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MikeJ, if you have any complains about a staff member you are always free to send an email to admin@renderosity.com. 

Well as I wrote above, that's not what I do. I don't have any complaints about JenX that are too big for me to handle. And if I did, I'd live with it or forget about it, not complain to the admins. I'm surprised you didn't surmise that, considering I more or less wrote that above...

Apparently you didn't read what all I wrote in this thread very carefully or fully. I think I mentioned Mental Ray more than LW, for one thing, but the primary point was WHY Poser can't do what ice-boy wants, and what Poser needs in the future in order to pull it off.

Maybe that's not particularly helpful, maybe it is to some. I can't remember the first time I heard about the awesome 3D programs out there, way back when, but I'm certain it was in a thread similar to this one.

So if I convince someone they're better off with a different program and they go out and try it and agree, that's not helpful?

I'm through with it too. I'm not going to open another thread about it, that would be silly. THAT would be a truly pointless thing to do. All my comments were made in the course of this discussion, were relevant to this discussion,  and that's all I have to say about it at the moment.
If the subject comes up again somewhere else, maybe I'll get involved, maybe I won't. I really do miss out or intentionally pass on a whole lot of great Poser bashing opportunities, you know. I'm afraid I'm just not a very good Poser gadfly - I'm not dedicated enough. ;-)

You see, here's the thing. Maybe some people here can't handle this, but I don't look at the 3D CG world as application-centric in any way. I don't have any particular loyalty to any one product, and I've built up my 3D (and 2D) toolset over the past decade based on what works for me, what accomplishes what I want. I think anyone who is really serious about getting certain results needs to have such an attitude, because if there's one thing I've discovered, no app does it all, and all the people I look up to almost always use several programs to achieve one result.

I guess one could say, well some people want to try to achieve things in Poser, maybe just for the sake of accomplishment, and that's fine. You don't see me getting involved in all that, do you?
But after 1000 or more pages over numerous threads of reading about one person's obssessive mission to achieve SSS in Poser, sooner or later something ought to be said about it.