Here's one: Was playing MK7 earlier, first few races I was winning and getting 2nd and 3rd fairly often. Then, I just whip the piss out of the competition on snes Rainbow Road, drafting, blasting mushrooms and hitting just about every auxiliary boost (from the cinder thwomps). Must have gotten first place by like a mile.
The next 7-8 races after that I'm owning the track just the same, but it was just...the little differences...at that point it was just...a little different. Example: Everyone behind me is on the money with every shell and fire ball, raving bullet boosts starting up 2 feet behind me, everything. One of the races, on DS airship fortress, I was in 2nd going into the final part of that massive roundabout at the end. I heard/took note of a first place shell coming via the warning siren, as any non-dumbshit MK7 boy would have, I swerved way off to the left side of the trail because I know these things tend to follow the center of the track for the most part. Somehow the shell still smoked me, not to mention a flurry of green shells followed by the guy in 3rd, followed by a rampaging star in the backside by the imbecile in last. :blowup:
Maybe the awnser is: that's just what happens on Mario Kart every now and then...but this time it seemed a bit extreme, almost personal. Not to mention, during more than one occasion I would get a quality item, maybe like the 7 items or the eternal mushroom and then *Boom*, out of nowhere a bob-omb lands straight on my head.