Charismatic streamers can make it work cause usually people will not just watch for the game but also to just interact with the streamer and hear him/her crack jokes and give thoughts on stuff happening in the game. It's a similar vibe you'd get from hanging out with a friend on the couch and you could also just put streams on as background noise while doing something else.
Lowtax seemed bored and annoyed during the entire stream. Like he would have rather been doing anything else.
Lowtax knows this, that's why he thinks his claim as "only taking tramadol" proves he's totally not a pill addict. Pill addicts wouldn't even bother getting a script for tramadol filled.
Actual allergies to opioids are very, very rare. I have a genuine allergic reaction to opioids, which I found out in my twenties when I was prescribed some after a mountain-bike accident. My entire face and throat blew up to basketball proportions and I was rushed to the hospital barely able to breathe. There's a gigantic red flag in my medical chart for it. When I had surgery a few years ago, there were cards and flags over all the surgical notes and even hanging on my gurney alerting not to give me any opioids under any circumstances. A special anesthetist was called in to do the anesthesia. LowT has posted pics from the hospital and talked about his surgeries and has never shown or mentioned any of that. I agree with you, Lowtax is a junkie liar who is as full of shit about this as about everything else.
Tramadol is a funny drug that I hesitate to call an opioid, and even lamer than tapentadol or dextropropoxyphene, but he may think he is allergic in that trying to get an equivalent effect (you can find dose equivalence charts online, none very accurate) to a decent dose of an actual fairly selective full agonist will likely produce serotonin syndrome and other unpleasantness long before that happens. Indeed even some of the good drugs like oxycodone at the higher doses (500mg IV as a ballpark) have significant and unpleasant non opioid receptor mediated effects. Of course everyone says they're allergic to codeine and tramadol, though.
