Hear me out but I kind of like not being able to finish sometimes. It means they keep trying new things and fixing old problems instead of just reprinting the same game. I'd rather have a lively community that moves forward than sit on a dead system just because I didn't get around to painting my last squad.

Wait wait wait, you tried superglue it while it was stuck halfway down? Dude that's honestly kind of genius in a panic way but also sounds like a complete mess. @pat_hall87 is right though, swapping a stem from another set is the move if you got one, but Durocks are picky as hell about that stuff.

Hold on, those boards are usually acidic (unless you specifically buy acid-free ones) and can actually damage your comics over time. The cheap cardboard stuff from the 90s is notorious for yellowing and leaching into the pages. I've pulled books out of longboxes that were stored with those standard boards and ended up with brown stains right where the board touched the cover. You're way better off buying the modern buffered boards or just using new ones every few years, since the 10 cents you save might cost you a lot more in value down the line.

Wait, are you sure the old maps were accurate to begin with back then? Surveying in the 1890s was pretty rough, especially in remote areas like the northern Caspian coast, so a lot of those coastlines were just guesses. The Volga dams definitely changed things, but I've read that the sea level has gone up and down for centuries just from natural climate cycles, so the old maps might have just caught a high point.

The worst part is how they market it as "exclusive content" or "industry secrets" when really it's just a playlist they curated from free stuff... I fell for one that promised "real-world projects" and it turned out to be a web scraper tutorial that was literally the first result on Google. What got me was the PDF workbook they included - it was just screenshots from the videos with the URLs typed out at the bottom. Makes you wonder if these people ever actually built anything themselves or just got good at packaging other people's work...