so.

yesterday martin and i ventured out to game stop and got a broadband adapter for martin's gamecube. then we came back home and went to warppipe.com to get some over-the-internet inter-gamecube multiplayer mariokart schwerving.

one - it rules. the gameplay is incredible. the lag is continuous -- instead of a slow connection making everything choppy and unplayable, the play clock drops by some factor and everything is still as smooth as silk. it makes the game a little different, but immenently playable.

two - noone seems to be using this service. it's still in the early release phases, and mariokart is still new-ish. but the community is just not very big. hopefully that will change and be facilitated by future releases of warppipe which include player-finding utilities of some kind. as it stands, there are supposedly chatrooms where these kiddies are hanging out, but they're impossible to find, there's a forum to post that you want to play, which is the most inefficient way to start a real-time interaction that ever has been, and a bunch of empty irc channels. whoops. where is everyone?

anyway, we overcame those obstacles once yesterday and got the joker up and running and played mariokart with kids from fl. it ruled. thank god for open standards.