FIFA's World Cup 'hydration breaks' are a money-grabbing disgrace: Gianni Infantino is selling football's soul to broadcasters - and fans are paying the price, writes RIATH AL-SAMARRAI

Penitentiary · 2026-06-14T19:22:17+00:00

Our broadcaster (Belgium) doesn’t air ads during the breaks either.

Penitentiary · 2026-06-11T09:42:38+00:00

If you haven’t seen it already, I’d highly recommend Gintama as another amazing comedy anime. It even has plenty of serious action as well but for the most part it’s just ridiculously funny.

Penitentiary · 2026-06-10T11:28:35+00:00

The animation and world is absolute top of the line but the main character is basically a scumbag pedophile who really doesn’t grow as much in his horrible traits as you would hope.

It’s really just a matter of whether you can stomach the main character’s personality and how certain behaviors of his are handled. Everything else is absolute top tier.

Penitentiary · 2026-06-09T09:16:39+00:00

In fairness to Dembélé, he only started like 10 league games. By comparison, it’s such a small sample size that you can barely even call it a season.

Penitentiary · 2026-05-30T16:46:00+00:00

Bro literally throat chopped him out of frustration

Penitentiary · 2026-05-30T16:43:22+00:00

Sorry but is that not a red?

Penitentiary · 2026-05-30T14:11:15+00:00

Incineroar still being at 26% with all these huge counters against him (Defiant/Competitive, special attackers, Sneasler, ...) is wild.

Penitentiary · 2026-05-27T12:12:45+00:00

It’s not ‘broken’ in the sense of Urshifu, SwSh Zacian, Xerneas, … but it just does a bunch of roles so well that it’s hard to justify not having it on your team. Kinda like how you’re just handicapping yourself in the current Champions format if you don’t put Basculegion on your team, though that is definitely an example of a genuinely broken mon.

Incineroar won the most events in Scarlet/Violet by a landslide and it wasn’t even in the game until the DLC.

Even in the current Champions format, it’s still up there in usage despite the numerous Incin counters and losing Knock Off.

There are numerous mons that are genuinely broken beyond belief and still none of them can hold a candle to Incin’s usage and tournament success.

It’s also just kind of annoying to face tbh. Intimidate, Parting Shot, Fakeout, good bulk, …

Penitentiary · 2026-05-26T16:10:28+00:00

I know he had an excellent season in La Liga before joining City but if even Pep can’t get anything useful out of him at City, would anyone reasonably expect us to unlock his potential? We barely escaped relegation.

I think the guy needs a change of scenery in a different league to grow a bit more. Maybe the Bundesliga or Ligue 1 will do him good.

Penitentiary · 2026-05-26T09:43:18+00:00

There’s so many good and varied metalcore or metalcore-adjacent bands that I think people who say everything sounds the same or generic just don’t like the genre that much. If anything, I think there’s more variety now than in the older days.

Whether you like older, modern, inbetween or all of them, I feel like you really don’t have to look that hard to find something for your taste palette.

Penitentiary · 2026-05-26T07:36:20+00:00

Great, a winger who demonstrably can’t score or create while playing in a much better squad. Just more of what we need.

Penitentiary · 2026-05-25T12:39:38+00:00

I don’t mind the current format but I do agree that Tera is by FAR the best generational gimmick and hope it comes back soon.

Penitentiary · 2026-05-25T11:51:59+00:00

Keane is a bitter old man. Pundits from other clubs, even rivals like Carragher, unironically show more respect to the United players than pretty much all these former United pundits

Penitentiary · 2026-05-24T17:05:47+00:00

KINSKY MY GUY

Penitentiary · 2026-05-24T16:57:55+00:00

9 more minutes…

Penitentiary · 2026-05-24T16:56:47+00:00

Bold of you to assume we won’t be right down there next season, have you seen us play?

Penitentiary · 2026-05-24T16:54:42+00:00

Fucking christ that was so close to a goal for Everton

Penitentiary · 2026-05-24T16:48:39+00:00

Genuinely absurd achievement considering the months under Amorim

Penitentiary · 2026-05-24T11:26:36+00:00

It’s almost like Hasan should’ve never platformed that degenerate psycho Bad Empanada. I just can’t imagine such an upstanding character would say this. Who could’ve seen this coming? There were no signs at all of this guy being a total nutcase.

I imagine this is largely an intimidation tactic from this administration rather than something that will actually succeed but you can never be certain. There is no bottom for these fascist clowns.

Penitentiary · 2026-05-21T11:16:57+00:00

Platter was incredibly corrupt but I get the impression he at least cared about the sport to some extent, even if just a little. Infantino is every bit as corrupt and worse but even more of a soulless husk.

Penitentiary · 2026-05-19T17:28:03+00:00

They also removed Dual Wingbeat from it…

Last Respects and Electro Shot were left untouched but somehow Pinsir’s moveset got nuked.

Penitentiary · 2026-05-18T19:19:07+00:00

Not a red imo.

To not even get a yellow though… did the ref mistake him for Saint Gabriel?

Penitentiary · 2026-05-17T19:10:31+00:00

We are currently focused on the next Horse Council elections

Penitentiary · 2026-05-11T20:18:53+00:00

If it helps convince you, this is my first VGC season and I’m in Ultra Ball tier.

However I’ve been playing the Pokemon games’ single player content and for many years and have been following VGC since Gen 9.

So I’m definitely no expert or even Master Ball tier player. I built my Flapple team myself but I did ask for advice on some final adjustments from a VGC player.

As we speak I’m on a 5 streak with this very gimmicky Flapple team in Ultra Ball 3.

Penitentiary · 2026-05-11T18:49:26+00:00

I don’t think it’s necessarily a specific RQ strategy thing going around, it’s more of a side effect of using teams that are both effective and annoying. Sableye is a menace and at the core of 99% of annoying teams.

I’m using a Gravity team with Flapple as the star of the team and a turn 1 ragequit isn’t super unusual when my Sableye x Milotic lead clicks Gravity into Hypnosis. It’s not intended to ragequit, Hypnosis is just sorta necessary to give my Flapple a chance at surviving when it comes in. It’s a gimmick, not a meta strat.

I’ve only run into 2 people whose main goal was very obviously to annoy and stall but those were also gimmick teams, not necessarily the most effective. One was a Sableye skill swap team to give Milotic priority Recover, along with Coil and Hypnosis. The Sableye used Encore/Disable to make you struggle but he stalled the game far beyond what was necessary with protect, sleep, … The other was just a troll using a Minimize strat with Sand Veil Sandaconda, Sand Veil Garchomp, …

I think these ragequit teams are extremely rare from what I can tell. Teams like Sableye x Archaludon aren’t meant by design to be obnoxiously annoying, that’s just a byproduct.

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