The We Will Miss You, Chohole Complaint Thread
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No, I just do a moderately good job of retaining what I've read elsewhere.
I need to go to bed soon. Wait I am in bed so I need to go to sleep!
I was looking for a Poser Superfly shader I'd seen somewhere and came across a link with Chohole's name in it... it led to her gallery at ShareCG...
I didn't realize she had a ShareCG collection as I thought all her stuff was on Francemi's website which shut down... I figured I'd post it in case anyone is not aware or wants to see some of Chohole's freebies she made.
https://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.php?pf_user_name=chohole
I hope that's okay as it's not been asked for by anyone, but I think Chohole would be okay with that.
I found this interesting... never knew it was a thing... "Illuminated Tires"
Apparently Goodyear experimented with the idea of translucent and colored Urethane tires (which they called "Neothane")... the translucent ones could be illuminated from within.
It ended up more as a PR thing and was too expensive to produce commercially and also the material was not as durable as vulcanized rubber, but they did briefly wind up on some concept vehicles and on show cars.
Here's an article about it if anyone is interested... (make sure your ad blocker is on, its a very "addy" site)
https://www.thedrive.com/news/26862/why-goodyears-illuminated-tires-were-way-ahead-of-their-time
That is the ugliest thing I've ever seen. Who the heck would want lighted tires running down the road. Let me guess the cops will pull you over if you is burnt out and ticket you (coming from an ex cop) lol. Those blue lights they use now for headlight bulbs are bad enough as it is. Every time one is coming in the opposite direction I go blind until they pass. I've had to almost come to a stop before cause it was a dark road and the vehicle had those on and I couldn't see for nothing. My eyes are too sensitive to light. I can handle headlights and even high beams but not those bulbs.
I don't think squirrels much like being squirrels... they always seem to find new ways of getting out of squirrelhood...
I picked up a pair of fancy vase shaped Greco-Roman looking planters for my wife a while ago that were on clearance after the summer... they are probably like 10-12 gallon capacity.
So I put them off to the side with a old piece of plywood covering them so they won't get water and leaves in them, but I guess it blew off so they were 3/4 full of water from the last two or three rainstorms we had... Well, I noticed that and went to dump out the water and when I got to the second one I noticed a bloated squirrel floating in it...
Blarrgh... They don't look so cute after several days in water.
Not a pleasant clean up at all...
The weird thing is I don't see how he managed to drown in there... the planter is big, but so are squirrels and they can friggin' jump twelve feet if there is something you don't want them to reach...
Maybe he was drunk or the squirrel mob rubbed him out... didn't look like an accident to me.
I getting tired of them killing themselves in my yard or in front of my house and then I have to clean up the mess... seriously, I've had them get crushed by stacked pavers, stacked bricks, stacked firewood... drown in the kids pool, one of my fountains, a barrel that was covered, a bucket and get impaled on a huge fallen branch that I assume they were cavorting on when it fell... not to mention all the ones who run in front of cars in front of my house... or the one I mowed who was probably dead beforehand, but was still a mess to clean out of the tractor mower deck (though not as bad as the rotty possum)...
On a side note... anyone want a very round squirrel?... he's very low maintenance and once you get past the smell, he's quite the conversation piece.
Let me know and I'll dig him up if there are any takers.
Cheers.
Maybe cops would see those... This fall, in broad daylight, I've been stopped twice because "none of the lights were working in the back", but when I came out to check, miracuously they were all working...
If they pull that the third time, I'll put a sticker on my rear window "Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms. Officer, if you can't see these lights, have you considered contacting an optometrist?..."
For Halloween, I'm thinking of dressing up as a little girl with her doll. Loki and Summers will dress up as fish.
Nope, no interest in the bloated squirrel. But I comiserate and understand the irritation of things wandering into your yard to die. Although, my problem when I lived in the middle of Wash, DC, was not with squirrels, but with the local hoods stabbing and shooting each other and picking my yard to die in.
'Twas an interesting evening.
And thankfully, the authorities took him away before he became bloated or mowed over.
i was about to ask how to export an animation to video using Daz Studio but then I found this thread: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/127931/how-to-save-export-a-video-clip
We used to have a cat who hunted squirrels. But she is no more.
on the topic of heart related stuff: I just discovered that my heart condition is so rare that only about 1,600 babies born each year in the United States have my heart condition.
...imagine if they survived until the present day, we'd have RGB car tyres that not only lit up but changed colour and possibly even patterns preset by controls or even to the beat of the music being played on the stereo system.
In RL we have bicycle tyres that with highly reflective sidewalls.. Would be interesting if the concept could be transferred, but it would have to be on the rims rather than the tyres
Substance Painter/Designer's still on Steam as a standalone perpetual license. I got Painter and gave it a little fiddling, even just the basics its been pretty fun. I should try and get back to working on my zBrush too. Finally sat down and started working on something for a friend but then I kind of just lost the groove (Sculpting in the feet and a bit of the head was proving trick-eee, and I guess I got scared again haha)
Windows 11 has issues with AMD CPU's? I have a Ryzen 9 5900X cpu, but am still using Windows 10 so I guess it doesn't matter just yet. I'm not sure when I'll move to 11. If it's smooth I might do so though, just not right away.
i'm not sure if I want to upgrade my computer to Windows 11 either.
I am so glad I don't have to ask to use my phone. My housemate has to ask to use the home phone.
In the article they mention that Goodyear supplied a brand new set of translucent tires for the restoration of the Golden Sahara II 50s show car... that thing is straight out of Fallout 4... but with all the lighting technology we have now, it's probably better off that tires in general stay unlit... besides between the electroluminescent paint and the rims with LED inserts, it's getting to be overkill.
A couple of weeks ago I was putting out the garbage at night and a car came down the street that must have had ever LED lighting kit available on the market... rims, underbody, wheel wells, antennas (must have been vestigial), body moldings, bumpers... you name it, it was lit up... all slowly changing color like some kind of East Asian amusement park ride... but the best part about it... it was on a early 90s Suzuki Samurai... that's dedication to a theme... especially the oversized tires.
If you've never seen a car with electroluminescent paint, it's kinda weird looking... it tends to make the car look like something from an 80s video game, or like it escaped from the Tron universe.
Complaint: Rising prices. Arghhhh...
I received a reminder from Amazon suggesting that I might be interested in buying another monitor identical to one I bought there earlier. Well, thank you Amazon, how thoughtful.
Why yes, yes I was thinking about purchasing an identical monitor to kit out my lab a little more impressively with a matching dual display.
HOWEVER... this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072M34RQC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 is the monitor. It's really nice*. but I got my first one almost two years ago for $109.99. Today the price is $239 !!!
Must be the ongoing shortage of photons.
*Nice: means "nice" for me but doesn't mean that it is good for high frame rate gaming, but then again I don't do any gaming that needs frame rates greater than 60. $110 was a reasonable price. $240 is not.
So the other day I mentioned a squirrel drowned in a planter in the yard... I didn't elaborate on my crime scene cleanup plans (I'm pretty sure the squirrel mafia bumped him off because of unpaid gambling debts, because there was a tiny pack of cards floating in the water next to him), but since he was pretty... "grossly bloated" I figured I'd dump him in the back and let the rain wash off the squirrel soup he was stewing in and then I'd bury him the next day after he was a little less nasty looking.
So later that evening as it was getting dark I went out to go bury him... mostly out of habit, because it's always best to bury stuff in the dark... but when I went to where he was, I didn't see him... it was starting to drizzle so I figured it's probably not the best time to bury an already soggy squirrel... but I have heard it's probably a good time to bury bigger things... I mean like an old sofa... not bodies... definitely not bodies...
So the next morning it was still rainy and I went out back and I was going to put a plastic mixing trough (for cement) over him so if it rained again he wouldn't keep getting soaked... but I was in a hurry and didn't see him where I thought he was, so I decided I'd do it later... so later that evening I took a flashlight and went back there but I didn't see him... I got interrupted by a phone call and didn't go back again until this morning.
So, there is no rotty squirrel... anywhere... I was thinking maybe a possum took him, but they usually only carry them a couple of dozen feet away and eat them in privacy and they always leave the feet and tail... sometimes the hat and shoes too, if they don't fit... but mostly they make a mess... I know this because the little corpse munchers always drag flattened squirrels into my yard from the street and leave behind the tails, clothing and other personal effects... it's kinda gross, but they are doing a vital service and it's usually less to clean up and less gross than the splattered squirrel... really, as long as you remember not to kiss a possum directly on the lips or anywhere at all, they are quite helpful and pretty much the culinary undertakers of the woods...
But anyway, I looked everywhere and there was no fur, no tail, no gold fillings... nothing.
So... I'm thinking...
ZOMBIE SQUIRREL!!
Don't tell me that's not right in line with everything "last year"... if 2020 taught me anything, it's this was pretty much inevitable... and it's directly in keeping up with how most zombie horror movies start... which are pretty factual I've been told... honestly someone I met once claimed zombies are real and the original Dawn Of The Dead movie was based on something that happened in Georgia in the 50s...
Which of course, I didn't believe... because everyone knows all modern zombies can trace their Zombieism to a night watchman from Bayone NJ, who was bitten by an undead rat in the 70s... it's why they are always willing to dance like in the Thiller video, it was the disco era and pop funk is their real weakness... that and being shot in the head... which is probably a bigger more obvious weakness.
By the way, that guy was way, way, way before Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, so he was actually a pioneer in crazy talk and conspiracies... I actually had to work with him for a week... on a truck... fun times...
But anyway... Zombie Squirrel...
But don't worry, I've got a plan... I've been bitten by practically every animal readily available for easily being bitten by, and I figure if a monkey and an emu aren't giving one a noticeable plauge of any sort, I'm probably full of all sorts of special antibodies... I know that's not how it officially works, but these days crackpot notions are very much in vogue, so I'm running with that... my plan is to go around biting people in hopes of spreading my superior antibodies around, hopefully creating a wave of people going around biting each other because due to forgetting how to behave in polite society during the pandemic, they think that's now socially acceptable to express one's self with their teeth... Eventually I'm guessing in maybe a couple of days everyone will be inoculated.
But please don't bite anyone until you are bitten first and make sure you dont have a craving for human flesh for at least a day or so... I guess... that's probably long enough... in the movies it's always like five minutes and you are chomping on someone's arm...
Actually, if you get bitten by a zombie squirrel do you crave human flesh... or nuts?... Zombies are always going on about "Brrrrains.... Brrrrrrains!"... but wouldn't "Nnnnnuts.... Nnnnnnnuts!" be more appropriate?... and what kind of nuts?
I mean Walnuts or Acorns, you perverts!... wait... maybe... no forget that, I'll keep it PG13...
Anyway, you can thank me later for the antibodies... preferably in Wendy's gift certificates... or those free Frosty certificates they give you if they mess up your order and you get upset and climb up on the counter and launch into a soliloquy about how fast food isn't so fast and corporate food chains are destroying the fabric of society by underpaying their workers, making greasy food that's mostly rat hair and creating social unrest because nobody every gets their orders fulfilled properly and they are always missing something, and when did ketchup become some fancy luxury that I have to ask for repeatedly and NO, two packets isn't enough for a normal adult to put on their order of large fries, and furthermore twenty fricken fries isn't LARGE, I'm not a cat, I want a human sized large fries... RISE UP MY FELLOW CITIZENS! THE TIME HAS COME...
Sorry... but for some reason they give me those a lot... McDonald's though has been stingy with the free fries certificates...
Anyway...
Just thought I'd mention the Zombie Squirrel... keep your eyes peeled for... actually that sounds painful, just stay alert...
Cheers.
A few years back mom fed the squirrels. Squirrels would come from "all" over the place to get the peanuts. One little red squirrel took up residence, having her underground nest right on the property within feet of where the peanuts would land in the driveway. Periodically she would have a fit about all those other squirrels AND birds [we're talking crows here] coming onto the driveway to get the peanuts - possibly feeling it was too close to her nest. Now those were the big black squirrels and a few crows, possibly ravens ... and yes, she went into "guerrilla warfare mode" and her tactics were quite effective. Dash, bite, dash. Nobody argued with her lol ... and she was not going after their brains.
My print job decided to stop mid page for some reason. Not sure why, but I will figure it out later.
Ran out of ink?
....we have a few such vehicles here in Portland. One was a regular during the demonstrations last year which also had that slow colour change. Got a pic of it but the colours don't show up well as most phone cameras are not all that good (cant justify the cost for an iPhone, more cost effective just getting a digital camera). . Someone also customised one of those electric scooters (the stand up type) with LED lighting strips that also changed colour. and I've seen a few bicycles like that. Makes for good visibility at night.
...Major Super Sized Non Complaint.
Got an email a short while ago from EVGA saying they had a 12 GB RX 3060 being held for me at the price of 409$. That will likely be the closest to MSRP I'll likely see so with no hesitation put in the order and it was confirmed for delivery. Should be here by next Wednesday. Sometimes good thing's do happen..
I figured a new GPU would be the last component in the planned W 11 update (hmm, 7 to 11).
I'll wait about a year to get W11 so most of the bugs will be worked out by then. I actually like W10. I was a major holdout to get it and got it about a year ago and love it. IDK what W11 looks like but some of the things I'm hearing I don't like when it comes to customization.
most likely!
...it will be several months before I make the switch as well as I need to scrape up the funds for the hardware upgrade anyway. By next year W10 will only have a couple more years to go anyway so may as well take the bigger step up next as 11 has disposed of some "less than desirable features" that 10 had (for one feature updates are done annually instead of every 6 months and can be ignored for up to two years on Pro Edition).
Sick and tired of greed.
Right deep, deep down to my worthle$$ soul.
I don't want to take a shower tonight.
I put some fish food into my aquarium and Loki is going crazy eating it. So is Summers but he is behind a fake plant so I couldn't see him well.
Grumph... I'm very annoyed... I'd list the things that are bugging me, but it'd be a long list filled with a lot of phrases Frank0314 would need to edit into something less me and more appropriate for a Wisconsin bingo hall (sorry Frank, I'm never gonna let that go)... I don't really want to give him any more work than he already has so I'll just use cartoon curses.... &#$!?@%!!?!$¥§!…
On top of all that, this weekend there is going to be a very visible display of the Aurora Borealis, but of course it's going to be cloudy so it won't be visible here...
But otherwise it's going to be pretty visible as far south as North Carolina and probably as far west as Nevada... its strong enough that NOAA is issuing a G3 Geomagnetic Storm warning...
Primary Areas of Impacts: Polewards of 50° geomagnetic latitude.
POSSIBLE EFFECTS:
Power Systems: Voltage irregularities; false alarms on some protection devices.
Spacecraft: Surface charging; orientation problems; increased drag on low earth orbiters.
Radio & Navigation: Intermittent HF propagation fades. GNSS problems (loss-of-lock and increased range errors)
Other: Aurora may be visible as low as Pennsylvania to Iowa to Oregon. Super Zombieism in some species of recently deceased rodents and squirrels.
Why are they warning me about surface charging on my spacecraft, like are they trying to show off for Jeff Bezos?... Or do more people own spacecraft than I'm aware... ?
I completely missed that Zune was ever a thing, it was like "what's a Zune?" and they were gone before I got an answer... did I miss personal spacecraft too?... like out here News 12 gives maritime warnings with the weather, so are they doing the same with personal spacecraft? And also, why do I care if there is an increase in drag onboard spacecraft... how people choose to dress is their business... and I find it kind of nice that people have something they enjoy, be it on earth or in low earth orbit, but I don't see how geomagnetic activity would increase the likelihood of it.
All this science... I don't understand... it's not even my job five days a week.
Glad I'm not a rocket man.
Anyway...
Oh yeah, one of the things I was annoyed about was I spent a couple of hours making a cool new filter for Filter Forge, but I didn't realize I still had an image loaded into the filter I was working on... in fact I wasn't even aware that was possible, but apparently it is if it's an effects filter... so even though the filter is not bad, it's not as great as I thought it was... I'll probably still post it anyway... lately a lot of lame filters have been being uploaded, so at least this will be slightly above lame... two steps above crappy, but not quite sorta awesome...
I really should upload some of my other filters too... one of my filters finally earned a credit and I'm not sure what that works out to be... I'm thinking of upgrading from Lifetime Pro to Lifetime Studio (the Studio license is for an additional computer) and I hope that credit equates to a percentage off.
Megh... I'm boring me... I should go eat something.
Later folks.