Last Christmas, I looked in to buying a copy of Mario Kart to play on a system that my family had dug out of storage, but when I looked online, copies of Mario Kart were still selling for nearly as much as new games. I couldn’t understand why because I didn’t think many people would still be playing the game. A few weeks later, Google pushed a story to me about a world recored being broken on Rainbow Road that lead me to this video. The entire time I was watching it, I kept thinking how absurd and dumb all of this is, but then couldn’t stop watching. It’s honestly pretty fascinating and I’m amazed by people’s competitiveness, even against themselves, and their commitment to discovering better ways of doing things. This is honestly so bizarre, but interesting.