How indeed. -laughs- Good luck to you with that one.

Just having a think about coffee as a means of keeping tiredness at bay, and as there are some aficionados here it seems silly to pass up the opportunity to get the lowdown on getting that all important caffeine high.

Sleep, as you may have surmised, is clubbing me on the back of the head like a friendly tyrannosaur, so, what are the merits of one type over the other, drinkers? Tell this novice where its at...

Too many types to know where to start. My all time favorite is Caribou Coffee's "Reindeer Blend". Very dark, very smooth, very potent.
General recommendation, just make it strong and have a lot. ;)

The beverage that you call coffe I call loathsome concoction from the lowest pits of hell. Every time it hits my taste buds it is expelled explosively from my mouth in a reflex action my body performs in order to safeguard my tongue from being dissolved by the revolting flavour.

I much prefer tea.

Barring that needles under the fingernails are a guaranteed method of staying awake. There is also the possibility of making a pact with some of the entities that dwell within the warp. Like most chaos cultists will tell you, sanity (and sleep) are for the weak.

It brings a tear to my eye that you can never be as cool as this guy. :(

Going to leave you with Don for this one. He'll undoubtedly possess more knowledge than I would.

This is what I know of coffee -

Drink a lot, stay awake.
Forget additives. If you're drinking a lot, you'll neither need nor want to adjust flavor. It's all about quantity.
If your hands start shaking, that's generally a good sign.
If your chest starts hurting, that's generally NOT a good sign.
Medium roast is better for avoiding heartburn.
Less heartburn makes it easier for you to drink gallons at a time.
Drinking gallons at a time WILL make your chest hurt.

Why is the picture of Max drinking tea out of a delicate porcelain with two fingers so funny to me? ;)

Juxtaposition of utterly mundane activity and the thought of it being performed by something absurd by its very nature?

(Or....you know....it's all just goofy in general? =) )

Truly, it shall be a titanic task.

Dating sims are a much underrated and overlooked genre of video games that doesn't get anywhere near enough love in this hemisphere.

Microsoft, when are you going to produce a Halo dating sim? Arbiter-kun is so dreamy, I want to be able to romance him, sweetly!

And once I've seduced him I am going to

Embrace it, let it flow through you, welcome to the asylum. We have the best cookies.

The only downside is a party-pooper, no-fun-allowed, cloaked bat-themed vigilante, but I'm working on removing that pest.

It wouldn't be a sale tracking thread if I didn't leave this here

Whatcha gonna do with all that junk, all that junk inside that trunk?

I'm going to surprise you and say Frappé coffee - sugar is optimal, as is milk. I take mine black with two teaspoons of coffee.


EDIT: The special characters mess up the link, so what donsanderson said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frapp%C3%A9_coffee

Fixed link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frapp%C3%A9_coffee

Its bed time for this gamer, folks. Thanks for another highly enjoyable day, and looking forward to the same again in a scant few hours.

Sleep well, all. ;-)

Night snowy viking, sleep well. ;)