dude got sober so he could actually remember his first GTA 6 playthrough

Caught this one on r/GTA6 and it hit harder than I expected. A guy posted about quitting drinking, and the thing that finally gave him a reason was wanting to play GTA 6 with a clear head. Six days in when he wrote it. He said by November 19 he'd be at 15.

Then he came back with an edit and the story got a lot heavier. He'd been fighting alcoholism since he was 17. He's 38 now. At his worst recently he was going through a whole bottle of Pitú a day. He'd managed long sober stretches before, over a year twice, but both times it was a relationship holding him up. After his last breakup he lost the reason. His words, roughly: this is the first time he feels like he's doing it for himself.

I don't think it's a lame reason at all. Whatever gets you there, right? Dude's been at this for 21 years.

It's funny. After 21 years of fighting this battle, a video game somehow helped me find a reason to try again.

What I respect is that he's not naive about it. He knows the game will have drinking in it, Vice City being Vice City. He's planning around it. Watching for the hunger, anger, loneliness, boredom stuff, keeping chocolate on hand, taking it one moment at a time. That's someone who's actually thought it through instead of just riding a hype high.

Also worth saying, since I know how this forum gets: if you're white-knuckling it to launch day and it's getting rough, talk to somebody. There's no prize for doing it alone.

Anyway he signed off around 10 PM his time in Brazil with one more sober day in the books. Genuinely rooting for him to be posting from Leonida on the 19th with a clear head.

Anyone else here got a launch day plan that goes beyond snacks and a cleared calendar?

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