sejeong insta story update
"dreams sometimes collapse mercilessly in front of effort, and no matter how desperately you wish for them, i think they're also a battle against time, endlessly enduring and holding on through loneliness.
thank you for making this dream, this name that i've been calling out alone for a long time, finally come true.
how are your own names doing? just as you've called out our names, we'll also call out your past from 10 years ago, your dreams, and your name from back then.
you've endured so well. you are the one who turned that vague comfort of "someday it will come true" into reality. i think you must have an incredibly great strength within you. you will definitely make it too.
thank you. for still calling out that name, and for not letting go of it."
"Legends are made when the best stand together."
We are proud to announce that the world-renowned VALORANT icon, Tyson 'TenZ' Ngo, will be joining T1 as an influencer.
그 이름만으로도 전 세계 팬들을 열광케 했던 VALORANT의 황제 Tyson 'TenZ' Ngo가 T1의 인플루언서로서 여러분과 함께합니다.
#T1VALORANT #TenZ
oh wow apparently olive young itself is doing a collab with pokemon and 61 brands are participating by releasing special pokemon editions starting on 5/1 (may 1st) including colorgram!!
Here's how I play my @playriftbound post-ban Irelia deck!
If you need tips and tricks on how to play Irelia, or just Riftbound in general, look no further 😉
Matches against Viktor, Draven and Azir featured in this video, enjoy!
https://t.co/eANwKOTKwZ
This year I made a goal to turn my niggas into actual gamers, so I planned on introducing them to as many games as possible. By FAR the one everyone said would be the hardest was League of Legends.
They were right.
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.
Whoa! Isn't it crazy (positive)?!! The moment you press the button, the anime character Yena turns into real life Yena and even sings nemonemo in front of the store customers!! If I were them, I would also think, is this a dream or real?! 😱 As expected, the best idol, Yena! 😭👍