I’m your evil twin in regard to raisins. I like them in savory dishes and salads, but can’t stand them in desserts and baked goods.

I DO use Twitch and I don’t know what they’re talking about.

Helping with maintenance tasks like cleaning the grinder is a good idea, but I wouldn’t count on changing your parents’ preferences. If you don’t enjoy their preferred roast/ratio, just bring some of your own beans and make a separate pot for yourself when you visit. I had a similar situation with my in-laws and that is our solution. I bring my coffee when I visit them and they bring theirs when they visit us and we’re all happy.

“Low” in this clip is describing social classes and “company” here just means the people someone associates with. He is worried that “polite society” will shun his family because of what he did and they will be forced to associate with people who would be considered lower class, like criminals, to survive.

Charlie Bellmore - guitar, bass

Nick Bellmore - drums

Erik Rutan - guitar on track 1

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Corpsegrinder/Corpsegrinder/1020488

American football fans probably remember the crazy wildcard playoff game between the Colts and Chiefs during the 2013 season’s playoffs. The Chiefs built up a big lead, but Andrew Luck led the Colts to an insane comeback victory.

I am a Chiefs fan. At the time, the Chiefs had not won a playoff game since 1993. After a devastating 2012 season, the team cleaned house and brought in a new regime, led by Andy Reid. It worked well and the Chiefs had one of the biggest record improvements year-to-year in NFL history. My optimism was at an all time high. This was the year the playoff curse would end.

I spent the week leading up to the game just absorbed in the hype, reading, listening, and watching every bit of analysis I could find.

When the game finally ended, I was absolutely devastated. It’s probably the hardest I’ve ever taken a loss as a fan.

…and then, I started getting targeted ads for Colts merch, including a cardboard Andrew Luck mask (which was just a cutout of his face with the eyes cut out stuck to a popsicle stick.) Everywhere I went on the internet, I was haunted by a grinning, eyeless, Andrew Luck reminding me that the Chiefs would never win a playoff game. This went on for several weeks.

Richard Belzer played the character John Munch first in Homicide: Life on the Street and then in Law and Order: SVU. Through various crossovers and cameos, the character John Munch has appeared in 10 television shows, from Arrested Development to the X-Files.

To add to that, Homicide had a crossover episode with a show called St. Elsewhere. St. Elsewhere’s series finale implied that the entire series had been a fantasy taking place in the mind of a boy with autism named Tommy Westphall.

So with all that in mind, we can extrapolate that…

St. Elsewhere

Homicide

Every version of Law and Order

The Wire

Arrested Development

Sesame Street

The X-Files

American Dad

…plus more all take place in the same universe and that universe is contained in a neurodivergent boy’s head.

Thanks for the detailed response. You gave me a lot to look at and consider, but it still seems like the TM2 ticks the most boxes for me. I just want to be able to grab a device, take a couple of rips, set it down, and then go enjoy my high. Long sessions, desktop devices, complicated processes, and excessive gear are not attractive to me.

I know I’d be jumping in the deep end with a hobbyist device, but I would rather deal with the growing pains of a learning curve than end up with something that doesn’t mesh well with my personal consumption habits.

Interesting point about switching up your methods to help with tolerance. I’ll keep that in mind.

Thanks for the reply. Sounds like we’re on similar wavelengths. What dosing capsules do you use? I saw that there are a couple of official styles available, with v1 being more like a mesh basket and v2 being more solid sided. Any issues with using them with 3rd party stems or anything?

Your other 3 bullet points are all things I’ve already thought about. If I had purchased the XMAX myself instead of borrowing it, I think I would have been disappointed. It has shown me what vaping can be, but I just don’t really enjoy using it.

I also think that I will likely be a “set it and forget it” type of person with the temperature control. I’ve experimented with temp stepping on the XMAX and it’s interesting, for sure, but I definitely prefer the effects of getting everything at once. I might dial it down occasionally to medicate without getting stoned on particularly bad mental health days, but that wouldn’t be a regular thing (hopefully.) Outside of that, I’d probably just leave it at 7 or 8 all the time.

And finally, regarding session vs. on-demand, I will likely be in on-demand most of the time. I like to get high and then put everything down and go enjoy my high. Then when I’m not as high as I want to be anymore, I can use more and repeat the process. I do see the value in something like the Mighty for passing around with friends, but I’m mainly looking for a daily driver personal device right now and long “sessions” have never been my preferred method of consumption.

2 more questions:

Is the bubbler stem you mentioned the official Tinymight one? I haven’t fully researched it, but from what I’ve seen, it looks like it would be fairly awkward to load without spilling water. EDIT: Maybe this is where the dosing capsules come in handy?

Have you experienced any of the common issues with the button, uneven extraction (although from what I’ve read, this seems like part of the learning curve, rather than a flaw in the device,) excessive heat, etc.? Any other issues?