It was the first console I bought with my own money. I got it with Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader, which I enjoyed quite a bit, and quickly learned the need for memory cards.

I was excited about the Resident Evil 1 remake even before I got my GameCube, and it blew me away with his good it was. I proceeded to get all the other Resident Evil games and became a fan.

Metroid Prime was the first Metroid game I ever played, and was also amazing. I’ve 100%end it a few times.

Eternal Darkness, Super Smash Bros Melee, and Pikmin were also highlights, and who can forget Link in Soul Calibur II.

And I bought Doshin the Giant, which should really be more popular.

But I think my biggest moment was booting up F-Zero GX and seeing the Nintendo and Sega logos at the same time. As somebody who lived through the Mario vs Sonic rivalry, this was huge. And the game was incredible.

Wait, what?!

What?

So this already happened just after Richard Nixon was replaced by Gerald Ford.

Looks like it’s time for me to make a new friend.

Here in Ireland, you’d be hard pressed to find somebody who doesn’t speak English. Everybody born here speaks it fluently, and immigrants tend to speak enough to get by. Yes, if you speak the official second language you will have no problems.

Now if you speak Irish, our first official language? That’s where you run into trouble. Irish is only used as a daily language in a few small areas. Since gaining independence, every government has supported efforts to revivify the language, and all have failed. Decreasingly many people speak it daily, and while many people know a few words, not many can hold s conversation in it. In fact, you’d probably have a better time speaking Polish.

(I gather this situation is similar to that in Aotearoa).

Nope. They’re Dr. Sprinkle

We don’t have high school in Ireland.¹

When I was in secondary school in the early 2000s, the day ran from 09:00 to 16:00 Mon to The, and we finished an hour early on Fri. My sister’s school ran from 09:00 to 15:45 every day.

¹I am not being pedantic. Ireland, like Britain, has a two-stage system with primary (5 - 12/13) and secondary (12/12 - 18) schools, in contrast to the tgree-stage system found in France, America, and Japan.

Finally!

Yes. Yes you should.

I’m sure thus has nothing to do with Xavier Milei

Real answer: the term used in the original Greek is μάγοι, which in Roman letters would be represented as mágoi. This appears to derive from the Persian magush and ultimately from the Avestan magâunô, terms for a priest or cleric, though the Persian word is poorly attested in surviving Iranian sources.

I any case, they are also described as coming “from the east”, which in Roman-occupied Judah would have meant Iran. Matthew doesn’t spell this out, but the implication is that the Wise Men were Zoroastrian priests who, as other commentators have noted, would have been knowledgeable of astronomy. It should be noted that Matthew doesn’t strictly refer to them as “wise men”, instead using a technical term for Zoroastrian clergy; “wise men” is a later translation choice which gets across some of the meaning to a reader to whom magush would be meaningless jargon.

In any case, the appearance of the magi seems to be an attempt to equate Christ with the Saoshyant and thus bolster the argument that he was tge prophesied Messiah. Zoroastrian tradition prophesies that at some point a virgin will get pregnant by sperm Zarathustra left in a pool somewhere and give birth to a son, the Saoshyant. After Iran conquered Chaldaea, this idea of a saviour figure born from a virgin filtered through to the captive Jews at a time when both Judaism and Zoroastrianism were shifting toward monotheism.

So when Jesus’ sect proclaimed Jesus as Messiah, having magi make the same proclamation when he was a baby reïnforces the Christian claim

Yup, but most people will be betting the opposite way. Soros was able to borrow enough pounds that selling them would flood the currency market and drop the relative value of the pound.

99.999% of people do not have the connections or resources to pull that off. A normal American will come out ahead by betting that the pound will increase in value relative to the dollar, buy some pounds, and sell them when the value of the pound increases. This hypothetical person’s action will infinitesimally reduce the value of the dollar, but that effect will be overwhelmed by all the other global economic activity.

It’s a gamble. If the pound had increased in value, he would have had to buy back the pounds he sold for more dollars than he sold them for, after which he would have had to return them and have less dollars than he started with.

The groom replies “No, duck in black bean sauce. Oh, I guess tour restaurant orders things differently to mine”

Nope. They don’t destroy the mass, just move it away from your body

OK, “occupied Korea” is a new one. Who do they think is doing the occupying?

He’s an Indian American. An American Indian would be an Indian of American descent.

There’s still mbin.

But you can rebind it.

System settings -> Accessibility -> Button mapping.