14 years of heavy heroin addiction leaves a toll. Kudos for him for getting clean, but also its reasonable to think that massive iv drug use at a young age causes developmental deficits.

If you like sound design, the sound design in Don’t Starve is by far the best ive ever heard. It is the game that convinced me of your point.

Totally. Matt Yglesias calls this the “crank realignment.”

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-crank-realignment-is-bad-for