“… maybe Poser has become less right-brainy and more left-brainy …”

Been saying that for a while. I’d call it ‘revenge of the nerds’ except I’m pretty sure that both sides would qualify as nerds to the cool kids. You probably get some people obsessing over getting the numbers right and the numbers may put off some of the art-brained. The pendulum may swing back or not who knows. Could just be our faulty perception as well.

The real answer is so obvious I missed it. I kept wondering why people would rumble over a figure or polygons or texture sizes or some company. Why they would pursue some quixotic crusade or whatever else instead of just making art with whatever was available – what I assume a passionate’ artist would do – speak through their art. It didn’t ever make any sense. I now realize it didn’t make sense because it’s not about art, and it’s not about Poser. Those are only proxies. People have suggested the economy etc. and I suppose that’s part of it, though I’ve always found it interesting that we almost never seem to see the women here getting into the conflicts. Maybe, as someone may have already suggested, this is just a reflection of the world changing and people having trouble coping with reality being turned upside down. That might be especially true for some. Visions of prying copies of Poser from cold, dead hands notwithstanding, at least that does make sense to me so I’ll stick with it for now.

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken