Rest in Peace Banewreaker 又

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[Rest in Peace Banewreaker 又 @SkinSinge]

Today marks 1 year since the tragic passing of one of my earliest Twitch friends, @Banewreaker . It hasn't gotten easier in a year...

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#LongLiveTheSplatGod

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@AmberLotus21 @caseyskater 1 team, and they didn't sweep them...? Nobody's argument is that the Avs don't deserve to be there, it's that the Canes deserve more recognition than they're getting, especially from the media.

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@AmberLotus21 @caseyskater LA wouldn't have even made the playoffs in the East, soooo....?

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@TheFourthPeriod "Editor-in-chief"... playoffs haven't started, how did the Canes clinch the Eastern title? "AI-in-chief"

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@Kobra19537141 @BickuriB0x @danishacarterr You asked a question in response to someone discussing her songwriting (not lyricism), and never specified anything about lyricism. I answered the question. Seems to be a you problem. 🥂

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@Kobra19537141 @BickuriB0x @danishacarterr "songwriters" isn't specifically about lyrics.

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@Kobra19537141 @BickuriB0x @danishacarterr The difference is one has Max Martin in her pocket and the other doesn't.

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@userkoya @mel_as81 @MichaelBraddy12 @Omodolapomayo no it's actually saying a frog can't be a tiger just because they're both animals

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@skysastrology @CanesPR Think I hearf that Glen Wesley was considering sending his daughter out for some ice time.

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@DanNEO_SS @Chronodendron until a month ago, I had a galaxy note 10+ for 7 years and the battery was perfectly fine. still held a charge for almost a full 24 hours with usage.

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@Mae The Government

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@sendlokation1 @dRealTriple_lee @comingupconnor Raniere was not epstein.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

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.

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@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.

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

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

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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!

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

This is wild.

143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history.

Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots.

Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget.

Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard.

The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

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@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.

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@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.

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

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@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.