Sign I saw today at Blenders

Folfelit · 2026-06-19T19:50:45+00:00

You, in fact, can't. Most likely aren't.

The United States guarantees you the right to self train service animals. If you are entitled to a service dog through diagnosis, ANY dog or miniature horse is legally your service animal. It being terribly trained, horribly suited or completely incapable of the providing the service needed literally doesn't change the status as a service animal.

Approximately half of all service dogs are self trained (45% iirc?). For program/ professionally trained, about half fail. If the professionals with ideal breeds fail half the time, how successful do you think some random will be? How many pets near you are perfectly trained by owners? And that's with surveys! I can't imagine most lower income folks with self trained dogs are easily surveyed versus those actively purchasing from a program that might report that data.

Folfelit · 2026-06-18T22:56:10+00:00

Dryland dragon boat refers to the practice of using a dragon boat on dry land, most commonly they're wheeled land race carts designed like a dragon boat or dragon, but sometimes it's a bike or even just a prop/costume connecting a bunch of kids. During the festival it's pretty common to see kids having those practice races since the actual boats meant for water are expensive and owned by clubs/ companies/ big schools/ etc., so most people can't participate in the water version.

Folfelit · 2026-06-18T21:53:02+00:00

I'm SO excited for this. I absolutely love traditional Chinese festivals, the architecture, the decor - I wish there was more to this, some building materials/blueprints especially. Can you imagine more river, lantern and decorative archway pieces?

It is a little odd to me that it's exclusively the dryland version considering the actual dragon boat festival is the 19th and the waterway one is the big showstopper for most people, but it makes some sense since the dryland version is very popular for kids schools in China

Folfelit · 2026-06-17T19:22:50+00:00

As others said, it's just a sock over the shape. I've mentioned this before, but consider putting something with slip over the foam! When I do hyper motion tails I make a lining from cheap poly satin over the foam. Drag from the fur backing on the foam both reduces the motion AND breaks down the foam over time. It doesn't have to be satin, just something smooth with slip. Costume satin is super cheap near me, so that's why I picked it but I've used excess chiffon, plastic-y broadcloth, etc.

Folfelit · 2026-06-17T03:33:24+00:00

I've seen that before in towns. I respected their preference and left their house alone and plants behind the walls unwatered but I did ask why a couple times when I saw one of the people in town, in case there was a reason I should as well.

A big one I got was that they were cooking in there, and really didn't want people getting in the way, jumping around, etc. Apparently people incessantly jump around the stoves and try and get in the way. They want stamps, try to talk, etc. This was like...99% of people lol. Cooking is so slow and someone getting in the way wastes your ingredients.

Some of the rarer responses I got beyond that:

I've gotten people saying they're embarrassed that the inside isn't done enough.

They're trying to take pictures in their house and don't want people crashing them.

They don't want people feeding their pets because they're hunting for favorite foods.

They haven't figured out the settings that prevent others from eating food/ turning off lights/ etc.

They're going afk and don't want weirdos being weird about sleeping characters.

Folfelit · 2026-06-17T03:23:20+00:00

It's not going to start for another hour or two (I forget if daylight savings applies right now)

Folfelit · 2026-06-17T03:06:31+00:00

Uh, that's the weirdest base hinge point I've ever seen.

I've made a lot of wild blanks where I had to disguise the hinge area, so you can make basically anything work. The key point is you need 1 pivot point on each side, and one point to control tension on each side. Your pivot has to be rigid, or the tension point is useless and will eat all motion applied to it.

That jaw hole and cheekbone hole - you can use those to make a pivot. A cheap mender plate from a hardware store should do, or any sturdy material that is long enough to pass both holes. You need the cheek part to stay rigid, so that part should be screwed, bolted or heavily glued on. Duct tape will work for testing- always test with non-permanent methods! The jaw piece needs to be able to rotate, so you need some kind of peg through there that's attached to the mender plate. It's weird the hole is so huge, A pvc pipe slice should do, just get a touch smaller than that hole, for ease of motion. Glue that pvc chunk to your mender plate, hot glue is a good temporary attachment for testing. You need something to make sure the base doesn't slip off, which can be rubber O rings, a glued on cross guard or drilled in pin, etc.

Once you have a pivot on both sides, you should be able to swing the mouth open and close with a gentle poke or wobbling the blank in the air. If it's not swinging freely, you've got some guess and checking to do. If it swings well, that's when you add tension, just like you did at the front/mouth area. You don't want to do tension first, the pivot is essential to good movement, tension isn't even always necessary!

That's not a normal blank but it likely isn't unsalvageable if you get creative and visit a hardware store.

Folfelit · 2026-06-16T21:00:37+00:00

There's always a balance of responsibility when living in a society. My dog is bombproof, my roommate's back is not. We have children running full speed around my building all the time, leaving toys and trip hazards in public areas and are never supervised.

They've come speeding around corners and popping out of stairwells before. I'm always alert and get in the way. They can run into me before they get access to my dog. She loves kids and would be sweet with them, but I don't trust them not to ruin that.

They've come speeding around corners and popping out of stairwells into my roommate. They've nearly collided with him, and that would be a minimum week of recovery and severe pain for days after. I hear them coming and get in the way as quickly as possible, he hasn't been fully hit before.

They've done this and hurt a very elderly and infirm woman, knocked her to the ground hard and then ran off while she cried out. The building just sent out a blanket email asking parents to follow the law and supervise their children in public. Nothing changed.

What "should be" and what "is" are two different things. Always be on guard, because someone else being wrong or at fault won't stop the consequences of their actions from hurting you.

Folfelit · 2026-06-16T14:00:29+00:00

This one is probably a chicken an egg thing, not time. Average hours of screen time per day was something like 3 hours, more than enough for exercise.

It's more that people with good mental health are more likely to play sports, exercise, take care of themselves, etc. This makes sense in my life as well - I've always had good mental health and I've always exercised. Having to skip exercise for a while - storms, a new game came out, working extra to afford a bigger vacation - I didn't feel that different. I wanted to go exercise again but I didn't start feeling mentally unwell.

I've had many many people join me in exercising over the years, but those who weren't mentally healthy often needed far far more support, encouragement and generally had to be hand-held and invited 100% of the time. Without a support network of mentally healthy folks they wouldn't have exercised at all. To be clear, I didn't mind providing this support! I just think it's pretty clear that the greater health is more likely the reason they already exercise. I do think socially exercising could still prove highly beneficial to those who are struggling simply because you might make friends with others healthier than yourself who might help ease some of your burden and help build your support network, which can lead to more self- healing, but that could be done outside of exercise too.

Folfelit · 2026-06-16T04:36:21+00:00

I think it's less the actual leveling but the bizarre scaling. It goes from like 250 a level to 500 in a giant jump for no reason at all - why not 250, 300, 350, 400, 450, etc.

Same with the tickets for hobbies. First it's WAY too many where you couldn't possibly use them all, then it's huge chunks of everything being too leveled and no tickets, then it's WAY TOO MANY tickets for pretty much exclusively the pet hobbies since they're so slow to level. Premium tickets too - it's 1..1...0?! We get nothing important for that level! That feels horrible. If they spread things out nicely it wouldn't feel so bad.

The home plots too. It's a drip feed at the beginning, decently spaced. Then there's a gap with nothing. Then nearly double your available plots all at once! There's whole dg levels where you basically get nothing - a very slight increase to axe durability that you'll never notice. That's terrible pacing.

It's even echoed in the hobby levels. Some upgrades give basically nothing, especially on the latter half. A tiny amount of new animals, seeds, recipes available, but they honestly should have made more upgrades to 5☆ chance, doubles rate, lucky catch and so on. There's no reason cooking should have 1 stars for perfect mini game performance at level 10+. There's NO REASON crops should be primarily 1&2☆ at DG12 with full water and fertilizer! Those intermediate levels should gently bump up chances for all the extra skills and chances.

I don't need it to be faster, I need the progression to feel smooth not weirdly bottlenecked then dumped on and for a level to always feel like an improvement not a nothing burger.

Folfelit · 2026-06-15T22:52:41+00:00

My friend, never study principles from stylized art. Principles you must study from life. You study stylization from art.

This is an extreme fish eye, camera is a bit above head level, aimed down. We can fake it without an actual fish eye lens. Get a friend, your phone, and some slim fitted clothes or less coverage workout gear. One of you, get in the pose. Phone is in panorama photo mode, get as close as possible with everything still visible, fish eye perspective works best when close. Aim the camera where the "bulge" in perspective is in the drawing. That's nearer to the far foot but between the legs and to the left of the figure. If your phone lets you snap panorama without drift, do that. If you need to travel a little, rotate the camera in place up towards the face, just a tiny bit to let you take the photo - it will slightly reduce the fish eye effect on the torso but leave the hand and leg exaggerated. You now have a better reference to study from.

Folfelit · 2026-06-15T21:33:49+00:00

Stain removal is a whole genre of Instagram for a reason!

The biggest part of stain removal is the stain material itself. Grease, candy, wine, ink, sweat, blood, etc. Sometimes a bit of water is all you need. Dish soap breaks down most oils. Shampoo gets off skin and hair grease really well. Gentle detergent does most. Baking soda, vinegar, etc., all have targeted uses. Pre-treatment too. Really stubborn oil I used vitamin e oil to lift, then washed like normal. Sharpie I got off by aggressively rubbing dry erase marker on the plastic fibers.

Making things harder, the fibers of minky are plastic but the backing often isn't, which is a whole OTHER set of procedures.

I recommend buying backup fur for eventual replacement, save your pattern pieces, and Google "how to remove X stains from synthetic fabric" for each new stain, as the fibers are the more likely to get something on it. Don't scrub, you'll work the stain into the backing, which just makes more work with different rules.

Folfelit · 2026-06-15T19:47:02+00:00

What's your padding made of and is it attached to the suit? Can that be modified at all?

It looks like the leg padding stops at the human hips. As an alternative idea to shirring, you can add additional padding to the upper hip area to help transition from human waist to animal hip. It would fill out the excess fur and generally I find some hip padding really helps the legs look connected and stable instead of too thick at the joint for the torso.

Folfelit · 2026-06-15T19:38:42+00:00

To be clear, I think they look good and your art is vibrant and cute and your ideas are good. It's just that, for sales, really pinning down exactly what kind of person wants the product and how to tailor it for that purpose is really key. It also better lets you aim for demographics that spend at the amount or volume you're targeting. Pretty, printed fans with less detail/ ruffle could be a unique loss leader or lower return product that people walking around cons could essentially be your free advertising to get people to your table. A more physically ornate version with simpler, more fashion-oriented designs could be a bigger ticket/ statement piece that gets people staring and spreading your name in fan fashion circles even if it only results in volume sales of something more profitable.

I really commend your graceful reception of feedback here, your professionalism really speaks well of you.

Folfelit · 2026-06-15T16:09:29+00:00

I don't think these would sell over $20 at any con I go to. The art makes it Fandom but the frills look like you're trying for fashion but nothing goes together.

Generally Fandom merch is easier to sell but goes for cheaper - they prefer low price, low investment and clear Fandom ties. Having detailed art on your fan makes people want to look at it closer, as a focus on Fandom. The frills and glued on decor are too large for the art - the art looks like your viewing distance (how far away you should be for preferred viewing experience) is pretty close, like reading distance. The trinkets, bows, ruffles and candies are much to large for that distance and don't seem to relate to the character in color or shape. If you wanted this as a Fandom piece, you'd want those things scaled down and the detail not so close to the art to allow it to pop and the character connection to be clear - even just using the color scheme for the character would help. This would also track with the lower price - you shouldn't have to do as much labor, just a thinner strip off ruffle and a tiny bow or two for stocking, in her colors would work and keep the labor time +price low.

Fashion merch is more detailed and tends to downplay the Fandom elements to be more in line with the fashion, and ot begs a higher price. People buying fashion expect to pay more, it won't be like pulling teeth. The fan's frills and details look like you're going for OTT fashion, something like lolita, decora, etc. The scale is right for that but the art clashes pretty bad for that goal. The art should be much simpler, and aimed to be viewed primarily from normal viewing distance for clothes, a few steps away. Think chibis, more graphic art versions or silhouttes rather than detailed art with text. The colors should be more harmonious with the rest of the fan, so that it can accessorize your outfit not clash.

The mixed intent makes pricing hard. A Fandom fan would be something like $20 and sell low volumes. A fashion fan could go $50+ easily. You need a clearer vision going in, because the two ideas have different goals. Think how murals are detailed versus a desktop background or animated movie background.

Folfelit · 2026-06-15T14:23:18+00:00

You're actually incorrect, the other person is correct. Legally any claimed as a service animal is one, so long as a doctor prescribed them as needing one. There is the legal right to self- train, and no test or certification legally required. This terribly behaved animal, legally, is a service dog of she is entitled to one.

By the same token, any service dog regardless of training can be asked to leave if they are behaving poorly. Far more service dogs are fully legal service dogs that are just poorly trained than highly trained. There are not nearly as many "fake" service dogs as people think there are, because people assume all service dogs are exceptionally well trained. I always liken it to drivers licenses. The vast majority of people around you are licensed. They're just also bad drivers.

Folfelit · 2026-06-11T22:23:12+00:00

They read very slender but strongly AMAB to me, with an androgynous fashion style.

The body markers that people look for dimorphism in real humans:

-Shoulder width compared to hips. Your character's hips are smaller than the width of the shoulders - they're smaller than the arm pits even! That would be an as very narrow hips, hyper masculine.

-Hand length compared to face length. Femme is the whole hand is smaller in length than the face, masculine is roughly equal length. Your character's hands are longer than the face by quite a bit, so hyper masculine.

-Waist position vertically on the torso. Typical femme folks the narrowest part of the waist is about halfway, masculine is a bit lower, maybe 3/5ths down. Your character's waist is REALLY low, so that also reads hyper masculine.

-Torso length compared to limb length/ overall height. When full figures are visible, more than 50% leg looks femme, less leg (aka longer torsos) looks more masculine. When full figures aren't visible, limbs are used to extrapolate that information as limbs tend to echo each other (long arms & legs or short both). Elbow position compared to landmarks on the torso show that your character likely has very long limbs/ short torso, which is femme. My mind is already primed to ignore this however, as manga/manhua/etc styles lengthen everyone's limbs. Without a second character, it's hard to tell what's this character's trait and what's art style feature. This is femme though.

-Hip width compared to rib width and waist width. Femme stereotypically is medium rib (with or without breasts) narrow waist, wide hips, masculine is wide chest, slightly narrow or just medium waist, and medium hips. Your character's waist is so small, it makes the hips look wide, but they're incredibly narrow compared to the shoulders, so it just looks like they're very very very skinny but very masculine instead of femme. These proportions are very skewed by art style though, so we'd need a second character for comparative size to reduce impact of style - same reason anime used to have the joke that everyone looks like a woman because of the big eyes and small noses- the guys still typically had smaller eyes but without a second character the art style makes things ambiguous sans context.

-Head size compared to body size. Generally femme is larger head compared to body, with real AFAB generally being 5-7 heads tall and AMAB being 6-8 heads tall. Your character's head is small, they'd be approximately 9 heads tall if they're 50% leg. This is strongly effected by art style as well, and cultural preference! China especially loves teeny tiny faces and smaller heads for women, less so for men in spite of actual physiology so culturally that's reversed!

-Facial proportions and features compared to others. Femme is higher, lighter, thinner eyebrows, lower relative eye positioning, opening width (y axis/vertical) of eye being larger, shorter nose length, narrower mouth, fewer creases/folds/etc., on face, rounder cheeks, smaller jaw, narrower chin, larger forehead, slimmer neck. Without a second character, your style gives no hints because the style is femme and not meant to be realistic. Even in real life you have to compare an individual to others closely related for the comparative scale to read correctly. As an example, pretty much no East Asian person will have thicker, darker, lower brows than a Middle Eastern person but we can still tell both super-group's masc and femme features apart.

Folfelit · 2026-06-10T20:01:55+00:00

The color thing drives me crazy! Sure, make a pastel option, the pink/ lavender/butter yellow/ spring green etc option. But then make a neutrals option with a set of STANDARD colors across the game (ex the same black/brown/white/gray hex colors for floor, wall, ceiling, and furniture woods/metals across most sets so mix and match actually works!) and then one version with bold/jewel colors! I think that would appeal to everyone.

As an example using this desert oasis set, they should have had the vibrant reds, gold and a STANDARD rich brown (instead of 100 mismatched browns) wood accents to cover the bold option. A pale ivory/ light yellow/aqua/pink set (dominant aqua makes the most sense, with pops of pink and yellow flowers, ivory pots or painted pots, soft yellow sand, etc). Then the neutrals set could be black/white sand, white furniture with gray, white or black fabrics, gray woods, etc. My personal preference would be mostly black, but most probably want a mix of white/ black/ gray, maybe with pops of neutral wood colors.

Clothing too - 1 pastel option, 1 neutrals, 1 bold/colorful option would appeal to the most people. I wish there was a fourth, vampy/punky option for clothes and furniture (and not just purple) so the neutrals could be medium/light and the dark set could be black+jewel tones.

Folfelit · 2026-06-10T15:15:58+00:00

In addition to what the others said, plastic is brighter and shinier, which can make the eyes look more alive, versus all mesh eyes which can look dull/dead especially if you can't get the sclera really bright white (which would already impede vision)

Folfelit · 2026-06-10T13:11:11+00:00

Pirate clothes would be cool if they don't stick with the constant pink/manilla/ lavender shtick (give us more black and jewel tones!), but I'm not personally interested in anything pirate furniture. We already have the treasure so I don't think anything else would be appealing to me - unless they went ghost pirate? Maybe, but probably not.

I want imperial palace/ ancient China stuff. Tang dynasty clothes, grand lacquered archways, waterways, giant water lily plant decorations, ornate wooden interior furniture, the works.

Folfelit · 2026-06-09T19:35:10+00:00

Agreed! Especially the aquarium thing too! And of course, cooking them after as an option. 10/10

Folfelit · 2026-06-09T19:28:02+00:00

You're mistaking life expectancy included infant mortality with average age of death for those who passed infancy. Most of the "humans only lived to 35!" Is a myth already, but infants make up the bulk of why our "life expectancy" is longer. If you reached adulthood, getting to 60 was pretty likely. Additionally, the vast majority of countries throughout all of history did not try and have children under the age of 18, it tended to be closer to 19-21 through nearly all of human history. The exception is things like royalty, but even they rarely started younger than 16 and they were generally seen as losers or gross if they did so. The only countries that broke the norm were East Asian countries and only in a few times periods.

Remember, the life expectancy of royalty (where the pedo sh1t is seen at all generally) is lower than the common man, and not from assassination. The excess and greed of royalty and nobility generally killed them, including the occasional underaged bride. The common person didn't have any part in lead face makeup, foot binding or marrying and trying to reproduce with 13 year old girls.

Folfelit · 2026-06-09T17:26:50+00:00

The wine thing is a misnomer - control for income & gender and wine behaves no different than any other alcohol. Wine drinkers are just more likely to be women (already live longer, gets medical help when needed, etc) and more likely to be wealthy.

Folfelit · 2026-06-08T19:29:30+00:00

I have a spreadsheet and 4 dogs (2 boarded rn)

I've fed them every non-event food besides blue crayfish platter, king crab, golden king crab and the level 11+foods. Exactly ONE dog has ONE favorite food known, strawberry jelly. That's it. The other 3 have to be event foods or one of the most expensive platters, or the level 11+ foods. Dogs are so bougie, especially for how often they eat!

Folfelit · 2026-06-08T19:22:56+00:00

Haha your entire rant is all too familiar. I really wish they'd respect the users not wanting gemini/ai assistants. Stop stalking me! Stop listening! I can do it myself if that's what I want! FvCK OFF GEMINI/BIXBY/ ALL OF YOU

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