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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
That's put me off for life now.
Ah, so this is what happened to the thread posts!
I thought I was in trouble with the mods :-D
I'm pleased to see I'm not even close to being the most off-topic by post count, nevertheless it must have taken a lot of work to go through that entire thread and extract that lot, so I'm giving a respectful thumbs-up to Richard (even if the thumbs-up smiley is irritatingly backwards on here and should be facing right when used with English left-to-right text)
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.
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.
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.
Good title for a road movie that, although not quite as catchy as "Run, Lola, Run!"
Richard has that effect on some of us
edit
since this was moved
this comment that has no context
was refering to Lola's black eyes
Could be Demonic
I would have quoted you and posted in the other thread, but I don't know how to copy a quote and paste it into the other thread. Doesn't work for me, unless it's down to this dumb iPad again (which after 20+ days of emergency use has become mental torture).
so we are not to interact with barbult at all in her thread?
I thought it was only getting offtopic from her renders
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.
In my opinion, what is being referred to as "noise", is simply the natural flow of human conversation. Without that, there's no individuality, since all that would remain is a strict syntax of communication desired by any given individual.
The problem of course is technology. Since before the internet arrived, everyone had to accept that there are opinions and personalities out there that are different to their own.
Regards the recent jokes in the main thread that haven't yet been transferred here to the naughty thread. I think all involved prove my point perfectly. You cannot refer to the natural progression of human conversation as "noise".
Who was to blame for the recent jokes?
Wasn't Richard, since all he did was post a clever play with words. He did that because his personality and intellect prompted him to do so. Wasn't background, either, since his head probes were probably malfunctioning at the time he came up with that one. And it certainly wasn't me, since my jokes were merely responses to other jokes.
As I said, the so-called "noise" is nothing more than the natural progression of human conversation.
But since this is Barbult and I do genuinely have a lot of respect for her (especially her resilience), I'll at least try to go along with the style of response she is trying to bring about in her thread. I've never done that for anyone before, but in the case of Barbult, her heart is clearly in the right place and I feel she puts in a lot of kind-hearted work, so I will willingly do so.
PS: If Richard would be so kind, please delete my OT posts from backgroud's thread. To be fair I did get a bit overly passionate and OT in that one, and really wish I hadn't since he too is putting in a lot of brilliant work and the OT posts do feel a bit excessive in that one.
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).
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
I attract lots of incidents
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!
I'll have you know all my comments are carefully weighed, sifted, and quality tested, before being discarded in favor of something else.
@csaa
I would have thought the last place to come for peace and tranquility would be a forum.
The problem with using statements like "signal-to-noise" is that in professional terms, "signal" is all that is desired while everthing else is "noise" and completely unwanted. I could never assume that the only thing everyone else wants to hear is what only I have to say.
The fact we humans continue to make "noise" is because we're human beings, not robots (well not yet, anyway).
lol - I dunno though, those probes look as if they need tightening!
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.
Ah for crying out loud, could ANYTHING else POSSIBLY go wrong!!!
My iPad display just went dimmer again after already going dimmer earlier. I swear, if this thing packs up in the middle of the smart meter catastrophy I'm currently having, I'm proper screwed!
Using an iPad for this long isn't something I'd wish on my worst enemy. So the thought of having to use an iPhone which has a screen three times smaller still, is enough to drive a person insane!!!
you have to wonder what on earth I managed to find to make 40K comments about