Always with the Photoshop. I mean, WTF?

Bryce costs about a hundred dollars (or six bucks if you timed it right).

How much is Photoshop? 

*About a hundred dollars.
*What are you, some kind of dweeby method actor hamming it up as a card counting autistic guy in a bad suit who still easily upstages the twonk dwarf with the bizarro pseudo-religion?! Photoshop is six hundred and forty-nine freaking spondoolicks, you dumb schmuck!!

OK, tongue-in-cheek "Penn and Teller" style presentation aside, surely I'm not alone in thinking that there's a daft dichotomy between a budget / beginner's 3D proggie and the leading edge professional image edting software?

Yet how often do you see the two mentioned together? Loads! It's not the program capability comparison that gets me ('cos Bryce is suitably clever); it's the price difference. How in the name of Zarquon's Singing Fish do so many Bryce users afford the big monster?

And what the hell, there is a program mismatch. Bryce is Mr. Friendly; Photoshop is Mr. Stern. 

Something's deeply wrong here. I want answers. I want controversy. I want a blazing row that's so fundamental that Agentsmith has to pull himself away from his latest metaball-IBL uber-project and actually pay attention to us.

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