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It got so cold overnight that my PC made a lot of worrying noises this morning while trying to warm itself up. It’s only September, chill!

strangetomato said: She said it first, so I think she more than deserved it.

*shrugs* I just don’t care about people trying to talk me down to make themselves feel better (let’s be serious, that was 100% a power move) anymore. I think I stopped giving a fuck about what people I don’t care about think of me 10 years ago- which was good because I was known all over the place in high school.

holleyberry said: *sniff* It’s so sad the founders are all aging into elders 😦

God, yes. I tried to get them all to age up while in platinum so that they’ll be around for a long time, but still. Seeing them all grey and hunched over…

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My PC’s back and runs Sims just fine. Yay! (And I finally have my beloved spell check back!)

Sims = Fan fic?

mdpthatsme said: About the premades, I would think so.

primaverasims said: I would think so if it’s the premades since you imagine them outside of canon. But if it’s 100% original characters in a custom neighborhood (or emptied neighborhoods) I would categorize it as original fiction

ejsims said: agree with everyone about the premades-technically, those stories are fanfic.

strangetomato said: I think it’s similar to fanfiction, but not the same. What we are given with the premades are hints and clues to story and some character details that can be interpreted in endless ways. It’s more of a template for storytelling than a fiction work to transform, as in fanfic.

Hm, interesting point of views…I would agree that original characters aren’t fanfiction. And yeah, technically posting about the premades is fan fiction- although canon is much broader and it is more of a template than a given story.

katzengirl said: Yep, stories about the premades is fanfiction. 🙂 There’s even a category for the Sims on fanfiction.net though not many people have posted there.

Really? Wow. That’s kinda weird. I suppose it’s just text, too?

New graphics card

simlishnoir said: Nvidia GTX 750 is a good card that worked with TS2 and is quite decent for other games (maybe not the latest ones) as well. I personally use a GTX 1060 (after upgrading from the one mentioned before) and TS2 works for that as well.

ethanmcgregor said: I have Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and TS2 runs great with it.

Thank you for your suggestions! The game actually runs well with the graphics card I managed to lend (although it’s rather loud). I think I’ll look into the GTX 750, it sounds good and still cheap enough for a broke college student.

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Birthday wishes

strangetomato said: Happy Birthday! 🙂

fuzzyspork said: Happy Birthday! She’s the perfect candidate for a Good Genes challenge! 😀

taylors-simblr said: Happy Birthday!!

holleyberry said: Happy Belated Birthday!

Thank you soo much!!!

Cursor mishaps

davidmont said: LMAO

Yup. It was especially funny since I tried to show my bf how to play the game (I may or may not have burned Gallagher Newson to death) and he was like: “Um… is that supposed to happen?”

Sandy and Andrea rekindling their old friendship

didilysims said: That’s sweet. 🙂

So frikkin’ cute!!!

Timmy ignoring the noises upstairs…

didilysims said: Oh Timmy. 🙂

He’s walked in on them a couple of times now… He knows better than to go looking for them.

Püppi/Pupsi the mannequin

didilysims said: Ha ha, that’s excellent!

She freaked me out, but since them, I’ve noticed that the game likes to use a recently “used” Sim to act as the clothing mannequin. It’s weird.

A college for Middleground

holleyberry said: Townie teens as dormies is an awesome idea!

Yeah, they’re awesome (and they feel much more familiar than the default dormies or newly generated ones). Too bad there are only 8 of them. Because Timothy has already fallen for one. I may have to extract the teen NPCs.

Middleground orphanage

holleyberry said: I love Orlando. Hes a cutie.I played him as a spouse once until he and my sim died of old age.

Aw, how sweet! My Orlando is more of a deeply troubled troublemaker right now, but I’m curious how he’ll evolve.

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Exams are over and I only have one more term paper to write. Juchuu!

Aliens!

holleyberry said: Perfect gif use is perfect.

I was actually looking for that “Aliens.” guy, but when I found that gif, I knew I had to use it!

littleblondesim said: ooooooooooh, yes, now I remember!

I was sifting through my “Middleground” posts a few days ago and only then did I realise that even though my queue usually posts stuff every day, it can take a month before I return to a previously played family (well, posting-wise. I play two rounds straight whenever I feel like it (the joys of being a walking impaired person’s main caretaker- other than going to college and spending the weekend with my boyfriend, I end up spending a lot of time at home…)). Long story, short: I tend to forget that you don’t see things unfold in my game like I do. ^^

Pregnant women. Pregnant women everywhere.

holleyberry said: Oh! They are going to be very busy soon.

Yes, yes they are.

Plantsim Watergate

strangetomato said: Any liquid will do. 😛

Any liquid? *shudders*

Double clicking

littleblondesim said: yes!

Very exciting!

taylors-simblr said: I never knew that! But I did know that you can load a household by double clicking it

Oh, I knew about the lot double-clicking ages ago. But the neighbourhood clicking was completely new to me. Although now that I think about it, I could have probably guessed that if it works on lots, it also works on neighbourhoods…

Technically End of the year tag

didilysims said: Congrats on the job/career experience! That’s exciting!

Thank you! It is actually mandatory if you want to ‘master’ in Education and schools are required to take student/intern-teachers as long as they have the capacities (I guess they don’t want to end up with a bunch of teachers who quickly realise that they hate kids or something…) but yeah! I’m going to teach elementary school kids which will probably be very energy draining- but also very exciting.

Store sets

didilysims said: Wow you held out for a long time! The garbage cans were my favourite part of those too. 😀 Asian Fusion square garbage? *Everywhere.*

They are soooo awesome! The game seriously lacks any kind of trash can variety! (Can’t wait to redecorate half of Middleground with those furniture sets!)

I suck at Replies…

(Christmas break was extremly busy, sorry)

Cuddles meets Famine:

cindysimblr said: Meow! Great picture 😀

That’s the one picture of them I took that wasn’t them fighting. They do not get along at all.

Ripp-Ophelia-Johnny Love triangle:

strangetomato said: ❤

holleyberry said: Ripp yes!

strangetomato said: Aww. 😦

We’ll see what happens.

Dinner-for-one reblog (beating a dead horse):

didilysims said: I was thinking of this while setting the table for New Year’s. 🙂

XD. Ever watched it (it’s probably on Youtube)? When my grandparents were still alive, my grandfather often imitated James. He was nearly blind, so a few times it was not quite voluntary. ^^

Me debating whether to start a BACC:

katatty-main said: im always attempting to start baccs, too! i never even finish building the starter houses, haha

mooseabides said: Story of my life! Haha.

eulaliasims said: A succinct summary of every bacc I’ve tried to start too.

I feel you. BACCs are hard, especially since I have the attention span of a goldfish, zero patience and have difficulties connecting with self-made Sims… Gets even worse because I had to read so many Victorian novels for college that I kind of want to play a Victorian/ old timey BACC… Yeah, that ain’t happening…

Non-Sims text post about I’m a celebrity – get me out of here:

asimminggibbon said: Big in Ireland!

Good to know! My parents watch it religiously and since it started yesterday, it’s dominating the news. Wondered if this was just something German people inexplicitly love.

Someone was concerned about my WTF post, but I’ve since deleted it. I actually answered it via reply, but I’m not sure if it reached you. Nothing bad happened, just watched the new Sherlock episode (I’m studying English, that’s kinda mandatory XD) and felt the need to express myself.

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Sorry, it took me a while to read through your comments. I’m busy with my term paper (English studies, writing about Gatsby because he’s really big in Germany) right now, but almost finished. Yay!

(Regarding my post about how I want to play LFT)

holleyberry said: You could also combine/break up houses to keep things interesting.

Uhh, that might be a good idea. Spice things up… Yeah, I can see myself doing that. Thanks!

(The Single’s part including General Buzz Grunt where Chloe did NOTHING)

holleyberry said: Get up and do some damage Chloe.

She was a bit too civil. How can you have a feud with someone when you don’t fight each other every time you see them?!

(Crystal hitting Olive)

holleyberry said: That’s dangerous Crystal.

strangetomato said: Crystal’s got a lotta nerve. I wouldn’t mess with Olive.

She has ovaries of steel, that’s for sure!

(Me taking too many pictures)

littleblondesim said: psh, no such thing as too many sims pictures

Ha! I only posted like ¾ of the pictures I took of the Singles round…

(Chloe-Erin-Abhijeet-maybe-love-triangle)

littleblondesim said: oh dear

Just you wait… Just you wait…

(Ripp discussing love at the Smith dinnertable)

nestadaughter said: He’s giving some valuable advice, for sure.

Maybe he’s taking advice? He is approaching college age and is still unkissed… 7/9 listening to him have way more experience (even Vidcund, “Übernerd” has been kissed!)

(Ophelia and Lola dancing next to Jenny and PT preparing to wohoo)

holleyberry said: They obviously don’t mind an audience.

I… I have no words for this (that won’t attract a porn-blog)

(Ajay rolls a lifetime want to become Head of the SCIA)

didilysims said: Perfect!

It was just too good to be true! Love this!

(Ajay deeming Chloe too boring)

holleyberry said: Chloe? Boring?!

It’s Ajay! I think his choices of conversation and hers differ greatly.

Thanks for your comments, guys! I really appreciate it!

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strangetomato answered: Turn ons are randomly generated every game for the basegame premades, so those can’t really be taken into account. My thoughts on the bad relationship score was that Buzz doesn’t get along with anyone, but all of your questions there are good ones.

Oh, I know that. ^^ I was just trying to emphasise that they have great “natural” chemistry. Yeah, he doesn’t like anyone. He’s probably not too happy to be stuck in this weird small town with -gasp- ALIENS!

holleyberry said: Sneak out only shows after 10 pm.

Oh, I must have confused that with the “Go out” interaction. Thank you!

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(To my text post about Olive and General Buzz Grunt).

katatty-main said: I doubt chemistry was considered when making them, since it wasn’t added until nightlife, but her want to invite him over (when they’re enemies!) is definitely suspicious…

Yeah, but before there was chemistry, they were things like Aspirations, Interests, Zodiacs that determined how two Sims get along. They were later implemented into the chemistry system. I don’t think that was coincidental.

BTW, almost every male in my game has two bolts with her, even if their turn-ons don’t match. (For example, Pascal Curious is into athletic and stink which sounds more like Kristen Loste than Olive.)

strangetomato said: I’ve definitely considered that theory. At least that she plans to kill him. She often has a want to invite him over, and he will always show up, despite a bad relationship score.

Yeah, it is somewhat weird. I guess Maxis intended us to kill the General (I mean, he isn’t very sympathetic with his xenophobic sentiments against aliens. And Ripp is quite possible to Strangetown what Lilith is to Pleasantview). But why do they hate each other? Did he find out that Olive killed Lyla? Did Olive kill Lyla because she was his ex-wife? Is he angry at Olive for taking in Lyla after the divorce?