I am trying to pose Mike to row the free rowboat from Sams3d. I was talking to my pc, as one does, whilst working it out, and saying ok now he is pulling that oar with his left hand, now all I need to do is get him to pull the other oar with his right hand. Totally normal question, wouldn't you think??? Not with my other half sitting in the same room. He reckons Mike is a lucky guy.

LOL... know that problem. I told my folks I "manipulate wankers" when I paint... It went ... rather as expected, hehehe.

Hiya I am always polite to my poser people (well apart from my favourite martian-Judy) I engage them constantly in (one sided) conversation. After all we are subjecting them to all manner of indignities,Hand Here,leg there, sit down, stand up, the least you can do is to be polite. My partner is used to my anthromorphising all of my machines. I often use a mirror for expressions and actually get up out of the chair and pose myself to get it right in my my mind how the posed figure should look. Luckily I work upstairs with a tree growing outside my study window or else I would have concerned neighbours banging at the door asking my girlie if I was "alright" Don't worry this business brings out the eccentric in all of us. Ask your partner why he shouts at the television next time he is watching football. PaulC

I guess it's the same impulse that makes people talk to their dogs... I was out for a walk this a.m. and passed a woman who was having a lengthy, detailed and entirely one-sided conversation with her small, not-very-smart-looking dog. I mean, not the way most people talk to their dogs (hey there, buddy... how's my old buddy?)--it was like she was expecting the dog to talk back. Which is, as they say, when you know you're in trouble.

Just tell them it's a new form of throat mike ...

Only worry when Mike starts answering. When you go to the kitchen to grab a cup of coffee and come back to find Mike impatiently tapping his foot THAT's when you're in really deep doodoo.

Don't have Mike, but PoserDork often berates me by paraphrasing lines from Monty Python: "I've got the girl on the bed, her legs are on the mantelpiece, and you go get a cup of coffee?!"

Its not a problem talking to yourself or to your computer, but when you hear voices talking back, then its time for bedrest.

its not a problem till your other half has leaned to work poser. you get up to make dinner and come back to and orgie animation running with sound efects telling you that they got board waiting for you! hehe it has happened to me grin i wanted to shoot him grin.