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> I was resigned to playing under Ibuprofen until I heard of fastDOOM

WTH is Ibuprofen?!

To add to the list of drugs, the biggest brand for ibuprofen here in Australia is Nurofen, with Advil being the biggest "cheap brand" version of it.

ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory and anti-coagulant, sold under many different names.

It's an NSAID made under a variety of names. You might be familiar with Advil?

Aside from all of these people giving you the technically correct answer, I also for a moment wondered if "ibuprofen" was the gimmick name of some wrapper that sped up doom or made it more playable on the system before I realized the author meant that playing with the slow frame rates would be painful.

US: Advil?

A fairly close relative to Aspirin that's easier on the stomach and has less of an anticoagulant effect.

The US equivalent of Aspirin.

Ibuprofen and aspirin share some similarities but are different molecules. Both ibuprofen and aspirin are available in the US, both are also available in Europe.

It's not the same as - for example - Tylenol which is called Doliprane or Dafalgan in Europe. In that case the active molecule is the exact same, just the name is changing; but you will have a hard time finding a box with Tylenol written on it in France.

> Tylenol which is called Doliprane or Dafalgan in Europe

I have never seen it called Doliprane or Dafalgan here only ever Paracetamol which is the generic name.

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