Laura

I have big dreams and little motivation.

[Laura @Sonaos]

@survivetheark @Alienware @IntelGaming During my last playthrough of The Island, I was really enjoying sarcos for the first time. These two beauties were very photogenic. #TidesofFortune

[ARK: Survival Ascended @survivetheark]

In celebration of 11 Years of ARK & the upcoming Tides of Fortune, we've partnered with @Alienware & @IntelGaming to give away a custom-skinned Alienware Aurora 16X Gaming Laptop. To enter, like, repost & reply with your best tame & #TidesofFortune

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[Laura @Sonaos]

@TheYisusOne While certain aspects of Champions have grown on me visually, I've always stood by that Battle Revolution is the highest tier experience for battling. I wish Champions would adapt more camera movements and environments from it.

[Laura @Sonaos]

@switchstock Thank you I feel alive

[Laura @Sonaos]

@switchstock Literally got to one minute in the queue, had the website load, then it black screened :( Them's the breaks

[Laura @Sonaos]

@switchstock 44 minutes, hoping for the best. This is my first time trying this cuz I really want the Rampardos cards.

[spcrash @spcrashworks]

Rampardos’ betrayal was so tragic I had to draw it. #pokemon

[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.

[Nintendo of America @NintendoAmerica]

Rickmaxxing.

#KirbyAirRiders

[さばほっけ @zakochirashi]

おはよう再掲!

[デオキシス（生活フォルム） @0386_deoxys]

デオキシス(生活フォルム)・大掃除のすがた

＃ポケモンfit
#ポケぬい

[Ryu 🦋🐉✨ @Zarthastria]

Hello there! It's Ryu, your new favorite Fae Dragon! Come hang out on Twitch with me where we will be playing games together, exploring VR worlds, painting live, and so so much more! Hope to see you there ���

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#vtuberEN #VTuberUprising #VTuber #Warudo

[Hidden Power Podcast @HiddenPowerPod]

For the Pokemon Legends Z-A campaign content creators have been sent special "My Friend Malamar" merchandise and promotional items.

[Laura @Sonaos]

#MyFriendMalamar

[cecilily @cecililytweets]

pokémon really lost touch after the original 151

i think the designs don't have that old feeling?? back in the day pokémon had personality, now we have ice cream, keychain and treasure chest like wtf

nothing will EVER come close to beating pokemon blue with my original team 💔

[Laura @Sonaos]

@pissGoblin I did one of those over 10 years ago and mine was Russell Crowe. It's a formative memory for me now.

[Yisuno ⚝ | SKARM BELIEVER @TheYisusOne]

Only because you asked nicely

[Yisuno ⚝ | SKARM BELIEVER @TheYisusOne]

Definitely my Gunk Shot animation recreation from Pokemon XY