Oh, Misty, I forgot my Complaint Thread
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I'm finding that that isn't the case. I finished creating presets for Every City in Octane, and those rendered grey (not black), but now I'm doing the same after converting the materials to Cycles, and those are rendering with full color thumbnails.
Hmm, interesting! Well at least for Cycles then it's one less step to take :)
I'm beginning to believe that my mantra is the Rachmaninoff 2nd Symphony. When my mind goes quiet from mundane thoughts, I ride the sound and emotions of that music fully formed in my head. Of course it isn't the exact order of musical phrases, my mind drifts to my favorite parts, composes my own cycles, and latches on to the memory's undulations and resonant cycles, and its soothing glides into The Void. Aummm.
Then someone from another thread starts talking into my Void and someone else comes in and starts rambling on about racoon piss pizza and the whole thing bursts like a bubble.
Complaint: I give up! Late last night I tested that supposedly bad SATA cable that I thought had been affecting my boot POST while working on "George". It works just fine!
Also, a complaint that during the process of reviving George I thought that I had determined that one of the two short 4x- PCIe slots on the motherboard was kaput. That also is not true.
The motherboard and SATA cable are both working just fine (except for confirmed death of the integrated LAN circuits, killed by lightning 10 years ago). Nice to know it's OK, but now I'm struggling to explain why I was mistaken about the cause of POST problems.
If there's a short or open in the SATA cable perhaps I just need to flex it a bit? ... Been there, done that. Nope, didn't fail.
Regardless, I've used a Sharpie to mark the cable "BAD?" so someday if the system starts boogering up, I'll have a left a clue.
Or I may replace it completely if I find another long one or when George gets into a case and could use one of my shorter cables. Or I could just order more long cables.
Non-complaint: Despite still being homeless, George is working just fine, quick, zippy, quiet, cool. A very nice household machine. But I'm shopping for a new case for MommaBear to move into so that George can move back into his 14 year old HP Pavilion a6619f case. I'm sorry if this sounds like an old geezer's nostalgic blathering, but I think HP made some handsome looking cases back then 10-14 years ago. (See link below) Yeah, they're HP but if you can get your hands on some old HP Pavilion tower systems from that era, especially the higher end models with at least 8GB RAM and supports a CPU upgradeable to 4-cores, then old HP machines can be made suitable for basic work, without frustrating lag, in the 3rd decade of this century. (Well, at least the late 2nd decade.)
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01549568
Well, when you wake up and remember that you're covered in feathers and have red nasty flesh hanging from your throat you can start the day screaming too.
Oh, and in case anybody's still following my "George" saga, ... I mentioned my PATA to SATA adapter for my DVD drive. Also works for PATA HDDs too. Here's the exact adapter I used. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0823Q33PT/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3TUR5JBYCEPNE&th=1
Non-complaint: I've gone ahead and ordered a new case for MommaBear so that George can move back into his home. Momma's new case is a smaller version of the case she occupied before she moved into George's case after Titan had shoved her out of her case. Titan has taken over most of the roles that Momma use to play, so Momma doesn't really need all those extra I/O ports, rear panel extensions, and daughter cards and will live happily in a microATX case instead of a mid-towerATX case.
Here's the case I ordered today. https://www.newegg.com/black-fractal-design-focus-g-mini-micro-atx-mid-tower/p/N82E16811352068?Item=N82E16811352068 ; $25 cheaper than at Amazon.
Titan and Momma in their matching cases and similarly blinged out with RGB lights will make a great presentation.
I've only ever bought four cases. Three by FractalDesign and one by CoolerMaster. I like the FD cases a little better for overall quality and adaptability. I have an FD "Meshify-C ATX" (no window) for PoppaBear, an FD "Focus-G ATX" (clear acrylic) for Titan, and now an FD "Focus-G-mini" (clear acrylic) microATX for Momma. (BabyBear has a micro ATX CoolerMaster NR-400, clear glass).
Oh, so the Octane subscription also comes with a free version of EmberGen and an architectural plugin for C4D... I wish I knew this stuff earlier haha
Gave the plugin a look the other night before bed, even just ten/fifteen minutes of fiddling I could already see it'd be super cool to play with and also a huge time saver.
Interesting Factoid: While writing my post above I came across the phrase "a FractalDesign case" but if I use the abbreviation "FD" instead of "FractalDesign" then I need to write "an FD case". Native English speakers don't think about it much, it just comes automatically. But this is a good example of when to use "an" instead of "a" as the indefinite article. It's the <sound> of the beginning of the word following the article that determines whether to use "a" or "an". If followed by a consonant sound (e.g. the "f" in Fractal) you use the "a". If the beginning sound of the next word is a vowel sound (e.g. the "eff" name of the letter string "FD") you use the "an" despite the letter being a consonant. When you use the F's name it has the 'eh' vowel sound at the beginning. Using the correct indefinite article makes it just so much easier to pronounce that way. The sounds flow instead causing a mental jerk or vocal hesitancy.
@LeatherGryphon , gotta love linguistic gymnastics! From all I've read, FD makes excellent cases. Hope that all goes well for you.
...just had 2 bad gateway errors in the last 20 min one that lasted ten minutes and took 6 consecutive refreshes to get past
Looks like after MM, it's back to "the same old same old" again.
...had an HP Pavilion on my desk at the old job and agreed, nice "no nonsense" case. The idea of a more "professional" look is what convinced me to go for the Antec P-192 over the more bizarre looking gaming cases at the time which were about the only ones that had multiple fan solutions for airflow.
I dated a Japanese woman a while back, and one day she told me she had "a bad news". I told her that it should be simply "bad news". She turned that over in her head a few times, and then tried "I have a bad new?". It shows you how illogical language can be, because that is a perfectly reasonable conclusion to reach, but it doesn't sound like natural English.
This is what happened. And I found an awesome new outfit and hairstyle.
Yeah, Fractal Design makes really nice cases.My current PC is in a FD Core1000 case, really pleased with it..
Yep! Basic, well constructed, black box with holes in all the appropriate places. And a window for the exhibitionists and voyeurs.
Wow... I got that right?... Honestly, I did sense something "one eyed old lady and evil entity demanding Hostess Cupcakes" related in the way you mentioned the void, but that was mostly just a guess... and considering most of my guesses are just bats_ _t insane, I'm kinda surprised.
Did the void ask for a specific kind of Hostess Cupcakes?... because I found the chocolate ones in Walmart recently... if it's those orange flavored ones... you are going to have to get those online... They are pretty horrible and I really wouldn't wish those on any nebulous evil entity.
What demented bastard came up with those?... They taste nothing like orange... not even the color... it's more like red and yellow having a drunken fistfight on your tongue... it's what I imagine a orange sharpie tastes like if you leave it in the sun.
Nobody deserves that.
Actually, there is this beady eyed, pasty old dude that's been in the news a lot lately (about one month, one week and five days) that I'd definitely wish them on... a whole truckload... dropped from an altitude of at least 800 feet... truck and all... maybe with a few boxes of rusty razor blades and herpes infected scorpions thrown in for good measure too...
But I digress...
Well, seeing that you got a new outfit and hairstyle now, I'm guessing you got this whole thing under control, which is a huge relief... usually when I make a guess that turns out accurate, it involves more lamentation and general dissatisfaction...
Anyhow... Congratulations on the outfit and hairstyle!
Stay safe and mind the void!
And now March Madness is really over.
Complaint: UNC tried hard but didn't quite make it.
Non-complaint: It was a great game anyway
My power went out about four hours ago. Honestly, I'm surprised it took that long, with how crazy the wind's been blowing all day.
Oddly enough, my hometown of Kansas City doesn't seem to be too sad about the outcome of the game. Or cupcakes. Just anything but football.
It's funny to me how often sci-fi movies include a plot point where a character has to use a match, because matches are obsolete NOW, let alone hundreds of years in the future. I feel the same about revolvers.
..yeah got caught in a hailstorm, which with the gusty winds, was being driven almost horizontally.
It looked like the winter was retreating, but no... Some 4-5 inches of snow last night and apparently it had been windy as well, as one of the trees next to my driveway had dropped a large branch across the driveway
How about revolvers with silencers?... That bugs the hell out of me.
I don't know about matches going entirely extinct though... in common use, probably... but I can see them sticking around a long time... maybe in survival packs or Jr. Pyromaniac kits... there are certain circumstances where a lighter isn't the optimal fire delivery system... I suppose those high intensity electric heating element type (glow coil?) lighters would work in those situations... but those have batteries and batteries die...
I have a couple of emergency kits around and I keep waterproof matches in them because I've had perfectly good butane lighters that have been in storage go dead or near dead after sitting around for a few years... it's rare, but I feel properly stored waterproof matches are simpler.
Also, I hope your power is restored without further complications.
The weather has been flakey here too... last weekend I had to to Washington D.C. and it was snowing there... not unheard of, but it should have been in the 50s (10s C) there... on the way back I was going to go through Pennsylvania but got lazy and managed to avoid a line of snow squalls that in one area caused an 80 car pileup.
I found this picture online.
I think I can do it?
Saw that on the news. Glad you avoided it!
Dana
Thanks... I could actually see the line of snow squalls from where I was, but I never got close.
There is a video taken by someone who was involved in the pileup... one after another you see cars and trucks plowing into one another at high speed.
Yet there is this one guy who emerges from the haze driving about 25-30 mph sees the destruction and safety pulls off the road and up an embankment.
The real problem seemed to be speed related and driving beyond one's ability to react to conditions.
The video is pretty terrible because they guy filming it is a bit of a dope who is more concerned about his car, but seeing what happened is quite informative... I showed it to my daughters who are now learning to drive to illustrate that despite news coverage saying the collisions were unavoidable, apparently they were avoidable for someone who slowed down and reacted appropriately.
Is that still true? I've been trying to figure out how to activate EmberGen on my system, and all the information I can find points back to a release from 2020 announcing the partnership with EmberGen, with no information about how to activate it now. In fact, one exchange, either on Twitter or JangaFX's forums, between a user and the head of JangaFX suggested that you need to pay for it now.
Don't know, but it was then at least I guess xD
The Architron plugin still definitely is a thing though; asks you to either activate with an Architron license or use your Octane license when you start it up. It's been pretty cool for setting up quick buildings and rooms.