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What we've been playing - lessons in communication and, um, trash-talking


What have you been playing this week?

I'm learning to push the thoughts outside of my head and to make sure I'm keeping another person in the know, and that feels profound to me, like a lesson much bigger than overcoming the final Split-Fiction boss. Anyway this week I played my first proper bout of multiplayer Mario Kart World - using one Pro Controller and two halved Joy-Con - so I got my first dose of the real magic of the game. I see a lot of talk about unfairness and rubber-banding in Mario Kart, by which I think people mean how the game can batter you out of position with its arsenal of shells and other weaponry, then favour those who drop behind with various speed boosts to get them back in contention.

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