Yep, expert difficulty in the original game is not enough; the Al is capped at 432 km/h at expert. The new game is like playing at master difficulty.

Ah this explains a lot, thanks! I already played a bit of the OG F-Zero… and now I even wish more for a new one.

That’s okay then, it took me quite some while for my first win, I think it was B+ or A-. So don’t worry.

Good to know, I thought I was missing something :)

Regarding power management: Did you finish Port Town I in practice mode under the time limit for the achievement? You need to use boosts where you normally wouldn’t (well aside directly from the start).

I wasn’t aware… I will try this later!

And regarding the pack: I drive as if they weren’t there (while using spin attack), meaning I drive my optimal racing line and I often can clear the pack in difficulty corners fast. Well except Mute City.

Haha, this is easier said than done, but I think my racing line is (obviously) not as great as I thought.

First, thanks for you long answer!

Is Master the difficulty you have to unlock? I can’t remember, so probably not. I have it unlocked though…

I have no problems at all with the things you mentioned:

• I always get the good boost
• I press down while jumping
• cornering: let go of trottle (if needed) and use L/R
• the power management I have not completely mastered tbh

As silly as it sounds, the problem are the other cars (as always haha), but for real: once I’m in the pack I’m loosing speed and get pushed all over the place… even with the spin attack. And then I’m stuck there and usually end up around 30.

My rating is B+ now, I usually beat 3/4 opponents. And I think I’m around level 15.

Of course there are still a few driver errors, but I struggle most with getting out of the pack, if you now what I mean.

I guess I just have to git gud, like always.

And I’m sitting here and can’t win anything and I really don’t know why. I played the hell out of F-Zero on the SNES (and also on the Switch).

But I’m always 20-40… in the 99 battles no matter how hard I try and usually manage to get to the end in Grand Prix and Mini-Prix.

Maybe I’m missing something? Do you have some tips and strategies?

I find myself usually in the Top 10 in the beginning, but then I somehow tumble down in the masses of people until I’m stuck around 40…

I always remind myself to do this… Interesting post but no comments? Just add the first comment and a conversation will start - for me at least, there was always somebody commenting.

Yup, the rabbit hole is quite deep. That’s only the people we know to have been targeted by this version Pegasus, I’m sure the dark figure is much higher.

Unfortunately, as far as I understand it, not really. NSO and for sure many other companies offering similar spy software use multiple 0-day exploits to get into your device.

At least for the Pegasus one, a system restart seems to do the trick in removing it in most cases, although there are some reports on surviving even a factory reset on some phones…

The other question is, if you are not a person of interest like a high-ranking politician or journalist, you are most likely not going to be a target of an attack. On the other hand, you never know… and that’s the really scary part.

I’m sorry, but I really don’t get it… the bigger question is and always has been where can I watch it.

It was a bit easier during the beginning of the streaming era, but never that easy, especially in Europe…

I need a stupid app (JustWatch) to tell me where I can watch a movie or show… so how is it easy to watch? It’s also not easy if I need 4+ streaming services…

Oh, I see… I should’ve worded it a bit better.

I don’t know too much about these kind of studies, but it is based on a questionnaire filled out by the parents. I imagine it is quite hard to account for so many variables, since everybody interprets things a bit differently…

I’m just finding that fact sad that people but their 1-year olds in front of a screen for 4+ hours a day, that’s all.

Those poor children… this is really sad. And I’m really surprised they kept at it for so long.

Perhaps, they added, Apple could add a warning message when using the Control Panel toggles that alerts the user that tapping on its Bluetooth icon doesn’t completely shut off Bluetooth and their iPhone can still interact with proximity-activated beacons, such as Bochs’ contraption. So they are saying “off” isn’t really off if you do it in the control center, you have so go into settings to completely turn it off.

I don’t know if it turns itself black on (blue) when something is trying to connect.

I was indeed blaming the end users. Yes, the bluetooth off thing on apple devices is super annoying and I don’t know why they still force it…

Bluetooth is off, so maybe the notification is legit from apple and needs authority for a connection? The thing is, why would you connect to an Apple TV when you are not at home? Or share your password with another device when nobody asked you in person (e.g. WiFi password)?

Form my understanding, this falls into the same category as phishing SMS or mails. You as a user need to know if this is legit or not.

The target audience for this are not people here on lemmy… it’s our parents, grandparents and more in generally people who are not tach savvy… and/or just don’t care.

This is why we need to make people aware of this and teach them how to respond, basically not to click on everything you see. I’m still doing this in my family and I’m very proud of my 80 year old grandma, that dodged a few very convincing scams. :)

And haha, I never thought of backdoors, but yes, they are also produced by humans.

And once again, the weakest link in the security chain are humans…

surprised pikachu face - who would’ve thought?

Not too surprised tbh.

But what will happen to the console market in 10 years? Does it shift to a subscription model and you choose games via your TV and everything is streamed?

But I’m glad CoD will still be around - at least some constant I can rely on haha

This whole API thing seems just so short sighted… there would have been much better ways to implement this, nobody had problem with the monetisation aspect/inclusion of ads to the API…

But it is what it is… and without this fiasco I wouldn’t have switched to lemmy/kbin! :)

Thank you for taking over!

Please don’t stress yourself about the deadline - all good things take their time!

I really enjoy the app, keep up the good work.