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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…
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.
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I would imagine crossword puzzles or anything similar in that nature could also apply.
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.
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!)
Umm, a few.
The IT Crowd, Ted, Dodgeball, Zoolander, Office Space
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!
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.
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Were you cursed by the Tetris God?
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
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My new catchphrase is “time for Tetris”.
Life in Philly be like ^
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
Here is the actual paper; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5822451/
Thanks :)
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.
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.
Yeah the ip is very horribly maintained. Imo the best game is an fangame, tetr.io
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.
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
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
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
I don’t know, chief; have you seen modern Tetris gameplay?
What in the fuck is that‽‽ Where are they even looking on the screen? Also how much Adderall has been provided to these competitors?
Generally, they look at their own boards and keep their next piece queue in their periphery vision; the distinct colours of each piece is actually written into modern Tetris guidelines. Advanced players like these also glance at their opponent’s board to determine whether to delay their attacks, both offensively and defensively.
I’d like to plug my favourite Tetris match of all time: Salty Cup S2 - Doremy vs Wumbo
For context, Wumbo always uses the center 4-wide to win many tournaments, and while it was a very effective strategy, it was also extremely cheesy and boring to both watch and play against; he also maintained a “Tetris god” persona where he only ever uploads his wins to his Youtube channel. Doremy, on the other hand, was getting great attention for his flashy and fun Tetris plays, never shying away from uploading videos from his losses. Doremy also caught Wumbo editing out his losses from his Twitch VODs. All this culminated in a rivalry, and in this matchup, it was the underdog versus the overpowered villain. So while this Tetris match isn’t as flashy and fast as the more recent ones, it is definitely one of the most memorable.
you got me watching a half-hour vid on competitive tetris. that’s some crazy stuff
“That’s my secret, Cap… I’m always Adderall.”
The shape at the top is where their current piece is, they just move to fast for it to really move. The hollow piece shows where it will land, the right hand side are the upcoming pieces.
So, I don’t know what hold is but I imagine they’re switching between looking at the board, the hollow piece, and the upcoming pieces.
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well the good was ruined to the extreme in order to facilitate the profit motive. Everything must be new and flashy and in your face! All the time! 24/7!
It makes me so burnt out.
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Dark souls too, it drives me insane but its not frying my eyes or holding my hand. I can just chill in elden ring picking flowers while trying and failing to dodge THAT STUPID DRAGON ATTACK THE HITBOX IS SO RIGGED-
