Using fMRI scans on 19 lonely fans of “Game of Thrones”, researchers discovered that they processed their favorite characters similarly to real friends in their brains. This suggests that lonelier …::In lonely people, the boundary between real friends and favorite fictional characters gets blurred in the part of the brain that is active when thinking about others, a new study found.Researchers scanned the brains of people who were fans of “Game of Thrones” while they thought about various characters in the show and about their real frien…

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        29 months ago

        Well, after killing 90% of the good characters, going forward with the killing wasn’t just an option anymore

    • LazaroFilm
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      109 months ago

      Sometimes, I think of all the people that name their kids, Daenerys, and then after the last season realized they made a big mistake.