Honestly said, I find the "It's just Poser, get a life" comments a bit insulting.

If you still have "a life" with a spouse and friends and interresting things you can do outside the house, be thankful for it.

But there are circumstances that can make having "a life" pretty much impossible in a society that solely focuses on the healthy and wealthy.

So maybe, just maybe to some of us 3D art (and thus Poser) might be a wee bit more important in their "non-life" than to others.

I also said it before, the biggest problem is that some look at the Poser forum as their private chat channel and thus feel annoyed at the slightest hint of "controversy", while others really try to seriously discuss Poser and further their knowledge and share the progress they made with others.

I can be an asshat, but usually only if I have the feeling that people don't even bother to read what I wrote, less alone try to understand it and just like to troll for teh lulz because they feel like it.

Yes, there are forums that are more civilized, like http://www.missing-lynx.com/dg.htm for example where both hobbyists as well as professional historians and military scale modellers hang out.

Of course there are fractions and disagrements, but they are all united by a common goal:

Further the knowledge about WW-1 and 2 Military equipment and building more realistic, more exact, more true-to-live scale models.

(The only time things get really nasty is if a kit company releases a new model and still misses a few details or messes up the correct dimensions.)

 

But this "common goal" for Poser is missing, and not even Smith Micro seems to be so sure in what direction they actually want the journey to go.