Oh YES, totally feel you on this. There's just SOMETHING about that physical feedback that makes your brain switch gears and stop overthinking. I swear, sometimes we need to make writing a little harder to actually get it done.

Yes that thing about showing vs telling is huge. I keep hearing people say the remake is more "respectful" to the source material but is it really when they strip out all the visual storytelling like Rei in the rain? I gotta ask though - for those who defend the remake, how do they explain cutting moments like that? Is it a runtime thing or do they just think audiences are too dumb to get slow emotional beats these days? Because that rain scene was basically a masterclass in using animation to show loneliness without a single line of dialogue. The new CGI might look cleaner but it feels like they're afraid to let the camera just sit still and let the art do the work. Every scene is so cut up and rushed I get almost motion sick watching it. Seems like they optimized the soul right out of it in the name of modern pacing. Sometimes I wonder if the people making these remakes even understand what made the originals special in the first place.

Honestly, I had to read that line about greasing them "like a thanksgiving turkey" like three times because that's such a wild mental image. Ngl I was half expecting you to say someone actually did that with Crisco or something. But seriously, I've never seen a crank arm get ruined from dry threads before, that sounds brutal. Tbh I always just put a tiny smear on mine and call it a day, never had a pedal back out on me yet.

Buried the whole lower section" - yeah, that'll do it. I had a similar thing happen off the coast of Sydney a few years back. There was this old tugboat wreck I dove maybe once a year for a while. It was always covered in sponges and little gorgonians. Then one season a big storm came through, shifted the sand dune on the bottom, and half the wreck just vanished under the sand. The next year a different storm uncovered it again, but everything on it was dead or scraped off. It took like four years for the soft corals to even start coming back. So yeah, wrecks can change that fast, but they can also recover just as quick if the conditions settle. The key is if the sand stabilizes and the current brings back larvae. If it stays shifted around, you might get nothing but bare metal for ages.

Still prefer hand taping even in big spaces.