HE (cis male) was just lucky the rival was a female gamer (cis female) playing a female. Especially with men they play female characters all the time. They could have had the added issue of going against their preferences. They already have an issue of rivals-to-lovers.
Frankly, with trends, Iโm surprised that wasnโt tried.
A lot of those werenโt that expemsnive. I had the Bible on CD as a kid, no debt involved. I vaguely remember something like that ad, and it wasnโt all that much.
There are religious items that do cost half a grand, easily.
The things that cost a grand or half a grand are dictionaries of Greek and Hebrew, whole sets. My dad bought the New Testament ones that had the Greek in-line with the English, and so I could go look at the Greek word and look at the number and go look up the number to see what it means in-depth, what itโs source word is, how often it is used. It was like having an extremely dry encyclopedia set.
Now I have that, basically, as a free app on my phone for both OT and NT called MySword.
Mushashi is like if Hunk from Voltron was on steroids. Yes, he is my favorite character, Getter Robo is possibly the most insane thing I have ever read.