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Playing Tetris Is Good For You
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."
was brought on by being hit repeatedly by blocks of various geometric shapes each divided into 4 equal sections?
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No, but Mine-layer is...
Really, all they did was show people something disturbing then immediately distract them with Tetris afterwards. I'm positive they could have districted them with anything and it would make a difference.
It is common knowledge that the best way to remember something is to put it in your brain then recall it over increasingly long periods of time. If you don't recall it (what they call "flashback" in the article) then the memory will naturally fade. It is at the beginning of a memory when it is weakest so it makes sense that if you distract someone and prevent them from recalling the memory then it will quickly fade.
The ratio of people to cake is too big
I wonder if playing Minesweeper is effective against boss-inflicted stress.
I don't know where the poster works, but in most workplaces, boss-inflicted stress is caused by playing Minesweeper on the job. But then I suppose getting a pink slip is one sure way of never being stressed out by the boss ever again...
So, what does playing tetris do when you're trying to store normal memories, like where you put your glasses?
They're between the lamp and the glass.
Be careful not to leave the keys on that table, or it will all disappear.
Easy: if you see the blocks clearly, you glasses are on your nose. See? that's the power of Tetris.
Talk about replacing memories. Now whenever I hear a song, I'm not thinking about where I was when I first heard it. I'm thinking about hitting those damn color buttons on time.
No won says Tetris is super fun or exciting.
I do, when I win.
Seriously though, I find tetris to be a whole lot of fun. And if you just start at level 9 every time, it can be pretty exciting, too. It doesn't quite have the clench factor of CMR3 or anything (slide slide slide CRASH - you can see how long it's been since I bought a new game though) but it can be quite engaging. Proof positive that graphics aren't everything - tetris works fine when drawn in text characters.
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From what I've seen people do primarily play Tetris to decompress and reduce stress.
It doesn't reduce stress for me! Especially when some high ranked asshole comes into play me on Tetris Party for the Wii and quits after I beat him and before his ranking is affected. Fucking cocksuckers. If I ever find one of those motherfuckers I will pound them in the head with a Wiimote repeatedly until death occurs.
Oh, is that what you meant by reducing stress? Sorry, I got distracted.
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.
I am the lawn!
Clicking without looking is like watching the movie in The Ring. After a while someone will murder you.
I am the lawn!
Did you ever roll your score through the signed int maximum, 32,767 points? Did you ever roll it back through zero? Did you know that there's a graphical display glitch in the score display: the old score is erased by writing the new score on top, so if the new score has fewer digits (-9,999 as opposed to -10,000, for example) the last digit will stay visible?
My current high score is -256, but that's not counting the time I rolled it through zero (the game didn't think that was a high score).
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Actually they were good for nothing, unless you were surrounded by an environment struck constantly by conflict and horror.
In other words, unless he had a TV running somewhere around him.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Tetris was especially good to me back in the late 1980s when I was at university at Sheffield in the UK. There were a few Tetris Payout machines around the city that could hold up to £60 of cash.
The premise of this version was that you scored more points for lines cleared higher up the screen and you had to get as many points as possible in a fixed time limit. The payout was based on how many points you got on a sliding scale. As I recall the maximum payout was £12.
The engineers who built the machine programmed it to get easier each time you failed to win money in a game and it got harder each time you did win. They made a mistake though because a good enough Tetris player could beat the machine on its hardest setting.
There were about 3 or 4 students in the town that could empty these machines. Amazingly at the Student Union bar they came around once a week and filled the machine with cash. Those of us that could empty the machine would race to get to the machine first in order to empty it!
I kept records of what I made and it was over £1000 which is not a lot of money now but it bought a lot of beer for me when I was 19 years old and skint! And I still managed to find enough time to get a degree!
Eventually these machines disappeared no doubt because the people in charge realised that the only people making money were the people playing them!
You're obviously not talking about the NES version, so which one are you referring to?
Microsoft's ancient port of Tetris to Windows 3.1 used a type equivalent to int16_t for the player's score. Certainly Tetramino for NES can track up to 6.5 million points, and Lockjaw can track up to 2 billion.
The Gameboy one was always the go-to version for me.
Or maybe plsy the Great Outdoors, Meeting People, Other Hobbies. Despite the fact that there are bears out there, it's not that bad outside ... ;)
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Maybe you didn't notice, but his name is a keyboard cipher of "Troll".
You just got Reikk-rolled.
I'm not insane! My mother had me tested.