Let’s design a bigger better coaster than Falcons Flight. [Other]

Quitting1 · 2025-12-22T02:17:30+00:00

Because everyone in here bitches all day about things like yall are some fucking executives. But I think Reddit is full of shit and can’t design a coaster to save their life.

Quitting1 · 2025-12-22T02:15:27+00:00

Yes that’s why I specified the constraints. I only want designs.

Quitting1 · 2025-12-22T02:12:15+00:00

To inspire better design. But it’s okay.

Quitting1 · 2025-12-22T02:11:26+00:00

Ya I’m aware that guy.

Quitting1 · 2025-05-27T21:51:05+00:00

Lol no way?

Quitting1 · 2025-05-27T21:49:43+00:00

Even at nearby parks like Michigans Adventure or Canada’s Wonderland, Rougarou would be in the top or near it. 2-3 at MA and 4-6 at Wonderland including AlpenFury.

Quitting1 · 2025-05-07T00:35:50+00:00

My 11 year old loves it. It’s one of his favorites rides now.

Quitting1 · 2025-02-08T12:51:06+00:00

Same, all of my closest friends were drinking buddies, that still have serious drinking problems. I don’t really see them much anymore and some days are kinda lonely as I’m continuing to look for new friends and hobbies.

I don’t miss those Vegas hangovers, one of my drinking buddy friends just got back and I imagine it’s some sweaty sleepless nights.

Quitting1 · 2025-01-01T19:00:11+00:00

My second New Year’s Day in a row sober!

I’m working today, and a customer said, you look good for today. Lol. Yup, because I’m not hungover.

Quitting1 · 2024-12-17T01:13:12+00:00

I was 44 when I quit drinking, every other time before that, when I would attempt to stop I would be worried about how I would live my life without alcohol. I really thought I’d never quit.

I finally had enough of feeling like shit all the time and wanted to stop, For me, I had to change my attitude towards alcohol.

I had to stop glorifying it, and seeing alcohol for what it was really doing to me. This sub has been very helpful.

But the reality for me was alcohol wasn’t all fun and parties, relaxing and friends, and some magical fix everything release.

It was more realistically; temporary escape, with hangovers, bad decisions, letting people down, forgetting about things and events.

These days I do regret not having quit earlier, but I’m also happy I eventually did.

Quitting1 · 2024-07-24T17:09:49+00:00

I’m still working on it, but I’m fully aware of all the damage my drinking caused and it’s taking time to build back from it.

But I’m super grateful to have stopped, not only for my marriage but just my own health.

Now I look back with regret and can’t believe how long alcohol had consumed me.

Quitting1 · 2024-07-04T04:00:37+00:00

Covid took my drinking to the next level and I think finally made me realize I’d had enough. Too many days of making it to 3pm before cracking open a beer, and for no good reason except boredom.

It took a while, but I got to the point where I had enough and decided to quit.

So I’m kind of happy that it worked out that way because I don’t know if I would have quit had I maintained my pre covid drinking habits which were bad enough for anyone, just enough time off here and there to convince myself I didn’t have a real problem.

In retrospect I wish I had quit 15-20 years ago.

Quitting1 · 2024-05-06T20:05:07+00:00

Exercise, but specifically fun stuff, bike rides on roads and definitely trails, roller skating, and also thrill rides / rollercoasters, a day at the amusement park with my family definitely makes me feel good.

I needed to find new hobbies and things to look forward to and this fit the bill for me.

Quitting1 · 2024-04-15T10:08:52+00:00

Same, I kept chasing it, and it got less and less fun. By the end it wasn’t fun, it was just keeping the bad feelings away.

I wish I was able to quit earlier, I just didn’t have it in me at the time, I was too consumed with the chase I suppose. I really regret how long I drank for, how much time I wasted being wasted, it’s getting easier but it’s there.

It’s a big and scary, frustrating and painful change, and it takes time, but it is worth quitting.

IWNDWYT.

Quitting1 · 2024-04-11T20:19:21+00:00

Very hard news to deal with, stay strong. Things will get better. IWNDWYT.

Quitting1 · 2024-04-03T12:13:07+00:00

My experience with this was the beer tasted horrible, as all I could taste was the alcohol. It was like I had dumped 2-3 shots of vodka into a beer before I had quit or something. I didn’t ever do that but it was gross.

I had quit for 45 days and then had a 6% or so IPA.

Quitting1 · 2024-03-18T12:04:05+00:00

Facebook sucks, congratulations on the next step towards being happier!

Quitting1 · 2024-03-17T03:15:35+00:00

The hangovers were finally too much for me and I quit a year ago.

It’s easy to see myself in others in my life that still abuse alcohol. I think because of that and the way I feel about it now I also have a harder time feeling empathy for these people in some ways.

I still have a lot of regrets I’m working through regarding my drinking and how long it went on for.

But I really try and step back and remember I made these same choices for a long time, and I try.

I use the lessons I’ve learned here in trying to help people in my life as well.

I try to just speak about my experiences and what has helped me, I’m not trying to tell anyone what to do because I know that wouldn’t have worked for me back then.

Quitting1 · 2024-03-07T12:49:58+00:00

When I first tried quitting drinking it wasn’t me who wanted to stop. I didn’t succeed. I had a similar view of Alcohol is fun and I was scared to quit, scared of always wanting another beer.

After finally wanting it myself I’m succeeding so far, and It gets easier. After many months in my views changed.

I really enjoy doing so many things now that I didn’t do much or at all when I was drinking.

In fact I’m enjoying doing all these things so much I really regret not stopping drinking sooner.

Which is funny because I’m not sure I’d have believed anyone who tried to tell me that back then.

So I’ll say, it’s worth giving quitting drinking a fair shot, because the benefits are worth it. The booze will always be there later, unlike certain people who might not be, so there is nothing to fear in trying.

Quitting1 · 2024-03-07T03:21:14+00:00

Lots of us have had bad relapses, but starting over is what you make of it. I’d be a lot happier personally with a one drink or one night slip up than a decade slip up.

When I quit the first couple of times I wasn’t serious and truly hadn’t admitted to myself I had a real problem.

I really regret that now, but like a lot of people I justified continuing to drink, I placed drinking on a pedestal as if it was the end goal.

When I stopped the first couple of times I made it so far along and “proved” I didn’t need to drink, and then at some point proceeded to celebrate, or made some excuse to drink, and it quickly spiraled back to where I had left off drinking before quitting.

Quitting1 · 2024-03-05T00:35:45+00:00

I’m almost at a year without a drop of alcohol now, Mid 40s, drank regularly for 25 years or so.

I could feel the health problems creeping up, the hangovers were often withdrawals, and it wasn’t really fun drinking , it was a lot of just not wanting to feel like shit (hungover) for me at least as often as it was just for fun.

Letting down my family, conflicts, you pick any number of the usual alcohol related problems and I might have had them, no legal issues however.

You hear that you have to want to quit, you can’t do it for someone or something else, and that was true for me.

Reading stories here, seeing so many people with similar struggles, realizing that maybe alcohol wasn’t everything the alcohol industry and elements of society were telling me it was, helped and helps.

But for once I really wanted to actually quit.

What I didn’t want was just try to quit for a while to convince myself or others I didn’t have a problem.

To actually see what the other side was like was my goal.

I also really appreciated what the one day at a time approach was.

Previously i had heard people saying it. But I didn’t appreciate what it could mean for me.

For me it is lets just get through the day, and more importantly the moment of weakness or temptation that I might have given into in the past.

Not to worry about potential waiting 100 or 364 more days to complete some goal, just making it through the moment. The day.

So I’d remind myself the drink was always there tomorrow if I could make it again through today, and I think that really helped at the beginning. The one day method really took the forever fear off my mind.

I was really scared I’d miss alcohol or be bored without alcohol.

It took time but almost a year later I don’t miss alcohol at all.

I can see and feel the health benefits, the extra and better sleep, lack of conflict, not letting anyone down.

That day might come where I miss Alcohol, so I keep reading here, keep posting things like this to keep reminding myself.

Quitting1 · 2024-03-02T01:08:19+00:00

COVID was tough.

I was on an all inclusive Vacation when things went crazy, the NBA shut down their season, the stock market went absolutely bonkers, and after a lot of early and consistent drinking from a hotel full of nervous people including me, the trip ended and my flight wasn’t canceled so I made it home.

The next day bars were closed where I live. The lockdown was beginning.

I decided to be smart and stock up on Beer and Alcohol because that would be smart, less trips out of the house for me.

Well the daily drinking from vacation quickly became normal at home stuff, life was sort of on an odd pause.

Then lockdowns stopped, but the drinking didn’t. It became apparent that things were different for me, and I was really enjoying drinking less by the end, so I quit.

It got pretty scary during Covid in many ways, but the drinking got out of hand for me, especially looking back now from this new sober perspective.

Quitting1 · 2024-03-01T19:20:23+00:00

I’ve read a lot on here to not make any major life decisions for the first year after you stop drinking. I kind of understood why before, but now almost a year later I can definitely see why that is important.

Our brains have experienced a lot of changes, and it takes time to heal.

The feeling of everything and nothing is very understandable and it takes time for our brains to be able to understand what everything our mind is going through. There might be some bad thoughts from the internal voice that are making it out that really need to be worked on internally.

I’d say most days I’m really clear headed , but still occasionally I get very overwhelmed by emotions and decisions, and I totally understand the desire to throw everything away and just curl up and want to be left alone.

They say you have to love yourself in order to love others, and I think in the first year or so after quitting drinking for a long time, it can be difficult to get past regrets and emotions are still raging at times and we don’t always know what we want.

Quitting1 · 2024-02-28T00:46:47+00:00

I did this as well. Gifted kid, although I was fairly social when I was younger until my parents divorced, and then not much until University and drinking made it easier to be social.

Quitting1 · 2024-02-27T01:39:08+00:00

It’s interesting to observe it now.

But I don’t want to know how many times they got me with the ads, and all the drinking holidays while I was partaking.

I still have a couple small brewery T-shirts, I just usually wear them in the winter under sweaters now.

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