EVE General Discussion

Seriously, am I the only one who doesn't drink or use drugs while playing this game, or at least only one of a few?

I drink a bit here and there, but aside from a couple occasions with a small bottle, (the smallest), of Jager and maybe a couple times with a few Scottish Malts or one variety or another of Ale, Stout, Beer, I never really drink when playing. I certainly don't use drugs.

Actually, I almost never drink, and I don't use drugs. Not the intoxicating, inebriating, or 'high' kind anyway.

Half an Aspirin now and again to keep the arteries cleaner, (I'm a smoker and have been for 24-25 years; shameful, disgusting habit and yes, technically a drug), cigarettes, very rarely some form of medication, (last time I went to a doctor was over a year ago, and 4-5 years before that to the previous visit; the last was for a stop-smoking drug that I'm pretty sure was an expensive--$150--placebo), and maybe a full flat of beer in an entire year on average, and sometimes less.

Am I abnormal? Probably, but I don't see the point and I can't reconcile the spending or even the possibility of making it a habit.Also, most of what I've heard of being used, (aside from alcohol), while playing EVE is really quite illegal and generally harmful to the person using it. It also makes them irrational, (could explain a lot), and aggressive or generally speaking anti-social or liberal and uninhibited in social environments.

Really, it all depends on what they're taking, but ultimately, taking whatever results in there not being entirely themselves and quite often makes them people we don't really want to know.

Not me anyway. I can be a bit unconventional, melodramatic, irrational, and such myself, and that's without drugs. If I don't have much appreciation for myself at those times or following them, how do you think I feel about people who not only exceed anything I'm intolerant of in myself, but do so willingly and intentionally.

Okay, not everybody. Maybe even not that many, but they are there and I see it presented often like it is, 'The thing to do' when really it is kind of stupid even at its mildest. Actually, I don't mind myself being unconventional, even if other people do.

So, what's the deal here?

So like, drugs are bad, m'kay?

I don't think that's the drug of choice for many EVE players. Pretty sure it's not actually.

Last time I got drunk I spent 600 mil on useless ****.


I'll do it again...

Everytime I've tried to play this game drunk (twice) I just end up spinning my ship in the hangar and yappin away in a chatroom (everadio and FNA chat respectively). And as far as narcotics go the last thing I think I would wanna be doing if I were stoned is sitting on my ass staring at a screen (unless it's some really trippy mind**** movie of course).

Honestly I find when I'm doing my space thing nothing beats doing it like a proper Picard with a thermos of hot tea.

Alcohol mostly just impairs the reflexes and to one degree or another motor function dependent on intoxication. The rest is primarily a slow reduction in inhibitions as you continue to drink without repercussions. Once you get a reality check, the shame, humiliation, and regret usually kick in. Other than that, it's not so bad, unless you like your liver, and would rather not be likely to end up being a diabetic despite being in--more or less--good form.

Lots of sugar in most alcohol; the exceptions being wine and beer, ale, cider, stout generally.

Well played, sir, well played indeed lol.

Righto captain safety, you know right where its at.

While on drugs I've better things to do like not playing eve.

If ye gonna drink, drink like a scotsman!