What's up with their welds lately, mine snapped on pine last week?

Yeah, and it's wild how often we judge the tool instead of the skill, right? Like @troy_harris said, a chef with a knife is still a chef. I see it all the time with people calling a graphic designer just "someone with Photoshop." The tool is nothing without the person who knows how to use it.

Seriously, that's basic research. Saw a friend's whole remote work setup get fried by a monsoon surge in Thailand.

My roommate tried that with Spanish, French, and Italian last semester. I finally got him to just focus on Spanish for a full term, and he's actually holding conversations now.

Ugh, I actually have the opposite take on this. To me, that's just a basic step of working with velvet or any napped fabric, not some extra pro tip. Checking the nap direction is like step one before you even buy the yardage. It feels like calling it a pro tip is for people who skipped the fundamentals. The real lesson is to learn fabric properties before you cut into expensive material, because that's just part of the job.