Late night me has had some really deep breakthroughs that I hope to someday understand.
I have a similar experience when I code while drinking.
I’ll come up with the most insane ways of doing it that surprisingly look really clean… but when I wake up in the morning it’s a “how did I even think of this and how does this work”

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Apple uses automated schnapps IVs.
An actual research paper published in March 2012 showed that the situation described in this comic is not far from reality. Researchers found that intoxicated participants performed better than sober participants on a test that evaluates creative problem solving skills, and were also more likely to evaluate their own solutions as insightful. However, the study only tested a B.A.C. of 0.075%, not between 0.129% and 0.138% as displayed in the comic.
My face when I look at it again a year later

That castle play set is one of the best toys money can buy.



