Oh well that was partly because the N64 didn't exactly have the widest range. I think the catalogue was literally one tenth of what was released on ps1. The PAL region was a bit more limited as well. Also for some reason Starfox 64 was called Lylat Wars.

But that's okay, we got Golden Eye.

?? I'm also from NZ and grew up with an N64. You could buy N64 games locally for sure, though they were way more expensive than playstation ones. But our N64s were PAL and not compatible with American NTSC cartridges.

My guess is that you probably got a NTSC N64 somehow, and so you HAD to then import them from the US.

And... Im not saying it was just the 2020s, or all the 2000s? I qualified it by saying it felt like all the 20xxs since 2015 or so.

I swear people have been like "fuck 20xx" every year since around 2015 or so.

This whole thing seems so damn weird. Do you live in a particularly conservative area where open bigotry is accepted and encouraged? Because in most schools these days someone being gay is accepted pretty easy and the student body would be far more likely to tear him a new one instead of you. Also his mum is bi, what the hell?

But okay even if it was an ultra conservative area where gay people are met with massive ridicule, wouldn't the homophobic friends look at him sideways for willingly doing the dare for several months and making out with you?? It definitely sounds like his hostility and mockery of you might be performative to convince his friends he doesn't swing that way.

Well this sounds familiar. I'm an NZer, and whenever a carbon tax is proposed there are headlines about the "loony left" wanting to tax farts. Doesn't matter that animal farts weren't talked about in the proposal they see carbon tax and that's what they jump to. Then they go on and on about how stupid it is and how this will ruin the country. Like this guy they are quoting thinking that farmers will give up their livelihood and walk away in indignation and how it will be even worse for the environment because somehow it leads to more meat and dairy product being produced in other countries and their animals fart more. Okay??