Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 8

[Shannon]

My one change for DMSI 6G would be Chemical State-Shifting Override turned on. I'm personally "on" caffeine or alcohol almost all the time that I'm out and meeting new women. I don't want that to degrade the effects of DMSI any more than the raw biochemistry of the substances might.

I created DMSI without chemical state shifting override.  Then I discovered that guys were doing dumb shit and messing it up.  I added state shifting override to prevent that.  Then guys complained that they had to smoke and drink more to get the same effects, which only meant that they were gonna do those things regardless.  So I turned it off.  Now you're asking for it, while telling me you plan to use them anyway.

Here's the facts.  It turns out that chemical state shift override isn't really useful.  It just takes more attention and energy and tries to use it to un-do whatever you did to interfere with the program.  Instead of choosing not to do those things, or allowing the program to override them, people just do more of them to get the same result.  But you can not do things like drink and smoke marijuana and do recreational drugs and expect DMSI to work right all the time.  Caffeine and nicotine aren't ideal, but they're nowhere hear as bad as the others.

So I don't see the point in using it.  It's much easier and more effective for you to determine what is too much of whatever drug you choose to use, and then use none or less than too much.