I think it really matters HOW you win the league. Arsenal's title has got little to no coverage, no eulogies from the media and no respect from rival fans. There are no dominant victories to talk about, no standout performers and the football they played was largely uninspiring. They were basically the least worst team in the division and in the end, hobbled over the line with some lucky decisions going in their favour.
City's farewell for Pep and the players has got significantly more attention.
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today i have discovered the easiest and safer way to get a shiny pokemon.
pokemon are tied to very specific hidden dv values inside the code of gen 2 games.
but one pokémon could copy them and keep them forever and that pokémon was ditto.
the famous shiny ditto glitch shiny
here’s how you did it:
1. catch the red gyarados at the lake of rage (it’s always shiny with the perfect shiny DVs)
2. trade it over to a gen 1 game and teach it mimic
3. find a wild ditto
4. have your gyarados mimic transform
5. let ditto transform into it, then force it to execute transform a second time in the same battle
6. catch the ditto
7. trade it back to gold, silver or crystal
you now have a shiny ditto with the exact dvs that trigger the shiny flag.
when you breed with this ditto those values pass down to the eggs, boosting your shiny odds from 1/8192 all the way to about 1/64.
so here we are. one ditto turned into an infinite shiny breeding machine.
LEGO Ideas has revealed the five finalists for the LEGO Yu-Go-Oh contest. Fans get to vote which of these will become the first official Yu-Gi-Oh LEGO set
While most depict Blue Eyes White Dragon, Dark Magician, Exodia, and Slifer the Sky Dragon are all featured as well
🧵1/2
@Dexerto There were a lot of great entries but admittedly I was hoping for one finalist that was a bit more niche (Barrel Dragon, XYZ Dragon Cannon).
Something for the more diehard fans that appreciate beyond Blue-Eyes, Dark Magican, Exodia etc.
Excited regardless though. 😌
NASA pays $100M for Microsoft 365 licensing across the agency. They standardized every system on Microsoft. They put Microsoft Surfaces on the Orion spacecraft as the crew's personal computing devices.
And the first technical crisis of humanity's return to the Moon was Reid Wiseman radioing Houston to say he has two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one works.
Mission Control's response? "With your go, we can remote in and take a look." The same exact workflow your company's IT helpdesk uses when you submit a ticket on a Monday morning. Except the user is traveling at 4,275 mph, 30,000 miles from Earth, and the Wi-Fi situation is considerably worse.
This spacecraft survived hydrogen leaks, helium leaks, a faulty heat shield, and a broken toilet. Outlook broke anyway. The toilet actually got fixed faster.
The real story here is that Microsoft has achieved something no other software company in history can claim: a support ticket from lunar transit. Their enterprise sales team should frame this. "Battle-tested in space" is a positioning statement most B2B companies would mass murder for, and Microsoft accidentally earned it because Outlook crashes everywhere, including orbit.
Outlook remains the only software in human history that performs identically whether you're in a cubicle in Redmond or aboard a spacecraft bound for the Moon. Universally, reliably broken. And we keep buying it anyway.
There is a project on GitHub called Axios.
Axios is extremely popular. It is used by millions upon millions of applications.
Axios is a programming library that helps your JavaScript code make HTTP/S requests (communicate with websites).
In simple terms, if you're a programmer doing something with JavaScript, and want to do stuff that communicates with a website in literally any capacity, people heavily recommend using Axios due to its simplicity. Using Axios you don't have to reinvent the wheel and do a bunch of work. All you need to do is import Axios into your code and you're off to the races.
Someone (currently unknown) compromised Axios (currently unknown how) to deliver malware to people. When someone updates or installs Axios, Axios itself contains malware.
What the malware does is (currently) unknown, but it is being reversed engineered by probably every malware analyst on the planet at this moment. In a few hours more details will emerge. Information is being exchanged in real time on social media and private communication platforms as I write this.
Due to the size and popularity of Axios, it is unknown how many are impacted, it could be millions, it could be thousands, or if we're lucky, only hundreds of people or organizations will be impacted.
If this is absolute worst case scenario, millions of organizations across the planet have been infected with malware which (currently) we do not understand. However, the likelihood of this is low. It appears Axios being compromised was detected quickly, potentially within minutes (or hours) of it being compromised to deliver malware. Additionally, the likelihood of every single Axios user updating Axios as soon as it was compromised to deliver malware is astronomically low. It is basically zero.
The impact from Axios being compromised is devastating, the fallout from this will be a massive headache. This is unironically a malware nuclear missile and will likely be studied in the future.
Game designers figured this out decades ago and it cost millions in failed launches.
Will Wright built SimCity with a fully accurate traffic simulation. Testers hated it. The cars behaved realistically, which meant nobody could build a functioning city because real traffic is an unsolvable nightmare. He had to make the simulation dumber before the game became fun.
The tension is permanent: the more accurately you model a system, the more it punishes the participant. Real medieval economies kept 90% of the population in subsistence farming. A historically accurate fantasy world doesn't produce heroes. It produces serfs.
Tolkien solved this by making his economy deliberately vague. No one knows what a gold coin buys in Gondor. That ambiguity is a design choice, not a shortcut.
The Reddit post is funny. The lesson underneath it is one of the hardest problems in simulation design: fidelity and fun are opposing forces, and you have to pick which one wins.