Association and causality are pretty far apart from one another, so that's what I was really curious about.
The number of claims about artificial sweeteners over the years (ZOMG CANCER!) based on wild speculation or misunderstandings has led me to err on the side of caution when new claims come up. Then again, I drink a lot of coke zero, so it's possible the mind control drugs they lace it with are simply having their intended effect.
Sorry, I'd just grabbed the quote and forgot who it was from, apparently. Whups.
You likely shouldn't be drinking diet sodas even if you are diabetic; studies suggest that consuming diet sodas may increase insulin resistance.
Which studies? Do you have any links? I've heard this before but the sum total of wading through the studies I have found come down to: Drinking diet soda frequently seems to lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and dietary decisions that contribute to blah blah blah.
Essentially:
Despite accumulating evidence of the existence of these associations , we are cautious not to conclude causality between diet soda and the diabetic or pre-diabetic condition. The possibility of confounding by other dietary and lifestyle/behavioral factors cannot be excluded from these observational studies.
@Sundown said:
Image macros. They got old somewhere around the heyday of the SA forums, and that was a very long time ago.
Who even calls them image macros anymore? Also, diafplz.
Not really an option here now, alas. Not really a thing here at all to my knowledge.
@HelloRaptor's trolling of me
I don't care who you are, I don't care what you think. If you are looking for reasons,
I can tell you I don't have any. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills.
Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me an aggravation
for people like you.
If you let it go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for your posts, I will not reply
to them. But if you don't, I will look for them, I will reply to them, and I will troll you.
I turn on an 80s pop music channel on XM when on long drives. My wife and our housemate want to murder me for it sometimes, but to hell with them. ^_^
To keep it topical, because I can't recall if this got linked yet: Dark Eras Kickstarter
For some reason I thought they were all going to be different books, not all chapters in a single book.
Of course this implies you'll play with me and you've made so many promises and never delivered. tease.
Don't hate the player, hate the game. 
I've played about twenty minutes of it, and it was so chalk full of bugs and really, really questionable design decisions that I haven't even been tempted to pick it up. As you say, especially after how awesome AC4 was.
It's true. As a vampire player I was a bit -.- at that section.
I'm looking forward to seeing the sort of depth and true darkness they'll bring to Vampire. 
@Arkandel said:
@HelloRaptor said:
I keep thinking of the people I know who like Vampire, and the looks on their faces when they see that, and I cannot stop laughing.
Out of morbid curiosity, why? I'm probably missing something.
It conjures up every angst ridden gothic stereotype that Vampire was based on in Masquerade and has tried to pretend isn't the case in Requiem. Yes, yes, I'm aware it's a thing with actual legends, blah blah blah. It's also often used as the most stereotypical embodiment of teenagers wearing black, plastic fangs, and speaking in super melodramatic voices, proclaiming themselves to be D'AMPYRE.
Somewhere, somebody is gnashing their teeth, I promise you.
VTR – Half-Damned: There are creatures tainted by Kindred blood, yet not quite among the Damned. Building on Vampire: The Requiem Second Edition, Half-Damned covers ghouls, revenants, and dhampir as playable characters.
Aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahhahaahahahahaha.
DHAMPIRES.
I keep thinking of the people I know who like Vampire, and the looks on their faces when they see that, and I cannot stop laughing.
I know we sometimes yell at people about active voice. I will yell louder here. Active voice. Present tense. Nothing is happening then. People do things now. Period.
Preach it. ^_^
@Cobaltasaurus , yeah, I was thinking that even as I typed it. ^_^
Wait, I'm on your skype?
...I should really use peoples WORA names. eyes list
I like the 'Explode' button. It makes me hesitate for the tiniest moment every time I'm just about to click, like I'm about to release some kind of doomsday curse on the world.
Now I just need to convince some poor fool to let me tinker with their MU* again.
