Honestly? You’d be surprised at how helpful it can be. I’ve sent routes with a slight buzz that I never could have done completely sober. It helps take the edge off the fear, and it helps you stay loose and keeps you from sapping all your strength from tensing too much. Every advantage helps when you’re pressing your limits.

Climbing while excessively drunk is of course a terrible idea.

Fun fact: This was actor and contortionist Doug Jones’s first role.

There is at least one. I’m not entirely sure how to link it, but it’s this one:

Sub.wetshaving.social

I believe op is referring to Bakshi’s Fire and Ice, not martin’s books. The rest of your point still stands though.

Something like this happened to me once before. I sent a pm to the tracker staff to ask about it; they responded that a leecher had a borked client causing it to repeatedly download the torrent again. I suspect something like that is what is happening here.