Someday Picspam, Tuesday Style

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It's that time again! Everyone needs their weekly dose of Picspam, right?



"How lame can you be!? Calling this Sunday Picspam and then posting it on a Tuesday. God, can't you do anything right? How could you possibly be MY author?? I don't even get a starring role, when I'm obviously the most important sim in your whole hood. How much of a loser could you be?"



I'm probably giving Mercedes a bit of a bad rep, but she really does pull some of the best spoiled brat faces I've ever seen in game. I think it's a combination of the high outgoing and very low playful and nice. She really does think she's all that. I think she's going to be dangerous as a teen.



I'm actually hoping to do a Pseudo Sideline about Mercedes and her adopted sister, Porsche. Well, more about Porsche than Mercedes, but still. Since Porsche was adopted at the end of a seasonal rotation, I figured I'd squeeze some extra time in and took their little family on vacation. Kiley'd had a pretty consistent want to buy a vacation home, so I obliged.

(As a side note, are their any pre-built vacation homes that don't suck completely? The worst is that only beach lot in Twikkii. Man that house sucked. I finally just deleted it and replaced it with some lots Jenn pointed me towards.)

So, the Turner girls spent a few days in Takemizu, getting to know one another while I rebuilt and redecorated their little vacation home. I was thinking of letting Micah and Genesis use it for a grandparent vacation, but I really would prefer a beach lot. I may see if I can get them a cabin up at Three Lakes instead.



In other news, I played the Parker/Toyanaga/Thompson house for a while.

Really, I've mostly been procrastinating. I've got almost all the pictures I need for the next update, but I'm stuck on how to actually play out one particular scene. I think I figured out what I wanted and went into the game to play and realized the house I need to use as a set is still completely undecorated from the move. Ugh.

I've finally started writing a little bit, but I've been dragging my feet which meant sneaking in some playtime.



Their house is an interesting one to play, especially now that all the adults are verging on elderhood. Comet's still an adult, but the next time I play, it'll be time for her birthday, leaving the house with Chastity, four old men and one old woman. She's still got a little way to go before college, though I may send her a little early.

I want the house to stay in Toyanaga hands, which means that Alpha or Beta will be coming back to start a family. I'd rather not have Adrian and Adrian die on me the moment I get the twins back to start their families, even if I need the room. I will say I am hoping that Andrew dies early. Still can't stand him, even if he hasn't cheated on Comet in the new hood. He aged up barely in the green, so hopefully he doesn't have too long left.



Kyle, on the other hand, aged up permaplat. He, I adore. I realized I hadn't shown a shot of his new elder outfit. Thanks to Marina, he did get to keep his lays t-shirt. I'm not sure who did these elder outfits, but it's a t-shirt with a jacket over it. I basically cut and paste the texture from the Lays shirt onto the new texture and it worked perfectly. I somehow lost the collar, but it seems to work for my purposes.



One of the other things I decided to do while playing the Parker/Toyanaga/Thompson house was to get Adrian and Adrian their flower shop back. For the hell of it, I sent them along with Kyle and Chastity down to the new shop.



I've gotten good at running businesses*. See that "Best of the Best" award? They got that from the second 'customer' to walk in the door before they'd even gotten their first simoleon. I cracked up as I got the BoB award and THEN got the message that they'd earned their first simoleon.

*With the help of "Business Runs You" from MATY. I did it the hard way with Matthew, so from here on out, I'm doing it the easy way.



One reservation I have about BRY is that point where a sim is stuck on the sales badge level where the best option they have is 'Hard Sell'. I always worry when I see that one in action since it usually seems to blow up in my sim's face. If you've got an iffy customer, nothing sends the stars into the toilet quicker than some uncontrolled 'Hard Sells'.

Dean actually fell for it here, but he still looks rather unhappy about the whole thing. Luckily, I eventually got Chastity to Gold Sales badge and after that I only had to watch her energy levels. Dazzle seems to go much smoother, but makes their energy drop like a rock.



I love the variety of customers that you get when you run a business. So far, they've gotten many of the playables in the door, as well as a number of the townies and social townies.

I grin like an idiot any time any of the transplanted Legacy Sims show up. I did have one simself I had to send home because she was being very contrary, but so far, she was their only problem customer.



It's also interesting to watch uncontrolled relationships in action. David Ottomas and .. townie boy whose name I can't remember.. were interacting almost exclusively with each other. I'm wondering if David's gender preference got set to gay in this version of the hood. Regardless, I'm not sure how successful he was being. They'd do some ++ interactions, then one of them would try and do something a little more like a hug or a tickle and get a --. Back and forth, back and forth.

I'm tempted to log into the lot I dropped the Ottomas' on and see what David's relationship score is like.



Since she's not permaplat, I did a crystal ball drop for Chastity. She got George McCarthy here.

I like George. I'd kinda forgotten about him, but this reminded me of him. I always loved with Marina did with him in the Fitzhughs. He and Chas only have one bolt and while they were delighted to become friends, they didn't really seem to have much chemistry. I think I will be keeping him in mind for someone else this generation, though.



While I have been procrastinating, I HAVE been working on the update. In my AGS copy of the hood, I went into the Walton house to shoot a pick up scene and found this. Aeric, dancing with his pregnant wife. I'm not sure that's good for the baby, Aeric...



I also had to go into Ian's lot and shoot a scene with him. Mmm. Ian...

I did have a glitch happen in his house that was driving me nuts. I'd turned off freewill in the house to shoot the scenes from 4.9 where it's revealed that he was brought back as a vampire. After that, the house somehow got stuck on freewill off, even though I turned it back on. Both he and Mary would just stand there. I finally had to move them out and move them back in. This, of course, meant I had to completely redecorate the house again. Ugh. I like decorating, but trying to recreate something you've already done is a pain in the butt.



Finally, I leave you with this. This was from De's birthday pictures, but I have to say this was completely ALL them. He was talking about fashion and suddenly she started talking about weddings and marriage. De, your simself is made of win.

At this point, I'm not even going to make a guess on when the update will be ready. Hopefully soon, but I've already screwed the pooch on my original estimate.

So, how are you all today? :)

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Oh, yes, on vamps standing around--why doesn't that happen to me? Maybe I just tend to direct my sims a lot anyhow. Mainly they're just a tad tedious because they're the only ones up at 4 am with nothing to do. If I don't watch Lucy, she'll go out in the yard and Trim things. Count Whoopie is a compulsive cleaner, too--I have to be careful with him because he will Rake Leaves and Dispose of them perilously close to sunrise. But I don't think my vamps just stand around any more than any of my other sims. Maybe it's something that happens with later EPs?