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:

🏮GONG XI FUCK CAI 💯🙌👏 IT’S THE YEAR OF THE 🐍 SNAKE 🐍 You know what this means 👀 for all the 👧 XIAO MEIMEIS 👧 Time to get sexy ♨️ and wear your tightest 👚 QIPAO 👗👠 because 大哥’s SNAKE is sliding up your legs tonight! 😈 Don’t forget to show AHGONG 👲🏻👲🏻👴🏻👴🏻 your PHATTEST oranges 🍊🍊😜😜 for those THICCC HONGBAOS ㊗️💰🈵‼️❗❗ when DA GE 🧑comes to your house 🏡 show him your lucky 👙 RED UNDERWEAR 👙 and you will be making your own DONG DONG QIANG 🎆🎇🧨noises 🔊📢📣 in the bedroom tonight 🌘🌠 YUMSENG 🍻🥂🥃 away to quench your thirst 🤤🧊 Have fun 🤩 playing MAHJONG 🀄🀄 with your cousins💁🏼‍♀️👱👩🏻‍🦰, but careful 🚫☝️not to lose 😱too much money 💵💸, or else 😖 you can only PLAY ✊🤞😲 with yourself 😨😳 Send this to 8️⃣8️⃣8️⃣of your LA MEI👸🌶️ or SHUAI GE 🤴😘 If you get more than 8️⃣ back your flat chinese ass 😶😶😶will be screaming HUAT AH tonight ♨️♨️🈵🈵‼️

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.

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.

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.

Again? I thought this happened already? What’s different about this one?

Even just the name Penny Arcade had me in flashbacks!

What changed? I’ve always seen them as a cesspit but even from a distance I can tell they’ve gotten lots worse lately; been using since 2009 or so.

I don’t know if this counts but I recently got roped into Flight Rising, a pet sim, and the forums there really capture the old-forum vibe.

“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.