Quote - You may be cutting to the chase, but you've clearly cut somewhere around the ankle and not near any meaningful organs.

Uh......I won't go near that one.  Other than to say that the vulnerability in Achilles' heel was the critical weakness that brought down everything else.

Quote - Tell me: how does the community's obsession with one character mesh fall into the realm of "political correctness"?

It has nothing to do with it -- but here we are talking about two different topics.  So, I'll deal with the following topic:

Quote - Frankly, I would have the same issue were the mesh in question Michael, in case you hadnt figured that one out, or the Freak, or even the Toon Dragon, for that matter. It's the simple fact that we have reduced this program to one that, in the main, serves the needs of one company (That would be DAZ, incidently) which has (yes, with the users' compliance) decided the standard for eight years now and, in the process, replaced imagination with a whopping amount of tedium and repetitiveness, the "sameness" aluded to by another poster above. Just for grins, so look at the product line for V2 and compare it to the current product line for V4. Not a lot of difference, when you "cut to the chase and set aside the cover". Sure, there's the occasional blip on the radar, but even today, when I looked at the front page for the Maketplace here, it simply underscored what I found the last time I looked: more cookie-cutter products, nothing that really yelled out much uniqueness. We are literally drowning in our own compliance.

I'd suggest producing & offering up for sale your own products: and to create those products in such a way as to fit into the 'proper' ideological / philosophical / artistic / marketing-sales underpinning in whatever way you choose to define it -- by your own lights.  And then see if it sells.

You certainly aren't going to stop anyone else from doing whatever they wish to do, purchasing-wise -- even if you disapprove of their choices.  For whatever reasons.

Quote - So how is this, by any stretch of your imagination, "political correctness"? Truly, that's some reach.

Complaints about a dominant figure don't fall under the rubric of "political correctness" -- when the dominant figure is being discussed in terms of its technical existence as a "mesh".  But -- when the primary (and opening) complaint revolves around the dominant mesh being female -- then it's a different story.

Not much of a reach.  In fact: I barely had to move my arm.

Quote - And all the links of images of pretty girls at CGTalk isnt going to help you, by the way. This isnt about Maya or 3DStudio. It's about Poser and what's happened to it since 1998. Stay on topic, if you would.

Oh, those links made their point quite nicely -- in response to claims that the "pros" only do "non-sexualized" work -- in contrast to the silly amateurs around here.  The links were quite topical to the mark of their address. 

Nevertheless -- "topical" is defined by the speaker, and not by any would-be directors.

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