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I should try that again some time. It's been a while.
I tried it too. Had a render cooking all day. Then my fat cat came along and sat on my keyboard and closed down the whole thing. Took the shine right off...
What have you done with the real Daveso?!!
Hi Lau Lau !
That is hard to wrap my head around as I render daily. I dunno, seems kinda pointless to spend money on something you don't ever use.
I've been mainly rendering over the past few days too. Kinda shopped out right now and don't need any more characters but have my eye on some scenes / environments. I've been trying to do a simple render with every character so I have a quick reference library. G3 is done, G8 is a work in progress.
Anybody else also got a bunch of scenes that are 90% complete but you can't get one aspect right? Lighting especially is doing my head in!
...yeah so far the current sale has been rather underwhelming as it seems more and more that bundles are needed now to unlock special deals. and tonight nothing in the upper banner save for the New Daz version, Weekly Freebies (which haven't seemed to change very much in a couple months), PC+, and Fastgrab links.
It's like being a collector of fine wines that are too valuable to actually drink ... only without the resale value (still, easier to add another external drive than to dig an extension on your cellar)
Hey Joe! LOL
It is. Most days these days, my inspiration is less than zero. LOL
Nonsense... you're driving the economy and enforcing your democratic right to be broke... besides, what are you going to do with your money, spend it on food or worse yet, be buried with it?...
Thats crazy... you know someone will just dig you up and take it from you, then you'll just be a brokeass naked skeleton in a museum with people gawking at your bones... the ancient Egyptians made getting buried with their life savings the whole core of their society and all that bought them was a violent overthrow of their civilization by the cats they worshipped...
Cats man... you want cats to overthrow another society?
Spend your money on whatever shiny objects distract you long enough to take your mind off the unbearable dumbness of this world... pointless spending is not pointless at all, it's all that's keeping those damn cats from revolting against us and taking over our governments and telling us what to do, taking away our freedoms and making us wear adorable cat ear headbands against our will... and worse yet, they won't even bother to teach us Cat, they'll just meow at us in an authoritative tone and expect us to comply.
I hope I've totally blown your mind and helped wrap it around this concept, because we all need to be enlightened on this subject.
Also, I'm operating on three hours of sleep... I still don't necessarily think what I'm saying is any less shocking than anything I normally do.
Yes, yes I do.
They would be hard pressed to do worse than we are, so I am eagerly awaiting our feline overlords.
I have an evil cat that does the same thing to me. I shut the door so she can't get downstairs to me but my family seems to be in on the whole evil plan since they open the door anytime they see it closed.
both my cats launch themselves on my door handles and open any closed doors, the only one they cannot is the little loo room which has a knob.
No hexing me on that! I have knobs but she has been diligently working through different strategies on how to open them.
I think they watched Youtube cat videos
I have an old house that has an unheated entrance area and a spring loaded door that opens towards it from the kitchen.
I started wondering how my cat was inside the house when he was supposed to be outside, but then I saw him do his trick... He was laying on his back next to the corner of the door and clawing the corner towards him until there was gap big enough for him to get inside.
What I still cannot understand is, how did he get one of his girlfriends in as well...
You are sooo going to find kittens in your house one of these days.
Well, if it helps relieve your mind about their advancement here is my cat's plan to make a new dining room table.
EDIT: Then again, she hasn't seen any carpentry videos on youtube....
It's been about a decade since I saw him the last time. One weekend he just didn't come home... Maybe a fox or a lynx got him, or then he was caught in the paws of a jealous spouse, but the kittens I have seen - Easy to spot as he was the first black cat in the neighbourhood
I have pocket doors in parts of the house and my cat knows how to open them. He reaches under the door and wiggles it until it gets wide enough he can get his paw in to push the rest of the way. Thankfully I have knob handles on the rest of the house otherwise he would probably be opening them also.
I'd worry far less about knobs, and more about these earth cats who've been growing thumbs...
This is a cute little kitty friend of ours who my kids named Polydactylsaurus Rex, or Potatoe for short... (don't ask)...
Look closely at his front paws... that's not photoshopped, those are real cat thumbs.
He's got thumbs and he knows how to use them... Potatoe is polydactyl...
Polydactyl means one has extra digits or finger thingies...
I suspect we have Ernest Hemingway to blame for this rise of polydactyl cats because back in the 30s Hemingway was "given" a polydactyl kitten by a ship's captain... I defy you to find the guy's name and I suspect this wasn't a boat type ship, because as I'm sure you all know not all ships float...
I'm not saying it was aliens, but...
Anyway... this polydactyl "kitten", a Meowian from Meow... Meowians are protectors of mankind due to an ancient favor they felt they owed us, and also because they are sort of semi responsible for blowing up Atlantis, which is another boring history story I'm sure nobody wants to hear me lecture about again...
Anyway, Meowians are always going around saving mankind's bacon... even before ancient Egypt... but they are also horny little boogers too... inevitability they mate with earth cats, who tend to be pretty selfish and cunning and everything goes to hell because the earth cats think everyone owes them everything because they can catch mice...
This was exactly what happened with Snow White (Hemingway's cat) she got busy with an earth cat, had hybrid kittens with thumbs, they realized the power of thumbs (not just for showing enthusiastic approval) and they got all full of themselves.
Now I'm not blaming Snow White for what came about later, she was a great Meowian operative, she even helped Hemingway finish a couple of books when he was dead drunk... she pretty much wrote "The Old Man And The Sea", but she was a victim of her own desires and it was really her kids who pushed her out and took over and that's where things took a sinister turn...
I'm not saying they eventually were the ones who killed Hemingway, but I am saying it wasn't no suicide like everyone still thinks today... Who leaves their estate to a bunch of cats, who decades later still run the place?
I'm not making this up... https://www.hemingwayhome.com/our-cats
Besides who'd suspect a cat staged a suicide?
In fact Snow White's kids are still messing around with Florida today... subtly exerting their influence to make humans do their bidding... mostly just messing with them... but I'm not getting into the controversial stuff... Just the PSA type "The More You Know..." stuff...
Its hard for most people to tell the difference between a Meowian and a polydactyl earth cat, because basically Meowians are earth cats and that's a whole convoluted time travel conundrum AND history thing I'm sure nobody wants to hear about... suffice to say, not all polydactyl earth cats are jerks and not all Meowians are saintly protectors of mankind... it's complicated, in fact out there in greater galactic community, there is a whole bunch of cats whole are distantly related to Meowians who have been making trouble for centuries and occasionally they find their way to earth and try to hide out from justice by blending into earth's ordinary cat population.
Which is actually just setting everything up for the whole thing that led to Meowians owing mankind that debt... but I'm not sure if this is the time and place for that... even though this timeline seems quite a bit off from where I was told things should be going... things might be too broken already.
Hopefully the Meowians can fix that...
Anyway... I can't reveal too much until Admiral Tippytoes reviews my manuscript or else I risk changing the future.
Till then, I know this was approved for public viewing...
Till then good luck and stay vigilant.
Cheers.
my kids named Polydactylsaurus Rex, or Potatoe for short... (don't ask)...
I feel your pain when you have to yell "Potatoe" as my daughter named our cat "Naan" which is flatbread. I can only assume the flatbread she had when she went with some friends to eat at an Indian restaurant was very good. I assume if she had went to a BBQ restaurant our cat could have been named something equally lovely...maybe "Brisket" or "Wings".
Actually the "don't ask" part was on me... I had been photographing a herd of potatoes as part of a thing I was doing about the migration habits of the Greater North American Potato (Potatous Unitedstatesus)...(not to be confused with the Nicer North American Potato, Potatous Canadiaus) and I kinda got busy with something else and forgot about them and they sorta got moldy sitting around outside... Polydactylsaurus Rex came along and started batting a small one around and that's why that daughter changed his name to Potato, which in her defense is a reasonable name as it's sort of a kind of protocol to use a defining trait or behavior as another way of naming a pet.
(he's not our "pet", but she needed to give him a name as she doesn't speak cat or Meowian)
Luckily she didn't name him Aloo, which is the Hindi word for potato, as most Meowians have trouble pronouncing "loo".
I forget to mention that Potato is a Meowian agent assigned to me... that's sorta complicated too...
But anyway, both my daughters can speak a little Hindi and when that one was younger she used to name some of her stuffed animals after random Hindi words, or at least ones that made sense to her... like "Bandar" the lion... only "Bandar" (pronounced more like "Bundur") means "monkey", but she thought he looked more like a monkey than a lion...
That's a "don't ask" that's on her and her grandma.
In the end, Potato decided he likes that name and adopted it as his earth cat persona... His real name is "Cavendish Merryweather-Fuzzythumbs II", which even by Meowian standards is a little odd, but I think his parents named him after his great, great, great grandfather Lord Admiral Cavindish Fuzzythumbs (yes, the same one who commanded the Meowian armada in the Battle of Flarbinnox Prime)... who himself got his first name from from a variety of banana (Cavindish Banana).
Even though the Fuzzythumbs family is well known and respected in Meowian society, Potato finds it "cooler" than "Lieutenant Fuzzythumbs"... which he finds to sound snobby and is also immediately associated with the awkward and embarrassing Fuzzythumbs scandals of the 70s.
We have one Maine Coon cat we were convinced had a key tucked away. Went on for over a year. We went to work with him in the house, and came back to him being out of the house and waiting at the back door, but the house was still fully locked up. Putting on dead locks, shootbolts etc had no effect. Eventually he couldn't resist showing off and went out of a locked fanlight window. He nuzzled up the lock and jumped out through it in such a way that the lock re-set itsef as it swung shut.
The same cat also understands door knobs. He just can't get a grip on them with all those Maine Coon tufts of fur between his toes. I have seen him try to twist the knob with his front paws, and when he can't get a grip he gets so irritated with the door knob he bats it repeatedly and hard in the hope he can spring it open. No such luck, but he understands.
Regards,
Richard.