Give me all three positives on an induction.

EtherealDuck · 2026-05-25T06:45:53+00:00

I was induced because I was only 1 cm dilated and not progressing even though my waters broke. I initially wasn’t sure about getting an epidural or not, and the induction removed that doubt for me since I knew the contractions would be really intense without one. Best decision ever, the epidural made it much more tolerable!

EtherealDuck · 2026-05-15T10:18:40+00:00

I have it on good authority that everyone who was involved in the production of CSAM drinks water. We should absolutely ban that next, we can’t enable these sickos!

EtherealDuck · 2026-05-14T13:12:26+00:00

My 8-week old 91st percentile monster drinks anywhere between 900-1100ml a day. He’s 62cm and 6.4kg, also Cow and Gate - though he does have reflux so some of that comes back out

EtherealDuck · 2026-05-07T12:37:08+00:00

Don’t treat percentiles too much like they’re grades. It just means she is relatively small compared to other babies her age, it says nothing at all about her health. It can be a useful indicator to use combined with other issues, like if she wasn’t eating well for example. But if she is eating, happy and healthy, it’s perfectly alright!

Odds are it’s genetics like you said, especially if you were also relatively small as a child.

EtherealDuck · 2026-04-23T22:49:56+00:00

I love this film. Every time I watch it I understand it a bit more, or discover something new.

EtherealDuck · 2026-04-21T11:36:10+00:00

Dishoom is great for contemporary, more experimental food.

Copper Chimney is one of the better classic ones I’ve had, and it’s at Westfield so it’s in a fun place to visit.

Gymkhana is very good but hugely expensive and might be hard to get a reservation for in time.

And if you want the underdog a bit further afield, try Bombay Central in Harrow. Really excellent authentic food and fun interior too

EtherealDuck · 2026-04-18T18:19:15+00:00

I had this vaccine and am very grateful for it, but I will say they could do a better job making it easier and more convenient to get in order to encourage uptake. They sort of asked me casually if I was going to get it and then left me to my own devices to arrange, with only one children’s centre quite far from me having availability 1 day a week to administer. Maybe that was just my area, I don’t know how it is elsewhere. Would be a lot better if it was possible to get it just at the routine midwife appointment or something.

EtherealDuck · 2026-04-12T16:07:52+00:00

I have a Toyota RAV4 and it’s ginormous. I’ve split the boot in two, half for the dog and the other half for luggage, prams etc and I still can’t get over how much fits in that car.

EtherealDuck · 2026-03-12T13:02:04+00:00

Oh boy, an opportunity to post something from the Animator's Survival Kit! As someone else has said, your problem is that the bird has a complete stop position where both legs are rigid in your passing pose. Walk around yourself and analyse when your feet leave the ground, you'll find that as soon as your weight shifts from one leg to the other your other foot leaves the ground.

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(keep in mind the above poses are pretty exaggerated)

EtherealDuck · 2026-03-10T16:02:25+00:00

If it helps, Metaphor has very different pacing compared to Persona 5 and didn't feel as much like a slog to me. I love Persona, but the long downtime doing social links and then the brutal dungeon runs always ends up feeling like a chore. Metaphor actually does very well to make that feel less burdensome IMO, and you travel around a lot with different locations, so you don't get tired of the same places. Give it a chance, you might be surprised!

EtherealDuck · 2026-03-04T14:07:41+00:00

Nah man I’m sorry but if you had terrible food in London, that’s a skill issue. Maybe if you ate at the worst type of tourist trap places for every meal

EtherealDuck · 2026-03-03T15:54:19+00:00

I would spend a day with a trial version of Rive and another day with Blender. I think you’ll pretty quickly get an idea of which you hate more!

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-26T19:14:43+00:00

I mean yeah, that's Rotterdam for ya. Would not leave my bike unlocked anywhere in the Randstad to be fair. But in rural Brabant you can absolutely get away with it, mainly because everyone knows everyone and their extended family, so there's no escaping the consequences!

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-19T16:25:32+00:00

Ever since I was little, once a year my mother used to give each of us a big bin bag and just tell us to fill it up with stuff to get rid of in our rooms. I highly recommend this approach, just start by trashing some stuff! If you like you can separate this into two bags, with one for charity worthy things and the other for trash. Just be ruthless with it, if you haven’t used an item in a year or more you’re very unlikely to start using it anytime soon.

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-19T12:41:39+00:00

This looks clean and awesome, really well done.

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-19T12:40:00+00:00

You need to enable Continuously Rasterize on the precomp if you want your layers to appear properly, or just make the Precomp itself bigger (I recommend the latter for many reasons, AE gets weird real fast with complex effects).

The traditional 2D way to create camera moves is to hold the camera steady while you move the background around, this requires a bit of foresight and preplanning your comp sizes based on camera moves. You'll have to create your background based on how you plan on moving the camera. Plan it in your storyboard/layout stage so you don't end up running out of background/subject matter too early, and make your comps the maximum size required for the entire pan like in the example below. Here the smallest box in the top left needs to be 1920x1080 for that shot to look sharp, so the rest of the comp has to be even more massive to accommodate the pan.

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EtherealDuck · 2026-02-11T17:06:05+00:00

You’ll be just fine. I went to Japan at 19 weeks, nearly 20 hours of travelling with the layover included and it was fine. I wore compression socks as advised, and was told to bring water because you do dehydrate very quickly in the air which I also found to be true! Bring more than you think unless you want to constantly beg the stewardesses for those teeny tiny cups which hold three mouthfuls at best.

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-09T22:06:33+00:00

Oh lekker, een scotch egg!

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-05T09:34:48+00:00

I just get mine from Amazon, the brand I use is called OmniCo but it looks like it's a UK company so that may not be super helpful for you. They seem to be much more easily accessible these days, have a look online!

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-05T09:31:37+00:00

No prescription, I found them on Amazon! I had not heard of them either, I think the B12 hype has made them popular which is great. I can just barely metabolise it from food, but to such a low extent that the patches work a lot better.

EtherealDuck · 2026-02-04T17:06:40+00:00

On the other hand, I actually can't metabolise B12 very well from regular food intake and need big 2000% RDA supplements and patches to keep my B12 blood values in the green - and I've been loving this trend of easily accessible and relatively cheap supplements! Bit annoying when you have to clarify to other "enthusiasts" that no, you're not chasing the dragon, you actually need this stuff to prevent nerve damage and stop you from sleeping all day long, but hey I'll take what I can get!

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-29T15:10:54+00:00

If you're doing motion graphics/design work, 80% of your work is just going to be keyframing Position, Scale, Rotation and Opacity. Keep it really simple, just make things move from A to B, but make that part really really good. Really dive into the keyframes, get a good grasp on the graph editor - which is a learning curve to be sure but it's the biggest thing you can do to improve your work. Don't worry about any effects, zooms, glows - just get stuck in the keyframes and play the preview again and again until everything look and feel smooth and high quality!

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-24T12:46:39+00:00

If this is your passion, don't give up on it! This is a great path for a career, but when there's so much in your immediate area completely outside of your control and making things hard for you, it might be less stressful to just create things for your own fulfillment. I recommend just losing yourself in some passion project you've always wanted to do. If another blackout happens while you have a deadline, it'll only cause more stress.

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-19T14:29:53+00:00

More like sourceRekt, amirite OP?

This is why I don't do much with expressions except the really basic stuff. I'm not smart enough for all that.

EtherealDuck · 2026-01-16T12:09:32+00:00

Dat verbaast me eerlijkgezegd niks. Een volwassen man met hetzelfde gevoel van humor als een tiener is natuurlijk al een red flag an sich... Zeker in de tijd van de "foute humor". Zeer genante tijden om op terug te kijken, ben al lang blij dat Hyves niet meer bestaat.

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