So you mean to tell me, not only is GeoHot a fantastic CTF player.

Was hired by project zero to make a system for them personally.

He also makes music?

youtube.com/watch?v=iXupOjSZu1Y <- 10:34.

Is there anything he cannot do?

Its actually pretty good too. I don't like alt music that much but this is pretty okay.

@RoryAlsop Heh, I was kidding :D But yeah, I also like Glenlivet a lot.

I only really like Speyside, honestly... I am open to try other regions, in-fact, every time I go to a hotel or new bar I do.

But I'll only ever personally buy a Speyside for home really.

@nobody Hmm, quite. He does seem to be good at an awful lot of things.

@djsmiley2kStaysInside +1

Although, my peasant joke was on me because I mostly drink macallan myself..

I do dislike their prices rising year by year though... It is pretty nasty.

Well, let me make it a bit clearer.

In 2018 a bottle of Macallan 18 was £200.

In 2021 a bottle of Macallan 18 is £350.

That isn't inflation, its greed.

Now, if you think that is just specific to that bottle, it isn't. In-fact, almost every bottle they sell, including their sub £50 bottles are rising at the same rate.

Hilariously, before 2018 a bottle of Macallan 18 was sub £150. It just keeps going up.

Other whisky brands do increase their prices but no where near the percentages that Macallan do or are.

Another example, a Macallan 25 is £1800 currently.

A Glenlivet 25 is £350.

They both use sherry casks.

They are both aged the exact same number of years.

They are both speyside.

The only differences are A. Macallan claim to use premium ingredients (I actually think this is true it often tastes more complex and refined) and B. macallan is no longer a scotch brand but a luxury brand.

The rate at which they have increased their prices is disproportionate to the rest of the industry and the only factor is the fact that Macallan have very much become a mainstream brand, unlike the rest of the scotch brands which the majority of folk don't pay attention to.

I have nothing wrong with price increases, I do have a problem with their almost 50% increases per year.

It's a shame but it happens in all industries.

They have become the poster child for the elite

Much like what happened to rolex

They became the poster child for billionaires and now ordinary watches which have pretty bad movements in them are worth 25x more than what they were before

Well, there is some element of production costs increasing for sure.

They are selling way more bottles now than they ever sold before since the whole mainstream thing. But that doesn't equate to near 50% increases each year, especially not even in their cheaper ranges...

It just seems to me that they're taking full advantage of the whole popularity thing. As with nice cars, nice watches, etc. They become a status symbol for the rich and then those companies which make those things know they can charge more.

Macallan has always been an expensive scotch brand, so I am not going to suggest they were not. But they also sold affordable bottles to and now they do not the only thing which coincides with that is just how mainstream they've become in the last 3-4 years.

When you look at the prices of their direct competition then you can see clearly that someone is telling lies. And that is Macallan, they are telling lies. Their ingredients aren't 3.5x times more expensive than Glenlivets. I don't buy it at all. That comparison between Glenlivet and Macallan is where you can really tell someone is fibbing.

£1800 vs £350 for a very similar bottle of scotch.

I've had both of those bottles in-fact, Macallan 25 and Glenlivet 25, they are very, very similar. Both fantastic scotch. But the Macallan 25 is not over 3.5x the cost, not a chance in hell.

In other news, I am so close to this ASLR bypass I can literally see it. I just can't get it working.

So annoying.

Oh no, it is absolutely a fair point.

Whether I like it or not, high demand always means higher prices. That's just basic economics and I am okay with that. And I am also okay with paying more for a better product (better ingredients, etc) but what I really despise is unjustified increases. Especially when they match up so perfectly to the brands mainstream success. It is clear that their customer base includes a lot of very wealthy people and year on year Macallan has become the Scotch of the elite.

I think that the elite ruin a lot of things like this. They need to show off their wealth so they become attached to brands and then those brands change their entire business model to suit those elite people, forgetting about all their previous customers. This happened with a lot of watch brands, with car manufactures, even computer equipment. It is lunacy. But I am the one who is wrong.

Because people are willing to pay these prices, so clearly I am the one with the problem. That's how capitalism sees it so.

Well, I have a problem with it in both cases but you're quite right that is way more of an issue than the price of scotch... And that is absolutely indefensible, in your example. Anyone who defends that is an actual fucking moron with no regard for human life or anything except their bank account.

Sadly, I like scotch...

I just try my best not to contribute to this bullshit.

But a lot of other cases where I actively go out of my way to avoid contributing to it.

@nobody Heh.

Well, there is a leaking issue but I can't leak the bytes I need to just yet.

You know when you just look at something and feel like you're getting closer but then it takes another 20 hours?

That's this entire subject.

"oh i get it"

"wait... no i dont"

"oh now i do"

"wait... im wrong again fuck"

^ binex 101.

well, he can fuck off back there then.

NSA, yuck.