Negative Reinforcement

For one reason or another, I've found solace in watching documentaries on The Science Channel. I watched one recently that dealt with the history of Tetris. From Alexey Pajitnov's development of the game, through to the wild legal battle that erupted over the rights to distribute the game worldwide, complicated by Cold War tensions.

All for the equivalent of videogame crack.

Several people in the documentary point out an aspect of TETRIS that I never realized before...
Although many praise the videogame for focusing on BUILDING rather than DESTROYING, the game is actually all about negative reinforcement.

All your successes immediately disappear from the screen...

What you're looking at... what you're constantly being forced to deal with... are all your fucking failures...

Which is, of course, the story of my life.

(Come on now, we ALL saw that coming...)
P.S. If you haven't noticed, I've been going a wee bit animated-gif-construction crazy up in here because it's one of the few programs I've got that Vista DOESN'T have fatal compatibility problems with! I swear, VISTA may be the final straw for me...