I've been active on multiple gaming forums in the last 15 years and even with the recent Uprising annoyance this forum is still the least vitriolic I've been to by far. Sure, there are grievances coming up again and again, but let's be fair, Tohaa are on a release drought and Uprising could have been handled a lot better. I'm still reasonably sure, though that I could play a fun game of Infinity against 99% of the people on this forum. Nah, not even whisky makes cola drinkable.
As a point of note Bourbon is actually derivation of gold rum in imitation of whisky, that's one of the reasons it tastes better with coke. In terms of actual whisky, If I'm accompanying my game with a spirit it tends to be a spot of Jura, I seemingly have a backlog of superstition at the moment. As for the original topic, I think it's a pretty positive forum overall in comparison to some others, possibly room for more community engagement but would that really be what people want? Helicopter parenting and firefighting from CB would be IMO as bad or worse than lack of information. They also clearly pay attention to the forums, I'm pretty sure all the faction quotes on the Gencon seminar slides pre the last sectoral reveal were direct quotes from the forum. This way the discussions that naturally develop on media like this still inform their decisions without their direct influence. I've been on forums before where the powers that be were too quick to knee jerk change when confronted by discontent to appease a vocal minority, game balance goes skew-wiff and then more people drop out due to not knowing what the rules for this unit are this month, or a unit that was already subjectively good but balanced becoming OP due to changes demanded by the vocal minority
The US has a large number of distilleries all over the country (Prohibition blowing the market to pieces for a while), and major Whiskey production started in PA area as RYE, bourbon came later (or Tennesse whiskey is Bourbon just has a slightly different legal distinction and mainly charcoal filtering and ... because)
You heard it here first folks! How dare you sir! Rum is a worldly lady, she's cheap, been around, and knows what she wants, which is often to be mixed with others for a good time. There are few things I enjoy more than a good Cuba Libre (Rum, cola and lemon) I have recently been exposed to the wild and wonderful world of moonshine. It has a bad rep, but it has grown on me with force
I gotta couple of buddies who are well-oriented in this craft. And, as usual, quality is the key. Moonshine has the bad reputation because of all those cheap, nasty concotions that were made primairly to get the imiber drunk - as fast and as cheap as possible. However, give it attention, time, effort, quality ingredients, quality apparatus, enough distillation & filtration cycles, and perhaps a decent maturing period, and you can have some pretty incredible stuff. Stuff that wouldn't make it to a shop shelf, because all the TLC it got in the production would kick the price sky-high sohuld you try doing it on an market level. Same thing we've seen with home-made beers: with TLC and some experience, homegrown brewers can make beers that are unique and great... but cost many times over the cost of a bottle off a shelf in your local store... Or, to put it in another context... you can buy a cake off a gorcery store's shelf. It might even be not half bad. You can order a cake from a bakery, and with a bit of luck, it will be a real craftsman-quality job, a real good cake. But either way, it likely can't even hold a candle to the cakes your grandma could bake!
Someone likes to live dangerously... Or from someone who learned their 'shine-making from there. Lady I know in western Washington state makes some very impressive hooch. I should admit that I am generally impressed with the Japanese whiskys (man, that spelling just does not look right to me...). Quite tasty. But if I want to really snob it up, Penderyn. Holy crap that stuff is good! Rather bloody expensive to get in the US, though. Need to order 6 bottles to get best shipping prices, and then you're talking $400 or so!
Somebody's been studying his Swanson Pyramid of Greatness! Hibiki makes an outstanding sipping whisky for the price. Yes, that spelling just feels so wrong...
Downhill ski-ing and later, martial arts. It's hard to know whether there was any serious future in it, but I'm proud of my brother who continued competing, represented nationally, and went on to win a double world championship in a minor discipline. I guess there was some potential. Unfortunately, I was increasingly distracted from age 11 by the discovery of skateboarding, causing tension with my family, team coaches and event organisers when I missed start times because I was skating... Eventually, I was confronted by a regional coach named Arnold who sternly admonished me to keep my mind on serious sporting opportunities, and that skateboarding was a craze that would soon pass. I remember knowing he was wrong, but not knowing why or how to say it. Now I understand that standing sidewise on something and gliding along is an unbeatable feeling, so once the Tony Hawk era established professional athleticism, the technology worked itself out, and it was here to stay. Anyway, I'd given up competitive ski-ing by age 15 and was spending my weekends at the skatepark. Maybe some potential was wasted, but the competitive spirit re-emerged in a long and moderately successful martial arts career, and much later still in a moderately wretched golfing career. And the postscript is that I'm still skating. Here's me 40 years later, in a lazy speed drift on a beautiful 2km stretch of perfect blacktop in the heat of a New Zealand summer. The wheels were breaking away so smoothly I couldn't tell where the carve ended and the slide began. Fuck you, Coach Arnold! Spoiler: Buttery Smooth
Wait a minute, the Welsh make single malt whisky? I had no idea, for shame! The only rational solution to this lamentable ignorance is for @leigen_zero to stage an ITS event in his town featuring a tour of the distillery and yarns about the daring exploits of your troopers over a generous sampling of their wares. Can anyone fault my thinking?
Haha that freakin' Parks and Rec joke is the worst. Everyone has since assumed that's where my love of that came from and I constantly have to explain/insist that I liked it before that.
Its more the eternal Ardbeg vs Laphroaig vs Lagavulin conversation. Plus the other 5 Islay distilleries...
Good luck with that buddy I haven't played infinity since my son was born (he's 3 now), @Flipswitch is our warcor so it's his problem not mine :trollface: Best part is that the world-acclaimed Penderyn Whisky is distilled about 10 minutes away from one of, if not the, shittiest places in Wales
