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Lol, buncha normies up in this thread.
Being drunk can be, and often is, a lot of fun. There's a reason why it's probably one of the oldest and most frequently used mind alterants in history.
That said, getting drunk by itself is a pretty neutral, if not unpleasant, experience. What it does do is make everything else you're doing more enjoyable. The music is hitting harder, the person you're talking to is more attractive, YOU'RE more attractive, the joke you told is funnier, etc. It amplifies all the emotions, and since it also reduces anxiety, often the whole of those emotions experiences are positive.
Creativity flows, free assocation is strong, your mood is expansive and gregarious.
As for how much control you have, it's like a sliding scale. At the light end, you're still pretty much in complete control of your facilities, though you may do things because your mood is better. As one becomes drunker a multitude of things happen that undermine one's self-control until there is very little or none left and people run on a kind of autopilot that is a combination of basic human instincts and the behavioral patterns developed over their lifetime.
There is a type of mental fog that gets stronger as the scale moves farther into drunkeness. This fog begins to inhibit higher order thinking until you can't make any decisions besides satisfying the most immediate physical needs, or deep seated psychological drives.
Anyway, it's a lot of fun until it isn't.
This sums it up pretty well.
Someone once told me "getting drunk is fun, being drunk isn't." and it rings pretty true.
Funny how you explain alcohol like I would explain weed.
Weed for me is the universal emotion amplifier. It amplifies enjoyment (music, food, anything) as much as it amplifies anxiety. In fact weed helped me confront my anxieties and become a more chill person overall. I had to choose between keeping my unprocessed fears and continue vaping weed and decided to work through it, confront and think through the weird fears that my anxious brain constantly produced, repressed and weed surfaced. In that sense, I believe weed can be a therapeutic drug, when combined with some proper self-reflection, CBT skills, and not using absurdly high THC strains.
Alcohol for me primarily increases the "not giving a fuck"-ness, causing mild relaxation in the beginning and removing self control and filters at higher dosage. It quickly becomes physically unpleasant for me to I learned "my limits" when I was younger, its not fun at all to go beyond them and not worth it so I stick to a few beer or glasses of wine at most and avoid stuff that gets you drunk quicker than you can control it. The "buzzed" sweet spot is really narrow for me, probably I'm lucky that my body rejects alcohol so that overdoing it is self-torture.
But of course everyone is different.
Right on