I hate A-4 in an adversarial way. It's a climb. It's Sisyphean. It's inconsistent. But I can probably make it below 37.400s at least ONCE. That's all I need.

Having a breakthrough where I can feel a positive shift in acceleration when hitting a particular part of the track wall. It's not considered out of bounds and it doesn't trigger a collision, but I think if I can maintain 75mph that way, I might even be able to enter the final corner doing 100.

For a second I genuinely considered pause buffering.

Genuinely, it might just require more grit than I'm physically capable of, but I seriously wonder if there's some obscure inaccuracy in Duckstation that's throwing off the IGT.

Racing game players are the only ones allowed to say “games used to be good back in the day”

Having some Revenge flashbacks if I'm honest.

I would not call what I said my all-encompassing take on Linux adoption lol.

But yea, I found dd good for reading from devices rather than using it for writing images -to- devices, and ddrescue is especially useful when dumping disks since it just treats i/o errors as sectors to retry later.

They really knew to wrench down on people prowling forums on how to play a game early.