Rest in Peace Banewreaker 又

Today marks 1 year since the tragic passing of one of my earliest Twitch friends, @Banewreaker . It hasn't gotten easier in a year... tl.gd/n_1srt36i via @SkinSinge #LongLiveTheSplatGod

@sendlokation1 @dRealTriple_lee @comingupconnor Raniere was not epstein.

@dRealTriple_lee @comingupconnor She was a epstein recruiter

No offence but she was like one of the prettiest women I’ve ever seen anywhere, where did she go after the mid 2000s?

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.

@SandyofCthulhu It didn't help that AoE2's life relied on MSN Gaming Zone and when that died, AoE2 had nowhere to reliably call home for many many years, until Steam took it in. Starcraft never lost its ease of access, because BattleNet was always there.

Our bitter rival at Ensemble Studios. We had JUST released Age of Empires and then StarCraft comes out. All the cute girls at the club hung out at StarCraft’s table. We only got the nerdy ones. We punched back in 2002 with Age of Mythology which carried StarCraft’s asymmetry even further. Then in 2005 we did Age of Empires 3 which was the best graphics anyone had seen in an RTS game to date. And, again, lots of asymmetry. StarCraft always stayed the cool jock though. While we were the smart kid with taped glasses and a pocket protector over in the corner of the cafeteria.

@haruinfigaruai @GunLuigi @Santiagroj5 @WrnrWrites Jesus christ @gunluigi you got shit on here.

@GunLuigi @Santiagroj5 @WrnrWrites Not to mention, stylometry algorithms depend on hundreds of pages of text to work accurately. Running an analysis on a single paragraph of text is entirely worthless. Asserting that you can identify the author of a text with only a few hundred bytes of data is laughable.

To confirm, this “100% AI generated” passage is the opening of chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

@RedSquirrelgone @straceX most insurance carriers have a claim number system that describes the type of claim in either the prefix or the suffix.

@straceX Now prepare a list of other things that do the same. I'll start you off. Parcel delivery labels

As a developer, have you ever wondered: You type a 16‑digit card number and the form instantly says “Invalid card number”. There are billions of possible numbers. How the hell is that check that fast?

I've played with AR disabled since day 1. Even if it still scans, they can have their pictures of the palm of my hand, or top of my desk!

@RDelanes27 @Sportsnet Would have never. Swayman very clearly was raking his stick across Eklund's feet to trip him. If anything, it should have been a tripping to Swayman, but Eklund scored.

@Sportsnet Please tell me they didn’t call this back bc of goalie interference - am thinking it was just because of the announcer not being insanely hyped

WHAT DID WE JUST WITNESS?

@LadyEvalina @ashnichrist Not at all true... I lurk streams all day and still accumulate channel points and drops. All it does is (sometimes) drop you out of the chat list because it stops counting you as an active chatter.

@ashnichrist They haven't counted for a long time. If you're inactive for more than 10 minutes in a channel you get booted out of the views for that stream.

So Twitch isn't counting lurkers anymore?

@Tru_Milanista @LordSaturnX @ascensionfather @TaraBull HIS point was that the map is rage baiting because of the very obviously incorrect stat on NC.

@SkinSinge @LordSaturnX @ascensionfather @TaraBull I never said NC was correct. I was stating that the mal isn't rage bait in that it shows the correct trends that Americans are increasingly moving from blue states to red states.

Anything surprising?

@Tru_Milanista @LordSaturnX @ascensionfather @TaraBull "Do some research" while not doing the research. NC's stat on this map is wrong. That's the point.

@LordSaturnX @ascensionfather @TaraBull Oh there's no mass migration from blue states to red states? Do some research and you'll see all of the top 10 net migration states this decade are red states or swing states... 0 blue... all of the bottom 5 are blue states.

@brandooonndd @pcgamer wrong take, for me. i canceled mine and I've been playing since classic

@pcgamer Hot take but RuneScape players have been paying whatever Jagex asks for 20 years and will keep doing it. The nostalgia tax is real

RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years pcgamer.com/games/mmo/rune…

@Bhaal5pawn @CaptiveFlux @the_Weeb_boi @0ba0sama They've probably all been overgrown, you just live in your own bubble and never had anyone properly check them out. Unless your dogs are spending all day outside running on rough terrain, their nails will overgrow.

@CaptiveFlux @the_Weeb_boi @0ba0sama uh huh. and again...i've never SEEN a dog with overgrown nails and i've NEVER cut my dog's nails and again, they have NEVER been overgrown. i've owned many dogs in my lifetime. never not once have they needed trimming. there ya go bud. helped you read.

Big dog owners will understand, sometimes you really need to check that mf and let em know wassup because they will lose all respect for you

@BrianDrinan @DET_Sport_Takes @DetroitRedWings Faulk was not 1st round value. At all. At least not until he just got traded for a 1st round, an hour ago.

@DET_Sport_Takes @DetroitRedWings You think it's terrible because of the draft picks?

UPDATE: The #RedWings have acquired Justin Faulk from the St. Louis Blues in exchange for Justin Holl, Dmitiri Buchelnikov, Detroit’s 2026 1st round pick and San Jose’s 2026 3rd round pick.

Let's goooo @MegaCrit !!

Everything I have seen about this game is extremely sad. I'm interested in it but I also don't want to play Pokemon: Depression Island.

@Cokeythebest @_ROB_29 dumb as fuck

Hugo bit her boyfriend so they had to put him down 😂🤣

@dillon_trades @AtnsXBT it can be done with regular.

@AtnsXBT I thought the only way to catch them was with a materball it can be done with ultra or great?

15 efforts, 307 ultra balls, paralyze, sleep, frozen. and i still can’t catch lugia

@J3STERTHECL0WN @circasurvive DWP doesn't have anything in tx i don't think

@circasurvive texas show plsss

@Jamjohns1278 @Pizziwouldavoid @Inveeus @Sksj002 Ehhh I might concede that the handbook preceded #303 in the new description of the materials. i honestly don't remember the handbook, but that's only a 1 year difference in what my original point was...

@SkinSinge @Pizziwouldavoid @Inveeus @Sksj002 The explanation as to exactly WHAT it is varies, but the explanation that it is an unknown alloy of Vibranium and something that could not be replicated goes back to at least 83, because that's the date of the first marvel handbook and the explanation is there also.

What If Wolverine Had Vibranium Instead of Adamantium 🚨 Firstly, Wolverine would become a lot quicker because vibranium is a much lighter alloy. Adamantium makes Logan insanely heavy, around 300 pounds, despite being only 5 feet 3 inches. Secondly, it would stop his adamantium poisoning, which has always been a dangerous side effect of his metal skeleton. But that advantage comes with deadly consequences, depending on which type of vibranium is used. Wakandan vibranium absorbs and releases kinetic energy, meaning every punch or impact Logan takes could store energy inside his body until it violently releases, potentially blowing his limbs off from the inside. The second type of vibranium, Antarctic vibranium, is even worse. It dissolves other metals, which means it could literally eat away the iron in Wolverine's blood and melt him from the inside out. That’s why adamantium was the only safe choice.

@Jamjohns1278 @Pizziwouldavoid @Inveeus @Sksj002 it was only 2 metals. adamantium was not officially listed until later. It was considered "proto-adamantium" (aka steel and vibranium) until they officially decided that pure adamantium was in the mix.

@Jamjohns1278 @Pizziwouldavoid @Inveeus @Sksj002 Negative. This is from #255 and they didn't describe the creation until #303 (when they retcon'd it). The guy who made the shield was a contractor who was making tanks with a steel and rare material alloy. He made the shield from that. 303 finally described it as vibranium.