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Two mechanics are facing charges after being accused of intentionally damaging parts to at least one victim’s vehicle while working at the #1 Cochran dealership in Monroeville.

“You’re not going to drive that with that amount of damage,” Trooper Rocco Gagliardi said.

State police are putting out a warning after their vehicle fraud investigation unit discovered two mechanics at #1 Cochran in Monroeville apparently tampered with a customer’s brake pads on purpose.

“At that point, it was determined that a flathead screwdriver was placed in between the brake pads to cause separation. Both mechanics did relate they put the screwdriver in there, and one even used a hammer to cause even further separation,” Gagliardi said.

Aaron Eager and Jacob Ciarkowski are facing summary charges for criminal mischief and unlawful activities.

“The mechanics did relay to our investigators that everything they did was on their own accord,” Gagliardi said.

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Mario Kart Tour is removing its contentious gacha mechanic and adding a Battle mode in a new update next month.

In a message posted on the game’s News screen, it was announced that both changes will be taking place in an update that launches on October 5.

The removal of the gacha pipe will solve one of the biggest complaints at the game since its release three years ago.

Until now, limited-time drivers have often only been obtainable through a Pipe, which costs Rubies to use. Each Pipe contains 100 different drivers, karts and gliders, of which the limited-time drivers are only a handful.

Although the Pipe doesn’t have duplicates, meaning players could be guaranteed the limited-time drivers if they used it 100 times, it costs 450 Rubies for 100 attempts, which would require the player to spend up to $236.96

The landscape of the Mario Kart series looks very different today than it did back in 1992 when Super Mario Kart was released for the Super NES. Of course, there is a clear improvement with respect to visuals and we now have new characters, karts, and courses dropping all the time thanks to the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass releases and Mario Kart Tour on mobile. Yes, there’s now an official Mario Kart game on non-Nintendo hardware — what a world we live in! However, at its heart, Nintendo’s top racing franchise is today very much the same game that it was 30 years ago.

Across the titles in the Mario Kart series, each entry has had to work, naturally, within the technical boundaries of its respective console. As with any video game, the development of new ideas is a balancing act between what new hardware