Since I started using aas I have come across so many people who use high doses. Some look amazing and others look crap. Plus the gear is crap these days argument is not true. There are loads of good sources. Go check out the anasci forum who are testing random products from sources on here. Yes there is loads of crap but there is also loads of good stuff. We just had Jano test most of our oils and everything came back great. That includes 95% primo and 104% tren a. We are not the only source putting out good stuff either as there are many of them.
I have taken 40mg dbol back in the day and blew up and my mate would use 200mg of the same dbol and be fine (blew up but the amount was not needed). I know someone who used 10 grams of test. Another who used some much stuff he wouldn't even be able to tell you how much. He would inject 9ml (3ml x 3) whenever he felt like it which was a lot. Some guys don't respond like others either... some are almost non responders to some drugs.
Guys act like people can't take those doses but some can. High doses do work but they are also not magical. If you have a guy eating poorly with subpar genetics he won't look much different from 1g to 5g's. Sometimes people look even better at lower doses as it's less stress and they feel better (train and eat better etc).
I have posted this so many times on here but everyone blew up when they first starting using dbol, adrol, test etc. Plus our perceptions change and if we were to look back at what we looked like when we thought we "blew up" we would probably laugh... I know as I did it with myself. When you use dbol for the 20th time it doesn't have the same effect especially if you weigh 50 pounds more. What I am trying to say is the gear didn't suddenly just stop working or become impossible to find. Yes it was all pharm grade years ago but you can still get great gear.