It's only barely topical but I will take any excuse to post this copypasta:
๐ฎGONG XI FUCK CAI ๐ฏ๐๐ ITโS THE YEAR OF THE ๐ SNAKE ๐ You know what this means ๐ for all the ๐ง XIAO MEIMEIS ๐ง Time to get sexy โจ๏ธ and wear your tightest ๐ QIPAO ๐๐ because ๅคงๅฅโs SNAKE is sliding up your legs tonight! ๐ Donโt forget to show AHGONG ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ป๐ด๐ป๐ด๐ป your PHATTEST oranges ๐๐๐๐ for those THICCC HONGBAOS ใ๏ธ๐ฐ๐ตโผ๏ธโโ when DA GE ๐งcomes to your house ๐ก show him your lucky ๐ RED UNDERWEAR ๐ and you will be making your own DONG DONG QIANG ๐๐๐งจnoises ๐๐ข๐ฃ in the bedroom tonight ๐๐ YUMSENG ๐ป๐ฅ๐ฅ away to quench your thirst ๐คค๐ง Have fun ๐คฉ playing MAHJONG ๐๐ with your cousins๐๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฆฐ, but careful ๐ซโ๏ธnot to lose ๐ฑtoo much money ๐ต๐ธ, or else ๐ you can only PLAY โ๐ค๐ฒ with yourself ๐จ๐ณ Send this to 8๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃof your LA MEI๐ธ๐ถ๏ธ or SHUAI GE ๐คด๐ If you get more than 8๏ธโฃ back your flat chinese ass ๐ถ๐ถ๐ถwill be screaming HUAT AH tonight โจ๏ธโจ๏ธ๐ต๐ตโผ๏ธ
I can see where you're coming from with this ("I, the individual, like the smell of cigarette smoke" is a fact, compared to the statement "the smell of cigarette smoke is pleasant" which is an opinion), but this level of pedantry is really something else!
I mean, unless there is no major global war from now until the heat death of the universe or some other extinction level event, aren't we just perpetually going towards WW3?
If it's any consolation I've been on at LEAST 80% Huel (and this is surely a low-ball; on the vast majority of days I'll go 100% Huel) since 2020 and my recent blood panel came back great.
Slight correction: It is well known for doing nothing to the rich. A distinction as subtle as it is important...and telling.
I don't intend to be a negative Nancy about it all but I expect everything will fall through some crack or slip through some loophole or....just get looked away from, in the end. It's a pattern I've seen again and again with this man.
Now this, I can definitely see. Not to wax melancholic, but mine was an abnormal and truncated childhood, so I never found the comic personally relatable, and that might amount for the disconnect - it always came across as either outlandish and nonsensical (bordering on lolsorandumb) to faux-deep and mollycoddling of the reader's inner toddler that never seemed much more than condescending to me.
But in the context of cueing it through the hypothetical series of how a regular adult might reminisce about their own childhood, the nostalgic, near-wistful fondness I see for it makes a lot more sense, even if to me it feels saccharine and, dare I say, disingenuous.
The "oh so nerdy" references weren't quite so ubiquitous earlier in, were they? The question popped into my head the other day but I don't feel like going back to check.
"Shite" is kind of harsh, I'd say. It's not an awful strip. It's just made out to be much better than it really is. It's a single step above "run-of-the-mill".
I'd also agree that it's not unreasonable for Nintendo to shutter the online features of the 3DS and the Wii U. Time marches on.
You can get a card that is linked to your wise account. Not something I've done but it's an option.
Why not just use something like Wise to hold your cash?
It's only barely topical but I will take any excuse to post this copypasta:
๐ฎGONG XI FUCK CAI ๐ฏ๐๐ ITโS THE YEAR OF THE ๐ SNAKE ๐ You know what this means ๐ for all the ๐ง XIAO MEIMEIS ๐ง Time to get sexy โจ๏ธ and wear your tightest ๐ QIPAO ๐๐ because ๅคงๅฅโs SNAKE is sliding up your legs tonight! ๐ Donโt forget to show AHGONG ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ป๐ด๐ป๐ด๐ป your PHATTEST oranges ๐๐๐๐ for those THICCC HONGBAOS ใ๏ธ๐ฐ๐ตโผ๏ธโโ when DA GE ๐งcomes to your house ๐ก show him your lucky ๐ RED UNDERWEAR ๐ and you will be making your own DONG DONG QIANG ๐๐๐งจnoises ๐๐ข๐ฃ in the bedroom tonight ๐๐ YUMSENG ๐ป๐ฅ๐ฅ away to quench your thirst ๐คค๐ง Have fun ๐คฉ playing MAHJONG ๐๐ with your cousins๐๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฆฐ, but careful ๐ซโ๏ธnot to lose ๐ฑtoo much money ๐ต๐ธ, or else ๐ you can only PLAY โ๐ค๐ฒ with yourself ๐จ๐ณ Send this to 8๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃof your LA MEI๐ธ๐ถ๏ธ or SHUAI GE ๐คด๐ If you get more than 8๏ธโฃ back your flat chinese ass ๐ถ๐ถ๐ถwill be screaming HUAT AH tonight โจ๏ธโจ๏ธ๐ต๐ตโผ๏ธ
I can see where you're coming from with this ("I, the individual, like the smell of cigarette smoke" is a fact, compared to the statement "the smell of cigarette smoke is pleasant" which is an opinion), but this level of pedantry is really something else!
I'm impressed!
I mean, unless there is no major global war from now until the heat death of the universe or some other extinction level event, aren't we just perpetually going towards WW3?
If it's any consolation I've been on at LEAST 80% Huel (and this is surely a low-ball; on the vast majority of days I'll go 100% Huel) since 2020 and my recent blood panel came back great.
Welcome!
I'm interested in the 'live like it's early 2020' bit; what do you mean there?
Forgot the 'exercise' part.
Slight correction: It is well known for doing nothing to the rich. A distinction as subtle as it is important...and telling.
I don't intend to be a negative Nancy about it all but I expect everything will fall through some crack or slip through some loophole or....just get looked away from, in the end. It's a pattern I've seen again and again with this man.
I refuse.
Now this, I can definitely see. Not to wax melancholic, but mine was an abnormal and truncated childhood, so I never found the comic personally relatable, and that might amount for the disconnect - it always came across as either outlandish and nonsensical (bordering on lolsorandumb) to faux-deep and mollycoddling of the reader's inner toddler that never seemed much more than condescending to me.
But in the context of cueing it through the hypothetical series of how a regular adult might reminisce about their own childhood, the nostalgic, near-wistful fondness I see for it makes a lot more sense, even if to me it feels saccharine and, dare I say, disingenuous.
Thanks!
May not quite be alone but Becky Chambers' To Be Taught, If Fortunate has some very strong themes of isolation.
The "oh so nerdy" references weren't quite so ubiquitous earlier in, were they? The question popped into my head the other day but I don't feel like going back to check.
Again? I thought this happened already? What's different about this one?
"Shite" is kind of harsh, I'd say. It's not an awful strip. It's just made out to be much better than it really is. It's a single step above "run-of-the-mill".
Yeah, mea culpa on that. My phrasing was bad, but I edited the OP to clarify.
Nope, but I edited the post to clarify.
The comic itself isn't, but it's going to be merchandised to hell at first opportunity, is what I meant.