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[[Image:MichaelFried.jpg|thumb|Tied for 1st with [[Jon Barber|Ngamer]] for the most beards of any member of the speedrunwiki administration, with 1]]

[[Image:MichaelFried.jpg|thumb|Tied for 1st with [[Jon Barber|Ngamer]] for the most beards of any member of the speedrunwiki administration, with 1]]

'''Michael Fried''' is a player of many Mario Karts, an active forum poster (currently going by "Darth Friedious" on the forum), an MKDS staff member, and a popular personality of the [[mariokart64.com|kart community]].  He has played 4 Mario Kart games, [[Super Mario Kart]], [[Mario Kart 64]], [[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]], and [[Mario Kart DS]].  He also owns [[Mario Kart Super Circuit]], and may or may not start playing it in the near future depending on how long it takes him to recover from his Mario Kart DS addiction.

'''Michael Fried''' plays all 5 Mario Karts, is an active forum poster (currently going by "Darth Friedious" on the forum), an MKDS staff member, and a popular personality of the [[mariokart64.com|kart community]].  He has also worked on various kart-related projects, including creating standards for MKDS and creating an MKDS Wifi ranking site.

Michael is a top karter in 2 of the 4 Karts he has played, and decent in the other 2, and has thereby earned the title of [http://www.mariokart64.com/combinedranks/ best all-round karter].  Although he doesn't play more than 1 Kart at a time, he keeps up with new strats and watches new videos for the various Karts, so he is well prepared if he decides to make a return to one of the Karts.

Even though he is naturally very competitive, Michael is never selfish when it comes to sharing strategies, as he considers it important to improve the overall strength of times in the game, not just his own.  He often explains strategies to people through AIM (mjf345) or MSN (mjf345_at_hotmail_dot_com), and sometimes posts detailed strategies on the forum without even being asked. In all 5 Karts he's played, he's had a very good history of providing plenty of video proof.

Even though he is naturally very competitive, Michael is never selfish when it comes to sharing strategies, as he considers it important to strengthen the overall strength of times in the game, not just his own.  He often explains strategies to people through AIM (mjf345) or MSN (mjf345_at_hotmail_dot_com), and sometimes posts detailed strategies on the forum without even being asked.  In all 4 Karts he's played, he's had a very good history of providing plenty of video proof.

Michael is a top karter in [[MK64]] and [[MKDS]], and decent in [[SMK]] and [[MKDD]], and has thereby earned the title of [http://www.mariokart64.com/combinedranks/ best all-round karter].  However, he was recently passed by [[Sami Cetin]] when MKSC was added to these rankings, so Michael recently started playing [[MKSC]] in order to get some extra combined MK points to reclaim his title.  He doesn't have a complete set of times yet in MKSC, but he's doing fairly well so far and already has several top 10 times.

Michael is currently playing Mario Kart DS, in which he was continuously the world champion for about the first 3.5 months after the game's release (at one time even holding all 64 [[WR]]s at once) until he lost his title to [[Miguel Rodriguez]].  He finally reclaimed his title from Miguel for a short time until he lost it again to [[Thomas Bolton]].  He is currently ranked 3rd.

Since Michael started playing MKSC, he hasn't been spending as much time on MKDS, but he's still playing it a little.  Michael is a former world champion in MKDS, for about the first 3.5 months after the game's release (at one time even holding all 64 [[WR]]s at once) until he lost his title to [[Miguel Rodriguez]].  He finally reclaimed his title from Miguel for a short time until he lost it again to [[Thomas Bolton]].  He is currently ranked 3rd.  Michael recently created and has been updating an MKDS Wifi ranking site, where people can play rated Wifi games and receive a rating, with a rating system similar to the one used in chess.  Surprisingly Michael is ranked in last place in the Wifi rankings despite being so good at time trials, mostly due to his n00bish item skills.

The Kart Michael has spent the most time on and considers himself most skilled at is Mario Kart 64, even though he is ranked lower in this game than he is in MKDS.  He holds one WR, for [[Yoshi Valley]] fastlap [http://www.thengamer.com/MK64/14-YoshiValley/yv-2618-Fried.mpg (video)].  He is also the first person to land the [[Rainbow Road (MK64)|Rainbow Road]] spiral shortcut on all 3 laps, and he discovered a new strat that saves .1 in Frappe Snowland.  He is currently ranked 7th.

The Kart Michael has spent the most time on and considers himself most skilled at is Mario Kart 64, even though he is ranked lower in this game than he is in MKDS.  He holds one WR, for [[Yoshi Valley]] fastlap [http://www.thengamer.com/MK64/14-YoshiValley/yv-2618-Fried.mpg (video)].  He is also the first person to land the [[Rainbow Road (MK64)|Rainbow Road]] spiral shortcut on all 3 laps, and he discovered a new strat that saves .1 in Frappe Snowland.  He is currently ranked 7th in non-shortcut, 11th in shortcut, and 3rd in universal.

Michael played Super Mario Kart for 2-3 months in late 2005.  He didn't get near the top before retiring, but he did manage to reach God (by the old standards).  He also had a former WR in KB1 trick flap.  He is currently ranked 29th.

Michael played Super Mario Kart for 2-3 months in late 2005.  He didn't get near the top before retiring, but he did manage to reach God (by the old standards).  He also had a former WR in KB1 trick flap.  He is currently ranked 29th.

Michael played Mario Kart: Double Dash!! in the game's early history and peaked at 5th place, at one time holding the Mushroom City WRs.  He is currently ranked 95th.

Michael played Mario Kart: Double Dash!! in the game's early history and peaked at 5th place, at one time holding the Mushroom City WRs.  He is currently ranked 96th.

Michael is well known on the Mario Kart Forum where he is the 2nd most active poster and posts on all the different sections of the forum.

Michael is well known on the Mario Kart Forum where he is the 2nd most active poster and posts on all the different sections of the forum.

Michael has contributed to the [[mariokart64.com|Mario Kart community]] in various ways.  He is a proof moderator for the [[Mario Kart DS]] site.  He finds all the fastest MKDS videos around and uploads them to [http://thengamer.com/MKDS a site].  He updates the list of [http://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1146526653 MKDS WRs based on all known sites].  He created the famous [http://www.studentswimmer.co.uk/mk/pwnage.html Halford standards] for MK64.  He is currently working on creating standards for MKDS.  He is also an administrator of this wiki, [[speedrunwiki.com]].

Michael has contributed to the [[mariokart64.com|Mario Kart community]] in various ways.  He is a proof moderator for the [[Mario Kart DS]] site.  He created the standards for MKDS.  He finds all the fastest MKDS videos around and uploads them to [http://thengamer.com/MKDS a site].  He updates the list of [http://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1146526653 MKDS WRs based on all known sites].  He created the famous [http://www.studentswimmer.co.uk/mk/pwnage.html Halford standards] for MK64.  He is also an administrator of this wiki, [[speedrunwiki.com]].

In addition to Kart games, Michael also plays several other games.  His favorite game series is The Legend of Zelda series.  He has competed for fast times and high scores in various games including [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]], [[Diddy Kong Racing]], the [[Donkey Kong Country]] series, and various online Flash games.

In addition to Kart games, Michael also plays several other games.  His favorite game series is The Legend of Zelda series.  He has competed for fast times and high scores in various games including, but not limited to [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]], [[Diddy Kong Racing]], the [[Donkey Kong Country]] series, and various online Flash games.

Michael considers having fun to be a very important part of life.  He takes Kart more seriously than most people and often tries to encourage people to kart more.  He hates comments that make video games seem like time wasters such as "It's just a stupid game!" One of his personal quotes is "There's no such thing as too much Mario Kart."

Michael considers having fun to be a very important part of life.  He takes Kart more seriously than most people and often tries to encourage people to kart more.  He strongly disagrees with people who say that video games are a waste of time. One of his personal quotes is "There's no such thing as too much Mario Kart."

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