Indeed; this was noted in my original post. The recreational potential is limited in part due to seizure factor.

Disregarding the limited (mostly anecdotal) evidence for recreational interaction of Wellbutrin with other drugs there's another point to make:

Here's the summary on PubMed.>

Note that the study also encompasses total hours played and craving symptoms. How was gaining such information possible other than subjective accounts from the sampled?

Then there's the fact no placebo group was present: There were zero corresponding Starcraft players/addicts given a sugar pill and then shown the Zerg images to measure their reactions. So how do we know whether this was Wellbutrin or merely the study itself and circumstances surrounding it that triggered the difference?

One problem concerning Wellbutrin is its potential for addiction and recreational abuse>.

It functions as an ADHD and depression medication, but is also used to treat stimulant withdrawal of cocaine and nicotine. Like it's hugely popular counterpart Ritalin at high doses (ie. crushed and snorted or intravenous) it can induce euphoria, but with risk of seizure.

Personally given the constant metaphorical references to videogames as being 'like a drug' it seems unwise to prescribe something like this to those addicted to Starcraft or a MMORPG. Alternatives like counselling, and intervention with a social emphasis would be a better route to head down first. The whole idea of ploughing people with pills en masse to remedy issues such as this where environmental and social factors are so prevalent isn't one I'd endorse.

A relative of mine works in a prison; they hand out 'Subutex' or 'methadone' like candy to withdrawing addicts of opium-based drugs like heroin. The prisoners often get hooked to Subutex itself, and most just go back to dealing or robbing soon after release.

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration stated in 2008 that written prescriptions for ADHD have risen 500% since 1991.

The National Institute of Mental Health also wrote a summary on this in 2007 with a global focus.

Actually this isn't be a half-bad way to drum up interest and probably a greater margin; it's the sort of thing one side of the newsatainment press report with outrage, with some of the more meditative press writing long-winded analyses of the entire situation. In any case they do the marketing for you; not necessarily in endorsement, but with mere mentions.

People who tended to get offended over this matter were never a large part of Medal of Honor's market anyway so essentially we've a rather good astroturfish decision that won't be damaging long term and will likely benefit EA if more interest is drummed up prior to release. Thus it's 'good' business.

Offtopic: PopeRatzo I was just browsing a Slashdot topic from last year (Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks May Be Illegal. and encountered some cooking pointers. I have noted down your meat preparation tips and humbly propose you set up a cookery blog called 'Cooking with Ratzo.' to imbue others with this knowledge.

You'd think by ROTJ Lucas would have thought with all the impending fandom to keep a good ten or more short clips like this to keep the money rolling in with each successive edition of Star Wars.

Anyone reminded of that Simpsons episode where company making the dolls Lisa likes introduce a tiny hat alongside a 'new' doll, and people in their droves rush to buy the same old thing with just a trivial scrap added in?

It's pretty sad that after the prequels people can still get so excited over 15 or so seconds of Luke handling his lightsabre. It's baffling and kind of sad that there's all this cheering and enthusiatic shouting over a mundane snippet like this.

Nonsense. The Big Friendly Giant was a gentle, good-natured creature: He did fire dreams, but you'd never be risking your own death around him.

The leaked files were in possession of Wikileaks for months. During that time they contacted the Pentagon for assistance in minimizing the damage to informants that would likely be a consequence of the leaks.

The Pentagon and US military railed against the idea of helping to mitigate the damage and condemned the notion of making this data public, and so after a few months of fruitless negotiation the entire 91,000+ files were leaked unaltered. The perception that this all happened in the space of a few days is false and not worth entertaining.

Do note that Assange has subsequently been cavalier over the notion that people could die should the Taliban employ the documents to locate them; his comments have been of the blunt 'ends justify the means' flavour. Whether a person's life is worth the US losing this amount of face over controversial events in Afghanistan is down to individual perception but my point is that this situation isn't quite as clear cut as much of the mass media depict - and this goes for those in favour Wikileaks actions as well as those against.

Yeah I realized that some time after I hastily posted just prior to resuming work - I think Rob was trying to be funny (?). No way would he get away with a typical bachelor's household in his status.

Furthermore...being a millionaire you'd assume he just hired a maid in twice weekly to clean up his lounge excesses. Hence me thinking his summary as more a bad joke than a comment on his home as it is.

Chris made a good point over the vagaries of the Slashdot summary; I enjoyed the thought of Taco's home being ripped apart by a piece of space junk falling onto it... ...while CmdrTaco is out of the home of course, so we could read what would be the best Slashdot post since his wedding proposal wayyy back. :D

That's nothing: You should see my living room.

So...you're either a heroin addict, a messy slob, a collector of Chinese model boats, really do have pieces of souvenir space junk, or have a hobby for acquiring pickled male genit...okay:

Tell us Ant, which 'junk' is most true for your living room?

It wasn't until I'd consumed it that I realized what was happening. Tom heartily recommended the new bread-disc, imploring I buy it with gusto:

"Pete this triple layer, cheese, anchovy, jalapeno, ape and pepperoni monster will be the takeaway of your life. They put cayenne in the tomato puree and man...just buy it. Gotta be tasted to be believed."

It's hardly common for that man to grant such an endorsement, and the next day I phoned up and got a jumbo 14" , the guy over the phone even said; 'We think you're gonna love it' - nobody ever said that to me in my illustrious history of calling up for food to my door! My heart did a little jump of the sort you get when for just a moment you swear you found a premium Ron Jeremy classic clip, or Heaven 17's 'Temptation' starting to play at a club as you instinctly haul your drunken, middle-aged self onto the dance floor for some old school self-embarassment for you and those around you - quality heartjumping you know?

I wasn't letting this occasion pass me by without making it memorable. I pulled out my deceased grandmother's candlelabra and stuck it onto the table together with purple wax scented candles I'd gotten from some hippy place in Camden years back. As I lit them and the lavender hit my nostrils it only accentuated the splendid truth that the pizza would soon arrive...

I texted Tom and a few other friends on my HTC Android, saying that some detailed pics of my consuming the bread mass and topping would follow. A simple smiley emoticon from Tom was the reply, but Tim from sports desk said...

"Pete I don't even wans to think abut your wrinkled visage and yellow-teeth digging into some pizza some guy told you was legendary. Get a grip or just put the pic on Facebook like any other conceited moron would. Or Digg...you'd probably get dugg 300 times minimum."

Bastard. Trying to rain on the parade - but there was the doorbell! I answered it, and a smiling young chap at the door said 'Hi that'll be £11.99 and here's a free bottle of Coke'.

I eagerly took the box and cola, handed over the exact change which was already prepared at the porch. The thought of the spicy clash of cayenne, jalapeno, salted ape and more was becoming less pleasent anticipation and more torture. I took my time putting the box by the table...relishing the prospect of chomping it down with abandon.

Then I opened the box......there was a 14 inch pizza but it was mere cheese and tomato! Cheese and tomato! That was it - bog-standard bullshit that I only bought in my student years due to financial stress!! An insult! Insult!

Like Tommy Wiseau in The Room I cried out a terrible and gargly cry and began a slow-paced trashing of my living room. The TV, a lovely Toshiba, went out of the window - my signed picture of Steven Jobs was smashed (later received a new frame), and I smeared the pizza over my sofa to devastating effect. The anger subsided...and although I managed to put together an omelette that night, these pizza woes will never leave me...I left a one-star review for the London Hell Pizza branch, and threatened legal action should my Android number ever find its way into some pranker's greasy mitts.

So rather than post a few snarky sentences of hyperbole verbiage would you like to actually question my 'running stream of condemnation' and say why it's incorrect?

Factually it isn't; Assange was a black hat hacker who has admitted an illegal act and was fined for that accordingly. He admitted to it. He was also suspected in several other incidents (including one suspicion of inserting the letters 'WANK' onto NASA computers) but due to insufficient evidence he was never charged. That's ambiguous; but his undertaking of hacking in the past is certainly not.

So go on, why aren't the events I just mentioned that are recorded on a multitude of credible sources not 'truth'?

Agreed! It doesn't make this particular event less laudable.

But as he promotes his website, travelling about at seminars and elsewhere it's assumed that he's inevitably promoting the more spurious or outright fabricated 'leaks' that also manifest as content on the website.

Anyone who is determined enough, and certainly an office of paid employees fit for purpose, can just flood Wikileaks to the point where doubt descends on a lot of what arrives on the site. This has likely begun already: What's to say Wikileaks won't become to leaking websites what 4chan is to message boards?

But I'm sure Assange will be out there still prostrating before the media who then portrays him as either a rogue or a grand old servant to liberty right up to the last moment that it's viable.

This is why he isn't laudable; because he's knowingly riding on the back of something he knows isn't credible and whose credibility will worsen over time - same as any other newspaper editor, media presenter, or spurious PR producing entity would.

The fact this guy is the man of the hour over the Afghan leaks that caused such a hubbub two days ago does not mean he isn't flawed despite unduly positive portrayals on Slashdot and elsewhere.

A big criticism of Julian Assange is his constant courting of the media to the point of being a prolific PR man - Slashdot did a post on him some months ago with the grandoise assertion that he was an 'Interational Man of Mystery'.

Truth is that his past, which is hardly whiter than white given all the suspected hacking he has done, makes him out to be much less of a virtuous crusader and more an occasionally maverick human being like quite a few people who once embarked on black hat attempts are. I agree with Wikileaks and enjoy the prospect that authority will be questioned a lot more as a result...but Assange isn't angel or particularly 'moral' .

The only thing which seperates him from older, more seasoned leaking website owners is that he is talented at courting PR and media, is decent at public speaking, and functions well as the recognisable 'face' of Wikileaks - nobody else in the leaking business has talent in the important matter of image, promotion and driving attention to his site. Were Assange lacking in that, Wikileaks would be nowhere near as famous/infamous as it is at the moment.