Hi,

I'm having the exact same problem and I'm afraid they are going to charge me as well since I won't know until monday or tuesday.

Did steam ever get back to you? Did you get your game or your money back?

I'll also pm you if you aren't checking this forum anymore.

Thanks,

spiral

I guess I'm trying to look at the numbers like this.

At a 50% chance of winning if I have 50 wins/50 losses out of 100 games (the expected outcome) I'd be at 1.0 rating. The expected outcome of a 1.0 rating for a 25% chance to win is 25/75. So if you play 300 games you are expected to win 75 games out of 225 losses your rating is still 1.0 because your chance to win is 25% and not 50%. So similarly if you are at 150 you've now doubled your win loss ration to 2.0. If I were to play another win another 75 games I'd be at 3.0 win/loss ratio. Since I'd theoretically only be playing fifty games and winning them that would make a 200/100 a 2.34 win/loss ratio.

Either that or I'm an idiot that sux at math. The latter seems more likely. Without the chance of winning I'd be at 66%. I just mean that say at 100/100 if I jumped up to 200/100 I'd ramp my win efficiency by 100%.

well the character does have an effect due to weight which has an effect on how you drive through muck.

I snake, I know how. I'm good at it too. I'm still getting owned by other snakers who are using very different karts and characters that I'm not used to racing against.

O.k. My Wii blew up and somone hacked my steam (which I have back but am afraid hackers are going to regain my info in Windows until I get my Mac Leapord disc to reinstall osx and windows).

So I've been playing a lot of Mario Kart DS again. It's very fun. Just as fun as it was when I bought the game.

I'm over 100% in wins (217 something wins - 115 losses I think). But I have been racing against some 3 and 4 star players and my Toad in the tank (bomber?) isn't cutting it anymore. People with Luigi's vacuum car and BOWSER (of all characters) are whooping my ass.

So what's the best combo do you think? Any 3 star/4 star players out there with some advice?

It's a lot more fun now being ranked with better players because its not either: 1. a runnaway for me 2. a runnaway for them. The only thing I fear is a lot of them are hackers? I see people fall off an edge or cliff and end up ahead of me and going the same speed they were when they fell off. is this hacking or lag?

Still, the most importan is your thought on the player/kart combo.

THANKS ALL!

Scott

Nintendo is no Joke.

My Wii recently blew up. Sux. Past warrenty.

Nintendo: Whats your address?

Me: Address is...............

Nintendo: You've been a long time buyer of Nintendo products since 1990 (actually earlier than that but that was the first time we registered a product.....probably Nintendo Power.)

Me: Yep

Nintenodo: Well, even though you are past your warrenty we are going to repair it for free.

Me: ARE YOU F(#(*$$) SERIOUS???!! WOOHOO

Buy Nintendo. They won't let you down. If it were Apple, my ipod foto would be in the trash already.

Mailman Mike, the character I created on Drawn to Life. Or the boxer puppy I made on Dogz. Or wuz it catz? No no, it was ferretz.

All kidding aside Samus. She was my first woody as a young kid when I figured out she was a chick. Jk again.

Seriously, this time its scooby doo. Frek there I go again lying.

My ship from geometry wars. Final Answer. Only because that game kicks so much behind I can't stand it.

NEW UPDATE!!

OMG nintendo is freaking amazing.

I really hope this gets reported somehow because Nintendo is my new best friend even though my console dumped on me!

Like I said, earlier this morning my Wii wet farted. So I call Nintendo, and I'm past my warranty. Apparently we got repairs back in 1990 on our NES system. THEY STILL HAD THAT LOGGED IN. She said "Well, since your such a devoted Nintendo fan I'll just go ahead and put this under warranty repair. When you get it back you're system will be warrantied for another year.

BOOYA. GALAXY, BRAWL.......I'M BACK.

Steve Jobs, take some freakin customer service notes.

Thanks Nintendo!

I don't know if anyone has heard of this but Santa just screwed me hardcore. I've had Wii for over a year and last night I was checkin out the news on Wii news about Led Zepplins benefit concert. All of a sudden, the crap went haywire and froze on this beautifully colored screen /sarcasm.

The system wasn't registering with the mote. Shut it off manually. I've had to do it before so no big deal, right? Heck no, I wake up to play some "punch-out".................no screen. Switch av outlets. no screen.

I THINK MY WII JUST BLEW UP BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS. No Galaxy for me. Only a month before and I coulda had it under warranty for repair. Nintendo, OWN UP AND OFFER 2 years plz.

Damn electronics. What a bad week. Someone hacked my bank account, somone hacked my steam, and Now this crap.

If you guys listen to the podcast, there's really only one logical explanation except for one minor flaw: It's Kid Icarus. Matt said nothing about it being a super NES title, he said "a game that came out in early days of nintendo" or "20 er days when you were young".....something like that.

Only problem with making it Kid Icarus is that it was not really a franchise. They only made like 2 or 3 of them? I hardly call that a franchise. Maybe if they said "Nintendo Published game returning" I would feel better about making my Kid Ic statement.

you guys didn't even read any of my post...........the only monkeys are you.

All you guys care about is Mario and Zelda. You could care less that the wii fit board isn't just for excersize, its a new interface altogether. But I suppose those who replied were also the chimps that were angry when nintendo revealed the controller at E3. You watch when you are playin SSX on your Wii Fit board. Then come back and complain how retarded it is.

They won't break. Come on, it's nintendo. You can drop a gamecube four stories and it will still turn on.