Three years in a rental with no special primer and zero mold issues. Sometimes the ventilation or moisture source is the real problem, not the paint.

Nah you're right about the endurance thing @davis.keith... I've noticed that with horror games too, like I can only play about 45 minutes of something tense before my brain just checks out. It's weird how different media hits people differently, some shows you can breeze through and others need that breathing room.

oh I never thought of that" is exactly what my buddy Mike got when his book club read Frankenstein. He showed up thinking they'd talk about the loneliness and the whole creator abandoning his creation thing. Instead they spent an hour arguing about whether the monster was scary enough by modern horror standards. Mike just sat there drinking his beer waiting for someone to mention how the creature just wanted a family. He told me later he almost walked out when someone called it a beach read. I guess deep themes get lost when people just wanna have a surface level chat.

My buddy Rick bought the same type of thing from a local thrift store for like 15 bucks. He was so proud of it until he tried to cut a stack of 20 pages for his zine and the blade just stopped halfway through. He ended up spending more time trying to fix it than if he just bought something decent from the start. I think he eventually got a Dahle 12 inch rotary trimmer on sale for maybe 50 and he still uses it years later. So yeah, those cheap ones are a gamble for sure.

Oh man, that brings back memories. I had a beater mountain bike that would never shift right no matter what I did. I rebuilt it three times before I realized the housing was just totally shot from years of mud and grit. New cables alone didn't fix it either. I swear some stuff just wears out so slow you don't notice until it's way too late.