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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,573

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    barbult is worn out from her render-a-thon to finish up the latest story. Gosh, we never even made it to the Catalympics tryouts. That's how many swerves we took, ending up elsewhere entirely.

    I'm pretty sure the marathon has no place in the Catalympics.

    I'm pretty sure a marathon has no place anywhere. Why do some people want to voluntarily torture themselves? It would be like trying to test things in DS6.frown

    Well, they did have a valid reason for the original.

    The original marathon? 

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 940
    edited June 10

    I used to enjoy Marathons, and then they changed the name to Snickers and they didn't taste as good.

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  • backgroundbackground Posts: 940
    edited June 10

    barbult said:

    background said:

    barbult, you deserve a rest, like you told me, you're not obliged to churn out renders to public demand.

    I am finding it hard trying to render images for my thread, already I'm cutting back on quality ( in my opinion ) to try and fit it in around other things I have in my life. I had hoped to have someone give me a quote for a Portmeirion environment, but the guy says the architecture is too complicated for him . I have started sketching out what it might look like in 3D, but I have limited time and skills. I started out from a map showing the paths and buildings, but sadly there is no scale on it. I was trying here to work out the elevations of the buildings and paths, because I haven't been able to find an elevation map.

    Wikipedia has some images. 

    Yup, there are a lot of images, I think Alarmy has over 1000, and the series has plenty of video shots of some of the buildings. Part of the problem is that there is no 'one place' where you can take a photo that includes the whole scene, plus the landscape is very three dimensional, there are several steep cliffs. The map I mentioned at least shows where paths are, and indicates where the paths are steep slopes.. I was convinced that the main path was a square, even after walking around the place, but the map shows it is more of a U shape, with a narrow path joining to make a square. I think it gives the impression of a square because the main garden area is sort of square, but not level.

     

    If you wanted to return to the Catalympics some time in the future I'm sure that would be fine, I'm sure Richard needs to train for it, and it would be a pity not to get more use out of the leotards that you put work into making.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,635
    edited June 10

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    barbult is worn out from her render-a-thon to finish up the latest story. Gosh, we never even made it to the Catalympics tryouts. That's how many swerves we took, ending up elsewhere entirely.

    I'm pretty sure the marathon has no place in the Catalympics.

    I'm pretty sure a marathon has no place anywhere. Why do some people want to voluntarily torture themselves? It would be like trying to test things in DS6.frown

    Well, they did have a valid reason for the original.

    The original marathon? 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheidippides Not that I remembered his name (Hm, it dodn't like it when I put parenteses around my comment after the link)

     

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,101
    edited June 10

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    barbult is worn out from her render-a-thon to finish up the latest story. Gosh, we never even made it to the Catalympics tryouts. That's how many swerves we took, ending up elsewhere entirely.

    I'm pretty sure the marathon has no place in the Catalympics.

    I'm pretty sure a marathon has no place anywhere. Why do some people want to voluntarily torture themselves? It would be like trying to test things in DS6.frown

    Well, they did have a valid reason for the original.

    The original marathon? 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheidippides Not that I remembered his name (Hm, it dodn't like it when I put parenteses around my comment after the link)

     

    But marathon WAS the original, they rebranded the chocolate bars to snickers some years ago! 

    Post edited by SimonJM on
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,635

    SimonJM said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    barbult is worn out from her render-a-thon to finish up the latest story. Gosh, we never even made it to the Catalympics tryouts. That's how many swerves we took, ending up elsewhere entirely.

    I'm pretty sure the marathon has no place in the Catalympics.

    I'm pretty sure a marathon has no place anywhere. Why do some people want to voluntarily torture themselves? It would be like trying to test things in DS6.frown

    Well, they did have a valid reason for the original.

    The original marathon? 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheidippides Not that I remembered his name (Hm, it dodn't like it when I put parenteses around my comment after the link)

     

    But marathon WAS the original, they rebranded the chocolate bars to snickers some years ago! 

    true, just as Lincoln creams became plain Lincolns.

  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,764
    edited June 10

    In the US, Snickers was always Snickers. Snickers was introduced in the US in 1930.

    Snickers was introduced in the UK in the 1960s.

    In the UK, (allegedly) they were named Marathon because the name sounded like Knickers.

    In 1990, Marathon was changed to Snickers in the UK.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickers

    Post edited by Ron Knights on
  • RainRain Posts: 354

    I so enjoy these stories of Richard and I must say, barbult, your lighting is perfect. I'm in awe.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,573

    Rain said:

    I so enjoy these stories of Richard and I must say, barbult, your lighting is perfect. I'm in awe.

    Thank you, @Rain. I continue to enjoy creating them.  

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,633

    Ron Knights said:

    In the US, Snickers was always Snickers. Snickers was introduced in the US in 1930.

    Snickers was introduced in the UK in the 1960s.

    In the UK, (allegedly) they were named Marathon because the name sounded like Knickers.

    In 1990, Marathon was changed to Snickers in the UK.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickers

    I learned yesterday, some view a Snickers bar as having veins

    (I only saw ripples but I innocent)

    thus eating one can have a naughty connotation blush 

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 940

    That's put me off for life now.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,573

    Yes, Richard went above and beyond in tackling this task! I thought he was only going to move the latest random tangents about cars, and candy bars, and stuff like that. Instead he went through everything. What a heroic effort! I really want my story thread to be more focused on the story and less on random topics. You can see by the posts moved here, that Richard and I are among the people who get into off topic posting. It is so easy to do. But now there is a place for that.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,635

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,573

    That lady has a screechy voice! People in the comments were raving about her. I could barely understand a word, but I do know this song! Maybe my cheap headphones are bad.I couldn't get the video to play directly, but YouTube played it OK. 

    Somewhere is this thread. Someday is now. Look how well behaved we all are, posting here! There's hope for us yet. 

  • donniekeidicdonniekeidic Posts: 179

    background said:

    That's put me off for life now.

    Yeah no joke. i never knew about or thought about it. Now it can't be unseen. I still have my Almond Joy at least.

  • mrpenguin76mrpenguin76 Posts: 117

    donniekeidic said:

    background said:

    That's put me off for life now.

    Yeah no joke. i never knew about or thought about it. Now it can't be unseen. I still have my Almond Joy at least.

    Caddyshack pool scene anyone? I never looked at a Baby Ruth the same way again....  

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,573

    mrpenguin76 said:

    donniekeidic said:

    background said:

    That's put me off for life now.

    Yeah no joke. i never knew about or thought about it. Now it can't be unseen. I still have my Almond Joy at least.

    Caddyshack pool scene anyone? I never looked at a Baby Ruth the same way again....  

    Thank goodness I haven't seen that movie.  

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,633
    edited June 22

    Richard has that effect on some of us devil

    edit

    since this was moved

    this comment that has no context

    was refering to Lola's black eyes 

    Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,635
    This discussion was created from comments split from: barbult's take on the lives of Jack and Richard.
  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,633

    so we are not to interact with barbult at all in her thread?

    I thought it was only getting offtopic from her renders

     

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,573
    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    so we are not to interact with barbult at all in her thread?

    I thought it was only getting offtopic from her renders

     

    Wendy, comments about the renders and story are welcome in the story thread. I just didn't want pages of unrelated discussions that deviate more and more from the story. It breaks up the flow.
  • csaacsaa Posts: 1,081

    barbult said:

    Wendy, comments about the renders and story are welcome in the story thread. I just didn't want pages of unrelated discussions that deviate more and more from the story. It breaks up the flow.

    barbult,

    I follow your posts and wanted to say that I appreciate how you share it with everyone. The twists and turns can be quite unexpected!

    +1 on staying the need to stay on topic. A good signal to noise ratio is hard to come by in an open forum. It takes a fair amount of effort to stay in the creative zone.

    Cheers!

     

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,573

    csaa said:

    barbult said:

    Wendy, comments about the renders and story are welcome in the story thread. I just didn't want pages of unrelated discussions that deviate more and more from the story. It breaks up the flow.

    barbult,

    I follow your posts and wanted to say that I appreciate how you share it with everyone. The twists and turns can be quite unexpected!

    +1 on staying the need to stay on topic. A good signal to noise ratio is hard to come by in an open forum. It takes a fair amount of effort to stay in the creative zone.

    Cheers!

    Yes, thanks, "signal to noise ratio" really sums up the issue nicely. 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,635

    The question is, are they comments on the story or images or are they comments on something sparked by the images and story (e.g. chocolate bars and then on to Greek History)? It's the latter that Barbult wishes to be separated, as they cause pings not related to the main "point" of the thread. It is always hard to know quite where to draw the line (and I haven't looked at the latest posts in the actual render thread, but if it turned into a discussion of musical instrumnets then it would probably come over here).

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,633

    I have a render thread everyone is welcome to derail

    it got messed up anyway when links to images and videos were destroyed 

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/11493/stuff

    I don't even post in there very often anymore 

    mostly just upload stuff to Youtube anyway and removed all my sigline links a while back after one of many incidents cheeky I attract lots of incidents 

  • csaacsaa Posts: 1,081
    edited June 23

    Mr. Speaker, Richard Haseltine:

    This "discourse" thread is a great idea. People need one, if only to "diss" (slang) or to "curse" or what not.

    For good or for ill, we live in a cacophonous world. It's hard to think, much less find one's way to that inner zone where we turn creativity into some form of decent output. Is it any wonder that craftsmen cluster in communes, sharing workspace not just to help one another but also to live off of each other's creative energy? Or is it unusual for writers to head off the grid, to a shack in the wilderness or a patch of earth across the seas? 

    Yet just the same, creativity isn't altogether a cloistered pursuit. I've heard of creatives who flock to the big city, with all its noise and hazards, or step away from their comfort zones and travel to foreign lands, to discover their raw material -- the ups and downs of human nature -- and spin these into stories. And so, Mr. Speaker, going back again to that phrase, it's not "signal versus noise" but rather managing a healthy mix between signal and noise. Only a fool would turn away from randomness, the right sort, the ones that are serendipitous. Bob Ross: Happy Accidents.

    Whether the noise, the randomness, or the accident is the "happy" sort ... please leave that to the creative soul to determine. Let's respect their space as well as their judgement.

    Cheers!

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  • backgroundbackground Posts: 940

    3DIO said:

    .  Wasn't background, either, since his head probes were probably malfunctioning at the time he came up with that one.  

     

    I'll have you know all my comments are carefully weighed, sifted, and quality tested, before being discarded in favor of something else. laugh 

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 940
    edited June 23

    I prefer to think of it as harmonic distortion, rather than noise,  well apart from the totally random things like the Covenanter's prison. I hardly ever comment, I mean I'm on 902 posts, and that's taken 22 years.

    Post edited by background on
  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,633

    background said:

    I prefer to think of it as harmonic distortion, rather than noise,  well apart from the totally random things like the Covenanter's prison. I hardly ever comment, I mean I'm on 902 posts, and that's taken 22 years.

    you have to wonder what on earth I managed to find to make 40K comments about cheeky 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,573
    • This is all going well! I'm enjoying both threads. There are entertaining comments in both threads, and they are placed in the best thread for each one. 
    • Noise, harmonic (reminds my of Phil Harmonica) distortion, or whatever, is just stuff that distracts from the main sound you are trying to hear (the signal, Richard's life as I see it). It is not unnatural, it is just something often filtered out to hear the signal clearly. 
    • Wendy's "incidents" are probably just an indication that she has her own unique way of expressing her ideas. Good for you Wendy. 
    • I doubt if Richard was thinking of dissing and cursing, but it is certainly a clever interpretation of discursion. I got a kick out of it.
    • background, I appreciate your comment quality control process. That which comes out in the end is great. I wonder what was discarded along the way. Maybe best not to know?
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