Yeah @charlie_stone72 that "who cares how someone enjoys their show" part really hits home. I was the same way back when I was heavy into anime forums, always arguing subs were the only real way to experience it. But then I had a buddy who couldnt keep up with subs because of a visual issue, and watching him get roasted for asking about dubs made me feel like a jerk. What worked for me was just telling people straight up, "Hey I used to think like that too until I realized we're all just trying to have a good time." Most folks calm down when they see you've been where they are.

Man, those random tips from old timers hit different. I had a drywall finisher once show me that the secret to getting a smooth corner is not in the mud but in how you cut the tape. I spent two years just smearing mud on like a fool before that guy walked by, grunted, and saved me from looking like a total amateur. It's always the quiet ones who know the real tricks, the ones who have been doing it so long they don't even think about it. Makes you wonder how many other basic things we're all messing up just because no one stopped to say, 'Hey, you're doing that wrong.' Glad you caught that before the walls went up, that would have been a rough day.

Hang on you did ALL of that in a single shaft? How did the comms work when you were pulling the old safeties and getting the new ones lined up?

Whoa, wait, your laptop graded your work on its own? That's genuinely terrifying in my experience - and @keith_henderson might want to be careful romanticizing the pen and paper days when that tech glitch could've happened to anyone.

Read that fluorescent light can make beige look straight up green.