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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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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
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.
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!
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).
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
The Gameboy one was always the go-to version for me.