Chapter 9: The Tetris Effect
from Don't Think Me Evil Trilogy Podcast Hosted by Rick West
Last time ended with a pleasant voice telling you the subject had been advised. I am the subject. Consider me advised. In 1984 a computer scientist in Moscow built himself a little game with seven shapes that fall from the top of the screen. Some of you will remember what happened when you finally turned it off. You lay in the dark with your eyes closed and the pieces were still falling. Psychologists call it the Tetris Effect. There is one more thing every player learns. You cannot win it. It just gets faster. This recording is going up the same day we make it, with no music and no polish, and you will hear partway through that we did not finish where we started. Scriven put one episode back on the feed on Tuesday morning, and I want you to know how long it stayed up. I did what I know how to do, which is a legal pad, a pot of coffee, and one question I ask my freshmen every fall. Who owns what? Listen when you can, and tell me what you notice about where we end up. Recorded August 8th, 2019. THE TRILOGY The Pattern Files is the evidence file. The story is Don't Think Me Evil, a trilogy by Elwood West. Book One, Confession, is available now at dontthinkmeevil.com.
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Asa returns to the feed after a pleasant voice told him he had been advised, and the episode that keeps coming down now comes down faster than before. He traces who owns what behind the platform, plays a voicemail about a backyard shed, and moves the recording somewhere nobody can predict. This one went up the same day it was recorded, with no music and no polish.
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