@ Ragtop - I hope you read my post because I believe I made a good point why you should consider the creator's side of things without, I hope, making any snide remarks regarding you.

Regarding illness and the like:

I'm a long term depression sufferer and I've been on some kind of anti depressant meds for longer than I've been here.  I also started developing arthritis a few years ago and had knee surgery last year because of it.  I'm unemployed due to these illnesses and various others and consequently I have very little money.  

Around 18 months ago, my father - incidentally my very best friend in the world - died of cancer.  You can imagine how much fun that was.

Apart from that, about 4 years ago I was beaten up by a gang of people, because I stood up to the criminals in the place where we lived.  After that, they made our lives hell and finally smashed our windows.  We were then given a new place to live for a "short while".  Not a great place but better than living in fear.  It was only a tiny place but since we were only going to be there for a few weeks it didn't matter.  We had all our stuff put in storage for the time being.  Two and a half years later, after a protracted legal battle with our landlord - there is effectively only one landlord here - we got moved to a place that's fit to live in.  All our stuff in storage - around $30,000 in your money - was trashed, stolen and otherwise ruined by being stored for so long.  We basically lost everything and have no means of replacing it.

There's loads of other shit we've had to deal with over the past 10 years that I'm not going to mention here but I can tell you most of it was less fun than sticking needles in your eyes. 

My point?  I'm not asking for sympathy nor even consideration.  What I'm saying is, in all this time I've been a member at Renderosity, no matter what, I have never once taken my problems out on anyone here.  If anything, I go the other direction to be nice, friendly and understanding.  For sure, I've had a few "fights" but never once have I come looking for trouble; I've only ever responded in kind.  In truth, I don't let things on teh internets get to me because I have much, much more in real life to be concerned with.  This here and everything around it is just a bit of fun.  Read my signature, for example; that should tell you all you need to know.

I like making pictures and stuff to go with them and if I get the chance to make a bit of cash along the way, that's a bonus.

Finally, please give a bit of consideration to what I said in my earlier post.  If it's good enough to use in a commercial render, it's good enough to pay for.  Every freestuff creator could decide to say "fuck it" and pull all their stuff overnight.  Make it for ourselves only, or sell it.  Then where would we be?  Thirsty, real thirsty.  Sorry, wrong movie but you get my drift.

Good luck with your venture, anyhow.  I'm being serious; I like to see fellow Poser people getting by. 

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