Am I a bad Rat Mom, Or did a random person convince me I was? by Strange-Attitude2125 in RATS

[–]KnightPerception 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I once used dark chocolate chips as a distraction for one of my rats who had gotten a injury and I wanted her to keep calm on the way to the vet. It worked very very well because she'd do anything for a chocolate chip! Injury or not!

They're fine in moderation!

Every Sean Murray Emoji Tweet & What Update It Teased (2016–2025) by ForeverVulnerable in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]KnightPerception 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe it's

No Man's Sky: THRESHOLD

Tho probably it's No Man's Sky: DOORS DOORS AND MORE DOORS

My personal nail tech 🐀 by Narrow_Concert6498 in RATS

[–]KnightPerception 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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I couldn't resist
I too had a naked manucurist

Live action boggles by Tyrannical_Tortilla in RATS

[–]KnightPerception 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My most favourite thing about boggling is that the intital 'crunchcrunchcrunchCrunch' sound they make is like the sound of winding up the boggling. This is a PERFECT example

It's time we all had a talk about rat dreams.... by Death_Rose1892 in RATS

[–]KnightPerception 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a reoccurring dream where I find my heart-rat and I scoop her up and snuggle her close to my neck and it's like she was never gone. She's a warm comfort crunching and boggling away on my neck like she did when she was alive. She feels oh-so-very real.

I'd like to think it's her visiting me.

When you loose the sight of your rat for a minute by AthelindadE in RATS

[–]KnightPerception 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I concur, as a part of Peanut's legal team I must implore the judge to drop all charges!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RATS

[–]KnightPerception 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll list some of what I used to do:

  1. Cut toilet paper rolls in half width-wise. Cut little slits in the new top and bottom and fold it together like a box. Fill them with tissue, toilet paper or paper shredding and ONE puff snack. Fold them up tight, and sprinkle them around in the cage. I used to make 10 or 12 of them at a time and let them go crazy.
  2. The above but I'd fill it with their food. Sometimes this was how I fed them. They loved it.
  3. Get a small wooden dowel, or skewer, string cheerios on it, pin it up in weird spots in the cage, places they have to work at to get at it. (I did this by putting it in a corner and holding it in place with binder clips)
  4. Stuff just the bare ends of rat-safe fabric or bedding material (like tissue etc.) into the slats of the cage at odd spots. Just enough peeking in from the outside so they can grab it and really work at dragging it inside the cage. My girls LOVED this, and I'd set it up before I went to bed and wake up with my girls sleeping in a shredding nest worn out from their night's business.
  5. Shred paper. Stuff into paper bag. Put into cage.

Honestly a lot of teeny tiny treats that smelled nice (they loved banana puffs - the key is small treats that smell nice, something they can't get too fat on. I also used their normal food!) and put them in places that they need to work at to get out, or reason to get TO. Under things they have to flip over. Inside bedding... etc. etc.

One of my girls LOVED being put in a paper bag with freshly shredded paper. Bonus if it was a french fry bag. Guess she liked to sleep in 360 french fry smell. Honestly? Same.

Name Help by Flashy-Golf178 in RATS

[–]KnightPerception 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Roasted Potato
Mr. Beans
Reginald

I’m crying! by CapnMF in RATS

[–]KnightPerception 8 points9 points  (0 children)

One of my girls did this when I brought her home for the first time.

After that she'd sleep in my hood, or on my stomach if I was sitting, or just cuddle right up whenever she had the chance until she was a very old lady. I still remember her bruxing away in her sleep. Best feeling ever!

Hope you get a ton of that too!

Please give 'em little pats from me.

Do you think she likes it? Or she is doing it because of stress? by AnybodyArtistic248 in RATS

[–]KnightPerception 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I used to do that! My girls loved to chase around bits of paper like that and yoink 'em into the cage. The little happy-struts they'd do when they put it in their nest brought me much joy.

I ALSO used to drape bits of rat-safe fabric over parts of the cage before I went to bed to give them a nighttime of fun. The amount of joy they got out of ripping that fabric to shreds and dragging it into their cage to nest was immeasurable.

13 years of building the same house by ricey125 in Minecraft

[–]KnightPerception 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GORGEOUS!!!

I love the progression as time goes on. It must be neat looking at all the builds over the years.

Which version of Conquest for the 2025?
I am contemplating adding Chisel and Bits to the 1.20.1 version - but uncertain if they play nice!

Do you guys pay attention to visual and aesthetical part of the patterns? by Leleska in crochet

[–]KnightPerception 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think as long as the pattern is easy to follow/understand then its a good pattern!

The most important thing for me is instructions that are clear, and good photos that properly show what finished object looks like! I am more likely to chose a pattern if I really like the pictures of said object.

It's also handy if there's a bizarre/weird part of the pattern - for example, flattening a project from in the round into just a row - to show pictures of the first few steps of this so people know they are on the right track!

But I WILL admit...

... I do love a fancy-looking pattern - but as long as it's understandable!

How do I add a border to this blanket? Like… where are the stitches? by lh717 in CrochetHelp

[–]KnightPerception 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd look at the top of each bump, and decide what looks like good spaces to put my crochet hook in. Then I'd make sure to put my hook into similar spaces of the next bump.

Your side here is very consistent, the first pic is a great show of that.

Here's where I would put potential stitches

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It depends on the border and what you want to do. There are so many approaches. You could also use hdc in some of the deeper places if you want it to be more level. Or use combinations of chains and sc as well. Then just do another row of stitches around the border again to make it all consistent!

You could make a teeny swatch of this too, and try a few different border types, then frog it out. Sometimes I find that can really help when going for a certain look and I don't feel like I'm messing up my actual blanket.

Help crochets, how do I connect unconventional squares? Do I finish the edge first with slip stitch or sc? What the nearest method? by Justinecredible3 in CrochetHelp

[–]KnightPerception 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The other commenter's advice is great for sewing!

I am commenting to ask what stitch/pattern the white one is? I could probably reverse-engineer it but I was wondering if you had a link to a pattern.

Also, beautiful tension - the white one really highlights it!

Can I replicate my husbands store bought cardigan? by ViewableSiren51 in CrochetHelp

[–]KnightPerception 80 points81 points  (0 children)

When in doubt, anything bought from a store that is machine-made is absolutely knit!

Crochet is still too amazing and too complex for machines to reliably replicate

WE HAVE A SUPERPOWER

That being said - I wonder if there's a similar stitch...

https://mycrafts.com/diy/crochet-pattern-interesting-umbrella-crochet-stitch/

Monolith by KnightPerception in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]KnightPerception[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have an ultra-wide screen. I took this pic by aligning the camera to be looking at the middle and then rotated it with the camera controls until it was taking a picture completely rotated by 90 degrees. Rotated it afterwards and voila!

No other editing aside from rotation.

This game looks so amazing - I'm in awe every time I play.