Coffee is a stamina potion with a debuff when it wears off.
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Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 10 months ago
I think coffee is more like a potion that temporarily increases a stat, only for it to cause a bigger decrease once it wears off.
Coffee does not wake you up, it allows you to ignore that you are tired for a short time.
Delphia@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Drusas@kbin.social 10 months ago
And also is a diuretic which causes people to need to poop. Not great for battle.
girl@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
IIRC, diuretics make people pee, not poop. Caffeine stimulates the colon which makes people need to poop, which is unrelated to it being a diuretic. Diuretics can cause constipation because they pull water from the digestive tract.
Drusas@kbin.social 10 months ago
Diuretics make people release fluids. That mostly comes as peeing but can also impact bowel function.
girl@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Yes they do, but not because it is a diuretic. The mechanism that stimulates muscles in the colon is different from the mechanism that pulls water and salt into the kidneys. The way diuretics impact bowel function is actually by taking water from the digestive tract, which does not cause people to need to poop. The muscle stimulation does that.
otter@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
So for both of them, they temporarily let you ignore status effects from a condition, but you still take damage till you either fix the underlying problem (rest) or wait out the repair process (sickness)