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Pretty funny analysis of Batman:

I don't get the joke the poster is trying to make.

If anything, naming a kit-kat knockoff Take-it sounds like it would encourage shoplifting.

[Walls]

Ok, here I go again 


Walls (my translation, original by Konstantin Cavafy)


Without caution, without shame or regret

they built extensive and high walls around me.


And now I lay here in despair.

Reflecting on this misfortune. It’s all I think about;


because I did have many things to do outside the walls.

Ah, how could I be oblivious, when they were still being built.


And yet, I never heard builders clanking or making any other noise.

I was shut out of this world all too subtly.

All I'm thinking of is The Wall by Pink Floyd reading it... 

I don't know why I find this so funny, but the sound it makes is just hilarious! 

Aw, they're so cute! 

Hi, Hobbes. I'm the reddit moderator who set you up.

I just want to avoid someone who's not invested in AGS and its community to co-moderate. But if anyone's interested, just let me know. In the meantime, it *is* quiet over there. But I'm also not sure what "purpose" Reddit serves. We have a really nice forum community over here. I see the appeal of Discord (live chat). But Reddit is in effect just another forum. So it's likely to stay quiet, is my guess!

This is pretty much the reason it has been so quiet there. No need to reinvent the wheel.

There's an active (if small and fractured) IRC community too.

Just what I was going to say! I remember checking it out a few years ago, but never saw much point posting there as the only people there were the same as in this forum, so I couldn't use that Reddit forum to promote my games to a new audience,
and if I just want the casual community stuff, this forum is much more nice and convenient, for even if there are individual subreddits that are nice and well moderated, much of Reddit is still kind of a cesspool.

This sums up most teachers I've had.

There are good pragmatic arguments for eating meat, especially in parts of the world where its easier to grow things like grass, that livestock eat but humans can't. And there are compelling environmental arguments for dramatically reducing, but not eliminating, the meat we eat. I haven't heard a strong moral argument for eating meat, though.

Well, I'd say that for people like the Inuits and people living far up north, eating meat is both part of their native culture and traditions, and many preservation and hunting techniques would be lost forever if they stopped eating meat, but also, to them, hunting and fishing locally is far more environmentally friendly and sustainable than relying on imported crops.

Similarly, in my native Sweden, there are huge areas where you can't grow crops well, but they are ideal for grazing cattle and it's both more economic and eco-friendly to keep them as open areas for livestock to feed on. There are also many species of wild plants and animals that require open areas to thrive, and if the fields for livestock were instead turned into farm fields or forests, a lot of biodiversity would be lost. The cattle wouldn't necessarily have to be for meat, but it'd still require having many domestic animals.

[immedeatly]

I say grim fairytales and stuff like struwwelpeter served a very important role of keeping kids from doing stupid and annoying things, and I personally find it sad that those kinds of morality tales have all but vanished from western culture, and instead we see parents fruitlessly trying to placate kids throwing a temper tantrum instead of dicipining them. To share a true story, when I was on the subway, there was this tiny girl who started crying because her mom wouldn't let her run around on a crowded subway willy nilly, and I finally had it with her crying and just quipped at the kid that "Hey, you know fairies feel immense pain whenever children cry. Do you really want to torture poor Tinkerbell?" and she went quiet immedeatly, and her mom even thanked me for stepping in.
Long story short, kids can't grasp concepts like actions having consequences or other people suffering from their crying, but they can grasp fairytale horror stories.


Anyways, I posted here because I also wanted to share this short film, because it has a really interesting take on the horror genre,
but be warned that there is a rather gross closeup image towards the end of the film.

Funny or terrifying?

Looks good anyway.   

Aw thanks! 

I finally got around to painting the plushie! Unfortunately, I couldn't take a photo that makes the colors justice, it's more vibrant irl.

This is so accurate! 

Acrylic paint works well with fabric. I've used them to paint t-shirts before. They will eventually fade out, depending on how much washing and water temperature is used though.

I would have NOT used that kind of eyes though, 2 year olds eat everything! And he/she will eat those eyes before you notice. Mine managed to eat the whiskers and plastic nose of a plush cat (the eyes survived but they aren't just glued into the fabric. They're actually double as big and wide inside the head, making it impossible to come out and be swallowed)!
I would either paint the eyes or "embroidery" them. You'll lose the movement, but for a 2 year old, that won't matter, and it'll be safer.

Well, the kid's mom assured me he had stopped putting non-food items in his mouth. 

I play tabletop wargames and make most of my terrain with cardboard, 3d printed parts and store bought parts, does that count as crafting?
More pictures here: https://montevideowargamer.blogspot.com/2021/04/french-garage-1940.html

I'd definitively count it as crafting, and great work too! So detailed! 

That looks great I wish I could make some claymation films, but I am not good with hand-crafting.

Well, either you could ask someone to make claymation props for you (or use lego), or you could try and learn.

Everyone has to start somewhere, and no one makes a masterpiece on the first try, but crafting is definitely a talent anyone willing to practice can master.

It looks nice already, but indeed it may look even better if you add more stuff 

That's the idea!

If it's for a smaller child that will play with it roughly I would go with paint. I'd only go with embroidery if I thought the kid would take good care of the toy, since it's a lot of work to put down to have it be ripped apart. 
But you should do what seems more fun and exciting for you. I think paint will be better for a bit more "realistic" feel, and embroidery for a more whimsical feel with some fun pattern.

Definitively a good point with the paint, it's for a 2-year-old (I made sure to attach the googly eyes with double thread), so I want a sturdy option.

Does anyone know how well acrylic paint work on fabric?

I've started to craft a lot lately, mostly sewing, and I'd thought it'd be nice to share and exchange some ideas here.

For a starter, I've recently started working on making a Cotylorynchus plushie for a relative's kid, and I'm pondering weather to try embroidery or fabric paint to make it more interesting.

What do you all think?

To compare, here is a reconstruction of what the now extinct Cotyloryncus may have looked like;


Any fun ideas on how to give the plushie a neat pattern or similar?

Also, does anyone have any fun craft projects of their own to share? 

I don't really consider myself having any favorite genre, as there are tons of derivative garbage and a few gems in all genres. Life's too short for bad books. If there's any genre where I'll pick up a book without checking weather it's good/whether I'd like it before starting reading it, it'd probably be paleontology books, if they have good illustrations and an accessible layout.

However, if I should make a literary rekommendation, it's the Lord of the Rings trilogy by Tolkien, though I doubt anyone reading this didn't already know of these books.
I will say though, that I think they're unfairly painted as difficult and challenging to read, whereas I had no problem whatsoever reading them all in a breeze.

These birds have rather weird heads;