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
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.
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.?.
Sorry to hear about your childhood. Are you one of these superhumans I watch playing Tetris and thinking “how the FUCK can anyone react that quickly?!”. I’m pleased to hear though that you found a way to not be traumatised!
Imo it gets impressive really fast if you play on keyboard, that’s what I like about this game: it surprises myself
I too, am shocked at how fast I end up going. I’ve gotten first place a few times in tetris 99 when I really focus.
Dont hesitate to check out four.lol, a very good database of tricks you can use
that site just blew my mind, thank you!!
Ur welcome!
yeah I can go pretty fast using the arrow keys on a keyboard. I’m out of practice these days but I use to be that kind of impressive.
Glad it worked out for you!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
That’s interesting, seems you use a similar strategy to me.
I have bipolar, knowing I’m going to have extreme lows in the future even with meds can be very dispiriting, but I know that I’ll always have a giant weapon in my arsenal… comedy shows. The difficulty comes when there’s nothing to watch and I need a boost, only so many times you can rewatch The Office, It’s Always Sunny etc.
(yes this was a thinly-veiled request for suggestions of funny!)
Here come my suggestions, I find them funny and most have a feelgood undertone too: Parks and Recreation, My Name is Earl, Raising Hope (same writers as in my name is earl), Better off Ted, Schitts Creek, Chuck, Space Force, Brooklyn Nine-nine, Outsourced, Modern Family, The Middle, Community (the earlier seasons). Most of these are pretty well known I guess but I hope at least one of them is helpful!
Better off Ted,
Much appreciated! I’ve seen most of these but a few I don’t recognise so will check them out. Better Off Ted, imo, is so underrated and I never understood why it got cancelled. Made me laugh so much.
Great! I hope you like them! I know, I’ve rarely heard anyone mention it and it’s just so good. The Veridian Dynamics™ voiceover bits especially are so funny, and poor Phil of course! I’ve been hoping someone might pick it up and keep going, but I’m guessing that’s probably too late now… Won’t stop hoping though!
Some news to assuage the pain of no more Better Off Ted, maybe you’ve already seen but Community is finally getting the “… and a movie” fulfillment :)
https://screenrant.com/community-movie-release-date-cast-story-details/
Ooooh, they finally got it huh, cool! Thanks for letting me know, it’s always nice to have something to look forward to!
Umm, a few.
The IT Crowd, Ted, Dodgeball, Zoolander, Office Space
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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
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
My new catchphrase is “time for Tetris”.
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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.
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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
Here is the actual paper; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5822451/
Thanks :)
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?
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This is quite playable!
You can play regular Tetris for free on Tetris website on a laptop or something. I agree the app version is abominable
Tetra classic
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
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.
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
