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As the title says, does smoking weed affect a diet? I smoke weed mostly for medical purposes, helps with anxiety, and I was curious if somehow there's a negative reaction between CBD/THC and the desired affects of a diet. I'm going on because my family has a history of diabetes and I want to avoid that, also hoping to lose some weight (currently ~200 lbs, hoping to get down to 170 within the next year)

Seven thunderous chimes came from the tall, ancient belfry, echoing brave throughout a quiet mountain town. The steep slopes that surrounded the quaint village amplified the noise, assuring that everyone in town knew the time. Shops closed their doors, porch lights were snuffed, children were called inside for supper, and not a soul could hear the tortured wails of Merick Ferrier. 

Before this, he was much like everyone else in that quiet mountain town, kind, friendly, and always chipper, but unlike the other citizens of the town, he hadn’t a place to live. He was in and out of bars, gutters, motels, and couches, always reliant on the ever-open arms of those around him until, eventually, the town grew tired of helping him. Merrick, the pure soul he was, truly wanted to give back what he had received from the townspeople, so when a reassuring voice wearing a fancy black suit offered him an easy, well-paying job, he took it.  

The contract was about 3 inches thick, written in print you’d need a magnifying glass to read, but all Merrick got to see before agreeing was that he’d be a test subject. He reasoned that it couldn’t be that bad. After all, when had the government ever lied to him? They provided, they supplied, they cared. 

He was just one in a long lineage of disheveled souls. Strapped to a dusty old bed, hidden deep underneath that ever-idyllic scene, shaved clean save his now matted dusky locks, patches of which had been ripped from his scalp. His muscles were in the beginning stages of atrophy, his skin was flaky and dry, and he had either gone blind, mad, or both from the sheer darkness of his eventual tomb. And the machines. Those damned machines. That great whirring and thrumming of gears and electricity tormented him at all hours of the day, but he couldn’t do anything about it. Even if he could move, the machines were connected to him. Deep within his body, shoved through every inch of his person, tubes and wires intertwined with passageways and arteries, creating a great and terrible metal monstrosity held together by small screws, caked with the viscera of those that came before himself.   

This is what he signed up for: His own slow demise. A long death surrounded by things he didn’t understand, his only glimmer of hope being the knowledge that he was giving back to the town. At 8 O’ Clock that day, Merrick Ferrier died. 

This feels like watching Fire Walk With Me for the first time. Good god this was so, so sad; first time I've cried at any piece of media in a good couple of years. Most definitely in my top 10 TV episodes of all time, maybe top 5. The tone shift from horror to tragedy/thriller was done so well, and all of the themes of family/intergenerational trauma are at their most effective here.

Bravo, flanagan.

The "comedy sniper" is in full swing, and it's a semi-automatic rifle. Zac just keeps finding the perfect thing to say at the exact right moment, and this character having so little to him in terms of known backstory or character motivations just lets Zac go so much harder with the jokes. Pappy? Wack. Gorgug? Gone. Connor Kawasaki? More like Connor P-U, on blast!

I find myself entirely engrossed in this season, all these characters have instantly endeared themselves to me, and Zaeth, as I've made abundantly clear, is an instant favourite.

*IMPORTANT NOTE: All the other characters are also amazing and funny but Zaeth just struck me. Love Gorgug, love Pappy, love Connor Kawasaki.

Hi, all! I've been working on an electric guitar for the past few weeks, really don't want to mess it up with a poor dye job. It's a piece of walnut with a very even grain, and it's quite dark. I unfortunately don't have a photo of what I've got, and can't attach a reference. My question is, would it be possible to do a vibrant burst dye on this type of piece? My other idea is a near-black stain, but I still want the grain to show through.

any advice is very much appreciated

Hello, all! Long time dungeon master here; I'm planning my first chronicle, and I don't want to bite off more than I can chew. I get the feeling that this system lends itself to games that are a bit more open-world, and so I'm using my home city as the setting. It's a pretty big city (Hamilton, ON if you want to look it up), and I want to make sure I have enough to keep the players engaged, with places to go and things to do, but not plan so much that it overwhelms me. I would love to give more details if anyone's open to hearing!

Edit: Thank you everyone for your help! I'm super excited to enter the WoD, can't wait to tell you all about it!