Gatorade ( and by extension Pepsi who own it) literally has the greatest marketing campaign ever. They have somehow convinced millions of people SITTING IN CHAIRS that they need electrolytes and sugar.
Nothing more American than that
Sugar-free Gatorade is actually pretty good. (It's got electrolytes) It's not too easy to find a drink that is sweet and both caffeine-free and sugar-free and doesn't taste like ass. I get the powder and refill the plastic bottles.
Plus, when I come home late and drunk, drinking an entire bottle or two is a great way to prevent the worst effects of hangovers the next day.
At least Gatorade's formula makes some sense as sports drink.
Anytime I see that Logan Paul drink advertised they are shitting on Gatorade for high sodium, while bragging Prime tastes less salty. I wonder why no legit electrolyte / pre-workout drinks have thought of adding less sodium. :thonk:
Like everything has to be a grift now a days. Just sell your shitty drink as a expensive a Kool-aid knock off. Kids would still be fighting over the chance to spend there parent's cash.
My favorite as a kid was low sugar/unsweetened Kool-Aid.
I used to just add about 1/4 cup of sugar to ever 1 cup of water.
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I'm told that there was an original formula for a sports drink that supported electrolyte balance at the university of florida, but that was never released and the very first commercial gatorade was already sugar water.
use the restroom
If you, for one instant, decide Harry Potter is more important than using the restroom I literally don't know what to say to you. We have nothing in common.
You shit your pants cuz adicted to slavery apologia vidya, I shit my pants cuz Freud told me it feels good
We are not the same
Still not get it, tho
I mean this is what the weirdo gamers do, piss in bottles.
I think it's fucking foul
They don't want to leave the game even for a moment
It breaks the immersive state of flow
Slot machine junkies will wear adult diapers to avoid leaving "their" machine for the same reason
In fairness i did learn how to use those weird little plastic urinals for people with penises in the hospital this weekend and being able to pee iin bed while fully reclined is awesome when you just had abdominal surgery.
Back when I had surgery, they just put a catheter in me lol. I had the urinal in case of emergency after they took the catheter out but I never used it.
Generously they could just mean not holding it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fynjlYOUPM
The infantilization of some of these people is tragic. It’s literally how’d you talk to a 10 year old.
there is an entire community on reddit devoted to people being like "yeah i just love drinking water, look at my new bottle i've got for drinking water"
Pretty sure they were well known (back when I used reddit) for despising Nestle and actually brining some awareness to the crimes against humanity perpetrated by Nestle. So that's good at least.
In a world where we face so much suffering and can do so little about it the "remember to drink water" thing is something a lot of people do to show their friends they care about them. Because you actually can drink water and it's almost always a good idea. It's so small, but it's something you can do reliably that will benefit most people.
the extreme grind some of us are going to do
I have never ever understood why people subject themselves to this. If a game is fun then you can lose hours to it, sure, but "grinding" implies that you're doing something tedious and repetitive in order to make your numbers go up for... some reason.
Need to grind through product so I can purchase and consume the next product
Depends on the grind, depends on the game. Like fuck MMO bullshit that makes you pull weeds or some shit for three real-time days so you can make one half of the +1 Sword of Better Stats, but gathering resources for basebuilding in some survival games is downright meditative.
When minecraft first came out I'd disengage from my shitty life situation by getting high on my days off and mining shitloads of cobblestone and then building a bigass castle into a cliff, Petra style.
I guess as long as I'm not just pressing one button over and over i can get into it, like with Minecraft there's a huge exploration element to finding resources and one of my favorite games Elite: Dangerous has three different minigames that you play to mine asteroids before settling into the main loop of hyperspacing around and avoiding pirates.
i had a childhood friend who loved grindy games. i never understood it, between hours of boring, repetitive busy work you got a sliver of challenging gameplay or some semblance of a narrative. he would always try to get me into MMOs but so few werent mind-numbing
For some of us, repetitive tasks can be oddly comforting. In my own case, I think it's a form of ADHD hyperfocus, usually with some longer-term goal or achievement in mind. That said, with games that keep releasing new content that basically erases or nullifies all of that progress by shifting the goalposts (read: nearly all MMOs), it can be pretty frustrating.
thanks for the perspective! yeah, that type of game is probably comforting for a lot of ND ppl. i just need the stim lol
Apparently some people just embrace the skinner box conditioning. They want to be the rat in the cage pushing the lever to get heroin. I think it's bizarre but i've had people just outright say "yes, good" when i tell them they're being manipulated with behavioral conditioning.
giggling, eating my treatsies and kicking my feetsies as i cast Exterminato on the evil scheming untermensch in the terf game :uwu:
I was picturing someone going into cardiac arrest because they've only drank Butter Beer for the past several days until they have a heart attack like those South Koreans in gamer cafes.
Shoveling handfuls of my tonsil stone and goblin cum flavored Harry Potter jelly beans in my mouth
I wouldn't have even known about this game if people on Hexbear weren't talking about it. I'd like to go back to not knowing about it, please.
I only know about it because Rowling is a figure head for uk terfs. The game is irrelevant, it's the publicity Rowling, and there for terfism, is getting that matter.
I've heard of people dropping dead from playing games for days on end. Dying for a Harry Potter game is the most pointless death I can imagine at the moment.
Dying to mine battery components so that someone else can die for the harry blotter game seems worse.
I would agree that it's definitely worse and more unjust. I'm not sure it's more pointless though.
A new Persona release that doesn't result in at least four casualties is generally considered a dull affair.
Wow, seriously? I had no idea dying of gaming was that common :scared:
I only play tabletop games and I didn't watch Gambo, so that totally went over my head, lol.
I only play tabletop games and I didn’t watch Gambo
What the New Sovoiet Citizen was supposed to look like.
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When there's nothing to live for in this world you may as well die in another
It happens but it's extremely rare. Like people will stay up for 72 hours straight and have a stroke, but it happens to a handful of people in the whole world each year.
Listen to your body is the worst possible advice for people like me with hyper awareness anxiety issues and hyochondria going on.
It has nothing to do with this post, I just personally hate the phrase because it just reinforces my brain telling me i'm going to die because i leaned on my arm wrong and I don't usually get a chance to rant about it in such a low stakes convo
There's a special no-sound chamber where if you sit in there it's so quiet you start hearing every single body function and people freak out.
it's like that all the time for me
edit: i might be really good at that chamber because of it though. what do i get if i conquer the chamber
i've been in such chambers and didn't notice hearing any body functions, but it still feels completely off because you get no echos. like, none. in any normal room, you have sound reflections from the walls around you, these things completely eleminate that and it feels as if you're in a spaceless void, it's unsettling af.
But also, imagine going in there when feeling overstimulated. Instant relief
Apparently that's the problem. It's so silent that everything happening in your body becomes distinctly audible. Blood, everything happening in your bowels, every muscle twitch. And people can't stand it after a while.
Even back when I was playing like 16 hours of WoW a day.. or during my 60+ hour binge of Rift in its 2011 launch, I still went to the godamn toilet.
Also, you know, proper food and not candy.
When Brink came out I spent three days at my friend's house, sleeping in a sheet on the filthy hardwood floor in between playing and dabs, one of best bad times I've ever had with a mediocre game
I could thankfully stay at home, my sister also played nearly as much. Fun memories, but not something i'm going to do in my adult life.
This is probably the first time I thought of Brink in over a decade.
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An altruistic Slytherin? I’m going to have to name my planned morally righteous Slytherin character “Joe” in honor of you. Haha.
referring to this infantalization as altruistic and then being surprised because they assigned themselves the Evil house is very funny
me yelling at random people on the streets to drink water and take a shit sometimes: wow im such a good person
the extreme grind
in the game world, does that translate to "the consumers are clamoring for XP boosts which is why we introduced this new microtransaction system out of the goodness of our heart"?
jesus christ no wonder libs are still talking about hillary, they need to be babied around the baby wizard game
If you need this advice for the Harry Potter game I'm not sure you should receive it.
