I'm actually the guy who wrote in about 'the Tetris effect' and just wanted to thank you guys for the insight and links. We're playing again all day this coming saturday, we'll see what happens! Generally uncomfortable and imagine was similar to drug induced hallucinations I was seeing the movement/attack arrows, particle effects, etc. Last winter though we did a Dota lan day playing from roughly 9am to 2am with minor breaks for dinner/lunch and i was unable to sleep due to a 'HUD' overlay everytime i closed my eyes. It was a weird vertigo feeling of lines/hallways elongating (like Max Payne 1 in his drug/dream sequences) I ran into this problem a lot when the Guitar Hero first came out.

Kmart and Target aren't quite as trashy in Australia as they are in America.

So it's interesting that today two of the biggest department store chains in Australia have withdrawn GTAV from sale following a petition decrying its terrible depictions of women. It's why I was always a little leery of the anti-Jack Thompson arguments that games don't affect people AT ALL they're COMPLETELY UNABLE TO PROVOKE A RESPONSE IN THE BRAIN YOU MORON because everything everywhere does, and we bring that back with us. I've told this story before, but I've done a similar thing with GTA3 and jacking cop cars. Press and hold Z to activate Spider Ball' and by the time I realized what was going through my brain, I had already crouched down and begun an attempt to curl into a Morph Ball.Īlso the Year of the PS3 is gonna be amazing because the only PS3 game that I know is coming out next year is Persona 5. My brain immediately recalled the phrase 'Magnetic rail system. Related to Chris' Katamari fantasies I once came out of an extremely long Metroid Prime 3 session to walk to work and saw a tire track in the snow.

I get it super bad from Pushmo and the Alchemy Lab minigame in Professor Layton, personally. The Tetris thing is actually called the Tetris effect.

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