Mario Kart 8 Theme: 8 Bit Remix

Описание: can you believe that mario kart 8 is almost a decade old? time flies, man. time flies.
honestly, i've never been super big on mario kart. i think it is probably the most effective of the nintendo party game spinoff series based on mario, though. mario party is meh, mario golf is all but forgotten, mario tennis was never that good, and smash bros is barely even a party game anymore. i just never found the mechanics of mario kart to be all that fun, but it does what it aims to do really well. i've always been more of an f-zero guy as far as racing games go because i like how the games (especially x and gx) handle. i knew a guy back in the day who was a fucking beast at mario kart wii and knew about all of the insane shortcuts and intricate mechanics who i believe competed in local competitions who tried to teach me all of that stuff, and i did learn it, but like, it just wasn't the most appealing racing game ever to me. i like the handling in double dash and ds a lot but from what i can remember it changed wildly with each new release. i didn't play double dash until after 8 came out, dunno why. i guess i can't complain about a game series that is pretty soulful at the end of the day - all of the animations in (almost) every game are really well done, the soundtracks are consistently fantastic, and the visual styles are all really neat. modern nintendo is going down the shitter at an alarming rate so it would really suck for the next mario kart to be boring like their last few releases have been. the last fantastic mainline nintendo release was mario odyssey, which came out fucking six years ago. six years of riding off the coattails of third party releases, remakes, and rereleases. the issue is that there isn't really any better console for modern gaming (pcmr, motherfucker) because playstation is continuing their time-honored tradition of having no games, and nobody actually buys xbox. not like i care much, i don't really play many video games anymore. i intend on playing the yiik i.v demo soon but besides that i have no intention of playing any new game release.
i don't really know what else to say about mario kart and i don't feel like complaining about video games for the millionth time. fuck it, i'll talk about something else.
i saw in the news recently that the blood meridian movie adaptation is finally coming at some point in the future and i really think it will crash and burn upon release. blood meridian is a book by cormac mccarthy that isn't actually his best work (his best is suttree) yet is still rightfully hailed as a brilliant masterpiece. it is really fucking good. fantastic, actually. i haven't read the border trilogy yet, but i've heard good things about those novels, too. blood meridian is about the fictionalized version of the glanton gang travelling across the 'ol u.s of a in the mid 19th century during the wild west period. they recieve lectures from the enigmatic judge holden - an entity who more so represents an idea than being just a normal human - during their travels and kill a lot of minorities to get money and credit. eventually they just kill for lulz. it's somehow an incredibly dense read yet also with what feels like super large sections worth of downtime where the gang is just travelling written in an overly descriptive manner. read it, i can't do it justice in this short little section. don't you fucking dare go and watch some video by some little pussy bitch that goes through it for you, either. fucking read it, it's really good. i wouldn't reccomend dogshit literature. anyways, the movie is going to suck. it's been a meme for a while that the judge is impossible to cast but it's fucking true. judge holden's physical description in bm is based on the real-world account of samuel chamberlain who was a member of the actual glanton gang. in the novel, he is described as being a heavier-set albino male who is devoid of all hair with a stature like no other. (in s. chamberlain's "my confession," the real judge is said to be 6'6, but he is implied to be taller in bm. can't remember if it was stated but i feel like early on it says he's seven feet tall.) the judge also has tiny extremeties and deep-set eyes like that of a pig. who the fuck looks like that? i don't watch movies, so i'm genuinely asking. it's not hard to find people who look like every other character in the book but to find someone at that height and with that build with small limbs is nigh impossible, right? i'm interested to see how they'd translate some of the character descriptions to real actors, toadvine and the idiot, especially. i hope it uses as much practical effects as it can. it would be unbelievably dissapointing for them to just use a bunch of vfx and greenscreened extreme long shots for the travelling scenes.
have a wonderful day, gentlemen. god bless.