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[Stellar @StellarScorp]

Stripe is dropping soon, Gizmo has trained for this day 😈 #multiversus
https://t.co/QwpdVdNUlm

[BobbyWasabi @BobbyWasabi]

@immike_wing Finally… games, unlimited games, but no games

[OmegaPro 🍉 @OmegaProYT]

Let's say the PS6 is a digital only console (pretty much guaranteed now) and 20yrs after it's release you wanna get a game for the PS6 but they've shut down the store just like they did for the PS3/Vita. What are you going to do?

You can't go to a gamestop, a pawn shop, a flea market, ebay or whatever. This is planned obsolescence in its' final form. PlayStation now has 100% control over how you buy and play a game.

Your boy wanna sell you a game for cheap? Can't do that, gotta buy full price on PSN. Wanna give your boy a game to check out? too bad, he's gotta buy it for $70 on PSN.

This is terrible for videogame preservation and consumer rights

[Stellar @StellarScorp]

Ea is a fucking plague on the gaming industry. Take your ads and your sports games and fuck off

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

EA will now put real ads inside its games like EA Sports FC, Madden, and College Football

Brands can buy in-game advertising spaces designed to blend into the game environment

[Stellar @StellarScorp]

Gunplay felt fun but the aesthetic just isn't it for me

[Stellar @StellarScorp]

I love the extraction shooter genre but holy fuck I don't see the hype for marathon

[Stellar @StellarScorp]

Reshiram is cool and all but can I find a fuckin shadow Dialga raid on campfire 😭

[Rob Milton @therobmilton]

- SAY IT AGAIN.

[Javed Sterritt @JavedLSterritt]

Men being closed off to women's stories is some of the weakest shit imaginable.

[Stellar @StellarScorp]

I'd be a Craig Waterman main regardless of how he plays

[Rolo Tony @PoorOldRoloTony]

A24 should stop with the endless merchandise and useless experiments like candy and invest in something everyone wants: a crossover fighting game.

[BBG | Krebs @KrebsVGC]

These are the type of people that would tell me I'm weird for playing Pokémon

[Stellar @StellarScorp]

I want to stream a playthrough of Pokemon Violet but don't know how to make it interesting (I don't know how to set up/do a nuzlocke), someone hep me peez

[Stellar @StellarScorp]

Me when I think of Spellbreak

[Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer]

Like you could get close enough to use it

[Stellar @StellarScorp]

Then Nick said it was beast that I was hanging out with the workaholics boys and we set up the game

[Stellar @StellarScorp]

I had a dream that me and the workaholics boys played and beat the yard boys in call of duty

[Stellar @StellarScorp]

Before the game Adam was trying to hook up with an older woman, who was rushing to get to the airport, at a clothing store but couldn't find his other sock (it was in his pocket)

[Stellar @StellarScorp]

@pokemon_daily Trapinch and Axew. Flygon for transportation and Haxorus for home defense 👀

[𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖆🗡️ @minaslament]

Link when I'm climbing a mountain and not paying attention to his stamina

[Stellar @StellarScorp]

Nah I'm not autistic, I just evolved differently 💅🏼

[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.