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What do you call a prize you win for getting old and wrinkled? Atrophy.
This week's forecast calls for rane, hale, gails, drissle, thundre, litenin, and tawnaydoes. Just a really bad spell of weather.
I'm "kupiyupaekio" on Discord.
This is the margarine of error.
I gave them a wild guess, but fortunately, I was right.
Thanks to the Gold Box AD&D Computer Games, I’d know this straight out. Had 10 save slots, A-J. Cemented in my mind that J is the 10th letter of the alphabet.
I wonder how many others have related things engrained in their minds because of the repetition early games had?
Crusader Kings / Europa Universalis / etc. is surprisingly good at that. “Oh, random place name in the news? I seem to remember that being on the eastern border of those North African jerks when I was trying to establish Coptic Aegyptus that one time … Oh, yeah, there it is.”
From the bad joke board at my son‘s school:
What happens when you throw a bunch of books in the ocean?
Apologies to all librarians present.
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
This is the Kupified version of the story, though primary and secondary sources seem to be abundant on Google.
Our brains are spectacularly complicated information-processing systems, and there's all kinds of things we'd like to know about how they work. A computer programmer, faced with a program they don't have the source code to, can still work out the underlying systems experimentally; make a change, pause the program, examine the memory to see what changed, and repeat. That's significantly more difficult when we're talking about human brains; we can sort of do the "examine memory state" thing with MRIs, but deliberately fishing for particular modifications of brain state through regular stimulus is... ethically fraught. I mean, let's say that you want to identify the visual-processing cortex in the brain. You could do that by, say, subjecting a test group to hours upon hours of a single visual stimulus repeated over and over, then compare brain scans of the test group to a control group that hadn't been subjected to that, but that sounds... if not immoral, somewhat uncomfortable?
... well, okay, but what if they already did it to themselves? Voluntarily?
See, it turns out that in the Game Boy Pokemon games, you tend to hold the Game Boy in a very specific position relative to your body, and the opposing Pokemon consequently appears in a very specific region of your eyesight. It's important to be able to identify what type of Pokemon you're battling, so your brain needs a way to distinguish them. And what some researchers found was that when they compared the brain scans of a volunteer group that professed to having played the Game Boy Pokemon games as children to a group that had not, there was a single specific region of the brain that showed a consistent structural difference between the two-- in other words, they could point to that as the bundle of neurons dedicated to differentiating Pokemon by visual input.
I'm "kupiyupaekio" on Discord.
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
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