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…

  • @Sir_Simon_Spamalot
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    741 year ago

    Game of Thrones is the wrong show for caring about the characters…

    • @Squizzy
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      171 year ago

      Not the last four Seasons, people were invincible.

      • @Siegfried
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        21 year 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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      101 year 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        Idk… it still like the name sounds good and cool. I am a more traditional guy when naming so I wouldn’t go for it but still think is a nice name.

      • @GamingChairModel
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        61 year ago

        Bruh people straight up named their daughters “Khaleesi”

        • LazaroFilm
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          21 year ago

          Which isn’t even a name it’s a title like Queen or Empress.