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you always gotta keep your opponent on their toes. unless your opponent is a ballerina, that is where they are most powerful
The Doorway Effect: Why your brain won’t let you remember what you were doing before you came in here
I work in a lab, and the way our lab is set up, there are two adjacent rooms, connected by both an outer hallway and an inner doorway. I do most of my work on one side, but every time I walk over to the other side to grab a reagent or a box of tips, I completely forget what I was after. This leads to a lot of me standing with one hand on the freezer door and grumbling, “What the hell was I doing?” It got to where all I had to say was “Every damn time” and my labmate would laugh. Finally, when I explained to our new labmate why I was standing next to his bench with a glazed look in my eyes, he was able to shed some light. “Oh, yeah, that’s a well-documented phenomenon,” he said. “Doorways wipe your memory.”
Being the gung-ho new science blogger that I am, I decided to investigate. And it’s true! Well, doorways don’t literally wipe your memory. But they do encourage your brain to dump whatever it was working on before and get ready to do something new. In one study, participants played a video game in which they had to carry an object either across a room or into a new room. Then they were given a quiz. Participants who passed through a doorway had more trouble remembering what they were doing. It didn’t matter if the video game display was made smaller and less immersive, or if the participants performed the same task in an actual room—the results were similar. Returning to the room where they had begun the task didn’t help: even context didn’t serve to jog folks’ memories.
The researchers wrote that their results are consistent with what they call an “event model” of memory. They say the brain keeps some information ready to go at all times, but it can’t hold on to everything. So it takes advantage of what the researchers called an “event boundary,” like a doorway into a new room, to dump the old info and start over. Apparently my brain doesn’t care that my timer has seconds to go—if I have to go into the other room, I’m doing something new, and can’t remember that my previous task was antibody, idiot, you needed antibody.
Read more at Scientific American, or the original study.
I finally learned why I completely space when I cross to the other side of the lab, and that I’m apparently not alone.
this is actually kind of great and it’s nice to know there’s something behind that constant spacing out whenever i enter a different place
tagging nsfw is hilarious like it’s just like you’re in a room with a shitload of people and you shout PORN and then some people cover their eyes and others stare at you in anticipation
witbees sent
ur crossover hell ship
i kept reading this like. crossover-hell ship or crossover hell-ship?? either one is good
when I started shipping it if I did:
i saw some naruto/gintama fanart on pixiv but i dont think it was until this post that i made this post. it was downhill from there
my thoughts:
why do i ship this. god damn. who thought of this first. im going to beat them up
What makes me happy about them:
NOTHING ABOUT THEM MAKES ME HAPPY. the entirety of this ship is theyre shitty teens annoying and pranking each other and kissing sometimes
What makes me sad about them:
im not allowed to think of situations where they’d make me sad or this really will be hell
things done in fanfic that annoys me:
i dont think there is any fanfic period
things I look for in fanfic:
instead of that heres some kakagin links on pixiv: [1] [2] [3] [4] also a general naruto/gintama one and this one bc it annoys me. why do they have the same birthday.
Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
lmao uh. whoever i ship them with in their respective universes.
My happily ever after for them:
theyre my non-heartbreaking ship so
who is the big spoon/little spoon:
i know height doesnt really matter in big/little spoon discussions but did you know kakashi is slightly taller than gintoki. idk if that includes his hair or not tho
what is their favorite non-sexual activity:
arguing about their respective literature preferences
pendror sent
GUY AND KAKASHI FOR THE FIRST ONE GO
when I started shipping it if I did:
u know how sometimes youll be reading something and youre completely aware of and enjoy these two characters interactions with each other but its not until way later that u really think about it and go HOLY SHIT IVE BEEN SHIPPING THEM THIS WHOLE TIME??? thats me a year ago when i got back into naruto
my thoughts:
my chest hurts. i hate them
What makes me happy about them:
THEYRE SO GOOD FOR EACH OTHER?? without gai kakashi is like a sad pile of dirt who cant take care of his kids. i think kakashi is good for gai just by. existing>? like hes just someone who can be there WITH him. idk how to explain
What makes me sad about them:
i don tknow?? theres nothing inherently sad about them that i can remember. i think with every married ship they just make me hurt regardless
things done in fanfic that annoys me:
i dont read fanfic lmao so idk
things I look for in fanfic:
[poses] i dont read [different pose]
Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
i do kakayama but i cant put gai with anyone other than kakashi?? maybe i need to think more about this
My happily ever after for them:
no one dies and they move in with each other. theyre the weird uncles to each other’s teams.
who is the big spoon/little spoon:
nightly challenges as to who gets to be the big spoon. kakashi wins most of the time but gai ends up being the bigger spoon when theyre asleep anyway
what is their favorite non-sexual activity:
no sex allowed on my ship
masculinity is so funny to me bc men deprive themselves of the best things in life in order to achieve it like ….fuzzy socks, fun fruity pink drinks, spa days, lifetime movies, expressing positive feelings in a healthy way, being a warm genuine person