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  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    This dforce fur jacket keeps exploding... It doesn't want to dforce at all. :(

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,020

    LeatherGryphon said:

    I've been practicing trying to bring back my handwriting skills.  I do my grocery lists in cursive, and when I catch myself printing notes and rushing , I'll switch to script (or more often, half script, half print) to be able to write faster.  I have trouble though with capital "I", "J", & "G".  I've had the same trouble with those same letters since grade school.  But after 65 years I've finally mastered the capital "S".yes  But I hate the prescribed way for creating a capital "D".  I've found a better way that's easier and looks much neater and since it's the first letter of my first name I get a lot of practice with it.  Very quick and stylish and assertively signatory.

    And since the kids these days aren't exposed to cursive writing these days I can use it as a secret language.  Mwa, ha ha.devil

     

    ...I used to have very good handwriting as well as printing.  Even had several "styles" of printing I would use.  Some who saw my printing I used thought it looked more like typeset. and were amazed at how fast I could do it.

    Then came old "uncle arthur" which first did a number on my hands.  Now even printing in block letters is an exercise in pain and frustration and after a short time it becomes illegible even to me.   

    Took to using text editing and word processing software early on .Still remember having to embed print format codes in the body of document. to make sure it stayed within the page margins (top, bottom, and sides) and avoid it becoming a block solid of text, page after page with no paragraph breaks (ah the days before WordPerfect and MS Word).  

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,020

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    ArkadySkies said:

    McGyver said:

    I could totally see why she immediately rejected DAZ thinking it was some kind of NFT site...

    She's not alone.

    What is an nft site?

    NFT's are something like BitCoin.  i.e. A way to make money for the few by taking it away from the many.  With the added advantage of being not understandable by the victims without the twisted mind of those with financial ways of thinking. A way to bleed the sheep and have them like it.  I may be a bit opinionated in this matter.indecision

    ...nah, pretty spot on.. 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    I wish I was asleep.
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,020
    edited April 2021

    ...oh yeah, got my second Covid vaccination today.

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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    kyoto kid said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    I've been practicing trying to bring back my handwriting skills.  I do my grocery lists in cursive, and when I catch myself printing notes and rushing , I'll switch to script (or more often, half script, half print) to be able to write faster.  I have trouble though with capital "I", "J", & "G".  I've had the same trouble with those same letters since grade school.  But after 65 years I've finally mastered the capital "S".yes  But I hate the prescribed way for creating a capital "D".  I've found a better way that's easier and looks much neater and since it's the first letter of my first name I get a lot of practice with it.  Very quick and stylish and assertively signatory.

    And since the kids these days aren't exposed to cursive writing these days I can use it as a secret language.  Mwa, ha ha.devil

     

    ...I used to have very good handwriting as well as printing.  Even had several "styles" of printing I would use.  Some who saw my printing I used thought it looked more like typeset. and were amazed at how fast I could do it.

    Then came old "uncle arthur" which first did a number on my hands.  Now even printing in block letters is an exercise in pain and frustration and after a short time it becomes illegible even to me.   

    Took to using text editing and word processing software early on .Still remember having to embed print format codes in the body of document. to make sure it stayed within the page margins (top, bottom, and sides) and avoid it becoming a block solid of text, page after page with no paragraph breaks (ah the days before WordPerfect and MS Word).  

    In the beginning of the 90's, I was fresh out of college and working on a large construction site where most of the people with supervisory/manager status were from other european countries.

    At college we were required to present everything in computer print but the older generations were still writing by hand, which the secretary typed (and proofread) afterwards, so also at the construction site I was typing whatever I needed on my own computer and just took the floppy to the secretary as she had the only printer...

    The first time I did that and asked if she could print it out for me at some point and went back to my office, she came to the hallway and yelled... "Hey guys... Pertti writes his own letters..." laugh

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i still awake.

    been sifting thru my content to get rid of what doesnt work in carrara, despite all the work arounds and plug ins.

    downloading all my prod lib to my new external ssd drive.  up to page 40 of 190 pages.  egads.  skipping most of the old v4 m4 clothes.  just keeping the super sexi ones.

    other streamlining project, going thru every character to keep only 10 eye colors. deleting all the others.  moving all the hair props to external runtime.

    do i really need the bump maps and the normal maps.  think the normal map might be enough. and converting the tiffs to pngs.

     

     

     

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675
    What ever happened to truth in advertising? Most of the ads I see for mobile games these days are misleading. They show stories and gameplay that have nothing to do with the game they're for.
  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

     Complaint:   Someone is using the complaint thread to make complaints  

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    Chohole said:

     Complaint:   Someone is using the complaint thread to make complaints  

    You got symbols under your avatar.
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485

    Complaint:  Somebody is complaining about people complaining in the complaint thread.frown

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    My echo dot won't print a coloring page but can print almost everything else.
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    My echo dot won't print a coloring page but can print almost everything else.

    Can it print money? I wouldn't worry about the coloring page if thats the case, then you could just buy the whole book.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    I haven't seen an ice cream truck in some time.

    I'm pretty sure it's because most people would have viewed it as the Covid Truck and not run out of their homes to chase it for two blocks till the driver got tired of watching them fall down while running or hearing their desperate ice cream withdrawal induced screams for him to stop.

    A friend of ours used to tell her kids that the Mr. Softee truck sold treats made from various combinations frozen Brussel Sprout paste and other vegetables they hated... it only worked a short time but I applauded her deceit.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited April 2021

    Complaint:  Somebody is complaining about Somebody complaining about people complaining in the complaint thread. 

    Post edited by Chohole on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    Complaint...

    Who the hell are the people who write the snippets of descriptions for movies on streaming services like Netflix?

    "A story about a man and a women and a streetwise capybara who embark on a...."

    "From the mind of world famous writer and toenail collector, Philip T.... "

    "A thrilling story of one man's quest to discover the father of his pineappl... "

    Do they not know you can't copy/paste a whole review into a space that's designed for 32 characters?...

    Could that review/description not be clickable for the complete description?... maybe smaller fonts?... instead it's like the person died in the middle of writing it.

    Do people think that makes me want to watch the show?... "Hmmm... it's seems to have killed that guy... must be good..."

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    I think I shouldn't have worn my new shoes today.
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    snap crackle pop  its a coded message havent deciphered yet

    babble fish failing

     

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    I thought my photos were becoming more and more blurry like in the photo of myself. I used the stuff in the bottle in that picture then took a picture of my dresser and aquarium. Did that help prevent blurriness?
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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    Started to watch TV then got annoyed about the fish stuff and cup blocking part of the TV.
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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485
    edited April 2021

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    I thought my photos were becoming more and more blurry like in the photo of myself. I used the stuff in the bottle in that picture then took a picture of my dresser and aquarium. Did that help prevent blurriness?

    Are you sure your camera lens is really clean?  Soft cloth, preferably lens tissue.  Kleenex is surprisingly rough and will scratch plastic lenses or plastic lens covers.  Fingerprints on a 1/8 inch diameter smartphone lens is major obstruction.  Oily deposits, dust, lint... etc.  All bad.  Bad dirt, bad.

    What is that stuff in the bottle?  "Crizal"  is that a cleaner for eyeglass lenses? Or a coating to block UV light?  

    In lieu of proper lens cleaner and lens tissue, try a microfiber cloth and some very lightly soapy water.  Don't scrub with Kleenex or toilet tissue.  Light use of Q-Tips.  Don't use an ammonia base cleaner like Windex.

    Edited to add:

    OK, "Crizal" is eyeglass cleaner along with microfiber cloth.  Should work,  But smartphone camera lenses are TINY.  Be sure to clean completely around the lens edge.  Any crud left in the edge of the window could affect the image.

    Also, are you taking picture in enough light?  Image looks noisy as if the camera had to over-amplify the picture to make it visible.

    Also, has the camera ever produced better pictures?  Or it is just very low resolution or need lots of light to work properly?

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    LeatherGryphon said:
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    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    I thought my photos were becoming more and more blurry like in the photo of myself. I used the stuff in the bottle in that picture then took a picture of my dresser and aquarium. Did that help prevent blurriness?

    Are you sure your camera lens is really clean?  Soft cloth, preferably lens tissue.  Kleenex is surprisingly rough and will scratch plastic lenses or plastic lens covers.  Fingerprints on a 1/8 inch diameter smartphone lens is major obstruction.  Oily deposits, dust, lint... etc.  All bad.  Bad dirt, bad.

    What is that stuff in the bottle?  "Crizal"  is that a cleaner for eyeglass lenses? Or a coating to block UV light?  

    In lieu of proper lens cleaner and lens tissue, try a microfiber cloth and some very lightly soapy water.  Don't scrub with Kleenex or toilet tissue.  Light use of Q-Tips.  Don't use an ammonia base cleaner like Windex.

    Edited to add:

    OK, "Crizal" is eyeglass cleaner along with microfiber cloth.  Should work,  But smartphone camera lenses are TINY.  Be sure to clean completely around the lens edge.  Any crud left in the edge of the window could affect the image.

    Also, are you taking picture in enough light?  Image looks noisy as if the camera had to over-amplify the picture to make it visible.

    Also, has the camera ever produced better pictures?  Or it is just very low resolution or need lots of light to work properly?

    I understand but there was also a clear film over the camera too, but I removed it after I posted.
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    I got my second Pfizer shot today and I'm really hoping I don't get a super massive headache tomorrow like I did last time.

    I've been drinking lots of water all day because that's supposed to help prevent dizziness and headaches.

    It helped last time, but not after I spent most of the day wanting to barf.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    McGyver said:

    I got my second Pfizer shot today and I'm really hoping I don't get a super massive headache tomorrow like I did last time.

    I've been drinking lots of water all day because that's supposed to help prevent dizziness and headaches.

    It helped last time, but not after I spent most of the day wanting to barf.

    It might make it very difficult to sleep if you drink too much water.
  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,381

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Lots of controversy about "Round Up".indecision

    Yes, but they still sell it.  If it really was as dangerous as jumping off a cliff like they claim, wouldn't it be removed from the stores?

    certaintree38 said:

    I would kill for 13 hours of sleep. Yesterday I finally got 8 and it was amazing. Today I got 5. Hoping to get a couple more hours with a nap but we'll see. 

    Not a fan of roundup myself. 

    I am careful with it.  Try not to breathe it in, bathe in it, or drink it with my morning coffee or evening wine.  But I'll tell you this:  When I apply it, it gets all over everything, including bugs and lizards.  If it was dangerous, the lizards wouldn't be repopulating the earth from my yard!  If it was dangerous, I'd be finding dead squirrels everywhere, and dead ducks, dead deer, dead cats, and dead everything-else-that-visits-my-house at all hours of the day or night.

    Hopefully I exercise care.  Gasoline is also (supposedly) cancerous too, as is motor oil.  But I still use fossil fuels to get things done and move about my space in the world.

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    Just got out of the shower and I can't remember where I put my glasses. Does anyone know where they are?

    Over there.  No no, not there, over THERE.  You know, where I'm pointing!

    Mystiarra said:

    ArkadySkies said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    ArkadySkies said:

    McGyver said:

    I could totally see why she immediately rejected DAZ thinking it was some kind of NFT site...

    She's not alone.

    What is an nft site?

    A site associated with NFTs. NFTs are non-fungible tokens which are a cryptocurrency/block chain thing. NFT art is non-fungible tokens that link to a piece of art (it's not actually the art itself, nor the copyright or commercial rights to said art). Arguably if Daz is going to sell and promote NFTs, it is now an NFT site, at least in part. On the homepage they're shilling their Shudu NFTs on opensea, see this thread if you want context for the drama. There's lot's of informative links on NFTs throughout that thread.

    Basically, NFTs are environmentally destructive, and despite their hype just an over engineered receipt with a link to an artwork or other digital asset/data built on block chain and minted with cryptocurrency, and Daz is hoping Daz users will buy little $100+ animations because it's the trendy way for rich people to throw away money this year.

    In theory, NFTs exist to secure the authenticity of an artwork as "original" and prove it's provenence, in practice it is incapable of achieving any of these goals. Anyone can mint a token for anyone's artwork, anyone can mint a new token for a copy of an artwork, and ultimately the NFT proves only it's own authenticity and provenence, as the data is only secured from the token the image at a specific location, where it may or may not continue to be hosted. If moved, downloaded, or redistributed in anyway except another NFT sale (which only affects the token, not the art file) the token is no longer connected or associated with the artwork.

    roundup a fungiblecide? 

    Not sure about that, but dead weeds are fungible browns in the compost pile.  And that is good.

    kyoto kid said:

    Mystiarra said:

    woken by the sweet melody of the ice cream truck.  i slept 13 hours straight.

    ...now that's a sound from my youth that I miss, the Ice Creme Truck.  I still remember the old Tastee Freez truck playing it's little jingle as it came up the street every Saturday and sometimes Wednesday evenings during summer.

    We used to have "Roy" in his white truck.  "Roy is down the street!"  He usually came around 4 or 5 in the afternoon, I think; well enough before dinner that we were often allowed to get a Bomb Pop or Fudgesickle.  But usually mom had a stocked freezer from Kroger, which was cheaper than Roy.

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    I haven't seen an ice cream truck in some time. Also not sure why I woke up.

    My current ice cream lady is a little asian lady who plays Christmas tunes June thru August.  If I buy more than $10 worth, she'll slip in a different kind of ice cream for me as a freebie.

    kyoto kid said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    I've been practicing trying to bring back my handwriting skills.  I do my grocery lists in cursive, and when I catch myself printing notes and rushing , I'll switch to script (or more often, half script, half print) to be able to write faster.  I have trouble though with capital "I", "J", & "G".  I've had the same trouble with those same letters since grade school.  But after 65 years I've finally mastered the capital "S".yes  But I hate the prescribed way for creating a capital "D".  I've found a better way that's easier and looks much neater and since it's the first letter of my first name I get a lot of practice with it.  Very quick and stylish and assertively signatory.

    And since the kids these days aren't exposed to cursive writing these days I can use it as a secret language.  Mwa, ha ha.devil

     

    ...I used to have very good handwriting as well as printing.  Even had several "styles" of printing I would use.  Some who saw my printing I used thought it looked more like typeset. and were amazed at how fast I could do it.

    Then came old "uncle arthur" which first did a number on my hands.  Now even printing in block letters is an exercise in pain and frustration and after a short time it becomes illegible even to me.   

    Took to using text editing and word processing software early on .Still remember having to embed print format codes in the body of document. to make sure it stayed within the page margins (top, bottom, and sides) and avoid it becoming a block solid of text, page after page with no paragraph breaks (ah the days before WordPerfect and MS Word).  

    I still like to write with a fountain pen from time to time.

    Chohole said:

     Complaint:   Someone is using the complaint thread to make complaints  

    Non-Complaint:  The Complaint thread is being used to make complaints.  Well done all!

    McGyver said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    I haven't seen an ice cream truck in some time.

    I'm pretty sure it's because most people would have viewed it as the Covid Truck and not run out of their homes to chase it for two blocks till the driver got tired of watching them fall down while running or hearing their desperate ice cream withdrawal induced screams for him to stop.

    A friend of ours used to tell her kids that the Mr. Softee truck sold treats made from various combinations frozen Brussel Sprout paste and other vegetables they hated... it only worked a short time but I applauded her deceit.

    Haha, that's brilliant!

    McGyver said:

    Complaint...

    Who the hell are the people who write the snippets of descriptions for movies on streaming services like Netflix?

    "A story about a man and a women and a streetwise capybara who embark on a...."

    "From the mind of world famous writer and toenail collector, Philip T.... "

    "A thrilling story of one man's quest to discover the father of his pineappl... "

    Do they not know you can't copy/paste a whole review into a space that's designed for 32 characters?...

    Could that review/description not be clickable for the complete description?... maybe smaller fonts?... instead it's like the person died in the middle of writing it.

    Do people think that makes me want to watch the show?... "Hmmm... it's seems to have killed that guy... must be good..."

    I can fix that for you:  Stop paying Netflix.  Surely there are enough silly humans in your home to keep your life humor-filled and interesting, yes?

    McGyver said:

    I got my second Pfizer shot today and I'm really hoping I don't get a super massive headache tomorrow like I did last time.

    I've been drinking lots of water all day because that's supposed to help prevent dizziness and headaches.

    It helped last time, but not after I spent most of the day wanting to barf.

    Yeah, my first shot was a rough ride too.  I'm not looking forward to my second one on the 16th.  Except that I might just take a sick day for the whole next day.  Maybe I can call in on Monday and make Tuesday a "pre-sick sick day"?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485
    edited April 2021

    Complaint:  Computer produced subtitles.sad  I have difficulty hearing, female voices (high frequencies), so I use subtitles when watching TV.  It also helps when watching British TV shows because some of them apparently don't know how to open their mouths to make noise and have no idea of the difference between a "th" and an "fr"... but I digress...indecision

    Tonight I was watching an episode of "Poirot" (Agatha Christie mystery) and the poor computer generated subtitles are having as hard a time as I am deciphering what's being said.  The primary character is "Hercule Poirot" (Air-kuul Pwa-roh, yeah, it's Belginish/French but at least I know how it's supposed to be spelled and what it sounds like because he always corrects people when they get it wrong.  Regardless, another character in the show was introducing him and the subtitles read "... may I introduce you to irkyoguaro who..." frowncrying

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    they kept making those starship trooper movies, were they really that successful?
    i guess there not much to watch for a midnight marathon?   resident evil, underworld

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485
    edited April 2021

    I enjoyed the original book "Starship Troopers"... when I was 14.indecision Teenage bravado in space.  The movie, despite the excellent animation, was of the same ilk. frown The sequels didn't come up that high.no  But if they're still making them, then there's a lot of adventure starved teenage minds out there.

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,488

    What is so bad in wanting some reassurance? It's awful living day after day with the "paranoia dial" turned up to 100. A simple "yes" or "no" would've sufficed. 

     

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 3,979

    N_R Arts said:

    What is so bad in wanting some reassurance? It's awful living day after day with the "paranoia dial" turned up to 100. A simple "yes" or "no" would've sufficed. 

    Wanting to be reassured about what? If you avoid the news and alot of social media the paranoia level drops alot  .......

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