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>>>>How do jokes at the expense of this person, who has an obvious drug addiction problem, help...
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>>>Jos, I understand where you're coming from, but the honest truth is that the person is nearly flouting/boasting his addiction, claiming it gives him creative super powers. Anyone coming up here posting about hiring prostitutes (and then defending it) deserves some scorn.
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>>Extreme sleep deprivation has resulted in some the most brilliant pieces of code that I'd ever written (though after a good night's sleep, I couldn't make heads nor tails of it afterwards).
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>If that minipost from his novel is real, he may want to give up the creative influence of alcoholism... that sucked bigtime...

It did. Guilty as charged. I will never write anything worth reading drunk.