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chitoryu12 posted:Vaporizing typically has extremely little in the way of carcinogens (if you're an idiot who tries to increase the power to have a more intense hit, then you run the risk of making it even more carcinogenic than a cigarette), so people use it to get their nicotine hit without taking 10 or 15 years off their life and avoid going cold turkey. The clouds are harmless except for the smell, unlike secondhand smoke. I wasn't referring to carcinogens, just nicotine addiction. Smokers have been marginalized in the last couple of decades and vaping, at least initially removed a lot of the social pressures that kept people from smoking every drat place they wanted to. I would think that would result in people being uber addicted to nicotine to the point where they think they have to vape all the time. I just remember what it was like with chain smoking parents back when you could smoke anywhere. Our cars had no resale value.
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Sagebrush posted:which is worse I remember seeing a bit of a video a while back from one of these "vape-trick championship" things where they were comparing themselves to the Z-Boys/Dogtown pioneering skateboarding. "YOU JUST WAIT AND SEE, WE'LL BE COOL AND FAMOUS SOMEDAY THEN WE'LLL GET TO LAUGH AT YOU!" also, wtf is with that laser tag. I thought they were just doing warm ups or something before heading into an actual laser tag arena but apparently that was the actual tie-breaker match?
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God bless you. You're the honorary Say Nothing.
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Sagebrush posted:or championship laser tag? I'm incredibly confused by how this is meant to progress.
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In case you're like me and didn't think he got both kids at first, the video makes it pretty clear he did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_qsSaEm4sA That's some fast thinking.
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Okay I looked up that laser tag thing and apparently it's got some really specific rules.quote:Another tournament format that has a rich history with USA and Fin players is the LOR event. LOR is the only game format played outside the arena in the full view of the spectators. There are no partitions, just a 4m(13 feet) diameter circle that 3 players battle in to see who is the master of the 'stand off'. 'Standing Off' is the skill in Laser Tag of having a 1 on 1 battle with another player without using arena cover. The art of dodging another player's shot whilst simultaneously firing back at them and attempting to tag that player. Watching the USA and Finland players dodge, weave and dance is a spectacle unto itself. So the shoulders and gun are the only valid targets. The players are trying to keep their backs to the other players and shoot over their shoulders to avoid exposing their targets. Whoever takes the fewest hits wins.
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I just finished a 5 months of research on vaping and spent alot of time interviewing people from all sections of the industry about the market, future forecasts, user journeys, liquid manufacture, retailing, regulation and pretty much everything to do with it. About 93% or more of vapers are normal people who just want to stop smoking cigarettes. A large subsection, probably a large majority don't really want to stop using nicotine as if the delivery is safe then nicotine is relatively harmless. A lot of them are older people who've seen family and friends die of lung/throat cancer. This 95% don't want to blow huge clouds. They're more often then not embarrassed to be identified as vapers and they hate that vape culture poo poo. About 5% are the hobbyists who want to blow clouds. Of these there's a smaller segment who don't give a gently caress about anyone and vape wherever they want and it's important to be aware they're not obnoxious because they vape, they vape because they're obnoxious. If they'd gotten into motorcycles they'd be the motocyclists that ruin it for everyone. If they got into bicycling they'd be the ones drivers complain about. They're the sort who get into BDSM and walk their slave around on a leash in public. The schadenfreude is on everyone who does smoke because the small minority have helped make a bad name for vaping which increases the social barriers for people to stop smoking cigarettes. You can very easily make the case that vilifying people who vape has cost and will cost lives and taxpayer money. I've never smoked or vaped but it's aggravating listening to industry players talk about how this minority is ruining it for the responsible users and then seeing that exact thing happen.
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Crocoswine posted:it doesn't matter if there are health consequences don't be an obnoxious gently caress who blows fuckin' clouds everywhere because it's annoying and rude as poo poo I dunno in this case I feel for the other side. There are solid reasons for not wanting someone to smoke cigarettes inside with you around or wherever else you could get a faceful of their secondhand smoke. Number one of course is that it is bad for you. Take the solid reason away and leftover complainers are pretty much just nazis that want to boss other people around. Finding an action annoying or w/e isn't a very good reason for trying to boss a stranger around. gently caress you. Stop wearing cordoroy. Get rid of that stupid moustache. Lose some fuckin weight. See? I come across as kinda a dick. Makes you think. So yeah in closing Crocoswine is literally hitler.
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chitoryu12 posted:Okay I looked up that laser tag thing and apparently it's got some really specific rules. I guess the bits where they're all hopping around is meant to be them avoiding telegraphing their next move to their opponents, but it still looks hilarious
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What're the odds we'll get schadenfreude from learning that vaping doesn't cause lung cancer... But DOES cause some other terminal disease?
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Regalingualius posted:What're the odds we'll get schadenfreude from learning that vaping doesn't cause lung cancer... But DOES cause some other terminal disease? Like anal cancer? Because that would be brutal.
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Sagebrush posted:which is worse I was going to say vaping until I watched the second video. What the gently caress.
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Vaping derails are tolerable if only because I have Cloud to Butt Plus.ilmucche posted:I don't like vaping because of my butt. If I'm behind someone smoking on the street the smoke disperses fairly quick and I don't get much of a whiff. Someone vaping puts out a huge butt that lingers and I get a face full of whatever sickly sweet shite they're huffing.
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So wait, vaping does have nicotine? Or not? Nobody I talk to seems to know, and either possibility has aspects that make it not make sense to me.
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Data Graham posted:So wait, vaping does have nicotine? Or not? It's both. you can get/make/blend the flavors in varying nicotine concentrations from 0 to plenty.
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toplitzin posted:It's both. you can get/make/blend the flavors in varying nicotine concentrations from 0 to plenty. Yeah, people trying to quit smoking? Nicotine. Dudes blowing huge clouds? Probably not (unless they really like nicotine poisoning).
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On a smaller scale, there's also the MONQ aromatherapy vaporizers. They ostensibly use no ingredients except essential oils and water, and you're supposed to exhale the vapor out your nose. I've tried them and they're pretty nice if you want to smell something pretty, but they're otherwise just an alternative to incense. It's pretty much impossible to blow more vapor than a normal cigarette, so no competitions with them.
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Wanna blow some clouds so dense and billowy that they scare delicate children.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Wanna blow some clouds so dense and billowy that they scare delicate children. Somebody post the video of the dude huffing a fog machine tia.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Wanna blow some clouds so dense and billowy that they scare delicate children. I glanced at this and saw "blow" and "children" in the same sentence and panicked for a moment.
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I look forward to the subsequent rash of popcorn lung in older folks of my generation, because so many of the flavorings deemed to be safe for vaping by the companies selling them have been approved as food grade substances but not as something to inhale, and they can gently caress up your lungs something fierce.
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My boss vapes, but she does it to quit smoking and she doesn't do the cloud bullshit and she still takes it outside the guard shack like she used to do with her cigarettes. That's my vape story.
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Sagebrush posted:or championship laser tag? If only they had a gun this tragedy could be avoided.
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Bip Roberts posted:If only they had a gun this tragedy could be avoided. I know this is meant to be a joke, but I think you're right.
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It looks like he's back in his father's garage. How far til rock bottom for the ol' Beast?
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Data Graham posted:So wait, vaping does have nicotine? Or not? I'm done with the things since I've made myself sick with them before, they're harder to keep track of than "I've smoked (x) cigarettes today" and it's easy to really get hooked. Also idiots who don't keep track of their wattage tend to blow up batteries by grossly over drawing them. The ones you see blowing up in pockets probably weren't locked down right since the mechanical ones just have a ring you screw back to keep the button from being pushed. Parts Kit has a new favorite as of 22:44 on Dec 23, 2016 |
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Grem posted:It looks like he's back in his father's garage. How far til rock bottom for the ol' Beast? What do we even classify as rock bottom for Kevin Strahle? He doesn't seem to really do anything but hurt himself for attention and get kicked out of more and more living spaces for wrecking them.
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Grem posted:It looks like he's back in his father's garage. How far til rock bottom for the ol' Beast? he's probably home for christmas
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Grem posted:It looks like he's back in his father's garage. How far til rock bottom for the ol' Beast? Is that a Cobra?
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It's a cober. It does a flat.
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Grem posted:There's so much here. I can decide if my favorite is the guy who probably broke half his face on the middle left, the guy flipping over a loving seat back right, or the lady in the bottom right who can't figure out if her head really just made a right angle backwards.  
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Wear a loving helmet you loving gently caress.
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Outrail posted:Wear a loving helmet you loving gently caress. The Something Awful Forums > Post Your Favourite > Schadenfreude Thread: Wear A loving Helmet You loving gently caress
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Merry Christmas, LA Beast, wherever you are.
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