~The Mandalorian~ **SPOILERS AHEAD!!!** Don't read if you haven't watched The Mandalorian TV series yet!!!! My father took me to watch Star Wars on the theaters back in 1977, and nothing was the same after that. It was a mix of the lore, the costumes, the sets, the characters, and of course, the special effects. The story was nothing to write home about, but it was an example where the whole was more than the sum of the parts. The bottom line was that I was hooked into that universe, the lore, and its characters. It was a time when, if we wanted to watch it again, that would mean buying another ticket and going to the movie theaters again, or wait for it to play on TV. That was before VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs or any kind of streaming service. Watching movies was like an “experience”, making it more special than it is nowadays. I remember the anticipation, and even dressing up for the event. Maybe it won’t have the same effect nowadays, where videos can be stored and played from anywhere

** Poser 12 Switching to Python 3 ** Poser has supported Python automations since version 4, and over time, the supported Python version was sometimes updated to a newer version, breaking existing tools and plug-ins created by third parties. This is usually not well received by the community, since people start relying on 3rd party plug-ins to perform action automations that make life much easier, or sometimes, even things Poser can’t do on its own. Well, looks like Poser 12 will be one of these cases. As of today, Charles Taylor (Nerd3D) has publicly announced that Poser will finally move on from old school Python 2.7, even because Python 2 has reached its official end-of-life retirement by the end of last year. That is, Python 2 is officially no longer supported by the makers. It was given a 10 years leeway, so people could move their code to Python 3, and that grace period has ended last December. Having that said, we also have another related issue when it comes to Poser Python

** Eclipse - A Hidden Object Game ** I find it amusing that DA makes public announcements to explain to us why we dislike Eclipse. But I didn’t expect to be insulted for giving back some feedback about it. First, they now refer to us as the “vocal minority”, by claiming that the majority of newbies who have just joined “prefer” Eclipse. First of all, new members were forbidden from ever seeing the old interface, so how could they have an opinion about it? Last time I’ve checked, “better” had no meaning unless compared to something else, right? What would newbies, who were forced straight into Eclipse, and therefore have never seen how it was before, could possibly tell what is “better”. Is that how we have a “majority” liking Eclipse - by forbidding them to see how it was before? What if they had allowed new members to use the old interface? What if they liked it? Would we still have this alleged “majority” of people thinking that Eclipse is “better”? We will never know. All I can