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Does anyone make Sims 3 pictures in the same way we used to make them for Sims 2?
I just can’t get into picture-creating with Sims 3. Maybe I haven’t given it enough of a chance. Maybe I haven’t seen enough examples to inspire me. Maybe I’m too spoiled by all the custom content and pose hack resources we had with Sims 2. I don’t know.
When I see Sims pictures now, I still see Sims 2 pictures. Has everyone else decided picture-taking in Sims 3 stinks, or have they just not moved onto Sims 3 period?
Anybody know of any pose hacks for Sims 3. Back in the day, my first stop to look for some would be Mod the Sims, but visiting that site now just plain gives me a headache.
One major problem I have with Sims 3 in general, but it particularly affects picture-taking is the fact that Windowed mode distorts the graphics in the game. So I have to play full screen mode, which is way too inefficient for picture-taking (and a whole lot of other things, actually).
Blah, I miss old Sims. Wish they could create a game just like Sims 2 + its expansions, with the performance and graphics increases of Sims 3. Haha.
So while I was half-sleeping away my Sunday afternoon, I had a breakthrough. A breakthrough in regards to I Woke Up LA.
INCONCEIVABLE! I know. For so long now, I haven’t been very motivated to work through some plot developments, mostly because I haven’t been able to get beyond Mat and Jill MATJILLMATJILL obsession.
But somehow, in a half-dreamy-sleepy state, I figured it out. I figured out the difficult details with the rest of Charlotte’s story, and how to tie it in to everything else going on. UGH, FINALLY! I’ve always had the broad outline of the story figured out, but not the meat in between. I think now I’m at a point where I could actually finish this thing.
Of course, work is keeping me too busy at the moment to start writing or making pictures. But hopefully things will at least cool down this summer and I can finally get it rolling again.
So yeah, not much is said here, and I won’t give away any real details, lol, but up until now this story has pretty much been on unofficial hiatus.
Now I’ve got something to work with.
Oh, hi. Long time, no update. Well, in my defense, not much has changed in the past month or so since I last updated except the weather.
I’m still way too busy with work; in fact, all I did this weekend was work. I currently have three projects that I get paid extra to do outside of my day job. Normally this is okay, and I rather like the projects. However, when all three of them get busy as hell all at the same time, things get a little crazy. And that’s pretty much how things have been for me since January. Not to mention my work from 9-6 everyday is full as of late too.
Blah blah blah, yes, that’s all very boring to you, I’m sure. But despite all the working, I still manage to find time to play The Sims 2 (except for this weekend, I didn’t open it once, *cries*). My Flounder family is on generation 5, and I also decided to play along with, but not enter officially, The Hangout’s Grow Up Well 2. I loved the first one so much, but since my Sim, April, won, I figured it would be lame of me to actually enter again. But I’m still going to participate and just post the pictures on Flickr.
My Sim’s name is Lucy Cooke, and she comes from a family of cooks. Yes, I know, I’m such a nerd, but any of you who have seen my work before know that I always have to have a theme. While playing my Flounder family, I managed to get obsessed with baking in the Sims and selling all sorts of goodies from one of the family’s businesses. So that’s kind of where that idea came from.
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve managed to reacquire a major obsession with Harvey Danger’s Flagpole Sitta. No, I have no idea why; it just came on my playlist and I haven’t stopped listening to it since. I’m runnin’ underground with the moles, diggin’ big holes.
I really haven’t updated in forever, because there’s not a whole lot to update. I will say I have been playing The Sims 2 quite a bit. And I haven’t taken a single picture (inconceivable)! Actually, I was planning on taking a visit to my family’s (The Flounders) bakery and show you some pictures, but that was not in the cards, as my game crashed and then I told it to fuck off.
My game has been crashing a lot. I rarely quit playing by exiting the game on my own. I’ve learned to save amazingly often. This time it crashed right after my sim (Elle Flounder) had a baby and she just got accepted into the Garden Club and got a wishing well. I saved right before these events occurred. I’m actually hoping the baby will turn out a bit different this time. It had blond hair and brown eyes just like his brother, and I’d prefer something different. Elle’s children are generation 4 of the Flounder family. I’ve not made it much past generation 4 before, but I hope to this time.
To keep me going and to keep me from getting too side-tracked, I’m having them marry Townies and other Maxis neighborhood sims. Elle’s mother was Roxie Sharpe. Then Elle married a very attractive townie named Aaron Johnson. He’s very good looking, which is completely and utterly inconceivable for Maxis-made males. Seriously, before he came along, I was about ready to give up and have her marry—oh what’s his name? The pale base-game townie wearing the blue long-sleeve shirt and ridiculous plaid pants, blond hair and very pointy features. She had three lightning-bolts with him. But luckily she had two with Aaron, and he wouldn’t completely ugly-up the family genetics ( the rottenness and evil in me). And major lucky break with him as well because he was a knowledge sim–score!
Well, that’s about all there is with me. I need to go do some work now. I don’t know if I will, but I sure as shit need to. Go listen to Harvey Danger so you can get it stuck in your head too. Hear the voices in my head, I swear to God it sounds like they’re snoring; but if you’re bored then you’re boring. The agony and the irony, they’re killing me, whoa!
So the wonderful Thanksgiving holidays are over and the count down to Christmas holidays begins. I want Christmas to be here quite badly because the thought of working all day right now makes me want to gouge out my eyes; however, I also don’t want Christmas to be here yet because I’m in no mood to go Christmas shopping. Just ugh.
Anyway, Thanksgiving was fun; I went to Dallas/Fort Worth to visit my parents, and spent most of the time there reading Harry Potter. Obsessed much? Oh yes. I’m now almost halfway through the last book, and I’m still pissed about what happened to Sirius in the fifth book. The only other thing I really did over the break was go to a Tori Amos concert! The weather was cold and rainy and we had to pay $15 to park and then walk in the miserable weather, but Tori was nothing short of completely awesome. And she performed Cornflake Girl. Which completely made my night right there.
This was my second time seeing her in concert, and I think I liked this time a bit better because one, our seats were a bit closer, and two, she played with her band, which I think makes it more interesting for some songs. She still did a solo section with just her and the piano, but it was nice hearing her with the band as well this time.
Moving on, I just want to say THANK YOU again to those of you who read the new chapters of I Woke Up LA. I’m happy that it was well-received and your comments make me excited to start the next part. Though, however excited I may be, I do think it will be quite some time before the next chapters are released. I do not know if I will have much time to even start working on it before Christmas. Of course, you never know, maybe me saying that will make the opposite happen.
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