unfortunately it looks like holdboost had downtime right at the time i started grinding this again so I don't know how many incremental PBs i had that lead up to this exactly without reviewing my journal but it was a lot. it was slightly painful

although I also said I would stop if i didn't get it by the end of May but i mostly just stopped playing the game *as much*, because to be honest I didn't really have much else I felt like doing, so uh. lol i guess

kinda wonder how much further i can push this but I've also been trying to get M for, like, three months and told myself that once i reached that target it'd probably be a good place to stop grinding for now

haven't spent a ton of time with it and haven't gotten any decent runs yet but yeah. its tgm4. still strange that it actually is a real game you can play now

some of those gimmicks in the late half of master mode are certainly... interesting... from what i've seen, lol

seems fun so far although it does seem like it has some issues. no keyboard rebinding is surprising and there might be some sort of bug with the piece autoshift that makes it control kinda weird apparently. hopefully that will get fixed at some point

tbh the sticks in my xbox elite controller are starting to get loose so that's why i'm so interested in the new controller. my switch pro also has some issues so if i upgrade that, since it has back buttons i could prob use that for distance as well

curious how well it'll hold up long term though

new mario kart is definitely the thing i think i'm most excited for personally, and also the new pro controller, lmao. i might actually be more happy about that than anything else, funnily enough. noted grip button enthusiast

oh no they're having technical difficulties

yes this is apparently the first thing from the direct i'm tweeting live

the cow driving a motorbike in the mario kart trailer was pretty good too though tbf

also i don't think it's faster to skip it on purpose my run was like a 1:23 compared to the 1:17s i normally get

but i figure someone else would have found out already if it was actually faster so, eh, makes sense

this one's kind of fun because it looks totally normal with no frame of reference

anyway, spoiler alert, i did not know it was possible to miss the teleporter here. it doesn't look like i went particularly high here though so i'm kind of not sure how but I guess I dunno how big the trigger is

importanly it still has a built in stand alongside the top port. the steam deck had the top port but no stand, which was also frustrating and arguably even *worse* than the bottom port of the switch since you couldn't even use wireless controllers comfortably with no extra accessories lol

out of the many years I have experienced in my life, this has been one of them