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I'd say "drugs" in this context are more strongly directed toward psychoactive or hallucinatory stuff than anything else. There's a difference between recreational and medical drugs... or drug usage, at least. Abuse is abuse regardless of the intended usage of the material, though. Still, there's a difference between drug use for pleasure and other sorts.

As for me, I just don't like being around anyone that's on anything that fucks with behavior, especially if I've known them when they're not under the effects. To wit,

No joke, and it's been a bit of a stumbling block with trying to get into my major, but being around people who are drunk or while they're becoming drunk is incredibly unsettling to me. Y'have no goddamn idea, makes my entire neural schema start to flip out. Even tipsy is something I have trouble wanting to stay anywhere near. Same for any behavior effecting drug, as well as cognitive degeneration due to disease or age. It's like... just a little buzzed? "No," goes Frumple's mind, "Person, you have just fucking poisoned yourself and now I'm watching you lose cognitive capability and control, flat out the most fundamental aspect of what makes you, you. This is existential horror writ libation, and now, self, I am going to gibber and suggest you claw at the walls and escape."

Not just alcohol, as noted. Heavy behavioral shifts due to willfully ingested chemicals makes huge parts of my psych start to flip the fuck out. Now, when they're not under the effects I don't really give a shit, but when they are...

And yeah, I indulge in caffeine occasionally, though I've been steadily reducing intake. Last time I took painkillers was... while passing a kidney stone? Yeah, think that was it. I'm really cautious with their use because they've almost killed me once or twice. Doc gave standard dosage, turns out I was sensitive enough it almost flatlined my blood pressure (and me). I seriously don't put antibiotics in the same category as anything that really fits into recreational categories, though. But recreational, psychoactive, hallucinogenic? No mas. The closest I've came was a couple of attempts at (prescribed, taken specifically as directions dictated.) antidepressants when I was younger, and both of those fucked me up so bad I'm now utterly terrified of having another try at it.

Would say it's safe to say someone that doesn't want to interact with people that willfully and regularly poison themselves for kicks isn't quite what I'd call an asshole move, though. Some people can deal with the sorts of personalities that do that, some can't. Wanting to avoid that interaction is a mostly neutral thing, I'd say.

Bigger problem is actually finding a restaurant that can cook better than you can... especially at anything resembling an equal price. Don't get me wrong, lot of joints cook pretty decently, but I've yet to patronize a restaurant that can match even a amateur cook on a stove or grill at home. Cooking is... not a difficult task. The places that come close, you can expect a doubling or trebling of the meal cost if you did it yourself

If you don't need the place for neutral ground, better to cook for yourself. Maybe a picnic if you don't want to eat at home. Picnics are good for neutral ground too, if the area you're in has anywhere good for stuff like that.

They have been!

I keep missing them

They do look fun, though. Sorta'. Full on team fights confuse me, still, heh. Obvious answer being level up whatever's AoE and spam that, huhuhu. I can't help but think gragas does horrible things to the other team on proving grounds

If the future becomes a huge telepathic inter-species alien robot orgy, then I'll stick to being a senile old man who still plays Dwarf Fortress.

You misunderstand post-singularity! In that future, there's no need to choose between those two. You can be an orgy-jiji who plays Dwarf Fortress as you roll six species-changing extraterrestrial sexbots in like, seven different physical locations. At the same time.

Computer enhanced personal multitasking and semi-autonomous consciousness recepticles is going to be great.

It was probably the geek bit that makes folks react poorly.

Anyway, most of the computer frequenting glasses needing folks I know needed glasses long before they habituated any degree of computer use. I also know plenty of folks who are regular computer users that don't need them, and plenty of folks that aren't and do. If there's an actual causitive connection, I'd be pretty doubtful it's any greater than that between TV and poor eyesight -- regardless, it's definitely quite weak.

I will say that folks with weak eyes tend to use contacts if they're more socially active. There's not any meaningful correlation between social activity and computer habituation either, but folks who are do tend, from what I've seen, to downplay that habit. So it's easier to get a confirmation bias when a lot of folks who would otherwise be wearing glasses are wearing contacts.

Soooooossss... we could hug the outside of your digestive tract? You're okay with spontaneous open air surgery with intent to cuddle your lower intestine?

... thinking on it, that's a strange question to ask. Eh.

Science rules.

My mind is blown.  There's nothing else I can say.

Can't actually see the site (because news sites are invariably shittily coded pieces of shit that crash iPad safari), but the title alone sounds bloody awesome.

Now. When does it become commercially viable and able to be stuck into my computer? Also, transfer speed, degradation rate/life span, so on? What's the stats above and beyond massive storage, basically.

... surrendering like Napoleon? That, uh. Gannondorf is a walking Waterloo? Or just the... crap. Pig dudes. Moblins, there we go. Moblins are ambulatory waterloos for hyrulian soldiers.