Honestly, that's what makes the hobby worth it, good on you.

Man, that hits close to home. Same thing happened to me with my old truck, always did the snug plus a quarter and thought I was golden. Borrowed a buddy's click-type wrench one weekend and found out I'd been cranking everything way past spec for years. Felt like a total idiot standing there in the driveway with the tool in my hand. Now I keep a cheap beam style one in the toolbox just for peace of mind... it's humbling how easy it is to fool yourself with feel.

Spent $90 on a Monster cable in 2017. Still mad about it.

Ngl, that's exactly what happened. Dude just plopped down in the seat next to me, watched for like 30 seconds, then reached over and grabbed my mouse mid-match. Told me I was playing my character wrong in Valorant and started showing me all these crazy lineups and utility tricks. Honestly I was too shocked to even get mad, but he was actually right about some of the stuff I was messing up.

Man that "softens the edges" thing is so real. My buddy Dave tried stacking his moon shots with his Sky-Watcher and the final image looked like someone smeared Vaseline on the lens. He spent like 3 hours aligning 100 frames in Registax and ended up deleting the whole thing. Next night he took one single exposure at ISO 200 and it was way sharper, you could see the little craters inside Copernicus clear as day.