Alcohol is to life what cheat codes are to video games. You play for a while without using a cheat code and become pretty good, but then your friends start telling you about this great code. It can make the game way better! You try it and the game becomes much easier, perhaps even more enjoyable because you can blast those enemies or race past the leader. Of course, if you cheat too much in a short period of time, you’ll beat the game and feel pretty good, but the next morning you’ll wake up and feel terrible because that defeated the purpose of playing the game in the first place.
You probably know some people who cheat all the time. They just suck terribly if they don’t, so they have to cheat, as if addicted. They probably make all kinds of excuses and might even hate you for never/rarely cheating. But you can see that they have no coordination, because they’re always cheating. You don’t have to be very good at a video game if you never have to worry about being hurt.
Then there are the people who never cheat. They’re probably quite good at video games, but they have never felt the joy that the occasional cheat code can bring. I mean, sometimes you just have horrible days and you have to put in a good cheat code, lie on the couch, and beat the crap out of your enemies.
I don’t know, man. I could cheat constantly in Jedi Academy and never wake up feeling horrible. God mode, unlimited force power, and the NPC cheat to spawn a posse of Luke Skywalkers. Pwned.
Hmm… I thought alcohol was more like an expansion pack to the game of life!
Pig Monkey, it sounds like you have a very strong… immune system. Or a latent desire to be a mass murderer. If the latter is true, let me know, because I can give you a good list of test targets (though you could probably just start with politicians).
Saxis, expansion packs always seemed to just be cheap rehashing, and (avoiding the obvious marijuana joke) I’m not sure what a good analogy would be there. Perhaps hallucinogens are more like expansion packs? My first-hand experience ends with alcohol though, so I’m not sure how far you could carry that analogy.