Energy Drinks

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I started taking taurine powder a couple weeks ago, not for energy though. I mix it into tea and stuff. Now I think I'll try washing down a 200mg caffeine pill with that.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

Do people actually drink G-Fuel? Because the only people I've seen who drink it are the dudes that have 20 flavors of the shit in a G-Fuel branded mini-fridge.
I'm convinced people are paid to drink it.

I drink it whenever I see some cans at Wal-Mart. They're pretty decent tasting and I like the novelty of having video game characters on a can. I always think of Chris whenever I drink the Sonic the Hedgehog one, which can be good to recall some funny, goofy things involving him out of the blue.

 

[thejackal2]

My main complaint is 90% of them have the stupid new artificial sweeteners. Those sweeteners are not good for you, they can wreck your gut health. I guess Americans are so addicted to sugar even people looking for lo cal or zero cal energy drinks must be subjected to it.

 

[Day of the Cope]

My main complaint is 90% of them have the stupid new artificial sweeteners. Those sweeteners are not good for you, they can wreck your gut health. I guess Americans are so addicted to sugar even people looking for lo cal or zero cal energy drinks must be subjected to it.

Most of the studies you see on sweeteners are done to get results. While not about "leaky gut", it's the same general idea. At the end of the day, you'll have to consoom hundreds, if not thousands, of cans of diet drinks to reach the amount they use in these studies. They also only ever focus a single sweetener; notice how they're going after sucralose after years of hammering aspartame.

Also, keep in mind there's a vested interest in companies that produce HFCS and refined sugar to make sure they're the only options available.

 

[planisphere]

I'm pretty hooked on energy drinks. Got into the Cucumber Lime Rockstar Zero a while ago, but I can't find it anymore so I've switched to Bang energy. They taste like artificial hell, but they have even more caffeine... I don't even fucking like caffeine but now I get throbbing headaches without them, so guess I've made my bed.

 

[Pissmaster]

Do people actually drink G-Fuel? Because the only people I've seen who drink it are the dudes that have 20 flavors of the shit in a G-Fuel branded mini-fridge.
I'm convinced people are paid to drink it.

I think they're the only energy drinks Walmart sells that's still just $2 a can. The ones I've had taste pretty good and tend to work. A can now lasts me a couple of days because I don't need like 300mg of caffeine in one sitting.

Too bad they don't make the Pewdiepie one anymore. It was pretty good, a sort of cherry flavor, and gave me the smug satisfaction of drinking something endorsed by a man who says Nigger.

 

[Archeops]

I drink it whenever I see some cans at Wal-Mart. They're pretty decent tasting and I like the novelty of having video game characters on a can. I always think of Chris whenever I drink the Sonic the Hedgehog one, which can be good to recall some funny, goofy things involving him out of the blue.

I haven't had the cans in a while but my local grocery store has some varieties (the only IP-related one they have are the Sonic-themed Peach Rings, they used to have the Spider-Man-themed Radioactive Lemonade flavor but that one seemed to have disappeared when they introduced the Across The Spider-Verse collection). My local Wal-Mart tends to be dry as far as G-Fuel goes but the Targets in my area have multiple flavors (they have the previously-mentioned Peach Rings, a Tetris-themed flavor that tastes a bit like Skittles, and an exclusive Watermelon Limeade flavor).

Two places I've been wanting to check out is GNC and FYE, the first store has a canned sour raspberry candy flavor that's Knuckles-themed and a canned strawberry piña colada flavor while the second one has a soda ice candy flavored powder mix that's Naruto-themed.

I think they're the only energy drinks Walmart sells that's still just $2 a can. The ones I've had taste pretty good and tend to work. A can now lasts me a couple of days because I don't need like 300mg of caffeine in one sitting.

Too bad they don't make the Pewdiepie one anymore. It was pretty good, a sort of cherry flavor, and gave me the smug satisfaction of drinking something endorsed by a man who says Nigger.

The PAC-MAN-themed cans are cherry lollipop flavored so that may be a near match. But if that's not your jam then I'd wait for an eventual retheme, I know they did that for some of their Faze Clan flavors.

 

[Pissmaster]

The PAC-MAN-themed cans are cherry lollipop flavored so that may be a near match. But if that's not your jam then I'd wait for an eventual retheme, I know they did that for some of their Faze Clan flavors.

Try taking a box cutter and slicing off the Pac-Man can label. There's another one under it for some streamer I've never heard of

 

[Deathegg]

An energy drink I don't see people talk about is Ghost most of their flavors taste great especially the candy flavors.

 

[Claude Sigma]

I don't even fucking like caffeine but now I get throbbing headaches without them

Classical side effect of caffeine withdrawal, your brain has adapted to the near constant vasodilatation caused by caffeine and will complain if it's not vasodilated.
To stop you can either slowly tapper with caffeine pills/instant coffee and slowly reduce the amount ingested daily, or take another vasodilatating substance like aspirin and slowly tapper as well. It'll take something like two weeks.
That's the primary reason why I stopped caffeine. I don't like the idea of being dependent on a substance to function.

 

[Mango Cobra]

I like Bang energy specifically their Cotton Candy flavor.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Classical side effect of caffeine withdrawal, your brain has adapted to the near constant vasodilatation caused by caffeine and will complain if it's not vasodilated.
To stop you can either slowly tapper with caffeine pills/instant coffee and slowly reduce the amount ingested daily, or take another vasodilatating substance like aspirin and slowly tapper as well. It'll take something like two weeks.
That's the primary reason why I stopped caffeine. I don't like the idea of being dependent on a substance to function.

Seems like caffeine makes me sleepy in my case dunno why thats the case

 

[Claude Sigma]

Seems like caffeine makes me sleepy in my case dunno why thats the case

It doesn't make you sleepy per se, it mellow you thanks to a mechanism that has to do with dopamine satisfaction in dopamine tolerant individuals.
It's commonly seen in individuals with dopamine tolerance caused by overstimulated lifestyle (screen addicts, mostly), where stimulants (from caffeine to amphetamines) will calm them down instead of stimulate them.
That's because it will not flood you with excess dopamine like it would on a healthy subject, but will barely be able to overcome your tolerance for dopamine and thus satisfy your brain's natural need for dopamine, which calms your edge.

The same way any other substance addict will need to take the substance to feel normal after a while because of tolerance to said substance. It will not really have the same effect it used to have.
In short, your reaction to caffeine indicates that you most likely have an unhealthy lifestyle and should turn off your screens for a while. Go camping.

 

[Spunt]

Seems like caffeine makes me sleepy in my case dunno why thats the case

The autistic nervous system is very sensitive to most drugs and most reactions to them are counter-indicative. Caffeine for instance has a calming effect on autistics rather than being a stimulant as most people appear to experience it to be.

 

[Storm Surge]

I like the novelty of Gamer Supps waifu cups, and they taste good, too. Anything stronger than that just gets me feeling jittery.

 

[Neighborhood Curmudgeon]

I try to keep away from energy drinks and stick to instant coffee. However, there are times where I just need a Red Bull or Monster. To make drinking somewhat less bad, I buy the sugarfree ones.

 

[Archeops]

Try taking a box cutter and slicing off the Pac-Man can label. There's another one under it for some streamer I've never heard of

I'll have to try it out sometime, I know Arizona Iced Tea relabeled some old cans that featured a celebrity whose name I can't remember right now after the promotion they were featured in ended prematurely.

Oh, and as far as G Fuel discontinuing the Pewdiepie flavor is concerned it's still listed on their main site and on Amazon. I also got the flavor comparison wrong, the Pewdiepie flavor is actually lingonberry rather than cherry.

An energy drink I don't see people talk about is Ghost most of their flavors taste great especially the candy flavors.

I see Ghost brought up every now and then, it's similar to G Fuel but they're not as collaboration-heavy (the only two that I know of is a TMNT collab they did a while ago and that FaZe Clan jumped from G Fuel to them).

One energy drink brand I see a lot of but no one discusses is C4.

I've had them in the past and they're okay, you just have to be really careful with it and sip it since chugging it can cause your skin to tingle due the beta-alanine in it.

 

[$80 Nude Haircut]

I wonder why no one has made a banana-flavored energy drink yet. When you do it right that synthetic banana flavor is really tasty. I'm thinking of those little banana shaped hard candies for example.

 

[Archeops]

I wonder why no one has made a banana-flavored energy drink yet. When you do it right that synthetic banana flavor is really tasty. I'm thinking of those little banana shaped hard candies for example.

It's probably because it's way too sweet on its own, you'd hav to mix it with other flavors to balance it out. But let's not forget that the flavor of banana candy is actually pretty close (if not 1-to-1) to real banana, it's just that the variety of banana that the candy is mimicking hasn't been commercially available since the 1950's.

That said I know G Fuel's powder mix has a couple of flavors that have banana in it...

• Strawberry-banana
• Immuno-Fluid (inspired by Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, grape-banana-apple flavor)
• Blinky (inspired by PAC-MAN, strawberry-banana)

 

[TheSaltySpitoon]

I just take three extra-strength NoDoz, creatine, citrulline malate, and beta-alanine with my AG1. None of that fufu tri-berry, bubblegum, or sour watermelon shit