You know your a Long time Daz Addict when...
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When you click the platinum club free pass page and start shopping the items offered you suddenly notice you already have purchased about 70% or more of the items $1.99 to $7.99 category and about 50% + of the Daz original category..
Shhh!... Don't tell my husband I'm a daz addict he'll properly take my credit cards away...HA HA HA ... Happy rendering.
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I'm not quite that bad, and my spending fluctuates with available funds. :( but I do consider myself, if not an addict, close to it. I love my shineys! I am the type of member who will buy what catches my eye (when I can) whether or not I have a use for it. And since I average 3-4 renders a year (due to distractions) I seldome really NEED anything.
But it is still fun acquiring my shineys!
for a long time i was spending my pub/lunch money on daz stuff. yep, lost some weight. the daz diet plan lol
Ha Ha thats a good one. The Daz diet plan... It gives a new meaning to the term starving artist.
I like that plan. Unfortunately it won't work for me since my hubby and I tend to have lunch together, and he wouldn't be happy not eating.
The last PC anniversary sale convinced me that I'm an addict; it turned out to be a complete wash-out for me, because I already had everything that was on sale!
Lately, I've been thinking that it's time to think volume: when my installed content hits one terabyte, it might be time for me to slow down a bit!
(Or maybe change direction. Like, oh, I don't know, start loading up on iClone content, perhaps...?)
People collect all sorts of stuff. There is nothing wrong with buying content just to add it to your collection. Nothing at all.
...when you play the Megabucks Lotto so that you can finally afford Stonemason's entire store.
I used to spend money on MMORPGs and other computer games, or other hobbies.
The way I look at it is that you have SOME kind of luxury you are into. This just happens to be ours...
After getting into Daz a little over a year ago, I found my interest in a lot of games just withered. A lot of what I had been searching for in gaming turned out to drive strongly from a desire to make cool images and stories thereby.
I'm just trying to catch up so I can stop wasting time browsing the store, and just grab the newest 6-12 items every day to stay complete...
"Complete" is overrated. I'm an addicted collector of many things (both real and virtual) and have spent a couple fortunes chasing the elusive "complete" beast. I finally rated my addictions to the following structure to the number of things I own that I don't want to get rid of: 1 item of something is an example. Two items of something is a pair. Three items of something is a collection. Four items of something is an addiction. Five items of something is an obsession. And finally, one thing missing from a known finite set of things is self torture of the most cruel kind and you will walk through Hell in bare feet to "complete" the collection and then what do you have? Burned feet and less space on your shelf!
That could have been coming from me...
I already have about a third of Stefan's store so I can definately relate to this.
Cheers,
Alex.
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Well that's why I want completion - then the race is over.
But I guess it's a bit like curing alcoholism by keeping on drinking until you are "complete" (dead). 
The people at CERN tried to catch the "complete" beast. What did they get? Oh, they got a Higgs boson all right but it didn't resolve the major questions and actually teased them by being right in the middle of the possibilities just dropping a match on the road ahead instead of shining a floodlight illuminating the correct fork in the road to the edge of the forest. They've got a nice brand new "Higgs Boson" sitting on the shelf completing their catalog but they also picked up clues to another whole catalog of things to look for. A collector's nightmare (or dream).
I figured out I was a long time daz addict when the new products offered me no incentive to continue buying. I have almost everything I wanted, I don't care about new technology and I'm satisfied with my images for my purposes. Perfection is attained asymtotically. At some point enough is enough.
I'm reaching a point where I have everything I 'need' and it's starting to really synergize nicely, I have the skills and familiarity to go find lots of cool FREE stuff.
Now, I can always use more stuff, particularly very distinctly different models. Like I just picked up Eagle 2 and Noggin Crow... I can't 'fake' that with a character morph. :)
I just purchased a 5 terabyte external drive to replace the one terabyte external drive that my DAZ content and scene files are stored on. The one terabyte drive had less than one gb of free space left. Have I qualified as an addict yet?
But we do know already that the answer is 42...
Science has been on the wrong track for a long time. They haven't figured out the GUT yet because of the way they work - "trying to find the center by tearing down peripheries" like Ohsawa so pertinently expressed it.
The great physicist Sir Oliver Lodge once prophecied: "..if in the coming centuries the great cosmic secret was ever revealed to man, its discovery would not come from the trained scientific Mind but would be the supreme vision of some poet, painter, philosopher, or saint who could see the universe as a whole." Walter Russell - the greatest genius in the history of science and philosophy - actually fulfilled Lodge's prophecy some years later when he presented the GUT to science, but very few seemed to have gotten the message. They're so caught up in complex theories which they hardly even understand themselves that they seem incapable of seeing the simple and obvious which lies right before their eyes.
In my definition perfection is when something lives up to all your expectations. Unfortunately we always want more or want change so nothing ever stays perfect for long.
So what's the question?
You will need to ask the mice to put that experiment back on, this time inform the authorities not to build that what was it hyper street...
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"What is 6 times 9?"
If that for you sums up the question about Life in general and such things I guess...
but I have to tell you 6 times 9 is 54...
There's another that needs a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. :)
9 x 6 (base 10) = 54 (base 10) = 52(base 10) + 2(base 10) = 4x13(base 10) + 2(base 10) = 42(base 13)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBmdkhDGZ8A @ 31:40
... creativity is highly addictive, hehe ...
The Lego-Effect ... hugs!
I hear ya on that. The 500GB HD on my desktop computer got so low on space that I had to go and buy a 2TB external WD My Passport Ultra just so that I could remove the downloaded DAZ content .exe, .rar, and .zip files from the desktop to free up space. While I was at it, I transferred a bunch of other stuff over to make even more room.
Do I count as a DAZ Addict too?
My latest e-mail ad from newegg.com touted an 8GB external drive! So, addicts can relax.
i say that woukld fit the catagory of a 3d addict alright. . Congradulations.
Oops, I meant 8TB. Small difference.
