Today’s game is Mario Kart DS. I was planning to play Metal Gear Solid Delta and even finish it. My computer had other plans. To cut a long story short, the boot partition just decided it felt like being full today. No reason why. I couldn’t empty it though try as I might. It owed to fun issues like: not being able to log in, not being able to update, and booting right into emergency mode. Somewhere in the 5 hours I guess my eyes glazed over and I accidentally deleted my home directory. Not to worry though. As some fucking genius made an app called PhotoRec and I was able to recover them from a live partition. Christophe Grenier. I don’t know who you are but I could fucking kiss you man. Everything is a little out of sorts but a few hours and I can fix that. The worst part will just be reinstalling things. Which I can do.
Anyways. So. Mario Kart DS. I picked this because it was either this or 7. I wanted to give this a try so I picked it. My First impressions are that it’s a very basic modern Mario Kart. Is that a bad thing? No. Not at all. It laid the ground work for a lot of what we have now. And especially Wii. But I also think that means there’s not much of a reason to return to this one if you didn’t grow up with it.
The track selection is pretty good. Delphine Square was pretty on the graphics. And of course there’s Waluigi Pinball. My personal favorite is DK Pass purely for the theme. But there’s some other good tracks too I have yet to unlock.
Maybe it was just my character choice but I did find myself struggling a lot though. Especially on this desert track where it felt like I was sliding fucking everywhere. The drifting especially I had trouble with.
Ultimately today was definitely me trying to make the best of a bad situation. For future reference definitely do backups. I’m a fucking idiot for not doing so. The lack of screenshots today is also on me because my Screenshot Archive on my DS was of course filled to the brim too. That’s why today is a little barebones. I would have had a full cup had it not been for that.
One thing that Mario Kart DS has that didn’t carry forward to other games is mission mode. Definitely worth a look.
I meant to mess with that but was so drained by the end of the cup and from saving my desktop, that I went “Okay, I think I’m done for now”. I’ve heard good things about it though
This was my favorite Mario Kart to play multiplayer
i loved this game. i always played as peach, then found out later that shes considered the worst character in the game by far, possibly even the whole series
Is she? I always assumed she was close-ish to Toad stats wise. Then again, I don’t know how toad performs so I guess I can’t use that to measure
At least in the german IT sphere i heard “Kein Backup, keine Gnade”/“No Backup, no pity” relativly often.
To make sure that people understand that data loss is preventable and if they fail to secure their data its their fault.Even tho that sentence got ingrained, actual practices not…
So i dont follow the 3-2-1 gold standart but just use one external drive where i copy files manually to…Really hope you can find some decent setup :D
Yeah, this is totally on me lol. There were a bunch of ways I could have prevented this (Regular Backups, Backing Up Everything before messing around with a Live USB, etc). I guess it’s one of those lessons I had to learn the hard way. I’ve got a setup now where I have my desktop backup my Home Directory to a SSD with Pika Backup, and I’ve got a Enclosure for a HDD on the way too just to be safe
Oh boy! I love that adrenaline rush you get after executing a command and it takes a really long time that it makes you wonder “did I just delete something important?”. Not many other things can give you that tingly feeling. Glad you found a way to recover your stuff.
I’m gonna go install some backups today…
It’s definitely exciting. I probably sound like a dork but some of the most fun I’ve had with Linux itself has been debugging it when something goes wrong
