Nothing is real anymore

That’s pretty clever, actually.

I think it's better to do it this way. You dont have to worry about the stones becoming uneven and weeds growing between them.

Soooo COOL

The only downside is if there's shifting/cracking. Our patio is stamped & stained concrete and looks nice except the long spaces where they cut through to allow it to shift with the ground/weather changes, it breaks up the aesthetic (still looks nice but they can't just cut along the shaped grooves to make "natural" separations). That's the thing about large stretches of concrete, they need those in order to not to form unmanagable cracks with the standard fluctuations of the seasons and so if there is damage it's a smaller area to remove/repair. (For anyone thinking of doing this on their own, the easy solution in this case would have been to make the small gaps then to roll the imprint over it.