Yesterday, while it was storming, I played Mario Kart on my DS and remembered how much I hated certain animated pixilated characters. Next year, when I get my 3ds, my first 2 games will be Mario Kart 7 and Super Smash Bros. That way, when a character in MK p***es me off, I can beat the crap out of them in SSB.
Sounds like a plan. Speaking of Mario Kart...
I was playing Mario Kart: Double Dash! with my little brother the other day, just for that sake of nostalgia. It was the final lap, I was in first (Yoshi FTW) and he was in third. At roughly the same time I got the Triple Mushroom and he got a Blue Spiny Shell. Now, for those of you unfamiliar with MK, let me explain the Blue Spiny Shell: it exists to ruin your life. There's no other reason for its existence, because it hunts down the person in first and BLOWS THEM SKY-HIGH. It causes the biggest explosion in the game, and it's life-ruining powers extend beyond the game into real life, to the point where screaming in rage and punching your brother right in his smug little face seems like a valid course of action. Anyway, he grabs one of those fuckers and tosses it at me as fast as he can. I, however, am having none of his shit today. So what do I do? Well, I crash into a wall and let him sweep by, right into first place. His smirk of "you're so fucked" twists into a grimace of "I'm so fucked" as he takes his own Blue Spiny Shell in the ass (without lube). I use my Mushrooms to get back into first place not three pixels from the finish line, and
holy shit was he mad. The feeling of pure victory was worth the inevitable screaming, temper tantrum, and damage to the controller. (The bloody nose he gave me seemed a bit much, but I
was gloating.)
