Question if you were actually giving everyone an extra action or if your friends just decided to roll with it because it made the game easier. Most board game mistakes like this aren't game-breaking unless you're playing in a tournament or something. Sounds like you guys were having fun anyway, so who really cares if the birds were OP for a couple months.

Well slow and steady wins the race but sometimes you just gotta run with it when the welder's hot.

And exactly, Hugo. Deer are like furry little chaos machines with legs. I swear they have a sixth sense for finding the most inconvenient thing to startle at. Like, you could be out in the middle of an empty field with a single telescope and a deer will somehow find the one tree root to trip on right next to you. I once had a raccoon climb onto my observing chair mid-session, which was a whole different kind of rude. But a deer? That's a whole new level of "thanks for coming out tonight, here's a near heart attack.

Holy cow, that's basically the exact same thing I ran into! I was also gluing them straight to the spine for like two years, and I just thought I was using bad glue or something. Then I tried sewing them into the text block first on a couple of old encyclopedias, and the difference was night and day. Those things are solid now, no peeling at all. It's one of those tricks that makes you feel kinda dumb for not figuring it out sooner, you know?

Piggybacking on that Game Boy Camera idea, I had a buddy who used his old iPod Nano to pull up a saved Wikipedia page about basic car repairs when his phone died and he was stuck on the side of the road. The screen was tiny and scratched to hell, but it had the info on changing a flat tire step by step. He said it felt like using a relic from a museum, but it got his spare on in twenty minutes. I think there's something cool about how those old gadgets just keep working without needing updates or signal. They're like little bricks of backup knowledge sitting in a drawer.