WalMart and Microsoft are "what it is" because they lie, cheat, and steal, would throw their own children into the furnace for the bottom line, and consider their customers suckers to be fleeced. There is a difference at DAZ.... They smile nicer.

That said, I have to say the PC makes a lot more sense economically -- if you are into popular fads, high school creativity, and litero-kitsch like their pseudo SciFi. Personally, I don't need five more rilly rad futuristical outfits where you can almost see her youknows or rip-offs of whatever movie is hot when I hit the Send key. I have been carrying nearly $100 in credit at DAZ since they "absorbed" Carrara; I can't find anything I want badly enough to spend the coupons. John Davidson authentic Gypsy costumes? Super freaking flipped out cartoon characters just like the ones at RDNA but don't say anything and not as good? No thanks. It's like having a lifetime supply of free Big Macs.

I find it sad, amusing, and predictable that PoserPros morphed into DAZ's evil twin once they bought it, doing Aubrey Beardsley to Dan Farr's square-jawed Kipling. The two faces of the Victorian coin; it's the same coin.

At least, when I'm at CP, I don't feel like I've wondered into a Battlestar Galactica nostalgia party attended by fourteen-year-olds who just discovered sex and hope nobody notices. I'm not beating anybody's drum any more, but I give them credit for that.

M