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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Let me explain my feelings on this by way of an analogy.
When I was a smoker, I noticed that I found cigarettes less satisfying in the pitch dark. For some reason, seeing the smoke I exhaled was part of it for me, and without knowing I was exhaling smoke, it just sort of lost something. I don't really know why that is, but it's how it was.
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This is a very cogent analogy.
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