🛸 collin 🪐

tired of the bullshit // he/him

[🦀 YORA 🦀 @yoracrab]

drew laufey from god of war in my style

[Sean Murray @NoMansSky]

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[🛸 collin 🪐 @cpt_collollo]

@CantEverDie @offbeatorbit We can only hope

[OddTodd @T_Manzana27]

Idgaf if you hated this guy or watched him religiously, any show getting canceled by a President is Anti American

[Sean Murray @NoMansSky]

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[Soleil @soleiljolina]

Microdosing hell by being aware and literate

[🛸 collin 🪐 @cpt_collollo]

She’s so right

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

"SHREK 2."

— Sabrina Carpenter when asked what her favourite movie is.

[BAFTA Games @BAFTAGames]

An incredible moment as the whole team behind No Man's Sky takes to the stage to accept the Evolving Game award at the #BAFTAGamesAwards with @GooglePlay 🏆

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Ryan Gosling has announced that ‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ will be getting its theatrical run extended.

[DunknMac @DunknDuzArt]

Adult Toph Design, any similarities to any leaked movie online are completely coincidental and DO NOT prove anything

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ has grossed over $400M worldwide — now eyeing a $620–700M finish.

It cost $190M to produce.

[sara 🦋 phm @chaoticmulaney]

+ well, now… you are, without a shadow of a doubt, the most extraordinary rock-adjacent individual i have ever had the pleasure of encountering. so tell me, my friend- what exactly are you?

- many words. blanc talk too long. hands move too much.

+ so geometrically ambitious…

[Jasmine('s boobs hurt) @Ranting_Trans]

Anyway, here's K.A Applegate, author of Animorphs.

[Sean Murray @NoMansSky]

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[breebunn @breebunn]

rocky want boing boing question?

[🛸 collin 🪐 @cpt_collollo]

@MaisieLynn17

[Dimension 20 🎲 @dimension20show]

Tonight... return to the most EPIC season in Dimension 20 history!

Dragon Master Katie Marovitch is back for D20: On a Bus S2 - along with her people: Aabria Iyengar, Jasmine Bhullar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, & Mark Mercer

Premieres 7PM ET/ 4 PM PT only on @dropout

🧝‍♀️🔵🎩🪖🧶🚌

[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.

[Spider-Man @SpiderMan]

A Brand New Day starts now.

Watch the official trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day - exclusively in theatres July 31.