So I sat through a jury selection process this afternoon, and guess what? I got selected.
Hahaha. I’m not surprised at all. But, I don’t really mind either. It seems like it might be interesting. For a few minutes anyway. We’ll see how long it takes me before I get over my initial amusement.
At least I get out of work for a few more days.
That’s about all there is to say about that.
Prince’s Erotic City came up on my itunes the other day, and now it’s in my head for a good month at least.
When I was very little (3 or so) I had a super awesome brown Fisher Price record player and my parents bought me lots of fantastic ’80s pop singles, such as Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Beat It by Michael Jackson, some Madonna, Ghostbusters… and Let’s Go Crazy, by Prince, the B-side of which is this song, Erotic City.
And this song was always my favorite! Way cooler than Let’s Go Crazy. Of course, I had no idea what they were saying or referring to in this song. It just cracks me up… I really wonder what my parents were thinking when I was playing this in my room all the time. For years. Really. Ha.
I remember playing again when I was a bit older and thinking, “wait, did he just say ‘fuck until the dawn’?” And that’s what I assumed he was saying from then on. I don’t think I played it as loudly in my room when my parents were home after that.
Anyway, it wasn’t until much later that I looked it up on the internet and saw there was some controversy around the use of the word “fuck” and that maybe he was actually saying “funk.” Oh horse shit, that is so fuck.
Funny none the less. Oh and I just looked up George Clinton’s cover and it freaks me out. And there is no way they’re saying funk.
I don’t want to sit in this office so bad right now I’m about to explode. I can do nothing but type somewhere about how much I don’t want to work right now.
On Saturday, Andy and I are leaving for vacation in California for a whole week! Andy and I never go on vacations like this and I’m super excited. I still have lots to do to prepare to go away. Laundry, pack, shop for a few more items I think I might need.
You know what I don’t need to do to prepare for this vacation? WORK. OR HOW ABOUT SIT IN THIS DAMN OFFICE?
*Explodes*
I rarely just randomly write in this blog. This is only the second time I’ve posted since January. I just don’t have a whole lot to say, especially about Sims and this post has nothing to do with The Sims.
That is how much I don’t want to be in the office right now. I’ve got about an hour until lunch and it’s just brutal. It’s not helping matters that I seem to be ridiculously tired this morning.
If I could just focus on one of the many projects I have going on at work that are going to bite me in the ass after vacation, I would be okay. But sometimes, often times…okay just about all the time…I have absolutely no will power. The only work I seem to be able to make myself do at the moment is piddly bottom of the barrel things of no importance.
Though I do have something to take care of after lunch that is important and doesn’t involve sitting in front of my computer, which is what I’m having a problem with the most. Hopefully it will occupy me enough that time goes by at a reasonable pace.
RATHER THAN BACKWARDS LIKE NOW.
Somebody save me please?
Don’t get too excited, this post is super boring.
How do you all like Sims 3? I like it, but I don’t think I love it. Yet. When I play, I don’t really feel like I’m playing a new game, because I feel like I play just as I did with Sims 2. It isn’t the same as the leap from Sims 1 to 2, but we all already expected that.
That said, I love the graphical enhancements of the game. The colors are so much brighter, and the scenery is amazing. Someone somewhere pointed out how they thought it was funny that the trees and bushes move with the “wind” now, but a Sim’s hair no longer moves like it did with Sims 2. And I think this says a lot for the game as a whole. It feels to me like they focused a lot more on the scenery of Sims 3 than the actual Sims.
Create-a-sim in Sims 3 is frustrating. You just can’t make a face move very extreme. Though I suppose there are already hacks on modthesims, I don’t like having to use hacks if I can help it. As usual, the hair / makeup selection that comes with the game is pretty lame. But compared to what came with Sims 2 it is great.
Having different body types is wonderful! I love that you can have fat, muscular, and everywhere in between. However, does anyone else feel like all their sims are super short? I hate that we can’t use the stretchskeleton cheat to make different heights. I really wish height was something they figured out for Sims 3. I think the default height looks weird–really, they all look very, very short. Big heads or something. I don’t know.
Also, I think the toddlers are scary, ugly string bean little things. Ick. They give me the heebie jeebies. And what is with the SUPER RIDICULOUSLY LONG toddler life stage?? Kill me now. They’re toddlers as long (it seems like longer!) as they are children.
When Sims 3 was still in the works, I thought I remembered reading that they were going to focus less on needs (bladder, hunger, energy, etc). What a bunch of horse shit. I find myself having to pay attention to them so much more in Sims 3 because they’ll get in a bad mood real quick if you don’t. No more forcing them to do things when they’re in the red on a need, it just doesn’t work as well.
I don’t like skill building in Sims 3. And I miss aspiration rewards. I don’t find most of these new rewards very exciting. And I miss the silly “supernatural” aspect of the Sims 2. Sure you can make Sims with blue and green skin, but it isn’t the same.
So, yeah. I don’t know. Some days I like it more than others. Maybe I’ll like it more once expansion packs come out and fill the game out more. Or once CC truly comes around. Though I’m skeptical that will work as well as it did with Sims 2. Modthesims for Sims 3 scares me at the moment. Yuck.
As many know already, storytelling in Sims 3 looks like a nightmare. And uploading to the exchange will not happen since they decided to shit on the pictures. Really, what were they thinking with that picture quality? It’s made even more ridiculous by the fact that each one of us gets a certain amount of space (a gig, I think?) for uploads. We should be able to pick the quality of our pics and allot our space as we see fit. Stupid stupid stupid.
I’ve come to realize, I don’t know how to take good pictures of Sims without pose hacks. Or maybe I just don’t know Sims 3 expressions like the back of my hand as I did with Sims 2 yet, so I get frustrated trying to portray anything. Either way, I’m not too jazzed about it yet, like I hoped I would be.
So that’s about it. I don’t feel much like talking in communities or taking pictures or making stories yet. I just play the game for now, and I don’t even get to do that as often as I’d like. I’ve managed to get myself into a busy summer. Or at least it seems that way. I’m traveling more often than usual this summer. Went to Colorado for work a few weeks ago. Been to Houston several weekends lately, went to Wimberley, TX the weekend before last. Next weekend going to DFW to see my parents.
After that, Andy and I are going on vacation to California for a week. I’ll be gone the first two weeks of August, the first in Colorado, the second in McAllen, TX, for work. I’m still doing Adventure Bootcamp every morning at 5:30. Oh, and Andy and I recently got engaged.
I just feel busy. I know it’s not busy compared to how a lot of people live. But I’m pretty lazy, and feel like I have a lot going on right now!
I’m also pretty grumpy at the moment about a shit project for work. Literally. A project about animal shit. And it’s just shitty (as in I hate it really bad). I’ll be happier after Tuesday is over because I’ll be able to ignore it again for at least a few days.
Maybe this fall I’ll find more time for Sims and actually creating things once again. I really miss it and hoped I’d just get right back into it immediately after Sims 3 was released. It didn’t quite work that way. Oh well.
I’ll try and update this site more, really I will.
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.
