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  • Mario Kart World Faces Massive Backlash After Update, Online Racing Experience Ruined

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  • Yup.

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

  • Mario Kart World Faces Massive Backlash After Update, Online Racing Experience Ruined

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • People who are or have dated more than one person, how did it work out?

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

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

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

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

  • Are you being censored?

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

    Lemmy? Not really.

  • Do you think Lemmy has a culture separate from Reddit or is it basically the same?

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

  • What's your fav Nicolas Cage film and why?

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  • The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent was pretty damn good.

  • Zelenskyy: We’re very close to point when Russia can be forced to end this war

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  • India are also still doing business with Russia.

  • Zelenskyy: We’re very close to point when Russia can be forced to end this war

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

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

  • 2,000 National Guard troops will be sent to L.A. amid clashes over immigration raids - Los Angeles Times

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  • Belgium’s future queen caught up in Harvard foreign student ban

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  • I thought the royals in mainland Europe were generally well-liked? I'm only basing this on the lack of negative attention they get compared to the British royal family.

  • US Justice System

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  • When I first saw that Luigi Mangione photograph, I thought "damn, that guy's about to drop the hottest rap album of 2025."

  • Bernie Agrees: Democratic Party Is a ‘Threat to Democracy’

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  • Bernie is a whole lot more compos mentis than Biden ever was.

    The right time to elect him would've been 2016...

  • Bernie Agrees: Democratic Party Is a ‘Threat to Democracy’

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  • He isn't wrong. If they hadn't pushed a senile 81 year old incumbent leader upon us as their candidate, in a blatant attempt to parachute an unpopular vice president into power once the 25th Amendment had to inevitably be invoked, then we would never have had a second Trump term.

    Biden should never have ran for a second term, and allowed time for the Democrats to field a decent candidate for the White House. The fact that Harris literally lost to somebody who tried to stir up an insurrection against Congress four years ago says it all.

  • Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers

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  • Another big problem is that we've been collectively trying to shoehorn everybody into programming careers for the better part of two decades. In fact, "just learn to code" is often thrown around by people in response to the prospect of AI automating and taking over everybody's jobs.

    What they don't understand is that coding is actually very difficult, especially for people who are bad at math, which is a significant portion of the population if you look at statistics, grades, test scores, etc. Expecting a lowly paid call center worker who lost their job to AI to suddenly open up Visual Studio and write any code is a fools errand.

    I bring this up because I think there's a correllation between people asking low-quality questions and people being pushed into making a career move into tech.

  • Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers

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  • I'm not a programmer (last time I seriously dabbled into coding was building a website for an A Level Computing project and I had to teach myself HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL because my sixth form was shit and was only teaching us Visual Basic 6 when the IDE/language had been obsolete for nearly a decade) and I have never personally posted on StackOverflow. In fact, the only StackExchange site I've ever been part of was EpicAdvice, a short-lived offshoot that was for World of Warcraft specific questions. But I do have a sibling with a computer science and software engineering background which is how I became aware of the site in the first place.

    This isn't my personal criticism of the site, it's me echoing the sentiment of the many who have complained about the community across the web.

  • Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers

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  • Maybe StackOverflow is dying because its community is full of incredibly toxic, passive-aggressive and hostile basement dwellers who will berate, downvote and lock the threads of anybody who dares ask a programming question. Genuinely the kind of people you often see moderating subreddits or Discord servers who have never been punched in the face.

    ChatGPT hammered the final nail in the site's coffin because it's now become a tool where you can ask specific programming questions and likely get an answer that isn't "use the search bar you fucking dipshit. Question closed as off-topic."

  • Reddit bans an anti-natalist group after Palm Springs explosion

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  • Echo toxic sentiments for long enough and people are going to start believing it.

    I'm about 95% sure that communities like 4chan, Reddit, Poal, 8Kun, etc are the reason why the American & European political climates are now so fucked.

  • Reddit bans an anti-natalist group after Palm Springs explosion

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  • No but they did ban a whole subreddit (WatchPeopleDie) dedicated to footage of people dying back in 2018 after they dared to show footage of the Christchurch mass shooting - without any prior admin warning whatsoever.

    And honestly Reddit were a bunch of hypocrites for how they handled that situation, especially since WPD had tonnes of uncut ISIS execution videos hosted on their subreddit a few years back and nobody on the board gave a shit.

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