, and the Tour city courses) that I ran a 200cc time trial. 17:45 That blue Yoshi (which either Stickman or wind, probably Stickman, said was "purple Yoshi" several seconds later) on Teddy Buggy was more annoying than any Waluigi Wiggler player I ever saw. 19:03 Subway hop! 20:28 Did you end up accidentally hitting the annoying Yoshi from 2 timestamps ago? If so, well played, Nintendo lag. 👏 Also, better to red "somebody" than to red NEON. At least while he's a teammate, anyway. 23:10 *M O R T I S* 🪦 Normally a Bob-Omb is the catalyst for this type of commentary, and one was responsible for me doing so earlier in the video, but this was even more deserving of a *"M O R T I S"* than most Bob-Ombs. 27:54 If 2 timestamps ago was Nintendo lag doing something right for a change, here's a case of it back to its usual shenanigans. 28:25 Thanks, Wave 5. /s Well... at least this particular skip made the shell target somebody else, so that much is a good thing... but I refuse to say these skips in general are a good thing. 30:00 That ending, tho. 🤣 Enjoy the commentary. 😄

I suppose in some way Rosalina is a goddess

I hate mirror mode

With this being your 1st anniversary stream, I had to watch it until the very end. Funny stream though. But I personally never thought this game would simp *THIS MUCH* for Rosalina (she is still one of my favorites characters, I don’t hate her. I just found it funny how the game gives her special treatments like giving her a golden pipe on turn 1…)! Seeing how much it simped for her, it’s a good thing nobody picked Waluigi. The game would have probably *HATED* on him and completely ruin his life! Anyways, seeing you play Luigi’s Mansion 3 can be a good idea as a stream (playing solo or on multiplayer). Idk if you have that game though. Anyhow, see you in your next stream Justin! Also, you should probably have your VC exorcised by a priest, Jesus or God (or even all 3 of them)… Just to avoid cursed VC stuffs like what happened at the beginning of the stream.

Congrats on the full year of streaming. 🥳 Near the end of the final Mario Party game, I decided to multitask and try some Paris Promenade time trials. Right as the stream was ending, I finally got under 2 minutes there. Get Funky Some Help has a time of 1:59.432 now. In the words of the Indonesian blacksmith who first introduced me to the build, *"MY PARIS!"* I may need to "get some help" (Kaela Kovalskia's catch phrase, and yes Kaela is the aforementioned blacksmith) myself after this one. 🤣

Dangit, CZcams! Why you gotta make me post 2 separate comments when the end result is going to be the same as if you had just let me post it all in a single comment? 2:08:50 Yay for Yoshi Valley! ❤ I know I said this in the live chat, but it bears repeating. 2:09:19 Since this is the first lap, it makes sense to avoid the chaos on the bridge. This has led to some "where's Remy going?" moments, but my wisdom has been passed down to Justin on this timestamp. If I'm in a frontrunning position but still want to avoid the chaos on the bridge, I'll still go left on the first turn, but I'll go right on the second turn and collect the 3 tunnel coins. That's only one less coin than what's found on the cannon path, so if I'm not outright bagging on the first or second lap, my options are the tunnel coins or the bridge. On the final lap, it's pretty much go for the bridge or bust, but there could be some rare (since this is specifically talking about the final lap) situations where the tunnel coins are worth the time loss by not going bridge. I'm not sure if there's any value in going left left on the first two turns if the second left isn't actually using the bridge, since left left and bridge both meet at the same spot in front of a coin while bridge is faster over 99% of the time (and that remaining <1% is due to getting bumped off the bridge). Nor am I sure about any value in going right left on the first two turns, as that leads to the least common of the various paths with no coin benefit (there are 2 coins visible at 2:09:23 , but that's one less coin than what's found in the tunnel). Going right on the second turn, regardless of left or right on the first turn (though right right would need to avoid the cannon for purposes of this statement) gets the tunnel coins, and there is value in going left or right for the first turn to get to the tunnel. Going left first is faster, but going right first is useful for avoiding the chaos before even approaching the bridge. For those "where's Remy going?" moments, you've always seen me go right right on the first two turns when asking. 2:09:27 Even though my PB route to this tunnel is different (I went left first while you went right on both turns), watching Huge Island might help with collecting all 3 coins found here. It may even be possible to get that 4th coin on the right side of the tunnel near the exit, but that's likely beyond my skill level. We probably need to get on time trial legend Alberto's level to pull off that feat with no loss of time. 2:10:13 There's Jeff getting the sounds of life from Funky Kong. 😆 2:10:47 Clip the grass there? If not, I have no idea what happened with the drift on that turn. 2:10:54 Frame-perfect pause shows Wiglett's face plotting something nasty, and sure enough, what follows is a *M O R T I S* moment. 2:10:57 (in Inugami Korone voice) "I am die, but... revive!" This is the timestamp that I wanted to revisit for commentary purposes despite having seen this live. 😆 2:11:22 Egg hop! 🤣❤ Yet another reason to love Yoshi Valley. 2:25:12 Best of luck in Paradigm, as I said twice in the live chat. By now, it's either ongoing or has reached its conclusion.

Seeing as Kefka Palazzo returned (which is what I was getting at when I said to "blame Stickman on Mar10 Day"), it's only fitting that more commentary on Kefka's races is provided. 1:08:44 There he is, eyeing Stickman's crown menacingly. Not that he has any hope of actually capturing the crown, but Stickman is the one responsible for his return. 1:08:59 If only NEON had continued to forget... At least we got Dancing MADrid for Kefka's first race. 1:10:07 I almost hit myself with a red shell by throwing it before taking the cut. Also managed to botch the cut, making me need to use a second 🍄 from my triples to course-correct. Needless to say, I was rusty on Madrid, and it showed early. 1:10:21 Whoops? Guess you took an errant green from Kefka. At least you aren't involved in the next timestamp. Or are you? 1:10:25 Kefka had a *LOT* of anger to take out after Mar10 Day, and that Bob-Omb, combined with NEON's course selection for the rest of this set, was enough to take the heat off Stickman. Apparently Jacob got caught up in the blast radius as well, which means that Bob-Omb is definitely my most diabolical in terms of what the Bob-Omb itself did. I did set up a more diabolical one in an Athens (Red Shell) Dash race during a Hololive talent's tournament (I can't remember who was hosting, but I want to say it was either FuwaMoco or Shiori Novella), but I think I had too big of a lead too early in the race for that to have made much of a difference. 1:11:11 Lots of "skill issue" rust dropped Kefka from second or third to last. As most of those skill issues couldn't be seen in the footage, it's best to timestamp the aftermath of those skill issues. 1:11:59 Before watching the VOD playback, I thought this result was why NEON did what he did with course selection over the remaining races. Turns out his Ribbon Road selection was just him not realizing who Kefka was at first. 1:12:49 Normally I'd skip to the final race, but since this is Kefka racing, my mind's already damaged enough. Watching the 🗑 that NEON chose can't possibly do more damage than Kefka being forced to play there already did. 1:13:01 Of course Stickman has to revisit the Mar10 Day incident, and of course NEON piles up on it less than 3 seconds later. At least it wasn't a 30-minute period of suffering this time, but if there was any truth to what either Stickman or NEON had to say here, Kefka wouldn't even exist as one of my Miis and I wouldn't have struggled with considering early Mario Kart 8 Deluxe retirement the moment Wave 5 announced this 🗑 was getting added. 1:13:10 So, ummm... what was that noise? 1:13:27 I can't quite tell what Stickman's saying, but unless my ears are truly horrendous, I think he's saying the Cushion tires are my favorite. In all honesty, the Cushion tires are in my top 3, but the Wood tires are my favorite because they're part of Huge Island. The other tire set in my top 3 are Button tires, primarily because of how they and Toadette helped me get a 6th place finish in Alex's Badwagon tournament in late 2021, which was the only time I know for sure I got in the top 10 on one of those. 1:13:32 Oh I did, Justin. I did. Even more so than Madrid, and I wonder if NEON noticed the targeting going on here and at Bowser Castle 3. "And remember who picked it." That's pretty much *why* NEON got targeted, but Kefka isn't above attacking anyone and everyone in his path, so if NEON isn't around and somebody else is, well... James Storm might have something to say to that other player. " *SORRY!* About your damn luck. " 1:13:39 You made this bed, NEON. It's only right that Kefka holds a grudge. 1:14:13 Jacob had a red and I was ahead of him on the glider. I think he would have thrown it under normal circumstances, but since that's me and this is... where it is... he showed great kindness by not throwing it. Bad lines from me post-glider allowed Jacob to pass without needing to throw it, so maybe it was partly due to Jacob having confidence in being able to out-line me on my most hated course in addition to the kindness for him not throwing the red. 1:14:35 Kefka had to take it out on everyone close enough to feel his wrath, and it would seem you're the first recipient of the James Storm quote featured at the end of commentary 3 timestamps ago. Also, there's a double item set coming up, so that was clearance for items to get into better position to try to win the race in addition to taking out anger/frustration. It's always good when use of a single item serves multiple purposes. At least for the player using the item. 1:15:03 Did Kefka hit NEON *AGAIN?!?* If so, he pretty much asked for it with this selection. 1:15:19 No matter what Kefka tried, the only way you weren't hitting him is if you chose not to do so. Of course, on my screen, the ⭐ indicators (there were two of them) disappeared while you were still behind me, so if you had chosen to hit Kefka, I'm not sure if I would have had it in me to stay in the lobby for Bowser Castle 3, and it would have been the combined frustration of this course with Nintendo lag that would be to blame. 1:15:36 If I appear to be doing well on this course, it may be because of the trolling/bullying/griefing others have done to repeatedly pick this course while I'm in the lobby, thus forcing me to gain experience with how to use most items in this specific environment. Adapt or perish, and I'm not going to choose to perish mid-race. I may end up perishing at the end of a race, or I may get a good finish (this was definitely the latter), but it's out of necessity, not desire. Now my knowledge on *Yoshi Valley* is out of desire, as that truly *IS* my favorite course. 1:15:56 Ah, so a water break is to blame for the repick, which we almost ended up getting because it landed on Bowser Castle 3, which was one space after NEON's repick. 1:16:04 Tires and glider, Stickman? 1:16:25 I'm guessing NEON didn't actually return from getting water at this time, and the call's thinking he intentionally made the repick. To be fair, I thought the repick was intentional too, but in my defense, I was far away from my laptop for the 3 races featuring Kefka. 1:16:59 Looks like Stickman's using the Roller tires. Makes sense, considering they're "meta", and there's a good reason the Rollers are meta. However, I'm slightly disappointed that the Sponge tires and Plane Glider weren't used. Stickman didn't go with From Indonesia with Love despite having the driver and kart in the build. 1:17:04 That's jeffmkking with the Funky Kong trailing the 🍌. That's what hit you. 1:17:36 Here's the green shell that made it clear I need to work on aiming better. It missed NEON, and I don't know if it was bad aim on my part or if it was Nintendo lag messing with my eyesight. 1:17:44 Another bad line from Kefka incoming, this one resulting in a lava bath. Which may have been a blessing in disguise, as Kefka got better items for the rest of the race afterward while the bad finish was likely to happen with this group regardless of if the time loss happened here or later. Kefka's luck was all used up in the previous race, and it probably would have been nonexistent without your mercy 7 timestamps ago. 1:19:07 Try getting the Feather with online lag in pretty much every mode. Asking that question won't be necessary after that experience. Trust me on this one, NEON. 1:19:54 It was around this point that I got back to my laptop, but that doesn't necessarily mean this is the end of commentary. I did promise some commentary on the Yoshi Valley race later in the stream. Additionally, I do need to reiterate that, even though playing the second of those 3 races in anger had a pretty good result, it was only because of your end-of-race mercy. Even without noticing that, I mentioned in the live chat that I don't like playing in anger, which is why I left when the set ended after Bowser Castle 3. I guess CZcams didn't like my lengthy commentary in a single message, so the Yoshi Valley commentary will have to be a separate comment.

Certainly wasn't expecting *this* tonight, though it does explain why I saw you get on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe while I was continuing with my Dimitri route in Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. Well... *M O R T I S* to my planned sleep cycle. I'm probably up until midnight CST (which is 2 A.M. EDT) watching this video while providing commentary. 🪦 If there's an upside to the disruption of my sleep cycle (aside from, you know... actually watching the video 😆), it's that I get to watch the new episode of Ninja Kamui at the scheduled time tomorrow night, since I'll certainly be awake for it. 1:41 Well... add another reason to the list of why the most "competitive" I'll ever get is if/when Alex returns to his Mario Kart Thursday channel. But certainly not any "end of year" tournaments, since the 2023 tournaments are what drove me *into* retirement. There's also the fact that I can't exactly handle "casual" play if a certain Cherry Cup course gets involved. -And before you ask, no it's not Sunset Wilds. I didn't get as insane as Hakos Baelz did after she got involved in a January time trial competition with IRyS.- Sure I got a third place finish in a friend room when somebody (ASCENSION, if my memory is working properly) sent us to that hellhole on the 3rd, and sure I broke the winless streak there a couple days before (in the last race of that session before the suspected hacker joined, but as I told you on Mar10 Day, that was in a different community), but I had to channel my inner Koseki Bijou and, in her own words (or at least paraphrased as accurately as I can remember, since this quote is close to 3 months old at this point)... "I will play this course... in anger." So, ummm... yeah. No competitive for the Remy, a.k.a. Sasori (if you can read the Japanese symbols on my Switch name, that's what it comes out to be... if I used the correct symbols, that is). 2:30 That finish, tho. 😆 2:53 It's certainly my favorite Tour city course. It's actually #3 on my ranking of the 96 courses in 8 Deluxe, and it should come as no surprise in the slightest that Maple Treeway (with double the Wiggler) and Yoshi Valley (with the maze-like branching paths, all of which serve a situational strategic purpose if you know what you're doing) being the only two ahead of Madrid Drive. 3:13 (with a close-up at a frame-perfect pause 2 seconds later) Mira al adorable dormilón Wiggler. ❤ For those of us who don't speak Spanish, Reverso gave me the following translation: "Look at the lovely sleepy Wiggler". I should note that the English phrase I entered into Reverso, which gave me the Spanish featured before this explanation, was "Awww... Look at the adorable sleepyhead Wiggler", and of course I didn't bother with the heart emote at Reverso since that's a CZcams thing that I was able to add after getting the translation. 3:50 Totally not leaving this timestamp for Alex. 👀 -Though it might be a little -*-too-*- early, unless Alex lets it play for several seconds.- 4:08 Buenos días, feliz Wiggler. ¿Dormiste bien? This translates to "Good morning, happy Wiggler. Did you sleep well?", and since that's precisely the English phrase I put into Reverso with the Spanish phrase featured above being the result Reverso gave me, I think it's pretty safe to say this translation is, in an "industry term" I heard from Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny, 100% dead-on-balls accurate. 5:39 At least it's not the "natural habitat". Speaking of Wiglett's natural habitat, I have found that Dolphin Shoals and Cheep Cheep Beach also qualify for that description, and neither of those courses are anywhere near as infuriating as the one ASCENSION mentioned in the chat during the March 3 stream. I'm not sure if Piranha Plant Cove qualifies, since that's a mostly underwater course whereas Dolphin Shoals and Cheep Cheep Beach have some sand on which to drive. 6:50 I've *used* worse combos, though I've taken to calling them "builds" because it's the same number of letters in text form while saving breath by cutting down on syllables when speaking. 7:31 It's not every day I get to say this when the Fire Flower isn't involved, but when the opportunity arises, you can wager your donkey that I'm going to seize it. 🎼 Fired fired, let's get fired. 🎶 8:09 Ah, Sableye Speedway. One of now three courses on which I have From Indonesia with Love as my ghost. The others are Electrodrome, which you already knew about because that was featured in one of Alex's streams in between Halloween and New Year's Eve last year, and Sunshine Airport. I don't know what possessed me to use the build at Sunshine Airport, especially since I already had a Fuzzy ghost there, but I did and I managed to improve my time. By how much, I don't know. Only someone who downloaded my Fuzzy ghost while it was active and can compare it to my current time would be able to say for sure how much better my time with From Indonesia with Love ended up being. 9:42 I bet your life flashed before your eyes with that near-MORTIS moment. 10:03 If you had managed to dodge the Spiny Shell, that would have been another case of "fired fired, let's get fired". Those fireballs were being spammed where your 🍄 would have taken you after the dodge. 10:34 Nasty shell from Tyler. Well played from him. Bad break for you. 11:11 I think mine is Vancouver Velocity, and like with you, not because I wanted to... though I don't mind Vancouver as a course. It's just the one that took the longest for me to beat the Nintendo staff ghost, and then I revisited it to beat a friend from a different community (fortunately, not the community that had the suspected hacker)... and I had to use inward to do so (which, unfortunately, means no Hololive build for my ghost 💔). 14:11 Nintendo decided to send you back to the course you played the most. Shigeru do be trollin'. 15:59 *M O R T I S* 🪦 17:27 Have confidence! That I will be making a(nother) Korone reference during this race. 19:23 Watah in the fiyah... *WHY?!?* Cove was starting to cut it close. Fortunately, I had a backup plan in case I couldn't make *this* Korone reference, which was set up in the previous timestamp. Had there been no fire underwater, I would have timestamped the end of the race and said "no confidence". 20:04 No confidence! In your ability to beat Female Villager. Oh wow. I got to make *three* Korone references this race. 😆 23:14 Please don't be #8. 🙏 Semi-related, congrats on #7 no longer being possible. I had the misfortune of being the first repeat victim on this list, with both of my toilet plunges coming during single-player sessions, #6 with Lemmy being on 200cc and #7 with a driver I no longer actually remember being on 150cc. 23:42 Isabelle happens to be the driver of my second-favorite build, which I haven't used lately. You've seen the build in one of your streams last year. I put her in the Cat Cruiser with Hot Monster tires and the Waddle Wing glider. If you remember the name of this build, you know why this one is so high on my list of favorite builds, with only Huge Island being ahead of it. 25:45 Congratulations on not being #8. 👏 26:20 Better than what Lexus picked, but I have come to the conclusion that even Paris, Tokyo, and New York are better Tour city courses than Berlin, and my mind cannot be changed on this one. Sure, New York is literally next in line when ranking all 96 courses from worst to best, but it's now better than Berlin, and a timestamp will come later to point out exactly where my irreconcilable difference with the course is found. 28:42 Right here. This cut. If taken with a ⭐, you'd expect to be able to plow through those stubs like the pipes in some courses (such as Mario Kart Stadium, Mario Circuit in the Flower Cup, and Toad Circuit, just to name a few). But nope. They're almost as infuriating as the oil field in the even worse Tour city course because the ⭐ doesn't allow you to plow through them. 30:19 We have learned that Daisy is *NOT* Toph Bei Fong. How have we learned this? Because Toph defeated The Boulder. Which Daisy failed to do here. 35:23 Grand Theft Daisy at Vancouver. Well played.

Good job guys!

33:44 looks like the table maker mistakenly labeled it as tier G! Then again, it definitely feels like one with all of those iron players. Yes, I hopped in vc one time, and was absolutely pissed at the track selection in my sq that I did with Jacob (it’s not very fun when most of the tracks being played are baggers). Nice win. That was just pure domination from both of you.

Addressing the video description, "what would happen when teaming up with the "Certified Justin Targetter" that is known as NEON" is probably exactly what you'd expect from a teammate. Unless, of course, that teammate is Alex. 😎 Now on to the video. 0:22 Oh wow. NEON is playing as Daisy and... not... Green Birdo? 👀 2:01 F for that Super Bounce attempt. 2:16 I know you meant "salvage a 7th", but it sure did sound like you said "salvage a 2nd". 😆 2:31 Poor Quick... and poor me, too, seeing as I have this at #5 on my list of favorite courses (with only Yoshi Valley and the Wiggler courses being ahead of it). 3:23 Fire fire, light (your keister) on fire? 👀 4:20 Sometimes slower is safer, and safer makes it end up being faster. In this specific example, NEON probably should have gone top path, but the strategy involved with multiple paths goes back to what I love most about Yoshi Valley even though this is still the Ninja Hideaway race from the previous 2 timestamps. Hearing "where's Remy going?" whenever I take a "slower" route is just an added bonus. 😆 5:15 Crisis... averted. The 2 and 7 counted. 5:27 Ah, Koopa City. Strangely enough, this was near the bottom of my list of favorite courses before the Booster Pass, and the only thing that's changed between then and now is how my Dancing Mad build allowed me to appreciate the course during Wave 5. In fact, my current Koopa City time features Dancing Mad. I need to bring Dancing Mad back to a friend room sometime. Maybe when Dingaling is there, considering how he treated my Mii of Fuwawa the last time. 6:13 Not a bad 🍄, but I'm wondering if the first of those triples was meant to be given to Shiori Novella. I mean, it *did* result in a... *BONK!* 7:39 *M O R T I S* 💥🪦 7:50 Adam/rocky cameo. Unexpected nice touch. 9:10 *TRIPLE* hop! You don't see that every day. Even more impressive is how you managed to drive underneath Jerry during the third hop. 👏 10:28 8Bow Road. Another course I used to dislike before the Booster Pass. Unlike with Koopa City, it wasn't a particular build being used over the course of several races in a wave cycle that improved my opinion of this one. Rather, it was a single race with 11 Japanese players (including one "BAU BAU thief" in Pekora) that allowed me to open my heart to this course. When players aren't constantly spamming items, which for whatever reason is much more of an epidemic when Western players are involved, most courses are much more fun, and 8Bow Road is one of those many courses. 12:02 That's a giant green shell at Daisy's tailpipe. This is part of the constant item spam I was getting at with commentary on the previous timestamp, so I'm not expecting you to be enjoying this race. 12:16 More item spam. This time from an item designed specifically to be spammed. The Fire Flower. Luckily, you had a ⭐ active, so even if that player had been successful with "fire fire, light the fire", you're not getting harmed. 12:23 One of these days, Justin... You'll be getting your Australian Rat moment one of these days. Lately, it seems like the only thing that's been missing is you asking the game to give you a Bullet Bill. 13:13 It's bagging season. 13:35 Competitive tends to ruin opinions of several courses, especially with how some strategies **cough*bagging*cough** get abused. I remember you saying my opinion of Excitebike Arena would change, and not for the better, if I got into competitive, but I'm certain I'd grow weary of MC3 *much* more quickly than I would of Excitebike under those conditions. 14:24 What the *BEEP?!?* Unless NEON trailed his shell on instinct, which I highly doubt would happen because he knew you were the closest player to him for the past few turns, Nintendo needs to do something about online item interaction so that only one of you gets hit by that shell. 19:47 Father Boo audio cameo. 👻😆 20:35 Ride the Bullet. Dodge the Lightning. Not exactly Metallica lyrics, but they'll have to do. 21:21 Nice use of the rear view mirror. We got a lovely shot of Daisy and the Yoshi Bike looking cute together. But, ummm... why did you not give the Luigi hedge a high five? 👀 -I'd ask why you didn't do anything with the Peach hedge, but such a question would be a little bit too "yabai". Also, I may or may not have been spending too much time around Hololive if I'm able to understand what "yabai" is.- 😆 22:46 Fired fired, let's get fired. 🗿 More punishment for using the Biddy? 22:51 Oh NEON, so close... but still wrong. When I'm watching somebody *throw* the fireballs, I say that. When I see somebody on the receiving end, there's a slight variation. 24:32 (in Yoshimitsu voice) Well done! 27:13 Here you go, NEON. 🎼 Fire fire, light the fire. Brighter, higher, as you desire. Chasing all that we aspire. Spreading out like wildfire. 🎶 30:46 (in Monterey Jack voice) *CHEE-EE-EE-EE-EE-EE-EE-EE-EESE!* If I knew how to make the Rescue Rangers character into a Mii, I'd have done so already. He'd be a Heavy driver because, you know... Monterey Jack. 🧀😆 33:22 Top two, with Justin as MVP to boot! 👏 As Fuwawa (and probably her twin sister Mococo as well) would say, you definitely had a howl of a day with this 2v2v2v2v2v2. *BAU BAU!*

A dynamic duo!

27:33 thanks for reminding me to TT this track. My time is inward as well. Remy pretty much covered everything I wanted to discuss, but had you not choked on Squeaky and Gorge, you would’ve gotten 3rd (and maybe get placed in bronze…but then again, you don’t wanna do too well for your first event). EDIT: You also have to practice getting in every single super bounce and soft drifting. Those techniques can go a long way (especially the latter).

Before I begin with the "usual" commentary, now's as good a time as any to mention that I've been practicing at Piranha Plant Slide after hearing about how you were instructed by Adam to practice there, and by using a build I'm not sure you've ever seen before (and if you *have* seen it before, I know you've never seen it *from me* before), I got close to your time (I'm only 0:01.251 slower, and my first lap was actually a little faster than yours). 2:06 That Yoshi in the back said "fire is banned". We'll see if that robbed me of any chance to quote Korone throughout the rest of this Mogi. I'm less worried about singing relevant lyrics from Advent's debut song, as the Fire Flower is fairly common... but underwater courses, not so much. 2:29 The last time I heard you get this excited was when you used Link at Paris Promenade. 4:30 Nice 🍄 lead-in to... 🎼 Fire fire, light the fire. 🎶 See? Not worried about this reference. Now quoting Korone, on the other hand... When will I get that opportunity after a Yoshi banned fire at Twisted Mansion? 🤔 4:54 Can you choose which path to send the Bullet, and if so, which path is faster? 5:34 Please don't be #7. 🙏 6:00 Bayesic Training can help. Unless I missed something about Waves 1 through 3, which wouldn't affect the availability for this course, all 96 courses for 150cc are up now. 6:23 and 7:11 Those red shell indicators had me worried, but fortunately, no #7 in either case. 6:42 I'd rather have a Blooper in the face than those triple greens, especially since you're above sea level and are about to take a dip underwater. 7:07 Fired fired, let's get fired. 🗿 Oh wow. Got to make the Lethal Company reference before quoting Korone. All because that Yoshi banned fire at Twisted Mansion. 11:33 and 12:09 What you do here is something I will need to learn if I want to make any improvement on my own Gorge time trial, but I love how I took the gap jump on all 3 laps on my current PB, so I'll need something truly compelling to make me even attempt this because of how much "thumb destruction" will be involved to not only learn this technique but actually use it in a way where I'll be happy with the gap cut in the same time trial. If I were a competitive player, I know Adam would be yelling me for not wanting to destroy my thumbs here. 😆 12:26 No 🍄 this time, but there's more "fire fire, light the fire". 12:48 This one doesn't get lumped in with the others because of the fail. As such, it looks a lot like what my first few attempts at practice would most likely end up being. That, when you combine it with the "thumb destruction" that would be involved, has a lot to do with why I would need a compelling reason to practice when a new PB would remove a time in which I love all 3 gap jumps. 13:06 What's going on with that deep voice? 19:34 Matthew's brethren hath arriveth! 22:40 *M O R T I S* 🪦 23:08 What a horrible time to have a brain fart. 23:19 You still somehow finished with a #Strong4th after the last timestamp. 😆👏 23:35 Text at the top answers the question a lot of us might have been asking. 👍 25:50 Two wins in the same Mogi. Nice. 👏 27:23 Now it's the Boo saying "fire is banned". I wonder if that was Pero. 👀 This was also the last chance to create an opportunity to quote Korone. At least in this Mogi. 27:31 I never could take that cut while staying to the right of the flower beds. If it's an inward-only thing, as you suggest several seconds later, that might be why. 28:29 Madrid! Home of the adorable sleepyhead Spanish Wiggler. 28:58 Speaking of said Wiggler, there it is! ❤ 29:47 Buenos días, feliz Wiggler. ¿Dormiste bien? That will do it for commentary this time. Enjoy. 😄

Just started the video, and I'm looking forward to seeing how you did!

Yoooo Justin getting into Lounge! Love to see it!

Chiefs won it again (unfortunately), so let's talk about my battles, specifically the second one. When Ninetales casts an Aurora Veil, my team usually ends up so tanky that some set-up would ultimately lead to huge sweeps from Minior and Cinccino, and occasional ragequits from people online (this happens quite often lol). Without the Aurora Veil, surviving becomes much harder. My thought process was "try and force out Ninetales". And that *almost* worked, as Justin debated bringing her out a few times. Unfortunately, bad luck with accuracy and paralysis with Cinccino, as well as a misplay, led to a loss. The second match is where I had a lot of misplays. Alongside my waste of terastallization with Hydrapple, switching to Minior against Houndoom was another big misplay, and I mostly did it due to the 2-stage special attack decrease from Draco Meteor and burn that Archaludon suffered. Minior went to waste, and then I later sacrificed Archaludon again so Rabsca could resurrect it alongside another fallen teammate (thanks to the leppa berry), removing the burn. Unfortunately after one resurrection, Rabsca was obliterated by Ninetales, and instead of Archaludon, I brought out my own Ninetales to remove the sunlight, hoping to cast an Aurora Veil. My own trick room was the cause of my Ninetales getting outsped by Justin's, and it unfortunately got killed by a fire blast. Despite those misplays, those battles were absolutely wild. Minior and Rabsca's movesets came from Haydunn's videos, where he shares competitive movesets for underappreciated Pokémon, so definitely check him out. GGs!

Love seeing more Pokémon battles. Fast paced matches can be so intense. Makes me wanna try having a battle against Ascension.

The VC was crazy with all those swearing, especially towards the end! 😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Here's the rest of the comment that CZcams didn't like me posting with the previous bit of commentary. 1:18:44 Endurance round. In all honesty, I wasn't sure I'd be able to stay with all 12 races, but I did and it was a lot of fun. For the most part, when FUWAWA had a bad finish in the upcoming races, it was "user error" on my end. The lone exception, at least that I can recall, is the Paris Promenade race in the upcoming set (to differentiate from the Paris race that was part of the previous set). 1:19:32 LoonaBlitz chose violence. If this race went better for me, I would have something better to say for commentary here. But user error, leading to getting hit by a Spiny Shell, took Fuwawa from first to last, so there's no need for any actual commentary for this race and I can skip straight to the next one. 1:21:58 Wiglett picking Singapore Speedway was actually pretty decent. I don't know what made him change course selection later when we didn't get Singapore in any of the 12 races in this set. 1:23:24 We're getting a bit of foreshadowing with LoonaBlitz going "fire fire, light the fire". The main event goes so much better than this prelude. Speaking of prelude, you get involved yourself less than 10 seconds later, but this is still to early for when in the race I was referring to by saying "main event". 1:23:37 Fired fired, let's get fired. 🗿 1:23:51 Whoever was speaking, that was so wrong it was hilarious. 🤣 1:24:05 When you see Iggy spin on the minimap, that's when the main even begins. 🎼Time to get this party started. Fire fire, light the fire. Brighter, higher, as you desire. Chasing all that we aspire. 🎶 1:25:37 We have Madrid, Athens, and Singapore all on the board, any of which would have been a good race (and Madrid probably would have been great because of the giant Spanish sleepyhead Wiggler)... but Nintendo sends us to arguably the worst Tour city course outside of the U.S. And also arguably worse than New York Minute, but I'm of the belief that New York is still worse than Berlin Byways. 1:27:21 Classic Mario Karting. All I know about what happened here is that Fuwawa was innocent. She barely passed by you after the Mario Karting of this section ended. 1:27:56 I should probably not discuss your use of ⭐ during the February 12 episode of FWMC Morning. 👀 1:29:31 I don't recall joining the Castle Crusaders. Or any team involved in wars, for that matter. 😆 But apparently I joined *A* team somewhere along the line, according to the timestamp as Moo Moo Meadows was ending. 🤣 1:30:28 *M O R T I S* for Fuwawa. **sad BAU BAU noises** 🪦 This would have made more sense if I was using a build as a parody of and/or tribute to Nerissa Ravencroft or Shiori Novella, as both of them have completed a playthrough of "Faith: The Unholy Trinity", which is the game that introduced me to "mortis". But I went with Fuwawa Abyssgard instead, so she was the unlucky recipient of the *M O R T I S* moment. 1:32:07 Whoever asked for that was a little late in asking. Fuwawa tossed that a few seconds before this timestamp. *BAU BAU!* 🐶🐶🐾 1:32:26 Most online lobbies are spammy, even the ones that are supposed to be chill like this one. Most other lobbies are worse than this, though, so when I do get the urge to play online, this ended up being one of my best experiences outside of the Hololive viewer tournaments. As for what's said 15 seconds later, I wish I could unhear that. 1:33:31 Back to Paris. As stated several timestamps ago, this is the one race where Fuwawa has a bad finish for reasons that don't come down to "user error". At the final item set, Fuwawa had triple 🍄 and an open item slot. Nintendo decides to give her triple green shells, which don't help with the final cut, making Fuwawa need to hold onto at least one 🍄 for the end of the race... which leaves her open to getting hit by a ⭐ midway through the turn in between those item boxes and the final cut. Had Fuwawa gotten a ⭐ of her own or a single 🍄 instead of triple greens, the triple 🍄 could have been spammed to avoid the other player's ⭐, and the cut would have still been usable. Welp... time to skip to the next race. 1:36:58 Well... Ralph Wiggum had to grow up sometime. 1:38:47 Did Satori join the VC? I still remember what he had to say about Kefka Palazzo at Wind Woods over half a year ago. 😆 1:41:26 Cute. Biboo. Time. Yeah. I'm taking a page out of Koseki Bijou's playbook and trying to make the English language wholesome again. I think she and I are doomed to fail in this endeavor, but it's worth a shot. 🗿 1:41:46 You and Bayesic taught me how to do what Fuwawa does here. Unfortunately, the good moment here doesn't do much when you factor in the "user error" for pretty much the rest of the race. 1:44:36 Gorge didn't go very well, but even though it was because of Lightning, it still falls under the "user error" category because Fuwawa held onto a ⭐ a little too long... and there was the gap jump fails in pretty much every lap as well. No need for timestamps. Just moving on to the next race. 1:48:04 Shroom Ridge time. Far from a boring race, but I can't put into words what was going on throughout the race, so I don't have it in me for commentary this time. 1:50:32 Never let it be said that Fuwawa isn't generous. She did indeed give wind that 4th he was asking to receive. -And those who finished 5th and 6th got gifted those spots as well, as Fuwawa fell to 7th because of the way those final 2 or 3 turns went.- 1:51:30 Aside from my Yoshi Valley and your Madrid Drive, I wasn't looking forward to anything on the board... but this Waluigi Stadium race goes surprisingly well. Certainly much better than Baby Park would have. 1:52:02 Oh wow. The Weight stat isn't broken after all. You barely felt a thing from that Fuwawa bump. Actually, this is an outlier. The Weight stat is broken over 99% of the time. 😆 1:52:45 It's the gyatt. There's otherwise no good reason to ever use the Bone Rattler. 1:53:48 If only you were near an item box and were asking for a Bullet Bill... Sorry, but not sorry, for bringing up the potential for your Australian Rat moment, and this would have been as close as possible to us recreating it, considering I was using Fuwawa all stream long. *BAU BAU!* 🐶🐶🐾 1:54:59 Still haven't beaten all the staff ghosts on 150cc? I can't think of any other reason why there'd be a question mark for tires. What time(s) are you missing? 1:55:36 Only Yoshis at Yoshi's Island. Oh wait. Fuwawa said Yoshi *Valley* when she was speaking about 2 or 3 months ago. *BAU BAU!* 🐶🐶🐾 1:56:22 That 🍌 may or may not have been mine. If it was, the intent was to hit somebody in the lead during the *next* lap. 1:57:30 wind... we may need to talk about that. When Fuwawa sings "fire fire, light the fire" and "ignite these beating hearts", she's not asking you to set her on fire. 👀 1:57:43 If Dingaling is Satori, we may or may not be even for what happened at Wind Woods... but at least what Kefka did back then wasn't particularly malicious as Kefka didn't slow himself down in any way to make that happen, but since Kefka struck first, this could be retribution for that. It's also kinda surprising that everybody (other than you, as you likely figured it out from the beginning) went as long as they did without realizing that I was using my Mii of Fuwawa. 🐶😆 1:58:15 That shock would be Fuwawa's. It was literally the only time I could have used it. The item wasn't ready before then, and waiting any amount of time would have allowed too many players to get to the finish line before the Lightning could do anything... and you would have dodged anyway. 1:59:39 Closing things out on Melody Motorway, which is also my best race of the stream. Kind of fitting, as it's my favorite of the courses on which we actually raced this time around. 2:00:51 After being slow-starred at Yoshi's Island, I'm not sure what was going on in my mind for this race. Was I relaxed? I don't know. What I do know is what I said at the previous timestamp is true. This is indeed my best race of today's stream. 2:00:59 So you're the one who kept me from taking the "cool shroomless shortcut" this lap. I took it both other laps, and that was part of why this race went so well, but clearly this race wasn't perfect. 👀 2:01:39 Now you've got a front row seat. 🎼 Fire fire, light the fire. Brighter, higher, as you desire. Ignite these beating hearts. 🎶 Also, it may not have been the "planned" retribution for Toad Circuit, as I didn't expect you to cut in front of Fuwawa after the fire hit Scrubs, and I didn't even know it was you until watching this part of the VOD, but it will do. 2:01:47 You made the mistake of stepping in front of Fuwawa. *BAU BAU!* 🐶🐶🐾 2:03:57 Have fun with Splatoon tonight. 👍 It might even be going on while I'm putting the finishing touches on this comment.

Obviously, I couldn't do much chatting for the second half of the stream, which is why I've got VOD commentary. 1:11:34 My Mii: "I'm not a chihuahua. I'm-" Nintendo's course selection: *"MOO!"* 🐮 1:11:50 What is that guy talking about? Clearly the Morton combo is *in front* of me. 😆 1:12:48 This isn't the first time a Super Horn out of nowhere hit Fuwawa. **sad BAU BAU noises** 1:13:48 Oh I'm part of the team now? I mean, Fuwawa finished 6th, which is "top 6". *BAU BAU!* 🐶🐶🐾 1:14:44 If I had Funky Kong on Mr. Scooty with Roller tires and Cloud Glider, I would be screaming "My Paris!" in a happy voice right here. But I went with Fuwawa today instead. 1:15:36 Oh so *THAT* is what hit Ender. I got so worried after I passed him that he might have thought it was me, and then he'd have either been targeting me in retaliation for the rest of the race and/or the following 12-race set. 1:15:49 What I did wrong here was 🍄 without first performing a trick boost, which is why there wasn't enough boost left to finish the cut. 1:17:04 What did I do, and who was the unlucky recipient? **apologetic BAU BAU noises** Apparently my commentary got too long for CZcams (again), so I'm breaking it up into 2 parts. By splitting this early, I'm hoping I can get the full 12-race set in one message.

I have a fully trained team ready for battle, so feel free to challenge me! I have some oddball choices that should make for interesting fights.

Commentary time. 1:48 I didn't see which of those two Japanese players did it, but the fact that they're both Japanese means there's a chance they're buddies playing together and whoever threw it back didn't want to hit the friend in front of him (or her, if the culprit is female). 2:22 Diddy Kong stole your items and the video footage from the rest of the race. I read the pinned comment, so I know what really happened with the rest of the footage. It's just funnier to say that Diddy Kong stole it. But at the same time, the "theft" happened right before the Wigglers on the final lap, so it also gives me another reason to hate Diddy Kong (as if I needed additional reasons to hate a Kong not named Cranky or Funky). 2:51 "Let's get some coins." **proceeds to miss 3 of the next 4 coins** Being an outward bike in a world after the Wave 4 meta change is probably why you missed those 3 coins. 4:12 Right about now, even though the circumstances are among the worst possible at Yoshi Circuit, it's time for two references for the price of one. "Fired fired, let's get fired." One reference is obvious, especially given my history of adding that commentary with the Fire Flower. The other? Lethal Company. Enjoy. 4:35 and 37:04 Speaking of that obvious reference... 🎼 Fire fire, light the fire. 🎶 4:51 Looks like there was a bit of a change to the player roster in between the Diddy Kong cut at Maple Treeway and the end of this race. Another American (who was below 3K, which means he certainly wasn't in the room when you said nobody was below 20K at Maple Treeway) joined you, all of the non-American gaijin players left, and the other players who joined are more Japanese players. 5:35 Not one, not two, but *three* tricks. Controller shake? One thing's for sure. I rarely have the idea of tricking at all on that section, and when I do, it's only a single time. 6:23 Just an innocent timestamp. Totally not a "Justin out of context" moment. 👀 7:40 At first, I misread "oimo" in the name "yoda_oimo" as... let's just say I thought those O's were a neighboring letter in the alphabet, and in case anyone asks, "nimn" wouldn't make any sense in this context. 7:49 Yo, Wind Woods. If you haven't already seen my Fuzzy time trial here, you should. The time itself isn't anything special, but the journey was a lot of fun and the end result is actually a PB (which I wasn't expecting when I started the journey, but since I wanted the time to be the one that could be downloaded, I erased my previous PB... and that ended up being unnecessary because the new time is actually slightly faster by less than a second, unless my memory of the previous PB time is off and the final number of that time was slower than .897, as I remember the previous PB being a 1:57 while the current time is 1:56.897). "Halfway through" would make this a little over 15 minutes. The video ended up being 3x as long. 😆 9:31 Oof. And to think Mococo gave you a lesson on how to use triple bananas to protect against red shells yesterday, too. It's easy to pin the blame on Nintendo lag, but I'm thinking it was more of the elevation difference at the moment you pressed the button for that defense attempt. The red shell stayed at your elevation while the 🍌 just dropped until landing on the tree branch (or into the void, if there was no branch surface below where it was dropping). 10:06 Did that PGP really win the race? 👀 *AS A GAIJIN?!?* 👀 In a room with *ten* Japanese players? 👀 Side note. That could have been me at 8Bow Road, if only my Dry Bones build had beaten one more Japanese player. I finished second, and a Japanese player won. Fun fact. That Dry Bones race featured Pekora. 10:14 and 15:06 To the Mall, boys! Another fun fact. My Coconut Mall time trial uses Roy At The Mall. Yet another fun fact. I actually beat the staff ghost with Roy At The Mall. 11:58 *M O R T I S* at the Mall. 🪦 12:19 and 43:29 Cool guys may not look at explosions, but cute girls named for flowers do. Probably to avoid driving into them. 13:06 I didn't know that about Super Bell Subway, but seeing the subway trains typically being a menace for about half the race, I'm not surprised. 14:00 Train hop! Almost as enjoyable as a Wiggler hop. This one was less enjoyable than the usual train hop, but only because of the landing. 15:32 It wouldn't surprise me if the Japanese players had the same issue when it comes to their items hitting us on their screens but we keep driving merrily along as if nothing happened. 16:06 That Ankle-Biter, tho... I got a funny frame-perfect pause. Poor Daisy. She knows what's coming and can't do anything about it. 19:33 , 19:49 , 29:44 , and 37:14 Watah in the fiyah... *WHY?!?* 20:35 The worst season. I can tell by that ramp. It's not there in any of the other seasons, the same is true for the other ramps in this season, and the next timestamp will once again draw attention to the ramp that makes this the worst season, as I have done in previous comments. I actually enjoy Animal Crossing *on the other 3 seasons* . Yes, even Winter. At least that season doesn't have Resetti or the bad ramp, and as most of my Mario Kart 8 Deluxe experience has good Traction (Koopa Troopa on Wild Wiggler is one of the best setups for that stat, even with Wood tires adding next to nothing there), the icy surface is less troublesome to me than it is to players who have most of their experience on Waluigi Wiggler. 21:05 Oh look. There's the ramp that makes this season borderline unplayable. Especially against live competition. 22:18 This is why I added "borderline" in the previous timestamp. Moments like this are why it's not quite completely unplayable. Still horrible ramp placement, especially with Resetti in the vicinity. 22:43 Looks like I accidentally got revenge on Stickman for what happened as I arrived to yesterday's stream, as I ended up being one of those "Peachette players" when the friend room started. Of course, I'm not at all who Stickman had in mind when Peachette players were driving him mad, as I only really use Peachette when I wish to "summon the cringe of gyatt". Semi-related, if you have not yet heard "Bury the Cringe", take some time to do so. If you end up regretting it, then consider yourself taxed. 😆 27:20 Birdo wins. Squishality. 28:44 Better to get ankle-bitered here than at the glider. 29:27 and 42:08 There's probably never a "good" set of circumstances, but at least neither of these was as bad as what happened at Yoshi Circuit. Fired fired, let's get fired. 30:54 There are two penguins sliding across the ice. How do we know which one is Jerry? 👀 31:24 🐧 hop! Rather than waste time on another timestamp, just letting it play from here will show a "move, you stupid 🐧!" moment in the next few seconds. 31:35 (in Cartridge Bot voice) *WHAT?!* 36:17 Or I could have just used this timestamp to respond to the previous one. 40:18 Better than Toad Circuit, New York Minute, Dry Dry Desert, Baby Park, Toad's Turnpike, and Jank Jank Summit, and this is an incomplete list that has 6 on it, so I have to disagree with "bottom 5".

Ugh, I accidentally cut off the ending of the first race lol Ended up finishing 8th in that one.

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