Biblically accurate something.

Reading later, how'd it go?

"I'm gonna die alone without ever having been in love or having been with someone I care about." A while back I asked if you can identify the void you're trying to fill with this, is your lack of emotional connection the void you couldn't fully identify back then? It definitely wouldn't be unheard of for one to try to fill the void of emotional romantic connections with the addiction (it's probably the most common reason given that it's meant to fake intimacy). In this case, you'll need to think back to before the addiction took over to figure out why you thought you weren't worthy of real love and turned to fake love instead. Painful rejections, abusive relationships, developing too early and "noticing girls" before any other boys did and the girls reciprocating that interest, general self esteem issues and thinking no one would be interested in you (and then why that happened, adolescence can be very confusing), something else? I know now it's kind of a self fulfilling prophecy now (no one will want a gooner, and so I will goon), but there would have been an "initial problem" that lead you to it.

The problem is, like most addictions, one becomes desensitized to "the easy stuff" and has to go for "stronger stuff" to get the high, and in this case that means "specialized stuff that costs money" since "the free stuff just doesn't do it anymore." It's almost the same reason for why a crack addict that's been using for years needs a hit that's strong enough to kill a horse to feel anything.

Can confirm. I've met an online friend IRL and we referred to each other by our screen names because "that just felt right."

Mee to.

That sounds pretty reasonable. Alternatively, if you want to make the consumable "scarce," make it so the item can be obtained easily for reasonably abundant in-game currency but only in certain places that can be tedious but not prohibitively so to backtrack to. Paper Mario did that pretty well with how there were some items that were only available in certain town shops; coins were easy enough to grind but not freely flowing, everything except ultra shoom and jammin jelly was available in the shops (with some only available in later game shops), and the inventory was limited so it was "what items do I want to hold."

What glue do you use? My head gets super oily and the glue wouldn't stick.

They don't give out crowns with the meal where I live, they're just scattered around the restaurant. Hope you can find one.

thanks