vopehov506 posted at 6:00 PM Wed, 19 April 2023 - #4462786

hornet3d posted at 3:31 PM Wed, 19 April 2023 - #4462775

  Compared with many hobbies Poser is relatively cheap so a little extra on the electricity bill is really not worth worrying about, for most users anyway.

Well here allot of people gotten hit hard, since beginning of the year they doubled the price, in our Naber Hood Allot of people now got the bills for the quarter of over 2'000 $ some even over 3'000 $  this is really hard, for the older generations that only have a little pension who need a little more heat they suffer most. It is when it is getting really cold in the house, and when you think twice when taking a hot shower. If you don't pay the bill well then, sure you will make no more renders. A point where every penny starts to count. 

I can relate to that as there has been a similar increase here in the UK with some finding that the cost of their energy has gone up by the equivalent of $600 a month even with government assistance.  On top of that mortgage rates are up close to 5% which means  some who are on short term contracts are struggling to renegotiate their mortgage. 

If that was not enough inflation is growing at 10% but that is the headline rate, food prices increased on average by 16.7% for the 12 months up to January this year.  I am not sure what is is right now but it is above 10%.  It is believed 320,000 people need to use food banks just to stay fed each week.

That is just the financial side this year we have seen one strike after another railway workers, postal workers, lawyers, government departments, teachers and right now both nurses and junior doctors are on strike.  

Our National Health service, once seen by some as being world leading, is in crisis with the service short of about 10% of staff, waiting times for urgent care is longer now than ever before and if you have an accident you can expect to wait for hours for and ambulance and then I Accident and Emergency.  One of my neighbours tripped while out walking earlier this week smashing in the side of her face, She was left for almost four hours on the cold concrete before the ambulance arrived. Sadly almost everyone can tell you of personal experience of similar occurrences.

So what the heck has this to do with Poser, well firstly I accept that those struggling to eat will be unlikely to be using Poser but spend anytime in the forums and you will find there are some people where their health is an issue and their escape is Poser or similar software.   For them is is an escape from the harsh world you described which is why I become very worried if  they are given costs on the use Poser that could scare them particularly if those cost are inaccurate or not qualified.

Less worrying, but of equal concern, I tend to get uneasy when any Poser user is given duff information which could convince them not to try something new that may give them a lot of enjoyment.  There are those the love Firefly and have no intention to use Superfly, if that is what gives them pleasure then good for them.  I am not against anyone who promotes the benefits of Firefly for them and encourages others to try it.  What I am against is the trashing of alternatives, we should encourage others to try Superfly, fi they don't like if fine, Firefly may have another user join the ranks.

That's is it, I mean no harm of criticism of any one and, with that said, I will get off my soap box. 

 

 

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.