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Playing Tetris Is Good For You

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wow-still-causes-cancer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Some UK researchers found out that playing Tetris is actually good for people with post-traumatic stress disorder, by interfering with memory. I wonder if playing Minesweeper is effective against boss-inflicted stress."

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  1. What if the trauma by antifoidulus · · Score: 5, Funny

    was brought on by being hit repeatedly by blocks of various geometric shapes each divided into 4 equal sections?

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  2. Re:Great! by noundi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually they were good for nothing, unless you were surrounded by an environment struck constantly by conflict and horror. Something you would have picked up if you had read TFA instead of wasting 14232 hours of your life playing Tetris.

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    I am the lawn!