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Effects of a video game intervention on symptoms, training motivation, and visuo-spatial memory in depression By Moritz Bergmann, Ines Wollbrandt, Lisa Gittel, Eva Halbe, Sarah Mackert, Alexandra Philipsen, Silke Lux Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 2023 doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1173652 Methods: a total of 46 clinically depressed individuals were treatment including psychotherapy and/or randomly assigned to one of three groups: an experimental "3D video gaming" group (n = 14) which played Super Mario Odyssey, an active control group (n = 16) which trained with a computer program "CogPack," and a treatment-as-usual (TAU) group (n = 16) which received a standard clinical pharmacotherapy. Results: regarding depressive symptoms, a significant decrease in the proportion of participants who showed clinical levels of depressive symptoms as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory was only found in the 3D video gaming group (which played Super Mario Odyssey). Conclusion: besides a standalone cognitive training, the current findings suggest that cognitive trainings using a video game have potential to increase subjective well-being, show higher levels of training motivation, and lead to improvements in visuo-spatial memory functions in MDD. The proportion of participants that showed depressive symptoms (BDI-II ≥ 13) at pre- (T1) and post-assessment (T2). For Super Mario Odyssey, 100 at T1 and 57 at T2. Note: information heavily abridged. For the full paper, see link above.

A 2023 German psychiatric study found that playing Super Mario Odyssey significantly improved depressive symptoms in clinically depressed individuals compared to regular psychotherapeutic treatment, reducing depression by 43%.

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025: A Video Countdown to watch previous video countdowns please visit: https://www.videocountdowns.com/ this year's video is once again in support of the Palestine Children's…

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025

A Video Countdown

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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

An meme generator produced image based on a New York Times article featuring some chucklefuck but now replaced with the great Bolo Yeung The New Work Times OPINION BINYAMIN APPELBAUM Mamdani Isn't the Future of the Democrats. This Guy Is. Nov. 9, 2025

Holy shit finally an Op-Ed that Gets It

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai

One of the best to ever do it. An expert at being a wild-eyed, haunted weirdo.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Move over, Hemingway

Having kids is sorta like being a forum moderator in that people are always trying to skirt around the edges of the rules and then rub it in or act outraged when they think they’ve found some kind of loophole.

My YouTube algorithm is like 90% clips from the TV show “House” because acerbic intelligent problem solving is very soothing right now.

Pope Leo XIV on the streets of Peru before being elected Pope; a kid in the background wears a shirt that has “Dragonball Z” written on the back of it

Leo XIV was a bishop in Peru for 20 years so it is more probable than not that he is the first Pope to know who Goku is.

For HK films fans: Shout Studios has nabbed Golden Princess library (John Woo, Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark, Johnnie To...).
A major copyright limbo escape for 156 films that disappeared from Western markets for decades.
Soon in 4K (remastered).
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tried to make a era-appropriate trailer for my THPS inspired fish game

If I had a nickel for every time I've seen Fred Durst in an A24 movie, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.

i keep thinking about this

Notify NHA about grant terminations! We are collecting information about current grants that have been canceled since March 31st, 2025. If you are looking to share a story about the impact of NEH funding on your work please use this for...

The National Humanities Alliance is collecting information on canceled NEH grants to share with congressional leaders. This is legit fact finding in support of competent lobbying. If you've had your grant canceled, do let them know.

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Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.

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Cinematrix No. 371: April 1, 2025 Can you name an M. Night Shyamalan movie starring M. Night Shyamalan?

Ok, today's Cinematrix is peak cinema and justifies April 1st for me.

The funny answer to what Summers brother would buy one is Havok and the real answer is Vulcan because narcissists are weirdly drawn to other narcissists.

Watching my kid try out old NES games and that shit was hard as fuck back then. Control systems were not standardized, no tutorials, limited life systems.

cop in The Wicker Man (leaving unharmed because he slept with that hot blonde): what a strange, sexy island

You know what, thanks! Keep me in the loop!

One day I’ll play a tabletop RPG again. One day …

The same as the above picture but I added some movie poster bells and whistles. It's now "ERNEST GOES TO HELL" and it's got a quote from Roger Ebert who calls it "RELENTLESS!"

Just beat Gold stake on Black deck in Balatro and I never have to play that piece of shit deck ever again #balatro

TIGER ON THE BEAT (Lau, 1988)