Well I'm back from my vacation!  Huzzah and good ridance.  The only thing that made the last couple of days barable was that we went to visit some cities, which is much more to my liking.  Oh, and whoever envied me earlier on, we didn't travel abroad to some beach with palm trees or anything.  We went to this:

Ugly places with ugly people.  Mainly saggy grandparents with their annoying grandchildren.  Nothing to do but to sit on your arse all day and wait till you can go to bed again and be done with it.  I can enjoy this for like one hour a day max, and that's only because I've got a little kid who is enthousiastic about anything.

The up side was that I finally played more Mario golf World Tour.  It's a perfect fit for the3DS, and while it seems very light on content at first, there is lots to do if you go looking for it.

gamingeek said:

Did you make an epic sandcastle?

My kid's idea of making sandcastles was filling the bucket, having me tip it over, and then him trashing the towers as fast as he could.

We made some epic ruins though  

Also there was some f-ed up stuff going on in one race. Yoshi was ahead of me, but not by much, he had no items (to speed boost or recover) I hit him once with the boomerang, he got hit, recoiled a little then just sped ahead like nothing had happened. Then I hit him again with the boomerang and exactly the same thing happened. I should have passed him and been a mile ahead after two of those.

SupremeAC said:

My kid's idea of making sandcastles was filling the bucket, having me tip it over, and then him trashing the towers as fast as he could.

We made some epic ruins though  

That's the problem with kids, no appreciation for building a massive fort on the beach.

gamingeek said:

Also there was some f-ed up stuff going on in one race. Yoshi was ahead of me, but not by much, he had no items (to speed boost or recover) I hit him once with the boomerang, he got hit, recoiled a little then just sped ahead like nothing had happened. Then I hit him again with the boomerang and exactly the same thing happened. I should have passed him and been a mile ahead after two of those.

I've seen similar stuff happen.  I think it's got to do with lag or something.

gamingeek said:

SupremeAC said:

Get over it.  I'm sure you don't complain when you bag first place right before the finish because you got a red shell yourself.

There is a level of chance to any kind of competition.  With Mario Kart it's always played a slightly larger role.  After 8 games you'd think everyone would know that by now.

It's got waaaay out of hand and it's not just 'chance'. The other games don't lavish every asswipe with 3x any item whenever they want.

I don't get anally reamed 6 times in row within 10 seconds in any other Mario Kart game. If you think that's the same as other Mario Karts you're off your rocker. Also I've gone entire races in first where the only item they give you is a coin, item after item, after item. Not even a banana?

SupremeAC said:

I've seen similar stuff happen.  I think it's got to do with lag or something.

I saw some fire hopping girl zooming ahead, pissed me off, but she came last in the end

@former:  It's this sort of thing that makes me reluctant about going online.  I'd literally break the controller.  Even the 150CC races are too much for me to handle at the moment.

@latter: LOL

SupremeAC said:

bugsonglass said:

@former:  It's this sort of thing that makes me reluctant about going online.  I'd literally break the controller.

That's why you should stick to co-op stuff.  You know, stuff like Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate !

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