A Very Messy SQ | Competitive Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
- This is a 3v3 SQ with Stickman and NEON, and it got quite messy... But maybe not for the reason you would expect. How did we end up doing? Watch and find out.
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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. 😄
2:23 Remy indirectly helped me win. GUIDE ME, REMY LOL
2:34 Coincidence, indeed. lol
2:41 Dumpster Laps appeared, and it was actually picked to screw me over because I won Royal Raceway
5:11 Been pushing my luck with inward a bit too much lately. I got back on the Inkstriker for a change of pace. Considering how this event ended up playing out, that was probably the best choice.
6:51 Pretty sure I've hit the gap cut with a low coin count before. Is it tougher? Certainly. But if your alignment is good, you should make it.
7:25 Now I associate this track with a bad memory - failing to defeat Awoken Sunday because of Father Boo. I'll never look at this track the same again.
8:37 He likes to pop in voice calls like that. His commentary was also welcome (I was streaming the event live on Discord so he saw everything from here on in real time.)
8:42 Daisy got exploded...
12:08 I've been time trialing this forsaken track, and while it definitely shows, I still hate this track. It'll probably never change even if the time comes when I become elite Summit player. The way you HAVE to play this track in order to even have a chance to do well, let alone win, zaps the fun right out of it.
13:49 The fireballs didn't connect thanks to I-frames. They would have otherwise. Processing is now 100% complete to you can view this stamp at your preferred setting and see for yourself.
14:39 I had to hold back with this one. You have no idea how badly I wanted to drop the F-bomb. I was so irritated with what transpired, and all it took was that one bump.
14:59 Probably for someone else. lol
15:41 Blasted shock lol
17:15 On 200? It can be a giant pain on 200 because its even harder to avoid the trains
17:45 He was definitely annoying. It seemed if misfortune was going to happen, this player was always around and most likely caused it.
19:03 BOING.
20:28 I did hit someone accidently. As Shortcat pointed out with his latest upload, when you throw a shell, it actually spawns behind you. Given the online play of this game is infamously bad, anyone behind you that is too close is going to get blasted by that thrown shell. Stickman accidently hit me with a red later on Shroom Ridge. A perfect example of such a situation.
23:10 FFW flies by with his triple shrooms and gives me an unintended boost, which is what caused me to get caught up in that disaster
27:54 The exact spot I referenced earlier. Thanks, Nintendo. And who knows where I was on Stickman's POV at the time this happened.
28:25 Red shells suck.
30:00 It was definitely a worst case scenario ending. I think I did everything except hitting a car. lol
I actually got the notification for this reply last night, but it caught me in the middle of an Advent off-collab on FuwaMoco's channel and then I needed to sleep almost immediately afterward, so that's why my reply to your reply to my original commentary was delayed as long as it ended up being.
2:23
If you're asking *me* to guide you, you might be in every bit as much disarray as Koseki Bijou was when creating the lyrics to "Bury the Cringe". After all, one of the lyrics is "Shiori's fixing me". 🗿✂😆
Sure, things worked out for this Royal Raceway race, but only because Korone guided me beforehand. 🤣
2:41
Add "anti-1" to the litany of -grudges I have against Dumpster Laps- reasons why I have taken to calling this course "The Atrocity".
If the best courses (such as Yoshi Valley) have elements of frontrunning and bagging while having beautiful scenery and a fair end-of-lap/race shortcut, the worst courses (such as The Atrocity) are lacking in *all* of these areas. Maybe The Atrocity is a bagger in a world after Wave 6 because of how bagging changed in between Wave 5 and Wave 6, and that end-of-race shortcut may qualify as "fair" for players who have a single 🍄, but even if I'm being generous and giving the course positive marks for these specific elements (which would be a bit *too* generous for the end-of-race cut when you factor in how even a second 🍄 makes the referenced cut almost Dry Dry Desert levels of unfair while a set of triples puts that cut in that Dry Dry Desert cut tier, so a Gold, or even simply a ⭐, makes the cut *even worse* because of how narrow the passage is), these two positive marks would not even come close to climbing the mountain of negatives. Not even if we add wind's Bob-Omb clip in one of his montage videos to the positive side of the scale (but that was a fun Bob-Omb to see, so not even The Atrocity is all bad).
5:11
While inward may have been better for The Atrocity (unless I'm missing something, inward is always better for the Tour city courses), most of the races seen here were anti-inward, and Gorge is one of the most egregious examples because of how inward can't Super Bounce. Of course, with my limited ability to actually pull off a Super Bounce on outward, I don't really have much of an advantage over inward players here, and unless items are kind to me while simultaneously screwing you over, I certainly don't have enough of an advantage to beat you if you're on inward.
6:51
Maybe NEON keeps trying for the version of the cut that Indigestion got on all 3 laps of my time trial. That version definitely requires a high coin count as well as an insane setup that I would never be able to perform during a live race (and I can't even practice in single-player without setting the items to Mushrooms Only or arranging for custom items to a configuration that allows first place to get a 🍄 [my favorite such configuration is Triple Mushroom and Crazy Eight only, which allows a player in the back to be able to hold more mushrooms (up to 11, 3 in a Triple and 8 in a Crazy Eight) than coins (up to 10, no matter what item settings), but I didn't actually play on Gorge when I had this setup]. Maybe I should revisit the idea and make sure to actually play on Gorge this time. 🤔
7:25
I saw that race with Awoken live. I often claim that Father Boo is mischievous, not actually evil, but it's difficult to maintain that claim with this particular 🍄 theft.
The last time I remember Father Boo doing something on this level was when Bugenhagen employed his services to take wind's triple mushrooms at the end of a Yoshi Valley race. Of course, in the Bugenhagen example, I wasn't trying to steal from wind specifically. That was just an unfortunate result, but it was partly responsible for shaking me up enough to where I stopped picking Yoshi Valley with him in the room despite it being my favorite course in the game (the other incident that shook me up to this degree was a Kefka Palazzo red shell hitting him when I was just trying to get rid of it to get to my triple mushrooms at the end of the race, and if memory serves, he cut in front of Kefka right after the shell was thrown so it targeted him instead of another player). Fortunately, I can still pick my 3 Wiggler courses (Maple Treeway, DS Mario Circuit, and Madrid Drive) with him in the room without a second thought, and I know he loves Madrid.
13:49
Yep. The Japanese player hit the European (I want to say that's Norway's flag, but that might not be correct... but I do know that flag belong to some country in Europe) player with a Boomerang before you tried going "fire fire, light the fire".
The default was still 360p, but I was now able to set it to 720p (because 480p wasn't available, and there's no guarantee that 480p would have given me a clear enough picture anyway) and see for myself what happened.
15:41
The shock was nearly 20 seconds after this timestamp. This was in direct response to NEON saying "I have 6 shrooms in 8th" 2 seconds sooner. Maybe I should have set the timestamp to 39 instead of 41, but if I had, you wouldn't have received your items at the beginning of the timestamp, hence my conundrum. 👀
17:15
Avoiding the trains was indeed difficult, particularly on the final lap, but one thing that helped me get satisfactory times (plural for reasons yet to be revealed) was how I had my Fluffy Euphoria build and my Fuzzy Euphoria build competing against each other until one of them set a time that I couldn't beat with the other build. This competition isn't unique to Super Bell Subway by any stretch of the imagination, but that's the course where my 200cc time trial journey truly started, and I now have a time on every course that beat the Nintendo staff ghost's time.
19:03
Why am I thinking of Ninomae Ina'nis now? 👀😆
Probably because, during a recent outfit reveal (less than 2 months ago, if memory serves), she said "boing boing, skirt" in such an innocent and hilarious way.
20:28
Looks like a later timestamp had me one step ahead of you. 🤣
23:10
FFW... I don't know why some players still use him in competitive play after the Wave 4 meta change, and especially after the Wave 6 bagging change.
While I'm thinking of the meta, I do wish the Flame Rider, Standard Bike, W 25 Silver Arrow, and Wild Wiggler had gotten a boost to Ground Speed. This change would have created an interesting dynamic between this class and the class that features the Inkstriker, Mach 8, and Sports Coupe, with the latter class having better Speed on terrain that isn't Ground while the former class would have more favorable secondary stats without returning to the days of Wiggler hate by most players if Mini Turbo were to receive the boost instead (after how I now hate the Teddy Buggy when I didn't hate it before the meta change in Wave 4, I'm very mindful of not wanting other players to hate my beloved Wild Wiggler, and I strongly believe that the Wiggler hate prior to Wave 4 was because players are always going to hate the meta for one reason or another).
27:54
Here's that later timestamp that was a step ahead of you about 2 timestamps ago. 😎
28:25
You've had a lot of bad experiences with red shells over the past 3 years or so (perhaps even longer, but I wouldn't know because this upcoming September will more or less be the 3-year mark of when we met in the GwA community). Meanwhile, my bad experiences with items are more the result of *green* shells (such as the one you threw at the end of Toad Circuit) and people going out of their way to be terrorists with the ⭐ (phrasing intentional because of a positive memory I have of Satori where he introduced the term "terrorist" for the ⭐ use I have in mind, but that example was me taking a tighter line where he wouldn't have been in my way if I kept a wider line, which is pretty much the opposite of what I mean by "people going out of their way", as tighter lines lead to faster times). I no longer remember who did so during an Alex tournament, but I do remember a SNES Rainbow Road race where I took the outside line, yielding the inside to the player with the ⭐ behind me, and that player goes wide for the sole purpose of hitting me anyway. There's also the "slow-⭐ incident" at Yoshi's Island where one of your former Snowfall teammates admitted to doing so to my Mii of Fuwawa Abyssgard "for fun".
30:00
I was more drawing attention to what Stickman said at this exact timestamp. "Wait, so we're done, right?"
Also, keep in mind that there's only a second left in the video at this point.
I know. I'm a goofball. 😆
Hi Justin! im on wìnds discord server and i was part of your livestream you had a long time ago.
Yeah, I remember you. I didn't forget :)
8:37 Hi!
LOL
Seriously though, the commentary you added on from that point afterwards was a nice touch.