cigar easier to deal with
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Iāve never smoked but I find cigarettes disgusting. The smell is one of the most horrible things on this planet, but some people seem to enjoy it for some reason.
I donāt like the smell of cigars either, but itās not nearly as bad.
I occasionally look at lightersā¦ I use them for heatshrink tubing and 3D print de-stringing purposes.
Before the USB-C irons were a thing, I used to use butane ones rather often so Iāve had a lighter in my toolbox for a while now.
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Itās called addiction. Iām sure meth doesnāt taste like peppermint 
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I grew up with a chain smoking grandmother, whom I revered. And I had to watch her die in the most horrific way possible when a lifetime supply of cancer came due, all at once and in a rush. This has given me a harsh view of cigarrettes.
I donāt know how to explain this, but Iām disgusted by the misery for profit business model. Strangely enough I donāt extend this so much towards cigars, (still donāt wanna smell it). I guess Iād attribute this as cigars being more of a personal choice and cigarettes being the delivery vehicle of an addiction fueled, disease causing, death machine being run solely for money. Capitalism in itās most brutal and reprehensible form.
I guess itās because I donāt see people being bound, forced, or thrust into, to a lifetime cycle of an addictive drug with cigars. Put another way, I donāt see chain smoking cigars. Most people enjoy one every now and then. Fine, you be you, even if I insist on standing upwind. The poor bastards who get hooked on cigarettes young, the too poor / uneducated to know better when they start, those people I pity. And that whole cycle really pisses me off.
I would give literally anything to spend ten minutes talking to my grandmother again. Anything.
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My understanding, a cigar has only tobacco leaf in it (still nicotine addictive but youāre not supposed to inhale a cigar anyway so not as strong), but they add all kinds of nasty junk to a cigarette.
Myself, I cant stand the smell of cigarette smoke, but cigar and pipe tobacco smell is pleasant.
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This makes no sense because weāre discussing smoke, but Iāve always regarded cigarette smoke as harsh and dry, and cigar smoke as moist and slightly oily. Thereās definitely a difference.
And Iāll say, I find pipe tobacoo pleasant. Iād enjoy it thoroughly if I just didnāt know what it was.
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So much for any thoughts of sunbathing today in Aspenā¦
Just sat through a 15 minute hailstorm in 79 degree (~26c) weather.
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Holy fuck
That is awesome.
What a tour list.
A good option for those struggling to find installers in their area
Iām sure we will be referring to him as a viable option quite number of times in the future
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My favorite part
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Going to Atlanta on the 9th of May and back again 9th June
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Not a dialect Iāve seen websites support before. Wonder what location settings made it default to this translation today?
Abeg mek yu wait 120 sekond mek yu fit download dis file.
Once you get a download link e go valid for several hours.
For big files, we dey recommend make you use download manager to stop any wahala.
Well now I really want to join the DT club!
Itāll probably have to wait until maybe Octoberā¦ Hey, just in time to summon something for Spooky Day! ļ¼ć»āć»)
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Maybe early October just in case? 
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Fire as a default
Im working on a little pi HAT to pull the IP and display it on a 7 segment display without the need to enable I2C or SPI. Is there any interest for me to make more than 1 and record the process?
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Any particular reason you hated it?
Certain points or aspects were annoying or boring imo, but Iām curious what you hated about it? (No judgement, I want to understand your perspective.)
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I mean if you paid full price you probably bought the game early, closer to when it came outā¦ which from what I hear (and the multitude of youtube videos), it was a dumpster fire that took years to refine. I personally enjoy it, but I only bought it like a year ago (with full DLC etc.)
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Cyberpunk 2077 is a game that I kinda enjoyed at first. But as time went by, I became more and more disgusted with Johnnyā¦
I bought that game because I of the augmentation side of it. I wanted to enjoy looking at fictional cyborgs with stuff that Iād order immediately if it was available. Therefore I had no knowledge of the franchise, and had no expectations for the characters in the gameā¦
But I got tired of the asshole rockerboyā¦ I also found the politics a bit annoying, along with how they conflated capitalism and corporatism. And I disliked that you had to play through some sexual scenes in order to get some of the endings, and thereās a part of the story that takes place in a brothel. Finally, the new age bullcrap brought back some bad memories.
Not to mention, some of the events in the game reminded me of this: 2003 El Nogal Club bombing - Wikipedia
That hit way too close to homeā¦
I did not encounter that many bugs, but I was running it on high end hardware so this probably helped hide most of the dumpster fire.
On a side note, was I the only one who wanted to get Adam Smasherās body? 
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Believe it or not, another major update releases tomorrow.
Yeah thatāll do it
Iām sure you understand that there are world/lore/dystopia/etc reasons why these themes are so prevalent and nearly required in order to properly portray the world and some of the underlying themes and messages of the franchise as a whole, but I also understand how these can generally be problematic for some people who want to enjoy a game without anyā¦ unwanted piecesā¦ in their face.
Also for the record I donāt believe any of the endings require you to go through any of the sexual scenes, save for the [memory with Alt Cunningham] that is required to progress through the middle of the main story. You can still get āThe Starā ending without making the Basilisk smell odd for example.
Understandable, truly.
Me personally, I think it was too big for my taste. Assuming I were given the option to customize a 90%+ robotic version of myself, Iād like to remain of normalish human form factor. At the very least replace my limbs, spine, eye(s), and maybe some internal organs. Iād sure love a second heart or more efficient and durable lungs.
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Looking for a reason to take interest in it, I watched a playthrough of the first couple hours of it, and I wasnāt sold. Itās a game called āCyberpunkā and the setting is cyberpunk and the premise isā¦ cyberpunk. Okayā¦ I love cyberpunk, and I certainly get the cyberpunk vibes, but cyberpunk what? Cyberpunk stories are about things. I couldnāt tell what Cyberpunk 2077 was supposed to be about.
It would be like if an author of a high fantasy novel couldnāt think of any more descriptive a title than āHigh Fantasy.ā It didnāt give me much confidence that they had any clarity of artistic vision beyond figuring out the setting. Maybe itās good, but it just never managed to draw me in.
I also found the politics a bit annoying, along with how they conflated capitalism and corporatism.
I didnāt see it in what I watched, but that always is annoying. People often say corporations are the villains in cyberpunk, but usually even they are just the government, part of the unpleasant backdrop, the dark setting wherein the heroes and actual villains play. But capitalism isnāt the villain of cyberpunk at all. Did they make it out to be?
And I disliked that you had to play through some sexual scenes in order to get some of the endings, and thereās a part of the story that takes place in a brothel.
I was worried about how theyād handle that, and have heard it had some conflicting messages. The cyberpunk genre tends to use the abuse of sex and drugs as an analogy for the abuse of technology - good things taken out of their healthy context and turned into obsessions for their own sakes. The genre doesnāt take it lightly, but as an element of horror. This is a point where it sounds like they got the aesthetic of cyberpunk without the heart.
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