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I'm curious about whether certain prescription drugs can alter your play.
I took an Adderall earlier for assistance in working on a philosophy term paper. I'm sure anyone who's ever taken Ritalin or Adderall or any similar stimulant understands how it affects your thinking and focusing. Your thoughts become much more streamlined and efficient. Your focus becomes much sharper, and whatever you're focusing on becomes easier to absorb.
I'm wondering if it has any relevant and noticeable effects on playing a game that would require as much mental focus and dexterity as SC.
Does anyone have any first-hand experience with this? I've only taken such drugs for the sake of pulling through school-related things in clutch situations...
(...as you can see, it's not helping all that dramatically in focusing me on this essay...-____-;; )
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starcraft and pain pills = fun times then zzz
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I've played starcraft while heavily intoxicated on alcohol, marijuana and both at the same time. Probably some of the silliest replays I have.
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Some pro halo players use adderall to help their play.
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lol adderral will definatly imrpove you in starcraft, you will be faster in every aspect.
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Lol, next thing KESPA will be drug testing before every match
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Well they are performance enhancing drugs...
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On December 12 2008 15:27 nataziel wrote:
Lol, next thing KESPA will be drug testing before every match
I actually think this is a good idea. Concentration drugs obviously give an unfair advantage, but iono if testing is practical.
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On December 12 2008 15:22 FREEloss_ca wrote:
I've played starcraft while heavily intoxicated on alcohol, marijuana and both at the same time. Probably some of the silliest replays I have.
Seriously...
One time I was pissed drunk and proxy 2 raxed just outside their choke...-_____-;;
His probe scouted it coming out of his base in a straight line. T_T
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A couple of the better players I know have used ritalin, adderall, or some other sort of speed to go from C+ level to B+ level permanently.
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To OP: Can you explain exactly what happens when you take Adderall/Ritalin? I have never taken drugs on purpose without actually needing them, how does it improve thinking?
My brother did that to study for hours and hours without eating/sleeping, I thought it was amazing.
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MyLostTemple
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On December 12 2008 17:31 Equinox_kr wrote:
To OP: Can you explain exactly what happens when you take Adderall/Ritalin? I have never taken drugs on purpose without actually needing them, how does it improve thinking?
My brother did that to study for hours and hours without eating/sleeping, I thought it was amazing.
it's a stimulant. think of it being somewhere between coffee and cocaine. usually it's prescribed for people with focus issues in school or work but lots of other people will take it if they have to focus really hard for a few hours.
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Sounds interesting. Are there any side effects? How do I get hold of it, since I haven't got any doctor's prescription?
EDIT: I'm not particularly interested in it's effect on SC, but rather on studying, since 2000 pages of law theory are lying ahead of me..
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On December 12 2008 15:31 FREEloss_ca wrote:
Well they are performance enhancing drugs...
I think aspirins would show up the most on drugs they take considering they must all suffer from join pains after awhile.
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On December 12 2008 17:31 Equinox_kr wrote:
To OP: Can you explain exactly what happens when you take Adderall/Ritalin? I have never taken drugs on purpose without actually needing them, how does it improve thinking?
My brother did that to study for hours and hours without eating/sleeping, I thought it was amazing.
On December 12 2008 17:35 MyLostTemple wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2008 17:31 Equinox_kr wrote:
To OP: Can you explain exactly what happens when you take Adderall/Ritalin? I have never taken drugs on purpose without actually needing them, how does it improve thinking?
My brother did that to study for hours and hours without eating/sleeping, I thought it was amazing. it's a stimulant. think of it being somewhere between coffee and cocaine. usually it's prescribed for people with focus issues in school or work but lots of other people will take it if they have to focus really hard for a few hours.
Ritalin is somewhere between coffee and cocaine. Adderall, is likely somewhere between cocaine and meth...
The effects are subtle, but very noticeable after the fact. It helps with focusing, as Tasteless said.
Like...it sort of just sharpens your mind. Your thinking becomes much more streamlined and efficient, and things sink in naturally. When you would have had to re-read a line several times to understand it, you'll get it in one go. Like...it just becomes easier to think things through.
It also helps indescribably with focus. Whatever you're reading or doing becomes the most interesting thing out there. Distractions still distract, though. Whatever distracts you will become your new object of focus, however, and you'll be just as into that as what you were previously; however, it is easy to bounce back between multiple objects of focus. For instance, if you're studying from a textbook, and someone comes and talks to you, your focus will shift from the textbook and onto the person and whatever you're talking about. However, once you're done, and you decide to go back to the textbook, you'll be able to jump in effectively right from where you left off previously. Your focus just bottom line becomes razor sharp.
It doesn't really grant anything magical, but it sort of just helps you maximize your cognitive abilities insofar as efficiency and effectiveness goes.
As far as your brother goes, yeah. I can definitely imagine that. The thing is you kind of lose appetite, and it's a stimulant, so it definitely will keep you awake as well. Don't take one if you want to sleep that night unless you take it early in the morning.
I'm writing this all as I'm on Adderall...hehe.
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I used to take adderall so I could read faster, I read somewhere around a thousand words a minute (in a book , not computer screen) regularly after my speeding reading classes and lots of practice (compre around 80%) Well I almost closed in on 2 thousand words per minute for a 3 hour and a half period. I read over 35 books that month. I became grossly addicted and now 4 years later, I still have to drink between 2 and 8 cups of coffee a day to feel almost as awake as normal people. Burning out is a bad thing, fuck the retard who takes it one farther and uses speed aka adderal to play better broodwar ... wtf?
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Oh yea, I beat one pro gamer, 1 international gamer and won 40 games in a row in 1 day on adderal.
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adderall is the miracle drug. if you do not have heavy ADD it lasts twelve hours and during that time you can get amazing amounts of stuff done without ever losing focus. it also forces you to do something or you will go crazy.. also you cannot possibly sleep until about ten hours after you take it. there is no comedown
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