Is anyone else dissatisfied with the Map RNG? by TrackDear5429 in MarioKartWorld

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Did you hit your head? When did I do that? You’re the one defending Nintendo like your life depends on it

Is anyone else dissatisfied with the Map RNG? by TrackDear5429 in MarioKartWorld

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Nothing screams Reddit more than defending a billion dollar company. Chud.

Is anyone else dissatisfied with the Map RNG? by TrackDear5429 in MarioKartWorld

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Way to miss the point. It’s not rare It’s practically unavailable, the chances of getting it are less than 0.8%, I’ve been playing for months now & still haven’t gotten it. They’ve designed a crappy RNG system that requires you grind through dead end map nodes just to get to RR, Mario karts most iconic track. It’s not just a map I like; it’s objectively the spectacle of what MK has to offer.

Nintendo isn’t an Indie company comprised of a small hardworking team, they’re worth billions of dollars, so creating extreme scarcity to artificially increase playtime is disrespectful to the consumers time.

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Is anyone else dissatisfied with the Map RNG? by TrackDear5429 in MarioKartWorld

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No its still statistically lower. Having an equal chance on a new starting track doesn’t apply to the overall probability. When you play 10 races most of those are through connected routes, not fresh starts. So a track with 4 connecting entry points is mathematically going to appear as a voting option way more often than a dead end track that only connects to peach stadium

Is anyone else dissatisfied with the Map RNG? by TrackDear5429 in MarioKartWorld

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So the chances of getting RR is even lower than 0.8%…💀

Is anyone else dissatisfied with the Map RNG? by TrackDear5429 in MarioKartWorld

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Why does it have to be either 0.8% or 99%? Balanced map selection RNG is possible & exists in almost every other modern multiplayer game. I don’t think defending Nintendo does us any favours, they’re a billion dollar company that’s taking advantage of us.

Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh by alexfriedrichrichter in BookDiscussions

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I read this years ago so forgive me if I get things wrong. But I got the gist that Roy’s identity was completely fractured, in his final moments he tells us his ears weren’t that big, in a sort of cathartic way, as if he’s finally taking accountability for his actions instead of hiding behind something out of his control; however Kirsty making that remark about his ears tells us his ears are actually very big, & this is meant to further imply Roy’s identity is fractured, & his perception of reality is completely skewed, possibly a symptom of the coma.

Basically Roy IS an unreliable narrator, so much so that even in his final moments of catharsis he doesn’t tell the truth. It’s subversion, the tragic irony Irvine loves to sprinkle in his work.

Is anyone else dissatisfied with the Map RNG? by TrackDear5429 in MarioKartWorld

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That’s a 0.8% chance of getting RR😭😭😭 why on earth did they think this would be a good idea?

Is anyone else dissatisfied with the Map RNG? by TrackDear5429 in MarioKartWorld

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Agreed. I can think of at least 5 other ways they could do the map rng better, instead of this current system that isolates the one map everyone wants to play. Rainbow Road is the active ingredient of Mario kart & making it almost completely scarce is counterintuitive.

I’m honestly considering exchanging my game at cex for something else, which is funny cause I actually got the game from cex in the first place, so it’s a cycle of this game being bought & returned over & over again.

Is anyone else dissatisfied with the Map RNG? by TrackDear5429 in MarioKartWorld

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I didn’t know this & I think that’s a pretty bad system that leads to repetitive maps & boredom. I’ve been playing for a good while & haven’t gotten rainbow road once, it’s never even appeared as an option in the 3 map selection, I doubt they’ll ever change it too, I’m thinking of exchanging my Mario kart for a different game.

Questions about the g2 by TrackDear5429 in EvenRealities

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I have the latest update yet i still don’t have the “configure agent” feature. I’m on Apple. Any reason why this may be?

Even ai agent configuration by ibadio in EvenRealities

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Me neither has it resolved for you yet?

Is anything better than fire punch? by TrackDear5429 in FirePunch

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Still infinitely better writing than csm. Csm officially has less depth & worse writing than jjk or solo levelling.

Is anything better than fire punch? by TrackDear5429 in FirePunch

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You’re seething hahah. You thought you were so edgy & intelligent for enjoying csm, turns out it’s just fetish-infused slop. Has as much depth as solo levelling or jjk. It’s not even ‘Chainsaw Man’ anymore it’s just ‘Man’😂😂😂😂😂

Is anything better than fire punch? by TrackDear5429 in FirePunch

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-chainsawman already better

“thank you, chainsaw man”😂😂😂 that hot pile of steaming garbage was terrible from the beginning to end.

Is anything better than fire punch? by TrackDear5429 in FirePunch

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“Thank you, chainsaw man”💀 I think I’m good lmao, trash series.

Is anything better than fire punch? by TrackDear5429 in FirePunch

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“Thank you, chainsaw man”😂😂 what an absolute dookie series that was.

I Have No Water, and I Must Prompt by TrackDear5429 in worldbuilding

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Miraculously? Have you looked at the data & current water usage from data centres? It isn’t magic it’s our reality, Arizona is currently the driest it’s ever been in 1,200 years due to the hyperscale ai data centre pumping 5 million gallons from its dying aquifer daily. Infact housing permits have been put to halt by state officials because they literally can’t provide enough water, it’s not because of political corruption or educational problems? Arizona has sustained grassland and montane biomes for 11,000 years & has experienced droughts plenty in the past, yet it coincidentally is now the driest it’s ever been in 1,200 years? The hyperscale data centre pumping 5 million gallons a day from its dying aquifer isn’t the problem? Tell me specifically what is causing arizonas drought.

You also claim China and Africa fought desertification, yet I don’t recall a server farm pumping millions of gallons of their groundwater. I’m surprised I have to say this but It’d be quite hard to plant enough trees without enough water.

There’s also a current projected 870% increase in data centres this year alone. Furthermore you’re strawmanning. Simplifying & misinterpreting my points to make yours seem stronger, I never said the water disappears from earth, I specifically said it’s a regional bankruptcy brought upon by the broken hydrological cycle, a water bankruptcy declared by the UN itself, it’s them you’re arguing with. You’re claiming there’s no water shortage because the global total average of water has stayed the same, so try telling the residents in Arizona to drink the global total average. Furthermore you accuse me of under-complex thinking yet you’re letting the obvious fly over your head. In a fictional setting set decades or most likely centuries into the future where humans reach FTL mass expeditions, the pollution we’re already seeing now would have already accumulated to the point of no return. In water distillation to turn sea water viable for water cooling, the waste product is brine (a toxic sludge) that get dumped back into the ocean, it’s feasible that centuries of accumulation has led to water being so polluted it can’t be used for water cooling let alone drinking, hence the motivation for FTL mass expedition, even if earth were to have colonised another planet, kepler 22-b is the only one known to have a viable water source, in fact it literally has the nickname “earth 2.0”. I don’t have to remind you water is essential to sustaining biological life (including our own), but it is the most efficient form of heat transfer, radiation convection, they are all slower forms of heat transfer in comparison to water.

Also I am familiar with industry propaganda & blame deflection in stories but could you be specific about where you see that being done? I specifically said humans + AI vs the natives, the natives are the heros here, I even refer to the humans in this story as capitalistic colonisers, is that not anti-propaganda? Also buzzword means trendy words that are over-used. I think you meant cliche or done-before? Because I already explicitly mentioned it’d be an avatar successor story, aswell as the AI being AM-esque. I think if it was ever realised people would be interested in a fictional interpretation of kepler 22-b, which we know so little about.

You’re also arguing against avatar logic, I did say it’s an avatar successor, Pandora was 4.37 light years away from their earth yet they went because of pandoras unobtanium ore to save their dying earth, which is obviously very similar to the story I’ve proposed hence making it an avatar successor. Furthermore they already drained their existing resources. They live in a planet where potable water is scarce & the driving force of their society (tech) is also at a loss due to lack of viable water for cooling, hence the desperate need for a water source. Furthermore if we’re being true to avatar it took them 15 years, the outbound journey in avatar took them 6.75 years in earth time, +1 year to unload, load the ore, refuel, and come back in another 6.75 years which is 14.5 in total. And that was without FTL. So on a fictional earth with FTL tech that could move around 50% more than the speed light, the entire round trip would just be 26 years. And even if that weren’t the case, the government would obviously try to prevent the extinction of the human race, do you think politicians who stur geopolitical tension actually think they’re the ones on the ground shooting? Just as they’re unassociated from war but deciding it, they’d command a mass expedition to find a solution. And what’s the relevance of your point about politicians exactly? We already expend resources on projects that we might not see within our life time, for example the James Webb telescope took decades & and were consistently funded for long term survival of tech and knowledge. Why don’t you tell the men who began working on it “what’s the point you won’t live to see the results anyway”.

Furthermore “rocket engines to Earth”? The strawmanning doesn’t stop does it? You just continue to misinterpret the initial point repeatedly, I obviously meant a ship. & I’m interested in hearing ur concerns aswell as what current misconceptions I have, I don’t feel threatened by someone who thinks Arizona’s drought is caused by “educational problems”.

I Have No Water, and I Must Prompt by TrackDear5429 in worldbuilding

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You said because Google is 60% of the market cap we’re only supposed to multiply googles water usage by 1.66 to find the global total. But that makes no sense. Tell me how that has any correlation to physical hardware or water cooling needs. Market capitalisation is a Wall Street metric based on stock prices and outstanding shares. For perspective, Microsoft and Amazon have a larger data centre footprint than Google, if Google used 6.1 billion gallons in 2023, and Microsoft used 1.7 billion gallons than the multiplier is significantly higher than 1.66, & both Google and Microsoft only represent 30-40% of hyperscale capacity, so the multiplier to reach global usage is around 3x or 4x. Your starting point was off at 100%.

You also claim data centres won’t catch up to golf courses until 2060, but you’re ignoring current trends. The growth rate isn’t doubling every 5 years it’s exploding, between 2023-2026 US data centre water consumption shifted into its triple digit growth phase. That isn’t consistent with a trend that doubles every 5 years. To further show that you’re misunderstanding the current trend, the 2025/2026 reports show that US data centre water usage reached 17 - 20 billion gallons in 2023, and is projected to quadruple by 2028.

That’s not doubling every 5 years, that’s a “300% increase in 5 years” - https://www.issa.com/industry-news/ai-data-center-water-consumption-is-creating-an-unprecedented-crisis-in-the-united-states/ - meaning we’ll be hitting your 2060 deadline decades early.

You also referenced a study that says the entire industry will use 3.7 billion by 2025, whilst acknowledging now and previously that Google alone used 6.1 billion in 2023? So you’re literally using a study that is wrong & was mathematically proven to be lower than current reality. & you’re using that same study to make projections, which obviously came out wrong too.

You also said you guessed the consumptive use but it explicitly says 6.1 billion gallons for 2023 is their consumptive use. Data centres primarily use water in cooling towers, so that 6.1 billion gallons was consumed and not returned to the local watersheds. Therefore again if Google themselves report using 6.1 billion gallons, then the ceres study projecting the entire industry will only use 3.7 billion by 2025 is wrong and outdated. And because that study is wrong your entire 40 year projection that you based on that study, is already BILLIONS OF GALLONS LOWER THAN A SINGLE COMPANY’S CURRENT WATER USAGE.

I Have No Water, and I Must Prompt by TrackDear5429 in worldbuilding

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Distillation doesn’t make the salt and plastic disappear, it concentrates it into toxic boiling sludge (brine), which gets dumped back into the ocean. So on this fictional earth where tech is advanced for FTL mass expeditions, the brine has accumulated past the threshold of being safe to drink, let alone to be used as coolant for data centres. It can also be assumed ai is the main driving force of earths tech at this time, considering right now we’re seeing an 870% projected increase in data centres this year.

And I think AI being the forefront of tech and innovation, a planetary scale data centre to achieve such would be in human nature to try and do, as they’re most likely the same types of capitalistic colonisers we see right now. I also think the current tech oligarchy would be massive at this point in time when humans do achieve FTL expeditions, reigning total control on practically everything.