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I'm in pretty much the same boat as you. I'm not an alcoholic, but I do drink pretty much every night. Mostly out of boredom. Every night is like:
choice A: stay home alone. Watch TV, play some pointless game, do a pointless hobby. boring. only fun with drinking. choice B: go out to socialize. All of the "sober crowd" activies are incredibly boring, people are just much more fun to socialize with when everyone is drinking at least a little. And it's more fun with more drinks, with a pretty damn high upper limit.
It doesn't help that one of my activities lately has been listening to comedy podcasts or standup. Those are both significantly better with drinking.
I do disagree on the "upper limit" part. I like it best just being a little tipsy. I'm a little louder, a little more willing to talk instead of just listening, and laughs come a little easier. Getting too drunk I get too loud, I talk too much without listening, and I laugh at dumb things that aren't fun to remember the next day. Also I throw up easily, so too drunk is just a bad time for me.
I also enjoy standup and yeah. there's a reason so many of them require you to purchase at least 1 drink. I hate the people who go there stone-cold sober and just sit there refusing to laugh or show any emotion like "this is very serious business and I will not laught for anything less than the very highest levels of comedy."
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