Yes. Maybe try feeders. Binoculars also work, but may require some patience.Doesn’t seem like you need to tease/antagonize them to be able to see them.

At the risk of sounding ancient: Lifeforce on the NES.

Cyberpunk. Lots to do, and ostensibly all the other video games in VR.

Maybe a couple of coats of slightly thinned clear nail polish?

That’s the hay loft. Probably more so on older barns, but that’s where the term is from.

You’re probably gonna have to experiment a bit. For baking and more delicate things probably the listed fan temp, but for things like roasted potatoes it doesn’t matter as much.

The photosites are continuously reading the light falling on them. When you take a picture, the system takes discreet readings of those values for the length of your shutter speed. However it can only handle the information from a portion of the sensor at a time. So it reads in sequential stripes. The longer the exposure time the more of a chance that the sensor or the subject has moved before the camera reads all the stripes.