Oh, Misty, I forgot my Complaint Thread
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Yesterday's early snow flattened remaining crops & weeds around here. During the day the snow melted off. This morning the snow has returned and is trying to outdo yesterday. I saw this on the other side of the driveway this morning. Looks kind'a like frosted shredded wheat cereal. Perhaps this is "Western New York State winter breakfast ... Frosted Goldenrod.
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Whatever you do, don't call the number on that business card! Sounds like a scam to me. I doubt any official state or federal official would just show up at your door without prior mail (snail mail) being sent first. There are all kinds of scams going on right now. Find the official number and call that.
Dana
Simple... It's because of the extra process and manpower needed to decaffinate caffinated coffee.
Is the Genesis 9 essentials free for Daz+ members?
Which Essentials are you referring to, the Starter Essentials ot the Character Essentials?
The Starter Essentials are free for anyone that has 'bought' DAZ Studio and automatically added to ones product library.
Oh my bad, I got confused.
Borrrrrring! Not a single reference to Illuminati ninja penguins or caffeine cults.
I never assume because something is slightly more complicated to produce for it to be the reason something should be more expensive... if it's more expensive there is usually one of two reasons... 1- because you can charge more, or 2- Aliens.
Also the cheap Costco (big-box "club" type store) "Kirkland" (store brand) decaf coffee I buy is only like one dollar or so more than non-decaf or around $20 for a 3lb can... which isn't bad since it's actually made by the company that used to be called "Green Mountain Coffee" and now appears to be owned by Keurig/Dr.Pepper (owners of Snapple group) apparently Keurig (K-Cup/ coffee machine company) merged with Dr.Pepper/7Up/Snapple some time ago and bought Green Mountain Coffee Company too... But... if I were to buy that same $20 can of Kirkland coffee from Amazon, it's like $48...
Apparently this and pee bottles is how ol' Lex Luthor can afford to play astronaut.
But I digress... I suspect there is something more sinister afoot that's responsible for the vast price difference for Folgers at KK's local supermarket... between the fact that James Athearn Folger was once a whale oil salesman and that catchy jiggle "The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup" I'm convinced there is a nefarious plot playing out... think about it... who is willing to pay so much more for their decaf from a specific brand?
People with lots of extra money that are loyal to a brand and want to stay calm...
You see where I'm going?
Yup.
Exactly.
Its scary no?
I totally agree with Dana and McGyver ,the IRS will mail you a letter NOT leave a business card o your door ......scummy scammy
But, I didn't say anything about the actual process they use... You know the process they use to make the worlds most expensive coffee, decaffinating is yuckier
Is there no G9F or G9M?
G9 is a unisex mesh like the original Genesis.
...I did call but gave no personal information, just asked questions. Apparently the individual did mention a few things that did jive that some random scammer would not have known. However, up until the last year I worked there I always received a refund, not a large one mind you, but never had to pay anything. There were no threats or undue demands made however I do appreciate the concern and will be doing some further research.
There is all kinds of information about each of us out there. Because they knew some things does not mean they were legitimate! Be careful!
Dana
i don't think my mini PC can render Genesis 9 4K textures in Iray in a decent amount of time. Gonna have to buy one of those fancy workstations built for 3D artists and multimedia editors.
Or...just use what you have and enjoy it!
Dana
I find that iRay takes forever to render so I work at switching things to 3DL , here's Gen9 Female in 3DL still working on it though
cool render. carrie58, You reminded me that I can apply 3Delight materials to Iray surfaces. I don't feel like downloading 1.7 GB worth of Genesis 9 starter files right now. ok, back to trying to fix my homework computer programming code.
...all the G9 threads now, had to go 2/3ds down the page to find this one.
Non-complaint: OK, perhaps I'm a bit late to the table. And I'm sure this comment would probably be more appropriate for a different thread, but I just discovered the YouTube clip below and am impressed.
I'm not easily impressed because I'm an ancient one, and was playing around with 3D graphics in the early '70s on a half million 70's era dollars of NASA computers and have watched the 3D technology grow steadily over the last half century. Now that I'm retired and simply Waiting for God, I'm pleased to reflect on my experiences with 3D and what I'm now able to do with my home computer and DAZ Studio (and a few other tools). Wheee... fun.
But in the last couple of years the technology has been improving steeply exponentially in its abilities. I am more accurately, mightily impressed.
Complaint: However, as close as this technology is to the "Make Art" button concept, it reminds me of the time, so long ago, that computers destroyed my love of chess.
This imaging technology combined with AI is going to make reality less recognizable, and this is a bad thing because there are so many people who are already unable to recognize reality, do we really need more?
Are we going to need an organization to put a "Certified Reality" stamp on real photographs & videos?
Impressive... especially the room being made of "hundreds of billions of triangles"... the grass in my yard is only tens of millions of triangles and the GPU in my mower can barely process it... and that's cheap low poly grass... every time one of the neighbor's high resolution squirrels comes in my yard, everything on this side slows down.
The future is scary.
I fell on a pod thing that fell from a tree. Bad news, I scraped my knee. Good news 1, I didn't spill my Starbucks cup of coffee. Good news 2, I got a new fashionable hole in my pants,
I just pop into my history for the latest page, or if not then the bookmark I have and work my way to the recent page.
Don't you have it bookmarked?
Dana
Complaint: I wish people would learn the language and definitions of things. I'm tired of seeing "hoverboards" for sale. They are not hoverboards! They have wheels, they do not hover! They're sideways skateboards! With motors.
Dana
i think they look very dangerous, too!
Some skateboards are sidways now? Gonna google hoverboard now. edit: i've never seen one before in person. That is why I was confused.
They became a thing after Marty McFly used an actual hoverboard in the movie Back to the Future. But they really aren't the same thing! What was in the movie was actually like a skareboard, withough wheels, and it hovered.
Dana
However, real hoverboards do exist now.
The problem is they only work on a track and superconductivity is involved.
Not yet practical for anything but demos and party games.
You fell so hard your pants became detached? How big was this pod?...
Did it try to make a copy of you?
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