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Sakamoto Days 2025, episode 11.

The GameCube delivered a ton of visually amazing games back in the early 2000s. However, there’s one aspect to these now retro visuals that continues to amaze me every time I revisit the system, which is the water. For whatever reason, Nintendo was absolutely obsessed with water during the 2000s. The GameCube featured a bizarrely high quantity of games with an extensive focus on water, yet somehow also over delivered on the quality of the water visuals and interactivity, as we’ll explore in this video.

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I hate that I have to make this post, but every other effort to resolve this problem has failed and we are out of time.

I am living in Japan with my three-year-old son. We have been living apart from my Japanese wife, his mother, for almost two years because of domestic violence. Very long and terrible story short, the authorities in Japan will not help us because I am a foreigner and she is absolutely unapologetic to the point of denying anything even happened and accusing me of abuse for protecting him. Apart from a few temporary jobs, I am also unable to find any work despite many places saying that they are hiring. So I cannot support us anymore. Add to that, my wife will not provide any child support and now doesn't communicate with me at all. Before, for the last 18 months, she has been sending me a nonstop barrage of threatening messages before going completely silent. Despite this and the abuse, she expect to retain custody of him and is just waiting for me to fail. The authorities are not helping her, but they aren't doing anything about her behavior or her actually illegal actions against us. All of these things put together, it has become impossible for us to live in peace here, and when I'm broke she would likely be given sole custody of my son by default and I would probably get deported or jailed for daring to oppose her.

Which brings me to the second problem: America. Both me and my son are registered American citizens with valid passports. But unless you've been living under a rock, you already know why taking a half-Japanese child who was born in Japan to a country that is actively disappearing non-white birthright citizens and has a history of separating children from their families for no actual reason is just as bad an idea as staying here.

The plan right now is to somehow fly us both to Ireland and request asylum. I tried requesting asylum through the Irish Embassy in Japan, but it is not allowed. We have just about one more week in which to leave before other complications such as bills and my visa requiring renewal actually make it impossible for me to simply leave the country with my son without raising alarms.

I am selling everything that we can't take with us, but I don't have anywhere near the amount needed even to just buy one-way tickets, to say nothing of other expenses like travel to the airport and food along the way. If there is any way the people here can help out, even partially, I would be eternally grateful. I never in my life thought that something like this would happen and I am running myself ragged trying to digitize documents and get everything ready. Not to mention rolling anxiety attacks because of the very real possibility that my son, who has survived multiple instances of abuse could be given back to his abusers who show no remorse for what they've done to us.

Sorry to be so dower, I have spent the past few months fighting a losing battle with one thing failing after another and no one having the slightest idea how to help me or even just enable me to solve our situation on my own.

How to help:

• Western Union (preferred): This will give me the money directly and immediately, please try to send help using this method. PM me and I will give you the necessary contact information.
• PayPal (Ko-fi is malfunctioning): https://www.paypal.me/AeronMelon, please only use if you cannot wire me money.

Also, if anyone reading this happens to be from Ireland or know someone in Ireland and can provide any kind of assistance with an affordable place to stay or a job in the education sector, that would be extremely helpful.

UPDATE 10/22: I now have enough money to take care all travel to the airport and food and other necessities for the journey, thank you very much. I have also been getting a lot of useful information about my trip and Ireland itself, thank you again. I still need to get most of the money for the actual tickets. Prices are fluctuating wildly, but right now, it's possible to get a ticket for both of us for a little over ¥110,000 (~$725 USD, ~€625 EUR) so I want to be able to buy it before prices change again. Realistically, we have until the weekend to leave, so we're hoping as hard as we can.

Also, because this is a one-off emergency, if you would rather your donation be a loan I will absolutely pay you back just as soon as I'm back on my feet. Just message me with a way to contact you in the indeterminate future and I will.

When it isn't even Halloween and the Christmas stuff is already going on the shelves.

Kamichu!, special 3

WARNING: This thread WILL contain unhidden spoilers for this episode and every episode before it. You are allowed to talk about future episodes of the series, but put ANY information that comes after this episode behind spoiler tags.

The Orville season 2, episode 14 "The Road Not Taken"

Written by David A. Goodman, directed by Gary Rake.

Mercer & Malloy are scavenging a Union outpost when they are overrun by a Kaylon patrol. They narrowly escape, only to be taken captive by an unknown ship crewed by some familiar faces. Ed Mercer is reunited with Kelly Grayson after seven years and, if she is to be believed, they were all suppose to be serving together aboard a ship called the Orville and the destruction of the Planetary Union at the hands of the Kaylon was never suppose to happen.

Originally released: 25 April 2019

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Mushoku no Eiyuu (Hero Without a Class), episode 3.

This video digs into the research and design that went into gradually transforming Audacity 3 - a free and open source audio editor and production app - and how we've built on that work to develop Audacity 4.

Uploaded to YouTube by Tantacrul.

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The Orville season 2, episode 13 "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow"

Written by Janet Lin, directed by Gary Rake.

*While Commander Grayson and Isaac are analyzing a scientific experiment, the Orville encounters a gravitational wave that drags the ship out of quantum. Everything seems to be fine until a young woman appears next to Isaac - a younger version of Kelly Grayson. She is found to be from seven years in the past, but Commander Grayson has no memory of being transported into the future. With no obvious way to send her back, and Kaylon patrols repeatedly dogging the ship, Lieutenant Grayson must acclimate to a new environment in a new time. And an older, more mature Ed Mercer."

Originally released: 18 April 2019

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