I do not care if you smoke pot.

[naez]

not that the 2 are mutually exclusive

[Raistin]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.

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.

[Misto]

Originally Posted by frefaln [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In all but two or three groups that I've had in the past week, at least one person in the group thought it was necessary to announce they were high as a kite.

You know what? I don't give a shit. Nobody else does, either.

What you do in your own home is your business and your right. I don't smoke pot and I think people that do are idiots — that's my business and my right. I won't impose my opinions on you in the context of a group, and conversely, you should stop broadcasting your personal habits just because you're an attention whore who's under the impression that it makes you look cool. It doesn't.

Edit: and yes, this belongs in R & F, I thought I was over there [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

QFTT

Everyone I know that smokes pot: no ambition, doesn't exercise, and is failing out of school.

... *waits for someone to say they run a fortune 500 company and smokes pot*

[naez]

I smoke pot and my investment bank made $2.4 quadrillion on the derivatives market last year

[philbertpk]

Originally Posted by Misto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

QFTT

Everyone I know that smokes pot: no ambition, doesn't exercise, and is failing out of school.

... *waits for someone to say they run a fortune 500 company and smokes pot*

Not fortune 500. But im fit, healthy, about to graduate from college in May and have a job waiting for me. And I smoke. But I separated myself early in the game from the A typical stoner that gets high and sits on the couch all day wasting life. I get high and it makes; A: People more tolerable because my mood is more of a fuck it one which allows me to interact with people more efficiently and B:Me want to go out and do something. I am much more likely to sit around and do nothing if I am NOT stoned.

To each his own, drugs affect every individual in a different way. To demonize a group for the actions of any is unjust.

[philbertpk]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"bio break".. whenever that originated, circa 2001ish (?) from my recollection.

I hate it.

2001 sounds right.

Why the hate? peeps gotta piss :P

[Misto]

Originally Posted by philbertpk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I get high and it makes; A: People more tolerable because my mood is more of a fuck it one which allows me to interact with people more efficiently and B:Me want to go out and do something. I am much more likely to sit around and do nothing if I am NOT stoned.

You don't need pot for either of these. But then again, wtf do I know. =)

[naez]

I get panic attacks from smoking pot so I just smoke little white things instead

[KilyenaMage]

Originally Posted by Alawen Everywhere [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

EQ is boring me to death since I stopped smoking pot, .

Game is unbearingly boring to play while NOT stoned.

[Sephrana]

Originally Posted by Lazortag [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Our statement is pretty clear: we don't think there is anything special about pot, and so we're irritated with how people are constantly talking about how high they are, which misrepresents how ordinary and un-special the activity is. Most non-pot smokers actually have nothing against marijuana or most marijuana-smokers, but rather have a neutral attitude towards both. However, pot smokers tend to think that being a pot smoker is like being part of a movement - that's why they make up their own holidays (420), write songs about it, and spend nearly every waking moment of their pathetic lives prowling google for conspiracy theory websites that reaffirm their mistaken belief that marijuana has no adverse health effects*. This pisses non-pot smokers off, hence why this thread exists.

^^^This^^^

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