Random: Gamers Can Be Pigs, According To Science
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We know that you spent hours on Wind Waker s Outset Island terrorising the little piggies that roamed freely around the place. We know that you chucked them in the ocean, and off cliffs.
We saw everything. Well, the pigs are about to get their revenge, because scientists taught them how to play video games.
Scientist researchers at Pennsylvania State University just completed a study in which they wanted to figure out if pigs could be successfully taught to play games, through reward-oriented tasks.
Don t worry, the pigs aren t coming for your Fortnite trophies just yet - they were given a special, very basic video game to play, called SIDE. All they had to do was nudge a joystick with their snouts, in order to get the cursor to touch the edge of the screen. Once they did, the computer would go bloop (the scientific term, of course) and the pigs would receive a dog food pellet, as well as praise from their handler.