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.