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What is your relation with alcohol?
I just want to hear different POV.
Do you want to quit drinking?
Do you want to drink less?
Do you drink just OK?
Do you have rules about alcohol (ie: only the weekend)
Thank you for sharing
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Only when I socialize. Leading to the question, do I drink to socialize or socialize to drink?
After years of heavy binge drinking I renegotiated my relationship with alcohol and now only drink occasionally and never binge.. it's been this way for nearly ten years now, I'm happier and healthier for it..
Hi,
I don’t drink at all - it doesn’t agree with me. I also can’t drink coffee/caffeine for the same reason. Yes, I know I’m weird 😉
What unhealthy product that makes you happy? Are you at least eating cookies?
Do you find it difficult to stop? The decision of not drinking a 6th beers is always made by someone who already drank 5 beers, so it's not always rational.
I can’t really handle it so I avoid it. I used to drink pretty heavily and become kind of wild when I do drink so I just stick with marijuana. I like being high a lot more than being drunk anyway personally
Partied too hard as a teen and young adult, so now my body isn’t so tolerant of things like alcohol, which makes it easy to avoid entirely. I don’t miss it.
Two glasses of wine is the limit for me...any more and I get a blinding headache...
I drink a lot but I can take it or leave it.
Not at all. I’m 37 now, and about two years ago something in my body stopped responding to both alcohol and caffeine so neither livens me up anymore, just makes me need a nap. It’s odd; a good strong cup of coffee skips the stimulating part and now just goes straight to that post-caffeine peak hangover of feeling slightly strung out and mentally drained.
I love alcohol—whiskey and scotch, (beer’s gross always has been, always will be)—too much, so I’m glad my body kinda started rejecting it. It was still difficult to break the dependence on it; despite it putting me to sleep for a couple years now, I kept up the habit for wayyy too long. Now, I don’t miss it like I thought I would, but honestly that’s only because it doesn’t do its magic tramsformative social tricks for me any more. I’d still like my caffeine kicks as a consolation, but I guess that’s unhealthy, too.
I didn’t read this thread past the post I replied to, and I’m not gonna be a preacher, just remind you if you’re in a place you don’t wanna be with alcohol or anything, really…that it’s never, ever sad, weak, or shameful to ask for help.
I’ve never been much of a quantity person, when I was in my 30s (which is when I actually started drinking booze) I just couldn’t keep up with everyone.
About 20 years ago I brewed my own bitter (even all-grain, but that took entire Saturdays) and although you’d think there’s beer on tap available with no limit, I found I’d forget to drink it.
These years I’ve switched over to wine after realising that I’d avoided wine because of wine snobs and wine knowledge that nobody tells you about – I said fuck the gatekeepers, I’ll learn hardly anything about it, just the minimum needed to know what’s what, and get into it. About the only knowledge I needed after all was to avoid the cheap tier ~£5 at the supermarket, get a bottle that was more like £15 but on offer at £10, and avoid a hangover the next day (mind you it’ll take me all week to finish a bottle) (well maybe a weekend in the case of the Cotes du Rhône Villages that was so easy and nice I found myself having half the bottle last night and still feel ideal).
But, the big revelation this summer for me was realising that 0% alcohol cider and 0% alcohol bitter is now very very good. Changes and improvements in the process of making 0% booze (and also the increased demand for it) have made it so it’s just about indistinguishable from the higher alcohol variant of the same sort, in some cases. This significant improvement has only really come about in the last few years. So now I get a lot of the 0% in and I’m happy with that.
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I don”t drink much, or often. It’s for occasions, typically, or (rarely) “just because” when catching up with only certain people.
Which is just fine for me and my partner. We can enjoy it here and there, and it’s never a problem on any level.
edit: I used to drink a lot more, years ago. Don’t miss that at all.
I’m 35 and bought into the whole party culture from my mid 20s to early 30s, just alcohol and weed. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Never considered myself an alcoholic but I’ll admit to being a pot head. However, my tune has changed quite drastically. I now consider those years to be wasted (pun intended) and shame on me for falling for some bullshit that elevated destroying your mind and body to some sort of sick leisurely pasttime. It’s absolutely absurd and degenerate as all hell when you really think deeply about it. I don’t care if you have a single glass of wine or whiskey in an entire year, at best it’s only worthless, at worst it’s actively harmful. So I’m staying sharp. Forever. Maybe I’ll lose friends. I don’t care. What’s right is right. I don’t need a creative aid, I don’t need a socializing aid, all a bunch of bullshit, those notions.
I’ll be dammed if I’m gonna be 40,45,55 years old wondering to myself “at whose home are we drinking tonight? Which bar? Should I travel to an exotic location so I can drink and carry on there?” It’s the same shit, different day. NO THANKS. I already have all I need right here within.
These are my opinions, you may take from them what you will, or leave them.
I feel like a pig shat in my head.
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I never drank too much or just for the sake of it. But the real eye opener for me was when I experienced and understood the huge difference between the Mediterranean/Southern/French idea of drinking with restraint, for enjoyment, mostly with your food and the Northern concept of drinking to get loud and get pissed.
I'm simplifying here, of course, but I'm sure you get what I mean - like if you read the term "binge drinking", none of you will think of Italian or Spanish people. 🤷
Ever since that realisation, it's the Mediterranean way with alcohol for me.
When I was 17, I worshipped alcohol. Then, and through my 20s, I reveled in it. Vomit on myself, woohoo. Boot & rally!
When I reached my 30s, I tapered off naturally. Now, barely drink. Maybe a few a week. Maybe none.
Have lived many years with an alcoholic, who is deep in his second bout with cancer. Not saying alcohol caused either, but definitely exacerbated both. I have witnessed alcohol ravage many friends, more than any other drug.
About four or five drinks a year. Best in the summer with a friend. In the winter it is just depressing and inhibits my sleep so the hangover is twice as bad then. Nearing 50 now and weed oil is legal so it is an obvious transition as the aches and pains creep in. Had boozey fun in my 20s where hangovers were barely an issue but in my 30s it quickly seemed stupid.
Been (incidentally) terribly drunk a few times from age 15 until approx. 18 (searching for, crossing and finding borders). After that I began to work as a truck-driver, driving weekly from the Netherlands to France (stayed there the whole week). During that period I drank a lot: a kir royale or pastis before dinner, at minimum one bottle of wine during dinner and a beer or coffee with calvados after dinner wasn’t unusual. Did that work for six years and after that my complete view on alcohol changed. I don’t have “rules” or specific day’s when I drink, taste is what matters and not the alcohol/effect (which I don’t like). There are weeks where I nip 2 or 3 tiny glasses malt scotch (1 per day) but more often there are weeks that I do not drink. A few minutes from my city there’s a unique brewery (abbey) with great beer and in the summertime we show up maybe one or two times.
I really dislike the abuse of alcohol or the use of alcohol just to get wasted. Also the behavior that people show I really don’t like. What I like on Scotch Malt is the way it’s processed, the nose, taste, pallet.
Personal favorites: Laphroaig and Lagavullin (I like them full of smoke).
I was happy in the haze of my drunken youth, but heaven knows I’m boring now, or is it sensible
I drank a little in my late teens into my 20s, slowed down to occasional social drinks in my 30s. I’ve only had 2-3 glasses of wine in the past 4-5 years. If I never had another drink in my life that’d be fine. I smoke weed - much better in all ways. That being said, I have an upcoming vacation in a couple months - and I’m looking forward to having a couple margaritas on the beach..,
Rarely. It's more fun brewing it.
I eat cookies, chocolate, crisps, etc, but I try to stick to a certain no. of calories - so eat what I want as long as I don’t go too much over ~1500kcals/day. I mainly eat plain food, eg toast & butter, boiled rice, etc which growing up my family didn’t appreciate! My family really likes spicy food, which as a kid would give me hours of bad stomach ache 😣
@oat_phipps described it perfectly, how the body rejects certain things with time - The description of caffeine making you feel strung out/drained reminds me exactly how I used to feel! Good to know I’m not too weird then 😺 Also, I’m pretty sure that both alcohol & caffeine dehydrate the body, which isn’t great in the long term. Now, I just listen to my body, or to put it a different way, my body forces me to listen to it!
There was a lot of partying from high school to late 20’s but now I rarely drink. Maybe 10 times a year at a few parties and holidays. It makes me tired, unless I get a few shots in and blast through that wall, lol. Plus my hangovers are usually quite rough so I stick with mostly flowers.
Yea my relationship has definitely changed over time.
There is an app on sale, currently free. It’s a brewing app with recipe’s.
Beer Lab is free usually $.99
Edit, lol. Leave it to me to share an app sale, but it felt pertinent.
Used to drink heavily at times, particularly in my 20s, but now I just have an occasional beer.
i drink probably too much, which is a small pour of johnnie walker black as im prepping dinner most nights of the week.
this is better than what i used to drink, which was easily 6-10 drinks a night ( i went out ALOT, almost every night)
I do plan on stopping my daily habit as well. alcohol, like any other drug should be used with intent and purpose.
Well there in lies a tale, my drinking and drug use was always linked to unhappiness and a lack of fulfillment, in short I was in an unhappy and childless marriage for 14 years, I was 40 yrs old, 105kg and my blood pressure was through the roof, one day I pretty much snapped and decided I couldn't go on like it anymore, so I divorced, stopped drinking and taking recreational drugs and dove head first into cycling and running, dropped 20kg and met the love of my life and had two kids who are now 4 and 2.5, quitting was easy for me in all honesty, I knew where I was in my life and wanted to be a better person because the way I saw it I was headed to a lonely early grave..
Every day is a blessing now, I'm 50 and can still run a sub 30 min 5k, I've got a great family, a dog and a giant rabbit and yeah I still have a beer now and then but I'm not running from sadness like I was so I don't need to hide behind booze or drugs like I did..
The older I get, the less interested I become in alcoholic beverages.
My wife buys a bottle of wine once and a while, like maybe every two-to-four weeks, usually for a recipe, and sometimes I will have a glass or half a glass with dinner. I will taste it first, and often I just don’t like it so I don’t pour any for myself. She will make the remainder last a couple of evenings.
I like malty craft beers, but not the over-hopped IPAs that are popular in the US (taste bad to me). I like not feeling tired better than the taste of beer, and one serving of alcohol makes me feel tired, so I rarely drink beer anymore.
We teach/taught our kids, teens and a 24-year old, that there is nothing mysterious about alcohol. If my wife buys a really good bottle for a holiday meal or fancy recipe, and there is no school the next day, we offer them wine at about the 1/3 glass level. Our daughter, who will be sixteen in a few days, doesn’t like it at all. She is also super-cautious about what she puts into her body. Our 24-year old is similarly cautious and not interested in messing with his cognitive function beyond one serving.
There is alcoholism in my wife’s family that also informs our caution. Her (late) mother abstained completely due to fear over what it did to her parents. My wife’s last memory of her grandfather is of him waving goodbye to her on his way to the hospital to die of cirrhosis of the liver and looking yellow-green.