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You know you're a true Michigander when its -2°f and you go out for slurpees at 1am.
Feels like -20
 
Yay they all fit

Cheapo's on the left, good ones on the right

Still seasoning it right now, 48 hours in and it is a tick under 70%




I had to go out and smoke one of course
 


Yes, cellophane is porous.

You want to leave them in the wrapper or the flavors will mix. If you are going to leave it in there for 2-3 years, then you will want to get a humidor with separate shelves.
 
ADecker said:
What makes a cigar good or bad?
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Depends on your taste.

some guys don't mind $2/cigars and they don't care as long as they smoke something.

Me, I graduated from Mild to Medium flavor; The Padron was my first Full flavor cigar, I liked it.

I'm still learning a lot about it, so I can't tell you much. I use Romeo Classics and Makers Mark as standby's and benchmarks because they have a decent flavor for the price. Just like if I don't like anything at a bar, I'll buy Sam Adams.

This is one thing I have noticed, with a good cigar, it will literally smoke themselves; you will need to draw very little on them to get the taste and you can set it down for 5 minutes, come back and puff away. Bad cigars, take alot to draw on and if you draw too much they heat up and taste like **** (you have to smoke cigars slowly to enjoy, but bad cigars will require more drawing on them to get a taste) and the reason you have to draw more is to keep it from extinguishing itself and you have to relight it. I hate that, that is just my personal experience. Romeo's and Makers can be hit or miss sometimes. The more you pay, the more consistent they get too...most of the time, not always true.

Good cigars also depend on how good they were stored, a dry cigar tastes like ****.

There are plenty of decent cigars at $5/cigar, or $10/cigar. You can do some reading on a cigar and find what people say, that is what I do and then I try it, and I find what I like and don't like, it takes time to understand it, you just have to try it. Most cigar shops will help you...a good one will anyways, explaining stuff for when you start and usually have good suggestions for beginners.
 
dRunK13 said:
Depends on your taste.

some guys don't mind $2/cigars and they don't care as long as they smoke something.

Me, I graduated from Mild to Medium flavor; The Padron was my first Full flavor cigar, I liked it.

I'm still learning a lot about it, so I can't tell you much. I use Romeo Classics and Makers Mark as standby's and benchmarks because they have a decent flavor for the price. Just like if I don't like anything at a bar, I'll buy Sam Adams.

This is one thing I have noticed, with a good cigar, it will literally smoke themselves; you will need to draw very little on them to get the taste and you can set it down for 5 minutes, come back and puff away. Bad cigars, take alot to draw on and if you draw too much they heat up and taste like **** (you have to smoke cigars slowly to enjoy, but bad cigars will require more drawing on them to get a taste) and the reason you have to draw more is to keep it from extinguishing itself and you have to relight it. I hate that, that is just my personal experience. Romeo's and Makers can be hit or miss sometimes. The more you pay, the more consistent they get too...most of the time, not always true.

Good cigars also depend on how good they were stored, a dry cigar tastes like ****.
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^^* this I got into cigar smoking while ago. A good torch lighter and a sharp cutter is necessary me o prefer the ones that make a V shaped cut in the back less open end and you do have to smoke them slow they got way to hot. Way to quick if you don't. I started with cheapos and moved up. I still love my acids. Before winter kicked in I loved the sons of anarchy cigar. corny I know but it was a truly great cigar I like the javas and diesels also. I have a local cigar shop at college that doesn't have a great selection but it'll do to keep my going when it's warmer outside here at school.
 


Is it a laptop? I didn't think they made a 745 desktop card. But yeah the difference in those cards is like 5 years, the new one is easily 2x or more powerful than my old one while using a wittle bit more power while producing about the same amount of heat.
 


Russosaur said:
Is it a laptop? I didn't think they made a 745 desktop card. But yeah the difference in those cards is like 5 years, the new one is easily 2x or more powerful than my old one while using a wittle bit more power while producing about the same amount of heat.
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Nope, desktop
http://www.microcenter.com/product/436734/Envy_700-215xt_Desktop_Computer
My current pc has a Nvidia GeForce 9500 GS, the 745 would be a huge upgrade from this. I get 30 ish fps on 720p medium settings on gta. Not impressive. Its a computer from 2009, getting up there in age but still performs like new. I have good luck with HP stuff.
 
Thats not too bad of a price for a haswell i7, googling shows the 745 was made for prebuilt PCs like this. Learn something everyday. Sucky thing is your limited on what you can upgrade down the road kinda.
 
Blue, which GTA? 5 for PC will be out real soon or so the emails say, and I figure I may wait until the first patch comes out then jump on that wagon. They had a big contest where you guess the sys req on it, I think those specs are out now.

Got the new CC mag today and what a fwap I had to the New Edelbrock RPM CNC heads for Pontiac 455s article. Man o man, thats purty! Pontiacs never got such love before this:

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Russosaur said:
Thats not too bad of a price for a haswell i7, googling shows the 745 was made for prebuilt PCs like this. Learn something everyday. Sucky thing is your limited on what you can upgrade down the road kinda.
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Yeah to me that pc's specs are top of the line. I'm not too much of a gamer really, I used to a few years back. I do more video editing than anything, which this pc is killing me on. The processor is way too slow.
Mine: http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01625662

I'm not one to upgrade anything anyway. It all goes out of date at the same time it seems. Everything on this pc is outdated so it's not even worth it. The memory being at 8 gb is the only thing that i'm okay with, but still it's outdated because it's DDR2.
 
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