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Originally Posted by fastboy21
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I don't really care either way on the pot issue irl...when i was kid i smoked pot a few times...stopped on my own because i just grew out of it when i got to college...i don't rlly consider it a moral issue in and of itself, etc...so don't put me in on either side of the argument.
what IS interesting to me is that by FAR on this server more than any other I have encountered tons of people talking about smoking pot. I don't recall that back from when i played EQ before on live. i don't recall it in any other game...so i have wondered why it is so different here. it is extremely noticable, in almost every single pug grp i find at least one guy claims to be stoned, or needs to take an afk to smoke a joint, etc...
I wonder if ppl just talk more openly about it, or if the demographic of the game has changed, or more people in general just smoke pot now. something has changed...and it is curious.
i don't take either side on it, but it is interesting.
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I think what has changed is the open aspect of it. Obviously the gamer community is one that will be more suspect to having drug use in it (note I include alcohol under drugs).
I mean lets face it, we are all sitting here playing a 12 year old game getting our jollies off of content that was cleared by HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of people before us. I more question how some of you can sit down and play this INCREDIBLY out-dated game sober?
But onto your point, its in just about every game. I left eq1 for eq2, and was in the same guild in eq2 for many many years. We had a core of major stoners in that guild, and our server (crushbone) had weekly discussions in the top level channel about it. My guild had even created a game for raiding called Low4High which was specifically was intended to get you stoned as shit during a raid, and it became so popular people requested it on weekend PUraids we would do for our alts. Since quitting eq2 I have played just about every major MMO to release for a period (WAR, AoConan, Rift, Darkfall, Aion....) and each and every one of them has a very large community of smokers.
Reality is this.....your playing a game DESIGNED to create its own reality. Just think of the phrase started by eq1 "You're in our world now..." Is anyone really surprised there are people playing this game getting high? I still come back to questioning how can you do this SOBER and get into it as much as some of these 'straight edge' people do. Shit if I sit here and spend a day playing eq1 sober by the end of it I feel like an utter jackass for wasting the day. At least when I am stoned I can justify the fact I had already intended to not do anything overly productive with that time anyways.