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I be yapping | contact [email protected] | code riddlebry in the Fortnite shop 🥰
Los Angeles, CA Katılım Aralık 2018
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The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it.
The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response.
That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down.
And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring.
Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain.
Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back.
London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out.
The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate.
If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.
Fanatics Collect@FanaticsCollect
A Stanford study found that people who played Pokémon heavily as kids developed a small region of the brain that responds specifically to Pokémon characters. Researchers scanned adults who grew up playing on Game Boy and showed them images of Pokémon like Pikachu and Bulbasaur. Their brains lit up in the same exact spot, a consistent area in the visual cortex tied to recognizing specific categories of objects. The reason comes down to childhood. When you’re young, your brain is more flexible, and spending hours memorizing hundreds of similar-looking Pokémon essentially trained it to carve out space just for them. (via @Stanford)
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‘The Lord of the Rings’ upcoming open-world game is rumored to be in development at Warhorse Studios (creators of Kingdom Come: Deliverance), according to journalist Ryszard Chojnowski.
Embracer Group owns both LOTR game rights and Warhorse Studios.
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Come hang out with us clean Ghosts or.. buildings?
We're all cute (even Riddle)
(also Follow them and Love them as much as I do)
@OtakuMaidenn @RiddleMeister @OfficialC4stle
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Schedule for this week! Its gonna be a doozy from Community Hytale to look at the new update to a cool Collab with @OtakuMaidenn @RiddleMeister and @Cloudsulk then starting first playthrough of DOOM: Eternal and of course our amazing Discord Social Saturday. Come to Stream!
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Be there or be square 😎
Playing Ghost Janitors with @Cloudsulk + @OfficialC4stle + @RiddleMeister !!
@ 5pm pst THIS Tuesday!!
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Fun stuff on Tuesday !
With:
@Cloudsulk
@OfficialC4stle
@OtakuMaidenn
My link: Twitch.tv/riddlemeister
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Rather than move forward with spinoffs that cling to the original The Lord of the Rings movies, maybe the time has come to give the franchise a full, Harry Potter-style reboot. bit.ly/4rY74wY
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Even J.R.R. Tolkien didn't like the idea of a sequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, so why is Warner Bros. going ahead with one anyway?
Here's why we have reservations about Shadow of the Past: bit.ly/47rlv5q
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@hierstaanons @causeiexist In regards to referring to LA the city instead of the area/county? With the way the bots are, for sure. I just wonder if you’re near the west coast at all, since referring to LA most often includes all of its surrounding cities and more.
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The Inland Empire and it's not even close, 4.6 million people and it's so irrelevant that when you Google "Inland Empire" the first result is a movie of the same name that grossed $4.4 million, less than the population of the metro area
Anti-Rock@Nasaaeaoa
This has got to be the most irrelevant metro area relative to it's population, right? 1.5 mil in a place most people have never even heard of
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From the average consumer POV? A game on a system is generally called “a (console name) game”
Person buys/sells a game for Xbox, bet the listing would call it “an Xbox game” because the game is on the system.
Wasn’t thinking of it so specific at first. Plus, already agreed to what you stated after.
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@RiddleMeister You’re saying every game sold on the Switch 2 is sold by Nintendo?
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Gamer since the 90s doesn’t understand that physical media is a cornerstone of Nintendo and they’ll never abandon it because that’s how they make their money - selling media they control to third parties to publish games on.
Even in the disc era, the GCN/Wii/Wii U, Nintendo controlled the proprietary discs and you had to buy the media from Nintendo to publish games.
Boundary Break@BoundaryBreak
Being a gamer since the 90s and seeing how companies execute 10 year plans; here's how i speculate this will go: Step 1: Over Price games. Step 2: Make Digital games artificially cheaper. (We are here) Step 3: Get majority users to buy digital. Step 4: Abandon physical next generation since majority audience has been conditioned to purchase digitally. Expect cope comments like "Who needed physical anyway? Digital has been the cheaper option for awhile now" Step 5: Over Price Digital games. Step 6: Check Mate. You no longer have a free market to trade or buy or sell preowned games. And now the market value of video games is 100% in the hands on the corporations. Younger people wont even question it. It'll be a culture ingrained in their childhoods.
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