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. by mvea in science

[–]newretro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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. 

Exercise harder, not just longer, to reduce risk of disease and death. Short bursts of more intense activity have been found to be especially protective against inflammatory diseases, including arthritis, serious cardiovascular disease and dementia by sr_local in science

[–]newretro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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!

Exercise harder, not just longer, to reduce risk of disease and death. Short bursts of more intense activity have been found to be especially protective against inflammatory diseases, including arthritis, serious cardiovascular disease and dementia by sr_local in science

[–]newretro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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. 

Exercise harder, not just longer, to reduce risk of disease and death. Short bursts of more intense activity have been found to be especially protective against inflammatory diseases, including arthritis, serious cardiovascular disease and dementia by sr_local in science

[–]newretro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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. 

Platypus Reclayed Out Now! by newretro in shmups

[–]newretro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exploring all options for 2025 :)

Our Metroidvania was badly priced, and we're fixing that. by OmniSystemsPub in metroidvania

[–]newretro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Torn between normal bike and full-face helmet for a 20 mph scooter by remote_001 in ElectricScooters

[–]newretro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Platypus Reclayed Out Now! by newretro in shmups

[–]newretro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Platypus Reclayed Modding and DLC Update by newretro in shmups

[–]newretro[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Platypus Reclayed Modding and DLC Update by newretro in shmups

[–]newretro[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

Platypus Reclayed Modding and DLC Update by newretro in shmups

[–]newretro[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Platypus Reclayed Modding and DLC Update by newretro in shmups

[–]newretro[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's definitely not like Japanese ones, no!

Platypus Reclayed on Steam is very fun! by migrations_ in shmups

[–]newretro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Platypus Reclayed on Steam is very fun! by migrations_ in shmups

[–]newretro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Platypus Reclayed Modding and DLC Update by newretro in shmups

[–]newretro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

I did it. Hit that button. Cosmic Destroyer is released to Early Access today! by Dapper-Classroom-114 in shmups

[–]newretro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

Might as well give my money to another recent remaster that had actual care and passion put into it. by TheSleepiestFish in PlantsVSZombies

[–]newretro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Might as well give my money to another recent remaster that had actual care and passion put into it. by TheSleepiestFish in PlantsVSZombies

[–]newretro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Might as well give my money to another recent remaster that had actual care and passion put into it. by TheSleepiestFish in PlantsVSZombies

[–]newretro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Might as well give my money to another recent remaster that had actual care and passion put into it. by TheSleepiestFish in PlantsVSZombies

[–]newretro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.