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MSI just had to unlaunch its RTX 3060 Ti Super 3X because it’s not actually ‘Super’
Betrayal At Club Low is an RPG that actually respects your fleeting time on this earth
Confession time, everyone: I’m still only about 2.5 hours into Disco Elysium. Games journalism sin or what? Somehow, despite being primed by the excellent time I had with its demo five years ago, I just bounced off this one. I very quickly got stuck in a frustrating loop of fatally ballsing up no matter what I did – presumably I badly biffed my stats right out the gate to get soft-locked in the first area – and despite deciding I’d restart in a day or two, several years later my play-time hasn’t extended past that first session. Sad times all round, I’m sure you’ll agree, but what’s it got to do with Betrayal At Club Low?
Well, when I picked up Betrayal At Club Low for the RPS Game Club this month, I was transported back to my abortive run at Disco Elysium. It’s not that I’ve never played a stat-check-heavy RPG before. Far from it. But somehow, each game’s presentation resonated together in my weird brain mush. It must have been something to do with the combination of a surreal, seedy, not-quite-our-world-but-still-very-recognisable setting, and the constant presence of numbers reminding me of my character’s strengths stacked up against their many, many weaknesses.
Do RFID blocking cards actually work? My Flipper Zero revealed the truth
25 Gifts For Fans Of The Paranormal That They Actually Need
Researchers Discover Our ‘Motor Cortex’ Actually Links to Other Parts of the Brain
“Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that previously overlooked areas of the brain’s motor cortex appear to link control of specific muscles with information about the entire body and brain.”
As a result, the act of, say, reaching for a cup of coffee can directly influence blood pressure and heart rate. And the movement is seamlessly integrated into brain systems involved in planning, goals and emotion. Textbooks, though, still portray a motor cortex in which “the region that controls your finger is not going to be connected to a region [that asks], ‘what am I going to do today?’ ” says Dr. Nico Dosenbach, an author of the study and an associate professor of neurology and radiology.
But the MRI data leaves little doubt that “there is this interconnected system,” says Evan Gordon, an assistant professor of radiology and the study’s first author. “It always was there, but we had not perceived it because of our training, because of the things we learned in the first neuroscience class that we ever took….” There’s two interleaved systems,” Dosenbach says. So right below an area controlling the fingers, for example, the team would find an area involved in “whole body integrative action….”
The new view of primary motor cortex may help explain how the brain solves a difficult problem, says Peter Strick, chair of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh. “Even simple movements require nuanced control of all organ systems,” he says. “You have to control heart rate. You have to control blood pressure. You have to control so called fight and flight responses….” A system that weaves together movement and mental states also could explain why our posture changes with our mood, or why exercise tends to make us feel better.
“How you move can have an impact on how you feel. And how you feel is going to have an impact on how you move,” Strick says. “You know, my mother would tell me, ‘stand up straight, you’ll feel better.’ And maybe that’s true.”
Thanks to Slashdot reader Tony Isaac for sharing the article.
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Yes, I actually pay for Discovery Plus
Out of all the streaming services I use — Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, and Funimation — Discovery Plus is the one that I use the most. And I don’t even get it for free through some kind of promotion — I actually pay for it.
At just $4.99 per month (or $6.99 without ads), it’s one of the cheapest streaming options out there, and for me, those five bucks go a long way. Discovery Plus is a melting pot of all the unscripted reality shows from Discovery itself, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Animal Planet, Investigate Discovery, The History Channel, and a handful of other networks that I haven’t even heard of before, like “Quest.”
That means it has some of the most bizarre, disturbing, cringe-worthy, and downright disgusting TV shows that I’ve ever…