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My facebook friends have not failed. They've just shared posts from 10,000 accounts that I have to "hide all posts" from.

-Thomas Edison

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@onyxfish Had no idea. Thanks for the heads up!

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@SciTechera Guessed this was @stuffmadehere when i saw the thumbnail. I guess there are other creators doing crazy stuff with 3d motion capture.

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@im_chadsmith Interesting that you’re involved in CNC machining. Quite by coincidence, I sell @VERICUT_CGTech software.

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@im_chadsmith @CalebChamberla6 I do very cool stuff.

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@standupmaths your bridge height video reminded me of this pool depth indicator I came across.

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Me and @Joshc99 spent DAYS in the mine. When we finally beat it it was the hardest thing we’d endured up to that point.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

If you beat this level as a kid, your brain was doing the same fifty-hour training researchers now run on adult volunteers in a lab. Action gamers react about 45 milliseconds faster than non-gamers and make decisions a quarter quicker without sacrificing accuracy. Brain scientists at Rochester and Geneva have been measuring this for over twenty years.

The level is Mine Cart Carnage. Eighth stage of Donkey Kong Country. November 1994. Built by a team of twelve working out of a village in rural Leicestershire. It was the first time the game ever took control away from you. The cart started rolling. You couldn't slow it down. You had to time jumps between broken tracks while lizards drove carts at your face from the opposite direction. And the cart weighed more than you did, so every jump messed with your landing.

Daphne Bavelier at the University of Geneva has spent her career studying exactly this kind of game. Her 2003 Nature paper showed that fast-paced action games physically rewire the brain's attention circuits. Fifteen years later, Bediou and colleagues combined dozens of these studies into one big review of the field. You get sharper at picking out what matters and ignoring what doesn't. Spatial puzzles get easier. And in one Bavelier experiment, gamers figured out made-up vocabulary from a fake language in twenty minutes. Non-gamers needed forty.

Rare bought Silicon Graphics computers, roughly eighty thousand pounds each, to build this game. Those were the same kind of computers that animated the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. A single picture of Donkey Kong, rendered on one of those computers, took up more memory than an entire Super Nintendo game could hold. So Rare built a compression trick from scratch and squeezed the 3D models into flat images the console could actually run. The computers ran all night. A massive air conditioner kept the machines from frying, while the team worked through the summer heat with no AC of their own.

9.3 million copies sold. Nintendo spent sixteen million dollars marketing it in America alone, more than triple the industry average. Every kid who got stuck on Mine Cart Carnage and kept restarting until they beat it was running the same kind of experiment neuroscientists now study in their labs. Fifty hours of it.

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Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today. Thats right, woodchuck-chuckers - it's GROUNDHOG DAY!

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@nitecorelight Hate to say it because I’m a big fan and have been for years, but losing the magnetic tail is a big let down. Is there something in this size that includes hat clip, USBC charging, and magnetic tail? Cant upgrade my tip2 and LOSE features!!

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Happy Birthday @EAC!! I love you!

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@CannonMark @AdamSchefter @mattderrick Talk about burying the lead! Turns out it was Patrick Mahomes!

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@bevanhouston @NanoBanana Did it work?

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It is officially light jacket weather.

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@Bringatrailer @fordaerostar299

[jainormis @jainormis]

hey there delilah what’s it like in roku city

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@tylertarver The ReFINNgerator!!

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Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today. Thats right, woodchuck-chuckers - it's GROUNDHOG DAY!

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@elmachuca Probably from all the cigarette smoke.

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@stanleysfamous I could keep going…

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@stanleysfamous How to pick just one??

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Happy Birthday @EAC!! I love you!