shocker, vibe coded port done by some asshole only in it for the money and attention.
Nooooooooo you don’t understand, these ungrateful worms are stealing the work that I stole fair and square! It’s BULLSHIT
This is like when dipshits argue they can make money from LLM music that they make but somehow don’t consider the next step where people who have no taste would just slop themselves something even more attuned to their lack of taste bypassing the ‘musician’ entirely.
You only make money from LLM music when you control the algorithm and the payout is based on play share.
Spotify just clawed back ~10% of the pot by forcing LLM music down everyone’s throat. Blatant theft.
There’s not even gunna’ be a Spotify according to how they present the technology. There’s no reason to have a market for things when you have a thing-maker that’s being presented to everyone as something they’ll be forced to have and use. I’m not saying that’s what will happen, but thinking “And then what” for 5 seconds presents them as dumb as fuck.
I’ll make sure your ReTour account gets sent to fucking hell
I hope I fucking make myself UNBELIEVABLY CLEAR
im proposing additions to the site taglines
im proposing additions to the site taglines
that’s not IN ANY WAY APPROPRIATE
STRAIGHT to hell, NOT OK, etc etc
Barely coherent with context
Just how we like them
The best tag lines are incoherent but still clearly about some topic in an odd way.
Me saying this, but it’s about people playing a shitty phone game (I’ve played it) over literally any other Mario Kart game.
Bit idea: if you ever get a badpost deleted a bot sends you this message
This shit has been going on since the internet began with self-satisfied twerps larping as a secret society called “the scene” and bozos on private trackers pretending the feds aren’t on every private site before they hit 3 users. Highschool clique mentality that makes even reddit seem mature by comparision.
Did the game just suck or was this mostly because of the predatory business model? Because that’s something a crack would fix.
I wasn’t a fan regardless of price. The open world stuff got old quickly and the “race between races” thing makes it so you only ever to like two maps with any character in a given grand prix.
My friends ended up sticking to 8 deluxe when we want to play together.
… oh we’re talking about the phone app?? who fucking cares man
I played MKT for a while back in 2022, and it wasn’t a particularly good game. The actual racing gameplay was alright, but had to be simplified quite a bit to adapt it to phones, which made it much less interesting. The character selection and tracks were cool, but as most of the cool characters were locked behind a gacha system (that was later replaced with buying them directly with a premium currency), so getting the ones you wanted either required spending lots of time playing, or just spending real money on it. (For example, I once found someone on reddit who was spending like more than $500/mo on in-app purchases in the game)
Most of the game loop was about maximizing your score on each track, but score was mostly based on having the right character/kart/glider combination, not really about skill.
Like any modern phone game, it was set up to keep you playing for as long as possible. I eventually realized that I was only playing out of obligation and not because I was having fun anymore, so stopped.
Without monetization, it would definitely be better, but I don’t think I’d go back and play it more. The gameplay loop just isn’t really interesting, and the skill ceiling is very low compared to other mariokart games. It’s cool to have a game with most of the tracks from the whole mariokart series, as well as lots of characters, but it’d need to be attached to a better racing game than what Tour was.
THX I was wondering how you would even screw up Mario kart
i’m gathering from context that this secrecy wasn’t about hiding from nintendo lawyers
Idk what else it would be about. That alone is reason to lay low.
I feel like if it was anything beyond wanting their club to be exclusive, they would have iterated on that in their announcement instead of having a childish crashout. Also, I feel a better way of trying to laylow would be to release the code to allow independent operation of private servers while trying to remain anonymous to prevent retaliation.
My first step of laying low would not be to host a discord server. They are an American company. They have to give your info to lawyers for the purpose of copyright enforcement.
I mean it might be. Leaking the APK may actually ruin this guys life. Someone will eventually be made an example of for all this
Clearly also a dick though so idk
he sounds like a dick but no way am I cheering for Nintendo to enforce their copyright. Number of dickholes in the comments of that tweet boasting a out reporting him is just sad.
Private APK?
sephiroth posting
