I think the place where I would love to live forever would be Stone Hill zone in the first Spyro the Dragon video game. I guess the whole world in that game is wonderful, but something about those beautiful rolling hills, and that wonderful music feels like heaven to me. It's simple but I always felt this way about it.

I tend to think left 4 dead's Boomer zombie.

Slightly unrelated but when people say Zoomer, I often think about the hover bike from the first Jak and Daxter. XD

I laughed at the reference, and then started laughing harder after I remembered the next line. Thankyou for that.

(You don't have to put on the red light)

I get pretty terrified of people attacking me for saying something wrong, so I tend to delete something I was about to say. I don't exactly have the greatest way with words, so an anonymous post where no one knows I'm not trying to be a jerk can be a bit difficult to handle.

You know that ringtone from the movie Jurassic Park 3? The plumbing jingle I think? That. XD

I like the way ringtones used to be, and when someone recognizes it, it's a good laugh.

These are very edge-case, and I only mention it because you had a lot of helpful details that eliminated stuff, but could the gap between the extruder drive and the hotend opening be too far apart? I've had a problem kind of similar where it would jam up the filament there. Otherwise, the other outlandish thing I could think of is maybe the inside of the hotend is pitted and damaged, but that is not as likely.

I hope this helps at all, or maybe gives you some kind of idea. Good luck!