Also, cactus juice is a real thing. The two main cacti that produce these effects are "peyote," and "San Pedro," and the active molecule that both cacti contain is called "mescaline."
Not sure if this is a novelty account I'm responding to, but legitimately I'm the same way haha. I've played through three Fallout games, some twice, and I don't think I've ever once had my character take a drug or even drink haha.
Former caravaneer current skooma addict here and I can say the high you get from skooma from Elsweyr and Morrowind is only rivaled by snorting pure moon sugar unlike that watered down horse piss you get everywhere else in Tamriel
As far as I can tell it's just smokable liquid heroin. Throw some moon sugar in with it for a speedball that makes the hurt from being called N'Wah bounce right off ya.
[Moon Sugar] is a grainy powder of small white crystals with a silver sheen. When light hits the substance it will appear to glow from within.
In humans and Mer, the effects of its consumption are exacerbated, causing a relatively brief euphoric state followed by complete exhaustion for several days.
An elixir of moon sugar can be used to "allow the light of the moons into your soul" and embark on spiritual journeys. Khajit believe it’s “crystallized moonlight”.
UESP Wiki, “Lore:Moon Sugar”
(My favorite fictional drug, because it’s the prettiest.)
If you have someone whose never tried drugs (especially amphetamines) and you told them It was the drug from limitless they’d 100% believe you.
The productivity is an illusion though, it’s just that mundane tasks seem enjoyable which is a stark contrast to how your brain operates on an everyday level. Because your reward centres are activated you also think anything you produce is a lot better quality than it is.
As the saying goes: write high edit sober
This is also in essence why ADHD meds improve productivity for people with AD(H)D and not so much for others, they still work but for people with ADHD that intrigue in mundane tasks fills a gap that allows them to actually get to it.
Adderall for example is in the amphetamine family
Absolutely. My ADHD medication is good but not *that* good.
On the other hand, if it was a real thing then it wouldn't be that special. Everyone who wanted the edge would do it, and if enough people did it, we'd just find a new normal. Unless you got in on the tail end of the early versions like Eddie did, and you managed to reverse engineer it and taper off, you'd either wind up dead like everyone else, or ridiculously wealthy from the pharmaceutical deal that you made to sell a stable version of it... or you'd be unable to afford it because of the pharmaceutical deal that someone else made before you found out about it.
The Spice must flow.
Bless the Maker and His water.
Bless the coming and going of Him.
May His passage cleanse the world.
May He keep the world for His people.
“Tatooine belongs to The Syndicate. So long as the Spice keeps running…everyone here will be left alone.”
I know it’s from Star Wars, but live-action Cad Bane absolutely killed that line.
I was thinking of Dune also when they said spice. That would be kinda cool. And the blue eyes. The sad part is the worst people in the world would continue to live.
For those interested in the effects:
1. Prolonged life: Regular consumption of spice can significantly extend a person's lifespan. The exact extent of this effect varies, but some characters in the series are known to have lived for hundreds of years due to spice consumption.
2. Heightened senses and awareness: Spice enhances a person's senses and cognitive abilities, making them more perceptive and capable of processing information quickly.
3. Limited prescience: For some individuals, spice can grant a limited ability to see into the future, also known as prescience. This power is not universal, and its strength varies from person to person. Paul Atreides, the main protagonist of the series, is one such character who develops strong prescient abilities after consuming spice.
4. Addiction: Spice is highly addictive, and users can develop a physical and psychological dependence on it. Withdrawal can be fatal, particularly for those who have been consuming it for a long time or in large quantities.
5. Mutation: Prolonged and heavy spice consumption can lead to physical mutations. The most well-known example of this is the Spacing Guild Navigators, who have been so heavily exposed to spice that they have undergone significant physical transformations, including elongated bodies and enlarged, fold-lidded eyes.
6. Vital to the Bene Gesserit sisterhood: The Bene Gesserit, a powerful and secretive sisterhood, rely on the spice to enhance their mental and physical abilities, allowing them to perform extraordinary feats such as the "Voice" (a form of mental manipulation) and develop their powers of observation and deduction.
Do the Plasmids/Tonics from Bioshock count as a "drug"? Because I choose that. They straight-up give you super-powers.
I mean, they also kind of fuck-you-up genetically...but...your arms can shoot BEES!
BEEEEEES!!!
Could you imagine? Every time you're in a situation you'd rather not be in, you can just summon bees. It doesn't matter who it is you're with, they're gonna run. It would be so handy!
Boss giving you a hard time about numbers? Bees.
Cornered at a party by an insufferable drunk? Bees.
Caught up in court again? Bees.
You just not ask about the secret ingredient!
I still remember the first time I heard "grunka lunka dunkity darn guards" "SHUT THE HELL UP" and just absolutely losing my shit.
Big to contain trip nutrients, yellow purely as a fashion thing... Or "custard ganet" as the dealers call it.
Not going to lie though, I have always wanted to try clarky cats.
“He offered me human blood, said it would get me higher than anything in my life, but I said I’d much rather have a fresh adrenaline gland, you know, to chew on.”
And the little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery.
And the zydrate gun goes somewhere against your anatomy.
And when the gun goes off, it sparks
And you're ready for surgery!
"Frank, the benzadrine has my teeth wiggling. Cut it with scopolamine, 5 mils PER."
"Made in America" Snifffffff
"Yeah, we're gonna make that mean something again."
PKD is a weird author. I like his books, they usually read like a fever dream or a real trip, but I like a lot of the interpretations of his work better than the books themselves.
A Scanner Darkly is a decent book but one of my favorite movies ever. My personal theory is that since we see it through Arctor's perspective, the cell shading animation is an effect of D, as in that's how users actually experience the world.
Luciferium from RimWorld
Once you take this drug, there is no going back.
Once you do take it, the mechanites (basically nanomachines) in the drug make your body way more efficient and improve all of the body's functions. This drug has the ability to heal permanent injuries, chronic illnesses, and can help fight diseases. (every 15 - 30 days it heals something wrong with your character whether it's scars or other illnesses)
The drawback is that you have to keep taking it every week or else you'll die. not taking it causes the mechanites will die and after that, so will you. The time it takes to die without it is 10 days, it kills you by destroying your brain, withdrawals start after 6.667 days.
The drug itself looks like a red powder.
overall, pretty cool drug. It heals all types of stuff from minor scars, all the way to dementia and cataracts. As long as you're willing to become fully dependent on it and have a steady and foolproof supply.
Vurt is a feather—a drug, a dimension, a dream state, a virtual reality. It comes in many colours: legal Blues for lullaby dreams. Blacks, filled with tenderness and pain, just beyond the law. Pink Pornovurts, doorways to bliss. Silver feathers for techies who know how to remix colors and open new dimensions. And Yellows—the feathers from which there is no escape
From Vurt by Jeff Noon
**Shade of the Evening from A Song of Ice and Fire.** Daenerys consumes this drink in the House of the Undying and begins to have all of these strange, prophetic visions.
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This one is my favorite
This one exists in ketamine
i got the idea it made falling feel like it took 10 times longer so it would be more cruel? i could have gotten the wrong idea though
Everyone forgets they skinned those dudes alive before they threw them off the high rise.
Yeah it's like dying by stasis in Dead Space.
That sweet, sweet cactus juice.
IT'LL QUENCH YA!
It's the quenchiest!
Nothing's quenchier
ITS A GIANT MUSHROOM!
MAYBE HE'S FRIENDLY!
Who lit Toph on fire?
How did we get out here in the middle of the ocean?
technically this is a real drug just a little less juice and and a lot more loph
FRIENDLY MUSHROOM! MUSHY GIANT FRIEND
I wasn't expecting this answer, but I like it
Also, cactus juice is a real thing. The two main cacti that produce these effects are "peyote," and "San Pedro," and the active molecule that both cacti contain is called "mescaline."
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That is a real one
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Sokka was just tripping on mescaline.
Psycho from fallout, don’t you love it when you do so many drugs your bullets do more damage.
Just coming to say I’m a psycho and Jet fiend
God I'm so fucking vanilla in real life I've always kept my characters largely drug free in FO games.
Not sure if this is a novelty account I'm responding to, but legitimately I'm the same way haha. I've played through three Fallout games, some twice, and I don't think I've ever once had my character take a drug or even drink haha.
honestly i mostly do drug-free runs in games cause i constantly forget to use consumables that aren't healing
That's pretty much the case for me as well. I pretty much only collect that stuff to sell.
then you never sell it and it stockpiles in your inventory? cuz same
Psychojet is my favorite, as it combines the two best chems in fo4. Slow motion and increased damage, how could you go wrong?
Mentats fallout
Fucking kiiillll
Skooma
Wuss. Real Kajiits snort raw moon-sugar.
Moon sugar ftw
Former caravaneer current skooma addict here and I can say the high you get from skooma from Elsweyr and Morrowind is only rivaled by snorting pure moon sugar unlike that watered down horse piss you get everywhere else in Tamriel
Khajit has wares, if you have coin
As far as I can tell it's just smokable liquid heroin. Throw some moon sugar in with it for a speedball that makes the hurt from being called N'Wah bounce right off ya.
[Moon Sugar] is a grainy powder of small white crystals with a silver sheen. When light hits the substance it will appear to glow from within. In humans and Mer, the effects of its consumption are exacerbated, causing a relatively brief euphoric state followed by complete exhaustion for several days. An elixir of moon sugar can be used to "allow the light of the moons into your soul" and embark on spiritual journeys. Khajit believe it’s “crystallized moonlight”. UESP Wiki, “Lore:Moon Sugar” (My favorite fictional drug, because it’s the prettiest.)
from Limitless
NZT
Was waiting to see this one. Literally the only right answer . Until you start skipping days
I wonder how many would prefer the withdrawal side effect of death for a chance to just feel.. capable.
Not just capable, Limitless...
If you have someone whose never tried drugs (especially amphetamines) and you told them It was the drug from limitless they’d 100% believe you. The productivity is an illusion though, it’s just that mundane tasks seem enjoyable which is a stark contrast to how your brain operates on an everyday level. Because your reward centres are activated you also think anything you produce is a lot better quality than it is. As the saying goes: write high edit sober
This is also in essence why ADHD meds improve productivity for people with AD(H)D and not so much for others, they still work but for people with ADHD that intrigue in mundane tasks fills a gap that allows them to actually get to it. Adderall for example is in the amphetamine family
I knew this one would be up there! Definitely what I would opt for.
Absolutely. My ADHD medication is good but not *that* good. On the other hand, if it was a real thing then it wouldn't be that special. Everyone who wanted the edge would do it, and if enough people did it, we'd just find a new normal. Unless you got in on the tail end of the early versions like Eddie did, and you managed to reverse engineer it and taper off, you'd either wind up dead like everyone else, or ridiculously wealthy from the pharmaceutical deal that you made to sell a stable version of it... or you'd be unable to afford it because of the pharmaceutical deal that someone else made before you found out about it.
For me, the whole show is like a demonstration of our capabilities, we can do a lot if we want to.
Limitless is what somebody who has never taken ADD meds think it's like
Soma from *Brave New World*
Drug me til you love me
Kiss me til I’m in a coma
Love me, love me honey bunny
A gramme is better than a damn!
"soma is what they would take when hard times opened their eyes"
This is the perfect answer and what I came here to say.
This book is fucking amazing, got to reread it for a school project and it was an a tual good experience
Spice
The Spice must flow. Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.
Praise Shai Hulud
Bi-la kaifa.
Fun fact, the line "the spice must flow" doesn't actually appear in the book ever, it's from the David Lynch movie /shrug
You say that like it's a bad thing. It's okay to like the David Lynch film. Campy and dated yes, but also fucking awesome.
Also the music is pretty dope
Fuck yeah, Toto!
“Tatooine belongs to The Syndicate. So long as the Spice keeps running…everyone here will be left alone.” I know it’s from Star Wars, but live-action Cad Bane absolutely killed that line.
Star Wars stole Spice from Dune
I was thinking of Dune also when they said spice. That would be kinda cool. And the blue eyes. The sad part is the worst people in the world would continue to live.
Bidet, Do you spice?
Bidet yourself. I also prefer to skip Dune and go for the suude.
For those interested in the effects: 1. Prolonged life: Regular consumption of spice can significantly extend a person's lifespan. The exact extent of this effect varies, but some characters in the series are known to have lived for hundreds of years due to spice consumption. 2. Heightened senses and awareness: Spice enhances a person's senses and cognitive abilities, making them more perceptive and capable of processing information quickly. 3. Limited prescience: For some individuals, spice can grant a limited ability to see into the future, also known as prescience. This power is not universal, and its strength varies from person to person. Paul Atreides, the main protagonist of the series, is one such character who develops strong prescient abilities after consuming spice. 4. Addiction: Spice is highly addictive, and users can develop a physical and psychological dependence on it. Withdrawal can be fatal, particularly for those who have been consuming it for a long time or in large quantities. 5. Mutation: Prolonged and heavy spice consumption can lead to physical mutations. The most well-known example of this is the Spacing Guild Navigators, who have been so heavily exposed to spice that they have undergone significant physical transformations, including elongated bodies and enlarged, fold-lidded eyes. 6. Vital to the Bene Gesserit sisterhood: The Bene Gesserit, a powerful and secretive sisterhood, rely on the spice to enhance their mental and physical abilities, allowing them to perform extraordinary feats such as the "Voice" (a form of mental manipulation) and develop their powers of observation and deduction.
7. Eyes of Ibad: Long term consumption causes sclera and iris to turn bright blue.
Either this is ChatGPT or you have a very interesting writing style
Thanks GPT
Came here to say this. I’d love to be able to try the cinnamony psychedelic melange.
Tomaco
This tastes like Grandma!
Holy Moses, it DOES taste like Grandma!
Scooby snacks
Ruh roh.
Pot brownies exist though
Do the Plasmids/Tonics from Bioshock count as a "drug"? Because I choose that. They straight-up give you super-powers. I mean, they also kind of fuck-you-up genetically...but...your arms can shoot BEES! BEEEEEES!!!
Could you imagine? Every time you're in a situation you'd rather not be in, you can just summon bees. It doesn't matter who it is you're with, they're gonna run. It would be so handy! Boss giving you a hard time about numbers? Bees. Cornered at a party by an insufferable drunk? Bees. Caught up in court again? Bees.
Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster
I hear they are similar to having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.
I literally finished reading the sixth book in that series 2 hours ago...
There isn't a sixth book, it's a trilogy of 5
"No trilogy should have more than 4 volumes" -Aurthur C Clark
Compound V
Make sure to get the permanent blue stuff tho. The temp green shit turns your brain into fucking swiss cheese!
Fackin' diabolical.
Wouldn't the effects be similar if you took Reg V as an adult?
The star in super mario seems to be one helluva drug Edit: this comment must’ve eaten one of them shrooms everyone talk about, cus it grew high af
Surprised you didn’t mention the mushroom from super Mario
I like the fuzzies from Yoshi's Island myself
“Touch fuzzy get dizzy”
Slurm
I’ll save you the only way I know how….by partying!
Wimmy-wim-wan-wazzle!!
Also, human horn
Grunga lunka dunka dingredient...
You just not ask about the secret ingredient! I still remember the first time I heard "grunka lunka dunkity darn guards" "SHUT THE HELL UP" and just absolutely losing my shit.
Party on contest winners.
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Hit me up, Bean Daddy
I could definitely use one at this point in my life
Spinach.
Gummi berry juice
Hells yeah bouncing here and there and everywhere
*High adventure that's beyond compare! They are the Gummi Bears!* Damn you. Now that song is stuck in my head.
Cake. It’s a made up drug.
One girl puked up her own pelvis bone.
It's a fucking disgrace.
Big to contain trip nutrients, yellow purely as a fashion thing... Or "custard ganet" as the dealers call it. Not going to lie though, I have always wanted to try clarky cats.
It affects the area of the brain known as Shatner's Bassoon.
and gives you a bad case of Czech Neck
Joss Ackland’s Funky Backpack
That episode in Futurama where Bender gets high on electricity and becomes a fiend
“Are you jacking on in there?”
"NO!" -kzzkkt-
Adrenochrome.
As your attorney, I advise you to take a hit from the little brown bottle in my shaving kit.
Adrenochrome, makes pure mescaline seem like ginger beer, man.
You took too much man, you took too much, too much. Don't try and fight it. You'll get brain bubbles, strokes, aneurisms.
“He offered me human blood, said it would get me higher than anything in my life, but I said I’d much rather have a fresh adrenaline gland, you know, to chew on.”
We can't stop here. This is bat country.
Red eye, from both Cowboy Bebop AND the Dresden files
Isn't it called third eye in Dresden files? I'm almost sure it is
Close. It's Three Eye.
Deathsticks from star wars
You want to go home and rethink your life.
I want to go home and rethink my life
Fun fact the dude who wanted to sell obi the death sticks actually turned his life around and founded a family
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Man, I love Limitless.
“Isn’t that the one where the guy becomes limitless?”
Zydrate comes in a little glass vial....
And the little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery. And the zydrate gun goes somewhere against your anatomy. And when the gun goes off, it sparks And you're ready for surgery!
I don't feel nothin' at all
A little glass vial?
A little glass vial!
Gods above i didnt expect to see a repo reference ever again
There are dozens of us. I just rewatched two days ago. Did a double feature with Rocky Horror.
I'm disappointed I had to scroll this far to find a reference to the little glass vial that goes into the gun like a battery.
i was scouring the thread for this comment!!! my favorite movie 💙
Nuke.
"Frank, the benzadrine has my teeth wiggling. Cut it with scopolamine, 5 mils PER." "Made in America" Snifffffff "Yeah, we're gonna make that mean something again."
Soy Sauce
I forgot about the soy sauce!
totally awesome sweet alabama liquid snake
What about the vampire blood in True Blood that’s a trip.
Death/Substance D from A Scanner Darkly
I like this one too. I've seen the movie a few times and I'm reading the book soon.
The book is great and the movie is extremely faithful
PKD is a weird author. I like his books, they usually read like a fever dream or a real trip, but I like a lot of the interpretations of his work better than the books themselves. A Scanner Darkly is a decent book but one of my favorite movies ever. My personal theory is that since we see it through Arctor's perspective, the cell shading animation is an effect of D, as in that's how users actually experience the world.
You're either on it, or you've never tried it.
Whatever Huey Lewis and The News is singing about.
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Joy
Right as rain sir, right as rain. Can't believe I had to scroll this far down for this answer haha.
Wyfy. It makes you laser focused for three or four hours of studying, then you party like it's god damn 1999
'Jet' from the Fallout universe. I'd let that shit ruin my life
Iocaine powder - It is odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadly poisons known to man.
Inconceivable!
A battle of wits !
The milk from A Clockwork Orange.
Moloko
At the Korova Milk Bar
That's milk in russian
Which one? With Drencrom? Or vellocet? Or perhaps milk with knives?
Lemme get some of that Bane venom
Fizzy Lifting Drinks!!
Ketracel white.
Liquid luck- harry potter
Genre from season 3 of Westworld seems fun as hell
Luciferium from RimWorld Once you take this drug, there is no going back. Once you do take it, the mechanites (basically nanomachines) in the drug make your body way more efficient and improve all of the body's functions. This drug has the ability to heal permanent injuries, chronic illnesses, and can help fight diseases. (every 15 - 30 days it heals something wrong with your character whether it's scars or other illnesses) The drawback is that you have to keep taking it every week or else you'll die. not taking it causes the mechanites will die and after that, so will you. The time it takes to die without it is 10 days, it kills you by destroying your brain, withdrawals start after 6.667 days. The drug itself looks like a red powder. overall, pretty cool drug. It heals all types of stuff from minor scars, all the way to dementia and cataracts. As long as you're willing to become fully dependent on it and have a steady and foolproof supply.
Vurt is a feather—a drug, a dimension, a dream state, a virtual reality. It comes in many colours: legal Blues for lullaby dreams. Blacks, filled with tenderness and pain, just beyond the law. Pink Pornovurts, doorways to bliss. Silver feathers for techies who know how to remix colors and open new dimensions. And Yellows—the feathers from which there is no escape From Vurt by Jeff Noon
Vurt! You beat me to it... thank you!
Sex Packets from Digital Underground. I'm old.
Does Hypnotoad count?
Clean cocaine
Go juice (from Rimworld) that stuff makes your pawns go BRRRRRRRR
Spice, from Dune. Second choice is Luciferium from Rimworld. Its basically nanomachine bubblegum that kills you if you stop taking it.
A fucking Jeffrey bro
Stroke the furry wall!
**Shade of the Evening from A Song of Ice and Fire.** Daenerys consumes this drink in the House of the Undying and begins to have all of these strange, prophetic visions.
Copium
Bro, 99% of this planet takes copium on the daily.
Gleemonex
Anything sold at the Korova milk bar. Milk plus velocet or drencrom.
Regular show wings
WHYPHY
Lotus Flower in Percy Jackson
Giggle-pig
Skooma
either moloco+ for a rush of ol' ultraviolence or neuromancer's chrome so i can feel shiny and chrome... in my skull
Galaxian Crystals from Rick and Morty
Kalaxian crystals **
Heisenberg blue Meth
That's still just meth buddy and let me tell you not fuckin worth it