If you enjoy adrenaline & frustration, Super Hexagon is one of those thumb-twitchy games that gives you the "just one more" impulse when you die. Unpossible is another.
We make up stories about ghosts and cryptids specifically because they're interesting, and even if they're not true, the stories are fun and engaging. For me, the fact that all of it is made up doesn't matter. Ghosts aren't real, but I'm a sucker for a good ghost story.
The fun of fiction is in the telling. We can create entire new worlds with nothing but words and imagination, and invite others to play in (and expand!) those worlds. Nothing uninteresting about that!
I'm childless but I hope someone will keep using it. I haven't refinished it, but a small part of the nickel plating has worn away on one side, so I might look into getting it plated. It has a nice size & balance!
One of my tasks at work is creating content - blogs, social media posts, internal communication emails, etc. We are instructed to write everything at a 5th-grade level because that's where the average American reads. Not the lowest-level American, the average.
I also get to do customer support for people who would not have to contact me if they had actually read the information I wrote for them.
I still use an old 20s-era Gem that I got at an antique shop for $10. Once you get the shaving technique down it's a nice soothing ritual that ends with a great shave.
For pay-once apps, the Affinity suite is solid. It's not cheap, but it goes on sale for half off a couple times a year. Their Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign competitors are well thought out, but there is a definite learning curve coming from Adobe. Luckily, they have a series of educational videos to get you going.
Plus, Bandcamp will also recommend new music and related artists. The recommended artists at the bottom of a band/artists's page are listed by the artist themselves, so you can pursue music that inspired the music you like.
I will say, I frame based on the subject & purpose of the video. Leaving aside platform requirements (TikTok's vertical-only format), I don't mind shooting vertical if it's a 1-person eye-level video, especially if I need to get their whole figure in the shot. More than 1 person and it's horizontal.
What I seethe with rage at are the idiots who shoot historical events (tsunamis, daring rescues, sporting events or any fast action) vertically and then firehouse the camera back & forth trying to capture the action. Those people should be smacked and their phones taken away.
I started with stick comics. XKCD still draws stick comics. If the story is compelling, people can get invested in your creation. If you want to do action sequences, etc. do 'em with a sense of humour (and stick people) and the right audience will be on board.
In print, you can use all-caps to produce a large, attention-grabbimg headline and reduce the leading (line space) without worrying about font ascenders or descenders interfering.
Not sure how such an outlandish tale captivated so many people for so long, but: Trickle-down economics.