The woman you are interested will immediately become quite offended when you tell her a fantastic but true story explaining your recent bizarre behavior.
You can get drunk by simply standing at a bar and holding a glass while explaining your sad tale to your friends.
Neither the debris from the explosion, nor the impact of landing 20 feet from where you were, will cause any serious bodily damage. Moreover, you will not suffer any hearing damage in spite of your proximity.
Generic but monstrous opponents will die with a single arrow or bullet to any point on the body, but the ordinary dying hero will continue to fight as if only stunned when shot several times in the chest and vital organs.
If sounds are dulled and your world starts to go into slo-mo, that's probably a good time to look around and figure out which character you care about was just fatally wounded.
An onslaught of bad guys will always take you on one at a time so you have time to kill them individually and quickly rather than taking advantage of their numerical superiority.