Rasta crochet hat pattern

I’m currently 23w+3 and these past couple of days I have been all about baby! I crocheted a baby blanket and even little hats for baby and ever since I finished those projects I’m just putting my mommy-to-be energy into a registry!
I would really like some good registry ideas and just anything really that you feel is essential or useful!! What did you put on your registries? (Baby clothing brands, good pacifiers, etc!) anything is useful to me! Just having crazy excitement of all that’s to come & not many people to talk about it with in my life !

I’m looking for a crochet ant pattern, preferably a tutorial as amigurumi isnt my forte. The ones i found on yt are honestly pretty lame, i want a sort of normal looking ant, not a bipedal ant wearing a straw hat holding a brief case 😂

I won't include spoilers in here. But I recently finished The Talos Principle. There's an insignificant mechanic where in some puzzle areas you can find a paint bucket and "use" it on a wall, and you get a choice of some prewritten phrases to write. I found here that the phrases you have available actually are determined by the way you played the game:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2514467238
I got every achievement in the game, and I had no idea. I got a rush of appreciation for the developers. Of "wow, there was this logic and tracking happening beneath the surface that I had no idea about". But at the same time, I feel a frustration. If I didn't look this up, I never would have realized that.
I think of this in other contexts. Take games like Fallout: New Vegas. Its branching dialogue paths are legendary in the gaming community. If you went to this town before meeting this character, then did this quest after accepting this other quest and finished it in that way, and have a specific companion and are wearing a hat and have a skill over 70 in Small Guns, then you get this specific dialogue option that can end this quest in a unique way!
Again, I appreciate it, but it feels weird. If I were to look up my options before doing that, I'd spoil myself. On my first playthrough of the game, I have no idea if the dialogue options I'm seeing are just standard Zelda game options, or if each choice actually has some ridiculously deep logic underneath it. If I play the game 50 times, I probably still wouldn't be able to piece all the conditional logic together. Some people say they're able to feel like their playthrough was their own, but I never feel that way.
One last example is Halo skulls. They are hidden in absurd parts of the environment. No reasonable person would ever find one. Yet when I play a new Halo game, I do want to get those achievements and I seek the videos that show the tiny crevices on ceilings which hide these skulls and think "Damn, they really thought to put something here, huh".
In the end, I find the most satisfaction by playing the game once, and then reading the wiki about all the other options I could have taken. I enjoy reading about all this stuff, like how in MGS2, the color of your VR mission background is the time of day of your system clock. But part of me feels like making these features this obscure is kind of defeating the purpose. It feels weird having these "aha" moments while reading a sterile wiki, like I'm reading a report on the game, rather than having the "aha" moment in the game. But at the same time, this stuff is so well hidden that no one would know it.
Just by reading this subreddit, we are all in the top 5% of engaged, active gamers. And most of us probably would not find these features and hidden items ourselves. But if there's a clever Easter Egg, it delights gamers like us, and it shows up as the top comment in any discussion about that game. It's really the 0.001% that strip these games from top to bottom, so the 1-5% of us can read their findings on a wiki, and the 95% of people who play games don't care the slightest bit. Something about that whole pattern amuses, delights and confounds me.
What do you think?

I usually don’t make gauge swatches; I use the hook suggested in the pattern and hope for the best. However, I did make a gauge swatch for my current project and it’s too small. I am making a blanket using HDC, but part of the blanket will be tapestry crochet (there will be words). Will using a larger hook size affect how the words will come out since the stitches will be looser? Or does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks!

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