$70 for 45 cartridges of plastic using up what, 100 MB of actual data? Bro.

I just completed all 12 days of Advent of Code 2025! #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com

Pretty silly puzzle to end the year. I noticed the trick about an hour ago but didn't dare to try it as an answer, even though the last problem is often a simpler one.

Think the 12-day format is good. I'll be back!

I just completed "Reactor" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/11

Already all over tomorrow! This was the light day towards the end, curious if tomorrow will be a one-parter or not.

I've completed "Factory" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/10

This was a bear of a problem, with radically different approaches between the parts (maybe squeezing in two classic problem types in one given just two days left!).

More commentary in code comments.

I've completed Part One of "Movie Theater" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/9

Not my preferred type of problem. Tried without a library (shapely), but the general algorithm is too complicated and I didn't want to figure out how to calc every possible rectangle.

I've completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8

I overlooked the complicated "merge two non-trivial circuits" part for too long, but also "nothing happens" counting as a connection for part 1 seemed like poor wording in the problem

(Dataclasses!)

I've completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/7

Struggled big time on part 2 today, I kept thinking trees / depth-first searches and the like was the way. As usual, it was just expanding on part 1 - I was just blind for awhile on this one.

I've completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6

Did not realize where the spaces were around the smaller numbers is critical for too long...

I've completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/5

Samaniego is rule 5 eligible and the Pirates protected him, so he was/is also on the 40 man.

I've completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/4

A couple years ago I wrote a "neighbors in a grid" generalized function (on top of my put lines of characters into a grid function). Much of the work for today, done!

I've completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3

It's that time of year... you can't brute force 100 nCr 12 = over 1 quadrillion possibilities per line, but you can figure out what leftmost digits are skippable with recursion!

I've completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2

I got my annual vaccines and am burning up, so here's a 10 second bruteforce (offloading the dividing of the string in part 2 to a complicated more_itertools function!) that's good enough for day 2.

I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

Some unusual edge cases to deal with. This wasn't THAT simple for a day 1, with only 12 days I expect the difficulty to ramp up quicker.

The joys of region locking?

As far as actually racing… I have no interest in competitive and getting actual race tracks is tough for now. But there’s still great moments like these sprinkled in there (mirror!).

Next time I post it will probably be about Bananza… which looks like a fascinating game, one way or the other.

To end on a positive note, here is an absolutely kooky one. A lot of these missions are samey, but not this one for sure. (Falling into water is out of bounds for this mission.)

Then there’s the ones as you look up a guide that you realize only spawn upon going on a certain path. I think these are cool but with no quality of life on map completion, it’s like we’re back in the stone ages of gaming here.

Rewind can make coins despawn too, this has been known but it’s insane in this clip when it does.

Catching up on posting my last clips of free roam.

This was a mediocre time overall to 100%, clearly Nintendo did not want you to play like this. Look at the draw distance of this one being intentionally bad.

Wonder Trekking back to running

Finally figured out that I can, I'm just blind in the edit profile settings, and the allowed size is very horizontally focused. So I'll work on this...

Finally for now, if I could have a profile pic in this game, I’d start with this? Can I have profile pics on Bluesky?

This is one I looked up for a slight nudge because it was 6am on a Sunday, lol. You do want to only be hitting the outer wall pieces, which requires a rightward trick to bounce out, then a leftward trick immediately after to come back into the wall.

This is the easiest of the six special skills challenges, although I haven’t found them all yet.

DS Desert is going to be a bagging track. I stole this golden with a boo(!!), held it a full lap as lightning had already happened, and it wasn’t even close.

Gotta log my first online win…

This was the hardest P-Switch I’ve had so far (done about 40% of those). Couldn’t even fit it all in 40 seconds. Some of this is the WR route, not all though.

I wish MKTV was still a thing for online races, because I love checking out photo finishes like this. This was going to be a *** Grand Prix resetter.

Think Daisy remembered this moment from her infancy?