For those of us easily amused
nannerfkm
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I've started adding some of my renders to the Starfield game I'm playing; they replace certain screens that show up when transitioning from once location to another. I chuckle a little when I seen one and then carry on. My next project will be to replace some of the wall paintings with renders. It's the little things in life :-)
Happy Rendering!
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I like staring through the window of a front loading washing machine, and just watching it go. I miss the old ones that had lots more water.
Oops, wrong thread.
I was given a front loading washing machine by my brother a fortnight ago
My toploader stopped spinning so was lugging sloppy clothes, towels and sheets to the clothesline to drip dry which gets old pretty quickly
found my self reminising about mum's old mangle
it is quite fascinating to watch
I think LeatherGryphon has lost his way to the complaint thread again
not this old, was electric but OMG a 3D model of this would be cool, I bet Stezza could make one
There is one here:
Antique Laundry Tools - https://www.daz3d.com/antique-laundry-tools
Awesome :-)
and I own it apparently
...same here.
I recall having heard that phrase before, in this forum.
You could try this, to keep track of your DAZ stuff, it's free now: https://3dcontentmanagers.com/software/pm-daz/
There is not a single washing machine as an emoji. Not even a washboard. That saddens me, because I just like to wash.
Really good and useful!
Only wishing a MacOs version too!
Appropriately named; my 8th grade phy ed teacher had gotten her hand caught in one when she was small, and it had caused her permanent injury. I can only imagine the pain she must've been in, and how horrible and guilty her mother must've felt.
Yep, toddling befuddled yet again.
just spotted this thread today @wendyluvscatz
check out the wacky Carrara thread
OMG you moved fast on that cube
While we had an electric washer and dryer when I was old enough to be put in charge of the family's laundry, we did have a clothes line (umbrella style) in Los Angeles in the 1950s. As a little kid I did lug those laundry baskets to the backyard and hang the clothes/sheets up. I will admit I love the smell of sheets dried on a line in the sun and wind. Nothing like it. Old military housing had clothes lines, and my flat in Athens Greece had one off my balcony. But modern neighborhoods seem to be opposed to them. But they save money and energy, so I don't understand the issue.
@Taoz, I would love https://3dcontentmanagers.com/software/pm-daz/ if it was also Mac friendly.
I've never had a tumble dryer, have always used a washing line. Saves so much power.
Why does it matter if the neighbourhood opposes them? If it's in your garden & not a shared space, surely the 'neighbourhood' opinion is absolutely irrelevant.
Regards,
Richard.
me neither
I use a clothesline or an airer by a sunny window (couldn't use the latter without a spin cycle though)
This is a big member of our household (since then he's grown a bit, he does this pose to our kitchen side now).
Anyway, as a kitten he was easily amused by a rotating drum in the washing machine.
And I'm sure he put the sign up, too.
Regards,
Richard
Sometimes local by-laws or your house deeds have restrictions - for example where I live I cannot have an old-fashioned (straight) washing line like my parents and grandparents before me had. But fortunately we can (and do) have a circular rotating one, which has to be positioned behind the property not in front. (Not that I would want to hang my washing in the front garden)
I don't have a tumble drier either. In my first house we had a combined washer-dryer, but rarely used. the dryer. So when we replaced the washer we didn't bother to buy a tumble dryer.
Yes. My house, with a 1-in-3 bank behind it has a restriction against renting out a houseboat as accommodation, and there is a prohibition against breeding goats, both restrictions are 'In Perpetuity'. Perpetuity is now defined in English & Welsh law as 125 years if the optional lenth of 80 years is not explicitly chosen (Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009). So both restrictions expired four years ago on my house.
However, what @memcneil70 said seemed to imply that there was a restriction coming from the neighbours, and that's something I can't figure. I knew an ex-soldier who lived in Jacksonville, Fl, where some of her neighbours had 'invented' a neighbourhood resident's association & collected fees and imposed their ideas on the street, gardens, back gardens etc, and did so for over 20 years before my friend moved in and actually checked up with the city authorites. Only to find there was no registered association in the area. That was, apparently, when the fur really started to fly as the other people in the street were being - umm - fleeced.
Regards,
Richard
Porting it to Mac will be both very complex as well as expensive, so there are no plans for that, unfortunately. It can run on a Mac though using CrossOver or Parallels, I have a friend who have tested and used it on both. With the new Network feature however you can also run it on another PC than the one DS is installed on, so if you have an old PC you can run it on it may be possible to make the program communicate with DS and DIM on a Mac, over network. Just requires that someone familiar with MacOS programming writes a fairly simple bit of code.
Ah, the American HOA, aka a Home Owners Association, who charges their 'victims' X-amount of dollars to manage the look of their group of homes and can dictate the color, style, plantings, depth of grass, and what is seen from the backyard (garden) or from your windows. Any infraction might be subject to a fine and could lead to a 'lean' on your home, with some folks finding that the HOA has just sold your home out from under you. All nice and legal in certain municipalities. If I ever buy a house in Colorado, it will not be in neighborhood with a HOA.
They are also in condos. My father was president of one in the San Francisco Bay area, but he actually worked pretty hard to help the owners, especially in disasters, managed large upgrade projects, and keeping an eye on homes when people were living in other regions (Oakland Raiders players had seasonal homes there) or were traveling.
I was very lucky that my home in Lompoc CA was in one of the nicest neighborhoods without an HOA. But there were some rules written into the contract I signed that was not disclosed until that point, like I could not build closer to the curb until 2025. This neighborhood had been built in 1989 to 1995, or so.
Victim of HOA here. I understand the necessity to a point, given that this development is all quad homes, so things like structural insurance can't exactly be handled by individuals. However, if I'd realized how downright evil they were when I was house-hunting, I never would have bought this place. There's even some legislation trying to go through in my state to limit their power, as HOAs can basically do whatever they want, and homeowners have no legal recourse. And the HOA sent a letter around telling us we needed to contact our representatives and oppose it, with a bullet list of reasons why. The bullet list was things any reasonable person would be like "yes, that seems good, I would like to have that protection."
Needless to say, I wrote in support, and also informed my reps of the letter they'd sent.
But yeah, I can't have a laundry line. I can't even drape a blanket over the rail of my deck for a couple hours to dry. I have to get permission to plant a tree, but they can cut it down whenever they like. It took three years to get them to replace house numbers that the contractors mangled when they removed/replaced them during a painting job.
And the city has a ton of regulations of its own, too. People aren't allowed to have more than two dogs at a time, or two cats (but can have two dogs and two cats) for example. I don't think it's strictly enforced, but it's still there.
So, my mom likes to watch Perry Mason. And I often watch it with her. I noticed the person who plays the main character is Raymond Burr. And I really like that name.
Sometimes I imagine, instead of saying one hundred “per” cent, people say one hundred “Burr” cent.
One hundred… Burr-cent….
Raymond Burr-cent…
Burr-haps I've gone too far with this.
I’m sorry.
...yeah, HOAs are bad. They're like adding a whole extra set or rules and restrictions on top of the existing city and county codes.. Never coul;d see the attractio to co ndow nd you are basically paying good money for what anounts ot an apartment or a portion of a "multi-plex" were you have to deal with property taxes as well as HOA fees and restrictions.
In that respect I am glad I'm a renter in a multi unit multi floor building even though I've never built any equity like a homeowner can . Then again I don't have to file property taxes every year. deal with assessments, replacing major appliances, or having to physically and financially maintain a home and the property it's on. So there are also advantages. to not being tied down.
Home prices here in Portland are also stupidly expensive unless you look t the far flung burbs (and even in some areas they can be a bit pricey). In the more central neighbourhoods of the city even a small single floor 2 BR bungalow can easily go for 400 to 500K..
Only reason we have a tumbledryer is because sometimes it rains, and it takes waaaay longer to dripdry indoors, and going facefirst into some wet towels when groggily going to the bathroom in the middle of the night doesn't improve my mood. We gladly rarely need to use it though, it's pretty rare to rain for an entire week, so there's usually a few safe days to do the laundry and hang it outside.
I'm gobsmacked. It's completely contrary to an outsider's view of 'The land of the free' to think of little dictators able to determine what you can or can't do or plant in your garden. It really makes me wonder what they'd make of our garden - it's 'freehold' so we can largely do what we want so long as it falls within the planning regulations - and they only cover the construction of buildings. Since we got here 20 years ago, we've managed the garden to become a wildlife garden, and dozens of protected species have moved in. We had one ecologist come round and weep when she realised we've got Dormice in the garden, and in large numbers (so large we NEVER get any Hazelnuts despite having 10 clumps and the annual harvest being several hundred pounds. I love hazelnuts and never get a single home grown one). I gather Dormice in gardens are only marginally more common than Unicorns.
I think the situation is different when you have rented or leasehold property. With leasehold, the person to whom the property will revert at the end of the lease has input determined by the details of the lease. The same with rented property, but the renter usually has far less freedom. So, we have a version of it, but anecdotally I don't think it's usually enforced on the micro scale. It does happen, but I don't think such things are common.
Regards,
Richard
I think HOAs wouldn't be so bad if they just covered what needed to be covered and left the rest alone. Managing the maintenance of driveways, structural issues (exterior painting and repairs and such), and I admit having snow removal and lawn maintenance is nice. But one day my ex- came home from a board meeting all puffed up with heroic pride and told me that I have the HOA to thank for the fact that one of our neighbors wouldn't be putting a decorative windmill on their lawn. Like, wow, dude, if it makes her happy, let her have her windmill! I don't care if you like the aesthetics or not. Not everything is about you. They make rules jut to have control over something, and it's pathetic.
I'd definitely have a tumble dryer regardless, though. It's pretty hard to dry your laundry outside in the winters we get here, and my basement definitely doesn't have the space.
HOAs: Although I understand the reasons for wanting reasonable neighborhood standards of cleanliness & order, I think a lot of petty people with too much time on their hands, a perceived sense of authority, obsessively rigid definition of order, and ill-suppresed social vengeance, work their way up to being HOA "hit-men".
i.e. "Karens" with a stick.
I love it when a proper judge steps in and whacks 'em with it.
Dryers: I've always had houses & other types of homes with dryers, but during the '50s & early '60s, my parents didn't have a dryer. Clothes hung on the line in the backyard like everybody else. In fact for many of those years my mother had a washing machine shaped like a big tub, and a small wringer(mangle) mounted to the top of it. Hey, it was better than a scrub board.
But here, in my little apartment I don't have any laundry facilities. I take my laundry to the laundromat. It has nice big tables to fold clothes on, and it costs me only about $7 and I'm done in 90 minutes. And I use the wait time for breakfast and shopping. Yeah it costs a bundle for transportation but is an efficiently used and tolerable expense compared to the ownership and maintenance of an automobile.
The only times I think my old neighborhood wished for a HOA was when the house I bought had been occupied by the deceased owner's daughter, her kid and they had a daily yard sale on the lawn, and the kid did taxidermy in one of the bedrooms. Dead animals were strung up on the neglected trees and fence around house. When I walked into it the first time, after I closed, trash, chickens, animal waste, the leftovers of the yard sales were a foot high in the living room, with a narrow path to the kitchen and hallway. My realtor and I had flea bites on our legs as we walked out. Parts of the kitchen equipment were found around the backyard.
The first owners were landscape artists and their work had been trashed and the water system broken. These hidden costs that took me years to repair and pay off the bills in addition to a mortgage.
Years later, two houses down, a lady allowed her daughter and her boyfriend to rent her house when she moved into assisted living. They ran drugs out of it, the beautiful front lawn turned into a weed and dirt patch. The cops finally busted the two and the older lady had to take the house to the studs because they found they had been cooking meth there also.
An HOA might have helped the neighborhood in these cases. One that had reasonable rules.