Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2475606" data-attributes="member: 14159">I drink rarely.  I have at most one or two drinks a month, and then only with a meal or with somebody else.  People say I'm a happy, funny drunk when I've had a margarita or a rum & coke or two, and if I've had a rough day it does help relax, but I don't like to lose control of my body or be reliant on an outside substance for an emotional state, so I sharply limit my alcohol intake.Now, I wouldn't say that gamers don't drink though.  Admittedly, most of the gamers I know are college students (or college dropouts), and from a game I'm in on Wed. night we've got one player who comes straight from a bar every night, and one who has dropped out of the game because he's always at that same bar getting drunk (and everybody pretty much knows he's an alcoholic), so as cautious as I am around alcohol, I know people who imbibe with reckless abandon.</blockquote>