Right there with you, our old analog stuff never gives us grief but the digital ones act up constantly.

@dakota_miller93 has a point though. I once spent 15 minutes trying to open a lockbox before realizing I had the wrong code entirely. Called the listing agent and they said "oh yeah, I changed it last week." Real smooth. The buyers walking over a bad door code does seem a bit dramatic. Maybe they were already on the fence and that was the last straw. Your mileage may vary but I'd just leave a factual bad review and focus on the next showing.

Oh, who among us hasn't wasted years on a "Dad special" technique? I spent six months sharpening my chisels on a polishing wheel before someone told me I was just making them shiny, not sharp. Felt like a real genius when I finally got a proper stone and my chisel actually cut wood instead of just reflecting my dumb face back at me. If it makes you feel better, I still catch myself doing the "sacred cow" thing with new tools. Bought a marking gauge last week and immediately tried to use it like my grandpa's rusty old one until I realized it actually has a screw adjustment.

Respect joseph957's pain but I have to agree with Michael here. A few minutes with a scrub brush and dish soap hardly qualifies as life changing.

My buddy who does 3D modeling for video games actually weighed in on this. He said the whole shadow thing is basically a lighting setup problem that photographers deal with all the time. Multiple light sources bouncing off everything in different directions. He showed me how he can make fake shadows in his renderings that look exactly like the moon ones by accident sometimes. The really wild part is nobody talks about how the human brain just isn't built to process lighting in a vacuum with no atmosphere. Our brains are literally wired for Earth sky conditions so of course the moon shadows look wrong to us. That uncle was probably just picking up on his own brain being confused more than any actual fakery.