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The Bar & Grill: you ever notice how its called Bar ‘n’ Grill in the opening post but it’s called Bar & Grill in the title? What

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Originally posted by FPzero
Also eat food while you drink, it'll soak up the alcohol.

Oh yes! Never, ever, try drinking without a meal that came beforehand. If you haven't eaten for awhile, that alcohol will get you buzzed much more and will likely result in a mistake. I've experienced this a time or two by accident but thankfully I knew to cut my intake by half and drink water/eat soon after.

Bartender and incorrigible lush reporting in: you people are cray-cray. The fruity drinks will kick your ass, as they have just as much alcohol as the things that taste like actual alcohol, they just hide it amongst all sorts of cloying rubbish so you can suck it down quickly, meaning it all hits you at once and before you know it you're snozzled six ways to Tuesday. From a practical perspective, this is perhaps the worst thing to recommend to an amateur, precisely because many folks tend to start out with a natural "oh dear, I've just been ingesting significant amounts of mild poison" response which makes alcohol taste awful after a couple of drinks compelling them to stop before it gets to severe, and which normally takes years of dedicated boozing to overcome. By short circuiting this, you're basically recommending they start out their tippling with a boot to the head, which is a good metaphor for one's entry in to adulthood and loss of childhood innocence, but perhaps a thing to avoid out of humanitarian reasons.

In any event, just start with beer and wine. They're comparatively mild, and you'll probably dislike the taste enough at first that you'll drink them slowly enough so as to not end up bowing before dread Charybdis on her ivory throne. There will be time enough to be an utter degenerate later; work your way up the debauchery ladder rung by rung.
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Originally posted by Rameau's Nephew
The fruity drinks will kick your ass, as they have just as much alcohol as the things that taste like actual alcohol, they just hide it amongst all sorts of cloying rubbish so you can suck it down quickly, meaning it all hits you at once and before you know it you're snozzled six ways to Tuesday.

That was not the case for me at all. And trust me, I drink for the taste. But I perfectly knew when enough was enough even upon my first few times.

Perhaps it is telling on one's own self control, but I will say that they do not all contain just as much. This is only assuming you drink twice as much or fast because it may as well just be another drink, like soda. People will handle alcohol differently. Some have better control. And some drink slow and some drink fast. If you drink fruity coolers or anything like that slowly, you won't get hammered. I promise you. That also may be telling of how I handle it though.

Now I do recommend something like an ale since depending what you get, can be a middle point between truly bitter and possibly too sweet. Wine can also be depending, but I prefer things with easier measurements.


It is all about experimentation. That's the world of adults in a nutshell.



So how is everyone doing? The applications should prove to be an exciting outcome. I look forward to meeting the future staff. I really do have high hopes for this site. This is my home and I want it as strong as ever, if not stronger. Here's to SMW Central! May 2019 be an amazing new chapter of the site.

On the topic of alcohol I think it's pretty overrated and only does more harm than good. My dad is a stoner and low key alcoholic (Tequila is his poison of choice usually) which really isn't a good combo so I'm probably gonna try to remain straightedge for as long as possible. College is around the corner for me so I'm probably gonna be exposed to a lot of drugs and I'll probably partake in some of it but I don't plan on getting shitfaced or going out of my way to buy stuff, especially the vape shit people my age are into these days. Vape pens and Juuls are nothing but adult pacifiers.

Originally posted by Scrydan
The applications should prove to be an exciting outcome. I look forward to meeting the future staff. I really do have high hopes for this site. This is my home and I want it as strong as ever, if not stronger. Here's to SMW Central! May 2019 be an amazing new chapter of the site.


Def looking forward to seeing who gets promoted, the positions available should yield some interesting new people. 2019 has already been a pretty good year for SMWC in my opinion but maybe that's coz I'm not nearly as active as I used to be lmao. I used to be a multiple posts every day kind of guy but now I go days at a time without posting. Its kind of weird.
May the future staff do a good job at keeping things in order.

Originally posted by Decoy Blimp
2019 has already been a pretty good year for SMWC in my opinion but maybe that's coz I'm not nearly as active as I used to be lmao. I used to be a multiple posts every day kind of guy but now I go days at a time without posting. Its kind of weird.

Dude same, but I'll be honest - a lot of people reached a point where the last thing they can do is to show up here for many reasons. I miss my old, less grumpy and more active self from my earlier years, but we all move on, even the veterans.
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Thanks for all the responses on alcohol, I'll be sure to try them all when I come of age, so I can get a feeling for what I like and don't like. And of course, eat plenty of food so the alcohol can soak it up (noted).

Although it has been a while since I last logged on, I can't contribute much other than I look forward to meeting the new staff.
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Originally posted by Katerpie
Dude same, but I'll be honest - a lot of people reached a point where the last thing they can do is to show up here for many reasons. I miss my old, less grumpy and more active self from my earlier years, but we all move on, even the veterans.

Honestly, while some things happened here in the past, I don't really know why I was sort of lurking all these years instead of posting. I am really the same me, for the most part. Besides perhaps some minor changes, but I guess I just seen so many faces popping up that I wasn't sure what to make of the site. It was harder to know the staff because I never even heard of many of them.

Yet, I decided that it is a great time to come back awhile ago. I wanted to do so earlier. I am sort of upset I missed last C3 and Mosts. Should have participated. Especially for a Smash theme!

Ultimately, between Telinc1 (this wonderful staff member) actively working on the site and making awesome features, and with an administration and staff team I really can believe in, I think that is mostly why I am back. Because I can see real possible change.
In the past it seemed to stagnate a bit. I just needed that push to get into ROM hacking but never got enough of a push. But now, I feel like more elements are in place to not only get me back into activity, but to make me even way more active than even the old days.

I love the possibilities that await us.

Originally posted by Scrydan
Ultimately, between Telinc1 (this wonderful staff member) actively working on the site and making awesome features, and with an administration and staff team I really can believe in, I think that is mostly why I am back. Because I can see real possible change.


The staff and administration improvements have definitely transformed the site into a much more functional and well put together place to be. The work the staff and admins have been putting in is incredible and I'm happy to see all the great changes that have come in recent months.

It also helps that the community has been diverting away from the toxic vibe that plagued it for so many years (the biggest offenders of which have either left or been banned at this point).

Definitely looking forward to the future.
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Ah, that alert feature is already working wonders! Watch this thread, folks! It is a real treat of a feature. (seeing a NEW on the side bar, takes me back)

Originally posted by Decoy Blimp
It also helps that the community has been diverting away from the toxic vibe that plagued it for so many years (the biggest offenders of which have either left or been banned at this point).

Definitely looking forward to the future.

I do feel that there's a lot less of that around. Some people don't like that kind of change, but I feel an open and welcoming community is a good one. Because if it scares away new members, the site will die.

I remember at points just feeling sort of intimidated by some staff or members. Perhaps they didn't mean it but I do like the direction the site is possibly going in now.

Originally posted by Scrydan
Ah, that alert feature is already working wonders! Watch this thread, folks! It is a real treat of a feature. (seeing a NEW on the side bar, takes me back)

Originally posted by Decoy Blimp
It also helps that the community has been diverting away from the toxic vibe that plagued it for so many years (the biggest offenders of which have either left or been banned at this point).

Definitely looking forward to the future.

I do feel that there's a lot less of that around. Some people don't like that kind of change, but I feel an open and welcoming community is a good one. Because if it scares away new members, the site will die.

I remember at points just feeling sort of intimidated by some staff or members. Perhaps they didn't mean it but I do like the direction the site is possibly going in now.


Everything this post and the previous post described is the reason why I've returned, honestly. I have no idea why people would WANT the SMWCentral of old to return. Sure, SMW hacking might be getting done at a more consistent rate, but at the cost of having a toxic environment? I don't think that's a good trade.

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On the topic of alcohol I think it's pretty overrated and only does more harm than good. My dad is a stoner and low key alcoholic (Tequila is his poison of choice usually) which really isn't a good combo so I'm probably gonna try to remain straightedge for as long as possible. College is around the corner for me so I'm probably gonna be exposed to a lot of drugs and I'll probably partake in some of it but I don't plan on getting shitfaced or going out of my way to buy stuff, especially the vape shit people my age are into these days. Vape pens and Juuls are nothing but adult pacifiers.


I want to chime in on this one a bit since it sounds kind of important and I have related experience: in my time in the dorms at my college people sorted into cliques and there was basically only one clique in my dorm that actually had the kind of peer pressuring drug and alcohol use you hear about. I don’t know if high schoolers still get all the warnings about all the wild college risks but I basically didn’t have to make use of any of it. If you can get with a group of people that has even basic decency (which is not that hard!) you can avoid all that pretty easily. The only way I’d worry about unavoidable pressure is if you get a really bad roommate, or if you happen to end up in a bad clique right out the gate. If you’re like, worried about it, try to join a club or something so you can hang out with club people if the people in your dorm turn out to suck.

Also, my parents were (extremely) bad with drugs, and after mentioning that even the shittiest alcoholic never really asked me about alcohol again. I think the average person (particularly the average drunk person) doesn’t want to risk hearing a really depressing story about someone’s terrible childhood, so don’t be afraid to play the "rotten parent" card.

Although this advice comes with the caveats that I go to a STEM-focused school, so most everybody here is a really career-minded dweeb, and I didn’t join any fraternity/sorority.


Juul is depressing to me because we had made a lot of progress as a society on getting people off of nicotine and now it’s a trendy thing to use this super nicotine-filled product. The best I can hope for is that, since trends are so short-lived nowadays, this one will die off like the rest (I’ve already seen a bunch of the vape shops that sprung up in my city close down) but most trends aren’t literally addictive so this one could realistically outlive the rest of them. Juul’s business model is also kind of an unwelcome success; we’ve had this whole venture capital structure set up with a self-proclaimed focus on things that will "change the world" and had some good results (like Patreon), some big controversial things (I don’t personally like Uber, Lyft or AirBnB but at least they have a compelling case that their services could have improved something), but I think Juul’s use of basically the same funding model to fund e-cigarettes whose main distinguishing feature is that they are more addictive than other e-cigarettes indicates that there is nothing about the structure of venture capital that encourages good behavior. Juul supposedly got funding from a different set of backers than the usual Silicon Valley startups, which is actually more worrying because it suggests the failure mode will change from "Ashton Kutcher lost a bunch of money on Uber for Laundry" to "Marlboro put billions of dollars into this company and now thousands of teens have a nicotine addiction".

Staff’s doing good keep it up


Edit: also Falaflame, your layout doesn’t set the text color, so in site themes that have a light background and dark text you can’t read your posts without selecting them. You should add color: #ffffff; in there somewhere
Originally posted by Scrydan
I do feel that there's a lot less of that around. Some people don't like that kind of change, but I feel an open and welcoming community is a good one. Because if it scares away new members, the site will die.


I personally never understood why people (myself included) were so opposed to getting rid of the toxic cliquey bullshit. All it did was reinforce people's hatred for each other and scare away new and old members. Some of my favorite people on the site left because of this exact problem (Masterlink I miss you please come back) and unfortunately some of the damage can't really be undone at this point. At least all the SMWC haters and tea spillers hide in their private discord servers now.

Originally posted by Katrina
in my time in the dorms at my college people sorted into cliques and there was basically only one clique in my dorm that actually had the kind of peer pressuring drug and alcohol use you hear about. I don’t know if high schoolers still get all the warnings about all the wild college risks but I basically didn’t have to make use of any of it. If you can get with a group of people that has even basic decency (which is not that hard!) you can avoid all that pretty easily. The only way I’d worry about unavoidable pressure is if you get a really bad roommate, or if you happen to end up in a bad clique right out the gate. If you’re like, worried about it, try to join a club or something so you can hang out with club people if the people in your dorm turn out to suck.


The college I chose has a pretty decent/small student body so I should be safe. I'll most likely be living in a quad to start with so hopefully not all three of the other guys are big into drugs. I'm not really worried about peer pressure I'm really more worried about giving in to my own desires and getting addicted to something. I kind of have an addictive personality and the past few years of my life have been incredibly shitty so I try to avoid unhealthy escapes.

Originally posted by Katrina
Juul is depressing to me because we had made a lot of progress as a society on getting people off of nicotine and now it’s a trendy thing to use this super nicotine-filled product. The best I can hope for is that, since trends are so short-lived nowadays, this one will die off like the rest (I’ve already seen a bunch of the vape shops that sprung up in my city close down) but most trends aren’t literally addictive so this one could realistically outlive the rest of them.


Its also trendy because it's "better for you than cigarettes" (I would say "less bad" instead). While technically they are less bad for you (and the fact that the whole "one vape pod equals 20 cigarettes thing" doesn't take into account the 100+ addictive chemicals sprayed on tobacco used in cigarettes) they're still really not good for you despite how tempting they are. I'll be honest, now that I'm a legal adult I've been tempted to go out an buy one myself but I know it'll land me in trouble if I do so I don't think I'll ever buy one. I have considered getting a vape pen and buying the no nicotine juices but sometimes they sneak nicotine into the non-nicotine juices so idk I have to do my research.
Anyone that says Juul and e-cigs are even a little bit safer than cigarettes are kidding themselves. They have the same chemical junk in them.

Frankly, if you're really that interested in smoking something, you might as well go straight to the source and smoke marijuana. .-.
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Frankly, if you're really that interested in smoking something, you might as well go straight to the source and smoke marijuana. .-.
I'll be transparent and say that I do.


Well you live in Colorado so that makes sense. I keep alternating between Massachusetts and Oregon to live and thankfully its legal in both states #smrpg{mlem}
Alot of these marijuana laws in Cali don't know what to think anymore. If its legal why do people keep getting arrested over it? Meanwhile you cops smoking it no problem.

I don't smoke so I wouldn't understand, but I at least see how contradictory that is.
Originally posted by Ruberjig
Alot of these marijuana laws in Cali don't know what to think anymore. If its legal why do people keep getting arrested over it? Meanwhile you cops smoking it no problem.

It's likely because a lot of individual sheriffs flat out refuse to enforce the laws that are in place.
That's what's happening in Washington state with gun laws. It made headlines. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/22/washington-state-county-sheriffs-refuse-to-enforce-gun-laws
                                                                                                                  
                              
I'd much rather smell vape cloud than cigarette smoke not gonna lie, and if it helps people ease off smoking cigarettes and eventually quit then I'm all for vape stuff. It's just that they became trendy and certain people using them are insufferable, so they've overall gained a bad rap. But when the alternative (if someone is going to smoke) is a cigarette, I will be on the side of vape pens all day long.

Obviously it'd be nice if people weren't addicted to nicotine at all, but I'll take what I can get here.
If they can develop an e-cig that is flavored with vapor only without the nicotine and harsh chemicals, then we can start talking about it leaning people off smoking.

The problem with it is that older people are using them to stop smoking but are still getting the nicotine highs and the junk, and younger kids are using it and eventually starting to smoke cigarettes.

It's just not a good idea.
                                                                                                                  
                              
Originally posted by Ruberjig
Alot of these marijuana laws in Cali don't know what to think anymore. If its legal why do people keep getting arrested over it? Meanwhile you cops smoking it no problem.


Its because while some states made it legal, smoking marijuana is still a federal crime, so you can still be arrested for it. Its dumb but its true.

Originally posted by FPzero
I'd much rather smell vape cloud than cigarette smoke not gonna lie, and if it helps people ease off smoking cigarettes and eventually quit then I'm all for vape stuff.


I feel this. I actually don't mind the smell of cigarette smoke in small doses but second hand smoke is very much a problem and I don't really think second hand vape is even a thing, so yeah if someone's gonna vape instead of smoke I'm all for it.

Originally posted by Plasmodium00
If they can develop an e-cig that is flavored with vapor only without the nicotine and harsh chemicals, then we can start talking about it leaning people off smoking.


They actually have vape juice with varying levels of nicotine which allows for cigarette smokers to slowly wean off nicotine over time. That's how my dad quit smoking cigarettes. I dunno if he still uses his vape pen since it's been like seven years now.
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