Expectation is often what occurs when one sees the world as they prefer to imagine it vs what it tends to be in actuality.

Needless to say, often disappointing as a result

Yesterday was rife with flow…tis a predictable shame that impermanence reinforced the notion of good things and the time limits that haunt them, lest I have too pleasant a time for too long, of course, an absurdist premise in the face of the unceasing cruelty of the cosmos that beckons eternal entropy enmasse.

Continuing on with our premise of “broadened horizons” via “virtual domestication”, we further extrapolate on the ways Mario Kart World wildly varies from MK: Tour, and what that means to the bottom line standard. One of the ironies that persists in this moment of pitting Mario Karts against each other, is that I initially avoided the launch of the Switch 2, citing a number of extenuating circumstances that made the offering seem too paltry for anyone lacking a Waluigi body pillow with which to cling to at night, and the sadness that permeated the launch was only thusly silenced in part by decent enough sales numbers as to placate the sad financial standard most erroneously judge value upon. This is likely due to the notion they are emotionally bankrupt individuals with a questionable value system that has them running defense for their corporate daddies that help to justify and give meaning to an existence otherwise bereft of content.

Digressing to irony, an overpriced option of what looked like a watered down version of Mario Kart felt a bit too greasy for my liking, and I did one of the only reasonable things a consumer can do in that instance, and not pay the piper nor lip service to the fools in languid servitude of a redundant standard in desperate need of qualitative rejuvenation. Little has changed since that moment, and it is by a mere stroke of luck through time spent relative to responsibility that the choice to acquire a Switch 2 became less about justifying a broken bank account for almost no applicability in reference to value propositions, and more so for “the love of the game”, which in my world, is more accurately translated to “committed to discomfort”, as there is where the true wisdom is generated from.

Playing two different versions of a game from the same franchise would usually be considered a preposterous affair, as one either resolutely accepts the march of time in moving on, or one rejects the idealism of modernity in favor of reluctant egotistical self-preservation; the one in questions relevant capabilities more important than the acceptance of the spacetime continuum’s proclivities, in all of their unyielding domination of conquered spirit. I suppose I’m prattling on about the direct contrasting of the two, cause it is usually outside my immediate concern to more directly pit titles against each other, usually even advocating for others to appeal to the “metaphysical essence” of the experiences “-ishness” in regulating their own sense of critical divide against the virtual dichotomy they’ve set themselves upon. The exceptionary process feels more appropriate viewed through that lens, and this devil’s advocacy in finding the truth of the matter in the appeals process of what this virtual domestication process has wrought, in some other queer way, is me confronting my own sense of detabteable approach. This effort is in theory an effort in magnifying what the collective has failed to grasp vs where I myself may have made a wrong detour amidst a whirlwind of curious madness in questioning the validity of such a paradigm shift in design standards betwixt the two titans.

I suppose in throwing a bone of reason to the hungry dogs of distillation, I offer a meager helping of editorialization, in that in some real sense, we are looking at “problems of scale”, in regards to the World Mario Kart on the Switch 2 is attempting to placate, and the Tour that the mobile offering of Mario Kart desired for its player base to be forever toiling upon, the priorities of finance falling into stark view in realization of the satellite process of player adjacency to the design prospect in question. One would be led to think that those involved of having both a free version of a game and one priced above the norm, one would do a better job of incentivizing both appropriately, but it looks as if arrogance was the culprit in these misguided machinations, though the gamble paid off for Nintendo, it would seem.

Perhaps in another irony, in spite of the notion this is more of a farcical posit than anything else, if one already has an excellent offering on the market that is absolutely free, the only way to differentiate oneself in the process of choice is by offering an objectively worse alternative, no doubt in line with both some backwards money making scheme mixed with a consumerist driven financial experiment fueled by pride and insanity.

Looking at both this article and the time, I lament how ranty this became, as I was harder pressed in staying on task in defining what these broader horizons mean in relation to virtual domestication. Alas, further clarification will have to wait another day.

-Pashford