The [Disco Chives] Misplaced Parrot Complaint Thread

McGyver

TJohn said:

Hi everybody!

Howdy there TJohn! What've you been up to? Hope you are doing okay!

DanaTA

McGyver said:

NylonGirl said:

I started avoiding self checkout early on because the items I wanted were always too light for the scale to detect them, so I needed assistance from an employee anyway. I think they've gotten better since then but I still don't use them unless whoever I'm with makes a big deal out of it.

I loathe self checkout for the opposite reason... how does one "gently" place a 42 pound box of water jugs on a scale when they are already super annoyed?...

Aside from eggs, nitroglycerin and bananas, I just want to toss my scanned items onto the platform... not to mention that for some reason almost half the vendors of such systems have felt that one second between completion of scan and contact with the platform is way too long, so they have the stupid register computer voice nag you like some obnoxious Cylon drone... "Please place you purchase on the platform or chose your payment options"... which generally leads me to say very unpleasant things back to my Cybernagatronic antagonist... very, very unpleasant things. Very. Unpleasant.

I've had the stupid scale have a conniption because I've placed a 40+ pound item on the platform at .005% less that Absolute Gentle... which causes it to freak out, thinking I'm trying to heist diamonds or something and thus stop the process, notifying me "Help is on the way", making me want to hop up and down on the platform like Daffy Duck lit out of his mind on cocaine... 

"Help"... I'll give you "Help", you sorry excuse for not paying actual human beings a living wage... the worst part is the lazy programming and shortcomings of the lame adaptation of what could be useful technology... like cyber-bro... you can't tell the item was accidentally put down slightly too hard?... like it's that initial moment of contact and that's it?... like I've got to be Indiana Jones placing the object on the dais exactly right or you are going to send the incredibly irate and overworked attendant rolling after me?

Apparently we have very round boulder-like cash register attendants around here...

And then there is the stupid pay-pad thing... 85% of them are made by the same company, yet even when they use the default set-up, it's still inconsistent... here we've done away with plastic bags in favor of poorly made flimsy paper bags for 5¢ each or reusable bags that take decades longer to breakdown in landfills... but yay, they are made of 10% recycled plastic recovered from the bowels of dead whale who choke on them... but the point is nobody can even do the plastic bags interface the same way... "how many bags did you purchase?..."  some ask immediately, some wait until you are about to pay, some ask after you chose your payment method (card, debit or animal bartering), some ask "none or enter a number", some just show a keypad and don't explain what the hell it's for if you didn't pay attention the question that flashed on the tiny screen for two tenths of a second, one actually says "none thank you, I brought my own bag" and so on... 

So like if you tend to shop at a particular store you get used to that setup, but you go somewhere else and it starts asking different questions, menus are out of order or it asks you stupid questions like "$45.56... Ok?(green check mark) or red X?"... Like what's the option there really? If I choose the red X, can I haggle for a better price?... Because $45.56 for $6 worth of crappy merchandise is way too much, so "not Okay"... okay?  Like cause honestly you keep charging more every day and I feel like your ever shrinking package of store brand cheese still isn't worth more than that dead seagull I found in the parking lot, which I'm sure if you gave me the opportunity to haggle and barter, could definitely be used to make a decent amount of overpriced "chicken" salad for the deli section, so you'd actually probably still make a good profit and I'd be happyish and the seagull could finally rest in peace in someone's sandwich... Win-win.

And then on top of all that, stores are locking up stuff like Spam (Spam... yeah... artificial meat... was locked up in a store in Queens), was that to save people from eating it or were people joke-stealing it?... regardless, they lock stuff up because people are stealing it and instead of hiring a reasonable number of employees, they have poor 87 year old Margie watching the entire store and are wondering why despite her cataract surgery giving her back most of her eyesight, people are looting the store... and now I have to wait 20 minutes for someone to unlock the toothpaste at the pharmacy and then self checkout myself on a naggy technologically outdated crap box that spits out a three foot long register receipt full of coupons I'll never use... also might I mention that that receipt tends to randomly emerge from different random places on the same pharmacy chain's exactly-the-same self checkout machines... so even after making my visit thoroughly unpleasant, you find one last way of tweaking my nipples, by making the receipt come out of different location... near the floor, three feet to right... in back of the card scanner, next to bar code scanner gun that doesn't work... so no matter what you are standing there looking at the slot with the big blinking illuminated arrow pointing to it, but instead the receipt already printed out in back of the scale six feet to the left or some random place like that... "Please take your receipt... Please take your receipt... Please take your receipt..."

Bad day?  

I use them and usually don't have a problem.  The gun works for large items (like your water).  I've only had a problem when using a gift card.  And then, it was because I did somethign wrong.  You need to calm down.  Maybe they're different where you are.  I have had any problem with them...except that one.

 

 

Zethara

McGyver said:

NylonGirl said:

I started avoiding self checkout early on because the items I wanted were always too light for the scale to detect them, so I needed assistance from an employee anyway. I think they've gotten better since then but I still don't use them unless whoever I'm with makes a big deal out of it.

I loathe self checkout for the opposite reason... how does one "gently" place a 42 pound box of water jugs on a scale when they are already super annoyed?...

Aside from eggs, nitroglycerin and bananas, I just want to toss my scanned items onto the platform... not to mention that for some reason almost half the vendors of such systems have felt that one second between completion of scan and contact with the platform is way too long, so they have the stupid register computer voice nag you like some obnoxious Cylon drone... "Please place you purchase on the platform or chose your payment options"... which generally leads me to say very unpleasant things back to my Cybernagatronic antagonist... very, very unpleasant things. Very. Unpleasant.

I've had the stupid scale have a conniption because I've placed a 40+ pound item on the platform at .005% less that Absolute Gentle... which causes it to freak out, thinking I'm trying to heist diamonds or something and thus stop the process, notifying me "Help is on the way", making me want to hop up and down on the platform like Daffy Duck lit out of his mind on cocaine... 

"Help"... I'll give you "Help", you sorry excuse for not paying actual human beings a living wage... the worst part is the lazy programming and shortcomings of the lame adaptation of what could be useful technology... like cyber-bro... you can't tell the item was accidentally put down slightly too hard?... like it's that initial moment of contact and that's it?... like I've got to be Indiana Jones placing the object on the dais exactly right or you are going to send the incredibly irate and overworked attendant rolling after me?

Apparently we have very round boulder-like cash register attendants around here...

And then there is the stupid pay-pad thing... 85% of them are made by the same company, yet even when they use the default set-up, it's still inconsistent... here we've done away with plastic bags in favor of poorly made flimsy paper bags for 5¢ each or reusable bags that take decades longer to breakdown in landfills... but yay, they are made of 10% recycled plastic recovered from the bowels of dead whale who choke on them... but the point is nobody can even do the plastic bags interface the same way... "how many bags did you purchase?..."  some ask immediately, some wait until you are about to pay, some ask after you chose your payment method (card, debit or animal bartering), some ask "none or enter a number", some just show a keypad and don't explain what the hell it's for if you didn't pay attention the question that flashed on the tiny screen for two tenths of a second, one actually says "none thank you, I brought my own bag" and so on... 

So like if you tend to shop at a particular store you get used to that setup, but you go somewhere else and it starts asking different questions, menus are out of order or it asks you stupid questions like "$45.56... Ok?(green check mark) or red X?"... Like what's the option there really? If I choose the red X, can I haggle for a better price?... Because $45.56 for $6 worth of crappy merchandise is way too much, so "not Okay"... okay?  Like cause honestly you keep charging more every day and I feel like your ever shrinking package of store brand cheese still isn't worth more than that dead seagull I found in the parking lot, which I'm sure if you gave me the opportunity to haggle and barter, could definitely be used to make a decent amount of overpriced "chicken" salad for the deli section, so you'd actually probably still make a good profit and I'd be happyish and the seagull could finally rest in peace in someone's sandwich... Win-win.

And then on top of all that, stores are locking up stuff like Spam (Spam... yeah... artificial meat... was locked up in a store in Queens), was that to save people from eating it or were people joke-stealing it?... regardless, they lock stuff up because people are stealing it and instead of hiring a reasonable number of employees, they have poor 87 year old Margie watching the entire store and are wondering why despite her cataract surgery giving her back most of her eyesight, people are looting the store... and now I have to wait 20 minutes for someone to unlock the toothpaste at the pharmacy and then self checkout myself on a naggy technologically outdated crap box that spits out a three foot long register receipt full of coupons I'll never use... also might I mention that that receipt tends to randomly emerge from different random places on the same pharmacy chain's exactly-the-same self checkout machines... so even after making my visit thoroughly unpleasant, you find one last way of tweaking my nipples, by making the receipt come out of different location... near the floor, three feet to right... in back of the card scanner, next to bar code scanner gun that doesn't work... so no matter what you are standing there looking at the slot with the big blinking illuminated arrow pointing to it, but instead the receipt already printed out in back of the scale six feet to the left or some random place like that... "Please take your receipt... Please take your receipt... Please take your receipt..."

This made my day... lol.. I had a Walmart machine fight me for my receipt the other day... I think it had teeth, because it did not want to let go when I tried to pull the paper out. Also, the screen jumped when I touched my finger to it and I almost had to pay for 11 bags instead of 1 bag. Fun!

kyoto kid

TJohn said:

Hi everybody!

..hey der hey. 

kyoto kid

LeatherGryphon said:

kyoto kid said:

...I tend to shop "European style" (purchasing for a few days instead of a couple weeks)  as I don't have a lot of storage space in my apartment or a chest freezer to "stock up" and make the delivery charge worth it. I also like picking out certain items myself like produce, fruit, and meats/seafood.  Yeah it's a bother at my age to go to the market (particularly the one that is further away for certain items the Safeway down the street doesn't handle or they overprice) but I deal with it.

I'm the opposite.  I've arranged my situation so that I rarely have to encounter those self-checkout/irritation machines.  Only when I'm forced to end up at WalMart do I even consider it if the lines are long, but soon talk myself out of it.  The CVS drugstore is another place that keeps hinting that I should "take advantage" of the irritation machines, but I always wait for the store clerk or the pharmacist.  And as for mass groceries, I order most of my canned goods on the Internet in bulk.  Usually 8 or 12 items in a "flat" or 24 items in a "case".(gotta remember to tip the postman well this Christmas)  I keep about six months of canned and dried food(life sustaining, if not filling or exotic) at all times.  When the sun flares and the power & communication around the world goes out, I'll have a few months before panic sets in (perhaps enough time to plant a garden, or strangle a deer.)

But at least I'm in an area where the water comes out of the ground freely, the ground is fertile and not covered with concrete or asphalt, and I could plant a big garden, and strangle a deer trying to beat me to the produce.

...don't get me wrong, I loathe the things as well.  The only reason I end up using them at times is the Safeway down the street often only has one, occasionally two regular checkout lanes open (out of 7), neither of which are express lanes for those with only a few items.    So that is the reason I often see long queues of people with full trolleys that often snake back into the aisles.

The Safeway in my area also has an odd configuration in that they sectioned off an area which has OTC medications/healthcare stuff, wine, laundry detergent, and paper goods with two checkout stands at the entrance. If you have to get any of those items, you have to go through one of the two checkout lanes there in that section of the store (usually the only ones that are open as well)  Even if you just need a pack of TP or a bottle of dishwashing soap, you are forced to stand in line often behind several people with overloaded trolleys and deal with, I swear, the slowest cashiers I've ever seen.

This store is not out on the fringe  of town, it's just a little ways from downtown in what is a fairly upscale neighbourhood.  Apparently the layout change was made to prevent shoplifting even though they have a couple of security guards at each door and I'm sure, in store surveillance. I do find it odd they don't have those sensor thingies at the doors (like other markets have) which beep if someone tries to smuggle something out under their jacket without paying.

If the other market wasn't so far away, about a mile walk  (not an enjoyable experience in bad weather) or a somewhat circuitous transit trip (with a transfer and wait for a connection), I'd shop there more often.

TJohn

Hi again! I'm doing OK. On the current subject: I loathe Self-Checkout. I'just don't use them, and never will, because store owners, running a register is a JOB and I DON'T WORK FOR YOU!

Gordig

I adore self-checkout. The only problem with them is that Fred Meyer (known as Kroger elsewhere in the country) recently disabled the ability to mute them, so now I have no choice but to hear the basic instructions for operation after every item I scan.

AgitatedRiot

It's been quiet around here. UPS guy caught Bullet (My Black Cat) unaware and spooked him. I haven't seen hide or hair except for a flash of blackness occasionally, a Spooky Black Kitty that got spooked.

Black cat startled, flees

Delivery man, once a friend

Now a foe, beware

kyoto kid

...yeah the inability to mute the self checkouts at FM is annoying. 

BTW, Fred Meyer is that "other market" I mention about  which is much further away.  There I rarely if ever use the self checkouts as they always have more checkout lanes open than the Safeway down the block and their cashiers are much quicker.

Yeah, disappointing to see "Kroger" brand instead of FM and the Western Family ones on the shelf these days as the latter two were more locally produced.

WendyLuvsCatz

my Denis started growling and hissing this morning especially when touched and when he walks.

I rang my brother (who had to drive across town), in a panic (me that is panicking)

went to vet who can find nothing wrong ( other than the behaviour)

have some anti-inflammitory meds could be strain (was having zoomies prior) or urinary inflammation ( but bladder empty)

he is very miserable

thing is Lynx was playing and happy then suddenly growled and dropped dead 2 years ago

they cannot tell you what's wrong

IceScribe

aAcomplaint at myself, I temporarily lost my DAZ content, fiddling with the content manager, and DIM to be able to download products directly to my external drive. 

It's a question I'mseeking the answer to, still. I should've copied the pathway that worked. But in Windows 11, the path names are not clearly visible, once I get one in, and then the darned window would abbreviate -shrink the path, which wasn't clear for me, and the Thing that shall not be named left little folders here and there with partial item, which made it worse. Upshot was, I had exported all my content to the hard drive, emptying my DAZ.

Don't ask me how I managed to to that I have no idea. Panicked ,strode around the yard, holdintg my head in alas and alack. When I retunred, I gently poked around menus. Much gratitude for DAZ content manager---it had kept the original install path in a drop down menu. Also the good DIM kept a dropdown menu with the original install path. So, back in business with DAZ studio! Meanwhile, my external drive should be well backed up. i'd like to add I miss Boolean operators. 

IceScribe

McGyver said:

NylonGirl said:

I started avoiding self checkout early on because the items I wanted were always too light for the scale to detect them, so I needed assistance from an employee anyway. I think they've gotten better since then but I still don't use them unless whoever I'm with makes a big deal out of it.

I loathe self checkout for the opposite reason... how does one "gently" place a 42 pound box of water jugs on a scale when they are already super annoyed?...

Aside from eggs, nitroglycerin and bananas, I just want to toss my scanned items onto the platform... not to mention that for some reason almost half the vendors of such systems have felt that one second between completion of scan and contact with the platform is way too long, so they have the stupid register computer voice nag you like some obnoxious Cylon drone... "Please place you purchase on the platform or chose your payment options"... which generally leads me to say very unpleasant things back to my Cybernagatronic antagonist... very, very unpleasant things. Very. Unpleasant.

I've had the stupid scale have a conniption because I've placed a 40+ pound item on the platform at .005% less that Absolute Gentle... which causes it to freak out, thinking I'm trying to heist diamonds or something and thus stop the process, notifying me "Help is on the way", making me want to hop up and down on the platform like Daffy Duck lit out of his mind on cocaine... 

"Help"... I'll give you "Help", you sorry excuse for not paying actual human beings a living wage... the worst part is the lazy programming and shortcomings of the lame adaptation of what could be useful technology... like cyber-bro... you can't tell the item was accidentally put down slightly too hard?... like it's that initial moment of contact and that's it?... like I've got to be Indiana Jones placing the object on the dais exactly right or you are going to send the incredibly irate and overworked attendant rolling after me?

Apparently we have very round boulder-like cash register attendants around here...

And then there is the stupid pay-pad thing... 85% of them are made by the same company, yet even when they use the default set-up, it's still inconsistent... here we've done away with plastic bags in favor of poorly made flimsy paper bags for 5¢ each or reusable bags that take decades longer to breakdown in landfills... but yay, they are made of 10% recycled plastic recovered from the bowels of dead whale who choke on them... but the point is nobody can even do the plastic bags interface the same way... "how many bags did you purchase?..."  some ask immediately, some wait until you are about to pay, some ask after you chose your payment method (card, debit or animal bartering), some ask "none or enter a number", some just show a keypad and don't explain what the hell it's for if you didn't pay attention the question that flashed on the tiny screen for two tenths of a second, one actually says "none thank you, I brought my own bag" and so on... 

So like if you tend to shop at a particular store you get used to that setup, but you go somewhere else and it starts asking different questions, menus are out of order or it asks you stupid questions like "$45.56... Ok?(green check mark) or red X?"... Like what's the option there really? If I choose the red X, can I haggle for a better price?... Because $45.56 for $6 worth of crappy merchandise is way too much, so "not Okay"... okay?  Like cause honestly you keep charging more every day and I feel like your ever shrinking package of store brand cheese still isn't worth more than that dead seagull I found in the parking lot, which I'm sure if you gave me the opportunity to haggle and barter, could definitely be used to make a decent amount of overpriced "chicken" salad for the deli section, so you'd actually probably still make a good profit and I'd be happyish and the seagull could finally rest in peace in someone's sandwich... Win-win.

And then on top of all that, stores are locking up stuff like Spam (Spam... yeah... artificial meat... was locked up in a store in Queens), was that to save people from eating it or were people joke-stealing it?... regardless, they lock stuff up because people are stealing it and instead of hiring a reasonable number of employees, they have poor 87 year old Margie watching the entire store and are wondering why despite her cataract surgery giving her back most of her eyesight, people are looting the store... and now I have to wait 20 minutes for someone to unlock the toothpaste at the pharmacy and then self checkout myself on a naggy technologically outdated crap box that spits out a three foot long register receipt full of coupons I'll never use... also might I mention that that receipt tends to randomly emerge from different random places on the same pharmacy chain's exactly-the-same self checkout machines... so even after making my visit thoroughly unpleasant, you find one last way of tweaking my nipples, by making the receipt come out of different location... near the floor, three feet to right... in back of the card scanner, next to bar code scanner gun that doesn't work... so no matter what you are standing there looking at the slot with the big blinking illuminated arrow pointing to it, but instead the receipt already printed out in back of the scale six fe

et to the left or some random place like that... "Please take your receipt... Please take your receipt... Please take your receipt..."

 

Fortunately, I 

 

butterflyfish

WendyLuvsCatz said:

my Denis started growling and hissing this morning especially when touched and when he walks.

I rang my brother (who had to drive across town), in a panic (me that is panicking)

went to vet who can find nothing wrong ( other than the behaviour)

have some anti-inflammitory meds could be strain (was having zoomies prior) or urinary inflammation ( but bladder empty)

he is very miserable

That sounds really scary. I hope he's OK.

thing is Lynx was playing and happy then suddenly growled and dropped dead 2 years ago

they cannot tell you what's wrong

 I'm sorry for your loss. 

Richard Haseltine

WendyLuvsCatz said:

my Denis started growling and hissing this morning especially when touched and when he walks.

I rang my brother (who had to drive across town), in a panic (me that is panicking)

went to vet who can find nothing wrong ( other than the behaviour)

have some anti-inflammitory meds could be strain (was having zoomies prior) or urinary inflammation ( but bladder empty)

he is very miserable

thing is Lynx was playing and happy then suddenly growled and dropped dead 2 years ago

they cannot tell you what's wrong

I hope it proves to be a minor,passing irritation and not anything serious.

kyoto kid

...I don't bother with the Content Manager or Smart Content as I am retired and no longer paid to be a database manage to troubleshoot things when something goes wrong. 

AgitatedRiot

Richard Haseltine said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

my Denis started growling and hissing this morning especially when touched and when he walks.

I rang my brother (who had to drive across town), in a panic (me that is panicking)

went to vet who can find nothing wrong ( other than the behaviour)

have some anti-inflammitory meds could be strain (was having zoomies prior) or urinary inflammation ( but bladder empty)

he is very miserable

thing is Lynx was playing and happy then suddenly growled and dropped dead 2 years ago

they cannot tell you what's wrong

I hope it proves to be a minor,passing irritation and not anything serious.

Animals acting strange and weird is not new. My older cat is OK. She doesn't care about anything except getting you to lie down with her. Strange things are happening around the world with animals. There are many videos of pets acting weird before disasters; I am near the New Madrid Fault. Maybe 200 to 250 Miles away. That doesn't matter, though.

New Madrid Fault. Which is still active and holds the highest earthquake risk in North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Based on sedimentary rock, the damage it can cause is up to twenty times greater than that on the West Coast.

In the winter of 1811–12, all hell broke loose and rang bells thousands of Miles away. It changed the course of a river. There is even talk about how it may create Islands in the middle of the US. Tornado season is just about over, so it's not that.

My Black is out and moving about but still acting spooked. He only came out because I fixed Salmon last night, the little mendicant.

Sfariah D

For McGyver

kyoto kid

AgitatedRiot said:

Richard Haseltine said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

my Denis started growling and hissing this morning especially when touched and when he walks.

I rang my brother (who had to drive across town), in a panic (me that is panicking)

went to vet who can find nothing wrong ( other than the behaviour)

have some anti-inflammitory meds could be strain (was having zoomies prior) or urinary inflammation ( but bladder empty)

he is very miserable

thing is Lynx was playing and happy then suddenly growled and dropped dead 2 years ago

they cannot tell you what's wrong

I hope it proves to be a minor,passing irritation and not anything serious.

Animals acting strange and weird is not new. My older cat is OK. She doesn't care about anything except getting you to lie down with her. Strange things are happening around the world with animals. There are many videos of pets acting weird before disasters; I am near the New Madrid Fault. Maybe 200 to 250 Miles away. That doesn't matter, though.

New Madrid Fault. Which is still active and holds the highest earthquake risk in North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Based on sedimentary rock, the damage it can cause is up to twenty times greater than that on the West Coast.

In the winter of 1811–12, all hell broke loose and rang bells thousands of Miles away. It changed the course of a river. There is even talk about how it may create Islands in the middle of the US. Tornado season is just about over, so it's not that.

My Black is out and moving about but still acting spooked. He only came out because I fixed Salmon last night, the little mendicant.

...though I live where we could have a massive quake and tsunami event (worst than the one in Japan twelve years ago) due to the Cascadia Subduction Zone just 70 miles off the coast) I have also become quite concerned about the New Madrid fault.  Save for a tremor in 1969 that was felt as far north as Chicago and Milwaukee (the latter where I was living at the time) it has been rather dormant however the recent increase in earthquake activity in Texas, Oklahoma, and parts pf Arkansas are disconcerting as east central Texas and eastern Oklahoma are in what is called the New Madrid Seismic zone which is a large network of interconnected faults that extends east into the lower Ohio Valley .Much of the area has been seeing a rise in seismic activity that began occurring after high pressure fracking expanded in the area according to some geologists. 

Unlike in Japan and parts of the west coast here, most buildings in the Mississippi valley a region were not designed with earthquakes and as you mention the region is on sedimentary rock which transmits shockwaves much firther  A large quake like the one over centuries ago would pretty much flatten cities in the immediate area while causing serious damage as far north as Chicago and Milwaukee and to the east as Cincinnati.

DanaTA

Happy Birthday, LeatherGryphon?

LeatherGryphon

Awww shucks folks!  I'm speechless.

sazzyazzca

@WendyLuvsCatz I hope your Denis is back to normal soon. It's scary when you know there's something up but they can't tell you. I find it harder with cats than dogs because they hide it so much better.So sorry about your Lynx. I had one pass suddenly in March '22. I didn't witness it, but there were zero clues as to why it happened. She was only six. 

@frank0314 Belated Happy Birthday and congratulations on your weight loss! 

@LeatherGryphon Belated Happy ( belated? today? premature?) Birthday to you as well!

LeatherGryphon

Not belated.  Today is the day.  Today I am officially old old, not just government old(65).  It's my "diamond"(75th) anniversary of my birth.  On the downslope to 80.  Yeah, yeah, 75 isn't 80, but it's the next big goal.  I don't want to think that I don't have at least 5 more years left to annoy people in.  I'm just getting good at it.

 

A few days ago for a self-birthday present, I bought myself an audio graphic equalizer for my sound system.  I crank up the treble beginning at about 4kHz to compensate for high frequency impairment in my hearing.  Meh, it helps a little.  I don't reach for the "Captions" option quite as often.  Without it, squeaky women's voices are just mush to me.

JasmineSkunk

LeatherGryphon said:

Not belated.  Today is the day.  Today I am officially old old, just just government old.  It's my "diamond"(75th) anniversary of my birth.  On the downslope to 80.  Yeah, yeah, 75 isn't 80, but it's the next big goal.  I don't want to think that I don't have at least 5 more years left to annoy people in.  I'm just getting good at it.

 

A few days ago for a self-birthday present, I bought myself an audio graphic equalizer for my sound system.  I crank up the treble beginning at about 4kHz to compensate for high frequency impairment in my hearing.  Meh, it helps a little.  I don't reach for the "Captions" option quite as often.  Without it, squeaky women's voices are just mush to me.

HAPPY (actual) BIRTHDAY, LG!!! 

JasmineSkunk

Minor Complaints:

1. AEGES Ago....  Daz announced "All Base Are free" (which they later changed their mind about). At the time, I was quick to jump on that awesome developement and downloaded the installer that gave them to us. WELL... That installer only installs V3 now  and I don't have Hiro 3.0 backed up.  Somehow I still had his .obj file though. ((????))) So, I tried to drop his mesh into Aiko 3's Cr2 - which kinda worked, but not really. His joints and bones aren't perfect in there and his hands don't move right. His clothes don't work on the Genesis figure IIRC so I have a bunch of stuff for him I won't be able to use...So a little sad.

2. Many of the sets I got years ago, now come in both Ps and Ds versions. However.... It appears the Ds versions are using old shaders meant to work with 3Delight, I'm guessing, because they look hideous if rendered as they are. The Poser files seem less problematic, but that means uninstalling and reinstalling some stuff... (sigh)

3. I fear this new install process will never end and by the time I get everything back in, the world will have endured three Apocalypes and 20 versions of Daz Studio.

WendyLuvsCatz

JasmineSkunk if you grabbed all the free base figures they should be in your library 

JasmineSkunk

WendyLuvsCatz said:

JasmineSkunk if you grabbed all the free base figures they should be in your library 

No. They weren't distributed that way at the time. None of the old freebies that Daz gave were in the Product Library back then.

Charlie Judge

 

LeatherGryphon said:

Not belated.  Today is the day.  Today I am officially old old, just just government old.  It's my "diamond"(75th) anniversary of my birth.  On the downslope to 80.  Yeah, yeah, 75 isn't 80, but it's the next big goal.  I don't want to think that I don't have at least 5 more years left to annoy people in.  I'm just getting good at it.

HAPPY  BIRTHDAY !!

Hope you have a great day. 

Richard Haseltine

JasmineSkunk said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

JasmineSkunk if you grabbed all the free base figures they should be in your library 

No. They weren't distributed that way at the time. None of the old freebies that Daz gave were in the Product Library back then.

That isn't my recollection, if only because of the need to agree to the license terms. You are using the same account? (I have them in my account, but that may be because I purchased before they were free or purchased the bundles.)

LeatherGryphon

A friend called (not texted) me and invited me for a birthday lunch.  Wheee, she made roast beast, real mashed po-TAY-toes, and real squashed squash.  Mmmm...  Complete with lumps in everything including the gravy.

JasmineSkunk

Richard Haseltine said:

JasmineSkunk said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

JasmineSkunk if you grabbed all the free base figures they should be in your library 

No. They weren't distributed that way at the time. None of the old freebies that Daz gave were in the Product Library back then.

That isn't my recollection, if only because of the need to agree to the license terms. You are using the same account? (I have them in my account, but that may be because I purchased before they were free or purchased the bundles.)

I didn't have them purchased before hand. All I have is the installer that was given as a freebie at the time, which is called "All Base". Only it no longer installs all the base figures. It only installs V3 now, which I never liked or used. It's possible it was on an older account, but unlikely. I only remember, I grabbed them and saved the downloader, thinking that would secure them for me.