Happy New President Day!
So, we’re all moved into the new apartment. It’s very nice and uncluttered! I would show pictures, but I’m waiting to take those until Andy finishes putting up his junk in his mess of a room. Which will absolutely never happen, by the way, so I guess you’re not going to see pictures. Oh well.
Not a whole lot else going on, except work, which isn’t exciting and still eats up too much of my day. We had yesterday off, which was nice, but now I’m sad because we have no other holidays until March (we get a few days spring break). I should be grateful we have what we do! Andy doesn’t get shit until Memorial Day.
Anyway, it’s about a month until Sims 3 comes out. WHO’S EXCITED? I AM. At least, I hope I am. I got bored to death with Sims 2, so I’m hoping that’s just specific to Sims 2, and not Sims in general.
One thing I’ve been thinking about is a new place to “hangout” for The Sims 3. I will always love the Sims 2 Writers’ Hangout, but the more I click my bookmark out of habit everyday, the more I realize that place just isn’t for me anymore, and I don’t think that will change with Sims 3. If I could go back, there would be a LOT of things I would change about that place that I helped implement when I was helping administrate. A lot. I think the entire structure is just set up to fail and breed drama.
With Sims 3, I’d like a more general social site that has groups you can join/leave that focus on the various aspects of the game. I like writing stories. But that’s not all I like. I liked contests, games like legacy, and even editing pictures for a time. I think with the Hangout, part of the problem was that things weren’t catered to different interest groups very well, and that set the ground for lots of drama over editing and its varying degrees.
I would like a Sims 3 hangout that is more like one of those Ning sites (though not hosted on Ning, I’d like one hosted on a server where I have access to the database and files). These types of sites seem more user driven rather than admin/mod driven where you have to wait for a mod to do everything.
I think we were too strict at the Sims 2 Writers’ Hangout and it led to lots of bitchiness. Too much griping about things being out of place, and too many things being out of place in the first place! That forum just wasn’t very expandable!
If we had a site more like the Ning communities, users could help define the latest sim trends/interests rather than overloading a mod with a million PMs about each idea. And the users could take off with groups, and this would show the mods what needs to be focused on more, rather than a single thread before the idea takes off and then TONS of waiting for all the mods to converse about it, and finally the setup time. I really disliked that about the Sims 2 Hangout.
I also like the Ning sites and how the user profiles are set up with blogs, photo gallery, and other add ons making keeping up with people easier, and making things like intense and distracting forum signatures unnecessary.
Perhaps I’m just too obsessed with the TuDiabetes community as of late, and how wonderful and successful that place is. Basically, I would like a TuDiabetes for Sims, if that even makes sense.
Maybe I’ll do it too. If I like Sims 3 enough to be obsessed with it, of course.
By the way, I hope mentioning this in here doesn’t jinx things, but one of the first things I am going to put out with Sims 3 is a new version of Cornflake Girl. Entirely different–main plot elements the same, but written in a different form that I think makes the story more interesting. Hopefully I will stick with it. As for I Woke Up LA–I don’t know. I lost my place with that story. No plans to continue at the current time. Not until I figure out where it’s going for real, if that ever happens.
