u/therealflinchy

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therealflinchy

Are you not that big on starward in general?

I'll say Ive never had a starward I didn't like, it's hard to give a rating but probably, to me, nothing below a 7/10

I'm a bit of a fan, it's gradually overtaking my whisky collection as all their releases are "affordable" compared to most 🤣. I like the banana lolly, sweetness, and yes I even like the tannic aspect that makes my cheeks and jaw hurt/clench even thinking about it hahahaha

I haven't yet opened some of the ones I've seen people say the worst about (like dolce) though, but even then they say it's just "extremely sweet" so I assume I'll be fine.

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100%. As much as it's a fairly "mainstream ultra hyped fanbase" brand in terms of whisky nerdery, it's, for TWC, interesting and must have been years in the making. Very big Collab for sure.

I haven't even visited any Aussie distilleries let alone Scotland yet 😅

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I know this is an.. old post

But I just came back to this - I had a single pour after receiving it (I love glendronach, the OLD 2018 is spectacular and the batch releases are ridiculous - never had the really really old year statement releases cos I'm not that rich lol)

Saw it, went "huh let's give it a go"

It's actually REALLY GOOD. So much brioche on the nose, custardy creme caramel taste

Not Christmas cake like their PX stuff but still some of the best stuff TWC has put out imo

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I searched for this post after seeing her story just now, she looks ghoulish

It's such rapid weight loss she has this giant fold of stomach skin, her bellybutton is freakishly low.

Surely there's a midpoint between her older weight and current weight 🥴

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Book 7 has an "it happens, fade to black"

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I'm an idiot and typed in the wrong ascendancy lol

Deadeye is awesome and has been for a while, I meant stormweaver

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Devs

I've tried, it made me quit an entire league it was that bad.

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But gear already mostly sucks :(

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As I said, there is no extra cost. That's what I've been telling everyone

Drivers already earn above the guarantee typically. What's actually happened since the change, and I've seen hundreds report it in groups, is pay has decreased since theyre now targeting to be as close to the $32 legal mandate as possible.

What you might be dreaming about, is those savings being passed to the consumer.

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They're opposing any and all changes, including ones that benefit them (showing drivers dropoff information), presumably because they're afraid of a slippery slope where one concession could lead to a cascade.

The raw numbers I've quoted are 100% the story, I've been doing this for 10 years and am in all the groups, I know what drivers make, how they work, all the ins and outs.

Uber and doordash have orders of magnitude more data to confirm what I'm saying too.

Just goes back to my first point, they fight almost entirely for the sake of fighting and maintaining full power.

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That's what I meant, the emulated "3 buttons" instead of the superior gestures.

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Yeah it's just stupid that it's not consistent across apps like it is in android

That's what I mean, it's not a skill issue because you download a new app and you have to learn a new apps navigation.. android? No change, same navigation.

It's objectively worse than android in at least this way, and subjectively better worse or the same in most other ways. Well, objectively worse in flexibility, and I can get mod APK lol. I've been daily driving both android and IOS for 9 months now.

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Compared to the actual bourbon itself, it's pretty mild/subtle to me

Yes it does SOMETHING but not a huge amount. Like say it's a 200L cask, whatever residual flavour is left behind is diluted by 200L of fresh new make

But yeah, the 2nd fill, 3rd fill and beyond gets more and more neutral in influence, allowing absurd age statements to not taste terribly over casked lol

But also some distilleries do stuff like STR (shave toast rechar) which will use an older cask with fresh wood exposed.

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Context haha

I'm using it next a pixel 9 pro XL.

In isolation, sure, it's /fine/ it's just noticeably slower to do every action in every way than phones many years newer.

I only run one app on the iPhone too

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Just had a tiny pour as mine got delivered early today

"It's good" about sums it up so dar, too much going on to summarise without a bigger pour and sitting down for longer haha

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Jack is a perfectly cromulent bourbon imo, same for Jim Beam white. Neither mind-blowing but zero unpleasant notes 🤷

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You'll hate starward then

/#1 prominent note is banana lolly and it's delicious

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HUUUGE laddie fan here

The Islay barley in particular (goes for the PC Islay Barley and the X.3 octomore) have an awesome buttery/clotted cream thing going on, so while delicious, is also very different to the non Islay barley varieties.

Definite opt-in and probably double up for me (plus the PC add-ins)

What an expensive month it'll be

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Must already be deleted nothing comes up

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I have not had a honey payment since.. 10th august

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I just can't understand why they would want to spend real money in usdc instead of having the contract generate honey from thin air that costs them very close to $0

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I do 30 up to 40 and yeah nothing for about a month

It honestly doesn't make any sense that they're spending real money on a smaller number of regions instead of spending nothing and just generating fake money that costs them very close to nothing to generate

I would love for Ariel to actually acknowledge why they've done this because it actually doesn't make any business sense

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Hivemapper.com website is mostly offline too

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Biggest scumbag in crypto, it's amazing he still shows his face in public

I'll never understand how he managed to pull off the biggest ever rug in crypto history and no one is talking about it.

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It hasn't even failed it was just a long game

Ariel decided to rug it for.. some reason, it's bizarre.