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I always knew those little red tires were the best. Sadly, this misses the most important thing to me: style. And my love of Zelda. So I'm afraid I'll personally have to disregard all of this.

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You're just optimizing for a different outcome. You could still apply this thinking, just with "Zelda adjacency" as the primary metric.

There are no grounds on which I can disagree with you.

But you can add that as a dimension to the chart!

Hard to quantify into numbers, no?

I like Luigi more than Mario. But do I love Mario like a 6 and Luigi like an 8?

Time for binary sort or an elimination chart; take every character, compare them to another, sort them as to which one you prefer. Then assign a number to each one of them.

Preferences don't tend to work that way. You know how, if you use a sort function that accepts a user-defined comparator, the documentation will have dire warnings about making sure that the comparator gives consistent results?

The procedure you're suggesting here doesn't comply with those warnings. Sorting will not terminate, or will yield different results from attempt to attempt.

In the original MK8, the Triforce tires and Hylean gliders were pretty good, but the stats in MK8 Deluxe for them are not nearly as good.

Also keep in mind that the 3.0.0 patch for Deluxe changed a bunch of stats.

Well I always pick Koopa, who is apparently the worst. Although in my group of friends I win the most by far… I’ll keep with him to keep it fair :)

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