Today’s game is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Decided to take things nice and easy today, so i kicked back with some friends and just played some Mario Kart. Me and one of my friends even started a little rivalry because we both suck ass compared to our friends who have earned a total of like 800 hours (i have a measly 40). As a consequence we’re always in the back racing each other. . Here he is waving to the camera with me (being spun out by my banana).

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I had so many damn close calls racing against him. We did the Tokyo map and he threw a Banana in front of me. I just barely beat him by slipping onto the finish line. I felt like that one scene in Cars where Lightning wins by literally his tongue.

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There was another time on Excitebike where one of my friends with the large hours was beating all of us. I got a really lucky shell toss in and managed to pass him at the last second. I felt really accomplished and we had a little bit of fun banter.

There weren’t many more screenshots i could capture, 1) because MK 8 moves so fast that i can’t capture many good ones and 2) the clips i caught were compressed to hell and back so it was hard to get good looking screenshots out of them. It’s 2025, i really wish we got an option for uncompressed clips on the Switch.

I will say, MK 8 having online multiplayer makes me really thankful. Being an adult now makes it nigh impossible sometimes to get the gang all together so having this way to play with everyone is nice. I’m hoping Mario Kart 64 gets an online multiplayer mod soon with the multiple decomps.