Ask the musician in your life how they feel about XLR cables.

I was going to say “keep going, you’ll have to beat the price of gas for me to drive over to my parents’ house and dig the N64 out of the garage,” but I guess at $50 it’s cheaper just to buy it again…

本 is typically a more formal way of expressing “this,” but in this context it’s closer to “source” or “origin.”

Japan’s name uses the same characters in both Chinese and Japanese, but is pronounced differently: “ri ben” in Chinese and “ni hon” in Japanese.

I disagree. To me, “ok” means adequate and unremarkable.

a rubics-cube-shaped bling pendant

I’m imagining a different character on each face of each cubelet, which you would throughly scramble each time for a one-in-whatever-gagillion string? Am I getting that right?

Music major here. Please tell me you need a soundtrack.