Kewot_Rokar: @Armored-Struggle-Wagon: Let me handle this. *Ahem* "LITTLE KIDDIES, LOOK OVER THERE! AN INVISIBLE CLOWN THAT HAS TOYS FOR YOU! AND DON'T LOOK OVER HERE AT THE CAT WHO IS DRUNK AS SHIT AGAIN!"
AMKitsune: In the world of Tamriel where pretty much every other drink is alcoholic in some way, I wonder if alcoholism is a known problem and whether there's any kind of support for it? Or is Katia unique in having practically no tolerance for the stuff?
Either way, being as pissed as she is here, surely she'd just try to seduce the shop keeper instead of have any kind of rationally emotional response to the situation?
Tahrey: According to the TESwiki that I ended up flicking through yesterday (to find out wtf Hist Sap was), the answer to that question is "yes". As in, drunkenness and drug addiction is viewed much the same on Nirn as it is on Earth. Some races have more or less resistance to the intoxicating or narcotic/addictive effects of particular substances, which is why they may feature surprisingly heavily in certain cuisines and cultures without much ill effect ... it's when people either indulge to excess, get creative in order to enhance those effects, or partake of delicacies from foreign lands that the problems start to arise.
Besides, a lot of real-world drinks used to be at least mildly alcoholic back in mediaeval times. It killed off much of the bacteria and made them safer to drink than straight river water, unpasteurised milk from dirty teats, or juices of uncertain age and provenance. The relatively low strength of the brew (2% typical) and the limited amounts in which it was consumed (no more or less than any other drink) meant you didn't tend to be that affected by it (consider, say, the consumption of four normal beers across the course of an entire day), and in a land without motor vehicles, heavy machinery or delicate surgery, it didn't matter as much even if you were.
There are IRL people who are sensitive to alcohol same as Katia is, and indeed even a parallel in how certain broad racial groups have more or less ability to properly digest and process particular things (lactose and alcohol in particular, in fact). So it's almost certainly neither something Kaz has made up out of whole cloth, or, on a planetary basis at least, unique to this one person.
As for there being a Cyrodiil branch of the AA... I kinda doubt it.
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=О_о= Чёйта не могу в линии -- более толстую под левым локтем просто забыл убрать?
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Either way, being as pissed as she is here, surely she'd just try to seduce the shop keeper instead of have any kind of rationally emotional response to the situation?
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Besides, a lot of real-world drinks used to be at least mildly alcoholic back in mediaeval times. It killed off much of the bacteria and made them safer to drink than straight river water, unpasteurised milk from dirty teats, or juices of uncertain age and provenance. The relatively low strength of the brew (2% typical) and the limited amounts in which it was consumed (no more or less than any other drink) meant you didn't tend to be that affected by it (consider, say, the consumption of four normal beers across the course of an entire day), and in a land without motor vehicles, heavy machinery or delicate surgery, it didn't matter as much even if you were.
There are IRL people who are sensitive to alcohol same as Katia is, and indeed even a parallel in how certain broad racial groups have more or less ability to properly digest and process particular things (lactose and alcohol in particular, in fact). So it's almost certainly neither something Kaz has made up out of whole cloth, or, on a planetary basis at least, unique to this one person.
As for there being a Cyrodiil branch of the AA... I kinda doubt it.