Game Theory: Why Mario Kart 8 is Mario's DEADLIEST Game!

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would look like with my sound direction no no no no! (crash) AHHH! AHHHHHH! (crash) OHHH! (shock) NO, NO! PLEASE! (glider opening) (grunt) NOOOOO! (cracking and crunching of bones) (funeral bell) And what about minor collisions? The little bumps that don't stop you in your tracks In a very literal sense, as we just learned, but just slow you down a little Or you stumble into a different world driver I mean, angles matter Sometimes you just graze the side Well, stop Put your questions aside because here at Theorist Labs, using a combination of trigonometry, algebra, and ancient pixel measurements, we developed a formula that is true and real-life.

Training formula kind of like Einstein, but much less impressive and much less important using extensive in-

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crash tests that will generate your speed reduction experience depending on the angle at which you hit the wall or another character in Loyal Theorists, right ? See the depths of nerdiness we go to in this episode? If that is not the case, it deserves a subscription. I don't know what it means, sign up for three, two and one. So if you take Mario's comparatively modest speed of 80 mph or 128 kph and just graze a wall at an angle of just 5 degrees, he will still experience speed. 20mph reduction That 20mph In just a fraction of a second and drastic changes like that cause enormous amounts of G forces, you will feel 25 times the force of gravity working on your body in that instant, certainly not enough to be fatal , but it's You're not going to feel too good and remember it's a five degree wall scrape so let's take it to a logical extreme so let's say you're a baby Daisy traveling at speeds similar to Dry Bowser and who irresponsibly swallows a mushroom. which instantly doubles your speed and suddenly you couldn't make that turn (crash) because there are never enough straights in a Mario Kart game to effectively use a mushroom in the first place.

So you inevitably hit a wall traveling over 200 mph. If we look at it at a much more aggressive 30 degrees, Baby is going to have a big booboo. We're talking about a speed reduction of almost 40% and a force of more than 115 G. Consider for a moment the fighter pilots you know, people whose literal job is to tolerate high G forces. They are trained to withstand just nine Nine G. How does a normal adult tolerate this? Let alone a newborn baby runner? And this is all because the walls in Mario Kart don't give at all, while the walls on most race tracks in the real world are designed to crumple, absorb energy and slow you down, but oh no, my friends. , they are not on the happy path. -lucky Mushroom Kingdom You're basically crashing into a solid cement wall in Mario Kart AND that thing isn't going to collapse.

Oh yeah, but I forgot, you're not wearing seat belts (shock) So instead of crumpling up with the rest of the car you'll just fly headlong into that cement wall (shock) turning into a decorative red spot on the side of the car. Royal Raceway and I know what you're thinking "All of this" All of this is ignoring elements "like banana peels, red shells, blue shells, speed boosters" and literal bombs. They probably all deserve an episode on their own, but for now the real point today is that Mario Kart is hands down one of the easiest. Bring back the violent games you've ever played.

Let that sink in the next time you slide down Rainbow Road (soft crash). Consider your ruined childhood. And remember. That's just a

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