Missed opportunity to have the dancers have alternating skin colour and add some interesting patterns to the dance.

Tell me more about those retirement benefits.

Not hard, just fiddly for the fluffy bits. But it is explained with a video by the creator of the pattern. All the other stitches are classic single crochet and slip stitch.

That being said I wasn’t too happy with how the pattern was written overall. Nothing insurmountable, just not what I am used to. Instead of “(2 SC, INC)x6” it would be “sc in next 2, 2 sc in sc, repeat the whole round” for example. I’m just not used to that writing style and I had to really concentrate to avoid making mistakes.

Thanks! This is great.

I am all for this, eating insects is done in many cultures and a healthy source of nutrition. We westerners may see it as something intimidating at first, because we so squirmish about bugs, but I am honestly curious about the taste.

That being said, I don’t know why we need more nutritious flour. We are not lacking protein in our diets. Even vegans and vegetarians easily hit the minimum protein intake by consuming plant based protein…

The copium on this theorie blog post is so endearing.

I remember being very confused and in disbelief when reading the 6th book, but I never thought that the events were a ruse of some kind.

It is almost guaranteed to be injury free. 😄

One of us! One of us!

It’s supposed to be a fish, the pattern is a bit wonky. Don’t recommend that one. 😅

I did, it’s the white border around the work. I’ll try to block it and see how far it will correct the shape. Thanks!

Yep! It’s holding on well.

To the best of my knowledge, the artwork was entered in a contest about African culture and the mini came after that. I didn’t make either of them, was just lucky in my searches.

I personally made her into a Druid Circle of Sheppard.

Here is our 150% Tiamat from Epic-Miniatures

Thanks! I’ll check this out.

“No” is a very powerfull word.

If you are a minor and didn’t have a choice, I sincerely sympathize with your fate.

Yes! You are posting in one…

Subreddits are called “Communities” on Lemmy. You can “Join” a community (as long as your instance is federated with the instance hosting that community), and it will be like “subscribing” to the community.

On the right hand side of your “homepage” you will see the communities you are subscribed to under “Subscribed to communities”.

On said homepage you can also choose to filter content on “Subscribed” / “Local” / “All” which translates to “only the communities I joined” / “only the communities hosted on this instance” / “everyyyything”.

Hope this helps… Others have likely explained it better than myself.

Oh I really like the first one! It’s simple enough it wouldn’t look weird when made into a small logo.

Very nice.

You may not like my answer but here goes: Time will tell.

Those who have jumped ship indefinitely will build a community here in the Fediverse. Those who miss Reddit too much will return there and use the official app.

By staying you are building something new. It may not be Reddit, and it may never be Reddit. But there are still millions of users who are here to stay and will become a community.

I hope it will not become a “they” vs “us” thing. Both platforms can exist peacefully, the same way Facebook and Twitter coexist.

Perhaps a difference in content style or format will appear in time, which will make people choose one platform over the other. But that’s not bad. Competition is healthy.

I’m staying, and I’m curious to see where Lemmy is going. All I can do is contribute to making it a place I want to hang out in.

No you don’t. We use dice, bottle caps, even snacks if we don’t have minis available.

Playing with minis is more expensive but it’s a hobby to most people to design a character, (have it) print and paint.

You are doing great just by accepting the fact you need to lose weight and putting honest effort into it. Baby steps… don’t go from zero to hero (~insert the song from Hercules here~).

I personally don’t do calorie counting, but give myself objectives. My current objective is to eat more green vegetables, and lean protein (chicken, egg whites, white fish…) three times per week. Just three times. I put a littlke circle in my agenda when it worked, and can pat myself on the back when I succeed at the end of the week.

I also plan my cheat days ahead of time. If I know I am going to have a cheat day (like this Saturday, when I will be attending a wedding), I put it in the calendar. When I am tempted to order food, or make something fatty, I check the calendar to see if my “alotted cheat meal” has already been claimed for the week.

The single hardest thing to do, for me at least, is listen to your body. Are you actually still hungry when you are going back for seconds? Thirds? Or do you crave the food, the pleasure of the tasty flavors, the reassurance of a tummy well filled (stuffed, really)? I try to use smaller plates too, to force myself to eat smaller portions, and make that evaluation when I empty my first plate: am I still hungry, truly hungry?

Be gracious with yourself. Chances are, you built the “bad” habits over years and years of mindless behavior with food. Now you need to dedicate years and years building mindfull ones.

Anyway… there’s my two cents of wisdom. Good luck!