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I saw them supporting DragonForce a few years ago, and had never heard of them before - they are fantastic live, and properly won the crowd over!

I also quit with vaping, but in a roundabout way. I used to smoke, but my wife would not have me smoking indoors, and my office was likewise no smoking, so I was on perhaps 10 cigarettes a day. I switched to vaping, and still couldn’t vape in the office, but my wife didn’t mind me vaping at home if I restricted it to one room.

Then COVID happened, and I ended up working from home. So… Even though the amount of nicotine I was using in the vape was low, I had nothing stopping me from vaping all the time, which is what I did. I actually began feeling just as bad in terms of lung capacity when vaping as I had when I was smoking, largely because I was vaping pretty much constantly whilst awake.

One day I just had a flash of self control, and. chucked my vape, batteries, coils and all the paraphernalia. That was late 2020, and I haven’t vaped or smoked since.

Weirdly, even though I ultimately went cold turkey, I do think switching to vaping from smoking helped me to quit. There was a marked improvement in my lung capacity and ability to smell during that time, and that gave me hope.

Yeah, I’m not sure how I feel about it… But I somehow instinctively feel that a human being “inspired” by other works is different to a neural network being trained on a novel. I don’t know that I can articulate specifically why one feels okay and the other doesn’t… But that’s how it feels to me.

The Speak With Dead scene I thought was well done, and the heist and sneaking into the carriage I thought was a very D&D plan…