Thanks! Very useful advice really. I’m the kind of person who wouldn’t have thought about this until way too late. So far I’m just starting to get the hang of it. My goal is to get to the point where I can design original art that I can then cross-stitch and frame. My first project is a doodle my 5 year-old made the other day that I traced using an app meant for pixel art and then made into a very basic pattern (one colour, no backstitching or half stitches). Time to work on it is limited but I’m having lots of fun so far

Thanks for all the good advice! And for taking the time to type it down. I was wondering about the knot actually, thanks for clarifying that.

I love the idea of playing with the number of strands to emphasize parts of the design, hopefully will soon be designing original work. The compression glove seems to be a must, I didn’t even know they existed!

Granted. You know the outcome before you get involved, meaning before you even establish contact. Everyone you cross paths with is potentially a relationship with an outcome you now know, as a result you have a natural emotional response to each one without any of them actually happening in reality. Any exposure to people becomes unbearable, merely going outside carries the risk of having the worst possible outcomes imaginable become part of your headspace, constantly. This dumps you into a permanent state of neurosis and paranoia, you start isolating yourself from anyone and then become incapable of functioning mentally and emotionally. Of course no one believes you and after your family gets involved, you are forcibly committed to a mental institution where there’s an unending stream of worst possible outcomes for you to know.

Granted. You’re given such wish, someone else’s wish. You’re now eternally bound to make it happen.

Granted. The limits of your human mind remain the same: too small, too fragile. Unable to comprehend the breadth of the cosmos itself, you’re now like a rubber balloon trying to contain the ocean. You go immediately insane.

People! What a bunch of bastards!

Hope you’re well stranger

Woa! That was wild!

Some dumb neuron in my brain still hits play on this song at the most random times. Thanks for the link!

Who put the goat in there?

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Can someone please explain how ‘lunch debt’ works?

This is a fuzzy memory but I think it was a web page with a live video feed of a coffee maker. I think you could even turn it on remotely. Maybe someone else can confirm if that was the case, my brain could be making up memories again. (It kinda was). Here is the story: How the world’s first webcam made a coffee pot famous

That’s a really cool bit if knowledge. I honestly thought this was AI generated at first glance.

This article might help

Thank you!

Any chance to get a non-paywalled version?