Pretty sure I'm braim danaged.
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I was disappointed that my new laptop didn't render iRay all that more faster than my old laptop did, escpecially since I got one with a high end Nvidea graphics card just for that purpose.
Then today I noticed I didn't have the graphics card turned on in the render engine. Oops. 
Well that certainly made a HUGE difference. I don't know if this is better or worse than the time I spent a half hour trying to eliminate an artifact in a render only to eventually realize it was dirt on my monitor.
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Happens to us all at one time or another. I believe thats where the phrase -The Devil's in the details - fits.
I drove myself batty one day trying to figure out why a render just looked horrible only to realise I forgot to change the render engine to iray to match the shaders >..<
I myself believe that I too am braim danaged. I constantly go through my pre-render checklist, turn off headlamp, turn off ground, only to click the render button seconds later without changing anything... cancel, repeat checklist. Its only two items to remember!
My Barim Danega comes from spending way too much on content, and not getting anything done with it. Just got the Samurai Fantasy Bundle and Fantasy Waterway, here's hoping I actually make an image or two with them!
I've spent time trying to get rid of spots on renders only to find they were dirt on the monitor, so your not alone there!!!
I walked into my office one morning to find that some joker had changed the wallpaper on my desktop. Then I discovered that they'd elimated all of my icons. They'd also rearranged my physical desk so that I couldn't find anything!
Then Jessica walked in and asked me what I was doing in her office...
"Going for coffee. Want some?"
I think one of the worst braim danage moments I had was a few weeks ago when I had to get up really early in the morning and I had been doing a whole lot of sculpting in 3DCoat. I took a shower and shaved while showing. Got out of the shower and looking in the mirror and realized I had only shaved half my face. Then I realized while I was shaving I thought I had "symmetry" turned on.
I've tried to render out specks that were dirt on my monitor too, but even dafter was when I tried to clean off a dirty-looking grey smudge about an inch high and six inches long from my kitchen wall. Nothing would touch it, but I'd take a rag to it and have another little go at it whenever it caught my eye, which was often. Until the day I realised that it was caused by the light catching the metal trim on one of the kitchen units and reflecting it on to the wall. 'Duh...' seems inadequate, somehow!
And what lessons have we learnt today, keep your equiment clean and drink more coffee.
Well if any of you are over 50 then hey it is a fact of life, for those under 50 you have no excuse. LOL I am not telling you what rabies of the brain I get from time to time.
Just turned 50 last year. Brain and body falling apart at the same time.
" i cant remember the name of that guy, i am getting old"
then you remember you had the same issues 30 years ago
LOL See I knew it and take it from me you are not alone.
Years ago I came out of a shopping mall, walked to the parking lot, used my key, an actual metal key (how quaint), to open the door of my red 1994 Saturn SL4, got in, started it, then realized that I'd been robbed of my Kleenex box that always sat on the passenger seat, and the thief had changed the position of the driver's seat.
I was about ready to drive off when I noticed that the ashtray was full. 
Even back then I never let my ashtray get disgustingly full. It was then that I noticed a few other inconsistencies and realized that I was in the wrong car. Sheepishly I got out and found my car a few feet further up the aisle. However, I don't believe I relocked the other car. Oops. 
And as for getting old and forgetting simple things, it's a fact of life.
However, I'm getting good at using other avenues to retrieve the memory. Walking around the drain before I fall in.
My body's worn out but I try to keep my brain exercised. Try learning a new language at 67.
•Came home last night and was trying to open the front door with the car's remote.
• Warmed up my coffee in the microwave this morning... When it beeped, I opened it... Not there... Teleported? No, in the cabinet next to the microwave.
• I also seem to have developed a very bad tablet/touch screen related related habit of poking my finger at screens monitors and TVs that are not touch activated, trying to manipulate stuff or swipe...
• The worst... Automigration... For several years I drove 60 miles to work each day... there is a stretch of highway that once I get on it, my auto GPS kicks in and I just start migrating to my old job... I'm not zoned out, I'm totally aware and in control of the vehicle, I notice changes to the scenery, new construction, annoying drivers etc... It's just I'll get like ten miles in the wrong direction before I go "Doh!...Stupid lousy brain!"... The worst is when I actually am going there... I'll arrive and have no recollection of having to choose a route... I can tell you everything thing that happened and what I saw driving the vehicle... Just I will get there and realize every exit, alternate route and detour was automatic and I never had to consciously decide how to go... Just that I suddenly got from point A to point Q on autopilot.
Yeah... Maybe it's age... I'm turning fifty in a few days... But I've been falling apart since I was twenty.
I do the autopilot thing all the time. I was going to a friend's house for game night and part of the way towards his house is also on the way to the barn where I go for band practice each week. I ended up going to the barn. Went in, set up my instruments, then realized I was actually supposed to go to my other friend's place for game night.
How do you check to see if the graphic card is turned on? I don't think I've ever looked either...
My dad was once parked outside the Post Office waiting for me to come out when a complete stranger got in the car, sat in the passenger seat and shut the door without even glancing at him, then she started looking through some paperwork she was carrying. He was still sitting there with his mouth open trying to find some words when she looked up at him a moment or so later and made a very hasty exit.
I can well imagine her mortification - no, my story is definitely worse and elderly brains were no excuse. I must've been about seventeen and the lad I was going out with was about an hour late one night putting in an appearance. Eventually, he pulled up on his motorbike and parked over the road in the usual spot and I rushed outside, flung my arms round him and said 'I was worried about you!'...to the baffled stranger who took off his helmet a nano-second later. I fled without a word :) My date turned up not long after, to a much cooler reception - it's not easy to give a rapturous welcome when you're trying to hide behind the front door :)
Can't spell != brain damaged.
Render Settings > Advanced which should list any compatiable GC(s) you may have
Rule of Thumb for rendering.
If you only just have time to make a coffee - card working.
If you have time to grow, pick, roast and grind the beans first, then not on. :)
Oops, my brain has holes. My car was a 1994 Saturn SL2, not SL4. The SL2 was the "4" door, big engine, model of the SL series. and it was a gorgeous "Plum" color, not red. Actually after 50 years of driving I can say that that little Saturn was my favorite car of all. Had it for 13 years.
I have done lot of things since I turned 40 that make me think I am brain damaged. Of course, that also coincides when I had my last baby, too, so that may have been a contributing factor. Since I turned 50, I've noticed things have gotten much worse the last couple of years. Most recently, I showed up with the kids for karate over an hour early. For background info, I'm an either on time or late for everything I do. I am never, ever, ever early! Most people that know me think I'll be late for my own funeral and they could be right. However, that morning, when the alarm went off, I didn't hit snooze multiple times and go back to sleep for a variety of unusual reasons. I got the boys up and I don't know where my brain was because I barely let them eat breakfast before I was rushing them out the door thinking we were late. We get to the dojo and practically no one is there for the previous class. No one showed up for the make up class which was before my boys' class which might have clued me in that we were early if another class were going on. But, no, I send my kids to the mats to warm up and go through katas. I'm sitting there wondering why their Sensei hasn't shown up and it takes me the entire hour to figure out we were EARLY!
And, yeah, I've done the whole re-render because you see a spot and finally figure out it was dirt on the monitor, too.
Worse thing I did was when I was 19 I woke up very early one morning, looked at the light outside and thought I was late for work for I rushed to work but found out I was 8 hours early. Didn't and wasn't drinking or anything like that.
Things that happen to me all the time:
Forgetting names of my closest colleagues. Getting up early on saturdays, thinking it is friday, getting up on sundays, realizing it is monday Going down to the kitchen to make some coffee, have to sneeze, wiping your nose, going up again and realize you forget to make the coffee.
Not so long ago, I read an article that describes that our brain is like a harddisk, the more data you have stored on it , the harder and the longer it takes to recollect data. So the conclusion is, I'm not dementing, I'm just experienced. How is that for a tagline!
So this is for al those young and snappy newbies: The faster you are, the lesser you know!
Totally agree with the "brain full" theory. When young we don't know all the potential events of reality or the ramifications of our decisions. The older (more experienced) we get the more a careful person has to sift through to make a decision. Yes running with scissors is a bad thing. Yes, giving advice to another person is easy but not always the right thing to do. Yes, I'm a good driver but is that cow in the field going to suddenly run into the street? Should I ride in the front car of the roller coaster or will I get a bird in the face? Yes, roller blading sounds like a fun thing to do but how long does it take to extract a stop sign from my face and does my insurance cover me? Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Blessed are the young for they are blissfully ignorant.
In college, I managed to get up, get dressed, and walk to class. And then notice, as the teacher was writing stuff on the board, that I couldn't read anything because I wasn't wearing my glasses... I managed to do that more than once actually. It's not like I have a minor prescription either.
Sleep is good kids.
It's in the Advaced settings in the render tab.
Learning a new language at 67? I'm finding it hard enough to just reach 67!
Learn to say four sentances well. Then you'll be able to speak any language as well as if you had studied it thoroughly in University, and then didn't speak it for 10 years after graduating.
I once spoke Japanese very well. Now I can say about 4 sentances.
When we got married, my wife could speak four languages fluently. I could speak one. After 11 years in Germany, she could speak five. I could speak one, and our daughter could speak three fluently. My wife's native language was Spanish, which was pretty cool, as whenever she got angry with me I couldn't understand a word she was saying. When she started cursing me in Russian, however, it was time for me to lay on the floor, waving my paws in the air in surrender.
I was out for vindaloo today. Accidentally called tandoori chicken "tsundere chicken".
"I... I laid you and egg, but it's not because I like you or anything... Ba-KAW!"