One year ago today, prominent journalist and Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif was killed by an Israeli airstrike on a media tent in Gaza City.
He was 28 years old and had been receiving threats for reporting on Israel’s war crimes prior to his assassination.
things that the pokemon developers did to stop you from cheating.
back in 1999, pokemon gold and silver introduced clair, the eighth and final gym leader of the johto region. she was a dragon type trainer and one of the toughest fights in the game.
but what made her unique was that even after you beat her, she refused to hand over the rising badge. clair would tell you that you weren’t worthy yet.
to prove yourself, you had to surf behind the blackthorn gym, enter the dragon’s den, navigate the cave, and pick up a specific item called the dragon fang. only after grabbing that exact item would clair finally accept her loss and give you the badge. this made one of the 2 gyms (the other is the 3rd gym in goldenrod city) in any main series pokemon game where you didn’t receive the badge immediately after winning the battle.
some players thought they found a shortcut. since the dragon fang was a held item, they figured they could just trade one over from another save file, show it to clair, and skip the entire dragon’s den quest.
but the developers were already one step ahead because the game didn’t simply check if you had any dragon fang in your bag. instead, it checked whether you had picked up the specific one from dragon’s den. if you tried showing clair a traded version, she would straight up call you a cheater and refuse to give the rising badge.
it was one of the first times a pokemon game broke the fourth wall just to let you know the developers knew exactly what you were trying to do.
@JTaheim@nfr_podcast Brother. No one cares that you’re an Aubrey Angel. Get that Pedo’s cock out of your mouth. The Jizzman album FLOPPED. Aubrey is cooked. Kendrick ended him. Now go away
MVP says he would reject an AEW World Title run, feels he cannot put on the level of matches he’d want:
“If Tony [Khan] said, ‘Hey, as a gift to you for your career, on the way out the door, I’d like to give you an AEW Championship title run,’ I would say no because I can’t.
At this point in my career, I don’t feel that I could put on the level of match I would want to be able to put on with the young talent that I’d be working with to do justice to the title.
Physically, I can’t go like that anymore, and I don’t want to work that hard. I’m spoiled now, man. My friends beat people up and I talk about it.”
(@ShowMarkingOut)
Khabib Nurmagomedov explains how if you want to work in MMA, you need to submit to zionist sponsors. If you even mention the slaughter in Gaza, they cancel you. Yet, he still chose life over money.
30TH ANNIVERSARY: The Air Jordan 12 “Obsidian” returns in January 2027 🔁
🗓️ January 23rd
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Using flock cameras to watch a man drive from Wisconsin to a Michigan dispensary only to pull him over for possession when he got back home is so interesting to me when an estimated 460,000-600,000 children go missing in the US every year.
Crazy to be making jokes about other niggas filing lawsuits, when you sued over a rap battle that you lost & claimed “emotional distress”. Just to end up losing your lawsuit. Lmao.
🦅 Khabib reveals he and Islam Makhachev sacrificed millions by standing with Palestine. 🇵🇸
🗣“Islam and I have lost contracts over Palestine support.”
🗣“Money compared to lost lives is nothing.” 🫡
📽 Via @sneako