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UC Davis veterinary records cited by the Physicians Committee—which WIRED also obtained through a subsequent California public records request—chronicle a battery of complications that developed following procedures involving electrodes being surgically implanted into monkeys’ brains. The complications include bloody diarrhea, partial paralysis, and cerebral edema, a conditional colloquially known as “brain swelling.”

But it’s most likely it was just something from Hasbro, they were forced to do for some test marketing reason or something.

One reason for why pre-release video game demos have become rarer is that, if a demo includes “dummied out” data from the final game, data miners can uncover spoilers for the final game and release them in the internet. While removing said data is an option, it can greatly increase the work needed to create a demo since it requires the demo to go through additional testing to ensure the removal of supposedly non-required assets doesn’t have unintended consequences.

One reason for why pre-release video game demos have become rarer is that, if a demo includes Dummied Out data from the final game, data miners can uncover spoilers for the final game and release them in the Internet. While removing said data is an option, it can greatly increase the work needed to create a demo since it requires the demo to go through additional testing to ensure the removal of supposedly non-required assets doesn’t have unintended consequences.