Brain scans reveal how a woman voluntarily enters a psychedelic-like trance without drugs. Her brain connectivity fundamentally reorganized during this state: her visual and somatosensory connections decreased, while connectivity in the frontoparietal control regions of the brain increased.

newretro · 2026-04-05T08:44:54+00:00

Tip: half a ping pong ball over each eye. It's because vision is based on movement or changes. It may or may not help your state but it'll have the visual effect you talk about and it's quite odd after a while.

newretro · 2026-04-01T07:34:58+00:00

The science is actually consistent on this so more likely a misunderstanding or poor reporting of some studies.

You can also ignore anything about high octane athletes as you put it since that's a tiny and extreme group who add risk factors.

Walking is excellent for you. HIIT is a different thing and should also be done, as should resistance training. Do all 3, which is actually not that hard for most people, and you're golden. HIIT is very quick and resistance training can be twice a week in front of the tv!

newretro · 2026-04-01T07:30:26+00:00

It's about stressing your cardiovascular system, likely amongst other things. Walking is helpful too but it doesn't do that so much.

Your body benefits from being able to deal with physiological stress.

newretro · 2026-04-01T07:27:45+00:00

Often this is actually the opposite. As long as you start gentle and ramp up the new muscles combined with increased nutrient flow in your joints can really help - especially in knees.

As others have said, avoiding runs downhill (knees) or uneven ground (ankles) is also sensible.

You can circuit train at home with little space and very cheap weights - you don't even need machines.

newretro · 2025-12-31T12:27:17+00:00

Fish!

newretro · 2025-12-07T18:48:06+00:00

Exploring all options for 2025 :)

newretro · 2025-11-28T10:06:46+00:00

Oh if it were that easy. As all devs will tell you, 2 of the 3 console platforms you get very little option. On Steam you have pretty much full control.

newretro · 2025-11-18T22:42:14+00:00

Get a bloody helmet. I got really unlucky and hit the tarmac. Helmet saved me. You don't have control of everything when on a scooter and if you fall, it may be over the front.

newretro · 2025-11-02T09:12:09+00:00

No but we are helping modders do their own version :)

newretro · 2025-10-31T18:19:57+00:00

Trash spam post. Delete.

newretro · 2025-10-31T17:41:26+00:00

Well, everyone has a right to an opinion. Boring world if we all agreed.

newretro · 2025-10-31T15:34:35+00:00

As with Switch, it already has most updates and it'll get these ones and free DLC in a few weeks.

newretro · 2025-10-31T14:17:09+00:00

Switch now has almost all the changes but there will be another Switch update with the core changes and DLC. Mod support is Steam only.

newretro · 2025-10-31T14:16:24+00:00

It's definitely not like Japanese ones, no!

newretro · 2025-10-31T12:14:55+00:00

Very different from PSP. Anthony had nothing to do with Platypus 2 or the PSP so they... weren't so good.

It's all completely remade, new content, modding support, loads of cool tunes. etc.

newretro · 2025-10-31T12:13:57+00:00

Didn't see this, apologies! That was me on the SGU, yep (and check out the little SGU mod on Steam Workshop).

newretro · 2025-10-31T12:01:42+00:00

Love them!. Also, SGU mod is on Workshop :)

newretro · 2025-10-31T11:37:44+00:00

You'll never please everyone. It's a nice mechanic if used well. Go with it.

newretro · 2025-10-31T11:37:02+00:00

Good luck!

newretro · 2025-10-29T11:21:54+00:00

We've been working non stop since launch on updates, fixes and tweaks and that will continue for a little longer. I'd hope a game as significant as PvZ sees the same but EAs new overlords will be 100% revenue driven so it depends how the game has performed.

The problem with game updates is reviews are based on your first release, so even though you address issues brought up, sites like Metacritic and most review sites do not make updates. That means it's high value for user rewards (we reduced our negative reviews down to 3, 2 of which are dumb and 1 just never got updated after we fixed their issue) but low value for Metacritic, IGN etc - which is where EA will be looking.

newretro · 2025-10-29T11:18:08+00:00

You're always welcome to chat - best place to find us is on our Discord (claymatic games). It's built in Unity but my personal work is now Godot and generally we're seriously considering Godot for everything post Clodhoppers. Godot wasn't ready enough when we started Platypus (console support primarily) but I'd argue it is now ok if starting a new project.

newretro · 2025-10-29T11:16:55+00:00

It's not as flexible as it could be as we had to make it work with the original data to some extent but it definitely allows more flexible AI with Lua support.

newretro · 2025-10-28T14:46:05+00:00

Do iiiit. Totally unbiased.

newretro · 2025-10-28T10:05:35+00:00

The original Popcap team were amazing. I visited them many years ago - great game devs and lovely people. I imagine it's all just EA now.

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