Yeah, that makes sense. I feel you on that.

Honestly "it's just empty" hits hard because I read this article last week about how public spaces need constant small maintenance or they decay way faster than people expect. It's like that broken windows theory stuff, once one thing goes it all starts slipping. Sounds like Riverside got hit with the budget cuts and just never recovered.

Wait, so your photos are soulless unless you crank the ISO like it's a drag race? I guess my box-speed shots are just empty husks of film then, who knew.

Nah @anthony883 you're missing the point, it's about planning not just buying less.

Holy crap, that's a bummer. I had no idea the starting and stopping could do that to the bearings. I always thought it was just the drive heads that took the beating from spinning down all the time. Your Seagate was a 2008 model too? That's brutal, man.