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Mario meets Pareto

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Re: Mario meets Pareto

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"professionals"? This is Mario Kart we are speaking about, not formula 1 or counter strike.

Mario Kart has a large and flourishing competitive scene[1][2], including numerous competitions with prize money. In 10 days, Nintendo is hosting the Mario Kart World Championships where they are flying in the best players across the world to Tokyo for it. Obviously, not on the same level as F1 or CS, but there absolutely is a competitive scene for this with dedicated players. [1] https://www.mariokartcentral.com/ [2…

This is not the point.

How many players are making a living competing mario karts?

Taking part in competitions with prize money doesn't make you a professionnal player. When I was a road racing cyclist in the upper amateur echelon I was making a decent amount of money in finish prizes, was sponsored, was given a high end bike, clothing and enough tires to last a season, and the mechanic wouldn't charge me for his work, all non local travels were paid. Yet I wasn't a professionnal cyclist as I didn't have a salary nor would I have made enough yearly money to support a family and leave a job.

So what are the highest, median and average income of those so called 'Mario Kart pros"?

Re: Mario meets Pareto

#182

You have a lot of options to choose from. How to pick the truly best option? Let me show you a method, in which you arbitrarily pick 3 out of 6 attributes and then use an artificial, unintuitive interface to choose an optimum trade-off between them. And once you do, my super-amazing method will tell you what combination to use, easy! OK I might be an old bitter cynic, but the beginning got my hopes up for something c…

Not entirely sure what you're looking for. If you don't want to use the "artificial, unintuitive interface" (bit rude IMO) you could just google "best mario kart setup". The selection of attributes is not exactly arbitrary. AFAIK speed has always been by far the dominant stat in mario kart, then acceleration. Choosing e.g. better handling at the expense of speed is an immediate disadvantage. If your problem is that t…

Just because the selection is "correct" (e.g. gives best results in practice) doesn't mean it's not arbitrary.

The article starts with the premise and fails to deliver. The visual layer of the article is nice. But ultimately the example of using the Pareto's frontier is a FAIL because it doesn't deliver on its promise of finding the best kart setup.

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