With the dozens of posts dp's made about Posette, there's not much question that he's got an addictive personality. I can't even guess what got him annoyed enough over this post that he feels he should try to be disruptive and mildly insulting. It's not as if I ever felt it necessary to complain about his many Posette posts. Frankly, that figure is last decade's model. There are many better female models available today that lack widespread support. Some morphs and modern textures help make Posette a better figure, but it still has a lot of limitations compared to more recent figures.

This post came about as a result of discussions in a board game forum whether collectible card games, such as Magic the Gathering, are addictive. I didn't think so and, in the process of talking about the game, it got me thinking about addictions and gaming. One thing I realized is that so many people hated collectible games, with Magic in particular, is that they had once spent tons of money to build fast killer decks that essentially broke how the game ought to be played and stopped making it fun for them. Magic's a great little game that plays out in under half an hour. It was the first card game sold in the same format as baseball cards--minus the gum. The cards come in different levels of rarity such that a pack of 15 cards might have 1 rare card, 3 uncommon, and the rest common. People thought this was being done to hook them on the game to buy more and more packs to get all the rares, but it was really part of the game design to keep the most powerful cards in limited quantities in decks players put together to play the game. It's not much different than chess having a bunch of low powered pawns, some middle power pieces, and a single rare all-powerful queen. People were buying boxes of booster packs for $90 to build decks with all rare cards. That's like playing chess with all queens. It takes the balance away from how the games should be played.

Ten years ago, I'd spent hundreds of dollars buying boxes of Magic cards and stopped when people I played the game with lost interest in it. I could see how I did go overboard on the game, on Poser, and other hobbies. I wondered if other creative people have similar tendencies. I saw them in myself and a few other artists I knew. I still wanted to open it up to a larger audience of creative people to get a better sampling of opinions.

Overall, the majority of people responding to this post consider themselves as having somewhat addictive personalities--though not enough that there is a real addiction. That was something that I wasn't entirely sure about before asking the question. A few people didn't think they had addictive personalities. If I've learned anything in life, it's that everybody is different.

Anything that has a steep learning curve is only going to be mastered by somebody willing to invest the time to learn it. People with creative energies will make the effort to do that. If a little obsessiveness helps get that done, that's not a bad thing.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon