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Post by laura on Jul 6, 2010 11:14:35 GMT -5
LOL, I know, I've made that mistake before! All those mistakes! Isn't it the worst when you've got a shot all set up and then some stupid Sim goes and climbs in the hottub or tries to AutoWoo and you have to go stop the hell out of them, AND change their clothes again, lol! Stupid Sims!
But, onto the surprise and wonder of why we bother with all this nonsense...
OMG, these two (mystery couple that shall not be disclosed until story-Spring)! I wrote about them before (back on pg. 7), and they're at it again! These two write like MAGIC!!! I can't stop them, I swear it! Their conversations just keep filling up my head, and they've got so much to say, and such chemistry! It's crazy! They're about to shake my story into pieces, I'm telling you!
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Post by blackcat on Jul 6, 2010 17:56:11 GMT -5
My "why we bother..." was the picture I never used, the spontaneous, huge awwwww moment, that almost made me cry at the time... I'm in the middle of writing a whole update inspired by that one picture! Your mystery couple has me fascinated... how long until LH spring... didn't you just say something about first snow in the last update? Guess I'm gonna have to put up with the suspense a while...  |
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Post by laura on Jul 6, 2010 19:52:33 GMT -5
Oh, I LOVE updates that are spawned off of one single picture!!! I can't wait to read it!
Ha, LH spring isn't for a little while. We're just finishing up fall, then the upcoming chapter is winter, and then you'll find out who they are at the beginning of the spring/summer chapter.
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Post by laura on Jul 7, 2010 19:04:25 GMT -5
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Post by thelunarfox on Jul 7, 2010 21:35:33 GMT -5
LOL! Okay, that and cheeseburgers have helped save the day. That's so cute!
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Post by laura on Jul 8, 2010 8:46:02 GMT -5
I know how Jodie's story ends! Like all the way to the end kind of ends. (Geeze, that's like four story-years away, lol!) I'm listening to the song I'll use for her soundtrack right now, and I want to share it so badly, but I can't(!!!) because even the song itself is too telling. Oh, the lyrics are perfect! I'll tell you it's by Ingrid Michaelson  But I love a lot of her songs, so that's not too spoilery, lol! Oh I love Jodie! I hope you'll all be proud of her, and how her story ends up going. She's stronger and braver and more whole than she even knows. |
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Post by laura on Jul 8, 2010 13:44:15 GMT -5
So I tried to take a picture of Lake City... and so it crashed my computer... again. What's new? Why do I think I can maybe manage to take a picture of Lake City? I should never try. It always crashes. *sigh* Anyway, while I'm waiting for my game to restart, I might as well babble. Oh, all the babble, lol! I'm supposed to be working on a chapter today, but *somehow* I started downloading instead. Then I decided to work on my hospital and birthing center a bit. I'm blaming Carla, for tweeting about working on her hospital I was really eager to try out the hospitals hack (the Chris Hatch one from Back Alley Sims) - but I don't think it's going to work out for me. It looks awesome, but it loads as some different class of lot, not residential or community, and it's not really editable. It doesn't sound like it would mesh well with my storytelling needs. I use the hospital quite often for different kinds of scenes, so I need it to be accessible. Oh, *sigh* So I'll probably stick with my hospitals as owned community lots thing. If I want to stage a birth for storytelling, I'm sure I could probably find the animation for it in some posebox somewhere... Back to crashing my computer then... |
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Post by blackcat on Jul 8, 2010 18:15:39 GMT -5
Laura, thanks for pointing out the hospital hack - one thing I hated about the way I play hospitals in my game, was that it was so fake - the community lot hospital and the sick sim living in the boarding house. I tried various other ideas - residential lot hospital, residential business hospital, etc - but none were really satisfactory. The only other idea, which I considered but never tried, was to somehow use the simlogical prison system - the prisoner/patient lives at the hospital, stays in his room, remembers where home is for when he's released, etc. But I wanted to change the 'went to prison' memory, for starters, but never got around to it. I can see how the different type of lot would be a problem in normal gameplay/storytelling, but I have an idea - why not have two hospitals?? Apparently all that changes the zoning is adding an ambulance, so this is what I'm going to do: (after backup,backup, backup!)... I'll modify my community lot hospital so it will work with the hack (birthing room etc...), but no ambulance, then I'll save it and move it to the lots and houses bin. Then I'll put it back, leaving a copy in the lots and houses bin. Then I'll put another copy in my hood - I'll probably just put it next to the first one (two buildings on the same hospital campus...), although you could also 'hide' it somewhere to give the illusion of one building. I will only add an ambulance to one of the two identical hospitals - so I have one for storytelling, as I always did, and one 'working' hospital for gameplay. As far as I can see, you have a choice of whether to send your sim to the hack-hospital (call an ambulance) - so I will do what suits me/the story at the time. *Excited* Will report back on the experiment... don't know if it would work to tweet about it, though... I'm in a completely different timezone and would probably be tweeting people at 4am... |
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Post by laura on Jul 8, 2010 19:01:17 GMT -5
That did cross my mind, having one real working version and one storytelling version, but in the end, I think it's just more work than I'm willing to put in, lol! Yes, it is entirely up to you whether you send the Sim to the hacked hospital or not.
I was really hoping to accomplish both at the same time though. Because I'm already so crunched for time to spend on this neighborhood/story/blog and all that, I can't really afford to go through the extra hassle, you know?
But I can't wait to see you try it! lol!
Are you on twitter? I don't know if I'm following you or not. What's your twitter name?
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Post by blackcat on Jul 8, 2010 19:44:31 GMT -5
I'll let you know how it works in terms of storytelling, and how much longer things take... I'm kinda pressed for time myself, so that will be the deal-breaker for me, too... lol. I know that there are hacks around that universally enable buy/build on community lots/hotels/etc, if one of them will enable it on a hospital lot, too, then that would solve a lot of problems. Also want to be able to teleport in any sim and make them selectable without breaking anything. At the moment I'm backing my my hood in preparation to make a separate 'hospital test' version. I've got a couple of sick or pregnant sims around at the moment, they'll be my 'test subjects' for the sake of the experiment . Is there anything else in particular you were wondering about? Because since I'm testing it in a copy of my hood rather than in 'real' gameplay, I can set up just about any kind of situation for a test. The more I read about the way this hospital works, the more I like it and I want it to work for my game! So I'll let you know what happens I probably won't get too far with it until the weekend, though - got an update I need to finish (I changed the order of my updates so the one I'm really stuck on now comes before the ones I've more-or-less finished... bad move in a practical sense, but works better in the story), and my hospital will need some work, too, before I can use it for this. I'm on Twitter (only just... someone bullied me into signing up a couple of weeks ago... lol...) - my twitter name is Blackcat325. |
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Post by laura on Jul 13, 2010 10:23:44 GMT -5
Oh, nostalgia!!! I totally just managed to load up my very first neighborhood in SimPe, and all the families are showing! I loved that neighborhood! It was even before the one were my LH Sims descendants come from. It's been long-since corrupted, but I'm totally going to see if I can clone some of my Sims! Oh how fun! Maybe some of them might move to Lakeside Heights and I can imagine they're long-lost descendants of the originals You know, not that I really need anything else to distract me right now, lol! |
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Post by blackcat on Jul 13, 2010 20:28:45 GMT -5
Oh, fun! You've given me an idea... I found a very old backup of my hood and I wanted to open it to see my first sims from Richmond again (I can't resurrect them in-game because the character files broke when my cemetery crashed) and take some better pictures of them. But it wouldn't work because (I think) I've added Eps's since then. I bet it would work to clone them in SimPe, though! Not that I need the extra distraction, either... never got as far as the hospital hack test last night because everything else took too long... and then there's my rebuild my hood project... and... maybe I'll just put this idea on the 'to do - someday' list |
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Post by somuchsong on Jul 13, 2010 21:21:46 GMT -5
Oh, how cool. I'm kind of jealous of you guys that you have copies of all your old hoods. By the time I got this computer, I was pretty enthralled with Sullivan and didn't think I'd ever want my old hoods again, so I didn't transfer them. And I don't really want them to play, but I did have some really awesome looking Sims that I'd like to have again.
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Post by laura on Jul 17, 2010 10:30:54 GMT -5
Random stuff: I updated the database with BFF info! Stole the idea from Blackcat Which spawned me onto a dilemma on Hayden's behalf - who does he ask to be best man at his wedding? His twin brother Jack, even though they've only been close on and off? Or his best friend Chad? Eeek! Funny enough I'm feeling Piper having the same dilemma between her best friends, Jodie, Carly, and Amelia, lol! |
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Post by blackcat on Jul 17, 2010 19:06:56 GMT -5
So glad you stole my idea, I'm usually the stealer rather than the... uh... steal-ee? Feels kind of like a coming-of-age or something... lol...
Maybe if Piper and Hayden both have the same problem, they could come up with some kind of creative non-traditional solution...
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Post by laura on Jul 17, 2010 19:31:45 GMT -5
Maybe if Piper and Hayden both have the same problem, they could come up with some kind of creative non-traditional solution... Ha, that would require me coming up with the creative solution on their behalf, lol! Kind of stumped here Random funny: trying to shoot a serious conversation between Mariah and her mother and all I can see is Quinn here hamming it up, lol! What a cheese! I'm really looking forward to seeing Quinn grow up. And she will grow up, in one story or another, because I think she's going to be a very special little girl! Besides having two of my very favorite characters as her parents (oh wait, not that I have favorites...), her personality is just stellar! Capricorn (I really don't get very many Capricorns), 10 points neat, 3 points shy, 10 points goof-ball like her daddy, and nice too. With a hobby of games. And having the diva cousins she has (well, second-cousins, I guess) in Delilah and Naomi, what a fun contrast that's going to be! I'm already imagining stories in my head for when they're older, lol! Getting ahead of myself, as always |
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Post by somuchsong on Jul 17, 2010 19:54:49 GMT -5
If Hayden was my Sim, I'd be inclined to choose Chad, unless you think he'd feel family pressure to choose Jack. Piper's maid of honour would be a difficult choice for me too - I've got no idea what I'd do there. Now you know why my wedding parties are often so large - I take the easy way out of making decisions!
Adding BFFs is such a cool idea, Blackcat. I have to admit that I often feel like I don't pay enough attention to that in my game. There are a few things I need to start noting for myself and that's one of them.
Quinn is too cute! I love that little toddler grin. What does she care about serious conversations, eh?
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Post by laura on Jul 18, 2010 7:58:14 GMT -5
Carla, I was thinking about just having all of them in the wedding, and making them all best men/maids of honor, or whatever, lol! Do people ever do that?
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Post by laura on Jul 18, 2010 8:08:37 GMT -5
Mariah, blushing, beet red: I had sex and YOU TOOK PICTURES OF IT??? Me: Well yeah, you're like the only one on my hottest 20 list who hasn't had a good and proper sex scene. Mariah, redder: And people are going to look at the pictures? You're putting them on the internet?!?! Me: Sure, that's kind of the point. Mariah, cringing: Ehhh... Me: It's okay, it was very tasteful. And you're mostly covered up by a man. It's the hottest I've ever seen the missionary position. Mariah: Are my parents going to see this? Me: No, I don't think so. I don't think that's possible. So there, at least you have that. Mariah: Um, thanks? Should be ready later tonight |
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Post by applevalley on Jul 20, 2010 9:49:37 GMT -5
Yea, people do that. I had two maids of honor at my wedding; one of my maids of honor is going to have three maids of honor. I forsee the same thing happening to the others since the four of us have been best friends with each other for ~8 years and I've been BFFs with the two of them for 15+ years.
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