Talk:Drunk Tank/@comment-32683598-20170725213337/@comment-32683598-20170726001538

Actually, no research required. As I said I am severely allergic to alcohol. This is my life.

Look, I am not faulting you for the thought process. I am not faulting your world building or the character building. Those are fine. Your characters are interesting and have a lot of depth to them. I commend you for how real you make the character's feeling and motivations. The problem for me is in emersion. I can't fully emmerse into a story where the cataclismic element in the story can be solved with some fire. For me, and I am speaking only for me here, I need to believe that the creepy pasta can happen. And sure I believe in post apocolyptic scenarios and yes I can totally see the world falling into chaos but not this story and not with this premise.

As for not everyone refining their meals...sure. I am positive that some people would prefer to eat their food raw and get drunk and that's fine. But the way your world falls apart doesn't work. Everyone is suddenly drunk and therefore can't do it. We have known how to make and get rid of alcahol for years. Thousands of years. Like cave men were making beer.

And Ok lets assume the world did fall apart. Famin because of crop failure cause riots and wholescale destruction which is quite believable. Nothing angers people more than watching their children starve. Great premise. But in that case the first thing you do is make your food stretch. And generally the way that poor people and those with limited food supplies stretched their food is by making stews and soups. Things that can sit over a fire and they can add bits too. This alone would a) concentrate the nutrients and b) get rid of the alcohol.

Again the easiest way to fix this story is to change he word alcahol to mind altering substance not destroyed by heat. Heck make one up. Plant mutation that cause all plants to become mildly toxic to humans and cause enebriation. At taht point it's in the genes and if the toxicity can't be removed with soaking and heat treating or without costly high powered machinery you are in the same place but it's an idea that would have a hard time being challenged because it's your creation. If you create your world you create your rules. Dogscape is a good example of that. The author created their own reality separate from our own and this can make what ever rules they wanted in there.

I want you to undetand that I am in no way putting down your talent and abilities. Please don't take this personally.