Ask him straight up if he meant your actual rub was too wet or if your cooking process was trapping moisture. I got told something similar once and it turned out I wasn't letting the meat breathe enough before hitting the smoke. That fridge rest is key but did he say anything about your wrap method or spritzing schedule? Those two things can turn your bark into a soggy mess faster than anything else. I had to stop spritzing completely and switch from foil to butcher paper to get that crust right. Pain in the ass to change after years but man it made a difference.

30 day average discharge? That's wild, I've never even thought to look at that metric. I mean, I just check the daily gauge height and call it good (which sounds real stupid now). You basically got a free lesson in why my dragline was digging up more mud than rock last month.

Saw a Reddit thread where a guy got scammed the same way at that mall.

That line "asking for a jammed line" hit home for me. I had a similar moment with an old-timer in a boneyard near Eugene, he watched me set up a Blake's hitch on a spar and just shook his head. He showed me how a simple friction saver plus a distel hitch would stop me from getting a choked line on a side leaner. Did Pete make you test the new setup on a smaller tree first before you took it onto that doug fir?

The toilet site sounds like exactly the kind of rabbit hole I fall into way too often. I've noticed a pattern where the most useful niche databases are always made by one person who cared way too much about one topic like the guy who mapped every single laundromat in Osaka or the woman who rated every 7-Eleven parking lot in Yokohama. They usually die off around 2011 because the creator got busy or forgot about it. It's almost a shame because those single person passion projects have a charm that the big polished apps just can't beat.