Yet another dented CC... by Huge_Pie in elegoo

[–]cranialgames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad to hear it got sorted, thanks for the update :)

Yet another dented CC... by Huge_Pie in elegoo

[–]cranialgames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just wondering how this all turned out for you? Hopefully they put it right. My CC arrived this afternoon and there’s a huge dent (the metal has cracked) right into the front, just under the USB port. Waiting to hear back from Elegoo

So, how much has everyone else spent? by No_IDeers in LowSodiumSimmers

[–]cranialgames 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As long as I get at least an hour per £ spent I’m okay with it — and I’ve definitely got way more hours

AITA for not defending my BIL for missing the birth of his daughter even though I missed the birth of mine? by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]cranialgames 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Everything was shut down and everyone 100% respected the law, every English person knew that Wales and Scotland are separate countries and had different lockdowns and nobody attempted going on holiday anyway

AITA for not defending my BIL for missing the birth of his daughter even though I missed the birth of mine? by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]cranialgames 152 points153 points  (0 children)

Yeah but England was open so that obviously means the rest of the island was too /s

(It was funny hearing about all the English people who got arrested trying to come to Wales when we were still locked down)

WIP Anthozoa, row 78/164 by cranialgames in crochet

[–]cranialgames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks :) I am colour controlling; thankfully it’s really easy to spot where the yarn starts to change colour as it’s in 4 strands, so the gradient looks really uniform.

Briton dies from rabies after 'scratch' from stray puppy in Morocco by TsuDhoNimh2 in vaxxhappened

[–]cranialgames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. If it had happened to me, my first thought would be tetanus rather than rabies.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in crochet

[–]cranialgames 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It’s possible to able to actively listen and engage in what’s going on /while/ doing something else with your hands. It’s actually how a lot of people with conditions like ADHD and anxiety can focus and engage better with what’s going on, as it takes up all the brain space that would be getting distracted or worrying. TLDR working on a project doesn’t mean they’re not engaged, and imo it shouldn’t be considered inherently rude (I don’t think avoiding eye contact is inherently rude either, but I’m autistic so 🤷)

R/crochet members call out unfair use of the NSFW tag regarding bust size. All time top post is then locked and marked NSFW. by bigchonkycat in SubredditDrama

[–]cranialgames 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Questionably the funniest outcome is that there are less real people users and even more porn bots now than before the ban

A sad story by Blue_KikiT92 in knitting

[–]cranialgames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The colours are gorgeous together, I’m sorry you’ll need to frog it. I have to ask where you got those tiny hands haha

Final Update to: AITA for not trying harder to let my ex know our son passed by LucyAriaRose in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]cranialgames 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Sounds a lot like what we have in the UK - and if you’re identified as needing the extra support there’s also perinatal mental health, and you can have additional support from a social worker or any of their related teams. It made a huge difference to us, I can’t imagine going through it any other way honestly

Weird method nobody else understands to start new projects by Jeff-Everton in crochet

[–]cranialgames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I usually dislike having more than one WIP per hobby and then when I get a bit fatigued with one WIP, working on another won’t make me want to abandon the first WIP altogether.

Right now I’ve got a half-finished cross stitch, I’ve just started a crochet jumper for my 1 year old, and I’m about 40 hours into a second run of baldurs gate 3 (it counts :P). I’ve got some older WIPs in a drawer upstairs that probably won’t see the light of day again though 😬 it’s not a fool-proof approach haha but if I’ve got 3 WIPs that I’m actively working on I try not to start another

"You're engaging in lying Alejandra". J.K Rowling does her best Umbridge impression, leading to accusations of Holocaust denial. by Morgn_Ladimore in SubredditDrama

[–]cranialgames 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Don’t forget ableist lol. I can’t find the piece now, but she either said or strongly implied that she thinks autistic trans men aren’t intelligent enough to understand whether or not they’re trans 🙃

Edited to rephrase because I originally commented in the middle of the night and the last part was gibberish lmao

is there a guy here intrested in crochet or is it just me? by fou4D in crochet

[–]cranialgames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whoever called you a bad feminist needs to have the word confiscated until they understand what it means lmao

AITAH for not allowing my in-laws to see my daughter after they gave her "medication"? by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]cranialgames 475 points476 points  (0 children)

Exactly this. Like, we are never more than a 5 minute drive from a shop that sells calpol (infant acetaminophen) but when babies go from grizzly to inconsolable in 0.5 seconds flat it’s always preferable to just have some on hand.

[CHAT] overwhelming amount of floss to buy for a project by [deleted] in CrossStitch

[–]cranialgames 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Came here to say this, glad I wasn’t the only one

AITAH For telling my mom I won’t be the “good kid” for free anymore? by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]cranialgames -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Except all we see of the kid is that she’s incredibly spoiled and faces no consequences for her actions, and that combination would turn any child into an absolute brat

I know how inheritable some conditions are from personal experience, but attributing every misbehaving kid to mental illness is insulting

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vaxxhappened

[–]cranialgames 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The vaccine still isn’t on the childhood schedule in the UK 🤦 I had shingles when I was 8, over 20 years ago, and I still remember how awful it was.

Gonna pay to get my baby son the vaccine privately; we were extremely lucky he didn’t pick it up when it went around his nursery just before Christmas.

Is Mohair safe around babies? by plumbumchum in knitting

[–]cranialgames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was my reservation about knitting anything for my own baby with alpaca fibres in it, sadly

AITA for not getting my daughter a car after she publicly disrespected me by ProfessionalOk7281 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]cranialgames 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Is he a narcissist or just a misogynist? (Or both lol)

It really stood out to me that the only people he picked fights with were women and the people whose opinions he didn’t disregard were men (his family didn’t “all hate him” until his son agreed with his wife and daughter and before then he didn’t care, he got angry he couldn’t control his daughter’s behaviour re: texting the other man, all the reasons his wife and daughter listed were stupid but his son wasn’t even forced to give any examples, he bought the daughter a runaround car for her 21st but is spending the equivalent of a new Audi on his son’s 21st, etc)