My mind is blown by how many people still play this one old co-op game

I was looking at the Steam charts yesterday and saw that 'Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime' still has over a thousand people playing it right now. That's a game from 2015! It made me realize how much staying power a really good couch co-op concept has. What other older games still have an active player base for local play?

I was reading an old Otis manual from 1978 and it said a standard traction elevator motor from that era could pull 3000 pounds with just a 15 horsepower unit. That seems crazy low by today's standards.

Wasted $75 on a 'universal' washing machine repair kit that fixed nothing

My washer was shaking and I bought this kit with belts and dampers online. The parts didn't even fit my model (a basic Whirlpool from 2018), and I spent a whole Saturday trying to make them work. Turns out the real problem was just an unbalanced load and a loose leg. Anyone have a good way to check for simple stuff before ordering parts?

A drawer front split on me right before a delivery in Seattle

This happened last Thursday, the day I was supposed to deliver a built-in media unit. I was doing the final assembly and one of the figured maple drawer fronts, about 14 inches wide, just popped a hairline crack right down the middle. It was fully finished too, with three coats of a water-based poly. My best guess is the wood was still moving a bit in our shop humidity and the finish locked in some stress. I didn't have time to remake it, so I carefully injected some thin CA glue into the crack, clamped it overnight, and then touched up the finish with a fine brush. It held, but it was a real panic. Has anyone else had a finish seemingly cause a crack like that on what felt like stable stock?

Heard two guys at the gas station talking about a missing road in Bend, Oregon

One guy was telling the other he drove to a spot he knew near Pilot Butte, but the turn he always took just wasn't there anymore. He said the whole stretch of road was just gone, replaced by a field he'd never seen. It made me think about how many times I've felt that same weird 'shift' in a place I know well. Has anyone else had a local landmark or route just seem to vanish like that?

Warning: a client's 'simple' table refinish in Cincinnati turned into a week of stripping old milk paint

They said it was just a few coats of varnish, but it was actually six layers of that old chalky paint, each a different color. I went through two gallons of stripper and a full box of 80 grit paper before I even saw wood. Has anyone else had a job where the prep work was ten times worse than they told you?

I used to think a boning knife was just for, well, boning. Tried using my 6-inch Victorinox to break down a whole lamb shoulder last week and it was a total game changer.

My sauerkraut volcano erupted all over my kitchen ceiling last Thursday

Honestly, I forgot to burp the jar for 3 days and it made a geyser that hit the light fixture. Anyone have a good method for cleaning fermented cabbage off popcorn ceilings?

A homeowner in Bellingham told me something that changed how I tape seams

I was finishing a basement for this older guy, maybe six months ago, and he watched me mix my mud. He said, 'My dad used to say you should mix it like pancake batter, not like soup.' I mean, I always just added water until it felt right. But I tried his way, a bit thicker, and it held on the knife so much better. No more sag on those long ceiling seams. Anyone else have a simple trick like that for mud consistency?

I was using the wrong size pipe cutter on copper for years until a job in Cincinnati

The foreman saw my rough cuts and asked if I was trying to make extra work for the solder crew. I switched to a 4-inch cutter and the difference was instant. Anyone else have a simple tool swap that fixed a basic mistake?