RobertaME

No Christmas before Thanksgiving. For us, it's a matter of not losing respect for the other holidays that come after Halloween/Nevada Day (yes, Nevada still celebrates our Admission day, which was October 31st, 1864, as a State holiday) and before the Christmas season. Election Day, Veterans Day, and Thanksgiving basically get ignored at most theme parks because they're pushing to get all the Christmas money they can... same at most stores. It's a shame, really. I for one would like to see more places hold off on Christmas stuff until AFTER Thanksgiving to give those holidays a chance to shine. (my local WM has had Christmas stuff out for almost 3 weeks already! Ugh!)

Wow! That was a long video, but you showed off some amazing details!

Rush is very well done! Love the night view... the lighting is perfect!

This is probably the Mom in me, but I still hold a special place in my heart for "It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (1966)". It's innocent and funny and reminds me of when my boys were little and we would go Trick-or-Treating together. Now they're all grown up and too old for all that. :,^/ As for horror movies, my taste trends toward the more intellectual... movies like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)" or even older like "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)". (which BTW was amazing given the limited technology of the time) For more modern horror I still trend toward the older stuff like "Alien (1979)" or "The Thing (1982)" and other sci-fi horror movies. (my SO likes vampire movies... blech!) I also get a kick out of old B-rate sci-fi horror films of the 50s-70s like "Phantom from Space (1953)" and "Night of the Lepus (1972)" that are just fun to watch. (and my boys are worse than Tom Servo and Crow from MST3K!) Paranormal films like "The Amityville Horror (1979)" or "Poltergeist (1982)" or "The Omen (1976)" are okay sometimes, (and far creepier than any of the "body horror" films like "Saw" or the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies that are just gross, not scary) but I have to be in the mood for them. Otherwise they're just something to watch while I do my grocery list. :^Þ Great topic, @Cody! I look forward to other peoples' perspectives.

Thanks. @Anon-P, even an All In One liquid cooling solution will eventually fail. It's inevitable. Hoses break or leak... pumps fail... radiators get clogged... etc. Entropy wins every time! :^Þ In MY use-case, downtime and data loss are far more important factors than cutting-edge speed. Case in point, just a few weeks ago, one of my oversized CPU fans failed. No big deal... CPU temp went up to a whopping 65°C at idle and I knew something was wrong right away, but I didn't have to shut my system down until I got a replacement... just not run anything CPU stressful for a few days. We could still watch shows and movies and the file server remained up while the new fans were shipped. I got replacements for both CPU fans and both my main case fans for $70 since I figured if one fan failed it's likely all of them were on short time since they were installed at the same time. System was down for all of 2 hours one day while everyone else was away from home while I swapped them out and re-cleaned the interior. (I clean it every start of Spring and Fall so it'd recently been cleaned, but re-did it anyway since I could) Now CPU temps are down in the high 40s at idle again (high 60s under stress) and there was no notable downtime for anyone in the house. It's a matter of priorities. In my use case, reliability and up-time are more critical since everyone in my family depends on the file server being up for shared access and at night during family time we all depend on it to watch our shows and movies. That it can also run RCT3 and KSP with tons of mods is nice, but running the latest games at 120 fps isn't our use case. Also, you can't get 16 tb SSDs for massive video data storage of our library of 1,300 movies and over 10,000 TV show episodes that we ripped from our DVD/BRs... SSD that big just aren't practical and their reliability is too low for our use case. Your use case may be different so you have different priorities... and that's okay too! Hope that helps you see my point. :^) Edit: Saw you reply to @Kablary while I was writing a reply. :^)

Welcome to PC! We have a great little community here. Looking forward to seeing your creations!

Thanks! As you probably can tell, I'm a huge AiW fan! Not my hair, though. Luckily a good wig can hide my red hair well! (a red-headed Alice just doesn't look the same)

I learned electronics from my father when I was 8 years old. He taught me computers in my teens and for a time during college, I was in the PC repair field. One lesson from all that stands out: EVERY part eventually fails. It's not a matter of if, but when. I bought the most reliable SSD available and it still failed after only a couple years. I like hardware that's reliable because I've lost too much data due to failures in the past. Hardware is replaceable with money... data is much harder to replace because it requires time. I lost months of data when my SSD failed and it was not retrievable due to the nature of SSDs. Platter HDs that fail can have their data salvaged, and if you set it up right (such as I have with a RAID 1 arrangement) a HD failure is just a matter of inconvenience... simply pull the dead drive, replace with a new HD, let them sync up, and you're right back to where you started with no data loss. (admittedly, with a 16TB RAID, syncing takes a while, but it does get there eventually) It's why I dislike liquid-cooled thermal solutions... too many single points of failure. Lines clogged or pinched? Dead CPU. Pump dies? Dead CPU. Fans die or are jammed? Dead CPU. Line leak? Dead CPU... and likely dead everything else. Additionally, my system is our primary entertainment center and data server of our home network... and it sits in our living room under our TV for watching movies and shows on. Silent operation is a must-have. Thus why I have a fanless GPU thermal solution with an oversized heat sink and large diameter case fans that are whisper quiet. (the larger the fan, the more air it can move at a lower RPM, and it's RPMs that make audible noise) Each to their own, but my system demands are specific which requires specific solutions. For your uses, maybe an SSD is good enough... but for me, reliability is much more important than speed. :^)

"Zoo? What zoo?" - PS Vision Gaming... probably. :^Þ

My family did the Mickey's Halloween Party at DL Anaheim back in 2012. It was okay, but HUGELY crowded! The best part was that I got to dress up as Alice and my oldest son as The Mad Hatter, which made for some very special memories!

Thursday last I lost my best friend John to a sudden stroke. He was only 56. Not posting this up to get sympathy or anything, (I've gotten plenty of that from everyone) just noting it here in case I go MIA for a bit, you all know why. John loved making parks with me on RCT3. He even got it for the Switch so he could flesh out some design ideas when he was at work. (he was a graveyard shift security guard, so he had lots of dead time at night) We also did a lot of stuff with KSP, including making a Mod together, so that's why I'm focusing my efforts on KSP for the moment... I want to update the Mod we made and dedicate it to him. Thanks in advance for your understanding. I'll be back soon. :^)

Totally get that! At the moment, I've put my RCT3 stuff on hold because I've got the KSP bug again... but sooner or later I'll be back to RCT3 again.

Mini Snickers for me. It really satisfies! :^Þ Lacking that, Kit Kats are almost as good. Unfortunately, I'm on a diet ATM... hopefully I'll drop those last 5 pounds before the end of October. (just in time to put them back on!) We do have all of our Halloween candy already bought for this year, though. Nice mix of Chocolaty (mini candy bars, Reece's cups, etc.) and Sugary. (Smarties, Tootsie pops, Nerds, etc.) We get enough that we let each kid take a fistful of each. (our house is really popular around Halloween!)

The more you do, the better it gets! Awesome work, @PS Vision Gaming!

When I read this, the first thing I thought was, "What? No bathrooms? No Info stalls? No food? No First Aid Stations? Then I saw that yous, you have those... just no rides other than roller-coasters. Seriously though, I like it! It's a unique park concept. I assume you have a good mix of Excitement and Intensity? (some very exciting and others less so to appeal to all tastes) The park layout looks beautiful! Thanks for sharing! :^)

I love this! It reminds me of Disney's Souvenir Maps that you get at the parks. The park also seems very intelligently laid out with good attraction, dining, and restroom placement. Only thing I think could be improved would be to put Information stalls in two other areas... at the Tokyo side of the bridge over the channel and next to the restroom on the walkway between Amity and Pompeii. Even if they don't do any good in game, it would round out the park's amenities from a purely fluff perspective. Even without that though, it's still awesome! :^)

Thank you so much for sharing, @Bookworm91! They're all wonderful, but I have to say I like Disney in the Stars the best because it looks like something you'd actually see at the parks... complete with setting and trees. Bravo! Ugh! You hit me in my pet peeve! It's bated breath, as in subdued (abated) in anticipation. Baited would mean that you're using using your breath to lure animals into a snare... which I'm sure is not what you meant. :^Þ

Fantastic, @Bookworm91! It reminds me of my own show, but dialed up to 11! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful piece of your past. I truly love it!

You're driving me nuts with teasers waiting to see this new display! I can hardly wait! It looks like it's going to be spectacular!

Very nicely done, @Wilhelm1407. The only thing I don't like about your coaster vids is that you always seem to cut off the ride POV right before the train returns to the loading area, so I never seem to get a chance to really get a good look at the amazing level of detail you put there. I guess nobody's perfect. ;^)

::blush:: Thanks! It was hard learning how to sync things up since there were no tutorials on how to make good displays back then... so everyone just learned on their own. Getting the timing down was painstaking, but worth it in the end! I've only ever done one other show of any complexity, and that was my "When Can We Do This Again?" water show. I still plan to do a good recording of the show at some point and post it up. Other than that, I don't really have any plans to make more shows since that's not my primary interest in the game. Mostly my interest is in coming up with new ways to solve the scenarios and making use of the hundreds of CSs/CFRs/CTRs I've downloaded over the years, now that I've learned how to edit OVLs and fix little issues I've had with them. (there's some really beautiful custom content out there that have horribly broken stats or are far too cheap and sort of make it feel like cheating) I think I'll leave the master-class shows to people like you and the others here that show true talent!

Seconded. @Gin, if it's a matter of thinking your work isn't good enough, please direct your attention to this content I posted up. It can't be that bad! :^Þ

I don't know about anyone else, but I like the setting. It goes well with the music and has just that right mix of authenticity and eeriness... natural and yet, unnatural. Looking forward to the final product! :^)

Okay, managed to find it in my terabytes of old data storage! This was made in 2006. (I had to run it through a compression since the original file was 70mb) Fantasy in the Sky (RCT3).mkv I know it's very basic, but at the time I was very proud of it! (and I still am, to a degree!)

Mine must be buried VERY deep... so deep that my (very crafty) mother could never dig it out! Seriously though, you're quite talented! FAR moreso than myself! The closest thing to "craftiness" that I get is much more practical... such as the PV power system I built with my father for my camper so I could have AC and a microwave when out camping... or the blueprints I made for the carpenters to follow to make our enclosed porch and the guest bathroom... or the whole-house battery backup I'm building for my home. Not so much "craftiness" as it is functional design, though! Your model for your facade is quite impressive. Best of luck with the full-size version! :^)