Honestly @felix_thomas73, I gotta push back on that a little. Speed and convenience might work for making a quick poster or a logo, but real art is about the process, not just the output. When you spend hours on a painting, you learn something, you make mistakes, you discover stuff you wouldn't have if a machine just did it for you. The whole point of painting is the time you put into it, the way you build up layers and fix things as you go. Ngl, if you just want something fast and clean, that's cool for a business card or whatever, but calling that "art" feels like missing the point entirely.

@jesseb20 I get what you're saying man, but I honestly see it different now. I used to chase the rare ones hard too, spent $60 on a variegated Philodendron cutting that died in a week. But you know what brings me more joy these days? The cuttings my buddy gave me from his grandmother's spider plant that's been alive since the 80s. That plant has more history and character than anything I've bought online. There's something special about watching a common plant thrive with almost zero effort compared to the fussy rare stuff.

Oh man, I did the same thing with a porch railing and ended up buying four different quarts before it looked decent.

Dude I gotta hard disagree on this one @felix_thomas73. Prints have been way more forgiving for me than screen stuff ever is. Ive sent some real sketchy low res images to Walgreens and they came out looking totally fine. Maybe Costco just has bad printers or something. My rule is if it looks okay blown up on a cheap monitor its probably fine on paper. Screens lie way more than paper does in my experience.

Bought one of those $45 hoists myself and used it to yank a blown 5.3 out of my old Tahoe in the rain. It creaked like a haunted house floor but the motor came right out without killing me, so I count that as a win. I figure as long as I don't try lifting a Hemi with a cast iron block, the thing's got one or two more swaps left in it before the welds give up on life. Probably gonna buy a backup just in case, though.