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by Aaron Linde, Jan 16, 2008 2:09pm PSTGerman-based computer hardware company Tomarni has developed a performance-enhancing drug for pro gamers called FpsBrain.
Developed in cooperation with Free University Berlin, FpsBrain is said to "accelerate neural processes and heighten perception and capacity of reaction and concentration", according to the product's website. The capsules are packed with amino acids, vitamins and other dietary supplements which can allegedly give pro gamers that physiological edge in the heat of a fight. Maybe.
Also, BluesNews makes mention of pro gaming getting drug testing as a possible concern. Okay, probably not.
A bottle of FpsBrain containing 60 pills will set you back EUR 19.90, or approximately $30. Skeptics, take heart—the pills come with a 110% money-back guarantee. FpsBrain is the latest product available in the burgeoning gamer dietary supplement marketplace.
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just kidding
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http://interconnected.org/home/2007/12/28/wrapping_up_2007#fortythree
In The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks talks about Sharp Blue, a drug which is "good for games. What seemed complicated became simple; what appeared insoluble became soluble; what had been unknowable became obvious. A utility drug; an abstraction-modifier; not a sensory enhancer or a sexual stimulant or a physiological booster."
I was talking about this with Tom and Alex and some Matts in the pub a few months ago. Why don't we have abstraction modifier drugs now? Why are there no drugs to help me think in hierarchies, or with models, or to make cross connections? Or rather, since drugs exist that do this in a coarse and illegal way now, why haven't these been tuned?
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Same thing.
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