What alcohol do you drink while gaming?

>>717811630 (OP)
Generally ipa, japanese lager, or malt liquor. Usually in a 22oz can

i just drink gasoline

Water

>>717811630 (OP)
Whisky, mirabelle plum, hazelnut liqueur, Vodka mainly

>engages in activity that requires reaction speed
>consumes cns depressant that slows reaction speed
why?

Usually whatever's cheapest while highest % from the gas station. Those flavored steel reserves are fairly tasty, but I really love me those boozy monsters. Taste like the normal monster at, like, 8% or whatever.
When I was younger(which is the only reason I survived it), I'd take my hydro and xannieberries with brandy.

>>717812313
Believe it or not, it actually helps me play RTS better. My best plays ever were when I had a good buzz going. I just start going off reflex instead of overthinking things as much as much.
My brain is so turbocharged that I need to dampen it.

>>717811630 (OP)
>jack daniels
I'd rather drink washing detergent.

>>717812313
>that requires reaction speed
I almost exclusively play turn-based games.

>>717811630 (OP)
7 and 7s, hasnt failed me yet during a good time gaman or watchan

>>717812313
To sandbag against my friend he sucks at fgs, and also because ffxiv is piss easy. Those are the main reasons

I recently tried my hand at distilling. Currently drinking some not bad brandy that I made from boxed wine lel

>>717811630 (OP)
Bros. I need some well wishes. Been daily drinker for 2 years. Used to get blackout drunk but have toned it down to a buzz during work. Last night i drunk a bottle of jack daniels. Felt a cough coming and let out a unrestrained cough and this caused a pain in my liver like someone punched me, well in the liver. I could hardly keep my posture from doubling over. I got in bed and had to be very delibrate with my movements otherwise it felt like the pain was too unbearable. Still in pain after a day. Hope i didnt fuck myself up permanently.

Fuck god damnit I hate sobriety, makes me want to blow my fucking brain out. Haven't drank in 16 months. Enjoy the sips frens. Drink deeply.

>>717814476
Hernia

cheapest white wine I can find usually, this weekend I wanted some more quality and bought a 3 liter box of red wine for 40€

>>717814610
>>717814610
Hope not. Feel like i felt some discomfort in my liver area a week ago and i did notice it but drank anyway. And it wasnt really a issue till i over did it with the alcohol. I dont notice any bulges like in a hernia. I cant afford a surgery

I hope you all drink yourselves to death you disgusting worthless booze hounds. Total death to alcoholics and the alcohol industry. nigger.

>>717814859
Don't freak out. If you're really worried you can go to detox and they'll get you off the booze if you're afraid of the DTs. If you're not worried about withdrawel then slow up, portion your drinks down to nothing and take a break. Ain't that complicated dude. If your liver was actually fucked then you'd be dealing with other symptoms.

>>717814495
What is the cause for your sobriety? health reasons?

>>717815057
This all started cuz i took a nofap for 2 months. Got drunk one night a came my balls off after so long +buzz euphoria. Been chasing that dragon ever since. A nofap fucked my brain up

Red wine, rum or whiskey/bourbon

>>717814476
I have the same liver pain except it's burning because of heartburn being released. I always get it when i become way too out of shape, and when I am in that state I tend to get the flare ups alcohol allergy where your skin gets all red and you can't breathe for shit. I get this way after orgasming. The only cure I found is lots of water, heartburn pills and building back your cardio and fitness with exercise and heavy breathing.

>>717815048
Sounds like you've got some deep truma mixed in with your personal biases.

>>717815134
Dopamine is bodily currency, and fapping spends it all away. You should use that dopamine to enjoy shit like videogames drinking driivng so on. That's why life is dry and youre all fucked up after doing it, you spent all of your feel good hormones on some orgasms. Think of dopamine like currency for enjoying life and fapping makes you bankrupt of it

rum

>>717811630 (OP)
Damn havent drank any whiskey in 2 years only beer I am so fucking excited. Getting my licence back in 2 weeks I cant fucking wait it's gonna be awesome. Life is good when drunk

>>717811630 (OP)
>Here's carbonated wheat juice, it's extremely bitter and going to make you feel bloated
>Here's distilled whatever, it burns down your throat and tastes like rubbing alcohol
I don't understand alcohol drinkers desu

Am I missing out as a non-drinker

>>717815440
Is that really 57%? insant liver spots on my shit if I drank that.

>>717815538
>only 57%

Recently I have been getting drunk and playing Death Stranding 2. I love delivering peoples packages, repairing roads and donating goods for people to use. It's pretty rewarding.
>>717811681
I love Fireball, but it hits you hard since you can drink it so fast.

>>717815528
yes but then you could be a person who can't stop once they started like having 10 drinks a day
I've had enough after 2 glasses of red wine

>>717815528
no no you’re not. Now get out of the thread because you’re asking to get groomed into their drunken stupor cult.

>>717815584
NTA but this one is surprisingly tasty. As in, it actually has a taste. Most drinks I tried with this high alcohol concentration are just bland as hell.

>>717815129
Nah, I got shit to do.

>>717815781
yeah, I usually stick to the 60% one for rum&coke

>>717812313
i get better at fps with some alcohol. i have genuine anxiety so that might be it. my reaction speed works just fine, i end up pulling off really cool shit without thinking about it until long afterwards. its ultra instinct mode. i don't get piss drunk or anything, but i look back after the night is over to much better stats and winrate than i'd get usually.

>>717811630 (OP)
I don't drink alcohol.

>>717815319
its game time
get drunk
enjoy game for 30mins
get horny and fap myself into a coma,
day wasted

i like shiraz and screwdrivers.

flavored vodka

>>717812642
go find a fucking job loser lol

>>717815528
Maybe.
It's a matter of subjective taste and it varies from drink to drink. You may try beer and you may not like it, then try rum and you'll love it.
I personally like to drink, mostly its reserved for friend get togethers, workplace events with colleagues or at family reunions.
Outside of that I sometimes also drink a bit alone, like once every 2-3 weeks.
A glass of wine for reading a good book, a little whiskey for playing vidya, that kind of thing.

For western societies, alcohol is an enhancer. It enhances an already good mood to an ever better one.
For far eastern societies -especially japan-, alcohol is an enabler.
It is almost required when you want to actually connect with people because of plausible deniability when you say something that may offend someone else.
That is to say that you drink in moderation as going overboard no longer works as an enhancer or an enabler but just some liquid drug that dampens whatever sad emotion you don't want to feel. As long as you avoid that, you generally don't have to worry about the problems.

>>717815523
Just a fact, if alcoholic drinks taste like raw alcohol like you drink a beer and it feels you're drinking rubbing raw alcohol, that's literally weakness or a weak liver. You need to increase your power and life force. Same goes with cigarettes. If you don't actually like them and they actually taste like smoke, your liver is gonzo because they should taste better than anything you ever ate, and work as calming you down. Shame not many people will know what being under severe stress is like and lighting one up.

>>717816427
this except crystal meth

>>717815528
Can't say it's a very subjective substance. Some claim they hate being drunk no matter if they have 1 drink or 10, they hate it. Me, it's a transcendental experience. I am euphoric and completely free at the first sip and life suddenly has a sugar coating on it everything is suddenly beautiful and I can't help feeling really really good and happy

>>717815915
Yeah dumb really, now your ass will wake up tired as fuck from that fapping you had. ruining yourself just to feel good lol

>>717811630 (OP)

>>717815528
No. Alcohol is a waste of the and money but I'm too autistic to socialize without it.

DIONYSUS
GIVE ME CHEAP BEER THAT TASTES GOOD AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

>>717811630 (OP)
I don’t really drink all that much and not exactly knowledgeable but I quite enjoy coconut flavored rum, white russians or plum sake. Got a bit of sweet tooth when it comes to drinks

>>717811630 (OP)
As the only man with taste here:
>Carlsberg beer
>Roe&Co whiskey

Take notes you heathens

>>717816427
I have never met a single person that smokes for the flavour, they all started because "it looks cool" when they were 14 an haven't stopped since. I also forgot alcohol drinkers somehow managed to make a beverage made out of honey and berries taste like piss and don't get me started on how wine is just grape juice that tastes horrible.

>>717817175
neeeeeeeeeerd

>>717816571
This and battery acid.
Based

>>717816047
Nah, I'm coasting on disability, chillin back and playing vidya all day, every day.

>>717817175
I got addicted to smoking cuz i used to smoke a cig after fucking. So it got to where a cig session will pavlov dog my brain in associating it with sex. If i dont have a cig as a prefap then my boner is only a slight chub

>>717814476
You can't get liver pain. Liver has no pain receptors. You probably have gallstones

>>717817175
do you also dislike black coffee or unsweetened tea? because this is textbook sugartooth finds out that they, shockingly, don't like bitter

>>717815528
No. You avoid a wide brush of medical conditions. Heavy drinkers end up getting cirrhosis and extreme cases have to get liver transplants and end up having to give up alcohol anyway because they're on immunosuppressants for the rest of their life

>>717817535
Believe it or not, I like both coffee and tea unsweetened (though I add a bit of milk to coffee), it's just alcohol I can't stand no matter what I drink, there was this one company party where the boss bought a bottle of blue label Jack Daniels and gave me some to try saying it was completely different from the cheap stuff, and it was just as bad as the rest (I'll admit it didn't burn my throat with is something all other whiskeys did).

>>717816427
>If you don't actually like them and they actually taste like smoke, your liver is gonzo because they should taste better than anything you ever ate
Anon, you getting your dopamine hit from your drug of choice doesn't mean cigarettes taste good.
>Shame not many people will know what being under severe stress is like and lighting one up.
Just water fast for 3 days and see how eating some grilled meat with nothing but salt feels like.

>>717811630 (OP)
I don't really drink when I game, but I do get high

I consider drinking to be a social activity because it make me much more outgoing and less self-conscious, but getting high makes me much more relaxed, so I find it perfect for playing games to either get very immersed in a single player game, or to keep me calm in a competitive multiplayer game

>>717811630 (OP)
Usually Doombar ale.
It's smooth and barely tastes alcoholic, which is a problem because you can go from feeling fine to getting drunk quickly.

>>717817783
>Believe it or not
I choose not, fatty

>>717817815
My weight is 50kg and have to lie about it to not get made fun of at work

>>717817903
and I made 3 million euro playing high stakes monopoly.

>>717812313
>He doesn't know about the balmer peak.
Alcohol is considered a performance enhancing drug in many sports which involve aiming like target shot and archery.

>>717817535
Alcohol is literally poison and the bitter tastebuds were developed to detect poison and rotten food. People learn to enjoy it in as much as they learn to enjoy burning chemical sensation on their tongue (spicy food) or getting their balls busted during sex.
It's a completely normal reaction to not enjoy the taste of high alcohol drinks like vodka, it's just something we gaslight ourselves into doing. A cold beer is nice during summer, but that's more for the refreshing feeling it gives and the fact that it doesn't have that much alcohol comparatively, and wine goes well with cheese for some reason I can't explain, but I don't drink alcohol for the taste, I drink it to make talking with people tolerable.

>>717817981
>it is true, but exact amount is different for each person
fuck, it's like magic

>>717817939
>I'm a fat fuck so everyone else also is
alcohol is full of useless carbs and calories, stop ruining your liver and maybe you'll be able to see your feet after your beer belly goes away

>>717818071
>I'm a fat fuck so everyone else also is
who are you quoting?
the only fat fuck is you.

>>717817981
I thought this was an actual scientific explanation of why I become an aim god in cs after 2 glasses of wine for 40 minutes lol

>>717818059
how do you retards make statements like
>It's a completely normal reaction to not enjoy the taste of high alcohol drinks like vodka
and then completely blow it with dumb generalizations like
>it's just something we gaslight ourselves into doing.

Is there any cheaper way to be constantly drunk than costco vodka

>>717818105
Sure thing fatty, now go grab another beer

>>717811630 (OP)

>>717818192
lmao, you got really mad getting called out.
go take a walk, you need it!

>>717814476
Worried bro here. I was taking a shit and let my guard down and sneezed without thinking and oh boy got a sharp deep pain in my liver area, more towards my back. yelped in pain uncontrollably and found it difficult to get off the toilet without bracing myself. Im going to be. hope tommorow will be a beter day. I think this will be enough to get me off the sauce. Its never been this bad where I feel injured via just a bad hangover

>>717818059
>Alcohol is literally poison and the bitter tastebuds were developed to detect poison and rotten food.
Like spicy food right. It's also a natural defense mechanism for plants that happens to be tasty to some people. Like you pointed out spicy food but didn't make the connection there for some reason.
Also this entire post is both a huge Appeal to Nature and a general lack of understanding that different people like different things.

>>717811630 (OP)
If I want bourbon now I usually get Buffalo Trace.

Water

>>717811630 (OP)
I dont drink unless there is someone to drink with
I have seen firsthand that alcoholism sucks so i dont tempt fate

cum

ITT:
drug abusers in denial

>>717818147
>and then completely blow it with dumb generalizations like
I'm saying you are feeling good for completely different reasons. It objectively does not "taste good" as in, sweet, sour or savory (unless you of course add sugar or stuff to it), it was not something your body evolved to "enjoy" and seek out specifically, it just happened incidentally. Just like a cigarette does not objectively taste good but the other anon in the thread claims it's the best tasting thing in the world. I am trying to speak objectively here without personal bias.

>>717818642
>Also this entire post is both a huge Appeal to Nature
Talking about your body's biology is not an "appeal to nature" fallacy, the entire conversation is about your nature to begin with.
You're the one who doesn't seem to get that I'm not dissing you for enjoying alcohol, I was just clarifying that liking alcohol is not in the same framework as liking other beverages, because of the alcohol content itself.

>Like you pointed out spicy food but didn't make the connection there for some reason.
No, I did make the connection. It's an even better example of my argument. There are no taste buds for "spiciness", people like it simply because the pain receptors are very close to pleasure receptors, getting stimulation of any kind feels good to people even if it's painful. You could say that you find spicy food tasty but it's objectively not even a taste, it's just a parastimulus akin to the food's temperature. Though I did read that it's possible people living in hot climates evolved to enjoy spiciness more so than others because sweating from eating spicy food increases your appetite which is good for survival since living in a hot climate diminishes your appetite and thus reduces nutrition.

>>717819213
>It objectively does not "taste good"
you already let us know you're retarded, no need to continue

>>717811630 (OP)
>itt subhumans coping with their addiction

lol

>>717819231
>take my time outlining my argument
>only get one liners "lol you dumb me smart" without even attempting to address my points
I don't know what I expected really. 10 years ago I could actually hold conversations here, now I guess I'll just shitpost for quick (You)'s.

>>717819371
I'm pretty sure the only joke this guy had that was decent was the every science is just a version of applied mathematics

>>717819436
you took your time fucking repeating yourself about a retarded objective stance and tried to pass it off as a conversation
go be a pseud somewhere else

>>717819213
>does not objectively taste good
Give me the reviewed mathematical formula for cigarettes objectively not tasting "good".
Also please define "good" while you're providing the appropriate formula.

>Talking about your body's biology is not an "appeal to nature" fallacy
It is if you're trying to claim that it's not naturally suitable or available therefore it's bad.
Many surgical procedures are not natural at all and are often rejected by the body (in case of implants), but that doesn't mean that the concept is bad for example.
>You're the one who doesn't seem to get that I'm not dissing you for enjoying alcohol
Oh don't worry, I'm not taking this personal in any way, shape or form. I'm just curious of your unbiased arguments, which I currently find lacking, but may change of course depending on your replies.

>There are no taste buds for "spiciness", people like it simply because the pain receptors are very close to pleasure receptors, getting stimulation of any kind feels good to people even if it's painful.
This is correct, however your next line makes little sense
>but it's objectively not even a taste
Could you define "taste" for me please? Perhaps we're just misunderstanding each other.

>Though I did read that it's possible people living in hot climates evolved to enjoy spiciness more so than others because sweating from eating spicy food increases your appetite which is good for survival since living in a hot climate diminishes your appetite and thus reduces nutrition.
That's an interesting stuff actually. I must read up on it sometime.

>>717818212
What the fuck am I looking at here?

>>717819847
>this kills the crab

I have a stupid wager job, so no liquor unfortunately. Right now I drink 6-10% beer

>>717819847
When we say that people distill EVERYTHING, we mean it

>>717811630 (OP)
>taking drugs
degenerate lol
and no, i don't drink cofffee

>>717811630 (OP)
Beer occasionally.

Is this the thread?

What a life bros; anyone play racing games while slosh'd? I feel like playing wreckfest like maggot

>>717819561
>and tried to pass it off as a conversation
It's a conversation only if you engage in it. You clearly refused to do so, so why are you crying about? You're already objectively right and never have to prove yourself, why even reply to me?

>>717819713
>Give me the reviewed mathematical formula for cigarettes objectively not tasting "good".
>Also please define "good" while you're providing the appropriate formula.
I will give a simplified version since we obviously don't have the character count to discuss in lengths:
Something tasting good == Your body reacts positively to it, in absence of any kind of mental association with the taste or substance in question. Imagine making a lab-grown human up until he's 20, if you give him something sweet or savory or salty his body will react positively to it, he will enjoy eating it. If you give him plain alcohol his body will interpret it as him being poisoned and react negatively (in defense) maybe even by inducing a state of vomit in him.
>It is if you're trying to claim that it's not naturally suitable or available therefore it's bad.
Alcohol IS bad for you anon, that's why your liver filters it. Again, it is literally a poison. It's bad for your body from an objective point of view, but it's good for us subjectively as intelligent, social creatures since the intoxication state can be pleasant or favorable to us in certain situations.
>but it's objectively not even a taste
>Could you define "taste" for me please? Perhaps we're just misunderstanding each other.
Yes, I'm referring to your body/tongue's capacity to feel "taste". (Pic related.) There are 5 types of taste you feel, "spiciness" is not on them. It's a burning/chemical reaction not associated with any taste buds.

>dude lmao alcohol
good stoner games?

Usually beers but I'm trying to cut down because it adds up to a decent amount of extra cash over the month and I'm also barely managing to work off the empty calories, I think I'd start losing weight pretty easy if I were to completely stop drinking.
It's the mid-week craving that hits the hardest, like Weds or Thurs evening when I just want to sit back and chug a cold one or six, particularly in summer.

>>717820229
Racing games are peak fun. Too bad nobody thinks they take “skill” or something

>>717820237
>bitter is literally a taste according to this picture
>why peeple like da alcohol, dun dey know its POISON
lmao

>>717811630 (OP)
Once I started smoking weed I feel like alcohol has too many negative effects for too little return

But I used to drink 40 oz bottles of Colt 45 or Olde English while playing Splatoon

>>717820315
It’s extremely expensive over time. You’re better off buying liquor and taking shots over time

>>717820237
>If you give him plain alcohol
wow what a shitty test

>>717817175
>the flavor

well, nicotine and alcohol are enjoyable substances. thats why i would smoke and drink on occasion. i don't much care what they taste like. but they don't taste bad to me, just kind of neutral. much like when i eat a bunch of steamed vegetables with my steak. i'm doing it for the effects.

>>717820237
Diagram is false, every part of your tongue can taste all five (as of yet) discovered tastes. (Actually isn't it six tastes now?) The highlighted areas are just those which are often highly concentrated with singular receptors, but it's not like you can *only* taste sweetness at the tip of your tongue.

While we're at it, there are three spiciness compounds, only one of which interacts with the taste buds on your tongue, the other one is targeting your nasal nerves (wasabi for example, or horseradish) and the third is in pepper, not the vegetable.

Taste is not something you can define per se. It's a type of qualia, it differs from person to person. To try and objectively define something which is perceived differently is not productive.

Sure, you can say that sweet = highly concentrated in glucose or fructose, sour = highly acidic etc, but then you have no choice than to admit that alcohol has taste, take wine for example.

The cigarette stuff that anon was on about however is pure bull, I kek and agree with you on that whole point

>>717820315
beers are so bad for cost and bloat. cheap wine is better, if you can get spirits on sale, that is even better.

>>717820237
Anyway I already spent too much time writing walls of text so I'm leaving, the takeaway from my argument is for people to understand that the reasons they like alcohol and cigarettes is more complex than the reason they like normal foods or tasty things, since it has a psychological and chemical dependency element, so they shouldn't really be compared. And also for them to understand the risks associate with it. It's bad for your body so you should compensate by living more healthily in other aspects, don't just think "it makes me feel good so it's good for me".

Personally I recommend Grey Goose vodka for getting drunk, it's more expensive but it's extremely smooth. The way I see it there's a limited amount of alcohol you can drink in your life before it kills you, so you might as well make every shot count. Or you could go for wine if you think it's healthy, but that seems to be heavily debated nowadays. Beer takes too long to get me drunk and I just feel bloated having to drink so much so fast, so I prefer vodka or absinthe.

I drank this german beer, da weinstermeiser? derweinstermeiner? and it was the most delicious beer I've ever drank. Anybody know what I'm talking about? I drank a six pack after buying it to try while I played the castlevania advance collection and now I can't remember the name.

>>717820834
Weihenstephaner?

>>717820958
god bless you

I drank an entire jar of this over the weekend and now I have insane diarrhea

In my experience, alcohol makes music more enjoyable rather than making video games more enjoyable

>>717811630 (OP)
A nice gin tonic.

Depends on my mood but as a cheap date I don't mind Lamb's navy rum. If I wanted something with a resemblance of quality some el dorado 12 year or goslings dark rum would be a good choice.

>>717811990

>the same people who talk shit about stoners happily share the liquid that gives them brain damage and liver failure

>>717821204
I never complained about stoner.

Nothing beats cold beer

>>717821025
Which is why games with banging soundtracks are the best.

>>717821576
>banging
Back in my day banging meant something else and we did it every weekend

Recently got into gin and tonic. It's pretty good. Gin by itself is one of the worst things I've ever tasted. Tonic is gross is barely drinkable. Put them together and it's really nice.
It's good but definitely overpriced. You are paying 30-40 dollars for a bottle of a 2 dollar vodka just because it was infused with juniper berries.

>>717820237
>Something tasting good == Your body reacts positively to it
Right, but how do you distinguish different bodies reacting to the exact same stimuli differently?
Some people like sour things, like some cheese for example. Perhaps they like it by ""gaslighting themselves"" (properly known as an aqcuired taste) but it's also not impossible that their taste for that was hereditary, as some mental configurations could (and does) exist.
A lab-grown human without prior stimuli is an interesting experiment, but we'll have to guess as to its results as this was never attempted and probably won't happen in a long time.
You could say that a lab-grown body would react positively to it, and you MIGHT be correct, but you might not be. Taste might have developed by an onslaught of stimuli in the first place.
>If you give him plain alcohol his body will interpret it as him being poisoned and react negatively (in defense) maybe even by inducing a state of vomit in him.
You literally can't know that. This would require an actual lab-grown person without ANY prior taste stimuli.
>Alcohol IS bad for you anon, that's why your liver filters it.
Counter-argument: your liver also filters water after it enters your intestines. So water is poison by your standards?
Counter-argument 2: auto-immune disease. The body isn't always capable of judging "good" and "bad" simply because of harmfulness. The body is not the end-all arbiter of objective good health, even though it generally does it's job well.

>Yes, I'm referring to your body/tongue's capacity to feel "taste"
Merriam-webster:
>to ascertain the flavor of by taking a little into the mouth
If we want to get REALLY scientific, there are vanilloid receptors on your tounge, which are responsible for noticing capsaicin.
https://www.kenhub.com/en/library/anatomy/muscles-and-taste-sensation-of-the-tongue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRPV1
Therefore, you technically can sense spiciness with your tounge and thus ""taste"" spiciness.

Honest question here, what is the appeal of alcohol? What got you interested in drinking? Asking as someone who hit 31 and has never had a single drop. Not against people drinking it btw.

>>717821618
If you're here no, you really weren't.

>>717821621
Stop drinking london dry gin and go for other types. A cloudy lemon gin or blood orange gin is really nice.

>>717811630 (OP)
Depends on what I've got at hand. Usually whiskey.

>>717821742
My friends peer pressured me into drinking in high school. Plus I have social anxiety and alcohol makes it go away for a while. Plus alcohol is completely legal and pretty cheap depending on what you buy, which makes it available to me at all times. They key is to be able to have 1-2 drinks and stop, but that's hard to do

>>717821742
I like the taste of some cocktails. white russian of a gin tonic are my absolute favorite. I tried virgin cocktails but they never taste right.

irish whiskey > scotch > bourbon

I used to binge drink basically every friday & saturday. bottle of wine, 4 pack of cider. have a can of cider then drink the wine over the course of the friday night. Then have the rest of the cider on the Saturday night. Never really cared to drink during the week despite being a NEET loser.

Met my gf and rarely drink these days desu. Still enjoy it but not really bothered about it.

>>717821742
>what is the appeal of alcohol?
The slight dizziness, or the "buzz" as some call it. Also societal openness, drinking in a group is basically the modern version of smoking the native american ceremonial pipe, that you're willing to show your open side to others and therefore you're someone who they can trust.
It can also serve as a practical reason in japanese culture as written here >>717816229

>What got you interested in drinking?
I'm from a family that drunk often at reuinions so I got introduced to alcohol earlier than it should have been legal, but I'm an older anon and that was the societal norm at the time.
Luckily I didn't land as close to the tree if that makes sense, but I came to like the taste of some drinks.

>>717821742
Mixture of taste, the fact that alcohol consumption is common on both sides of my family, and the fact that just enough will disconnect me from my body enough to feel comfortable in my skin. Alcohol is really only decent when you're drinking it for big events rather than being a daily/weekly thing

>>717821742
I have very bad social anxiety and alcohol helps reduce it somewhat. And it's relaxing having a couple of drinks together with my gaming group on weekends.

>>717821742
Never drank till my 30s. Once my parents passed and I spent months miserable I thought what the hell, might as well try that or kys. Ended up enjoying myself singing the night away going through nostalgic music on youtube and been drinking most of my weekends ever since.

>>717821742
Socialization. The correct way to drink is to drink just enough that your little anxieties stop bothering you so much you wouldn't otherwise chat with less familiar people.

>>717811630 (OP)
Southern Comfort

am 30, never done that
drinking is something i only do in a social setting
drinking alone is bad for you and it would make you worse at vidya too