Hornet -- Yes, indeed.

You know, if there were no arguments about Genesis, it'd be something else. Before "The Split", there were certainly plenty of very passionate arguments pitting whatever Daz figure was pre-eminent against the Poser native figures (I do believe Poser 5 may have been an exception, however. LOL But I kinda liked Don and Judy). Every release of Poser, same thing. To me, the Genesis arguments seem like simply a continuation of a very old tradition.

I don't doubt that for a minute.  While I started using Poser 5 (after having used DAZ for a couple of years) I did not come across Renderosity until much later so I did not know the history.  For a couple of years I shopped solely at Daz and never used the forums, how things have changed. Since then I have found this forum to be immensely useful but I am dismayed by how personal it can get at times, just because someone does not agree with me does not make them an idiot, although the reverse might possibly be true.  I have also never understood the competition mindset like the constant my Apple box is better that you PC box, when I used to build kit cars it was always mine is faster and brighter than yours.  What seems lost on a lot of people is that the people into 3D art are very much a minority and surely it would be better to help each other than to call each others names of question their intelligence. 

During my years of kit car building I helped numerous other builders with kits from many different suppliers, the fact that they had the same interest as me was what was important, not where the kit came from.

Artists can be passionate, that I understand, by all means defend your beliefs but, for me at least, when it comes to insulting the other person you have lost the argument.
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I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.