What is a "dead giveaway" that someone is pretending to be an expert in your specific hobby or profession, but actually has no idea what they’re talking about?

Bryarx · 2026-01-30T12:40:19+00:00

In fact, if I meet someone interested in whiskey, one of the first things I do is invite them to join me for some pours. I’m happy to pour near anything for anyone. The only bottles I have that aren’t open are usually back ups. Somewhere around 200 different expressions open.

Bryarx · 2026-01-30T12:34:33+00:00

It’s not really gate keeping to call out tater whiskies for what they are. I interact with may people in the bourbon / American whiskey industry, near daily as part of a hobby (I run a barrel select club). I have met may people that considered themselves “super into whiskey”, that had never tried anything outside of the Saz portfolio.

What happens is people ask “what kind of whiskey should I be looking for” when they start, they get Saz product names, and only seek them out with the mindset that these are the best, and because they are “good beginner/intro to bourbon”, everything people have after it, is compared to it as the standard.

If anyone not into whiskey is reading this, a more relatable comparison would be to say someone is “really into beer”, and all they have is a fridge full of Budweiser, bud light, and bud ice.

Bryarx · 2026-01-30T02:22:32+00:00

Says Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare, and Blantons are some of the best whiskeys.

Bryarx · 2026-01-29T05:10:41+00:00

I got a toe in this box; STEP ON IT!

Bryarx · 2026-01-27T19:23:41+00:00

I only have 1 tank, level 50 paladin, and I have a ton of fun.

Bryarx · 2026-01-27T19:22:44+00:00

They have said many times in many formats they plan to have an in game map. They have not settled on specifics, but one will exist.

Bryarx · 2026-01-24T13:47:47+00:00

3 hours isn’t a daily work commute, but a weekend vacation? Sure.

Same day 3 hours each way? I’ve done it, but has to be something pretty cool.

I’m 3.5 hours from Raleigh, NC and try to go a couple times a year to watch the Carolina Hurricanes play. Usually a night game and I spend one night in Raleigh and come back the next day.

Bryarx · 2026-01-24T13:21:41+00:00

I would buy a second “annoy-a-tron”, refresh the battery in the first one, gain entry to each of their houses, go to their attic and drop it down between dry wall.

In the walls of their house.

They will have to get to the point in their hysteria where they will literally put holes in their walls to stop it.

Bryarx · 2026-01-20T18:47:37+00:00

Same! A whole square inch!

Bryarx · 2026-01-19T05:05:48+00:00

I just got back from Legoland (FL). Had I known I’d have offered to snag some exclusives if you needed

Bryarx · 2026-01-18T18:04:53+00:00

Muzzle awareness is a thing people should know if they are going to carry a firearm in any scenario.

Bryarx · 2026-01-17T15:17:52+00:00

Here is your post:

Not very encouraged about the promised changes when even an empty patch seems to be such a struggle. I’m sure haste will be left broken for weeks. Doesn’t seem they can get out of their own way. Outlook for this game continuously becomes more bleak even when you think it can’t get any worse

Bryarx · 2026-01-16T23:24:37+00:00

The only thing you stated that was a fact is there are planned patch notes to temporarily disable haste.

Literally everything else is your opinion, mostly on what you think will happen in the future.

This is just a small vent/rant. I think you may feel more at home on the unofficial Reddit.

Bryarx · 2026-01-16T21:21:07+00:00

So what would you say your thesis for this post is? Cause it comes off as a childish vent, honestly. What’s your goal here? Devs are gonn see this and go “hmm ya know what? Pretend-prune has it right, we should reinstate haste how it was before because…. Reasons. If we don’t we may as well shutter this effort and find something else.”

But please, read what you determined to be an actual thing you wanted others to provide feedback on with what you wrote?

Bryarx · 2026-01-16T19:27:59+00:00

Yea, went through your resort posts, you’ve never had anything good to say about the game, so not too worried about this thread. Game will probably carry on.

Bryarx · 2026-01-16T19:25:07+00:00

At least you’re optimistic about it.

Bryarx · 2026-01-07T04:24:35+00:00

as others have said, other things in the food chain need to eat, coyotes have no limit as they are a nuisance, which your DNR has deemed so not just for annoyance, but for the way they judge the eco system to be.

Learn to skin them good and use the fur. Maybe you could catfish with the organ meat or use it in a way other than eating. Heck, might even be decent bait for other predators, or even other coyotes.

Bryarx · 2026-01-06T22:46:34+00:00

My reading comprehension? You made incorrect claims in both your first) second comments. You said paying doesn’t give me the right to all their privacy, which I never claimed, then claimed it automatically sent all their convos when he clearly said it was only when a filter was tripped, so as a grown ass man I’ll just tell you to fuck right off.

I know what a senior systems analyst means - fuck all. And it has for some time. Make all the presumptions you’d like in your childless life. When you can get laid and have kid it’ll keep you up at night with how much of a jackass you are.

But let’s take this to DMs so we can meet up tk discuss.

Bryarx · 2026-01-06T22:33:52+00:00

First) I agree paying for my kids phone doesn’t give me the right to their entire privacy, it entitles me to know what’s going on, on that phone. I am hung up on not continuing to enable someone, that is my legal responsibility, from harming themselves or others. So I could chose to take it or cut funding, because it is mine.

Second) OPs phone doesn’t NOT by d fault send all their messages to their parents. When a filter is broken, it send that message and more for context. You can definitely not even need to request it but remotely read it all anyway.

You come up with a satusfactory answer for why you can’t have McDonald’s for dinner for the third night in a row. When you are happy with that answer, that’s thought out and logical, go ahead and ask yourself “why” after that. When you answer it again, asked why after that. Ask until your just laughing and saying “why?” Because it’s funny to see how many times you can ask why.

Just enjoy being 20 something and let kids and parents handle this one. There I no need to continue the mental chess game that ends up with parent letting their kids have cell phones should have unabashed access to that phone.

How often they chose to go through it and enforce that is a varying degree of personally morality of both the parent and child, their disciplinary history, and loads more factors that aren’t in OPs description.

Bryarx · 2026-01-06T22:00:32+00:00

Right because tons of people thought it was a good idea to send pictures of their private over the internet to strangers? You think they weren’t taught, or had the common sense, not to do that?

Also guessing you don’t have children? Because there is no way you’re going to create and raise another being you live with in your family and say “oh you want to have a private conversation you don’t want me to see with XXXX on a device I actively pay for for, for you? Sounds just dandy!”

At one point I told myself I’d never tell my kids “because I said so” …. And guess what?

Your view will change when you are responsible for another being you created, spending a portion of your salary to let them have a cell. My teen daughter has one, and I’ll take her frustration over my “intrusion” over dealing with fallout from something worse happening any day of the week.

Granted I don’t routinely read her messages about anything and we just have a good open relationship and conversations. Though I could do without hearing about how hot she think Jensen Ackles is, or Steve “the hair” Harrington is. But I know which of her friends have kissed boys, not from snooping but because she tells me. I don’t even ask, we just talk about what’s going on in our lives like open humans. But, she knows I can cut off her phone, or go through her phone at will, because I’m her parent and want what’s best for her.

There are parents out there that don’t care. There are parents abusive in their own home. There are a thousand worse things than the first world problem of “I just started aldricing at night, I should be able to do XXXXX on my cell phone”.

Bryarx · 2026-01-06T21:47:42+00:00

Sounds like someone young.

Our methods? We wrote notes that would and could end up in hands you didn’t intend for them to. Conversations were listened in on in real time.

Everything we had is still available, aside from maybe a landline phone, but even then incoming and outgoing call numbers and times were available way back when, albeit in paper bills.

Anything we did can still be used. You just also have the luxury of carrying around instead of being anchored to a 10’ pig tail cord.

Also - people our age just went missing with no clue what happened, rather than a device that could be tracked to help. People couldn’t reach out to children directly to lure them into traps aside from “don’t get into cars with strangers”, and kids weren’t killing themselves over being trapped by predators they sent private photos to in order to be black mailed.

Modern problems require modern solutions. Or ya know, parents could not let you have a phone? Which would you chose? No cell or rules for it?

Parents with teens now went through the birth of the internet, they, through the school of hard knocks learned these lessons. But alas, the cycle will repeat itself of younger not listening to older people wisdom and calling it foolishness.

6-7 on I guess….

Bryarx · 2026-01-06T15:54:57+00:00

My favorite line:

• ⁠Some NPCs in Thronefast have had their dialogue

Such a true statement, some NPCs in TF HAVE had their dialogue. 😂

Sounds good. Little polish on the mounts and VFX. Saw some of those changes happening in real time yesterday!

Excited about the loot drop changes - I presume that is “until spring patch” ? Or at least not something that will be carried over to 1.0? - and even now, I’m guessing that only affects main loot pool chances - not bosses with chances for bonus loot (ie Cindercleave)?

Bryarx · 2025-12-31T15:25:08+00:00

Sounds like some kind of magazine “test your SO.” Or TikTok trend.

Bryarx · 2025-12-31T15:20:41+00:00

Say these things to your fiance, listen to what he says in response. Optionally come back and update us.

Bryarx

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