Hi Brent, I’m actually not sure what’s with the various fonts my posts show up in.
You mention reposting many times, is there a way to unpost to fix such things? Or did you mean litterally re-posting messages? As for the punctuation, perhaps. The double dots .. are meant to act like “long pauses” to which I’m not aware of a standard way of expressing that. I have seen the extended(long) dash used as such, though not exactly, & I actually didn’t find it in the Character Map. 1/2 an hour ? Try 4 hours lol :) of making sure everything is as fair as I can make it, while admittantly conveying some emotion (or perhaps some bluntness) in a quite intentional way if I may say so.. (or in a “channelled” and respectful way, .. which considerably differs from like gratuitous “free bashing” to which I really don’t think applies to my remarks) While knowing for a fact that the “emotional charge” you reference, to be a major factor for any effort to have any sort of impact, as opposed to merely adding to the background noise. And I must admit that I didn’t really have to “fake it”, while objectively (I think) finding it quite reasonable and fair in light of certain situations. All of which can also be the source of my reluctance at revealing myself, being in this industry (and in a small world), if some of my “noisy” pleadings are to have any sort of bearing on how things play out (even if small or if at all), I would’nt want either Credit or Reprisal to that effect, and that is my (quite legitimate & rightful) choice to make, while knowing that whoever anyone is, should not have any relevance to any issue at hand, apart from satisfying mere curiosity. As for the Held for moderation bit, I’d like to add (also to Stephen?) that when I said “what makes me think it was NOT censorship” while perhaps implying that I actually thought it was, was that more than a few things led me to believe that it really was.. (at the time). While at the same time wanting to minimize the importance of that in contrast to the bulk, or the main purpose of my message. But even if I may have had “good reason to believe”, I’m in full agreement that waiting for a reply (to be sure) before posting that bit, would have been the least I could have done (also by my own conclusions after posting), and my apologies given to Maurice (and posting an “errattum”) was for exactly that. (learning from my mistakes :) Anyway, Thanks very much for your input! Best ________________________________ From: Brent McPherson <brent.mcpher...@autodesk.com> To: Fx Person <fxper...@rocketmail.com>; "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com" <softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 6:50 AM Subject: RE: Area ate my message ( and spit it out again :) FxPerson, You have a tendency to write in partial sentences, use strange punctuation and use multiple font sizes in your emails. This makes it hard to understand the points you are trying to make. Writing is hard. I will often rewrite a single email or posting multiple times until it feels right. I think it was Luc-Eric who once told me it can take him 1/2 hour to craft a single reply to this list and I am in the same ballpark. I don't really have any advice other than to keep re-reading and refining your message until it is as clear as you can make it. Also, never write when you are upset or emotionally charged. In those situations I will often compose my reply but then sit on it for a few hours or maybe even a day and then go back a rewrite it when I have calmed down. Treat others with respect and try not to assume intent before you know all the facts. A better reply to the "held for moderation" message would have been to just state what happened and ask what it means. Finally, posting under my real name helps because if I fuck up and say the wrong thing it reflects on me personally. Making mistakes and learning the hard way can be a very good thing IMHO. ;-) Cheers! -- Brent From:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Fx Person Sent: 06 January 2013 13:40 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Area ate my message ( and spit it out again :) @Raffaele & Stefan Actually the Line Breaks are manual (not left to the automatic line breaks of the page width) which normally should be easier to read, but the Area fixed page width ended-up slightly shorter than measured, resulting in sporadic extra line breaks with 1 or 2 words on the extra lines.. Would have fixed-it if there was an Edit button, but there was not. But << **Could not** read / understand it >> ? (hum..) @Andy Not sure about the distress.. strong feelings perhaps.. as for your previous post.. Yep.. aah! sales.. But what makes me somewhat hopeful, particularly for when MayaFX would come out, in respects to what would be left of ICE marketing, (ICE Marketing being whats left of SI Marketing) .. from what I can tell, "the industry" seems to be moving towards the smaller-shop market, and that includes Autodesk.. Smaller-shops/indy freelancers being exactly where SI can shine (or outperform) most, and where AD would have a few very good contenders there (Modo.. C4D..) (unless they would acquire them all .. gna-hahaha!) and where Maya may feel a bit overbloated. Otherwise, if they only knew how much (Godforsaken) sales they may be about to miss-out on. Depending on how things turn out, I'm personally keeping an eye on Modo (workflow/philosophy-wise ) while having witnessed an increasing amount of actual job posts mentioning it. (and while surely also keeping-on using SI at home, as I would Photoshop if it got aquired by Corel & replaced with Corel Paint) Also please don't apologize! I personally found your long post to be rather short! :) ________________________________ From:Andy Moorer <andymoo...@gmail.com> I was the same, I saw it as indicative of a degree of distress and strong conflicting feelings on the matter. (Shrugs) I can accept that, I've vented on this board myself (probably to the annoyance of the rest of you, heh, apologies.) In a sense, I'm glad Softimage is a tool which can arouse this degree of emotion, I think it's an amazing tool and am glad others also feel as strongly. But I hope nobody will stress themselves out too much. :) On Jan 6, 2013, at 1:13 AM, Raffaele Fragapane <raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > If I have to be honest, I couldn't puzzle out, or read the entirety of, the > post due to the layout/typography being so... messy? > > I don't even get what is a quote, a self-quote, a statement, or anything else. > I might be alone in this, but I really couldn't get through the lot, and not > for lack of trying. ________________________________ Autodesk Limited Registered Office: One Discovery Place, Columbus Drive, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 0NZ Registered in England and Wales, No. 1839239
