Waitaminute.
#Stimpacks are fictional?
I thought they were some real medical thing, but turns out that they only appear in science fiction videogames. So what are stimpacks and who came up with them and why the name?
Annoyingly, Wikipedia lists StarCraft as the origin of stimpacks, which can't be right because that's 1998 and Doom in 1993 had stimpacks.
Let's go edit that and see what happens...
The Doom Bible, which was an old design document for Doom, calls them "Stim-Packs" and describes them as giving a small boost to health until you can get actual help.
This must be the origin?
I keep getting into these quests to find cultural origins of things. Like how the record-scratch/freeze-frame meme came from, which everyone thinks actually happened in some movie but never did, or that #filmnoir scene I was looking for with voiceover in the PI's office with The Dame.
@JordiGH eh; this case is different because they are two opposite concepts that happen to share the same name
@technomancy Nah, pretty sure they're both about stimulants.