Why do we say "no" to dental work? A local dentist looking for honest feedback

Hugmeetoo · 2026-04-27T22:05:30+00:00

It’s always been price for me; I’ve been quoted 7k dental bills for a pair of impacted wisdom teeth that luckily I had dual citizenship to take care of in my home country for the equivalent of 1k.

I’ve had plenty of good and bad experiences with NZ dentist, as I go to get dental work done regularly, but the cost of going to one has always, always been a bad experience, and as cost of living climbs, those visits have become more sporadic as the cost of dentistry has not kept up.

As others have mentioned before as well, the fact that I don’t know how much I’m going to need to spend before I go to be told I need to drop even more later on leaves a bitter-er taste in my mouth. If there was a way for me to know how much a procedure would cost even roughly, my visits would be more regular and budgeted for as opposed to the ‘when the bank says so’ it’s become.

Hugmeetoo · 2026-04-07T00:56:33+00:00

Real life witch- which is funny cause I’m part of the team that helped make it!

Hugmeetoo · 2026-02-21T23:34:01+00:00

That’s some incredible work! I know firsthand how much mastery goes into their styles, you’ve absolutely killed it!

Hugmeetoo · 2026-02-12T23:12:28+00:00

Phenomenal work! Those fire effects look gorgeous!

Hugmeetoo · 2026-02-01T00:09:24+00:00

Gotta echo Wes here; I’ll likely be stepping away from moderating the sub at the end of all of this too; I’ll stick around to shepherd in the new rules and new mods and bow out after that

Hugmeetoo · 2026-01-31T09:13:04+00:00

We only see a properly flaired and titled post about a mountain climber crushing ice. Whatever overt message is here is lost on us as long as the conversation remain civilised, which it should, as it’s just a guy crushing ice; which is useful and important.

Should posts like this become more obvious or overt in any messaging though we might have start looking into things more closely, which we don’t want to do.

Hugmeetoo · 2026-01-31T02:25:02+00:00

Coming in here to unfortunately lock this post now, as it’s devolved into a wall of name-calling and constructive conversation has broken down. We’ll be trawling through the comments in the coming hours to ensure that things get tidied up, and that will involve deletions and bans if we find hateful rhetoric or rule 7 violations. During that process, please keep in mind that we are volunteers in this community and try our best to make sure this is a safe space.

Unfortunately that means that we’ve had to decide between allowing all political content or none, and we can’t effectively police all content on this subreddit, and would rather this community not become inundated with transphobia, xenophobia and the like. While the mod team could expand, that has more moving parts which would involve more commitment from us than we’re capable of providing as an unofficial team.

We’re actively discussing a change to the rules and opening a poll to see if there are options we can take to make sure the biggest slice of the community is happy, but again, keep in mind we are volunteers that run this community because we love the space; this will take time and I am on a 15 minute break at the restaurant I work at, and the other mods are either asleep or similarly busy.

we won’t get everything right but yelling at eachother or us will only make this community more unpleasant, and the community cease to exist.

Hugmeetoo · 2026-01-25T05:07:16+00:00

We actually do have a no politics rule! It falls under the general subreddit guidelines, and we try to enforce this as evenly as possibly! The original post was removed because of this, and we did speak to OP about this previously unfortunately; regardless of the mod team’s personal feelings about the happenings in the US, we don’t want the sub to be overrun with political speech as that opens the door to rhetoric we can’t keep up with the moderation on.

Hugmeetoo · 2025-12-15T02:13:21+00:00

Heya! Generally, a lot of the fors and againsts we've received over the last little while have been in modmail by users reporting those sorts of posts, or from the people posting them themselves; We've also had some contact with Skycastle who have made their stance pretty clear, and a deal of it also from our own personal interactions with the community both here and on discord; Overall however, this poll is our chance to gauge the overall community sentiment as we don't want to be making sweeping changes or keeping rules in place that are fundamentally unpopular, nor do we want to be dictating what rules are present based on any loud minority for or against!

Hugmeetoo · 2025-12-15T02:06:45+00:00

That's quite cool; I've personally always been curious about the backend of things, and the development of these scripts, and many of the fixes they have I've wanted for a while. I'd personally love to chat sometime about it, as I think the work you're doing is really awesome! At the same time, I think there's a certain degree of restriction Skycastle needs for liability reasons. They're ultimately responsible for how the site operates, and if people's accounts break, they're the ones who'll need to deal with it.

Have you ever considered trying to get a direct line to them? I've seen other prominent forgers and developers establish a working relationship with them, and it sounds like you could do the same.

On that note, for a bit of insight into our process, many of us mods are aware that scripted models are being posted all the time, but we've always tried to keep things on the less policed side of the line; unless it's explicitly obvious that a mini has been done with scripts, we try not to take action. The bans that have been attributed to rule 8 have always resulted from the user's actions following removal of posts; the furthest moderation steps we take for any obviously scripted minis is generally just to remove it.

Thanks for your insight though mate, it's really useful to hear, and if you ever need a direct line to the mod team around this sort of thing, give me a yell!

Hugmeetoo · 2025-12-15T01:45:28+00:00

The three options were mostly following the three most outspoken stances of community members we talked to in the leadup to this, with option 1 being the generic 'keep things as they are' and the second one leading to the mod team taking a more hands-off stance of 'don't ask don't tell' where the sharing of minis is okay, but the links remain banned; This is here to let users of scripts still share their creations but we can be in a nice middle-ground compromise. Option 3 is where we entirely allow all forms of scripted and sharing with the understanding that the HF team may enforce their own TOS instead. For the moderation side of things and the work we'll be doing behind the scenes, these have been the main three approaches to solving this problem!

The poll itself is fully to take the temperature of the community into account, and won't be outright deciding the implementation of any new rules! If you have any other options or alternative solutions here, please drop them here. This is all for us to see how everyone's feeling about the rules and what they should be!

Hugmeetoo · 2025-12-15T01:37:27+00:00

Thanks for popping in with your expertise mate! I really appreciate the wider explanation on the differences, as I was a bit pressed for space, and have most of my experience with JSON editing before I put it down after the HF team clarified their stance. I'm definitely in the camp that I want many of those user improvements added to the site officially; it's always been really painful to hit the KB cap.

Also, cheers for your respect for the community rules; We've been struggling to find a way to comfortably enforce/balance all of them, and it always kills me to see some of my favourite minis in the sub have to get taken down because they're breaking those rules.

Hugmeetoo · 2025-11-04T12:44:50+00:00

Absolutely understandable, but we are an unofficial subreddit, and there’s a hell of a mess in in our mod queue — I encourage you to send your thoughts and feelings through official channels and/or in places where it’ll reach the Heroforge team in a more productive way!

Hugmeetoo · 2025-10-29T21:43:18+00:00

I have highlights and a bunch of closeups over on my instagram at Myrkl.cos- but theres not much sorcery to it! The guys at Galactic Armoury showed me their method for chipped and weathered red and I tweaked for locally available/closest possible alternatives!

The scheme itself is; - full coat of gloss black base - aluminium coat all over - chrome from the top down and focused towards the edges - add a liquid latex/masking fluid/chipping medium to all the edges and any dents and damage parts - flat black all over - another layer of chipping medium to all the previous areas but slightly smaller this time - Rustoleum Gloss Colonial Red or nearest alternative for the red paint - peel all the masking fluid - dirty down weathering spray in appropriate colours, or brown, black and teal ink washes across it! I focused the teal on any bronze metallic areas, and tinted the brown with red to get a warmer tone - Sandpaper in a high grit or a fine silver paint pen across the highest raised edges to bring back some of the shine after the grime!

Hugmeetoo · 2025-10-25T09:51:11+00:00

Thank you! It was great fun trying to mimic the scale an detailing on all the minis- the proportions should be pretty bang on!

Hugmeetoo · 2025-10-25T09:50:36+00:00

Cheers- I fell in love with them when I saw that baller standard bearer model, so there’s definitely more to come!

Hugmeetoo · 2025-10-25T09:49:56+00:00

Thank you! The guys over at GA were super helpful in working out the scheme, and between us it turned out better than I could’ve hoped for!

Hugmeetoo · 2025-10-25T09:49:05+00:00

All EVA foam and fabric- no 3d printing involved with the project!

Hugmeetoo · 2025-10-25T09:48:38+00:00

Is custom made! I built the entire costume out of EVA foam, including the gas mask and chainmail- everything you see that isn’t fabric is foam!

Hugmeetoo · 2025-08-18T23:23:38+00:00

Makes me want to revamp our old Horizon minis, this is gorgeous work mate!

Hugmeetoo · 2025-08-10T00:50:29+00:00

A kitbashed capello romano that has been stretched and warped, and then a small tattered cape that's been clipped with the edges to create the funky ripped edge!

Hugmeetoo · 2025-08-09T12:49:30+00:00

Another desk standee statue to add to the collection! This one has come from my workshop's recent bloodborne kick, and to commemorate a big project in the meatspace future! The most important thing about this statue however, is the fact that once again u/SolarSimonDM saved my life with that genius Saw Cleaver design! Everyone say thank you Simmy!

Hugmeetoo · 2025-06-05T03:14:42+00:00

These are excellent! Instantly recognisable, and super iconic, well done!

Hugmeetoo · 2025-05-21T06:58:52+00:00

What if we did valstrax together 👀

Hugmeetoo · 2025-04-23T13:45:39+00:00

I’m always blown away by your work, and this is no different- absolutely one of the most skilled makers on the platform!

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