This is my vent, but if I make a few valid points feel free to chime in - and feel free to chime in anyway. Here is my list of pet peaves about POSER, DAZ SUDIO, and sites like 3dcommune, runtimeDNA, DAZ, etc. Please don't let it offend you, because this is therapy for me - and if I don't share it, I'll drop like a rock from hypertension, lol.

#1, FAIRIES!!! Fairies, or fae, or sprites, or twinkles, or whatever the hell that you want to call them. O-V-E-R-K-I-L-L!!!, I refuse to believe that there are that many combination Disney fans / former Dungeons & Dragon players on the ENTIRE planet. Enough with the fairies already!
If I see one more pair of pointed ears - I'm going to go outside and lay down in the middle of the road.

#2, Why is it that every time somebody comes out with a new figure, or a new version of Poser, SUDDENLY - all that you see is the stuff for the NEW crapola in the market place and in the freebies. Is SMITH MICRO, or DAZ, or any of those other folks giving you independant merchants any income or gratuities for pushing their latest buggy, beta qauIity ugrades?

I just bought Poser 6 like yesterday, and just finally was able to buy the freakin head and body morphs for Victoria 3 and Mike 3, and now BAM! Everythings about POSER 8, ALYSON, VICKY 4.2 AND MIKE 4, MIKI (whoever that is), AND A4, AND A BUNCH OF OTHER HOOKY FIGURES THAT JUST SUDDENLY "HAPPENED"! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!! 

SLOW DOWN AND TAKE A BREATHER ALREADY!!!! Maybe MYSELF AND OTHERS  may want to still buy stuff for the G3 figures. Think of the revenue your losing!

Vicky3 looks just as good (actually better when you get right down to the details) than Vic4.2.
Victoria 4.2 comes with this creepy head hair texture, a cheezy second skin purple bikini, and no secondary gender characteristics to speak of whatsoever. She's WORSE than a 1950s era department store mannequin. At least THEY had some measure of non-utilitarian symmetry, and a heck of a lot more character!

Hey DAZ - what's wrong with giving her a set of nipples? Not that I'm a perv or anything - but I DO NOT think that seven year olds with impressionable minds are the ONLY one's downloading these figures, so you don't have to sanitize them to Sesame Street grade ultracensored  androgeny!

#3, THE SECONDARY MORPH CHANNEL PACKAGE SCAM!!!  Not ONLY do we have to buy seperate HEAD AND BODY morph packages for V4.2 and Mike4.2, but to make some of the ultra complicated characters that some of you short sighted, business saavy  NIMRODS out there want to sell or give away - we have to buy OTHER morph packs as well to make them work - like the "ELITE" morph packs, or the "Perfection" morph packs, or the "Celebration" morph packs, or the "I Just Burned You For Another Buck You Stupid Sheepish Dufus" morphpack. 

How is this progress? Vicky 2 had intact morph channels - but Vicky 4 doesn't? You have to buy the base AND the morph channels seperately (CIP, for example Aiko 4). That's a beef I have with Daz - BUT - it seems that you guys selling stuff HERE would make a heck of a lot more money if you made characters for sale or as freebies (good PR) that DID NOT require the seperate purchase of someone else's morph package that YOU YOURSELF ARE NOT MAKING ONE RED CENT FROM! Duuuuhhhhh... Your promoting THEIR Morph Packages - but are THEY giving you any kick back for that? Hmmmmmmm? Duuuuuuuuuh.....

Here's an idea, if your gonna do that, make your OWN morph packages that people have to buy to make YOUR OWN characters work. That way - at least your being cruel and not stupid.

#4,  WHORE CLOTHES!!!  ALL I SEE ARE WHORE CLOTHES!!!
Do you know how much I would LOVE to see a regular police officer's uniform for Victoria 4, 3, 0r 2, that did not involve fish neck stockings and anal floss? How about a regular cable tv repair person's outfit - or a construction outfit,  or a military uniform, or a fire fighters outfit, or a sci fi astronaut outfit, or a swords and sorcery type ditty that doesn't look like stripper gear, or a costume for a vintage Linda Lovelace flick? Something that doesn't look like a wet T-shirt party?

I know that sex sells - and yes - you do want a little "sleeze and cheeze" in your work every great now and then, But there ARE limits - and the Valley Of Good Taste DOES have a well posted corporation line. 

Also - underwear. I'll bet that if these figures were REAL people, 99% of their wardrobes would be underwear. Their mothers would be proud because they would always be wearing fresh clean underwear and NEVER have to crank a washing machine. We need more JEANS - and NOT the crotch cutting mini cut off slut pants, I mean everyday slightly baggy, mediocre, straightleg jeans.

#5, More MALE FIGURE STUFF to.  Poor MICHEAL 2,3, and 4 has to get most of his hair from female hair refits - THIS IS SAD! We need eqaulity in the render room please!!!

Now I feel much better having had a good gripe. That is - until some DIM WIT out there does something else DUMB to annoy me. Thank you...