Hyde Park Corner > Cockfosters > Waterloo > Canada Water > Crossness > Poplar > Wembley Central > Looisham > West Kensington > East Ham > Turnham Green > White City > St John's Wood > Walthamstow Central > White Chapel > Waterloo > Sloane Square > Kings Cross > South Kensington > Pimlico

just a reminder

Oh dear, that is a drain down which I do not wish to flush. So I'm going to play the Last Stand card, and move direct to...

Hyde Park Corner > Cockfosters > Waterloo > Canada Water > Crossness > Poplar > Wembley Central > Looisham > West Kensington > East Ham > Turnham Green > White City > St John's Wood > Walthamstow Central > White Chapel

Waterloo

Now someone needs to roll a double 6 for victory...

Are repeat visits allowed under this rule set? If not you need to leave at once via the town drain down train.

Only through the Desperate Last Stand exception (sometimes known as the Hail Mary clause), as first played by Lord Flushing of Bidet.

Which I did invoke :)

Hyde Park Corner > Cockfosters > Waterloo > Canada Water > Crossness > Poplar > Wembley Central > Looisham > West Kensington > East Ham > Turnham Green > White City > St John's Wood > Walthamstow Central > White Chapel > Waterloo > Sloane Square

Jolly hockey sticks!
Now I can invoke the burlington variation, as defined in Stovold’s. All WC postcodes count double, but cannot be followed by a consecutive WC code. Crescents are wild as rule 42 is of course suspended.

Kings Cross

Oh dear, that is a drain down which I do not wish to flush. So I'm going to play the Last Stand card, and move direct to...

Hyde Park Corner > Cockfosters > Waterloo > Canada Water > Crossness > Poplar > Wembley Central > Looisham > West Kensington > East Ham > Turnham Green > White City > St John's Wood > Walthamstow Central > White Chapel

Waterloo

Now someone needs to roll a double 6 for victory...

Are repeat visits allowed under this rule set? If not you need to leave at once via the town drain down train.

I refer you to the Embarassment in the pedestrian tunnel in the 2009 Lancashire league championship game.

Hyde Park Corner > Cockfosters > Waterloo > Canada Water > Crossness > Poplar > Wembley Central > Looisham > West Kensington > East Ham > Turnham Green > White City > St John's Wood > Walthamstow Central > White Chapel > Waterloo

And now:

Sloane Square

Oh dear, that is a drain down which I do not wish to flush. So I'm going to play the Last Stand card, and move direct to...

Hyde Park Corner > Cockfosters > Waterloo > Canada Water > Crossness > Poplar > Wembley Central > Looisham > West Kensington > East Ham > Turnham Green > White City > St John's Wood > Walthamstow Central > White Chapel

Waterloo

Now someone needs to roll a double 6 for victory...

Are repeat visits allowed under this rule set? If not you need to leave at once via the town drain down train.

Oh dear, that is a drain down which I do not wish to flush. So I'm going to play the Last Stand card, and move direct to...

Hyde Park Corner > Cockfosters > Waterloo > Canada Water > Crossness > Poplar > Wembley Central > Looisham > West Kensington > East Ham > Turnham Green > White City > St John's Wood > Walthamstow Central > White Chapel

Waterloo

Now someone needs to roll a double 6 for victory...

Are repeat visits allowed under this rule set? If not you need to leave at once via the town drain down train.

Well it was mentioned,  when it was visited before,

To make things extra easy Waterloo Mainline is irreversible if approached on the diagonal during a lateral pass. 

Does that help any?

Oh dear, that is a drain down which I do not wish to flush. So I'm going to play the Last Stand card, and move direct to...

Hyde Park Corner > Cockfosters > Waterloo > Canada Water > Crossness > Poplar > Wembley Central > Looisham > West Kensington > East Ham > Turnham Green > White City > St John's Wood > Walthamstow Central > White Chapel

Waterloo

Now someone needs to roll a double 6 for victory...

Are repeat visits allowed under this rule set? If not you need to leave at once via the town drain down train.

Oh dear, that is a drain down which I do not wish to flush. So I'm going to play the Last Stand card, and move direct to...

Hyde Park Corner > Cockfosters > Waterloo > Canada Water > Crossness > Poplar > Wembley Central > Looisham > West Kensington > East Ham > Turnham Green > White City > St John's Wood > Walthamstow Central > White Chapel

Waterloo

Now someone needs to roll a double 6 for victory...

Using the Thomas Crapper adjunct to the Bazalgette amendment (which extends the Bog Standard rules even deeper, allowing unfettered access to those Victorian sewers included in Bazalgette's later maps) I'll play this and claim the quadruple bonus points for the fourth visit to a WC plus triple point bonus for three WCs in a row ! I think I also need a good hosing down, but the bonus points were worth it...

Hyde Park Corner > Cockfosters > Waterloo > Canada Water > Crossness > Poplar > Wembley Central > Looisham > West Kensington > East Ham > Turnham Green > White City > St John's Wood > Walthamstow Central >

White Chapel

Well, following the same pattern as before, and as it's after midnight, I'll make an off-peak interchange move to bring us to:

Hyde Park Corner > Cockfosters > Waterloo > Canada Water > Crossness > Poplar > Wembley Central > Looisham > West Kensington > East Ham > Turnham Green > White City > St John's Wood >

Walthamstow Central

St John's Wood

Okay, I'll take another WC bonus if no-one else wants it:

Hyde Park Corner > Cockfosters > Waterloo > Canada Water > Crossness > Poplar > Wembley Central  > Looisham >  West Kensington > East Ham > Turnham Green >

White City

Hyde Park Corner > Cockfosters > Waterloo > Canada Water > Crossness > Poplar > Wembley Central  > Looisham >  West Kensington > East Ham

Given some of the places visited  I think it's going to

Turnham Green

Ooh, interesting move. In that case, I'll play for a WC modifier, and go for:

Wembley Central

Looisham

Ooh, interesting move. In that case, I'll play for a WC modifier, and go for:

Wembley Central

The problem is that what is defined as "Fine Art"

Actually, I never said Fine Art or suggested Fine Art - as we are talking about 3D as the central catalyst. So no need to worry about the fine art world. That was never my point or reference. It was you who started naming famous, traditional fine artists to make one of your points.

The problem is that what is defined as "Fine Art" in most of the Western World doesn't really match up with what is defined as "art" in other parts of the world,

Which is why I said critics because of context. THOSE in that part of the world would be best to judge the art from THEIR part of the world.

  If you want to argue with that, I suggest you go find a friend's kid and tear up their artwork in front of them while telling them that they're not qualified to create art. 

Not really relevant. No one is suggesting that a person/kid/anyone - can't do arts and crafts. Also, no one would suggest that the kid with the paper and crayon is doing fine art. lol

But anyone who observes a fair amount fo children's art can see and recognize a standout. Happens.

Someone has developed or acquired skill and creativity beyond their experience or years.

OTHERS (there's that word) may judge/recognize a talent or ability in that person.

Kids win art prizes and some illustrations are chosen for display up front.

Usually it's the best of anything that is asked to represent us.

The kid that stands out- they use their drawing of the flower for the school brochure......

The early craftsman is asked to make the sets for the school play.

Teachers select from their students artwork and pick pieces to keep and display.

There is no world where the feelings of the creative trump all else- unless someone has constructed a whole world inside their own head.

That's all my point is and was.

Generally speaking the better NAS drives are the most reliable. Ironwolf Pro or WD Gold or Red. They are more expensive than the mainstream counterparts but the warranties make up for it. Ironwolf Pro in particular has a very good replacement and date recovery warranty.

On RAID arrays, Raid 1, 0 or 10 can generally set up directly in the UEFI of most systems. RAID 5, and the better IMO 50, require add in controllers which can be very expensive. Now I am an IT pro so I am comfortable with troubleshooting them if there is a problem, not that I can recall having one on my home system or home NAS ever.

On these prepacked NAS systems I'm more than skeptical. MyCloud, and Synology, are sellingyou very expesnive enclosures with otherwise pretty awful HW for very high prices. You can build a NAS out of a old computer, assuming it has SATA ports and drive bays to accomodate the amount of stoprage you want, very simply. If you live near a FreeGeek go down and get a 4 or 5 year old system, they install Linux which is fine. Then get FreeNAS, a linux distro meant for use in NAS. The setup will be very simple, follow instructions you can find plenty of places. Beyond having a central data store that simplifies backups etc. It can replace your DVR and allow you to stream to your devices anywhere both your DVR and your music.

I used to be a die hard Poser user, but once Daz3D reeled me in with Genesis, I found it incredibly hard to go back to Poser. Mainly for two reasons: Lack of flagship figures that content creators supported, and the fact that while Daz3D is free, Poser stayed on the expensive side. Honestly, the one major feature I miss from Poser, was its easy-to-use material room. I could cook up crazy custom shaders much easier with it.

I didn't care at all for Daz Studio until version 4 came along. I remember looking at DS2 and asking people, "What's so great about it that I should invest the time to learn it?" And I just kept getting the same answer: "It's free!" I remember that I finally snapped and said, "Look, I'm an adult with a JOB. I can afford to buy Poser. What the heck is in DS that would make it worth my while?" Finally, one guy said, "Nothing. If you have Poser just stick with it. DS2 isn't a mature program."

And that was true, until Daz Studio 4. That was when it finally had the tools and power to make it worthwhile. And that's when I jumped ship and went over to Daz Studio. Things I really liked:

• The Download Manager. One click and everything comes down and goes where it's supposed to.
• Smart wardrobes: Again, click on the figure and the library filters the view to show you stuff that works with that figure.
• Easier figure manipulation.
• Iray (Poser's Superfly is a poor, VERY distant runner up to Iray).

But... As much as I liked DS and the pretty Iray pictures I could make, it wasn't fulfilling my desires to create line art out of 3D. Workarounds like Toon shaders and geoshells were (not to be rude): rubbish. Yes, with a LOT of work you could make something that worked. But the look wasn't all that good. The same is true for using Filter Forge and other image manipulation tricks. Yeah, you could get something that looked okay... but it really wasn't anything that knocked my socks off. Even in the hands of an expert it usually looks like someone did some Filter magic on a standard render.

And then in January 2016 I attended a Webinar hosted by professional comic artist Brian Haberlin and he showed a feature I had never seen before: "The Live Comic Book Preview" (he added the word "Live" to its name). Brian showed the tricks to setting up lights and adjusting the geometric edge settings, and suddenly I was off and running because I had actually won a free copy of Poser 11 and had it installed on my computer. For about a year I tried to duplicate his workflow (even bought Blacksmith 7 so I could work on my texture maps the way he did in Z-Brush), but soon tired of copying him and developed my own style. And I finally have a style and workflow that I like. 

BUT... even though I'm happy with the art I create, I'm a bit frustrated by exactly the issue you cited: a flagship figure that content creators supported.

Yeah, that's still a problem. I see lots of great content out there, but mostly I pass on it because I can't use it in Poser. I know Renderosity has high hopes for La Femme, but I just don't see the market support for her, yet. The new products are tickling out, and frankly they're not that interesting. Yeah, I know "slut wear" sells, but not to me. I need clothes, characters and POSES. So far, there just isn't enough support for her to make me consider using her for any project. Which is too bad: I think she has potential.

 

If Daz incorprated a Real-Time-Comic-Renderer like Poser has, I'd never touch Poser again.

 

I can't say that would happen to me, but it might. I like so many things in the Daz Studio library and interface that it would be very tempting to dump Poser and go over to Daz Studio if it had a Comic Book Preview on par with the one in Poser 11. There are a few things in Poser I like more:

• Poser's lighting interface: That ball which controls lights is MUCH easier to use than the lighting in DS. This is a tricky tool, but once you master its nuances it's hard to go back to DS.
• Poser's Morph Tool: Got strands of hair sticking through a hat? Poke 'em in. Need to loosen a belt, no problem.
• The Fitting Room: Fast and easy to reconfigure clothes from one figure to another, or to fix problems. HOWEVER, I think DS does a better job with conforming clothes, so it really doesn't need this type of adjustment as often. 
• The "Favorite's Tab" in the Library. 
• The ease of adding new figures and props to your Library. 

 

BTW: I have heard a rumor that Daz Studio might be working on some sort of comic book preview thingie. Time will tell.

I agree with you about the global lighting.  I do like that a lot.  However I perfer Daz's emissive lighting when it comes to lighting windows or starship engines.  I don't know Poser as well as you do, so maybe I don't know how to do it properly.  I recently baught a Blad

I used to be a die hard Poser user, but once Daz3D reeled me in with Genesis, I found it incredibly hard to go back to Poser. Mainly for two reasons: Lack of flagship figures that content creators supported, and the fact that while Daz3D is free, Poser stayed on the expensive side. Honestly, the one major feature I miss from Poser, was its easy-to-use material room. I could cook up crazy custom shaders much easier with it.

I didn't care at all for Daz Studio until version 4 came along. I remember looking at DS2 and asking people, "What's so great about it that I should invest the time to learn it?" And I just kept getting the same answer: "It's free!" I remember that I finally snapped and said, "Look, I'm an adult with a JOB. I can afford to buy Poser. What the heck is in DS that would make it worth my while?" Finally, one guy said, "Nothing. If you have Poser just stick with it. DS2 isn't a mature program."

And that was true, until Daz Studio 4. That was when it finally had the tools and power to make it worthwhile. And that's when I jumped ship and went over to Daz Studio. Things I really liked:

• The Download Manager. One click and everything comes down and goes where it's supposed to.
• Smart wardrobes: Again, click on the figure and the library filters the view to show you stuff that works with that figure.
• Easier figure manipulation.
• Iray (Poser's Superfly is a poor, VERY distant runner up to Iray).

But... As much as I liked DS and the pretty Iray pictures I could make, it wasn't fulfilling my desires to create line art out of 3D. Workarounds like Toon shaders and geoshells were (not to be rude): rubbish. Yes, with a LOT of work you could make something that worked. But the look wasn't all that good. The same is true for using Filter Forge and other image manipulation tricks. Yeah, you could get something that looked okay... but it really wasn't anything that knocked my socks off. Even in the hands of an expert it usually looks like someone did some Filter magic on a standard render.

And then in January 2016 I attended a Webinar hosted by professional comic artist Brian Haberlin and he showed a feature I had never seen before: "The Live Comic Book Preview" (he added the word "Live" to its name). Brian showed the tricks to setting up lights and adjusting the geometric edge settings, and suddenly I was off and running because I had actually won a free copy of Poser 11 and had it installed on my computer. For about a year I tried to duplicate his workflow (even bought Blacksmith 7 so I could work on my texture maps the way he did in Z-Brush), but soon tired of copying him and developed my own style. And I finally have a style and workflow that I like. 

BUT... even though I'm happy with the art I create, I'm a bit frustrated by exactly the issue you cited: a flagship figure that content creators supported.

Yeah, that's still a problem. I see lots of great content out there, but mostly I pass on it because I can't use it in Poser. I know Renderosity has high hopes for La Femme, but I just don't see the market support for her, yet. The new products are tickling out, and frankly they're not that interesting. Yeah, I know "slut wear" sells, but not to me. I need clothes, characters and POSES. So far, there just isn't enough support for her to make me consider using her for any project. Which is too bad: I think she has potential.

 

If Daz incorprated a Real-Time-Comic-Renderer like Poser has, I'd never touch Poser again.

 

I can't say that would happen to me, but it might. I like so many things in the Daz Studio library and interface that it would be very tempting to dump Poser and go over to Daz Studio if it had a Comic Book Preview on par with the one in Poser 11. There are a few things in Poser I like more:

• Poser's lighting interface: That ball which controls lights is MUCH easier to use than the lighting in DS. This is a tricky tool, but once you master its nuances it's hard to go back to DS.
• Poser's Morph Tool: Got strands of hair sticking through a hat? Poke 'em in. Need to loosen a belt, no problem.
• The Fitting Room: Fast and easy to reconfigure clothes from one figure to another, or to fix problems. HOWEVER, I think DS does a better job with conforming clothes, so it really doesn't need this type of adjustment as often. 
• The "Favorite's Tab" in the Library. 
• The ease of adding new figures and props to your Library. 

 

BTW: I have heard a rumor that Daz Studio might be working on some sort of comic book preview thingie. Time will tell.

I agree with you about the global lighting.  I do like that a lot.  However I perfer Daz's emissive lighting (IRAY) when it comes to lighting windows or starship engines.  I don't know Poser as well as you do, so maybe I don't know how to do it properly.  I baught a Blade Runner car (with my $10 reward coupon) made for Poser, thinking it would work for Daz.  It doesn't.  It doesn't have seperate surfaces for the lights, so I can't make them emissive.  I might use it at some point in Poser, but it's rubbish for Daz IRAY.  I might be able to use it in a toon render (3Delight).   It was very disappointing using that coupon on a dude like that.  Now, I won't get Poser products unless it specifically says it will work for Daz3D.  The car did not, so lesson learned.

One other thing I like about Poser is that you can zoom in and out on an object with ease, no matter where it is in the scene.  I find it's hard to zoom in on things in Daz when it's far off from the central loading point.

I have not heard that rumor.  I hope it's true and I hope it's good.

Shepherds Bush Market

which I believe is valid under the Windsor abridged rules, even though it involves a double-bogie shunt - whoops, it's actually a double-bogie reverse shunt. I'm not sure if the Windsor abridged rules allow that...

It is indeed valid, and a good play for the Hammersmith & City line, given that the Windsor rules give bonus score for using less frequently used stations.

I might have gone for Goldhawk Road one stop down the line, as it's slightly better scoring, but I see where you're going with that - from there, you can duplicate either "Shephard's Bush" to get to the Central line, or get onto the Metropolitan branches; a lot of people forget that Shepard's Bush Market leads out onto Uxbridge Road, and you can duplicate on foot connections under the Windsor rules, which means you can reverse back out to Uxbridge without suffering the normal penalty.

That definitely leaves your moves open a lot wider than Goldhawk Road, because while you can duplicate "Road", it's obviously lesser scoring for being a common element.

I believe that now means that this round can't be won in less than 5 moves, due to cabbies not going South of the river after midnight.

Actually, I know it's controversial, but the Windsor rules do allow the chess link, so it is possible to make above-ground exchanges between King's Cross, Queen's Park, Knightsbridge, Elephant and Castle, and Bishop's Road (although better known as Paddington these days), so it would have just been possible if your move had opened up that link, but I think those are all now blocked off in the next two turns by you making a move on the DLR, so well played..

Elephant And Castle > Holborn > Goodge Street > Chalfont & Latimer > Aldwych > Kew Gardens > Golders Green > Baker Street > Maida Vale > Dollis Hill > Upminster > St Pauls > London Bridge > Morden > Bank > Holborn

You forgot that diagonals are forbidden on the Central Line only on West Ham play days

Highbury & Islington