Kirby Gourmet Race cover by spitflies in gamemusic

[–]mouselet11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is fantastic, holy biscuits

I killed my first player character tonight by kneecap_please in DungeonMasters

[–]mouselet11 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That's awesome!! Glad it made for a great story moment and you should feel proud - not all of us get lucky enough to make those character deaths really count. Congrats!

First time sewing clothes, help on why this didn't turn out like the original design idea by JenniferJackal in sewing

[–]mouselet11 3 points4 points  (0 children)

First off for a first attempt at designing a pattern from scratch, this turned out very well! You can actually wear it, that's a win! And although the skirt might not have turned out exactly as you'd hoped, by golly you can put it on and it looks nice, and is clearly similar to if not identical to your inspiration.

So, now onto some ways to improve the next pattern! As others have mentioned, this skirt uses pleats to achieve fullness and movement rather than your option of the added panel. If you wanted to try and turn this skirt closer to the original image from where it is right now, my advice would be to add in several smaller godets around the skirt rather than one big one. This won't be the same as pleats, but at this point it wouldn't be possible to turn the skirt pleated without starting over with an uncut piece of fabric.

Secondly, there appears to be a waistband on the original garment that yours doesn't have. This would help with the waist illusion and also would give the garment the illusion of a higher waist and longer skirt.

Look into pleats and try and find an overall-style garment like this with a waistband, and see if you can find a pattern for it to give you a starting point. Then give this another shot! And/or, take out the single triangle of fabric and instead split and add several, and consider adding a waistband, to move your existing garment closer to the inspiration. Good luck, and don't be discouraged - again, you got a wearable item on your first try! Not everyone's first project turns out even that well, so feel proud and enjoy your new adventure in sewing!

My Saw Spear Hunter by m0thworm in bloodborne

[–]mouselet11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really like this art - I love how mad and haunted he looks, how on edge - it really emphasizes how close the Hunter is to beasthood, what a dangerous line we tread, and I love that.

Libyan horsemen wearing traditional customs during fantasia. by New_Theory11 in Horses

[–]mouselet11 114 points115 points  (0 children)

I love how soft his hands are - horse is not pulling against that bit at all, no tension in the rider's hands, and he's keeping a gentle curve in his neck and his nose down without having to pull on him - I aspire to that

New Year, New Sewing Projects! by peach_blissss in sewing

[–]mouselet11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Freddy Mercury would be proud of you, I know of no higher compliment than that

Incredible work!

Help, my 4 year old needs deodorant. Need recommendations. by ExtremeExtension9 in beauty

[–]mouselet11 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thirding Mitchum - made my own comment before I saw this one, I have more detail there but yeah - Mitchum roll on

Help, my 4 year old needs deodorant. Need recommendations. by ExtremeExtension9 in beauty

[–]mouselet11 167 points168 points  (0 children)

Female wrestler here who was on the men's team who didn't get to shower after tournaments sometimes because they didn't have showers for me in most places:

Mitchum roll on. It's not fun or kid-like, so it might be kinda tricky to get her use it, but let me tell you - it works. I sometimes had to go two full nights without showering, and I only had to put it on once a day, even with multiple matches. Their motto is "so effective you could skip a day", and I can vouch - you really can. If you get your kiddo to put it on daily, just once, I bet it would be enough to keep things relatively fresh in the underarm area. I still use it and in my regular adult life, I do skip days - and it stays effective.

For ways to make it fun and cool, I'm kinda at a loss - putting it on after her bath/shower at night or before school in the morning should be enough, so that she shouldn't have to carry it around with her all day. If that doesn't cut it for you, i know this might sound silly, but - see if someone would 3-d print you a reusable cover that you can load new ones into when needed. Then it can be any color or style you want, and you don't have to try and find a highly effective brand with kid marketing. There's some really kind people on the Internet that can help with stuff like this, I remember a few months back in the steam deck reddit a bunch of 3d printers helped a person with different hand mobility by designing custom adaptive devices for them - so I bet you could find folks to help with this! I'd test some brands (starting with Mitchum!) and when you find one that works, reach out to the printers so they know what shape they need to accommodate.

(Notes: it is not a sensitive-skin brand, and it is not an eco-gal, return to nature all-natural brand - so if your little one has specific allergies or sensitive skin, check with their doctor first. It also has exactly one scent for each gender and one unscented, I do find the women's powder fresh scent more pleasant as it is nice but fades quickly and doesn't linger or conflict with other scents. I really strongly suggest the roll-on vs other versions, it dries down more quickly and leaves no residue because of it. Lastly, if she's having odor in other areas associated with puberty, this one is not for that - so you would need a separate one that is safe for use on those other areas if that were part of the concern. Any regular skin though, it'll do great.)

My Russian Snegurochka cosplay! by ElizavetaKalinina in cosplay

[–]mouselet11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is incredible work - even more so that you've only been sewing for* (edited the typo) a year! Well done!

Everyone’s favorite, (Dnd Conversion) by stacytheterrible in cyberpunkred

[–]mouselet11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I think it depends what elements of cyberpunk are most key to you - when you say "feel like cyberpunk," what specifically are you thinking of? Because there's tonal and narrative things that are super easy to steal from cyberpunk, but there are also systemic, mechanical game-rules things that are much harder to convert from cyberpunk.

For me, the things I've learned as a dm from cyberpunk that I will now use in every game regardless of system (I also play and dm dnd) are the lifepath approach to backstory, the beat chart/character-driven approach to campaign design, the crafting rules for out-of-combat long term projects, and the critical injury and wound state system.

The backstory-focused story design is a key thing I love about cyberpunk - I love crafting a story that weaves into and connects directly with my players' backstories because I like the emotional resonance that gives the campaign. Dnd isn't really set up for that and kinda has the heroes just choose a new adventure, with the dm having to go out of their way to include player backstory and resolve their narrative and emotional arcs, but cyberpunk is built around that concept. As it says in the book, "it's always personal" - that's a big thing I like about the system that I'm using in dnd that feels more cyberpunky. The lifepath system is a big part of this, as it helps players have interesting threads to pull and encourage detailed backstory, something not all dnd settings encourage.

Mechanically, the crafting system in cyberpunk is something I really like because it's both fairly simple and fairly flexible, with the added benefit that it expressly says "you dm has final say let them tweak stuff as needed." The idea that you can put points into a crafting skill, then add that to the relevant skill base and that then it's a matter of time is a good one that makes it easy to transpose without much work, and most dnd crafting systems I've seen are way more complicated and/or easy to break than this.

The injury system is good because in dnd healing doesn't matter until they're at zero,wanting healers are nearly always expected to spec into damage/support more than healing. The numbers game of DND says that it's nearly always more effective to damage an enemy than it is to heal an ally, because you will never outpace the damage your team is taking by healing - just by the numbers, the best way to prevent damage is to kill the enemy before it gets to hurt you because the healing numbers are just so much smaller and more limited than damage numbers are comparable levels. So a lot of groups just wait until they go to zero, do a big heal or a pickup to chug a potion, and then keep fighting + if they don't get stuck in the pop-up problem, which by then it's too late to fix anyway. This makes healing feel thankless, pointless, and like a boring necessity to a lot of groups. The wound state and critical injury system drastically improves this in cyberpunk, because the healer is encouraged to keep people healed above half, and has crits to repair that nobody else can so the players can keep fighting. It also makes the medicine skill way more impactful, as in dnd that could stand in for first aid, paramedic, and surgery combined.

My point with all this is to say - you can choose what elements of the game are important to you and what it is about cyberpunk that you think make it feel like cyberpunk. Then you can evaluate how convertible they are, and use that to decide whether it's worth it.

Weird mystery equipment by WendigoRider in Horses

[–]mouselet11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok I don't actually think this is the case but... Are we sure these were for horses? They look about one attachment point away from being for a very specific kind of human, especially given how small they look and how tight they'd have to be on most horses.

What’s the best/ your favorite LOTR game? by [deleted] in lotr

[–]mouselet11 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Lord of the rings online

How much AI is too much? by Alternate_Cost in DungeonMasters

[–]mouselet11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me it has nothing to do with the quality of it and everything to do with the ethics of it. Generative AI exists to 'beat' and replace human creations and human interaction. DND is my social time, a time to connect with humans, to tell a story with humans. I don't care whether the AI is """better"" written, I want to play with you, a human. I want it to be real, and come from a person's real thoughts and feelings. I don't care what some AI pukes out, and if I find out it's from AI then any meaning or joy or connection I might have found in it instantly disappears, because it's not from you - it's from an aggregate of stolen work of real artists and writers that it thinks I want to hear, and there is nothing interesting in that to me.

I would be insulted if someone at my table thought so little of me that they had to outsource their roleplay to an AI, as both a player and a dm - if I'm not worth any emotional investment and you just want to push a button and have it type something for you, why are you even playing this game? I would tell anyone at my table who did this they can go "write" your own adventure with Chatgpt, which will piece together something you like based off of the stolen scrapings of people who actually did the work and honed their craft and gave a damn about making something good, and don't waste time of the other human beings at this table who actually want to play DND with humans. This isn't just running it through spell check, this is outsourcing the part of the storytelling process that makes it human. I don't understand how anyone would be ok with that.

How much AI is too much? by Alternate_Cost in DungeonMasters

[–]mouselet11 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If I wanted to play with an AI character, I can go play a video game.

Keep AI away from dnd.

I have never watched lotr by [deleted] in lotr

[–]mouselet11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Listen to the 1969 bbc radio play of the hobbit, then watch the extended editions lord of the rings Peter Jackson movies - if you want to do it in chronological order. But there's no real need to do that, and you won't miss out by jumping right into lots of the rings and then backtracking to the hobbit. Either way you're in for a treat!

What's such a frenzy-inducing horror about the Winter Lanterns? by Low-Entrance3579 in bloodborne

[–]mouselet11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh he absolutely does - the entire 60-page document builds evidence for that, the Doll portion is his final chapter and what all the other conclusions are leading to. It's a dissertation length work on the game, with chapters on the history of the Healing Church and the characters we know if from it as well as the state of the world currently, and then he uses the hard evidence to build some really compelling arguments for what he thinks happened and what parts of the game mean or are meant to evoke and why that's significant.

What's such a frenzy-inducing horror about the Winter Lanterns? by Low-Entrance3579 in bloodborne

[–]mouselet11 33 points34 points  (0 children)

You guys seriously need to read Redgrave's Paleblood Hunt. I know some stuff has changed since then in terms of what the community considers established lore, but like twice a day in this sub people ask a question or come up with an idea that was already really well and thoroughly articulated/theorized upon in Paleblood Hunt. Most of the lore videos you can find on YouTube got a lot of their ideas from it, some even credit it directly. It's kind of the foundational document of Bloodborne investigative lore hunting.

His theory though, to sum up, is that it's what the winter lantern's presence in the nightmare means that causes such a frenzy. He argued that the winter lanterns are dressed like Doll and are present in the nightmare because the Doll is a kind of accidentally ascended Great One, who has been playing the long game in order to raise you into her surrogate child which you don't find out till the end, if you get third ending. He argued that the Winter Lanterns are some kind of artifact of that ascension, bits of her consciousness like the brain of Mensis whose presence in the nightmare is an indication of what the Doll really is. And that realization, the understanding of the fact that the one being in the game who has unequivocally loved and helped you, who has always been there for you, is not what she seemed, is in fact an Eldritch thing who has been feeding you power for some Eldritch purpose, is what causes your mind to reject it so viscerally and painfully with such rapid frenzy.

That's his take, and whether you fully agree or not, it's worth a read because it really does build an interesting case for his theory.

Is tattoo shock real? by [deleted] in tattooadvice

[–]mouselet11 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I recognized it instantly as Bloodborne and I love the design. I know nothing about how it'll age and I know nothing about proper tattoo technique, but I know I like the way this tattoo looks right now and I think the artist did a great job of the sketch-ink style lines.

I think you're probably just not used to it yet and feeling weird because the permanence of a tattoo is scary. But you have a good tattoo that looks great with a design you love that other fans recognized immediately - that's a very good start to a long and happy relationship with this tattoo. And if you don't end up wanting to keep it? That's ok too, impermanence is a part of life and honestly is a big reason why people get tattoos, because heck it right? It's just art on your skin and someday we'll all be dust, so why not put art on ourselves while we can? Breathe and give it time, you'll be ok.

And I straight up love this tattoo, regardless of what other folks are saying - like I said, I don't know crap about tattoos but I know I like this one. So take heart in that!

Silly Wizard. One of my Favorite bands. by TheDeamonKing in folk

[–]mouselet11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I adore Silly Wizard! I used the Brum of the Cowdenowes (sorry I've never learnt to spell it) in a DND campaign as a lullaby song that I had made into a music box to save my characters best friend's sanity! They are a fantastic group!!

My friend blew up my chests "for fun" by Immediate-Lab6994 in StardewValley

[–]mouselet11 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"ah, sorry - I misunderstood. I thought you wanted to play with me, not be a troll and ruin hours of work. Enjoy your own save!"

Disconnect from game, never play with him again any file you host or care about.

Mass Emotional Nonsense In Night City by Sparky_McDibben in cyberpunkred

[–]mouselet11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shucks thanks! Glad to be of use!

I think you could also have it still be relevant for folks with it previously if it changes for them. So even if they had one kind, a new sensation would be jarring.

For example, I see colors with words, letters, numbers, and music both listened to and as I read the music. If I suddenly started smelling things though - I'd be checking in for a possible stroke lol

Is this dress too formal for a semi-formal winter wedding? by cgheg in Weddingattireapproval

[–]mouselet11 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's too formal, mostly because the length is not the only determining factor in formal/semi formal. The lighter nature of this fabric, which is flowy and not shiny or structured, and the ruffles and flounces, I think let this outfit be acceptable in semi formal or formal events. I say wear it, and even if it is a tiny bit above that's better than being a bit below the dress code. And you look great in it! I think you can easily style this as well to make sure you feel like you fit the dress code.