Gaming Fuel: 4-way Shootout

Neil Yates writes "It is 2:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning. You have been up all night, fragging away in a Quake3 clan match. Your early morning schedule wore you out and you never had time to take a nap. The server is resetting between games, and you are starting to get a little sleepy-eyed. Milk is not going to do one bit of good and regular Coke or Pepsi are too run of the mill. The last thing that will keep you awake and at the top of your game is some pansy sports drink. Which of these four energy drinks do you reach for? Pepsi Blue, Vanilla Coke, Dr. Pepper's Red Fusion, or Sobe's Mr. Green?" What's wrong with plain old Mt Dew? It did represent 80% of my intake by volume from age 15 to 22.

How about Water Joe?

[tswinzig]

Maybe then you won't put on 100 pounds of fat, and continue to score only at video games.

bah...

[EHUDs_Rhino]

REAL men get some of those giant Pixy Stix and dump one into whatever it is they're drinking.

Gaming is MUCH more fun with that strobe effect from your eyelids twitching. I just wish that damn pink elephant would give me my mouse back.

Sounds familiar

[chazzf]

First of all, this article is getting posted waaay too early. 12:30? Wait until 2, and get genuine reponses. At least from the Eastern half of the US, anyway (where I happen to live, so quiet, all of you).

Personally, I tend to drink Mountain Dew. It's cheap, easy to find...

That, or I just go to bed. The server will be there later, and I find that the longer I prolong the inevitable, the worse my aim gets.

~Chazzf

Age 15 - 22?

[kerneljacabo]

And you plan on having kids?? Yellow #5 is spermicidal and stunts growth!

Heston screams...

[PDHoss]

Sobe's Mr. Green is people!

PDHoss

Re:"All night?"

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, that depends on what night you started...

Hmmm

[Nept]

Shouldn't this be a poll? I want my "reach for Cowboy Neal" option

Re:Sounds familiar

[rde]

Pah. Damn Americans. Over here in Ireland, where we have a real timezone (albeit one named after a part of England), it's just before six of the morning clock. And although I've been reading the web all night, not fragging, I feel I'm still in a position to comment.

Thus far, I've been kept going by Salon's articles, Kenyan AA coffee and penguin mints. I commend to all, by the way, Penguin's new chocolate mints; they're not nearly has horrible as they sound.

Caffeine Baaaad

[Lally Singh]

Here's an exercise: cut out all caffeine for six months. Yes, I said six months. Notice how your mind is calmer and more organized. Notice how your hands don't shake at the same frequency as the fluorescent lights above you. Notice how your penis now grows to full length.

Mountain Dew shrinks your penis

[Rooked_One]

Actually, the therorized component that is promenent in mountain dew is yellow #5. I grew up with a friend who lived on mountain dew, and I personally hated the stuff.... later on, I discovered that while I had gotten the regular 6-7 incher, he had, what his first *lay* described as "HIS DICK WAS AS SMALL AS MY 4 YEAR OLD BROTHERS!!!" Either way, I don't want to drink something that looks like mountain dew does.... its just not a natural color to drink. red = cherries = good for you green = veggies = very good for you blue = .... hmm.... blueberries... = not BAD for ya yellow = uhh... tell me what food comes in yellow? And don't say bananas unless you eat the peel, and don't say you smoke it cuz that don't count :) I would bet that the yellow bell peppers and such are genetically engeneeried. The fact of evolution simply points out that the yellow color is not something we need. Like it or love it... Then again, you could say we don't need beer, but I would have to slap you.

Whore Piss! It's not just for breakfast anymore!

[teamhasnoi]

Nutin' like a good, luke-warm, frothy glass of Whore Piss! Now with extra crack! The very memory of drinking this will keep you up for many a night!

I second that motion

[Herr_Nightingale]

pints of Guinness, all night -- real men don't drink fermented urine (or a reasonable facsimile thereof). [millerbeer.com]
Nor do we drink American "beer," for as H. Allen Smith quoth those many years ago,

splat
"Put it back in the horse!"

Re:Nutritional insanity

[Anonymous Coward]

and definitely not milk -- it feeds cancer and contains all kinds of hormones you don't want in your body.

Thanks, Mr. PETA. Pardon me while I go have a nice juicy steak, with a nice, cool, tall glass of milk.

And maybe after dinner, I'll club a few seals.

Re:Caffeine Baaaad

[Daikiki]

Great, so the secret to adding one to three inches overnight, guaranteed, is simply not drinking caffeine? Now that it's out in the open, will I stop getting all that spam?

Re:Heston screams...

[Rhys]

Nonono you have it all wrong.

Pepsi blue is SMURF!

Re:Nutritional insanity

[Illserve]

Today's specimin: the PETA troll, not a type you often see here in Slashdot, but they've all but overrun their natural habitats and are starting to turn up even here.

You'll note the complete lack of factual backup for the alarmist warnings about milk, making the claim difficult to verify or deny. It's likely a distorted paraphrase of some legitimate literature.

Note also the New-Agey reference to "imbalanced body chemistry", also with no linkage or factual backing. These are indeed classic troll droppings.

This must be one of the young however, for its trap is easily detected. A more clever one would have lured us in with some more reasonable prose before jumping straight to the propaganda.

Enjoy the rest of your stay, and remember to never feed the trolls!

Re:Since when is pop an energy drink?

[Munra]

Why is it banned?

Air traffic regulations?

Re:bah...

[Zapman]

Dude... I'm having a heart attack just THINKING about "Nuclear Dew Tang".