Incline Chris Avellone Appreciation Station

[VentilatorOfDoom]

This might just be an attempt at character assassination, the usual MO of you know who.
Still, Chris Avellone should prove his innocence by sending me one of those medical attests where they check your hair or whatever to see if you did drugs the last couple of years.
If he fails to do one of these tests in a timely manner we have to assume the worst.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

If he fails to do one of these tests in a timely manner we have to assume the worst.

With what consequence?

 

[J_C]

Surely there's more people who can discuss the Dragoncon incident. I mean a crowd of people had to see that, right?

Edit: Apparently this was something that may or may not have happened in 2013 and a cursory glance shows no one mentioning it at all. Sounds suspicious. Then again DragonCon is one big nerd orgy and I suppose there could be a "What happens there stays there" policy (which this guy is breaking ).

He had the "Crowdfunding Video Games" panel, but showed up at the "Kickstarting Your Project" one, which happened at the same time:

It seems like it wasn't a big deal. MCA wasn't wasted and didn't 'steal the mic'. The moderator and the rest of the panel were friendly to MCA (and it seems one of them is a friend of his), and he was quiet for most of it. I don't doubt that DragonCon staff wasn't happy about it, but the guy on reddit painted a very different picture.

Meh, stuff like this may happen. Formula 1 World champion Lewis Hamilton used the wrong pitstop during a race, after he transferred to another team. He stopped at the pitstop of his former team. And that's where millions of dollars are at stake. I think Chris being at the wrong DragonCon panel is not a tragedy, just funny.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Gents, MDMA stands for Methylenedioxymethamphetamine. It's a stimulant that can be pretty speedy, but unlike amphetamines it gets your creative juices flowing. In college I would use it to write papers I had no interest in. As long as you will yourself to stay focused, you can get a lot done. No idea whether MCA uses performance enhancers, but writing ten times more dialogue than you need for your companions is not inconsistent with rolling on molly.

Fucking what? were you popping tiny doses or something? Even on clearly heavily cut Es, I can't imagine sitting down to write anything of any worth. I've never seen anyone even slightly spangled who would be in a shape to sit and write dialogue and shit. As far as high quality MDMA? No chance

 

[Prime Junta]

Fucking what? were you popping tiny doses or something? Even on clearly heavily cut Es, I can't imagine sitting down to write anything of any worth. I've never seen anyone even slightly spangled who would be in a shape to sit and write dialogue and shit. As far as high quality MDMA? No chance

I dunno about molly but it's well known that Hugh Hefner wrote the first few issues of Playboy almost single-handedly while doing massive amounts of speed. He did have an editor to remove all the repeated sentences and paragraphs.

 

[pomenitul]

It's an old literary trope. This place is constantly bitching about SJW snowflakes yet it's seemingly filled with virgin choirboys (harder to come across than you'd think).

See: Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), Charles Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises (1860), William S. Burrough's Junkie (1953), Henri Michaux's Miserable Miracle (1956), Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), etc.

 

[Riddler]

Fucking what? were you popping tiny doses or something? Even on clearly heavily cut Es, I can't imagine sitting down to write anything of any worth. I've never seen anyone even slightly spangled who would be in a shape to sit and write dialogue and shit. As far as high quality MDMA? No chance

I dunno about molly but it's well known that Hugh Hefner wrote the first few issues of Playboy almost single-handedly while doing massive amounts of speed. He did have an editor to remove all the repeated sentences and paragraphs.

Amphetamine and MDMA are very different drugs. I could absolutely believe Chris being somewhat of an alcoholic and semi-regularly jacked up on amphetamines, however being high on E at work is just strange.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

speed

That I could believe. Ecstasy is another drug altogether. They're both uppers man, but ecstasy is no good for getting shit done. At all.

Far more likely to take off your shirt, demand music and want to hug people and dance.

 

[Prime Junta]

Far more likely to take off your shirt, demand music and want to hug people and dance.

It would explain his friendly Twitter persona. Maybe he was experimenting with coke for the Codex megathread.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

From my experience speed is useless for getting anything done. You've got concentration and you've got the energy but directing all that concentration and energy into some useful activity is problematic.

You trick your brain with chemicals and give it an illusion of productivity, but it's all fake.

 

[pomenitul]

It works for some, not for others. In your late teens/early 20s, it also makes you look like a bad-ass to your impressionable friends, whether you've actually experimented with it or not.

 

[Trashos]

Many college students I have known used to take speed during exam periods, and it seemed to work on them. Placebo or not, I do not know. My chem in such situations is coffee. Huge barrels of coffee.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

A couple of my friends swore by speed during Uni. Small, frequent lines to get large projects done quickly. I've only ever done it in a recreational setting though

 

[pomenitul]

Haha, Kit Walker is still salty because I applied the 'cuck' rating to one of his posts yesterday. His retaliative method consists of retadro'ing most of my posts itt, including the blatantly facetious ones (which gives away the sheer magnitude of the butthurt on the Richter scale). Keep on cuckin', fanboy.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Like I said, it's an illusion. Oh I'm so focused and eager to work, so I must be getting a lot done. Speed works the same for everybody. It's just that some people bullshit themselves that it made them incredibly productive. In reality they would have done the same amount of work while sober if they actually tried.

I've put a lot of things in my nose back in my wild days. All the street drugs are bullshit and the only drug that actually makes you more productive is legal and it would be God's best gift to mankind if it didn't also give you cancer.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

They got their shit done though. They were both good, successful students. It's not how I'd do it, but I can totally buy the alertness and focus helping. And yes, it works the same for everyone, but the environemtn and atmosphere are massive factors with any drug. It would have been useless to me the way I used it, but alone, with a deadline looming and all the energy in the world, I dunno, they seemed to think it really helped

 

[rusty_shackleford]

MCA being a drinker isn't shocking, the drug usage is mildly surprising, but the real dig is that MCA just sits around at work drinking and getting high all day. Dunno, just doesn't seem the case at all? He also seemed fairly sober when he was here.

Imagine being Avellone and strolling into work drunk as skunk and tripping on Molly and still outwriting Fenstermaker 100:1.

Judging from the stories about how Avellone worked on PS:T twenty-four hours a day and writes so much that Sawyer calls him a machine, I would rather assume that Master "da Man" Avellone does amphetamines.

Gents, MDMA stands for Methylenedioxymethamphetamine. It's a stimulant that can be pretty speedy, but unlike amphetamines it gets your creative juices flowing. In college I would use it to write papers I had no interest in. As long as you will yourself to stay focused, you can get a lot done. No idea whether MCA uses performance enhancers, but writing ten times more dialogue than you need for your companions is not inconsistent with rolling on molly.

Someone sold you adderall and told you it was MDMA
You don't take MDMA and write papers, it has a similar effect as mescaline except it's also a stimulant. It primarily inhibits serotonin uptake(and to a lesser degree norepinephrine and dopamine,) amphetamines primarily inhibit(and release) dopamine.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC81503/

 

[PulsatingBrain]

the only drug that actually makes you more productive is legal and it would be God's best gift to mankind if it didn't also give you cancer.

Coffee?

 

[HanoverF]

Very clever guys, turn this into a drug appreciation post to try and lure Avellone back.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

the only drug that actually makes you more productive is legal and it would be God's best gift to mankind if it didn't also give you cancer.

Coffee?

Nicotine, fella. Cigarettes are both a stimulant and a relaxant and they don't mess with your head. That's what makes them the best "work drug" there is. Just stimulating enough to give you an edge, but no so stimulating to cause any kind of erratic behavior. And then going outside for a smoke has a wonderful effect of clearing your head, so 3 minutes later you're ready to work again. And 20 years later you're in the casket, but that's another story.

If you want to be productive for a week, go ahead and take speed. If you want to be productive for a decade, do what your grandpa did.

 

[pomenitul]

The thing with smoking is that aside from the first few puffs, i.e. when you're 'riding the dragon' (especially apparent when you quit and pick up the habit again and again), it mostly just brings you back to your normal nonsmoking state, which only seems stimulating because it's different from the moderate low you're experiencing at all other times as a regular smoker.

 

[Neanderthal]

If you want to be more productive work harder, no drugs required.

 

[pomenitul]

So what you're saying is, we should all delete our Codex accounts.

 

[Alienman]

the only drug that actually makes you more productive is legal and it would be God's best gift to mankind if it didn't also give you cancer.

Coffee?

Nicotine, fella. Cigarettes are both a stimulant and a relaxant and they don't mess with your head. That's what makes them the best "work drug" there is. Just stimulating enough to give you an edge, but no so stimulating to cause any kind of erratic behavior. And then going outside for a smoke has a wonderful effect of clearing your head, so 3 minutes later you're ready to work again. And 20 years later you're in the casket, but that's another story.

If you want to be productive for a week, go ahead and take speed. If you want to be productive for a decade, do what your grandpa did.

You almost made me want to pick up smoking again.

 

[Latelistener]

Second, I find it hard to believe MCA had various substance abuse problems

I'm a bit surprised to be honest. You've probably seen his photos, especially in the recent years.

Of course there are other ways of how to explain a bloated face, but this one is usually the surest.

Not that it's our business. Man can do what he want, but I hope he won't drink himself to death before Beta Protocol.

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