Martin

Patron saint of bad decisions and poor life choices | Live, Love, Burn, Die | @emkey's ❤️ | Views are my own.

[Martin @twilightfall_]

You're a fucking snake, Martin. a two-faced hypocrite.

[Martin @twilightfall_]

Please just give me the entirety of our home, across the fog, the Lands Between

[Saffron Olive @SaffronOlive]

I'm curious: what are some *worlds* that you think would make good Magic sets? I don't want to hear about characters so much as the place and the vibe.

[Martin @twilightfall_]

@SaffronOlive Elden Ring

[Martin @twilightfall_]

Muscle-up practice

[Carolyn Wang 凯伦 @caro_irl]

if you're new to mtg and want to get better btw, you absolutely NEED to be playing 1v1 magic

doesn't matter if it's a 60, 40, or even a 100 card (e.g. canadian highlander) format. you are extremely unlikely to get a good grasp of the fundamentals without a foundation in 1v1 mtg

[Saffron Olive @SaffronOlive]

Apparently an official MTG coloring book is releasing this month. https://t.co/GXd3pE4P3V

[Movies Scenes 🎫 @SceneinCinema]

This Leon scene felt so familiar because it mirrors a scene from The Lord of the Rings film series.

[Saffron Olive @SaffronOlive]

We get our red Emeritus and Lightning Bolt back in Standard (sort of...)

[Indie Game Joe @IndieGameJoe]

The co-creator of Darkwood just announced a psychological horror game that starts as a mundane cleaning simulator.

- Cleaning simulator turns into cosmic horror
- Genre-flipping gameplay
- Pilot a submarine to explore a pitch-black sea floor

It's called Hoarder.

[FINAL FANTASY @FinalFantasy]

Focus.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The actual research is wild. Every time you push down a feeling, your brain has to choose between suppressing that emotion and recording what’s happening around you. It picks the suppression. The memory doesn’t get saved.

A 2000 Stanford study confirmed this: people told to hide their emotions while watching a film remembered far fewer details than people who just reacted naturally. Suppressing emotions uses up mental energy, and that leaves less brain power for saving new memories.

Brain scans show why. A 2012 study found that suppression quiets the hippocampus (your brain’s memory-recording center) right when it should be saving information. The two brain regions that normally team up to lock in memories stop talking to each other.

Over time it gets worse. Suppression keeps cortisol (the stress hormone) elevated, and cortisol shrinks the hippocampus. Chronically stressed people can lose 10 to 15% of its volume. Just three weeks of high cortisol can shrink the tiny connection points between brain cells by about 20%. The good news: studies show this shrinkage can partially reverse once stress levels drop. Not necessarily permanent.

A Finnish study of 1,137 older adults tracked over roughly a decade found that habitual emotion suppressors had nearly 5x the risk of developing dementia, even after controlling for genetics, smoking, obesity, and education.

There’s a better way to handle emotions that doesn’t cost you your memory. It’s called cognitive reappraisal: instead of bottling the feeling, you reframe what’s causing it. (“This meeting isn’t a threat, it’s practice.”) A 2003 Stanford/UC Berkeley study found reappraisers had more positive emotion, better relationships, and higher wellbeing. Suppressors got the opposite on every measure. And reappraisal carries zero memory cost.

The difference comes down to timing. Suppression kicks in after the emotion has already fired, so your brain is fighting its own response while simultaneously trying to record the moment. Reappraisal changes how you interpret the situation before the emotion fully activates. Same event, same person, but your hippocampus stays free to do its actual job: recording your life.

[fred 🇵🇭 (Seoul 🇰🇷 June 21-30) @wreckitfreddie]

The gay community has normalized taking chem for sex and party drugs. Why?

I fear there is an ongoing health epidemic within the gay community in the Philippines. People are blatantly buying / selling and using chem.

Grindr profiles with “🧊🚀” have become such a common sight. It’s crazy

[Martin @twilightfall_]

Oh dear god I actually get the references too 🤣

[Scary Movie @ScaryMovie]

We’re baaaaaack. Watch the official trailer for the new #ScaryMovie - only in theatres June 12.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A crossover between Chekhov's Gun, Schrödinger's Cat, Occam's Razor, and Murphy's law.

[kimi 🥝 @kimichkis]

WE GOT THE VIDEO YALL 😭😭😭😭😭

[Martin @twilightfall_]

https://t.co/34kSEjb1kn

[Martin @twilightfall_]

@server_hotpatch 👀

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Devs are finally going to start optimizing their games, right?

[Rod Nez Horror @rodnezhorror]

it's criminal to not know all the words of this song

[Genki✨ @Genki_JPN]

Final Fantasy VII Remake Director Naoki Hamaguchi says newer employees at Square Enix now say that Final Fantasy XIII is their favorite Final Fantasy game!

“So recently, because the company has been growing and changing as new employees come in and the company just keeps going on. The younger folk who come in don't say Final Fantasy VI anymore, they say, oh yeah, Final Fantasy XIII was my favourite. So I really do feel the passing of the ages.”

https://t.co/p8rNbWza0s

[Pretty Lili ✨🩵✨🩵✨ @Prettylililili]

I will never let Lili live this down likeeee…… wtff is wrong with her 😭😭😭