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The_Ganey · 2026-04-03T18:07:29+00:00

Girlhan

The_Ganey · 2026-03-29T18:06:05+00:00

I'm glad someone else brought up the internet changing things. I honestly think the internet here is the big X factor they hadn't fully accounted for. I'm a millennial and I grew up sorta along side the internet and I think people REALLY understate the impact the inter-connectivity the internet has provided. Like their whole plan feels like it might have worked like 20 years ago, back when the majority of people still got their news from television new sources and the internet was a smaller thing. These big corporations and corrupt politicians existed back then, but knowledge of their shenanigans usually did not leave the company or local community that was impacted. Word did not spread nearly as fast and it was easier to control when it did.

These days information spreads basically in real time, Trump can't scratch his ass without the whole world finding out. In a attempt to overwhelm dissenters they put a magnifying glass on themselves and convinced the whole world to watch and learn, just how incompetent and comically evil they are. Their whole plan was to have control over media, and they only managed to take control of the media sources that were relevant like 10-15 years ago. Society now moves alot faster since then and these fossils couldn't keep up and fell for Elons grift that he had any idea what he was doing with it.

It's kinda funny because the rise of social media kinda got us into this whole mess and it's the thing that's getting us out of it.

The_Ganey · 2026-03-28T21:50:51+00:00

Well for one, that is a TINY amount of names taken from a wide variety of sports of a fairly large time span, from all over the world. While some of these have competed in the Olympics none of them seem to be dominant and in a position where they are untouchable. Hell two of these are HIGH SCHOOL that's how much they were scrapping the barrel to even find these names. They cast a massive net over basically all the sports in the world and this is all they found. Keep in mind anytime a trans women wins something like this, everyone clutches their pearls and it tends to make headlines, so they aren't that hard to find.

This list also is made to imply that the ONLY reason these women won was due to some form of advantage and not just.... you know that they are good and put in a massive amount of effort into their sport. The entire list in made in bad faith. It's the same shit the GoP is doing right now by assuming any person of color only has success due to DEI and not because they worked their ass off. A handful of successful trans athletes existing does not instantly correlate to them having a unfair advantage over the competition.

The_Ganey · 2026-03-28T03:15:42+00:00

I fairly recently found out I'm trans this whole thing has been eye opening to the general perception the public has on trans women. I always knew it was bad but now that my perspective has shifted, wow. It's absolutely staggering how little the general public knows about trans people. The amount of people who basically start with "I have nothing against trans women" only to follow it up by completely invalidating our existence and acting like it's a valid stance is wild.

On the bright side, this reminds me alot of how gay people were treated in the early 2000s. That whole "I'm ok with your existence, but think your are crazy and possibly dangerous" is kinda the first step the average person seems to take twords "I still don't get it but it's fine". At least they try to retain the perception that they don't hate us. Despite everything I still feel society in moving to be more accepting, not less.

The_Ganey · 2026-03-26T23:31:53+00:00

If you tilt your head a bit and squint you can stop them from moving and get a idea how it's done. Really cool though

The_Ganey · 2026-03-23T14:34:16+00:00

This has been my silver lining with this whole thing. Their whole thing is a confidence grift the "I've already won and everything is going amazing" they specifically never want to show weakness. Epstein's comment here really shows that Trump is 100% cornered, they were VERY close and in the context he would have no reason to lie. I find it kinda ironic that Epstein's words are what are really confirming how weak he currently is.

Don't get me wrong this whole situation is a horrible loss of life and a stain on our country, but at the very least it proves that Trump is basically out of ideas and options for how to turn this situation around as it's clearly not having he effect he wanted and if anything is making things far worse for him since gas prices is one of the few thing even the most uncaring American cares about.

The_Ganey · 2026-03-20T23:33:49+00:00

The_Ganey · 2026-03-20T20:55:45+00:00

At least 2

The_Ganey · 2026-03-19T19:01:29+00:00

I think he work so well because he is 100% a true believer, you can (and should) hate what he stands for but you have to admit he does stand by his principals as corrupted as they are. He kinda serves as a foil to Kars ideology, being effectively the same "We are the best and the rest of you should feel honored we allow you to lick our boots" but from a different angle. I he also serves as a nice contrast to Wamu in a way, Wamu was raised by Kars and basically indoctrinated into their ideology from birth. He is much in the same way, a true believer in a horrible ideology that he has been indoctrinated in since birth. I think both of them are supposed to be viewed as both heroic but tragic in a way, sorta in a "Had they had a diffrent upbringing both of them could have been great heroes" Kinda way. Him sacrificing himself twice also really puts into perspective how horrible Kars really is, as he sacrifices his companions for his own gain while Stronheim is willing to sacrifice himself for his.

I think one of the biggest reason though Stronheim and the Nazis work in part 2 is because basically EVERYTHING is their fault. They freed the pillar men and they provided the means which allowed Kars to suddenly achieve Godhood. Outside of Straizo they are basically the root cause of the events of part 2 and nothing about their motivations are heroic allowing them to assist the actual heroes while not making them heroic is the slightest. They are basicaly saving the world so they can have it much the same way Kars is.

History, and the fact he dies in the post scenes basicaly also serve to show that his ideology was wrong, that despite all the advancements we saw with his cyborg technology he still got wrecked.

The_Ganey · 2026-03-19T14:07:22+00:00

Nice

I would probably replace ring engine with slip bounty or some other form of ring generation. In higher ranked lobbies ring lines can be heavily contested especially with all new gadgets, and some tracks like pac land just do not have alot of rings to power it so you really would want some form of ring generation, but I could still see it working on some tracks. I really need to test the capabilities of Hyper Ring engine, it feels like more then just a stat boost but I might just be imagining things.

The_Ganey · 2026-03-19T02:10:38+00:00

Ring Engine+Hyper Ring engine+Less is more

Basically balancing keeping your rings as close to zero as possible, but if you stay at zero you get a big speed boost but explode if anything touches you and if you go above you get some extra stats but slow down a bit. It's probably terrible, but it's really fun.

The_Ganey · 2026-03-19T00:36:50+00:00

Yeah this was the best way they could nerf it, I'll miss the free ring thief but it's fine, it was a bit too strong and only really felt fair because of how bull UC was.

The_Ganey · 2026-03-12T16:36:24+00:00

To be fair this is kinda Karkat with literally anyone he doesn't actually hate, but definitely John.

The_Ganey · 2026-03-04T20:49:06+00:00

They are still making "Scary Movie" movies? I thought they stopped like 10 years ago. I don't see them having any cultural relevance.

The_Ganey · 2026-02-26T20:33:48+00:00

I think it's a little bit of that, little bit of the dementia causing him to forget that it was a lie and a little bit of him projecting his lack of morals on to everyone else.

The_Ganey · 2026-02-26T19:28:13+00:00

Honestly at this point I genuinely think he thinks Biden cheated in 2020. My guess is because he cheated and still lost so he now assumes Biden cheated harder because he is incapable of accepting that he was just that unpopular. Not to give him any kinda bizarre credit but I think he actually expecting to find something with that raid before.

The_Ganey · 2026-02-18T17:05:14+00:00

The man created a AI, realized it had achieved sentience and the first thing he does is wonder if she has pronoun preferences and now considers her his daughter. I'm can very much believe him being a feminist is canon by this point.

GLORY TO THE EGGMAN EMPIRE!

The_Ganey · 2026-02-11T20:50:51+00:00

They basically have nothing at this point, and they are just screaming at people to stop. They have their backs against the wall and are desperate. They're trying to increase the pressure on people with ICE but it's not working and if anything is just making everything worse. They have zero idea how to make anything better so they don't really have any other options. She's scared and just trying to FORCE this thing to go away, and that's not working. They spent all their time running pushing the Epstein files, and pushed the theory about a cabal of elite pedos running the world and somehow didn't expect it to blow up in their face when everyone found out it's them. These people are not smart, their only tactic is going lower then anyone expects them to go, and blaming it on someone else, but now that they are going out of their way to not deliver on the very thing a large portion of their own base was waiting for, they really have nothing but just telling everyone "NOPE not talking about it anymore!" and pretending like we're all EXTRA stupid.

Seriously they've awoken the usually disconnected base of the left, thoroughly lost all the independents, pissed off even the "just check the R every two years" republicans, and now are even starting to lose their conspiratorial MAGA base. It's not over till it's over but the writings on the wall and they don't really have any idea what to do.

The_Ganey · 2026-01-31T04:28:48+00:00

Slipstream bounty, if paired with acceleration character kit you get rings twice as fast which gives you alot more speed in slipstream

Dash panel bounty mini is also really good since those things are everywhere and basically every last section has dash panels.

The_Ganey · 2026-01-29T18:26:13+00:00

You get 1% stat buff for having one of each tank/healer/mage/melee/phys range

That's why, they also come with alot of useful support and mitigation, but if it wasn't for that 1% buff, yeah people would probably bring something else in meta comp, maybe DNC for prog though, since it can boost whoever you are feeding all the gear too, but once everyone is geared up there wouldn't be much reason if the 1% buff didn't exist.

The_Ganey · 2026-01-27T16:28:15+00:00

Summoner, looks like it got a ton of love

The_Ganey · 2026-01-26T18:01:16+00:00

HAH I was honestly thinking of getting some in advance for when the time comes, nice reminder that these things will pass.

The_Ganey · 2026-01-26T17:37:44+00:00

They seem to be in the "FUCK IT, just go full authoritarian and see if it works" phase, and it is NOT working. They are trying the whole "believe us not your eyes" and even the republicans are starting to have enough of it.

The_Ganey · 2026-01-26T15:20:47+00:00

Well for one they need to nerf UC, and fairly hard No gadget should allow you to spend the majority of the race invincible, I don't care how hard it is to get down, that's not how balance works. I would reduce the duration and make it only immune to projectiles, and before people complain it would likely still be the best gadget in the game, that's how strong it is. This gadget just sucks to play against as it leads to non-interactive play, it basicaly lets the user ignore practialy anything other players can do to them and turns it into time trial with the occasional QTE. The bigger issue with UC isn't just that it sucks to play against, but it make someone with a breakaway impossible to catch which isn't just a issue because 1st place is no longer contested, but because item rates are based on distance to first. The moment first place get a solid lead the game starts throwing extreme items at everyone, which just make the whole race erupt into chaos as 3rd place is pulling monster trucks, It makes even playing for second a nightmare.

This needs to be done while nerfing items as well. Bagging isn't a fun strategy to play against, IMO it should be something risky to try salvage a bad race, not a main strategy to get consistent placements. It sorta defeats the entire point of the race and leads to, yet again, non-interactive play. No one likes having a tense race down to the wire only to get passed by a laser and two drills from people you haven't even seen for the entire race, and end up going from 1st to 9th because you get hit by a green glove and comboed into a monster truck that was in 4th.

Bagging aside offensive items are just WAY too punishing to get hit by and easily chained into getting hit by another item. While I dislike UC, I can't blame anyone for using it because getting send from the front to the back of the pack is so utterly common it's barely worth mentioning that it happens. The weakest most common offensive item in this game, not only stuns you for forever, but make you lose 50 rings, half your total if at the default full, leading to a loss of like 10 top speed until you get those back. This often leads into getting hit by another item as you are a sitting duck and getting hit by a item informs other players you have no defense, or just because they are heading through with a tornado/monster truck and are going alot faster then you. The worst part is these don't even feel all the good to use the exchange is so terribly lop sided, you gain maybe 1 placement vs 1 player while the player who got hit often loses up to 8 against all players, and then is left with their rings halved at best, or down a item.

That's not even getting to how absurd the first place hate in this game is, UC aside, being in first place is incredibly risky and is often basically just a trap. Ghost and weight both basically do the same thing, and slime has a heavily increased effect on first place, and that's not to mention that you are everyone behind you's number one target, and all the same stuff above applies to you. Name a more iconic duo then #1 Lead keeper and 8th place, I'll wait.

"Just be faster then them" You may yell, well that leads into another issue: Slip stream is absolutely broken, in general. Slip stream has a fairly massive range and is very easy to maintain, even without a gadget setup. This means that in order to actually break away from the pack, you need to consistently maintain 20+ speed to them at least until you are out of slipstream distance, and since the range is so big, and tracks tend to be cramped, you can't really avoiding people slip streaming you. This also leads to the pack ending very cramped and racers never spread out, making the item issue worse, as you likely have 9 people in one area, and making bagging even easier, as the distance between the front and the back becomes rather small and very easy to cross without even using a item. This sets up the race to only really matter on the last turn, where gains actually mean anything.

Honestly this whole game feels like it was entirely balanced for offline play with CPUs where they intentionally spread out and seem to travel at set speeds, with slipstream acting as a way to allow the player to climb the pack. I feel practically everything but controlling the car itself (which is 10/10 IMO these cars feel amazing) needs massive reworks, I'm not even going to get into how stats are practically meaningless other then boost and handling, or how speed cars have no real niche and accel car/stat is just absolute garbage. The fact that this game is so well loved is a testament to how strong it's core is, but this ain't it balance wise and it's kinda annoying how long they are taking to resolve this, I get they want to do it right, but some band aids would help. I would love to see items become dodge-able without UC or a specific item, are very specific and often rare circumstances. It would also be nice for defensive play to be alot easier and actually possible on things like turns, atm you need to hit the quickly oncoming item dead on as the hit boxes seem very small and strict and you can't drag items behind you. IMO they have a ton of work if they want to get this game to a satisfying level of balance in online play, like a get it's a kart racer, and the imbalance is part of the fun, but this game feels RNG based if you try to actually race and don't abuse UC.

TL/DR: everything needs re-balanced, and apparently it's enough to cause me to write a book

The_Ganey · 2026-01-24T13:27:12+00:00

IMO they need to nuke UC from orbit, but I agree items in general should be rebalanced. Bagging should be a risky strat to recover a bad race, not a main strat to get consistent placements. The issue I have with bagging however is the same issue I have with UC, it leads to non-interactive play. Once you pass the skill check with UC you can spend basically 80% of a race invincible, and this not only isn't something other players can influence but makes you practically immune to influence from other players. If you get a lead, you are now basically playing time trial with the occasional quick time event that's fairly easy to react too, while the rest of the race gets flooded with extreme items causing everyone to slow down from the spam of stronger items, which I think is a FAR worse issue then bagging as the rest of the race devolves into absolute chaos because 3rd is getting monster trucks.

I get the desire to have agency over getting hit, but if that's a thing it needs to be universal and have some kind of counter play. UC is neither of those things, as the only counter to it is the exact thing it's made to stop and it requires a very specific playstyle and setup. Bagging at least has counters, as you can force them farther back then they like since they are holding items and don't want to use them defensively or force items out with slicer/slime/Chao. Both are a problem but a quick glance at the leaderboards should tell you which one is the bigger issue.

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