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We blame everything when we suck at games: lag, the controller, bad framerates but here's a fun fact: your brain is built to be terrible at video games and everything is usually your own fault.

Here's some reading material:

The Invisible Gorilla:    • selective attention test  

Sensory Gating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_...

The button press study: http://www.cell.com/currentbiology/a...

The 80ms delay between the world and your consciousness: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/o...

Thalamus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalamus

Pulvinar Nuclei: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulvinar...

Games in this video:
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Super Time Force
Shovel Knight
Dark Souls II
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