Can't relate to any of this...I just shoot people, that's my therapy 
Video game people shooting when I can't do the real pew.
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I used to do a little hunter silhouette shooting. There's nothing like the clang of lead on steel. 
Thatâs a big part of the habit, but because Iâve rolled my own for 25 years, that habit is seriously missing.
When smoking in enclosed public spaces was banned here, I ended up often just rolling a smoke or two before going out as that act alone was often sufficient ⌠and a comfort blanket as I could far more quickly dive outside when things got awkward or simply âneed to be alone for a wee bit againâ.
I like alone (introvert)
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I used to spend time each morning stuffing my 50 daily cigarette tubes with an electronic machine. Costs worked out to about 3-cents per cigarette. Not much quitting incentive, right there.
Hell, if I make it a year I'll donate the damned machine to one of ya'll.
I was gonna add, "so you can finish killing yourself with them" but that sounded a bit arbitrary for only 36 days down. But if I make it a year, I will have earned that self-righteousness.
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Meh, it's the truth.
If I sufficiently frequent a store long enough that the staff knows what I'm after, I'd often end up just asking for a pouch of death 
It is what it is.
Just noticed that it's only my local 2 stores where the price rose 20% last month, looking online at other stores and it's about the same as it was. Damnit, that price difference would have seen me through the month 
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Shit i smoked 2 ounces every other day and stopped after 50 years i liked the buz from the 1st of the day, my dad was a 60 a day man he gave up when he retired he used to wake up in the night for a fag, yep ashtray by the bed.
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I think I've been quit smoking for 3 years or so (I really don't keep track). Unfortunately that means nothing, as I've quit for periods as long as 7 years in the past. The worst time I find for restarting is after 6 months or so. That's because your lungs have cleared out and you feel like you're good as new. Then that fatal thought will always start you up again, "I'll only have just this one, how can that hurt". One here, one there, and the next thing you're right back at it (probably worse than before). One and you're done, don't even imagine you'll stop after a few (cause you won't).
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That happens with every addictionâŚelse theyâd be called something else. But, you know, thatâs just a thought. I dare you to hold that thought (or any other) solely for even one minute.
The human mind isnât built that way.
No, itâd just have a different definition.
Except itâs not every addiction as some are for essential things like eating, washing or shopping and regular things like consuming media, exercising or being productive/working.
Gotta or probably gotta do those things but some people are addicted to one (or more) of those things. 
Sadly that is one aspect of this conversation I can relate to. The fact we are indeed addicted and or slaves to air and various things that qualify as food. Sounds like I'm being cheeky but I'm not. So sure most addictions we can do without and we won't die, but if you say do a fast for a week your body behaves pretty much the same as if you went cold turkey from anything else. That pain, the nagging...
You are being cheeky or don't understand addiction.
Eating, drinking, breathing aren't inherently an addiction because partaking in them doesn't cause more harm than good to the individual.
A food addiction is when they eat too much of the wrong things. In moderation, eating is good for the body, in excess it's bad.
E2A: WTF's going on with the GoXLR? There's been over a hundred additional replies, I'm scared to look (or rather, insufficiently interested).
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Anything can be OK in moderation as excess can kill you. As someone that's had water poisoning before I know.
And I'm not being cheeky (said I wasn't) but there are aspects of this I wrestle with because I DO NOT need to eat everyday, even when I train every day...but my damned body nags to the contrary. Food is a drug despite being needed. Our bodies respond in kind. It's why people binge on certain things. Why Cocaine is one persons preference over herion...or why chocolate is a foul temptress!...dirty...dark...whore...(drifts into a Homer drooling moment)
GoXLR is working It's not fully feature complete but it's working.
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There are exceptions that could be argued to "anything can be OK in moderation" (one trip to the centre of the Sun (heck, how about Betelgeuse) vs several).
To remain alive you don't NEED to eat everyday, but it's best to maintain regular ingestion of food to avoid the body excessively storing energy because it doesn't trust you any longer to keep it sufficiently supplied.
Food is not a drug, though many foods contain drugs.
How did it take sooo many messages, was there just a load more thread hijacking? 
E2A: Presentation thing started again, so won't be too active again.
No there was a bit outside the topic but still kinda on point. I also went over the GoXLR scripts there for a bit because again I HAD it the very first day it was like an inch from the finish line so there was a huge WTF. However in the end you know what the issue was with the GoXLR script tipping it over? flipping sh vs bash! A small idiotic detail in the script syntax.
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Thank you for being so helpful.
Though is does take away from the grumpy old crank persona you wish to portray.
I'm as helpful as a cancer sore
Na dude you're just seeing it from a different perspective. I'm 100% crank...this is why I'm out here maXXXing my KD ratio (I've been censored) - killing problems.
That said I wish I could murder the DE issues. I was playing around with CTWM but I HATE having to butcher my workstation. I'm torn on being proactive and just seeing how long I can continue to hold back the XFCE files. I mean crap if I can run 4.12 for the next ten years why waste my time? Maybe by then Wayland won't be a useless bag of crap and I can have moved to it.
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Speaking of addictionsâŚwell, hell. I suppose ifân a grumpy old fart wants to run somethinâ nearly as old as they are, they should be allowed to do so.
Ya probably earned yer spurs by now.
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But, he doesn't want to, he's forced to due to apparent regressions.
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Yeah I don't WANT to, I'd rather be current and get all the fancy improvements. The problem is all DE are broken for MultiGPU/XScreen now...ISH.
So check it...I just did a second Garuda install with the barebones to see if perhaps the Garuda KDE build would play nice. It actually seems to...aside from some really stupid behavior issues like how you can only maximise a window on the primary monitor?!
So two things. #1 I've hunted all over for a setting that might change that behaviour but the KDE settings are like a fun house of incoherent sprawl to me...anyone know if this behavior can be changed?
Fun addition if I move my browser to any screen other than the primary is jumps back to half way on and off the primary...KDE is on crack! heh.
#2 Said second install completely forked my primary and the Garuda boot repair is like McBain's Goggles...THEY DO NOTHEENG!
Any ideas on how to fix the boot loader before I go scorched earth? Too late napalm and daisy cutters deployed!