The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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The one I'll never understand is the Mercedes G-Class SUV, which starts at $140,000 and can easily climb to triple that once all of the fancy bells and whistles get added. It looks like it would last all of ten minutes on a shelf road-not that I've ever seen any owners who were foolish enough to try.
I'm waiting for the day when SUVs and (especially) pickup trucks start to come with a little built-in ladder under the door so that you can climb into the cab.
My nephew has a Ford pickup truck that has a nice feature...when the door is opened, the foot step comes out and down a bit, to make getting in easier. I appreciate it when I ride with him somewhere. It's a big step up otherwise.
What is the difference between a workstation and a gaming desktop? Which is better for DS, blender, iClone, and etc?
Edit: cloudflare issues and so on.
What are the specs for a good desktop for 3D work?
Testing to see if I can post in this thread...
Edit... apparently I can but not a long post... ?
Normal long for me and definitely nothing remotely near the character limit.
Yeah, there is definitely a much lower character count limit now.
A "workstation", is often a computer intended for typical business work, i.e. documents, spreadsheets, email, local data storage. Usually a part of an organization that provides adequate machines to appropriately savvy personnel. Whereas, a "gaming desktop" is implied to be a computer with features commensurate to high speed gaming, video editing, high resolution display. A lot of fast RAM, fast disk access, powerful CPU, high power graphics card, and usually intended for a private individual in his home for competition or tension release, or addiction satisfaction.
Either can be used for each other's purposes, but, similarly, swapping jobs of an automobile with a farm tractor is possible, but not efficient.
It's been my observation that computers advertised as "workstation" can range from pitiful clunkers to half decent machines. But a "gaming computer" is intended to imply power & speed although sometimes it's just a lie to get you to spend a lot of money for a toothless dog, with mange.
But since the National Bureau of Standards doesn't seem to want to establish, much less, enforce definitions of "workstation" and "gaming computer", you have to trust the seller, or you have to do your homework and find out what's inside the machine, the reputation of the manufacturer, the reputation of the seller, and self (or with consulatation) determine if it's going to be adequate for your needs. Personally, I don't trust most of the sellers to return my money if not satisfied, if the purchase was not backed by a big corporation like Amazon or MasterCard. I avoid private or non-sponsored sellers, if possible. And now days with the world situation, there are a lot of desperate/greedy people trying to sell you a pig-in-a-poke. Homework!
And if anyone is looking for a used computer, remember that you'll be stuck at Win10 if that old computer has an old CPU or the motherboard has no TPM device capability. Typical Intel CPUs need to be level ix-8xxx or higher (e.g. i5-8600) Current Intel chips are in the ix-13xxx level now. I don't know what the required AMD CPU level is. Homework.
But computers advertised as coming with Win11 are OK, if they didn't lie to you.
I've been told I have trust issues. I don't see it.
I consider a workstation a heavy duty pickup truck that can tow the moon day in day out while carrying an oil tanker on the bed. A gaming computer compared is typically a tuned up boy racer which has a huge spoiler that is being praised on the boy racer magazines, but the rest of the components are whatever the manufacturer got cheap.
From my experiencing looking at laptops, it seems like the gaming computer is the only way you'll get the best RTX whatever you need for DAZ studio or... gaming... but they also seem to lack other things. Like it seems hard to find a gaming laptop with a touchscreen. And while they tend to have high refresh rates like 144hz, it's hard to find one with a 4K monitor. Probably because you can't much do gaming at 4K. But if you're getting a desktop then I guess you could get whatever monitor and whatever other pieces you want. I'd also say in general, the gaming laptops are targeting people with a lot of money and the workstations are targeting businesses. The person with lots of money will pay a lot for a gaming computer that will be really good but obsolete very soon. The business will pay a lot for a workstation that meets the minimum requirements to get the job done, but keeps doing that for several years.
as for iClone, Blender whatever
you actually have to load and try the software not just buy and collect it.
I started out 13 years ago as an iClone3 user so first 3D software I ever used so I probably find it easier than DAZ studio because of that. Hard to really say, That said, I am only on iClone6.
Blender confuses me but I do use its video editor daily, I have never figured out how to install Diffeomorphic and my FBX imports iffy and Alembic imports very heavy but work (using Sagan), not found the DAZ to Blender plugin useful.
I prefer Carrara to the lot but dabble with Unreal Editor a lot too, not installed it on my computer yet since the hard drive failure a fortnight ago, not installed Poser11 or many other things yet, still cannot get smart content or metadata even working in DAZ (mainly used for the search function).
DIM is only getting worse on my Win10
update failed and I cannot get my newly bought stuff to show up
guess I can manually download it, it's not as if the metadata is working anyway
Thank God for Voidtools Everything
Non-complaint: Wheee... I'm going to the symphony tonight!
Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherazade"
in the Amphitheater at Chautauqua Institution. Ride arranged to & from. With time enough for a hamburger supper, an ice cream desert, a peruse of the bookstore, and I get to show off the Chautauqua campus to someone unfamiliar with it. Maybe I've generated a continuing attendee.
The first time a saw a chihuahua, I had the same impulse.
But regarding "Chautauqua" [sha-tak-wa], ... Imagine living in a small 150 year old town of about 4 long north/south streets and 12 short east/west streets, next to a lake, and creating very small city blocks separated by narrow brick streets, sans automobiles, with several music, stage and lecture venues scattered throughout town, as well as shops and restaurants, and peppered in-between with still existing homes & hotels that are wonderful examples of architecture from the Victorian and Edwardian eras, all with tiny or vast, immaculately landscaped lawns. And right in the middle of town is a 5,000 seat, covered, but open-air, amphitheater where, during the summer, nightly entertainment includes symphonies at least twice a week. Performed by seasoned professional musicians as well as top student musicians from all over the country. Grand music, easily heard outside on the street as you wander around just enjoying the evening and for the lucky few who have houses around the Amphitheater, to sit out on your 1st or 2nd floor front porch and enjoy the music, and the night breezes off the lake. If I win the lottery, I'm gonna get me one of those houses for my summer residence.
...sweet, enjoy.
Sweet enjoyment: It was a good night. Young lady picked me up for the 25 minute drive to Chautauqua. We lucked out on a parking spot near the entrance and not way out in the "back 40". Temperature was in the high 70sF initially, but cooled down to low 70s by show time at 8:15. I eventually heard a lot of her story, and it's kind of sad. As a child she liked to listen to classical music but was discouraged by her father, but recently she's been through a tough divorce and now waking up to her own needs & desires. She seemed to really enjoy herself talking about the performance on the way back. My heart sings.
('cause you don't want to hear my lungs sing
)
Complaint: I'd forgotten that I'm 3 years older than I was the last time I had been there. Walking down the hill from the ticket building to the park and Amphitheater, completely winded me and I had to steer the conversation to a place to sit down for a while.
I would not have made it back up the hill, so we made sure to confirm that the bus to the parking lot still ran after the performance. It does.
The performance was short, just one 5 minute piece , Sibelius: "Valse Trieste", ahead of "Scheherazade". No intermission and only one major piece, so were out of there by 9:30. Which made her happy 'cause she still has to run her pet shop business in the morning. I forget that people still work for a living.
All in all, a very good evening.
But I did hear that Chautauqua is doing away with its opera performances
. Not sure why, but it's probably just too expensive these days for a small organization with limited attendance to afford to maintain all the costumes & gadgetry of opera. Once gone, it will probably never come back. I won't miss it though. I only like a few operas ("Aida", "Mlada", "The Mikado", and "Marriage of Figaro"). I've seen live performances of each of them, and some of them a couple times. But just a few songs from them, tickle my fancy.
And as for the others, I've got a little list, of operas that never will be missed.[apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan]
Tutorial Complaint # 46853663214567B.0000C
There should be a criminal law about making videos where you are taking me through your discovery process...
If the title of your video is "Really excited about the NEW and improved TUBE TOOL in Nomad Sculpt" then is it unreasonable of me to expect you to have tried that tool out before you start making the video, you great dumb pimply [emission] smelling idiot?...
Its on me, but I instantly knew this was going to suck because the very first thing is the guy starts talking about a different feature... a new head shape primitive... which I didn't come there to see... but of course the great dumb pimply [emission] smelling idiot* (referred to as GDPFSI from here on), didn't try it yet and he's trying to figure it out... I'm assuming he just woke up or something and a wild hare up his butt prompted him to make a video... I'm not sure he even knew why or what about, just "must make video"...
But I decided to watch this anyway because I was already so mad... but apparently he heard about something on this tool on his social media feed and wanted to check it out... oh, no... it was Han... Han told him... (who the [blazes] is Han?... who knows, who cares), Han told him, but he didn't get a chance to try it because he was out aaaall weekend at his fiancée's friend's wedding in D.C...
At that point I already want to smother the guy with a chimpanzee's overused diaper... literally nothing he says past that point can make up for that beginning... it's only like 2:30 into the video and I'm fantasizing diaper smothering Ethan*... his name is Ethan... not "Super CGI Studios" or "Parallax Graphics" or some other username... Ethan uses his own name so I know whom to hate for this...
Thank you Ethan.
There is a modicum of satisfaction in knowing exactly whom to hate for stuff like this... because "[curse] you Amalgamated 3D Graphics" isn't as directed and coherent and satisfying as "[curse] you Ethan".
Anyway, it never gets better and he goes on to discover lots of not very useful things, not unlike that diaper filling chimpanzee would if you were to have placed him in the pilot's seat of small aircraft, perhaps a Cessna Skyhawk or equivalent light private aircraft... only it would be more amusing because the chimpanzee is a chimpanzee and not an Ethan... but Ethan actually even says "so... cool... I'm not sure what else there is... I suppose we can go on their website and look... [opens a different screen with the website list of new features]... but the problem is I don't understand what most of this stuff is..."
Is that so Ethan?... And yet you felt the need to make a video of this?
This is the information equivalent of those people who social media post pictures of their breakfast muffins...
Thank you Ethan, you muffin posting GDPFSI, thank you for wasting my time...
The worst part of this is Ethan has 257 likes... but since there is no icon for wanting to smother someone with a used chimpanzee diaper, maybe people were thinking "I'd like to smother Ethan with a used chimpanzee diaper" and chose the next closest thing without thinking it through.
I'm probably being overly mean to stupid Ethan and I'm in no way advocating Used Chimpanzee Diaper based smothering... maybe Ethan is lonely or he grew up sharing his random thought process with anyone who'd listen... But I think we really need a special way of separating useless information from relevant information so we don't have to know about someone like Ethan having spent all weekend at their fiancée's friend's wedding in D.C. before they go on to prattle about pressing buttons like a lobotomized rhesus monkey... I feel so annoyed with technology because of stuff like this...
Imagine if you had a nice toaster oven and you used it for months and one morning you woke up and all the buttons and knobs were moved around, and all the icons were different and there were ten new ones and every time you pushed or turned one it either did nothing or something weird and entirely different than what you expected and when you went to the manufacturer's website there was only a PDF of the original manual from 2016 with only two buttons and their features described.
And because of that anyone who isn't a [blooming] clairvoyant now needs to wade through a sea of [blooming] Ethan videos to find one that comes even remotely close that they can have a starting point to begin to figure out how to make a [blooming] slice of bread toasty once more... a starting point to figuring it out, because I [blooming] guarantee you none of the videos will be about doing what the appliance was actually designed to do, but will mostly feature things like "how to make toilet wine in you new ToastEx 2900TF toaster oven" or "12 ways to slow roast kangaroo gonads using your ToastEx 2900TF"...
It's not that technology is moving too fast, it's that we are constantly being forced to figure out everything on our own or by Ethanes who don't actually know what the hell they are talking about... that or Karls** who believe they are too smart and important to explain important details to peasants like you... so everything moves in four dimensions at once with no rhyme or reason and if you get it, you get it and if you don't you have to keep looking for video that clicks, or just face the fact that your days of eating normal toast are over and you'll have to get used to eating slow roasted kangaroo gonads.
Yeah...
Thats all.
*His name is not Ethan, it's a different name, but in the spirit of "all names have been changed to protect the annoying" I figured I'd change it so I'm not violating some TOS thing by hating on Ethan who isn't named Ethan... but he uses his real name and I feel that's totally on brand for Ethan who isn't named Ethan... I feel like he probably shares his social security number and home address somewhere in another video, it just seems so very Ethan who isn't named Ethan.
**I don't know who that Karl is, but I knew a Karl once who's name wasn't actually Karl, who was like what I'm implying that Karl is like, but if I mention his actual name someone might start trying to track him down or something and I don't want anyone smothering him with a used chimpanzee diaper before I do... Which nobody should ever do, because it's illegal or immoral or something and I'm only satirically saying that I'd do that... which I wouldn't... really. Really... I mean it... that's bad... don't do that.
Disclaimer: The red edits were not by me, but it's okay because I used a lot of asterisks in place of certain letters and I suppose it wasn't enough for people not to figure out what I meant...
Technically, I could have been referencing the television show "The Good Place" where they used the word "Fork" a lot... in the show, they couldn't physically say the other word because the place where they were would change the word as they said it... That, or the asterisks could have been standing in "un"... as in Funk... like "what's this funk on my shoe?"
It wasn't... but I understand...
I suppose if I were to write "S*** ****** *** ****-*** ********'* ***~ ****q" it's really a very translucent attempt to cover up a very foul phase and most people would instantly recognize it... and I should actually be ashamed of myself for such abundant use of asterisks... in my defense and there really isn't any, I grew up in NYC and the word that was edited out is actually a very warm greeting...
Honestly, I felt the same way about the word's liberal use by Londoners too... it felt kinda like a compliment actually or a kind suggestion... and as far as I know the word was in common use in English as far back as the 1500s, but they often misspelled it, possibly deliberately because back then asterisks were really expensive and heavy... but anyway, if you want an unedited transcript of this rant, please mail me a request form and $15.22 shipping and handling and if you do so before midnight Saturday, I'll include 15 new curse words, two involving penguins and 7 that have never been heard before and are actually quite physically impossible to engage in, but are charming and thought provoking nonetheless.
I only mention this because of my commitment to journalistic integrity... and my fidelity to profanity... and definitely because I'd like to get a bunch of checks for $15.22...
So, it's not a complaint... I just don't think it would be fair for people to think I don't have a foul potty mouth...
Ethan sounds like a lot of Blender tutorial YouTubers. I think my fave was the guy who helpfully included an on-screen indicator that showed what keystrokes and mouse-clicks he was making (Shift-B, Left Mouse, etc)... but who also placed a large, obnoxious, and perennial "BE SURE TO LIKE AND FOLLOW" banner directly on top of the on-screen indicator so that you couldn't see any of it. Of course, he also blitzed through the 'lesson' without telling the viewer what he was doing or why. Thanks, I'll be sure to like and subscribe, buddy.
TBH,a lot of online tutorials remind me of the old "how to draw" gag, where Step 1 is "draw two circles/ovals/squares" and Step 2 is "draw the rest of the <object>."
"Okay, so, you start by making a Blibber, then you blabber the Blibber until it is blibbed... oh and before you do that, be sure to center your Blibber with the blob tool. I'm not going to show you where this tool is, but if you slowly advance the playback you'll catch a glimpse of where my mouse landed just then. Okay, now that you blibbed your Blibber, you need to trans-rotate the flibbernun with the X tool, which you can buy and download from my website..."
The best ones include "so now I'll load one I created ahead of time.. so where is it? nope thats not it, maybe in this folder..."
Yes, I've experienced all the stupid human tricks of video "help". The worst seem to be for Daz Studio.
Here's my advice for those video makers: if you really want to be helpful, edit out all the mistakes and wasted time in your video before you upload the freaking thing!!
Thank you.
Video makers... "ehhhh...dit?"
(place holder for funny photo that will appear after whenever the photo upload window is briefly open)
Complaint: Mattress makers say things like "you have to sleep on your new mattress every single night or it won't 'break in,' and also "it will take two months to break in." Great, I get to wake up feeling like I fell asleep in a parking lot every morning until September, good times.
And the non-satisfaction guarantee is 15 days.
My biggest pet peeve is when a tutorial doesn't go the way the maker is expecting, and you have to watch them troubleshoot it in real time. I actually intentionally did that in one of my tutorials, where something doesn't go the way the viewer might expect, and I immediately explain why and what to do about it.
There have been several videos where the person doesn't even have the program open yet...
Ethan 67B: Hi Peeps!... Today I'm going to show you how to use the new Snoofwarble feature in Gloopus... first we'll open up Gloopus... I'm using Gloopus version 19 [author's notation: There is no Gloopus 19, to date there is only a Gloopus 8.00016, but no 19... Also Gloopus doesn't exist so there's that, but just go with it]... Gloopus is taking a while to open for some reason... normally it opens in a few seconds... it's really fast on my computer... On this computer it's not opening up right away for some reason... I found this computer in the Taco Bell dumpster the other day when I woke up in there... yeah... there was this cute raccoon in there too... I think he was brushing his teeth because he had foam all over his mouth... oop, it's open... nope... wait... I suppose it's opening... Maybe... anyway... I wanted to see if this computer works... it's really old and smells like old chalupas and it make a grinding noise when I turn it one... and it's smoking a little now... Okay, it's open... so this is a really old version of Gloopus because this computer is too old for the new version, but I'm going to show you how to use the Buttwaffle tool, which is sort of like the Snoofwarble feature in Gloopus 20, but it doesn't work anything like it, so I'll kind of explain what Buttwaffle could do if it was Snoofwarble... [Goes directly to a commercial for an Erectile Dysfunction medication featuring talking CGI eggplants and then a commercial for a banking app that supposedly pays you to use it with the tagline "just try it and see", neither of which you can skip]... the video opens to a fire extinguisher spraying on the screen and the narrator saying, "Wow, I didn't see that coming..." ...but no worries I'll just draw the rest on this used paper towel... oh, sorry, that marker is dead... I'll try this one... oops, that dead too... I'll go find one that works... I'll be back in a few... "
Yeah... Ethans.
So I drive a Hyundai... and I used Reddit before that big thing happened...
And one of my shining social network moments was when I was trying to figure out how to set the oil change reminder. Other people were asking too, and nobody knew the answer. Apparently the Hyundai dealership didn't know either because they didn't reset it. And eventually I discovered how to do it. I immediatly went back to that Hyundai thread on Reddit and typed out the steps to do it. I even got upvoted. But that was a missed opportunity.
What I should have done was make a 35 minute YouTube video called "How to reset the oil change reminder on a 2023 Elantra" in which I spent the first 10 minutes talking about how I'm going to show how to reset this oil change reminder, the next 19 minutes talking about how awesome Hyundais are, the next 10 seconds actually showing how to reset the oil change reminder, another 50 seconds showing the same procedure from several different camera angles, and another five minutes playing music so people have lots of time to hit Like and Subscribe and that damn bell. To wrap it up, I'd make sure the video thumbnail is a picture of me in a bikini that doesn't appear anywhere in that video and is probably a DAZ girl instead of me anyway.
YouTube doesn't even show you how many thumbs down a video gets anymore, and I'm pretty sure Ethan is the reason why. You see the 257 likes and don't see the 90,000 dislikes.
I want to use Blender one day but between all the Ethans on YouTube and all the Karls in the forums, and the fact that they changed the interface faster than books on the subject were being published, I decided I'd save that for when I really have a lot of time.
I don't know why but Chalupa sounds kind of pornographic to me. Like when you're making an overblown video about Hyundai car settings and you say "at the end of this video I'm gonna show you my chalupas" and then after they've watched all 35 minutes including the still image that's been telling them to hit that bell for five minutes straight, you open the glove box and there are the chalupas". And nobody had any warning about the lack of a bikini scene or that chalupas are actually literally chalupas because Google hid all 47,000 dislikes, and anybody with 10,000 likes and no dislikes must be eating chalupas in a bikini if you watch the whole video.
I need a nap.
Kelenken with Saddle. I was dabbling in a scene and wanted another beastie to be in it but didn't have any accessories and wearables for this borb, so I did the unthinkable and actually spent some time modelling. Actual modelling! Sort of. It was mostly just spline-wrapping cubes and then adjusting the splines. The saddle though was zBrush, but I gave up after a point when the tutorials I was following confuzzled me too much. My Topology Brush not doing what it was doing in the videos for example. And I don't know anything about zModeller. But it was okay. Or, somewhat okay. Its only half finished actually...
She now can carry a basket of medicinal herbs in fashionable style! For a beginner in all this, that wasn't too bad.
Also hullo again everyone !
In addition to the above, raptor with a basket of fish.
AND, this is a Complaint turned Non-Complaint; I was about to Complain a Complaint about this subtle green tint to the whole image and I was scratching my head over what was causing it. Turns out it came from me accidentally loading a channel from the wrong file. The node in Fusion was for the 'Sunlight Indirect' and the Green channel was loading the 'Diffuse Indirect' instead, making everything very, very green.
I feel quite silly about that but at least its fixed!
Oh for sure and for certainly <3
Oh for sure and for certainly <3
Edit to remove one of the comments because WOAH the forum posted it three times!