The We Will Miss You, Chohole Complaint Thread
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...which can level a small to medium sized building in few seconds with that autocannon. it is built around.
Hey @rezca, have you checked out Insydium Fused? I was informed by an email that I nearly deleted without reading that you get a free upgrade to Fused if you have either an active subscription or a permanent license to X-Particles that's still in its maintenance period.
I'm up I think, but where did I put my coffee? I did feed my fish but I haven't had breakfast yet,
As I already told you, the Universe is consipiring against you.
These little hiccups are tests and you are being scored.
They are tests to see if you are human. If you fail you'll be reborn as a wombat. Believe me these tests are easier than the Gom-Jabbar.
Yeah I subbed to it last week. I only had a Cycles license, never got around to X-Particles since for a long time I was on a laptop (intel something 6-core + GTX 1060) that I felt wasn't up to using it. Given even my desktop can have issues I think it was good I held out :P
Having issues with some parts of it though. Looks like xpBullet is 'kinda buggy' for most folks - particularly if you're using something other than Cycles - and xpShatter just refuses to function for me most of the time. One of the Content Repository files outright doesn't work at all, and one of my scenes flat out stopped working halfway through my making it. <shrug>
there was a Payche episode, the murder weapon was a dinosaur. even Gus didnt believe him. lol
Complaint: Shopping woes. After having finally finished and fully integrated baby-bear ("Mimas") into my system, I wander the virtual aisles of computer goods at Amazon and NewEgg and there is no longer anything I need or want, and can afford.
Non-complaint: Wheee..., the trailer for the new "Dune" movie is available.
i remember sting and his lil butterfly shorts. in the old dune, tee hee
I can't decide what to do before lunch? I need to do some homework soon but I don't feel like doing that.
"Why Do Today What You Can Put Off Until Tomorrow" I believe is the saying. My oldest lives by that rule
complaint i have no creamer or hald and half for my tea. really wanna a cuppa
Ah, "Sting". That brings back some bad memories.
Long story. Back in the 'late 80s of last century my partner and I were living in Washington, DC on 6th St., NW. Right downtown, just a couple blocks north of the Chinatown area. We had a three story townhouse (basement and two floors) at the end of the row, right at the corner of 6th and "P" St, in a run-down but up and coming area of typical Washington DC Victorian style brick rowhouses. The basement floor was only half buried in the ground. The main entrance to our house was up a flight of ornate cast iron steps up to the middle of the building. Our living room windows looked onto the intersection of 6th & P (a very busy main intersection) from two directions. We were about the only white people within two blocks but got along well with our neighbors and were under the protection of the matriarch of the family in the next door building and well respected elder of the neighborhood. That protection was greatly appreciated because we were right in the middle of the area claimed by the "Sixth-street Gang" of street hoods and we often heard shots in the night, and one time an injured party fell over dead in our front lawn. Not a particularly safe area of town at the time. OK, the scene has been set, now for the story.
One day we came home to find someone (Billy) sitting on our cast iron steps. He turned out to be an old friend of my partner who just decided to come live with us, unannounced.
He stayed with us a for a few months and regailed us with stories of people he knew. However, it wasn't long before we realized that at least some of what he was saying was true. One of his stories was that he was at Sting's wedding. Another was that he was drinking buddy with Barbara Hale (actress who played Della Street on the '50s "Perry Mason" TV series). Which turned out to be true when she called our house one time looking for him. So, his story about Sting moved up a notch in our belief. Regardless, the problem with Billy turned out to be his psychotic mental problems and tendency toward violence. In fact it got so complicated that we ended up talking with his mother in California and she started sending money each month for us to dole out to him for necessities just so he wouldn't try to come back to live with her again. That raised our eyebrows a bit.
Billy was weird but OK for much of the time but when he got his disability check from the government he'd go out and get roaring drunk.
Late one night we looked out the window at the noise out on the street, and there from our excellent elevated vantage point was Billy in the middle of the intersection. Stark naked. Ranting and raving and jumping up and down yelling the "N-word" and all sorts of derogatory comments about the neighborhood.
I was ready to strangle him but my partner rushed out and dragged him back into the house and read him the riot act. That isn't the end of the Billy story. The final straw was the night he came home and threatened us after we confronted him about stealing stuff in the house. He was no longer welcome. Last we'd heard, he'd gone to NYC to live with a still unaware and vulnerable friend. We had to ship his belongings to him there. It was expensive but good riddance.
Sorry, there isn't more about Sting other than that both my parther and I liked his music. This story is about the memory that the mention of Sting dug up in my brain. I've been trying to forget what I call the "Billy episode". But Sting is now tied irrevocably with Billy in my memories.
Our townhouse was very similar to this but was a corner house facing two streets, with many more windows to clean on the long side of the house.
everything i wanted to watch on amazon prime is too expensive or currently unavailable. meh
starting to think prime is a waste of money. hmm optimus prime. feeling a transformers movie marathon
those ebil decepticons
I should go to a competitor's store to see if anything is on sale.
Apparently I have Hulu and forgot I got it. I also forgot what account I used.
I forgot it isn't my account but my friend's account.
Complaint: Websites that say "Unavailable at the (your location) store... Check Other Stores... but when you click on "Check Other Stores" it just takes you to the list of other stores that exist... a list that in no meaningful way will help you determine where the item is available, just that other stores exist outside of your local store or the store you are shopping, which may or may not carry or stock that particular item, but if you want to start from scratch by making one of those stores your "home store" you are welcome to engage in that foolish game of hide and seek...
The ability to tell you that other stores carry an item or not is a thing, but many stores play this "make store "x" your new home store and start your search over again to see if they carry the item" game... which you'll have to repeat over and over till you find a store that dies or realize it's no longer sold by them or it's not sold anywhere remotely near you.
Then again, stores that say "34 Available at the (your location) store" don't always have that number, or any... apparently from what I've found out there is an average inventory update window of between 24 and 72 hours for most stores... even when you go to a store and they search the system for you and tell you "the Dystopia Parkway store in Xanadu has 12 in stock" what they really mean is "24 hours ago when the software updated the inventory based on what was sold, that store might have had 12 in stock, but now it's anybody's guess!"... I say "might" because damaged items that can't be sold are often still regarded as inventory until a physical inventory is done or someone does the data entry involved in removing damaged stock from inventory.
But still... it's good to know the possibility exists the item is carried at all.
Man, people beyotch about "where are my flying cars and jetpacks" or "where are those colonies on the moon we were promised when I was growing up"... But I'm just like, "At this point, fluck that, I'd be happy with working websites and electronic parking meters that aren't a friggin' puzzle"... which is a separate issue/complaint... Electronic Parking Meters with three entirely different sets of instructions posted... none which actually are the real way to work the stupid device... but that's a different complaint for a different day.
Oh... Sorry...
Sorry about the keyboard and the coffee mug... when he's famous, he'll get you new ones.
Probably not... he's very irresponsible.
An interesting story... I have nothing related to Sting to add to that, other than I've been stung hundreds of times and don't get along well with wasps (to their detriment)... and the cast iron steps part dug up a memory for me, which is "Cast iron steps hurt to fall down in the winter"... yes, for some reason they hurt more in the winter... but you have to fall down them in the summer and spring to know that... as a comparison... Also... Cast iron steps can be fairly pretty, but I friggin' hate them... Especially when they are coated in hundreds of years of glossy black or green paint... seriously, grease them too while you are at it.
...looks interesting.
...very reasonable rant.
I get a lot of the same when I check availability of an item in the local area.
Unless it's something big and bulky, way out in the suburban hinterlands (where it takes three bus transfers and a good part of the day to get to), or simply not available at any local brick & mortar store, I try to shop locally as much as I can for I don't like shipping fees and/or delays. Also, many businesses here took a serious hit during the pandemic and could use the influx of funds even if it's a small purchase (a few of my favourite places closed for good)..
As I don't drive don't have any contact with the electronic parking systems and as we now have a fare card for our transit system I can put money on from the comfort of home. Don't have to deal with those "no armed bandit" ticket machines which felt like I needed a manual for to operate which sometimes took the money without dispensing tickets. A real pain when you were at a transit centre and either used the last cash in your pocket to purchase a pack of tickets or didn't have that "exact change" available ("tipped" many a driver because of that as sometimes the smallest bill I had was a fiver).
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eww. theraflu is nasty. forcing it down in case it actually helps.
bed soars are a real thing, my ribs feel bruised. guess i need to flip over more often.
It is too cold in my house!
Non-complaint: Woke up this morning to find that my render A Mother's Love (aka Portrait of a Mother) won first place in the PC monthly contest (1st half). WOW. I never expected that.
That's very cool, congratulations!
There are some fireplaces in the store, maybe you could kitbash one for your own use.
Still can't get my xpShatter object to work. Was working fine earlier, now it's not. Once I changed the source object it just stopped working. A user on the support Discord said it needs an xpDynamics or xpBullet tag to work.... Dynamics didn't change anything and Bullet (at least out of the box) doesn't work the way the scene was setup for and the objects won't render at all anyway.
It's weird but in the official Content Repository the "Shatter on Collision" scene won't work either, though "Recursive Shatter" does. I guess something borked in this part of the plugin between now and then
Well deserved! Great job!
Dana
online store sent me extra computer memory. it is too much trouble for me to return the extra RAM.
Touching!