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Am I the only person who's bought merchant resources just to learn from?  Like "huh, where should I put this on the map?"  

Other than that, it's been a while since anything in the MP anywhere has struck me as something I want to render.  I don't know what it is I want, to be honest.  I've had one image in mind that I want to render for months now, and It's not even 1/2 way finished. ** I kind of like this slow-paced work... doing the textures for everything myself, modifying what I'm using, learning to really use the tools I have.  Feels kinda nice.**

That has got to be the neatest thing I've heard anyone say on this forum about how they build their scene / image. That image is going to be incredible to contemplate... sounds like art is a passion with you, Jen, of the slow-burning glow-embers rather than the straw-grass flash-burn.

And I relate. Scenes take ages to put together, and then I have like 40 million versions and all saved to Pz3s than take up space and I'll never open them again.
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

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