Shiny were introduced in gen 2? The odd of a shiny in fire red was 1 in 8192. Fun fact: you could techically get shiny pokemon in gen 1 but the value for wild pokemon was bugged and i’m pretty sure they had no shiny sprite. Which mean they would only become shiny by trade.

Just imagine it: your best pal whip out his new pokemon silver cartridge he got for christmas, sadly your momma didn’t have money this year for you, so you put your yellow one in and start semi playing while looking at your friends game. You begin some rando trade after his second badge , his team is getting wrecked by a cow…? bam! He show you the electrode you just traded, THAT DAMN INVERTED POKEBALL BECAME GREEN WTF!!

Nowaday you would probably have to pay an extra dlc for that kind of stuff.

https://bluemoonfalls.com/pages/shinies/gen-1-shiny-hunting

Let’s talk about textile then!

https://link.springer.com/article/10.2991/jat.k.201126.001

This study uses Comtrade trade data covering 1990–2017, 14 textile subsectors, and 53 African countries with their main trade partners to evaluate Chinese trade impacts on African textile exports over three subperiods at the sector level. It finds that, although textile imports from China had a significant positive impact during the first period, this effect disappeared in the second period. From 2009 to 2017, the impact became significantly negative.

Nevermind that, let’s talk about nortel and huawei!

https://nationalpost.com/news/exclusive-did-huawei-bring-down-nortel-corporate-espionage-theft-and-the-parallel-rise-and-fall-of-two-telecom-giants

Which is the perfect moment to talk about…

https://electrek.co/2025/03/19/chinese-authorities-delay-approval-byd-ev-plant-mexico-fears-tech-leaking-us/

Why would chinese ever be afraid of other people copying them? Unless they know what might happen because they… did it?

We can also talk about tibet, sri lanka, australia, new zealand, hong kong, taiwan, maynmar, russian sanction’s… the list is quite long.

So you like capitalism: the prequel and all the lies they say to get the soul crushing machine ready, but disagree with post-capitalist aka the actual soul crushing machine… crushing soul?

Im a french canadian plumber, nothing scream “have you tried unplugging and pluggin it again” more than that, yet here i am?

The people still on reddit will die with it, it’s where they made their home and there will always be a reason to stay.

Last game i pre-ordered was fallout 4 hahahaha. So no i don’t pre-order anymore. I even waited for a discount on baldur’s gate 3 before buying it, that was a feat of it’s own.

Your truth isn’t THE truth buddy

I guess they haven’t finished the witcher 3 then🤷‍♂️ ciri is obv the only way foward by then.

I forgot who, but someone told me i should ask; “do you need an ear or a solution” whenever people come rant about anything. Best tips i heard in a while.

Underhand

Free game, no ads, no internet, no info access, no update.

Small minus, you have to download it from play store.

Former president Lee Teng-hui has stated that he never pursued Taiwanese independence. Lee views Taiwan as already an independent state, and that the call for “Taiwanese independence” could even confuse the international community by implying that Taiwan once viewed itself as part of China. From this perspective, Taiwan is independent even if it remains unable to enter the UN.

Most Taiwanese and political parties of the ROC support the status quo, and recognize that this is de facto independence through sovereign self-rule. Even among those who believe Taiwan is and should remain independent, the threat of war from PRC softens their approach, and they tend to support maintaining the status quo rather than pursuing an ideological path that could result in war with the PRC.

The questions of independence and the island’s relationship to mainland China are complex and inspire very strong emotions among Taiwanese people. There are some who continue to maintain the KMT’s position, which states that the ROC is the sole legitimate government for all of China (of which they consider Taiwan to be a part), and that the aim of the government should be eventual unification of the mainland and Taiwan under the rule of the ROC. Some argue that Taiwan has been, and should continue to be, completely independent from China and should become a Taiwanese state with a distinct name.

On 25 October 2004, in Beijing, the U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Taiwan is “not sovereign,” provoking strong comments from both the Pan-Green and Pan-Blue coalitions – but for very different reasons. From the DPP’s side, President Chen declared that “Taiwan is definitely a sovereign, independent country, a great country that absolutely does not belong to the People’s Republic of China”. The TSU (Taiwan Solidarity Union) criticized Powell, and questioned why the US sold weapons to Taiwan if it were not a sovereign state. From the KMT, then Chairman Ma Ying-jeou announced, “the Republic of China has been a sovereign state ever since it was formed [in 1912].”

And yet there’s a whole wikipedia page saying the opposite?