Several Things
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orikesI discovered Freak Angels last night. I believe I'd heard it mentioned in passing, but hadn't looked it up. Last night I came across a link to it, and in just a couple of hours, read through all 17 episodes. It's good stuff. (Some swearing and occasional nudity for those concerned.)
Warren Ellis is a big name in comics, but I'm actually not that familiar with his work. My bad. This is an interesting set-up and I'm definitely hooked enough to want to find out what the heck is going on storywise. They're some interesting characters with an intriguing background. I've always been a sucker for post-apocalyptic stories, and seeing London half under water is a cool visual. I'm really liking the artwork too. It's almost pretty, but not so pretty to hide the ugliness of some of the characters.
Anyway, it's worth checking out.
Today is Father's Day and I might actually get to spend some time with my dad. He's driving in from Connecticut to spend the week. He should be getting into town at a good time for us to have dinner. I'll have to take a long dinner break, but considering the three hour dinner breaks my supervisor sometimes takes, I don't think I'll get too much flak for it.
In simming news, I've been working on the next Pseudo update. I'm almost halfway done writing it, so I'm hoping to have it out sometime this week. It'll be a huge relief to get this one out. The writing is going easily (knock on wood), which is a good thing. I'm hoping to really push out the updates this summer so I can gain some ground. I was looking through old updates to reference a couple of things, and I realized that I've taken almost a year to play Gen Four to this point.
I'm torn. On one hand, I feel like I'm playing at glacially slow speeds compared to other players, but at the same time, I like the story I'm telling and I think that other people are liking it too. I need to find some sort of compromise between the two so I can advance things a bit. I know I have to start leaving out bits about the extended branches of the family tree. I've got one more storyline I want to tell about the Thompson branch in the main update, but after that, I think they're going to end up relegated to live journal updates and cameos.
In other simming news, I've also played through to Day Three of the Bachelor Challenge. Something very unexpected happened and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I came up with a way to handle it storywise, but it still threw me for a loop. Up until that point, everything had pretty much gone how I'd expected it to. Now things are different. I'll probably take a break from playing the bc house until I get at least one more bc update out. That way, I'll have come to terms with what happened and be able to move forward. It definitely changed the dynamic in the house.
No pictures today. :)
Warren Ellis is a big name in comics, but I'm actually not that familiar with his work. My bad. This is an interesting set-up and I'm definitely hooked enough to want to find out what the heck is going on storywise. They're some interesting characters with an intriguing background. I've always been a sucker for post-apocalyptic stories, and seeing London half under water is a cool visual. I'm really liking the artwork too. It's almost pretty, but not so pretty to hide the ugliness of some of the characters.
Anyway, it's worth checking out.
Today is Father's Day and I might actually get to spend some time with my dad. He's driving in from Connecticut to spend the week. He should be getting into town at a good time for us to have dinner. I'll have to take a long dinner break, but considering the three hour dinner breaks my supervisor sometimes takes, I don't think I'll get too much flak for it.
In simming news, I've been working on the next Pseudo update. I'm almost halfway done writing it, so I'm hoping to have it out sometime this week. It'll be a huge relief to get this one out. The writing is going easily (knock on wood), which is a good thing. I'm hoping to really push out the updates this summer so I can gain some ground. I was looking through old updates to reference a couple of things, and I realized that I've taken almost a year to play Gen Four to this point.
I'm torn. On one hand, I feel like I'm playing at glacially slow speeds compared to other players, but at the same time, I like the story I'm telling and I think that other people are liking it too. I need to find some sort of compromise between the two so I can advance things a bit. I know I have to start leaving out bits about the extended branches of the family tree. I've got one more storyline I want to tell about the Thompson branch in the main update, but after that, I think they're going to end up relegated to live journal updates and cameos.
In other simming news, I've also played through to Day Three of the Bachelor Challenge. Something very unexpected happened and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I came up with a way to handle it storywise, but it still threw me for a loop. Up until that point, everything had pretty much gone how I'd expected it to. Now things are different. I'll probably take a break from playing the bc house until I get at least one more bc update out. That way, I'll have come to terms with what happened and be able to move forward. It definitely changed the dynamic in the house.
No pictures today. :)
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Date: 2008-06-15 09:24 pm (UTC)It's just, as De would say, they're all my babies. I want to show them all off and talk about what they're doing. :) I'm actually hoping to marry some of the Thompson kids back in this time around. I don't want to marry second cousins (or third, however that's figured), but I figured the Thompsons (and Toyanagas) are branched out far enough now that they could safely marry any of the current gen 5 kids.
I plan on getting at least one more BC update out before the end of hte month. Before the 25th, actually. I've got the house itself played, but I need to figure out what extraneous scenes I need. Day two is pretty predictable. Day three, on the other hand.. I will say that there was no cheating witnessed. Someone rejected an interaction that really surprised me and it changed the whole game.
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Date: 2008-06-15 10:37 pm (UTC)PB
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Date: 2008-06-16 05:17 am (UTC)As long as you keep the Waltons in, I'm happy. They're possibly my favorite branch aside from the main family (I possibly like them more than the main branch, honestly... not sure, it's pretty close).
And you are a tease. Now I desperately want BC updates. Gah.
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Date: 2008-06-16 07:32 am (UTC)I'd actually like to keep all of them in the foreground, but that's just not possible. The current update I'm working on is already bursting with slides, but if I'd included everything I'd wanted to about the Thompsons and the Thayers and the Toyanagas, I'd be currently writing a triple update. And still only have gotten to the beginning of summer.