Feel like our whole idea of free time now depends on a perfect chain of tech working right. Your power goes out, my internet cuts off right at the big reveal, a streaming service just glitches for an hour. We plan these escapes into a show but the real world, the wires and the weather, always gets a vote. Makes you wonder if the old way of waiting a week for a new episode wasn't a little more sturdy.

Remember when we thought those things were the height of tech? Makes me feel like a dinosaur.

Honestly, I used to think they were just being stubborn. What changed your mind about them?

Honestly, that seems like overkill to me. Landlords have the original photos from before you moved in anyway. A video just makes the whole move-out process more stressful than it needs to be.

My trick is to ask if it has a 'skip list.' If someone has made a guide on which episodes to avoid, that tells you everything. My own watch history is basically a museum of bad choices I was too stubborn to quit. I sat through an entire season of a mecha show that was just about filing paperwork because I kept waiting for it to 'get good.'