Cloud competitions

[WillyZee]

In all honesty I've been following this thread all night and it makes me laugh at all the negative **** some people post and how they feel the need to tear others down for having a different style of vaping or in a lot of cases for ASKING FOR HELP AND ADVICE....it's rather pathetic really, wish people here on ECF would learn to stop flaming each other and starting petty crap....this is why the underground is better(I'll prolly get banned for that) so instead of hating on each other. OP I suggest broadening your horizons and checking for help in a few other "places"

I do have to wonder why this thread wasn't started in the cloud chasing forum?

Cloud Chasers | E-Cigarette Forum

 

[yuseffuhler]

Sounds good to me flame free and open minded? Clones allowed?

Completely flame free. It's all about the sensation, and clones are allowed. Just pure vape. How we get there doesn't matter. A vapetopia, if you will.

 

[Trickydick666]

I do have to wonder why this thread wasn't started in the cloud chasing forum?

Cloud Chasers | E-Cigarette Forum

I don't see why it really matters? Any other forum I've been on if it's in the wrong sub forum a moderator simply moves it and life goes on, not tons of hostile comments and such..... This place just doesn't make sense to me I thought we all were in this for the same thing to quit analogs whether you tootle puff or super-sub cloud chase the main goal is the same

 

[Trickydick666]

Completely flame free. It's all about the sensation, and clones are allowed. Just pure vape. How we get there doesn't matter. A vapetopia, if you will.

Then yes you can definitely count me In

 

[yuseffuhler]

Then yes you can definitely count me In

All righty then! We're officially up to.... 2!

 

[Ryedan]

One last thing and I'm going to bed. But... for those "cloud chasers" who switched from smoking to vaping to potentially elongate their lifespan: when you were a smoker, did you care how big the smoke was coming out of your mouth? Did being truly satisfied as a smoker depend on how big a cloud of smoke you blew?

I can't speak for you or for anyone else, but when I was a smoker, I couldn't give a flip about how much smoke came out of my mouth. I just wanted to smoke, dammit, I wanted my nicotine. But all of a sudden, about a year or so ago, vaping became all about how much vapor you could produce. How big a cloud you could blow. What kind of tricks you could do (rings, tornadoes, et al.) It USED to be about quitting smoking. Now it's about gear and chucking clouds. Once again, I will say, this bothers me a tad because it takes just a little bit away from those who switched to vaping to quit smoking, not to blow really big clouds and do tricks to impress friends or participate in "cloud competitions". Deep down, past all the trolling, past all the backhanded statements, this is why kiddies blowing clouds bothers me. They took something that was dear to me and cheapened it. The fact that the vast majority of "cloud chasers" are either in their late teens or early twenties and have never smoked real cigarettes or need to quit a life-threatening addiction just sticks it in the craw even more. That is my own statement, my own feelings, and it doesn't apply to anyone else. But there, that's why I feel the way I feel about kiddie cloud chasers. Maybe they should just stick to the word that rhymes with gong.

Rocketpunk, I read this post a little after you wrote it and it really ...... me off. Yup, that doesn't happen much to me . A lot of that emotion was because I respect you and I didn't expect to hear this from you. So I took Sadie for a walk, we had a great conversation along the way, we both cleared our minds and are back to normal now

If you think this is just about 'kiddie cloud chasers', you're deceiving yourself and missing a very big boat. Righteous indignation is a powerful thing but it has to have enough basis in reality to be valid beyond simply 'they are different so they are bad'.

I wish you well my friend, along with all the people who don't vape the same way you or I do

 

[freeall]

Just think, what if vaping didn't exist and was never 'invented'?

None of this would exist. Hell, alot of us, wouldn't exist.

 

[Martnargh]

One last thing and I'm going to bed. But... for those "cloud chasers" who switched from smoking to vaping to potentially elongate their lifespan: when you were a smoker, did you care how big the smoke was coming out of your mouth? Did being truly satisfied as a smoker depend on how big a cloud of smoke you blew?

I can't speak for you or for anyone else, but when I was a smoker, I couldn't give a flip about how much smoke came out of my mouth. I just wanted to smoke, dammit, I wanted my nicotine. But all of a sudden, about a year or so ago, vaping became all about how much vapor you could produce. How big a cloud you could blow. What kind of tricks you could do (rings, tornadoes, et al.) It USED to be about quitting smoking. Now it's about gear and chucking clouds. Once again, I will say, this bothers me a tad because it takes just a little bit away from those who switched to vaping to quit smoking, not to blow really big clouds and do tricks to impress friends or participate in "cloud competitions". Deep down, past all the trolling, past all the backhanded statements, this is why kiddies blowing clouds bothers me. They took something that was dear to me and cheapened it. The fact that the vast majority of "cloud chasers" are either in their late teens or early twenties and have never smoked real cigarettes or need to quit a life-threatening addiction just sticks it in the craw even more. That is my own statement, my own feelings, and it doesn't apply to anyone else. But there, that's why I feel the way I feel about kiddie cloud chasers. Maybe they should just stick to the word that rhymes with gong.

Im 31, smoked for 15 years, been vaping since about 2010 (give or take i dont remember anniversary). Just because it evolved for me from a smoke cessation to a hobby and it didnt for you doesnt make it childish and doesnt cheapen the integrity of vaping any.
Just cause youre fine with staying above the ohm line and double digit watts doesnt meam i have to be.
I like sub ohm, not just sub ohm, but super sub ohm as i rarely build over .2. But i put the time, effort and the money to acquire proper equipment and did the necessary research to do it and advocate it safely.
Furthermore, i dont do it to show off, to look cool or to impress, i do it because i like to do it. I like the taste a deep direct lung hit provides. I like the warm to hot vape as it travels in and out of my mouth. I like to exhale a beast cloud thay may even block visibility in front of me temporarily.
Not only do i like to do it, i also like to see others do it. If i catch someone blowing a giant plume ill approach them, ask them what theyre build is, what juice, if i can see it. Maybe i can learn or maybe even teach.
If my interests in this now subculture of the vape realm make me immature, so be it. But it definitely gets annoying, the constant whining and bantering of the old folies who feel they are the authority on who vapes right and who vapes wrong. Id never crap on someone because they vape a high build or worse crap clearos with crap prefabricated coil heads on what i consider a subpar device with weak statistics. Thats just stuff you should keep to yourself.

 

[Rocketpunk]

I concede. Ryedan, I respect you, and Asbestos, I don't know where or when I ...... you off. But honestly, that was a heartfelt post and I cannot emphasize how much I have to deal with "kiddies". I don't mean that to sound superior or better than others, it's just what I see on a day in day out basis.

Yes. What I see are teenagers (18+) or young 20 year olds. Daily. When I ask them if they're looking to quit smoking, none of them said they were smokers.

Man. I guess I'm just not getting my point across.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Just think, what if vaping didn't exist and was never 'invented'?

None of this would exist. Hell, alot of us, wouldn't exist.

This is the internet, do any of us exist?

 

[Martnargh]

This is the internet, do any of us exist?

We are all figments of imagination

 

[yuseffuhler]

This is the internet, do any of us exist?

I'm fairly certain that I exist. You only have my word on it though.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

I'm fairly certain that I exist. You only have my word on it though.

And that word is digital. Could be generated by an algorithm?

 

[Rocketpunk]

I am truly calling it a night, but Ryedan, and most especially Asbestos, I've been here a while, seen all sorts of trends come and go. I remember being called out hard-core when I ripped a new hole in my review of the Vision ViVi Nova. The drama never ends, but it does make for some excitement in an otherwise boring day. I do loves youse guys, though. I can't rest my head without at least apologizing. No one should go to bed with anger in their heart.

 

[yuseffuhler]

And that word is digital. Could be generated by an algorithm?

aye, it could be. we might just all be part of the matrix. For what it's worth, I think vaping improves the matrix

 

[Ryedan]

I am truly calling it a night, but Ryedan, and most especially Asbestos, I've been here a while, seen all sorts of trends come and go. I remember being called out hard-core when I ripped a new hole in my review of the Vision ViVi Nova. The drama never ends, but it does make for some excitement in an otherwise boring day. I do loves youse guys, though. I can't rest my head without at least apologizing. No one should go to bed with anger in their heart.

No apology needed Rocketpunk. You're good man. Vape on my friend

 

[freeall]

The most annoying part of most topics/threads, is all the stupid banter in between the topic at hand. Kinda like this post. Oh well.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

I am truly calling it a night, but Ryedan, and most especially Asbestos, I've been here a while, seen all sorts of trends come and go. I remember being called out hard-core when I ripped a new hole in my review of the Vision ViVi Nova. The drama never ends, but it does make for some excitement in an otherwise boring day. I do loves youse guys, though. I can't rest my head without at least apologizing. No one should go to bed with anger in their heart.

Anger? I never get angry over a net chat. I do apologize though if I made anyone else angry.

 

[Asbestos4004]

I am truly calling it a night, but Ryedan, and most especially Asbestos, I've been here a while, seen all sorts of trends come and go. I remember being called out hard-core when I ripped a new hole in my review of the Vision ViVi Nova. The drama never ends, but it does make for some excitement in an otherwise boring day. I do loves youse guys, though. I can't rest my head without at least apologizing. No one should go to bed with anger in their heart.

we've been through worse, buddy.

 

[yuseffuhler]

The most annoying part of most topics/threads, is all the stupid banter in between the topic at hand. Kinda like this post. Oh well.

I'll be honest, part of my goal in life is to be the comic relief. At least to some of the people some of the time. (I meant it about my new club tho