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Pokemon Leaves Traces in the Brain

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Brain regions of two adults compared: on the left that of a non-Pokemon player, on the right that of a Pokemon player.  Colored red is the Occipitotemporale Sulcus, the area that shows the reaction to Pokemon images. Image rights: Jesse Gomez How does the brain learn where it stores what information?  Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle: Those who now only understand the train station have not grown up with Pokémon, the pocket monsters.  In case someone wondered if these beings with the miraculous names left their mark on children's heads - researchers have found out. In 1996, children immersed themselves in a completely new world of characters: Pokémon!  Curious, spherical, angular figures with even stranger names populated playing cards and gameboys, an infinite number of children squatted for hours on the same handy mini toys and playing cards.  For all parents who were frowning at the time, "What are these animal-like creatures, these pocke...

Fallout 76 in the review: Why it deserves an upgrade thanks to Wastelanders, but has not yet reached its goal

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There are more rewarding tasks than a Fallout 76: Wastelanders test.  Catch electric eels, for example.  Or bongo drums on hot hobs.  Because many of you who are reading this review are about as positive about Fallout 76 as the Pope is about devil worship. And this is understandable, because Bethesda not only published the online fallout in an unacceptable technical state and made conceptual wrong decisions (please, no human NPCs?), But also raised loud parts of its own community against itself after the release.  You could still smile about  moldy Power Armor helmets  , foreheads frowned at fridges that can be bought for real money, even if they were  less bad than feared  .  And less bad than the  surprisingly expensive Fallout First subscription  for features like private games that are  standard  in other survival games like  ARK: Survival Evolved  . Key facts about Fallout 76: Wastelanders Rele...

Star Wars: Disguised Stormtrooper deploys to police in Canada & is arrested

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Police fix the restaurant employee disguised as a stormtrooper.  (Image source: Youtube - Freedom Media Canada) For Star Wars Day on May 4th, a Canadian restaurant wanted to advertise with a disguised stormtrooper.  But the matter backfired. A stormtrooper was arrested in Canada  .  Of course not a real one, because it only exists in a galaxy far, far away.  Instead, a disguised restaurant employee arranged for a police operation because she was supposed to advertise in Stormtrooper outfit on Star Wars Day and carried a plastic blaster with her. As the website  Lethbrdidgenewsnow.com  reports, on May 4, the Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina (aka "May the 4th" or "Star Wars Day")  parked  an  employee in a stormtrooper costume in  front of the restaurant to attract customers.  Because the restaurant in Lethbridge, Canada is built around Star Wars anyway, in addition to food, you can obviously also buy a lot of merchandise...