This work perfectly for most of my lectures in Quantitative Methods in college.
When it came to the exam, I couldn’t recall a thing.
Hahahaha. That proper made me laugh
Can confirm, I’ve been playing tetris for three hours and I’ve almost completely forgotten about the dead hooker in my trunk.
Huh, that’s the kind of thing that would just make me start visualizing how many I could fit in there.
that’s basically tetris, we’ve come full circle
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My problem is that I always go for the biggest hooker, when offered the choice.
It really all depends if you leave them whole, cut them up or use a blender.
An industrial food processor would be best, but not everyone has access to those, and cleaning all the bits off can be hard
Gotta solve your problems one at a time…
My mum used to work with criminaly insane people in an asylym. I realize now why she frequently jacked my Gameboy to play Tetris.
Can I ask what role she did? I read a book last year called ‘The Devil You Know - Tales of Forensic Psychiatry’. It was very illuminating and interesting, each chapter a different (anonymised) story of one of her patients. Especially her ‘bike lock’ theory of why some people can commit such horrific crimes.
‘Bike lock’ theory?
She posits that some people have a ‘combination lock’ which, when the right numbers all come up together, pushes them over the line into a horrific violent act.
EG if someone was beaten by their father as a child, go through some trauma as an adult, are under a lot of stress, then some guy in the street who looks a lot like their dad used to starts screaming at him because he bumped into him, then BLAM they’re smashing his face in with a nearby brick before they understand what’s happening.
Whoa shit 😳
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I didn’t know Muse did psychological studies. Fascinating!
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Uh, I think she was a handler, of sorts. Don’t rightfully know, I just know it was a job with a lot of risks and it was hella stressful. Her workplace had one “inmate” escape and murder a 9-year old one time and that was just, well devastating.
I take my hat off to anyone who does these sorts of jobs, it must be very mentally gruelling.
it’s a lie perpetuated by Big Tetris!!
jk, good to know. I assume this should work similarly for any game that doesn’t contain violent content and yet activates the brain.
I wonder if there’s any research on that? It’s been a while since I read the study but iirc there’s something specific about Tetris that increases the effect, something to do with manipulating objects to fit into neat rows.
So maybe trying to fit the shopping in the back of a car would be as effective! Anyway I posted this hoping it would be of use to some of the people affected by the latest lemmy attack.
Wait what lemmy attack? What happened?
Someone is uploading child porn to one instance, which then gets federated across other instances. I suspect it’s the same dude who, after being banned for trying to wreck the site by creating ridiculous amounts of communities, vowed to continue wrecking the site.
Unfortunately it’s still ongoing, I saw something which I think was probably CSAM. Reported it immediately and the report wouldn’t go through so assume it was already removed, very quickly. There shouldn’t be any porn on sh.it.just.works (or however the instance is spelled) so if you see anything that looks pornographic on there, report it and don’t click on it unless you want to be scarred for life.
Probably referring to the CSAM that was posted to one of the forums.
I only know hearsay but apparently world was spammed with CSAM
I would imagine crossword puzzles or anything similar in that nature could also apply.
Probably to some extent, but there’s a few aspects that probably make Tetris exceptional for this
First, you have to pay attention and plan ahead, but in a simple enough way and fast enough that it discourages fully forming thoughts. You also can’t do it on autopilot - you can’t pattern match or rhythm your way through, so you can’t zone out. So while you’re playing, you probably can do very little to ruminate over the event and reinforce it
Second, it’s spatial reasoning, working + short term memory, and very visual. We encode long term memories like carving groves into wood - the longer we think about it while it’s in short term memory, the clearer the details. If ASAP you overwrite the short term spatial and visual memories with meaningless combinations of blocks, you lose a lot of detail. That’s going to result in a much weaker association of the emotions to a location or an image, making triggers less likely and easier to break
Third, it ties up your visual systems - as the primary sense of humans, visual processing is a huge portion of what our brains do. It’s tied up in complex ways with the way we predict things and access memories, and for reasons I barely understand that can be used to weaken triggers and dampen emotional response
So putting it together, it distracts you from effectively building a narrative by putting your thoughts into language. While that’s going on, it overwrites aspects of your short term memory over and over with meaningless junk data. Finally, it’s just soothing - you get little hits of dopamine and jolts of stress response
Excellent explanation, nice.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.5127/jep.028212
how it works^
Well, how it may work. It is fairly controversial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_and_reprocessing
It’s not that controversial within the psychological community. It is widely used and researched.
These links appear to be about something possibly related but slightly different. These involve treating traumatic memories that already rooted themselves. The post above is about preventing the memories from being rooted in the first place. Sure, they could be related concepts and mechanisms, but they are different.
I think that’s something different bud. Interesting resesarch though.
yo… everyone is laughing cause its kind of funny but I had a really intense and traumatic childhood… and I also played a lot of tetris as a kid. Like more than 12 hours a day of it.
Is that seriously why my trauma didn’t effect me like it would have with other people??
That’s fucking nuts. Like what.?.
What if Tetris is the source of my trauma?
Were you cursed by the Tetris God?
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I have never forgotten “LINE PIECE”
College Humour put out so many funny little videos, this is definitely my favourite though. LIIIIINE PIECE! Still makes me laugh after all these years
Tetrises lol
Also, just an anecdote, but good music and puzzle games seems to help those of us who had PTSD form.
For me, in my deepest depressive state, I found stupid movies to be a really good tool for managing my symptoms. My go-tos were Ocean’s 8 and Rampage.
There was just something about pointless entertainment that occupied my time well without eliciting emotional responses. (ie, emotional responses I was incapable of regulating)
A couple of hours? That’s a lot of fucking Tetris.
Filthy casual.
Have you played the new Tetris? I sunk quite a bit of time into that. It’s gorgeous, really good music that syncs with your moves.
Tetris Effect? Love it, great in VR too where you are entirely focused, almost transcendent.
That’s the one. Although it’s incredibly pretty I did find it a bit distracting at times, must be intense in VR
It works by sending you into a catatonic state from sheer boredom
lol I use to play like 12+ hours a day
My new catchphrase is “time for Tetris”.
Life in Philly be like ^
So you’re saying if my parents had let me play video games, my childhood traumas would have been easier to deal with. Those f%*&ers…
Can confirm it doesn’t help. You’re good.
After reading this I thought there must be a nice and simple Tetris game in the play store. Boy was I wrong. I think some guy has a “block puzzle” empire and has just rereleased the same tetris clone game a hundred times. And official Tetris is a total abomination of unlocks and achievements.
Bummer.
There are three main Tetris games as far as playability goes.
Classic Tetris for NES where you play with your foot
Tetris effect where handling and graphics are decent
Tetr.io where speed is everythingNotable mentions
Tetris 99 - tetris for Nintendo switch
PuyoPuyo tetris - sometimes you play puyopuyo sometimes you play tetrisEverything else is basically irrelevant
Tetris Effect is great, really immersive in VR
I went through a similar thing, conclusion I came to was that as Tetris is so popular, the owners of the IP have it on lockdown… it is quite a specific IP that’s kinda hard to do something similar-but-the-same.
Options I came up with were pirating a copy, or xbox game pass (iirc Tetris Effect is available there). Or… are there any Gameboy emulators that run on mobile?
There’s as many gb emulators as possible, for a while i used nostalgia emulator (great ui and functional save state feature) but you can also run retroarch and other multiemulators. The one thing you need is the rom, but that is another story.
Yeah the ip is very horribly maintained. Imo the best game is an fangame, tetr.io
Tetra classic
You can play regular Tetris for free on Tetris website on a laptop or something. I agree the app version is abominable
This is quite playable!
Google ‘first person tetris’ it witb turn your world upside down.
I’m glad I decided to re-read the comments on this, as someone with aphantasia who really struggles with spatial stuff… WHAT THE FUCK, you weren’t exaggerating haha
For Android there is Techmino, though it isn’t on the Play Store and instead you download it from the project’s github. https://github.com/26F-Studio/Techmino
Oh noo, I can still hear the 4bit music from the Gameboy classic speaker …
… how? Where is it coming from? Why won’t it stop? What is it trying to mask & protect me from?
Do
Da-do
Do-da-Do
Da-Do
Do-da-Do
Da-do
Daaa do-da
I remember a podcast on NPR a few years ago mentioning something similar. The psychologist that was on the show was discussing how doing something that does something that requires your full attention reduces anxiety. It’s interesting to see that this can also be applied to reduce PTSD.
Me after watching family get brutally murdered in front of my very eyes:
hOlD uP gOtTa PlAy SoMe TeTrIs To PrEvEnT pTsD, mEnTaL hEaLtH aWaReNeSs BrO
On another note, does playing amogus with the boys increase the chances of it becoming PTSD?
I think if you play among us after experiencing extreme trauma, that really is kinda sus