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(just an alternative to the N64 post from yesterday)

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's a 700 ml bottle of 89.9% alcohol. Alcohol is 9 cal/gram (similar energy density to fat) and around 0.78 g/ml making the right close to triple the fried food and beer in calories (~4400)

[–] makeshiftreaper 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

At first I thought "yeah but you're not polishing that off in a weekend" but that's basically the equivalent of 2 fifths of booze which isn't really a ton for a alcoholic or a hard partying college kid

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

As a former hard partying college kid, a fifth per day is indeed a lot

[–] Donkter 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

2 fifths of liquor is absolutely ludicrous except for the absolute hardest of alcoholics.

Not to mention that while the alcohol might be equivalent, the more concentrated alcohol gets the harder it works on your body. You'll have a much worse night/morning if you drank 6 shots of whiskey instead of 6 beers.

[–] makeshiftreaper 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I know I associate with a few degenerates, but some of my heavy drinking friends could absolutely pound 2 fifths in a weekend. They'd be goddammed miserable on Monday but honestly that's par for the course. One of my buddies in college used to put away a case of beer over a weekend which is 30 beers, not much less than 2 fifths which is about 35 drinks

I suppose it depends on how one defines the weekend. If you start the weekend on Friday night then it's way more reasonable, say 8-10 on Friday, 12 on Sat/Sun is an intense weekend in Vegas. But if you drink 1.5 drinks per hour for 12 hours on Saturday/Sunday that's 36 drinks. Which I don't think is crazy for either a hard partying college kid or an alcholic

[–] MeaanBeaan 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This reads like ”thats not a crazy amount of alcohol to consume for someone who consumes a crazy amount of alcohol"

[–] makeshiftreaper 2 points 4 months ago

Correct. 60% of the alcohol consumed in America is drunk by 10% of the population. Honestly most people fall into 1 of 2 categories: non/light drinkers, and heavy drinkers. For heavy drinkers this is not crazy and I don't think a light drinker is purchasing 90% abv absinthe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A fifth of what? It isn't bad enough you people measure distance in football fields now you measure volumes in undefined fractions? What is a fifth LOL

[–] makeshiftreaper 2 points 4 months ago

A fifth used to be a fifth of a gallon. Stupidly as the world became more globalized bottle sizes followed and so the bottles we still call a fifth are actually 750ml. What's worse is that the next unit up is a handle which is 1.75 liters! So it doesn't even follow mathematically

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (4 children)

A bottle of absinthe is not 300 calories. That's like three shots...

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 33 points 4 months ago

I'm afraid the dietician was pretty deep into the bottle when they did the math.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Absinthe is ~82 calories per fluid ounce and a 70CL bottle is 23 fluid ounces so an entire 70CL bottle is about 1900 calories.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Maybe they expect to throw it all up. Because of Skyrim's bugs.

[–] Blum0108 1 points 4 months ago

You also need more than one beer and a plate of curds for a weekend

[–] glitchdx 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

if its the 360 version with kinect then there is nothing wrong

because with kinect, you can shout any shout and it will work. and a bunch of other voice commands in game too

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Why not combine them for a stellar 1795 calorie good time?

[–] slazer2au 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can't argue with that logic. How many anime mods do we run?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The drinking is for when you have to make the mods work together without the game dying a slow horrible death, followed by a rather quick also horrible death

[–] slazer2au 4 points 4 months ago

My thoughts was a shot for every CTD and hope you survive.

[–] TwoBeeSan 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] makeshiftreaper 4 points 4 months ago

Fat blunts and FTL?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

RIP Trevor Moore

[–] PlantDadManGuy 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm more of a TOTK and Glenlivet kinda guy.

[–] gcheliotis 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

BG3 scotch and soda?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

And here I thought I had a clever mix of Skyrim + a bottle of red for 625 calories, but damn. Those are some rookie numbers! 😱🙇🏽‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's your favorite way to eat Skyrim?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 7 points 4 months ago

One byte at a time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

*Drinks absinthe*

*Spends the rest of the night picking flowers without ever starting a quest*

[–] hOrni 4 points 4 months ago

Cocaine and porn. Zero calories and quite a workout.

[–] niktemadur 2 points 4 months ago

Absinthe, Skyrim and Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Compelling argument.

[–] GeneralEmergency -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's not enough absinthe in the world that'll make me enjoy that glorified tech demo.

[–] Allonzee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Man, I rarely see hate for Skyrim.

[–] vikingtons 3 points 4 months ago

Does the latest iteration of Skyrim still require a community patch? 😅

[–] GeneralEmergency 0 points 4 months ago

Because most people who say they love Skyrim don't play Skyrim.