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<title><![CDATA[Bubsy In: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind]]></title>
<link>http://everygame.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/bubsy-in-claws-encounters-of-the-furred-kind/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>obtuscated</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Oh, Bubsy, where do we start. Bubsy was designed by Michael Berlyn, writer/designer at text adventur]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Oh, Bubsy, where do we start.</p>
<p>Bubsy was designed by Michael Berlyn, writer/designer at text adventure powerhouse Infocom. I invite you in this instance to take the term powerhouse relatively because not that many people were making text adventures/interactive fiction.</p>
<p>Now text adventures are badass. Among the first attempts to make games that are strictly narrative, they also paved the way for games and fiction to merge, allowing players to navigate a text like never before and basically play all sorts of tricks you can&#8217;t with books.</p>
<p>Also you usually die a lot.</p>
<p>Now some short months before my birth, Michael Berlyn created a game called suspended, wherein the player is in a suspended animation/coma type thing serving as a human computer for controlling traffic and stuff. You kind of wake up and there was an earthquake and about a jillion error messages in your head saying that everything has gone terribly wrong. Because you are frozen and a computer, you actually can&#8217;t do anything about this yourself, but instead must employ a whole bunch of robots to repair the systems and convince the populace that you haven&#8217;t gone insane and tried to kill them all by overfoaming their lattes or causing car accidents or something so you can get out before some city worker cuts your cable and replaces you with another popsicle.</p>
<p>The score was tracked by how many of your robots died and Infocom gave this game a difficulty rating of Expert.</p>
<p>This is an example of the mind at work behind Bubsy.</p>
<div id="attachment_1179" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 266px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1179" title="Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (U) [!]000" src="http://everygame.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/bubsy-in-claws-encounters-of-the-furred-kind-u-000.png" alt="The last reference an SNES owning child will 'get'." width="256" height="224" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The last reference an SNES owning child will &#39;get&#39;.</p></div>Everything about the packaging of this game says it is a stupid game for babies. Cartoon cat with hare-lip style speech impediment, old movie references evoking Looney-Tunes-esque qualities. Falling pianos, anvils, bananas, etc.</p>
<p>Exposing a child to this game is giving them a lesson in failure unlike any any Soccer practice or Spelling Bee. It is abuse by slow degrees and I am not being funny with you. One hit means death, every death blessed with its own unique animations, only 9 lives will insulate you from the cold abyss and then only just barely. To punctuate the meaninglessness of this journey, the sole purpose is collection. Get as many balls of yarn as you can, don&#8217;t die. These two directives build the framework of a desolate life spent indoors with a vaporizer and antibacterial cleaning fluids, involuntary finger twitches stilled only by the scrubbing of hands.</p>
<p>Add a post-sonic running/rolling/sliding mechanic with certain death at every corner and even the most adderall-calmed little toothgrinder will beg for a time out.</p>
<p>A strange game. The only way of winning is not to play.</p>
<p>&#8220;What could pothibly go wrong&#8221;</p>
<p><div id="attachment_1180" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 266px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1180" title="Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (U) [!]002" src="http://everygame.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/bubsy-in-claws-encounters-of-the-furred-kind-u-002.png" alt="Drowning" width="256" height="224" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Drowning</p></div>&#8220;What could pothibly go wrong?&#8221;</p>
<p><div id="attachment_1181" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 266px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1181" title="Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (U) [!]004" src="http://everygame.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/bubsy-in-claws-encounters-of-the-furred-kind-u-004.png" alt="Spikes" width="256" height="224" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Spikes</p></div>&#8220;What could pothibly go wrong?&#8221;</p>
<p><div id="attachment_1189" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 266px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1189" title="Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (U) [!]007" src="http://everygame.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/bubsy-in-claws-encounters-of-the-furred-kind-u-007.png" alt="And don't come back" width="256" height="224" /><p class="wp-caption-text">And don&#39;t come back</p></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Métaux lourds et gluten, caséine , phosphates dans l’alimentation : Autisme, schizophrénie et hyperactivité]]></title>
<link>http://ecologeeks.com/2009/02/20/metaux-lourds-et-gluten-caseine-phosphates-dans-l%e2%80%99alimentation-autisme-schizophrenie-et-hyperactivite/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>greenseeker</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Métaux lourds et gluten, caséine, phosphates dans l’alimentation : Autisme, schizophrénie et hyperac]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Carlos A. Miguélez Monroy: Drogarse en la farmacia]]></title>
<link>http://wordsinresistance.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/carlos-a-miguelez-monroy-drogarse-en-la-farmacia/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 21:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>clitemnistra</dc:creator>
<guid>http://wordsinresistance.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/carlos-a-miguelez-monroy-drogarse-en-la-farmacia/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Un joven de 21 años con dificultades para concentrarse en clase y para retener el material de lectur]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Un joven de 21 años con dificultades para concentrarse en clase y para retener el material de lectur]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[027 - Say Yes To Drugs !]]></title>
<link>http://thebestplace.fr/2008/04/28/027-say-yes-to-drugs/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Matthias "BenReilly" Jambon-Puillet</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thebestplace.fr/2008/04/28/027-say-yes-to-drugs/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Une partie de mon boulot consiste à lire un tas de publications plus ou moins spécialisées. L’une d’]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">Une partie de <strong>mon boulot</strong> consiste à lire un tas de publications plus ou moins spécialisées. L’une d’entre elles, <a href="http://wired.com">Wired</a>, est une vraie mine d’or. Magazine parlant de truc plus ou moins insolite mais souvent percutants, celui-ci à sorti <a href="http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/news/2008/04/smart_drugs">un article assez </a><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/news/2008/04/smart_drugs">interpellant</a> </strong>sur leur site. Les deux pages décrivent les bienfaits des usages médicamenteux pour se booster le cerveau. En gros <strong>la drogue ça rend intelligent </strong>!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/9899/brainfz8.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Tout est parti d’une statistique très officielle comme quoi 20% de la communauté scientifique utilisait diverses pilules pour augmenter périodiquement leur capacité cognitive. Prenez par exemple <strong>la Ritaline</strong>, prescrite en cas de suractivité ou de troubles de l’attention. Absorbées par une personne saine, ces petites gélules maintiennent éveillé, décuplent la capacité de concentration, et par extension la productivité. Les sérievores se souviendront sûrement d’un épisode de <strong>Desperate Housewives</strong> où Lynette devenait accro aux médocs de ses gosses pour tenir le coup. Bah voilà, pile dedans.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Le journaliste, <strong>interloqué, </strong>à décidé de pousser ses investigations un peu plus loin en faisant appel à son lectorat. S’en sont suivis des témoignages assez effrayants. <em>A. Nonyme</em> par exemple raconte comment il a torché un essai de 35 pages en une seule nuit pour écoper d’un A. Tout ça grâce à <strong>une petite combo médicamenteuse</strong> à base de Ritaline et d’Adderall. Les autres citations sont tout aussi édifiantes. Certains ont développé des <strong>dépendances</strong>, d’autre absolument aucunes. Tous sont d’accord pour admettre que la bonne recette peut clairement les <strong>aider</strong>. <a href="http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/gs_05drugs">Dans un autre article</a> le journaliste dresse même un tableau des drogues, effets secondaires et moyen de se les procurer. Tout ceci m’a plongé dans <strong>un abîme de perplexité</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1144/perplexitlettrxh3.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Après tout, peut être qu’avec un petit coup de pouce je pourrais boucler ma seconde relecture de mon roman en une nuit et le rendre vraiment bon. Est-ce que booster notre cerveau est vraiment <strong>répréhensible </strong>? En arrivera t’on à ce qu’un jour ce type de régimes soit réglementé et <strong>autorisé</strong>. Est-ce que mes gosses passeront leur scolarité complètement shootés tout en réussissant à exploser mes propres résultats ? Sommes-nous déjà <strong>des croutons</strong> face aux über-humains à venir ?<br />
Les perspectives sont <strong>effrayante</strong>, mais je crois que coaché par un médecin je pourrais carrément rentrer dans ce genre de trucs. Flippant non ? Mieux vaut arrêter ici l’introspection et passer à un sujet plus léger. Demain je raconterais donc comment une fois de plus <strong>le marketing en veut à mon âme</strong> (indice chez vous : ça implique GTA IV).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>BONUS STAGE !!!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Pour rester dans le sujet. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Il existe une AUTRE solution :<br />
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